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thequacksoflife (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
What a lovely day! The sun shone all day, why couldn't it have been like that all summer? Anyway Dave and I went to Norfolk, we arrived at Titchwell and headed to the sea. We were chuffed to see a juvenile Red Necked Phalarope. And there were loads of waders about including Ruff. We also saw Golden Plover, Dunlin and quite a few Little Stint. Off the coast there were a few Arctic Skua, Gannet, a fly...
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Cynically optimistic (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
I saw wildlife that was interesting and exciting at Titchwell The bloody-nosed beetle ( Timarcha tenebricosa ), which I later learned, according to a sign at Titchwell, spits red fluid at you if you annoy it. I didn't know this when I picked it up to move it off the road and it didn't spit at me. The common, or viviparous lizard ( Lacerta vivipara ). Viviparous means it has live young, rather than...
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Showing the wildside of South Essex (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
The RSPB has been forced to take radical action to save one of its best-loved reserves from the sea. Titchwell Marsh on the north Norfolk coast faces inundation by the North Sea, which is slowly but surely eroding the 30-year-old sea walls that protect it. To stave off catastrophe the RSPB has decided it must allow the sea to reclaim part of the reserve in order to save the rest. If the waters were...
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Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
The Times ( UK ) : A swath of Britain ’s most popular bird-watching reserve is to be abandoned to the rising sea. The RSPB [Royal Society for the Protection of Birds] is to sacrifice part of Titchwell Marsh, on the north Norfolk coast, to protect its freshwater marshes and reedbeds, which are at risk of being being destroyed by the erosion of sea defences and rising sea levels. The charity said that...
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thequacksoflife (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
At 7am I arrived at Dave & Joy's for a trip to Norfolk. We arrived at Titchwell and soon found this attractive Peacock. We had a nice selection of waders Common Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Dunlin, Grey Plover, Black-Tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Sanderling, Redshank, Spotted Redshank, Rigned Plover, Little Ringed Plover, Little Egret, Curlew Sandpiper and Avocet. Oh and Snipe a ncie view of a Hobby....
