Hickling Broad NWT 11th May 2012
On the 11th we left from Halesworth headed for Cley where we were to stay three days at the George Hotel. Cley is, of course, a sort of birding Mecca and we had been there briefly once before when we saw a small flock of Spoonbills but this time we hoped to have a bit more time to look around the site properly. When we are travelling from place to place we normally try to fit in another reserve en route and today’s target was the Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s Hickling Broads reserve. The reserve comprises of a visitor centre and a series of walks through woods and reedbeds with a series of hides before opening out into Hickling Broad itself. There are further tracks to Potter Heigham and along Weavers Way and over to Hickling Heath. Bittern and Eurasian Cranes were our target birds and we tried to maintain an optimistic outlook on our chances of success.
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