We rented a car over the weekend to go on a belated birthday outing for s. and a breather for t. On Saturday we drove to the Titchwell Marsh Nature Reserve on the Norfolk Coast:
This photo brought to you by Wigeon and Teal, and Lapwing and Golden Plover, etc.
Looking at a Marsh Harrier:
Sadly, the birds don't show up as well in the pictures as the birders do, so here is a complete list of what (we think) we saw, including on the 1.5 hour drive to the nature reserve:
Comorants
Crows
Magpies
Seagulls at Waste Management
Dead fox
Starlings
Fox pie
Rook
Wood pigeon
Blackbird
Grey Heron
Great Tit
Chaffinch
Robin
European Gold Finch
Coot
Mallard
Moorhens
Shellducks
Goosander
Geese (the brown kind)
Lapwings
Brent Goose
Godwit
Wigeon
Pink-footed Goose
Golden Plover
Teal
Redshank
Common Snipe or Bittern or Curlew
Little Egret
Oystercatcher
Great Egret (?) (or Little Egret at a distance)
Pheasant (male and female)
Blue Tit
Coal Tit
Green Finch
Marsh Harrier
Kestrel
Gadwall
Wimbrel
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