Some birds you can call ‘Birders Birds’ Perhaps only appreciated by someone with a little more knowledge of the avian world than Joe public. Others have a fascination for all. The Woodcock has a foot in both camps. It’s an enigmatic species. It migrates, it’s active at night, it’s a wader that lives in woodlands and it’s so cryptically coloured that they are almost impossible to find. To cap it all they have their eyes set high and to the side of their head giving them almost three hundred and sixty degrees of vision and they sit motionless for hours. Finding one, then getting close enough to photograph one is not easy. We found this bird hidden among leaf litter after a lot of searching.
Letter From Norfolk 