RSPB Snettisham

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00][snorts] Right. Out for another walk exploring a RSPB nature reserve. Where are we Sandra?

[00:00:09]>> We're at RSPB Snettishim. So this is actually more or less opposite Freeston Shore that we visited in the past.

[00:00:18]>> So we're currently in Norolk and nobody will have a clue where Free Shore is.

[00:00:23]Where's Free Shore?

[00:00:24]>> Lincolner. So there there's an area of water called the wash which is like a big massive estray is probably the best way to describe it.

[00:00:33]We live not far from Freawore the other side of the water the wash and so where we're going now we'll be look over the water and see our side of the water the linkage side but we're on the north side at the moment aren't we? So, we're going to take a walk. Not been here before, and see where this walk takes us. Sorry, it's going to sound weird that I'm videoing the toilet, but I can see there's a black bird in the tree just here, and he's he's fueling himself up for uh for the winter by grabbing the uh the winter berries.

[00:01:09]>> Yeah.

[00:01:09]>> On the hawthornne. He's quite tame. He's having a good look at us.

[00:01:14]Um, no drones.

[00:01:23]You may hear shooting adjacent to the pits. Legal control of gray lag geese.

[00:01:30]Sandra, what's a gray lag geese? Is that related to a pinkfooted geese? Goose.

[00:01:40]That's uh the hides and the lakes.

[00:01:47]Autumn. Take a stroll along the beach.

[00:01:48]Enjoy the awesome sunset over the wash.

[00:01:54]Nash is famous for two fantastic bird species. The flight of tens of thousands of wading birds join the biggest tides and the dawn flights of huge squadrons of pinkfooted geese.

[00:02:07]>> See, it really is a thing.

[00:02:10]leaving their winter roost in some of the reserve because of noise and excitement. Anyway, there goes a lot.

[00:02:16]Um, so there we are.

[00:02:19]Let's go and find the rotary hide which is in 1 and a half kilometers.

[00:02:28]See, I never been here before, but I know what I know how far away things are. S, how do I know how far things are?

[00:02:34]>> Follow the signs.

[00:02:35]>> Follow the signs, not follow the yellow brick road.

[00:02:39]So, it's a Kingslin Angling Club. Um, I'm not going to go I'm not going to go in. I don't know. It's a private fishing members only.

[00:02:51]But there's a stray float in the water there. Some ducks. That looks a beautiful water to fish that.

[00:03:01]I'm definitely making it one of my things next year to renew my fishing rod license. and um and come back. All right. Okay. So, there is a path there around another water, but I think we'll follow the main path for now. And uh see if we can spot any pink footed geese.

[00:03:27]That's a robin.

[00:03:29]>> You reckon?

[00:03:30]>> I do.

[00:03:32]We put the murder nap on.

[00:03:34]Posive that's a robin. And that's a duck.

[00:03:37]There you go. European robin.

[00:03:41]So it's that little uh tweet and somewhere tucked in there is a robin.

[00:03:50]You need to be a bit ablebodied as they got some steps were rising up.

[00:04:02]No public right away. This seaw wall is not part of the nature is always a seaw wall. And back down. Uh there's the view over here. There is a holy park.

[00:04:19]There's plenty of berries, isn't there?

[00:04:26]>> Nature doing what nature does best and giving up its fruits to other species.

[00:04:34]can feed and survive the winter. Let me show a lot of brambles there, Sandra.

[00:04:40]>> Good grief.

[00:04:42]That's a serious amount of brambles.

[00:04:48]>> Boat.

[00:04:48]>> Sorry.

[00:04:49]>> Little boat.

[00:04:50]>> Is it? Is it really, Sandra? That's uh It doesn't look a very well boat, does it? Uh >> been used for a while. There's >> another one over the other side there.

[00:05:00]Uh Holly Park, some chalet.

[00:05:03]It's quite pretty, isn't it? They've all got their own little uh landing stages, haven't they?

