Norfolk Holiday May 2006 Introduction

Our, nearly two-week, holiday around Sussex and Norfolk in May 2026 involved us mixing a bit of birding with visiting friends. Over the period we stayed at “The Old Pheasant” at Oakham, near Rutland Water, The Woodcutters Lodge in Lynford Arboretum in Norfolk followed by a night with friends at Bury St Edmunds and two nights with another friend at Thorrington near Halesworth. From there we went to Norfolk where we stayed a couple of nights at Wayford Bridge at the Wayford Bridge Inn. Following this, we stayed three nights in Lapwing Cottage in Docking in Norfolk and finished off with an overnight stay in Grantham.

During this period we went to the following birding sites

Rutland Water, Rutland
Weeting Heath NWT, Norfolk
Lakenheath Fen RSPB, Norfolk
Lynford Arboretum, Norfolk
Nunnery Lakes, Thetford, Norfolk
Lackford Lakes RSPB, Suffolk
Minsmere RSPB,
Hickling Broad NWT, Norfolk
Cley NWT, Norfolk
Holme Dunes NWT, Norfolk
Titchwell Marsh RSPB, Norfolk
Hunstanton Cliffs, Hunstanton, Norfolk
Blakeney Point and Morston, Norfolk
Thornham, Norfolk
Frampton Marsh, Lincolnshire

We saw 94 species of which 23 were year ticks and one a life tick. The following is a sumentries summarise our daily birding.