Hickling Broad & Potter Heigham Marshes
The amazing Giant Viper's Bugloss ( Echium pininana ).
At the end of the dead end road leading form Potter Heigham to the marshes.
Hickling Broad
Savi's Warbler singing and seen but not recorded.
Sedge Warbler
nearby
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Potter Heigham Marshes
Spoondbill
Black Winged Stilt
Temminck's Stint
Garganey
Spoonbill ( Platalea leucorodia )
Ribwort Plantain ( Plantago lanceolata )
Prickly Sowthistle ( Sonchus asper )
Four Spotted Chaser ( Libellula quadrimaculata )
Swallowtail Butterfly ( Papilio machaon )
Reed Bunting ( Emberiza schoeniclus )
Alderford Common
Common Mouse-ear ( Cerastium fontanum )
Garden Warblers singing
Also
Blackcap
and
Robin
Ilmatsalu Fish Ponds
Whooper Swan ( Cygnus cygnus )
At least a hundred Black Terns
20 or so Little Gulls
A pair of Red Necked Grebes
Marsh Harrier
Thrush Nightingale
Whitethoat
Lesser Whitethroat
Penduline Tit
Whinchat
and
Common Rosefinch
Soomaa
A boardwalk through this area takes you through the variety of habitats. Mire - Dry wood - Wet mire with pools.
A pair of Goosander were basking in the glow of the evening sunshine.
Estonia hay meadow management.
Surprising few birds as I believe this is designed to increase biodiversity.
White Stork ( Ciconia ciconia )
Common Crane ( Grus grus )
Hornbeam ( Carpinus betulus )
Thrush Nigthingale singing
Hazel Grouse nibbling the new shoots on the Silver Birch.
Great Grey Owl
White Backed Woodpecker
Wood Warbler singing.
Marsh Marigold ( Caltha palustris )
Buttercup Anemone ( Anemone ranunculoides )
Green Hairstreak ( Callophrys rubi )
An Icterine Warbler singing from high in these trees.
Pied Flycatcher & Spotted Flycatcher also present.
White Wagtail ( Motacilla alba )
on the road
to
Tartu
White Stork ( Ciconia ciconia )
Common Crane ( Grus grus )
Leidissoo
In a glade in the woodlands at the northern end of Leidissoo
Tree Pipit
and
Yellow Hammer
Sutlepa
Dawn light on the trees.
Soundscape from the reedbed.
Soundscape from the woodland edge a few hundred yards from the reeds.
A Cormorant colony just by the watchtower. ( Phalacracorax carbo )
A very changeable morning. From snowflurries to sunshine.
Stodmarsh
Beautiful old Crack Willows
Celery-leaved Buttercup ( Ranunculus sceleratus )
Reed Warbler - Acrocephalus scirpaceus, one of the many singing this morning.
Sedge Warbler
Cetti's Warbler
Which can be heard calling in the reedbed Dawn Chorus recording below.
Blackcap
Dawn Chorus in woodland at Stodmarsh
Dawn Chorus in the reedbed at Stodmarsh
Hobby and Marsh Harrier
On the lane down towards Stodmarsh are these tremendous woodlands full of Bluebells
Cliffe Pools
Dunnock - Prunella modularis
Whitethroat - Sylvia communis
A number of Nightingale singing but not seen.
and
a
Cuckoo
plus
Common Sandpiper