[00:05:09]Hear the water lapping and magpies.

[00:05:15]Definitely hear magpies over a little bridge and a little path onto the lake.

[00:05:42]It's almost like a little beach over there, isn't it?

[00:05:47]>> Very peaceful, >> right? So, a little bit marshy down this end of the lake here. And it's quite mild for this time of year, isn't it?

[00:05:59]Apparently, it's not kissing season, Neil.

[00:06:02]>> Not what?

[00:06:02]>> It's not kissing season.

[00:06:04]>> Kissing season.

[00:06:05]>> Yeah, the gauze isn't in flower.

[00:06:08]>> There you go, everybody. It's not kissing season because the gor is not in flower.

[00:06:12]>> That's what my mom used to say, >> right? I thought that was a crow sat on that post there.

[00:06:17]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:06:18]>> But I think it's a sock or something.

[00:06:24]>> It's a leather glove. It's a lady's leather glove. It's a driving glove.

[00:06:29]That's a bit weathered and she's worn it out and the thumbs anymore >> and the thumbs have been bitten off.

[00:06:37]>> Those of a certain age will remember it was primarily ladies but not all these but men. Do you remember them leather driving gloves you used to get and then the men ones had like checkers on on the on the back of them.

[00:06:50][laughter] >> Yeah. My mom always wore driving gloves.

[00:06:54]>> What was that? because the old um steering wheels were slippery and not like modern ones.

[00:07:00]>> The old cars I think were a lot colder as well.

[00:07:04]>> Possibly a lot colder, but also in >> shiny steering wheels >> in the summer months. Do you remember those black >> fake leather seats where you sat down and you could burn burn the back of your legs if you had shorts on?

[00:07:16]>> Yeah.

[00:07:17]>> Uh or you touch the steering wheel and you burnt yourself.

[00:07:23]>> Right. It's a beautiful view. And again, all these uh coming out [snorts] probably rabbits, not badgers.

[00:07:36]Uh you got all these static caravans and chalets right by the lake with all their own little jetties.

[00:08:02]That's bizarre. I was just saying to Sandra, there's been a a smaller decline of swans that we spotted this year.

[00:08:12]They're big, aren't they?

[00:08:13]>> They are.

[00:08:14]>> Are they whooperus swans or hoopus ones?

[00:08:18]>> Aven flu. They were affected last year a lot by the aven flu, >> but they're massive. Yeah, >> they are seriously big ones. I don't know if you can see there or not. Um, it looks like they're on a nest of some sort, but I can't see any signets with them.

[00:08:35]So, approaching the end of this uh this lake now, and then we're going to be going up on the embankment.

[00:08:43]All right, so we got some more uh some more steps. So, I'm not too sure whether this is another part of the flood defenses or not, but uh up we come. Oh, it's another it's the other lake, right?

[00:09:01]That's the wash out that way.

[00:09:06]So, yeah, this is the flood defense line here, isn't it?

[00:09:13]So there's one leg we've seen and coming over to here [panting] and Sandra was just talking about the wash. The tide is seriously out which we'll come to in a moment. And uh I'll get Sandra to try and explain a little bit more about >> that side of the water.

[00:09:34]>> Thousands of birds over there.

[00:09:37]>> Yeah. And this side of the water.

[00:09:40]And welcome to the Norfolk Coast Path.

[00:09:42]Travels from some of the finest and most fragile landscapes in the area. From tidle creeks to shingle banks, from sandunes and mud flats. An area full of unique and amazing species.

[00:09:57][snorts] Ring clover, oyster catchers, braille.

[00:10:04]And we are here at the moment.

[00:10:07]There's the wash.

[00:10:10]and the M flaps which is flood warning area.

[00:10:30]>> So thousands and thousands a bit further out there the load just there. I don't know what those are. And I can definitely hear a load of geese. I don't know if they're coming in or going out.

[00:10:44]There's a geese on the water, isn't there? I can hear.

