Spoonbills everywhere this summer!
I seem to be seeing spoonbills wherever I go along the north Norfolk coast this summer, including RSPB Snettisham, RSPB Titchwell, NWT Cley Marshes and NWT Hickling Broad. Holkham NNR is the bastion of Britain's breeding Eurasian Spoonbills, with the colony having now produced well in excess of 300 fledged chicks since 2010. In tandem with the increase of the colony here, sightings of the species have increased in both number and regularity all along the English east coast as far north as Yorkshire. I have also seen this species in Suffolk (RSPB Minsmere and SWT Carlton Marshes) and a large number of birds in the lagoon on Brownsea Island, Poole Harbour. Prior to 2020, I had only seen spoonbills in southern Portugal.
