Lakenheath Fen RSPB 6th May 2012
On the second day of holiday we were heading for Bury St Edmunds where we were due to attend a birthday party. It was our plan to go to the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust reserve at Welney – another site we have been meaning to go to for ages. Unfortunately we could not get near the reserve as the road leading to it was under water. We tried to get there a couple of ways but in the end we just have to give up. Even when the road was open there was only the visitor centre itself that was above water so we just weren’t lucky. Instead we decided to go a bit further and go to Lakenheath Fen instead. Lakenheath Fen is famous for its small population of migrant Golden Orioles so we hoped we might get lucky there. As it turned out we did get some new birds for our year list and a couple of lifers as well. But was one of these a Golden Oriole ? More on this later.