[00:10:48][snorts] The geese flying over.

[00:10:57]You hear playing above.

[00:11:00]So [snorts] where we are with is sort of round the bend but sort of skes is as the crow flies is out that direction.

[00:11:09]Um and then you sort of come over you got Boston. [snorts] So we're quite a few miles in now. So and in fact I don't know whether that's the stump there. You not you're not going to be able to see what I'm pointing at. There's a little black thing in the distance but that's the Boston stump.

[00:11:25]>> Oh >> can you see it?

[00:11:27]>> Uh zoom in. But the tide is really far out at the moment. It's really far and sadly says there's thousands of waiting birds out there. So we that's where we are now.

[00:11:40]Take a gaze upon the wash from the beach trail. Fast estry of expansive mud flaps and salt marsh bing with Norfolk and linkage. Be mindful of ringed clovers and oyster catchers nashing nesting on the shingle.

[00:11:59]Uh not standing off the stunning views.

[00:12:04]Right, we'll carry on with our bit of a walk.

[00:12:09]Um [snorts] there we are now. So marching mud flats.

[00:12:16]spectacular views but aren't safe to walk on the shingle flats are also important nesting habitat. So they say not to be really walking down on the beach area um [snorts] and not to put up uh not to be putting up any drones to be [snorts] disturbing the wildlife. There's also no saying dogs on lead please. So you may have a well- behaved dog. If you got sniff of a animal or whatever, even the best behaved dogs can end up causing a bit of havoc.

[00:13:16]So, there is a path down a little bit lower here.

[00:13:21]There's a ply bench down there as well.

[00:13:28]It sort of looks like a boat, doesn't it?

[00:13:32]>> Can't be a boat.

[00:13:36]Like lumps of concrete. I'm not too sure.

[00:13:41]I don't I have no idea what they're for.

[00:13:42]There's obviously been some kind of buildings here um in some time.

[00:13:49]So they were saying about the uh sand pipes and things nesting on the shale and obviously the tie comes right up.

[00:13:56]They uh you can see it all up up here.

[00:14:01][snorts] Some more geese about to land.

[00:14:16]Uh just come from the coastly bit which is over there the where the mud flaps are and have a bit more of a viewing point here at the moment. There's a bench here and there's lots of geese out. [snorts] Oh, what's that there?

[00:14:43]Can't quite tell what those are. It's something to identify them in a minute.

[00:14:59]There's loads of starings flying over.

[00:15:09]That looks like a coot.

[00:15:11]>> Sweet. It's just uh flown off.

[00:15:16]So, it's an area now.

[00:15:31]Okay then.

[00:15:44]Swans signets.

[00:15:47]Signets.

[00:15:49]That was a bit interesting cuz they're almost giving a warning. They're signets then, weren't they?

[00:15:53]>> So those those swans over there are swans, not white geese, I don't think.

[00:15:57]Sounds >> They are white geese.

[00:15:59]>> You sure?

[00:16:00]>> Yeah, they're they're swans, but the ones in the water are white geese.

[00:16:03]>> Yeah.

[00:16:05]So, but they've just done a call as well. That was really weird, wasn't it?

[00:16:10]>> So, who's coming now?

[00:16:13]>> Who's coming now? They're in the distance, aren't they? Yeah.

[00:16:18]>> The pink footed geese there. They were a little bit alarmed about the signlets coming in for some reason. I don't know >> what all that was about.

[00:16:27]And you can see the water ebing through a pipe, which means that side's higher than that side.

[00:16:34]But I thought this was uh fresh water, not tidle.

[00:16:46]>> I'm not too sure what they are.

[00:16:48]>> Quite big.

[00:16:50]Um some down very low down.

[00:16:54]>> They're apples.

[00:16:55]>> Are they apples?

[00:16:56]>> Yeah.

[00:16:57]>> Are they apples?

[00:16:58]>> Yeah.

[00:17:00]>> Maggot in that one. Don't Don't bite it.

