Cottage to rent with access to RSPB bird reserves

Our holiday coastal cottage to rent is less than 4 miles away from the Snettishaml RSPB bird reserve. For walkers and birdwatchers there is also the Hunstanton (7M) coast and the Royal Sandringham estate (1M). Titchwell Marsh RSPB reserve is only a 20-25 minute drive (15M)

Snettisham RSPB reserve - visit www.rspb.org.uk

Text courtesy of RSPB website : Snettisham nature reserve is the place to witness two of the UK's great wildlife spectacles. On a big tide as the water covers the vast mudflats of The Wash, tens of thousands of wading birds are pushed off their feeding grounds and onto the roost banks and islands in front of the RSPB hides.

In the middle of winter, a dawn or dusk visit may reward you with the flight of thousands of pink-footed geese, which commute between their safe roost site on The Wash and farmland inland where they feed on the aftermath of the sugar beet harvest.

In the summer, large numbers of common terns and black-headed gulls nest on the reserve and there is a spectacular display of shingle flowers. To help you plan your visit, the RSPB has produced Birdwatcher tide tables. These include details of the best tides for watching roosting wading birds and the best phases of the moon for seeing winter wild geese flights.