At your age Josh I certainly did cycle/walk a lot more. However some of us are now old and wrinkly and I for one would certainly be 'out of puff' if I cycled from Roydon to Holkham and back. You are lucky to be on the coasthopper bus route but some of us are miles away from it! However I still walk from home to my local patch on days when I have only a few hours to spare. We all admired Chris Mills who did a cycling yearlist a couple of years ago and got a good total but I don't think he will be rushing too quickly to repeat it!
Sue
Hi, nice to see people talking birds & bikes, just for the record!:-
My Norfolk Totals were
Species Total 2005 : 251
Cumulative distance: 4072 Km
Cumulative road time: 160.4 hrs
Inclusive of 132 species in one day, which involved 100 mile ride over a 1.5 days & sleeping on the Obs floor at Holme! I still believe both of the above stand as current UK records -well the word according to Lee!
Simon Woolley's Hampshire total whom I competed against
Species total 2005: 217
Cumulative distance: 4868 km
Cumulative road time: 208.7 hours
No I would not do it again! But I wish I had a pound for each time I get asked!
I got an email earlier this year from a chap earlier this year who was going to have a crack at the record, but I haven't heard from him since so maybe not.
I had 5000 Common Scoter, Velvet Scoter, Richards Pipit & Red-necked Grebe at Holkham bay a week or so ago, so well worth a look for the Divers etc.
Ta Chris