[00:17:03]little apples.

[00:17:04]>> Little mini mini mini chapel tree.

[00:17:08]So just uh this side of the Boston stump across the water.

[00:17:13]We're probably almost parallel. There's a place called Shh. I'll show you something. I can see in a minute. Hang on. Let's come back. What are these? Can you see them all here?

[00:17:24]>> Mhm.

[00:17:25]>> What are they?

[00:17:27]Don't know.

[00:17:28]>> Um so the little wobblers. Oh, they're here. Oh, a there's a robin. Well, that's not a robin. The ones that are in the back there, but literally across the water from where we are now in that direction is a place called Frampton Marsh. Um, and we've got some video if you if you're on this channel and do a search for um Frampton Marsh, you'll come up.

[00:17:52]We saw some of the most spectacular murmmorations there last year. Um, funny enough, autumn coming into winter time.

[00:18:00]this time last year. Not too sure what those birds are. There's a lot of them.

[00:18:03]>> They're moving very fast, so I'm trying to catch up with them.

[00:18:08]>> I can't say whether they're wags.

[00:18:10]I don't think they are.

[00:18:11]>> Uh, there's more. Sorry, this camera is not going to pick up what we can see.

[00:18:17]>> There's a definite rumbling sound coming from that way over the other side of the wash. That's mechanical.

[00:18:27]Um, so we've got a hide here. It says rotary hide, but that's like the rotary club.

[00:18:32]So, [panting] let's [snorts] go and have a look in.

[00:18:38]You supposed to see the water over here or over on the wash here.

[00:18:43]So, uh Oh, pink footed geese spectacular.

[00:18:47]The pinkooted geese that come to the wash for winter spend their nights on the mud mats beyond the beach where they'll be safe from predators. At dawn, they get up and fly inland, spend the day, feeding in the fields. Uh, tens of thousands flying overhead.

[00:19:05]>> See, and that's what I could see in my binoculars. So, they were pinky geese are pink.

[00:19:11]>> Pink footed geese come to UK from breeding grounds in Iceland. 30% of the world's population spends its winter in Norfolk.

[00:19:19]Um, geese choose Norfolk because they find a ready food in the fields.

[00:19:24]basically spit grain from the harvest feeding remains of root crops.

[00:19:30]There's make a thousand mile flight from Iceland in early September, but the bulk of them do not arrive until November. There you go, Dunland. That's the little bears we could just see. Pretty sure whether they were them or not.

[00:19:50]>> And that's what I could see in the distance.

[00:19:54]as well as normal ducks. Shell ducks.

[00:19:59]>> Yeah, I think it's done.

[00:20:03]The wrinkle over the little ones cuz it had it had white under the wings, didn't it?

[00:20:11]>> They were more stripey. That's white as well.

[00:20:14]>> Yeah, but not a feeding beat that we saw.

[00:20:21]sets. See, I think we saw some of them as well.

[00:20:23]>> The wash. That's where we are now.

[00:20:29]>> Nice hides.

[00:20:36]Not seen any of those yet.

[00:20:38]>> So, if you do come into the hide and you open up the windows to look out like this, so there are catches up here. Make sure you put them back down again.

[00:20:50]Right, this is going up.

[00:20:53]Thinking in lazing here.

[00:21:11]All right, back into the walk.

[00:21:24]Single access only. So that means basically keep to the path.

[00:21:36]So Santa has just spotted a seal. So, as we're recording this, the first seal has been born at Donna Nook.

[00:21:47]Um, there's going to be a lot more coming at the moment, but if you do spot any seals, don't be inclined or to go up to them. Just leave them be uh just leave them alone. Even if the seal pop, it's mum will come to its rescue.

[00:22:05]And um if you have got concerns, you can phone up and get some help on them. But that doesn't look that looks uh yeah, that's not not very well at all. But you'll end up with the storm. So we've just had some incredibly high tides in recent times and unfortunately the sea can get a bit rough and it's not uncommon to see casualties. So, uh, yeah, there is a a dead dead seal there.

