Where to Watch Birds in East Anglia by David Callahan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page CONTENTS Key to Sites Acknowledgements Introduction How to Use This Book Definitions of terms and abbreviations CAMBRIDGESHIRE

Peterborough Area

1 Bedford Purlieus NNR 2 Castor Hanglands NNR 3 Subsidiary site: Southey Wood 4 Dogsthorpe Star Pit 5 Ferry Meadows Country Park 6 Etton-Maxey Pit nature reserve (aka Maxey Gravel Pit) 7 Subsidiary site: Hampton NR (aka Orton Pit or Orton Brick Pit) 8 Subsidiary site: Tanholt Gravel Pits

Cambridgeshire: Additional Sites

9 Cottenham Long Drove 10 Grafham Water SSSI 11 Little Paxton Pits NR (aka Paxton Pits) 12 Brampton Wood 13 Fletton Brick Pit (aka Butler’s Pit, Fletton Lake) 14 Cambourne Nature Reserve BCNWT 15 Hobson’s Park (Great Kneighton Country Park) 16 Godmanchester Nature Reserve BCNWT 17 Aversley Wood Woodland Trust reserve

THE FENS AND THE OUSE WASHES

18 RSPB Fen Drayton Lakes 19 RSPB Fowlmere 20 RSPB Ouse Fen 21 WWT Welney Wetland Centre 22 RSPB Nene Washes 23 RSPB Ouse Washes 24 Wicken Fen NNR 25 Subsidiary site: Swaffham Prior Fen The Great Fen Project

26 Woodwalton Fen NNR 27 Darlow’s and Middle Farms 28 Holme Fen NNR 29 New Decoy Farm

The Fens: Additional Sites

30 Monks Wood NNR 31 Chippenham Fen NNR 32 Blackbush Drove

NORFOLK

The North Coast

33 The Wash NNR 34 RSPB Snettisham 35 Subsidiary site: Snettisham Coastal Park 36 Subsidiary site: Ken Hill Wood 37 The Hunstanton area 38 Thornham Harbour and Marshes 39 NWT Holme Dunes 40 Holme Bird Observatory NOA 41 Redwell Marsh NOA 42 Holme Marsh NR 43 RSPB Titchwell Marsh 44 Subsidiary site: Gypsy Lane, Titchwell 45 Subsidiary site: Choseley Barns 46 Scolt Head Island NNR 47 Brancaster Marshes 48 Subsidiary site: Brancaster Staithe 49 Subsidiary site: Barrow Common 50 Burnham Overy Dunes 51 Subsidiary sites: Burnham Deepdale, NWT Burnham Norton Marshes and Burnham Overy Staithe 52 Holkham NNR (including Holkham Pines and Holkham Marshes) 53 Wells Woods 54 Subsidiary site: Wells ‘New Scrape’ (aka North Point Pools) 55 Holkham Hall (including the Holkham Estate and Holkham Park) 56 Warham Greens 57 Stiffkey Fen 58 Stiffkey 59 Blakeney Point NT 60 Friary Hills and Blakeney Freshmarsh 61 Morston Quay and Morston Marshes 62 NWT Cley Marshes 63 Walsey Hills NOA 64 NWT Salthouse Marshes 65 Gramborough Hill 66 ‘Meadow Lane’ and Kelling Water Meadows (aka Kelling Quags) 67 NWT Salthouse Heath 68 Kelling Heath 69 Weybourne 70 Sheringham seafront 71 Subsidiary site: Cromer

North Norfolk (Inland)

72 Felbrigg Hall NT 73 NWT Roydon Common and NWT Grimston Warren 74 Sandringham Country Park and area 75 NWT Dersingham Bog 76 Affiliated site: the ‘Wolferton Triangle’ 77 Flitcham Abbey Farm

The East Norfolk Coast

78 Winterton Dunes NNR

Interior Norfolk: The Yare Valley

79 Haddiscoe Marshes 80 Whitlingham Country Park/NWT Thorpe Marshes 81 RSPB Strumpshaw Fen (aka Mid-Yare NNR) 82 RSPB Rockland Marshes (Rockland Broad) 83 Subsidiary site: Claxton Marshes 84 RSPB Surlingham Church Marsh 85 Subsidiary site: Ted Ellis Trust NR (aka Wheatfen Broad) 86 RSPB Buckenham Marshes 87 Subsidiary site: RSPB Cantley Marshes 88 Subsidiary site: Cantley Beet Factory (aka Cantley Sugar Factory, British Sugar) 89 RSPB Breydon Water, RSPB Berney Marshes and Halvergate Marshes 90 Great Yarmouth

Other Interior Norfolk Sites

91 NWT Buxton Heath SSSI 92 Blackborough End Tip 93 Sculthorpe Moor NR (Hawk and Owl Trust) 94 Subsidiary site: Hempton Marsh NOA 95 Denver Sluice 96 Tottenhill Gravel Pits 97 Pentney GP (Nar Valley Fisheries) 98 Bayfield Estate

BRECKLAND

99 Cavenham Heath NNR 100 Santon Downham 101 NWT Weeting Heath 102 Mayday Farm 103 Subsidiary site: Elveden Forest Ride 7 104 Subsidiary site: NWT East Wretham Heath 105 Lakenheath Fen RSPB 106 Lynford Arboretum 107 Cockley Cley

THE BROADS NATIONAL PARK

108 Horsey area (including Horsey Mere, Horsey Corner and Horsey Gap) 109 NWT Hickling Broad and Marshes and area (including Stubb Mill and Potter Heigham Marshes) 110 Subsidiary site: NWT Martham Broad 111 Ranworth Broad 112 Cockshoot Broad NWT 113 NWT Upton Broad and Marshes 114 Hoveton Great Broad and Salhouse Broad 115 NWT Barton Broad 116 Alderfen Broad NWT 117 How Hill NNR

SUFFOLK

Lowestoft and the North Suffolk Coast

118 Lowestoft and Oulton Broad 119 Lowestoft Ness and Lowestoft Denes 120 SWT Carlton Marshes and SWT Oulton Marshes 121 Subsidiary site: Corton and Hopton-on-Sea 122 Kessingland Levels and Beach 123 Benacre NNR 124 Southwold 125 Subsidiary site: SWT Hen Reedbeds 126 Walberswick NNR 127 Subsidiary site: Dingle Marshes Nature Reserve 128 RSPB Minsmere 129 Dunwich Heath and Beach 130 Subsidiary site: Westleton Heath NNR 131 Subsidiary sites: RSPB Snape Warren and SWT Snape Marshes 132 RSPB North Warren 133 SWT Lackford Lakes 134 Subsidiary site: West Stow Heath CP SSSI 135 SWT Trimley Marshes 136 SWT Languard Point and Landguard Bird Observatory 137 Orford Ness NNR 138 RSPB Havergate Island 139 Subsidiary sites: SWT Hazelwood Marshes and Aldeburgh Town Marshes 140 Subsidiary site: Shingle Street and SWT Simpson’s Saltings 141 Subsidiary site: Bawdsey, East Lane 142 RSPB Boyton and Hollesley Marshes 143 RSPB Wolves Wood Additional Suffolk Sites 144 Livermere Lake (and pig fields) 145 SWT Mickle Mere 146 Subsidiary sites: Wherstead Strand (Orwell estuary) 147 RSPB Cattawade Marshes and Dedham Vale

Appendix 1: Common Starling Murmurations Appendix 2: Raptor Watchpoints Appendix 3: Gull-watching Sites Appendix 4: Useful Links References Key to Map Symbols eCopyright