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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Peewit" data-source="post: 3190604" data-attributes="member: 57492">Friday 26th December 2014RSPB TitchwellWe left Lady Ann Drive at Holken, and drove to the RSPB Titchwell ReserveWe arrived at Titchwell Reserve, and decided to make a day of it as best we cooud.  The weather had taken a turn for the worst, and it was dull, grey and damp - but we kept our spirits up. o<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I stepped out of the car to be confronted by the tamest, cutiest Robin you would want to meet in a car park.  This one had a ring on his leg, so he must be well known to all in the reserve.We past the bird feeders, then the cafe area, and made our way into the midst of the reserve.We wandered along the West Bank Footpath and aimed towards the Perrinder Hide.  Since this hide has been built, we have not used the Island Hide as we see it as redundant now - and the views in the Island Hide are not so 3D at all :t:Lots of Avocets, Pintails, Grey Plovers, Brent Geese by the dozen, Godwits,  Teal, Wigeon, Gadwell, Mallards, Redshank, Shoveler, Curlew (by the call they made), Lapwings, Shelduck, Knot, and many others - let out an explosion of noise and calls in all directions vibrating on all four corners of the reserve.  The place was humming with bird life, and it added to the intrigue into what we may see.We arrived at the Perrinder Hide, and went to the left building overlooking the coast line.The outer area was encased in a sea of thick grey mud.  It looked empty until we looked at what was going on.  Wading birds appeared from all quarters wading through the mud, and picking out morsels with their bills.We used my Canon G15 and my OH his Nikon D7000, we took a lot of photos between us.  It was the perfect oppotunity for us to practice our skills at bird photography.In this post, we took many photos to go with the report, and it was hard to divide them into what was the better ones, over the average ones and this is the results that we got.43. Avocet44. Teal45. Teal46. Shelduck47. ShelduckMore to come...</blockquote>

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