[00:22:42]So, people get a little bit mixed up.

[00:22:43]So, you got the gray seals which give uh give birth sort of mid October.

[00:22:49]>> Um, >> so this area is more gray seals.

[00:22:52]>> Gray seals up to >> November, mid November. And then you sort of get a peak towards the end of November.

[00:22:58]>> But then you've also got harvest seals.

[00:23:02]So if you go to some of the seal sanctuaries, so there's one in Skaggnet and one in Mabel Thorp, you'll get baby seals and people go, "Oh, no, they're not born until winter, but they're the harbor seals which come in." Right. So we're coming to the end of the lake.

[00:23:21][snorts] Uh I don't know whether we can get around the other side, but we were just saying we're also geographically, if you know the area, we're sort of coming towards the end of the wash. Uh and this feeds off into on the Boston side, the linkage side there. There's definitely the river Haven and another river, isn't it?

[00:23:42]>> Mhm.

[00:23:42]>> And then it goes into the Ooze and the Nean >> Nin.

[00:23:46]>> Nine. That's the one. Nine sort of in the middle and the ooze is more the Kingsland side which is the side we're on now.

[00:23:53]>> Yeah.

[00:23:53]>> So we've actually walked quite a long way. I think >> we have walked a long way and there are thousands of wy birds out there then you can see or not. We'll go have a walk up to them benches there. I think we'll have a sit down for 5 minutes and we'll have a look whether we can I don't know whether we can get back around the other side or not. But let's have a look what the uh what the post >> hide there. Sorry, >> there's another hide just there.

[00:24:17]>> Yeah. Um, North Coast Man. Keep to the track next to the fence. Nor Coach Path. Uh, no, we I think we'll go that way. We can keep on walking, but we're going to be We've done We've done a few steps, let's say. Uh, [snorts] so we're not putting drones up or anything like that, but there's shore highs and they got the loop trail.

[00:24:48]So hang on. There may not be a path here after all.

[00:24:53]We'll do an assessment. We'll have a we'll have work out how we're going to get back.

[00:25:01]A lot of rabbit activity.

[00:25:04]Um, conservation area. Keep out.

[00:25:20]Right, let's come down here.

[00:25:24]You You may be able to work out how far we we've actually walked. There's a couple of typhoons flying overhead and you can see them or not.

[00:25:34]hear them flight training and we got the shore hide coming up here.

[00:26:02]All right. Nobody in. Nobody in. Soon as we sit down, somebody will come in. Uh like any ghouls, Mediterranean girls, common tourists, abats, ring clover, oyster catches.

[00:26:28]All right. Another little island here.

[00:26:30]Some pinkooted geese. Here we are. This is a I was just talking about the murmmorations.

[00:26:39]High water spectacle in three stages.

[00:26:42]Take off, landing, watching the birds go back. Very interesting. I say if you can find that video we took at Frampton Mar.

[00:26:49]It was incredible.

[00:26:52]30,000 or more wheelings flocked.

[00:27:03]What we got here? Coots, marts, marriers, come here. Shoulders, spotted red shanks, island on the right. Island on the right.

[00:27:12]Shank wig, wigan, magpies, rabbits, shell ducks, wigan, red shanks, small red shank, Eurasian wigins.

[00:27:23]So, another another hide. And I say there's another couple of little islands here.

[00:27:39]So, what we'll do here coming up coming up. Um, I've just got the a Google Pixel Pro phone. It's got a really nice little zoom lens on it.

[00:27:49]So, coming up now, we've got some Sorry, I can't. There's another bird. I'm just curious to know what it is. Uh, >> nice observation. The Pixel 8 Pro has a 5x. [laughter] >> I have no idea why the phone's talking to me. I'm going to put some clips in that I've just taken on the phone, including just for Sandra, a nice closeup of a pink-footed goose sat on a little island deciding to go out, wading into the water, going for a swim, and giving a little wiggle waggle of its feathers.

