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Friday 28 December 2018

Cattle Egret at Carlton Marshes

Despite having passed a fairly abstemious Christmas, Linda and I still felt a little 'stodgy', so we decided on a walk around Carlton Marshes reserve, near Oulton Broad.

The paths were somewhat muddy, but we trudged around the whole circuit, finding only a few Little Egrets and a pair of Stonechats for our trouble! However, just as we were in sight of the visitors' centre Linda noticed a white blob lurking among the juncus: it was our target bird, a fine Cattle Egret!

After filling the SD cards, we returned to the car and carried on to Oulton Broad. After a hot drink and toasted tea-cake, we walked around the park in hope of catching up with the recently-present Ring-necked Parakeet: however, it wasn't to be seen or heard. Linda enjoyed feeding the Grey Squirrels for a while before we headed home.









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