Brian and I were intending to visit Snettisham, but today's high tide was more spectacular than required, so we decided to postpone. We headed west nonetheless, arriving at Titchwell around 8.00am. A thorough search of the woodland failed to produce any migrants and the scrapes held little of interest other than a large group of Knot. As we watched, the saltmarsh between Titchwell and Thornham rapidly flooded: an impressive sight! We moved on to Burnham Overy where, not surprisingly, the Staithe car park was under water: accordingly, we walked down from the coast road, adding Curlew and Kingfisher to the day list. Lots of dragonflies - mostly Migrant Hawkers and Ruddy Darters, but a few Southern Hawkers too.
From the sea wall the extent of the flooding was really obvious - the entire muddy estuary was submerged, leaving just one small island. This held twelve Egrets, of which two were Cattle Egrets! As we returned to the car, scanning a distant herd of cattle revealed a further six more Cattle Egrets.
Next stop was Wells North Point Pools which, possibly predictably, held a Great White Egret but little else.
After coffee at Kelling, we decided to finish the day at Hickling, where a walk round the reserve added Bittern, eight distant cranes and more dragonflies to our haul.
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