Suffolk – Ickworth House – 21st February 2009

We’ve dropped into the woods surrounding this stately home at this time of year before and found one of the best shows of Snowdrops we’ve seen. This year was no exception as they have appeared in abundance deep in the woods.

From a birding perspective, its one of those places where you wonder around and sometimes you are lucky and others there may have been too much disturbance and you consequently see nothing. On this occasion I’d say it was the former, we saw all three species of woodpecker (Lesser-spotted, Greater-spotted and Green) showing, drumming and calling, then Nuthatch and a variety of more common woodland birds all showing well. Life bird count: 376 Year bird count: 119 Month bird count: 97