[00:28:46]So, there you have a pink-footed goose.

[00:28:50]There you go. He's just walked in, given his little bum a little waggle, and he's off for a swim.

[00:29:42]I don't know. You can see the comments there.

[00:29:46]Wings out.

[00:30:17]All right. So, those clips that you just saw there, we filmed them from the shorehide and uh still very peaceful, very calm, not too much wind.

[00:30:30]Enjoy that, Ser.

[00:30:32]>> There you go.

[00:30:33]>> Saw some birds that we really Well, not that I'm that good on recognizing birds, but there's a few there that I didn't even recognize.

[00:30:42]Quite interesting ones.

[00:30:43]>> I've had a few few birds in my life I've not recognized. Right, let's uh I think we can get round. We were going to call it a a halt here, but I think there's a couple more hides right on the other side of the lake. So, I said we've got this far. We may as well go and uh investigate. So, there's a couple of things going on here. So, it could be a curu. Could be a curu. I don't know if you can see. There's two buzzards um up in the sky in front of us. I think it's a curo.

[00:31:14]It's just here.

[00:31:17]Right. I have no idea how many miles we walk, Sandra.

[00:31:20]>> I do. Uh, so my phone's in my coat pocket, so it's not monitoring me step counts as such.

[00:31:28]Uh, but we've decided we ride the other end of the lake now. I think we can come around. I think there's another there's another couple of hides. So, we come this far. We may as well get to the end, might we?

[00:31:45]That's another another marker point. Um, so there is a public footpath for the English coast path. Trail is that way and we're going to carry on that way over the duck boards. [sighs] So, I didn't know better. It looks like there's a search and rescue helicopter in the distance over there. I just saw the light coming. Oh, it's landed in the distance. Right.

[00:32:24]You can hear it. Oh, look at those taking off here now. I don't know. You can see those or not.

[00:32:32]Some more coming over. Here they come.

[00:32:48]And we're going to land down.

[00:32:59]Uh it's probably wouldn't have picked it up cuz I'm only on a very narrow sorry very wide angle lens. Not I think just landed over there.

[00:33:10][snorts] uh try to get to the end of the lake and see what uh what's going on with these paths.

[00:33:18]Right. South screen. So, this must be literally at the very southern end of the uh of the lake. Oh, this is very much more open, isn't it? Cranky much more open. Welcome to the wash international airport s and gavia hubs for travelers to watch the middle migration flyway.

[00:33:40]Uh, that's quite interesting graphic, isn't it? [snorts] Pinkfooted geese.

[00:33:45][laughter] Blacktailed godwits, dunlings, knots, and those dark bellied Brent geese around 2 and a half thousand miles in November.

[00:34:04]So, that's the view where we are here.

[00:34:08]Ah, >> all right. an end.

[00:34:10]>> You see all the uh >> Oh, >> we've had a drought this year and I'm guessing that water is still very low to what it was.

[00:34:18]>> So, the the black >> Sandra, we've made it to the Knots Landing.

[00:34:25]>> Oh, there is some other people walking around.

[00:34:30]>> There definitely shouldn't be the other side of the fence. Shouldn't >> be on the other side of the fence. No.

[00:34:33]Uh Knanding. So, you can spot this from the other side of the lake, lagoon, whatever you like to call it. And it looks quite big. Uh, that's very pretty, isn't it? Trish, chain, Dave, Paul, Table, Gosh. So, there's been nesty birds up here, hasn't there? Oh, >> you see where they've all been sat. Um, and here as well going in this dork and slam shorts in the wind.

[00:35:10]>> Oh, there's still a nest in that one.

[00:35:11]>> Oh my golly. Wow. Oh, blime me Charlie.

[00:35:16]Um, this size is different. Is designed to provide a spectacular views when they use fix panoramic glass to protect the roof from disturbance. View slots for camera lens and telescopes. Look at that. There's even yoga mats. Uh I've never seen a hide like that. I don't know what to say. That's incredible.

