Horning, Norfolk Broads
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email: kingline@norfolk-broads.co.uk
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The Norfolk Broads and nearby coastline ofter backed by dunes
or marshes, can offer areas of wilderness where the birdlife can wildlife can
observed virtually undisturbed by all Bird Watchers. Broadland itself offers
chances to see rare plants and animals some of which can only be found in this
region.
Local wildlife includes the Bittern, butterflies such as the swallow tail and
the huge but harmless "Norfolk Hawker" dragonfly. (View a list of
birds seen by previous visitors to King line Cottages.)
There are many Birdwatching, Nature and Wildlife Reserves in East Anglia, a list can be viewed at Birds of Britain web site. Some Local reserves can be visited by car or by our electric powered day boat. These include:
This list has been compiled of birds spotted from outside King Line Cottages and nearby in one of the Broads.
| Avocet (Salthouse) | Black headed gull | Black Swan |
| Blackbird | Blackcap | Blue Tit |
| Carion Crow | Chaffinch | Chiff Chaff> |
| Collared Dove | Common Sandpoper | Common Tern |
| Coot | Cuckoo | Cormorant |
| Dunnock | Egyptian Goose | Great Crested Grebe |
| Great Tit | Greater spottedWoodpecker | Greenfinch |
| Grey Heron | Grey Lag Goose | Herring Gull |
| House Sparrow | Jackdaw | Kestrel |
| Kingfisher | Kittiwake (Salthouse) | Lapwing |
| Magpie | Mallard | Meadow Pipit (Salthouse) |
| Moorhen | Mute Swan | Oyster Catcher (Salthouse) |
| Pheasant | Pied Wagtail | Red legged Partridge |
| Pochard | Red Shank | Reed Bunting |
| Ringed Plover (Salthouse) | Rook | Sedge Warbler (Cockshoot Broad) |
| Shelduck (Salthouse) | Skylark | Snipe |
| Song Thrush | Sparrowhawk (Salthouse) | Starling |
| Swallow | Swift | Wheater (Salthouse) |
| Willow Warbler | Wood Duck | WoodPidgeon |
| Wren |