Thursday 30 May 2013

Titchwell RSPB Reserve, Norfolk

Titchwell RSPB reserve is similar to nearby Cley reserve. Freshwater lagoons give way to brackish and salt lagoons closer to the sea but unlike Cley it also has a woodland area.

A male blackbird in the woodland area

The rarer birds were represented by three little gull on the brackish lagoon and single eider duck and common scoter a short distance offshore. The eider was a (very) belated addition to my world list.

A Cetti's warbler was singing from the reed bed but refused to show and the sun brought out a wall brown butterfly behind one of the hides.

Avocet also breed at Titchwell in reasonable numbers and generally the species present on the marshes were similar to those at Cley apart from a red knot and a pair of red-crested pochard.



Nesting avocets
A red knot with a mallard on the brackish lagoon

The shore at Titchwell is rockier than the beach at Cley and held a few more waders feeding on the abundant shellfish and molluscs. A couple of bar-tailed godwit, several turnstone, oystercatcher and sanderling were present.


Bar-tailed godwit

Oystercatcher

Here's the full list of birds seen and heard.

  1. Greylag Goose
  2. Canada Goose
  3. Mute Swan
  4. Common Shelduck
  5. Gadwall
  6. Mallard
  7. Northern Shoveler
  8. Red-crested Pochard
  9. Common Pochard
  10. Tufted Duck
  11. Common Eider
  12. Common Scoter
  13. Common Pheasant
  14. Little Grebe
  15. Great Crested Grebe
  16. Great Cormorant
  17. Grey Heron
  18. Little Egret
  19. Eurasian Marsh-Harrier
  20. Common Moorhen
  21. Eurasian Coot
  22. Northern Lapwing
  23. Grey Plover
  24. European Golden-Plover
  25. Common Ringed Plover
  26. Eurasian Oystercatcher
  27. Pied Avocet
  28. Common Redshank
  29. Bar-tailed Godwit
  30. Ruddy Turnstone
  31. Red Knot
  32. Sanderling
  33. Black-headed Gull
  34. Little Gull
  35. Herring Gull
  36. Lesser Black-backed Gull
  37. Little Tern
  38. Sandwich Tern
  39. Common Wood-Pigeon
  40. Common Swift 
  41. Common Kestrel
  42. Common Magpie
  43. Eurasian Jackdaw
  44. Barn Swallow
  45. Cetti's Warbler (Heard)
  46. Common Chiffchaff (Heard)
  47. Sedge Warbler
  48. European Robin
  49. Eurasian Blackbird
  50. Song Thrush
  51. European Starling
  52. Pied Wagtail
  53. Meadow Pipit
  54. Reed Bunting
  55. Common Chaffinch
  56. European Goldfinch
  57. House Sparrow

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