Yes .... it's Daukes Hide at Cley. .... it's another of my favourite hides .... it's #6 on the map below. I doesn't really take 13 hours though. I suspect it means 1.3 hours. 1 hour 18 minutes. I'm sure most of you have been there.... Cley reserve on the N. Norfolk coast. There's two other hides alongside it as well.... it's all good. I don't know what my "list" is for Daukes hide but it must be impressive. At least 7. Plus quite a few mammals, butterflies, moths, spiders etc. One drawback ... being Norfolk, it's often bloody hot. Over the years the car park has got bigger, and the "Hut" has now turned into a huge Visitor Centre with a massive cafe/shop and an impressive (I'm reluctant to say this) line of huge windows overlooking the whole reserve. One feels rather god-like sitting there scoping stuff flying over the sea a mile away. Even The Significant Otter has been there ... she brings the sandwiches. And the flask. Even the boardwalk leading to it is brilliant.... dragonflies whoosh around, mystery warblers mystify, odd reedbed-dwellers grunt and chunter to themselves as you step the creaky boards. And you get to meet other birders with much better binoculars than yours. It's all very redolent. I recommend going round the whole place using the excellent,celebrity-thronged round-the-whole-place path. You can linger at the spot where Millington found something, and Gantlett found something else. Probably something Spotted/Vermiculated/Caucasian/Black-throated/Pacific/Five-barred. You can wonder at the skid-marks from Lee Evans' last visit as well. But you can't take a well-earned break at the Beach Cafe any more .. it's long gone, into the sea from whence, no doubt, it came. As did we. Here's a question for you... What are those other two hides called ? That's enough of that..... here's Jupiter Jones, whom I'm sure you're all getting to like, with "Und dann warten."
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