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Trip to East Norfolk and Suffolk with Joe

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Intro Something I didn’t mention in my last blog entry is that during my time in the Pyrenees, I discovered that my friends back home in England were on a birding trip to Norfolk. Now this wouldn’t usually have bothered me, but I discovered this at almost the exact second I realised I wasn’t going to see a Black Woodpecker, despite climbing a mountain to do so (see the previous post for more on this). But that’s not the only reason I felt a little sad about their being in Norfolk. My paternal grandparents have had a house in West Norfolk since I was very young, and birding excursions while visiting them on family holidays are without a doubt what nurtured an early love for all things feathered. And as an adult, having a place to stay in Norfolk has been a blessing for developing my birding skills. I have taken to staying with my grandparents for birding trips fairly regularly, going up there for New Year’s Day 2025, and briefly before last year’s MigFest as well, usually with my frie...
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New Year Trip to the foothills of the Pyrenees and the Gard

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Why Blog? Before I detail my observations from this trip, I think it would be best to elaborate on why I wanted to start this blog. I have several reasons, which I will list shortly, but thought that I should shout out Thomas Miller’s post about winter geese on his Birding Blog - posted in late December – which kick-started this endeavour. I was always under the impression that blog-writing (or, alternatively vlogging) was something of an egotistical pursuit, and the resulting blogs were frequently dry, but in reading Thomas’s last entry, such fears were dispelled. Thomas’s recent blog post: https://tmbirding.blogspot.com/2025/12/patch-geese.html My own reasons for beginning this blog are also assumptions about what the process of writing this often will do for me. Firstly, I’m hoping that this blog may help improve my quality of writing. This year I have been writing a lot of job applications, and I have often found myself struggling to find the correct word to use or writing i...
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