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Description
Stubb Mill is part of the Norfolk Wildlife Trust's spectacular Hickling Broad reserve. The Stubb Mill trail offers a viewpoint to watch (sometimes over 60!) žerjav coming into roost, as well as large numbers of rjavi lunj! The viewpoint is best visited in the winter months (Oct - Mar), when counts of both species using the site will be at their highest.
On a winter's evening, the harrier roost may also be used by small numbers of pepelasti lunj, so worth scanning through the harriers carefully. Occasionally mali sokol and močvirska uharica may be seen, while Pegasta sova and velika bela čaplja are regulars. On some nights, skenes of kratkokljuna gos may come over the viewpoint on their way into roost on Hickling Broad, joined by beločela gos and potentially mali labod and labod pevec when species are over-wintering in the area.
The woodland and scrub areas support roosting finches including pinoža and rumeni strnad. In late evenings, sloka may be seen leaving roost over the viewpoint too. The Stubb Mill trail takes visitors past the new Brendan's Marsh scrape, which will have kreheljc, žvižgavka, žličarica and other wildfowl on it during the winter. It is not unsual to find vriskarica here too as well as a few waders including kozica, togotnik and priba. There is a viewing tower enabling visitors to scan the marsh for other species of interest.
In both the summer months the viewpoint is much quiter, however, Brendan's Marsh is a hotspot for waders and pikasti martinec, zelenonogi martinec and other migratory species may be found. Rarities such as polojnik, Temminckov prodnik and prekomorski prodnik are a genuine possibility if you're very lucky here! You may also encounter hawking škrjančar.
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Access
Park at the NWT Hickling Broad car park. Don't forget to sign in at the Visitor Centre if it is open! Follow the trail past Brendan's Marsh to the raptor viewpoint. It is well signposted from the car park. If it is dark by the time you leave the viewpoint, you can walk back to the car park along the road if the footpath is slippery. There is a disabled car park by the viewpoint, but it must only be used by 'blue badge' holders.