Flyladyphotography By Wendy Cooper

  Well hello there!   We recently had a couple of days up on the North Norfolk coast, an area we have not been to for quite sometime, with trips to Suffolk, the Forest of Dean and of course the Isle of Mull  having been taken between times, so a visit to a few of our favourite haunts there was long overdue.   The weather was bright but very cold when we arrived on the Sunday and after a nice lunch in Blakeney, we decided to forgo our usual stroll on the marsh and head to Cley instead. On arriving at NWT Cley Marshes   we decided to go to the single hide on the roadside of the scrapes where the three main hides are first.  As we walked along, we could hear geese honking to each other and there was a distant Kestrel hovering above the reeds.     Once settled in the hide, looking out across the water, there were a selection of Teal and Shovellers dabbling or snoozing and Godwits probing about for food.  From time to time we...

  Well back at the end of October, we spent a few days up in Norfolk, it was mostly wet...  followed by more wet, however on the Sunday, we woke to a morning of 'washed clean' skies and sunshine.  There was nothing for it, but to go for a stroll down to the beach at one of our favourite haunts, RSPB Titchwell, where there is always something to see!    We decided to keep to the path which runs down to the beach, keeping an eye open over the marshes to one side and the scrapes to the other.  Near the start, on the marsh side we watched a Chinese Water Deer grazing along one of the mud channels.    Chinese Water Deer; these are quite solitary creatures, but can be seen most often on wet marshy habitats, and are quite strong swimmers should the need arise.  They are not a native species, but were introduced, from China, back in the nineteenth century.  Whilst they are slowly increasing over here, in their native Asia, they are a vul...