MAX MILES ON FOOT: 3 MIN TIME: 3 HOURS
The Blyth estuary provides a variety of saline habitats along the route beside a myriad of flood meadows, drainage ditches, mudflats, fresh marshes, reedbeds, arable farmland and a strip of woodland, thus ensuring the chance of a wide range of species. East Anglian specialities such as Crane, Hen Harrier and Rough-legged Buzzard often winter here, while Otters are also regularly reported along the watercourse, and Roe Deer haunt surrounding farmland.
PAUL TRODD
WHERE TO WATCH
1 Search the Hen Reedbed margins for the likes of Bittern, Grey Heron, Little and Great White Egrets, Water Rail, Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Kingfisher, Stonechat, Reed Bunting and Bearded Tit, plus Little and Great Crested Grebes, Teal and Shoveler on open water. In late autumn, a…