Talking of yearlisting I haven't had a year tick since the snow goose on 20th Oct, what's going on. Still trying to get 200 for the year !!
I absolutely refuse to pay a penny, so will have to walk from Barn's Drift in future then!There is a rumour that the Holkham Estate are looking into erecting barriers next year on both Lady Ann's Drive and the roadway up to Holkham Park/village carpark and we will have to pay from dawn to dusk!
Sue
Dave will be pleased you haven't made it to 200 yet Stuart!
There is a rumour that the Holkham Estate are looking into erecting barriers next year on both Lady Ann's Drive and the roadway up to Holkham Park/village carpark and we will have to pay from dawn to dusk!
Sue
Gone too are the days when you could park in Lady Anne's Drive at Holkham for nothing if you timed it right, or so it seems. I arrived early the other day and thought I'd beaten the man at the gate but as I was getting out of the car he pulled up beside me to extract my £3.50
I was there three weeks ago and drove down Lady Anne's Drive at 7am in the dark. I parked up and was watching a barn owl on a post nearby when another vehicle came down a few minutes later. I was surprised to have 'car-parkie' tapping on my window to extract £3.50 from me :eek!: Rather spoilt the moment. He didn't have much of a sense of humour either!..............
I don't pay any more, I tend to park on the road opposite Lady Anne's Drive, and walk down. Usually just pop in for 2-3 hours and begrudge paying that much for such a short
time. You can bird as you walk down- geese either side, tit flocks in the trees, no problem.
Cheers,
Jim.
[QUOTE - every post for the last two pages!]
just a reminder of the virtues of walking, bussing it, (Chopper stops right in front of Lady Annes), cycling and even running - to park at some birding hotspots you'll need a Barclaycard, but for every other mode of transport its virtually free,
incidentally James McCallum has got an art exhibition at Holkham at the minute for his new book Wild Skeins and Winter Skies, his stuff is just getting better.
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