[00:35:36]Uh let me just try and get you get you a little panoramic of this height. You see from um the distance you can see it. So what they've got here.

[00:35:47]Yeah. So rather than disturbing them, you got these little brushes here and you can push your lenses through like this.

[00:36:01]without disturbing the birds. Um, there are literally some mats. But look at this viewing platform. If I get to the top of here, look at this. Wow. Look at that. That's amazing.

[00:36:20]So, it's literally you can sit down and panoramic glass there.

[00:36:29]Uh oh.

[00:36:31]Oh, I'm glad, you know, I'm glad we made the effort to get here.

[00:36:35]>> Incredible, isn't that? So, that's the hide where we were just at earlier, isn't it? Um well, it's stunning. Absolutely stunning.

[00:36:50]I say you get there with your binoculars and telescopes.

[00:37:22]barn owls may sneak inside here. Keep them closed by closing the door. Close the door. Keep the owls in somewhere.

[00:37:29]Birds nest in that one up there still.

[00:37:31]>> There's still one little one left out, isn't it?

[00:37:36]That was uh absolutely remarkable. I'm so we did contemplate on walking back that way. Uh, I'm glad we came here.

[00:37:43]That's well worth the walk. That >> was lovely.

[00:37:46]>> Definitely well worth a walk. Right. So, I'm hoping we now got a path going that way back around. Otherwise, we're going to have to walk all the way around.

[00:37:56]Fingers crossed.

[00:37:58]Um, we can get back this way. No, right away over the seaw walls. We did have a some kids in here before uh whatever they were doing. Anyway, all being well.

[00:38:11]What do you reckon, Sandra?

[00:38:13]>> Sorry, I couldn't hear you then.

[00:38:14]>> Will we be able to get back this way?

[00:38:16]>> Hopefully. Otherwise, it's a very long way back. [laughter] >> Maybe we can get a a lift [snorts] on the back of a pinkfooted goose.

[00:38:31]Miles to walk. Miles. There's a monk jack deer just crossed our paths. Literally just there.

[00:38:40]It's come out the scrub.

[00:38:44]So, you go very, very quietly. Then you possibly can't see. There's two black ears. It looks like there's a a very young monkjack deer.

[00:38:55]He got his ears up at the moment. You'll probably see him jump out when he sees us. He's hiding.

[00:39:02]He's just keeping himself still.

[00:39:08]Um, whether or not he's going to give flight, he's so camouflaged now.

[00:39:19]>> You wouldn't even know he was there, would you?

[00:39:21]>> Oh my goodness me. Look at that. How close are we on that?

[00:39:29]>> So, I'm gonna keep keep away from him because we don't know whether the other one was a parent, but he's literally just sat there. Right. So, the what we thought was a monkjack deer is actually a ginormous hair, massive hair with big beady eyes. I've got captured that or captured some of him on my phone camera.

[00:39:49]I managed to zoom in. So, here's the hair that we just saw. There he is. It's a [snorts] massive hair. I don't know you can see the size of that.

[00:40:03]He's huge.

[00:40:10]Trying to keep the camera steady.

[00:40:13]Look at his eyes on him. He's got his ears down, his nose going. It's a hair.

[00:40:20]Yeah, that was remarkable that. So, we did definitely have a monkjack deer. We saw that bounding along and then we saw the hair going, but his ears and he looked like a baby monkjack cuz he was so small. But, um, it was really clever.

[00:40:34]He just got in there and he just sat there, sat down and hid away. Right. So, this path we're on now doesn't take us right around the lake.

[00:40:44]We don't think we think we're going to cross over the gravel middle bit where we were filming a little bit earlier.

[00:40:50]That's what we think's coming up uh some miles down this way.

[00:41:01]Apparently some of those geese are what they grey lag.

