{"id":827,"date":"2019-12-24T16:35:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T16:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southyarewildlifegroup.org\/?p=827"},"modified":"2020-03-29T09:43:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T09:43:04","slug":"a-winter-walk-around-surlingham-church-marsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southyarewildlifegroup.org\/a-winter-walk-around-surlingham-church-marsh\/","title":{"rendered":"A winter walk around Surlingham Church Marsh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SWYG’s winter walk returned to Surlingham Church Marsh this year. Thirty two people booked in for it and we were blessed with mostly dry weather, thankfully the shower midway along the walk was short lived!<\/strong><\/p>\n We managed to start a little after 2 pm and decided to split into two groups. Peter’s group walked the circuit around Church Marsh clockwise while Rodney’s did it anti-clockwise. Unfortunately neither group saw or heard very much in the way of birds and other wildlife. Surlingham Marsh is definitely much better as a spring location for a wildlife walk than a winter one.<\/p>\n Saying that we did see or hear at least 17 species of birds if we count the little grebe\u00a0that David Cannon spotted on the river just before we began. On the river beside the Dabchick we saw a flock of about 20 black headed gulls, 2 mute swans and some 10 greylag geese. Over on the Postwick Marshes there were greylags, rooks, black headed gulls and possibly three common gulls but they were partly obscured by the lie of the land to be sure about the identification.<\/p>\n