Garth Peacock
Spring Tide at RSPB Snettisham

Archive

Friday 4th October - North Norfolk

Monday 7th October 2024

Tanzania Day 8 - The Serengeti

Saturday 5th October 2024

Two trips out with little to show.

Wednesday 25th September 2024

Tanzania Day 7 - The Serengeti

Monday 23rd September 2024

Abberton Reservoir - again

Thursday 19th September 2024

Abberton Essex

Wednesday 11th September 2024

A morning at Grafham Water

Thursday 29th August 2024

After holiday blues

Thursday 22nd August 2024

Trying out a new lens

Monday 5th August 2024

Tanzania Day 5 - Ngorogoro Crater

Saturday 27th July 2024

Kevin Robson's Tawny Owl hide

Thursday 25th July 2024

Local stuff

Saturday 20th July 2024

More local stuff

Saturday 29th June 2024

Catching up with a local rarity

Friday 14th June 2024

Tanzania - Day 1 - Arusha

Monday 13th May 2024

View Blog Archive >>
Saturday 13th April 2024

Monday 8th April and, despite preparing for a photo holiday, I accepted an invitation from a friend to join him at the spring tide spectacle at RSPB Snettisham. He had booked a disabled parking space to avoid the long walk from the main car park and he had been advised to arrive around 5.00pm - plenty of time for see what else was around the area.

We met at the car park for RSPB Titchwell and preceed to see what that reserve had to offer. I had stopped going there because the water levels in front of the hides were too high but we started off at Fen hide where a Marsh Harrier entertained us for a while.

Moving on, the water levels are still too high for anything of real interest and there was nothing on the beach either. Eventually, on the walk back, a Linnet posed nicely

and a Meadow Pipit too.

Stopping off at Hunstanton cliffs, I was surprised that the usual Fulmers were not showing so off to RSPB Snettisham. We walked to the bottom hide (don't know the name as the original was destroyed in the flood a couple of years or so ago). A pair of Mediterranean Gulls were on view, not as close as I would have liked and ,with the high cloud, not the best light for distant shots.

Sometimes, you just have to make the best of the conditions.

A Brown Hare trundled past the hide - tried a back lit shot.

and then the Knot started to fly in as the tide rose. Apparently only around 25000 as the majority had moved north to their breeding grounds, but still a spectacle.

So many shots later, with the light going, it was time to depart.