Escape to Norfolk

Off to Norfolk for a few days escapeaway. I really like the North Norfolk coast, the scenery is so w i d e,lots of wild windswept marshes and empty beaches. Also of course great birding. We got up before dawn for another go at the Snettisham goose spectacular. Unfortunately overslept and got to the beach just in time for a distant view of massive skeins heading inland like long drifts of smoke. Bird flocks in Norfolk are just enormous- you see what looks like a huge cloud moving over the water and its all birds, a bit like looking at the milky way through binoculars. Anyway our disappointment was tempered by the best view ever of a barn owl hunting over the fields and a very large raptor which turned out to be a rare visiting black kite. This had the advantage of everywhere we went over the next few days among bird watchers they would say 'oh and we've heard there's a black kite at Snettisham...' and we could sort of yawn and say 'oh yes we've seen THAT'!
Other things I really liked -
The boat trip to see the seals on Blakeney Point, 50+ grey and commong seals including lots of cute baby grey seals all fluffy white. We got really close and they were in the water alongside the boat - hadn't realised quite how big seals can be.


Going out of our back door onto the marsh at night and seeing stars in real dark.
Having a real open fire.
Ticking off some other bird - red throated divers, common scoter, spotted redshank
Having an excuse to buy more maps.