Well, what a week that was, lots of lovely days out to beautiful places, lots of bird spotting, bluebell woods, estuaries, sea, beaches marshes sunsets, and not to mention extreme wader I.D.
Our first port of call, Tuesday, lovely Mannington and Wooltrerton, majestic woodland, and swathes of bluebells, watching Buzzards displaying overhead, walking along woodland paths without another soul in sight,echoes of Cuckoos calling in the woods exploring little paths turning off into clearings of Orchids,Mannington, hard to find but one of my top ten places to visit. Then next stop Cley and on to Morston, we d worked out when the tide would be low so then we were able to wak out onto the mudflats, past all the quaint little boats with seal trip notices everywhere, and up onto the sandy embankment and way out onto the marsh until we were opposite the big blue lifeboat shed on Blakeney point, we felt as if we could just walk accross the mud to the point, but without knowledge of the area, best to wait until we meet up with a friend who knows the area and also take waders.Out came the bins and extreme wader ID began, I started off easy with the main ones I could recognise, Oyster Catcher, and Avocet, we walked further and came right to the very end of our path, our way was crossed by a large inlet, so we set up scopes on the shingly edge and looked accross to the seals who were moaning gently and basking on the sand opposite, some more Wader ID ensued with, Turnstone, Redshank, then bit more tricky for me as have to get my eye in for Whimbrel and Curlew,
We walked back as it was getting late and stopped near the anchored boats and saw Greenshank, then a little way along, Common Sandpiper, I think i was all Wadered out for the day after that so we went to Cley and had lovely Ronaldos yummy icecreams from the lovely little foodshop there.A perfec day as said in The Darling Buds of May!!
Part two tomorrow!!
