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Monday August 3, 2009
Potter Heigham... and back again
We went on what may develop into a ritual visit to Potter Heigham, hoping to be able to get under the bridge, and thus on to Hickling Broad. [It is my ambition to see a bearded tit (it's a bird) and they frequent only the north Broads]. However, the water was high and nothing of our height was being let through. We were only about 2 inches too high for the water level, and they said we could wait for low water at 5pm but we abandoned the enterprise and I accepted it wasn't going to happen this holiday. We turned back towards South Walsham Broad and Horning. Use the pop-up to see the map.
A Duck a Day: The Goose
I had forgotten the Egyptian Goose who features all over the Broads, so he was a lovely surprise for me all over again.
Such lovely plumage I can't resist another view of it.
This one looked very amusing to us - stuck on the skyline on the roof of someone's house. It shows you two features of the holiday - the goose and the wonderful decorative ridge of the thatched roof. Thatch is no longer a quaint olde worlde feature in Norfolk but is recognised as the economic and practical roofing material that it always was. The sedge is once again being properly managed (improving wildlife habitats) and more younger people are training as thatchers.
There were other geese too - here are some greylags. Huge honking flocks of them wheeled overhead at dusk.
Posted by Christina at 6:36 PM. Category: Days Out
