Norfolk, late March & early April 2025

Our first stay in the caravan, on the site near Fakenham.  This was an excellent location for accessing the North Norfolk coast.

North Point Pools, between Wells and Stiffkey, seems a good location for Marsh Harrier. It was also near the Pallid Harrier's roost, before it was flushed by a high tide and went north.  The female harrier below had a wing tag label '4H', which identified her as a Norfolk bird, tagged on the nest in 2017.

The caravan site has a small bird hide overlooking a few feeders.  There was not much to see, perhaps because the feeders were patrolled by a pair of squirrels.

My first attempt to find Shore Larks at Gore Point failed but there were a lot of Linnets patrolling the strandline and apparently being successful in scavenging food from the debris.

I failed to find the Ring Ouzel at Roydon Common several times but did notice this Stoat hunting. It put up a Red-legged Partridge and a duck, which may have been sitting on a nest.

I thought this little rodent was a Water Vole but looking at the picture afterwards, it must have been a Water Shrew.  This is apparently the largest Shrew in the UK, and I had never heard of the species before!

I also tried and failed to find a Hoopoe near Fakenham, but at least this little Goldcrest was willing to be photographed.