Our last visit to Norfolk in 2019 had perhaps spoiled us as the round trip gave us so many of those species that we love including Dotterel and Turtle Dove. This trip gave us fewer species and not all of the most desirable birds but the weather was so much better than in 2019 which was quite cold and windy. This time it was a different sort of holiday; there was a bit of a mini heatwave with hot sun every day except one. Because we had been at home so much since Covid, it was so much more appreciated and perhaps we spent more time sitting around enjoying the good weather, particularly at Thornham, than we did the previous time. This time we took nothing for granted and enjoyed every minute of it.
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