Holiday wildlife piccies

[smallblueplanet]

Just a few shots of Snettisham and Titchwell in Norfolk. Had a great time spotting birdies and other wildlife and flora. I can highly recommend anyone who likes a bit of a wander, but with some home comforts close by (ie loos!) try a trip to Titchwell and Sculthorpe Moor, good for marsh harriers. We saw our first stoat there, for something so good at killing it was awfully cute! Snettisham is great to go and view flocks of waders being driven close to shore at high tides.

Anyway I'm not an expert and the photos are only taken with a digi point & shoot, but I hope you like a few of the shots I took.

Birds -

- avocet

- avocet

- little egret

- little egret

[smallblueplanet]

Bees!

- bee on some sort of (sea?) sedum flowers

- lots of baby ducks in a puddle on the caravan site!

- stranded jellyfish

- mussel shell (with barnacles!)

[smallblueplanet]

Flowers and trees!?

- snettisham

- rose with strange 'flower'



- 'drift' wood

[Birdie Wife]

Lovely pics Manda, takes me back, for three weeks before I moved up here I was the RSPB Information Warden at Titchwell. Saw my first firecrest there, and twitched some migrating nightingales! Happy memories.

[HeyWayne]

I love the one of the breaker in the sand and the waves in the background Manda!

Great photos.

[smallblueplanet]

@BW its a really nice place. It was a lovely sunny day on sunday, we saw a bittern flying and finally got to see some beardies! (Thanks to the info given by the chap on the info desk about them eating fallen seed off the mud underneath the reeds.) Well happy! Edit - oh and the mrs marsh harrier & juvies.

Here's a couple more shots - not really identifiable?

[Flummery]

Nice to have you back (I know it was only a few days but it wasn't the same without you!) and I love the pics.

[Headfry]

What lovely pictures, thanks one and all!

[smallblueplanet]

Nice to have you back...

Thanks Flum! Do you happen to know what the strange red thing that is growing on the rose (in the above piccy) is?

[HeyWayne]

Thanks Flum! Do you happen to know what the strange red thing that is growing on the rose (in the above piccy) is?

I seem to recall someone else asking about that - or something very similar (damn my memory!).

[Flummery]

It's called Robin's Pincushion. It's a gall - caused by an underlying insect which has probably now gone. They are often little wasp larvae.