Trip reports

Coach Trip to Holkham and Wells

Sunday, 28 October 2007

Phew! What a day! Within a few minutes of leaving the coach at Wells harbour some of us were looking through our telescopes at a great white egret on Lodge Marsh. At the other end of the car park we found a slavonian grebe amongst the Little Grebes on the boating lake and later sightings included 2 gorgeous firecrests in a holly bush, an extremely late spotted flycatcher and a great grey shrike which gave cracking views. A single female snow bunting and a few thousand pink-footed geese completed a great day, whilst members of the party who got off the coach at Holkham had good views of the lesser white-fronted goose. Even the weather turned out OK except for the first hour or so, despite the dire warnings. The full list of sightings follows:

Blackbird, snow bunting, buzzard, chaffinch, coot, cormorant, crow, curlew, red-throated diver, collared dove, tufted duck, dunlin, dunnock, great white egret, little egret, firecrest, spotted flycatcher, gadwall, gannet, bar-tailed godwit, black-tailed godwit, brent goose, canada goose, egyptian goose, greylag goose, lesser white-fronted goose, pink-footed goose, white-fronted goose, great crested grebe, little grebe, slavonian grebe, greenfinch, black-headed gull, common gull, herring gull, greater black-backed gull, lesser black-backed gull, marsh harrier, heron, jackdaw, jay, kestrel, kingfisher, lapwing, skylark, magpie, mallard, moorhen, oystercatcher, red-legged partridge, peregrine, pheasant, feral pigeon, wood pigeon, pintail, meadow pipit, golden plover, grey plover, ringed plover, pochard, redshank, redwing, robin, rook, shelduck, shoveller, great grey shrike, house sparrow, starling, stonechat, mute swan, teal, mistle thrush, blue tit, coal tit (H), great tit, long-tailed tit, treecreeper, turnstone, pied wagtail, wigeon, green woodpecker, wren.
83 Species + 1 heard only.