It was ten years ago to the day that The Badger’s Eye first made an appearance on the internet, triggered by an encounter with a young badger and the photograph that I managed to take. Sitting in the dappled light of a July evening, downwind of a badger sett no…
Snettisham is tucked away on Norfolk’s western shoreline, a giant’s stone’s throw from Kings Lynn – a fold in the country from which mineral rich alluvium pours out into The Wash. It is rightly famed for it’s bird-life, particularly in winter where impossibly large flocks of knots join thousands of other…
From the archives: 8 Dec 2013 – In December 2013 a major storm hit the east coast, coinciding with a visit I had planned to RSPB Snettisham. I left the reserve car park in complete darkness, stars bright as diamonds in the ink black skies above me. The road had been closed…
I left the reserve car park in complete darkness, stars bright as diamonds in the ink black skies above me. The road had been closed but I had been let through by one of the Norfolk Constabulary’s finest, patrolling the flood zone in his 4×4 and now, a ruc-sac across…
Dawn on Friday found me at RSPB Snettisham on the North Norfolk coast to see the wonderful wader spectacular. A high, gently rising tide drove thousands of Knots, Oystercatchers and other waders from the Wash mudflats where they feed, sending them in huge, swirling clouds across the sky and onto…
Time and tide wait for no man and they certainly didn’t wait for me. To experience RSPB Snettisham at its best a visit should focus around high tide, when the great mudflats that separate Norfolk from Lincolnshire are covered by water, forcing the multitude of waders that rely on its…
