Bird Watching

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