It's a 5 am start & we arrive just after 8 am at Sedgeford to find only one other birder there.
It's a short walk down to some dung heaps where we only have to wait 10 minutes before the best tick of the day is seen when the Alasan blue head Eastern yellow Wagtail shows well while here Fieldfare & a few easy ticks are seen.,we are joined by a lot more birders before we leave to set off on a day to see as many birds as we can.
So a good start to the year. we pop into Brancaster Staithe on the way to Holkham it gives us a few ticks Brent Geese,Oystercatcher,Black & Bar tailed Godwits, Gadwall,Wigeon,Redshank,Dunlin & Turnstone.
On to Holkham to find it packed out with no parking spaces & people just everywhere enjoying a new year walk,this place is so popular.
A walk down to the roped off area where we soon spot the Shore larks & a large flock of Snow Buntings are seen. A quick look out to sea gets us Red-breasted Merganser,Red-throated Diver,Long tailed Duck,Goldeneye,& just hundreds of Scoters with a few Velvet there as well.
An easy tick at Wells when the Rough-legged Buzzard is seen on a tree in front of a couple of sheds.
At Burnham it's White fronted Geese & Cattle Egret.
Passing through Docking a Ringtail Hen harrier shows along with a couple of Redkites on the ground for a cracking view of them.
Choseley next where we get a couple of Tundra Bean Geese along with a large flock of Pinkfoot.
Now we pop into Titchwell,it's a bit of a let down as the water levels on the pools was very high so not much bird life about there.
A walk up to the beach gets us a nice Slav Grebe on the sea & on the way to the beach a Spotted Redshank gives us a tick.
Just enough time to pop into Thornham for a flock of Twite & then we head on to Hunstanton for the last tick of the day when a few Fulmar fly along the cliff top.
Not a bad start to the new year with 90 year ticks.
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| The Eastern yellow Wagtail at Sedgeford |
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| A couple of a few Grey Partridge we saw. |
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