The last few hours of our Norfolk trip saw us stop off at the small private nature reserve at Flitcham. We parked the car and took a short walk along the road and before long had located at least four Tree Sparrows in the hedges. We then popped in to the hide and saw a couple of Egyptian Geese and a fair sized flock of Fieldfare amongst others. A Grey Partridge showed on the edge of one of the neighbouring fields. As we were getting ready to leave a flock of birds flew past the hide and landed in trees to our right, we got the scope on them and were surprised to see at least a dozen Bramblings.
Leaving Flitcham we cut cross country and continued south to the small town of Mundford and a visit to Lynford Arboretum. We took a walk around the lake and picked up Marsh Tit and Bullfinch, but there was no sign of any Hawfinches unfortunately. So we decided to finish the day on a relative high rather than chase any more birds and we left Norfolk and came on home after a brilliant four days away.
I finished the weekend with a trip total of 130 species in Norfolk, not bad for four days of birding.
UK list for 2011 now at 162 species.
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