North Norfolk - Pink-footed Goose, Sanderling, etc

[wild goose]

Hi everyone

It’s been a while since I posted anything – guess I have been too busy at work without realising it! Anyway, I treated myself to a pilgrimage to Norfolk, Titchwell and Holkham to be precise.

It was a beautiful crisp day! (car temp read -1c) but it soon warmed up. Plenty to see as well. there were about 1000 pink-footed geese at Holkham and guillemots, divers, snow buntings and Eider offshore at Tichwell.

Managed 80 species in the day so well worth the 2.5 hour journey.

I really love the autumn and winter for birdwatching as wildfowl can be seen in such great numbers – especially skeins of geese crossing the sky, wave after wave and the noise and sheer wonder is really something to behold.

wildgoose

[rolf]

Great photos wild goose, looks like it was a great day out, certainly looks like you had the right weather for it.

PS. added a couple of the bird names to your thread title to correspond to the thumbnail which will show.

[Chocky]

Excellen captures. Well done
The 4th photo looks like a Bar tailed Godwit

[wild goose]

Good spot Chocky – it certainly is and although I didn’t get a shot of it, there was a Black-tailed Godwit next to it for comparison.

[Chocky]

Thanks
We have a great deal of black-tailed Godwits on the Estuary but I Managed to get a flock of Bar-tailed Godwits flying along the estuary over at Lympstone. They are in the forum a little further back.
Is the third one a Redshank?

[wild goose]

Yes, it's a common redshank.

wildgoose