Titchwell was our main place for the day and upon entering the main path, we spotted four young Red-crested Pochard on the pool to the left. There were also plenty of other ducks keeping them company, including Tufted Duck, Pochard and Mallard. Both Little Grebe and Great Crested Grebe were present and some lovely looking Ruff were soon seen. The star of the show was however the Spotted Crake, which kindly walked about giving us great views of this lifer. We popped down to the beach for a while where we added Common Tern, Sandwich Tern, a group of Eider and some baby Pied Wagtail to the list. There was also a distant Arctic Skua which was quite exciting as my seabird list is abysmal. On the way back to the centre, we saw Wood Sandpiper, both Black-tailed Godwit and Bar-tailed Godwit and a handsome Spotted Redshank.
We had a brief stop at Choseley Drying Barns on the way back to London and I am very glad we did! We spotted the usual Yellowhammer and Red-legged Partridge, then as we were leaving, a Quail dashed into the hedge, another lifer for the day! A few metres down the road and we flushed around 8 Grey Partridge, which nearly gave us a minor heart attack.
A final stop was at Cornmill Meadows in Essex, a fantastic dragonfly reserve. We saw Green Sandpiper, some very good looking Snipe and a Garganey here as well as plenty of dragonflies.
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| Swallow, Titchwell |
Year list: 183
Lifers of year list: 11
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