Snettisham

15 January 2012

We had an early morning visit to RSPB Snettisham today, in preparation for the Guided Bird Walk that we are running on the 29th January - phone shop for full details - but it's just £5 per person and will be led by Steve Rooke (former warden of the site, now MD of Sunbird Tours). It was calm, dry and full of birds.

Out on the estuary were thousands of waders and wildfowl with many hundreds of wildfowl in on the pits. There were huge flocks of Bar-tailed Godwits, Oystercatchers, Knot, Golden Plover, Dunlin and closer to shore Sanderling, Ringed Plover, Redshank and Turnstones. Overhead flocks of Wigeon and scatterings of Pink-footed Geese.

 Close to the shore line feeding among the washed up seaweed were Skylarks, a few Rock Pipits, a rather misplaced Pheasant and some 58 Snow Buntings.

A lovely morning and nice appetiser for two weeks time (sunday 29 January) . Still a few places left.