The First on the Fourth
Friday April 4 Another lovely day in which to enjoy the Norfolk countryside and its flora and fauna. The warm sunshine days continue - and the cold north westerly had gone missing today too. The warmth has also accelerated the growth on trees and shrubs. The hedge-rows have a distinctive green haze, as do some of the trees. Deciduous trees don't have much of a rest. We thought that frogs had deserted our pond, we haven't had frog spawn for several years, just toad. This year we had a small clump but it didn't stay long attached to the surface weed growth. Disappointing. Chiffchaffs are widespread now, including our patch of gardens. Despite the lengthy wait at the Fakenham roadworks traffic lights, we made it to Snettisham soon after high tide. Not a high tide today, what birds there were present were clustered on the shoreline, too far for accurate identification. The Knot were nearer, far fewer in number, Curlew, Redshank, Grey Plover, Avocets and Shelduck scattered abou...