29.03.2025 - Outdoor Meeting : Snettisham Wader Spectacular

Leader and Report- Sue Gale

The RSPB advertises the best days to see the waders at Snettisham and this Saturday was the first in 2025.
Needless to say, there were a lot of people attending! We had arranged to meet in the car park at 2.00pm to beat the rush but actually were lucky to find a space before 2.00. The car park was closed shortly after that,
and the beach car park alternative was also closed by 3.30! Several of our members had arranged to arrive later or to park elsewhere and in some cases we never did catch up with them. Abandoning the idea of exploring the bushes round the car park and on the path to the beach we arrived at the shoreline to find the sea looking a very long way away and the wind to be blowing strongly and coldly. By the time we reached the shore we had seen Tufted Ducks, Coots and Mallards on the lagoons and the likes of Buzzard, Red Kite, Greylag and Egyptian Goose and common passerines from the path.

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