Anyone familiar with the Catfield Fen reserve?
Had a walk around the area this afternoon, couldn't see much in the heavy fog but we were reeling off likely species...looks to be a great spot for warblers especialy as well as other broadland target species, what really impressed us was how seemingly wild the area was with no heavy reedbed management etc ~ lots of suitable scrub for a wide variaty of birds throughout the whole year. We did manage to hear Bearded Tits, Water Rail, Cettis Warbler and a very brief view of a male Marsh Harrier....unintentionally
walked beyond the last view point of the area by middle marsh drainage mill and ended up by Barton Broad!!!
Looks to be a bit of a backwater and possibly underwatched? so for anyone interested more information of the reserve can be found on the link below...
http://norfolk-butterflies.org.uk/catfield.html
Confusingly there seems to be another Catfield fen? or common in the area which we also visited, two Siskin, fly over Redpoll, Marsh Tit, Coal Tit and three Kingfisher were the only notable sightings...
Matt