[00:41:05]>> Grey lag geese. Um look like the Merlin app to have a high density because I could hear another bird song.

[00:41:16]So we're running parallel now. There's that other hide we were at earlier.

[00:41:23]Oh, right by the right by the geese here.

[00:41:34]>> [laughter] [snorts] >> So, when we were doing the walk before, we came down to that bit of shale there and we didn't walk over here because all the geese were in this bit. But for us to get back to the path Oh, there you go. There's a clue. Um, now I got to go all the way up this way.

[00:42:13]So, we've been we can't even see the end of this SL. We've been all the way right right around there.

[00:42:19]And, uh, >> we still got a fair few steps to get back.

[00:42:22]>> We still got quite a long way to go.

[00:42:24]It's uh I don't know how many miles the the loop is, but it's uh [snorts] it's a fair distance. You need to be fairly fit and fit and ablebodied.

[00:42:38]Um so that's uh I'm all in here before.

[00:42:42]It's where we saw the signets flying over, wasn't it?

[00:42:45]Got a bit a bit alarmed.

[00:42:49]>> So we're making it to the to the end of the second leg. Got one more lake to go.

[00:42:55]>> Yeah, >> but in the time that we've been out and this camera is not going to do justice here. You're not going to be able to see, [snorts] but the tide is turning. So earlier it was just mud flaps all the way out and you can definitely see now the tides on the turn, isn't it? In fact, these gumies are >> the channels are starting to fill up if you look at them. Yeah.

[00:43:16]>> Um >> coming on the way in at some point.

[00:43:20]It's been a bit of a strange day cuz today actually started off with a crisp clear blue sky and >> it's got gray and grayer as the day has gone on. It's still it's still warm.

[00:43:30]>> Yeah.

[00:43:30]>> Um [snorts] but as the tide comes in now um over the watching the mud flaps, the birds have to flee and escape. So um that's where you get them off to >> quite atmospheric with the gray mud flats and the gray sky.

[00:43:48]>> Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. It's been a It's been a long >> a longest walk. Anyway, it's not over yet. We still got another lagoon, lake, whatever you like to call it to walk down. Now, the swans we saw are now actually swimming. We shall call that lake the Swan Lake.

[00:44:10]A landmark. Are we nearly back yet, Sandra? It's a long way. I have a feeling it was a bit of a trek even from the end of the lake from memory.

[00:44:20]How are you doing?

[00:44:22][sighs] [panting] >> I'm surviving. I'm surviving.

[00:44:27]>> I'm all right.

[00:44:28]>> I'm half left. Just over there, there's a little tree. I don't know. You can see it.

[00:44:34]>> And we have actually had a monk jack deer that we've caught on camera or on my camera phone. So fingers crossed with some luck. We'll try and lob that little clip in now for you.

[00:44:47]Right. So that that is a monkja deer and he's caught sight of us but he's not running away. Can we get a bit closer on him?

[00:45:00]He's uh standing to attention. Oh, he's definitely listening to us. Sorry about the wobble on the camera. There he goes.

[00:45:11]There he goes.

[00:45:17]Now overly concerned Sander, there's another there's another lake.

[00:45:24]>> This is This is the walk that's going on forever and ever.

[00:45:31]But I think this is a fishing lake now.

[00:45:33]We definitely can't be We definitely can't be far away to the car park. That is a very long walk.

[00:45:41]Right, [sighs and gasps] we made it back.

[00:45:43]>> We did.

[00:45:44]>> Uh how was that? Invigorating.

[00:45:47]>> Invigorating. It's a long I don't know how many steps we got in, but uh few substantial walk, but no worthwhile coming if you're into the wildlife and walking. That end high at the south end of the lake. That was remarkable. That was really um >> it was worth the effort, but as though it's a good number of steps and you did feel like you were almost going to work walk to Kings Lynn at one point.

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[00:46:36]>> There you go. Right. Say goodbye, Sandra. Sarah for now. [sighs] >> I need a nap.