Linda prompt a drive to Lynford for a stroll, with a lunch cease someplace nice: a terrific plan in idea, however not solely was the visitors horrible on each street out of Norwich, however the Arboretum was rammed with canine walkers and aged toggers.
Nonetheless, we discovered a few quiet spots and loved good views of some respectable woodland birds – Coal Tit, Marsh Tit, Siskin, Nuthatch and, better of all, a few Yellowhammers. Plenty of Buzzards however – for us not less than – no Hawfinches. Nice to stumble upon ex-pupil John Edwards and his dad Nick, who’d just lately returned from visiting the Spectacled Eider in Holland!
After lunch on the ‘Shepherd’s Baa’, we drove a few miles north to the Goshawk layby. After a minute or two a big Gos drifted over very excessive with three Buzzards. Final cease was Watton Vintage Centre, the place I could not resist a cut price ‘Penny Lick’ so as to add to my glass assortment!
