Trip reports
RSPB Titchwell Marsh coach trip
Sunday, 25 January 2009
A coach party of us spent the day at Titchwell on the Norfolk coast. It was breezy, quite mild and decidedly damp - but not half as wet as we'd been expecting! A black brant was in amongst the brent geese on the lagoons. Once we found it, its more pronounced white collar and flanks were quite obvious. In the same area we had good views of bearded tits, marsh harrier and a perched peregrine. Bar- and black-tailed godwit feeding close together helped compare their winter plumage. At the beach some saw a flock of snow buntings, and there were common and velvet scoter, eider and red breasted merganser on the sea. We also saw harbour porpoise, with good views of the fins of at least two swimming close in shore. On the way back to the visitor centre a barn owl was quartering a field in the distance, and there were siskins and lesser red polls in the trees around the feeding station. Between us, in the course of the day, we saw a total of 90 species.