my friend's father in law has written a few books on bird watching in norfolk and used to have a column in the local paper. my friend's parents are chinese and at their wedding in his speech he said, " i'm glad my son has inherited my love of exotic birds" not very PC but quite amusing. There was a purple heron, apparently quite rare, in kelling the other day, the twitchers were going nuts! i have seen a few marsh harriers. The school houses are named after local birds, oystercatchers, kingfishers, yellowhammers and woodpecker.
i love otters too, we went on a trip to hunstanton sea life centre where there were very cute otters. Cute until they started humping each others faces- the kids found it hilarious. now that would have made a nice photo!!!