Covering the East Anglian region, focussing on Thetford Forest, Abberton Reservoir and the Norfolk coast, the video observes the fascinating bird life this unique area has to offer.

Including Bearded Tits, Marsh Harrier, Avocet, Barn Owl, Nightjars, Sparrow Hawk, Nightingale, Spotted Crake, Bittern and many more. 
See inlay for listing of birds featured.

Combining stunning wildlife sequences by Rick Cullum and dramatic landscapes by Jonathan Barker, this video will enhance your enjoyment of the beauty and diversity that keeps bird watchers coming back time and time again.

Includes footage screened on BBC and Anglia Television.

"An admirable and thoroughly professional production"
Bryan Bland - Birding World

Running time: 44 minutes
Copyright protected 1999
Shot and edited on digital for extra clarity
All images, for sleeve, taken directly from video

Birds of East Anglia DVD £14.95 including free postage

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Film Review - Birding World, Volume 12, number 12

Television presents us with so many superb wildlife films from around the world, from the poles to the tropics, that there is something reassuringly comforting about the homespun and familiar. Yet it is impressive how significant East Anglia is for its birds, even in a global context. And this video is a thoroughly professional production.

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Nightingale, Fingeringhoe Wick

Cormorants, Abberton Reservoir

Salt House, North Norfolk

It admirably explores the atmosphere of the region with a sequence of evocative images both of the birds and of its varied landscapes ranging from poppyfields, seascapes, coastal marshes, dunes, and Breckland heaths. Naturally Cley, Blakeney Point, and Thetford forest feature largely, but East Anglia in this context also includes Abberton Reservior, Fingringhoe Wick, and Lackford. Species include Bearded Tit, Bittern, Barn Owl, Marsh Harrier, Avocet, Woodlark, Crossbill, and assorted waders, terns and woodland birds. But room has also been found for the odd rarity such as Lesser Yellowlegs and Spotted Crake. Particularly attractive sequences feature bathers at a woodland pool and a charmingly intimate glimpse of a fox watching a Kingfisher.

The excellent photography is complemented by an interesting and helpful commentary, only occasionally inaccurate (such as the perpetuation of that old chestnut that a Ruff is so-called because of the neck-collar of the male nonsense, the bird was named a thousand years before that fashion frill and comes from the Anglo-Saxon hrof or military commander, just like the scientific name.)

Generous footage, a pleasing narration, and imaginative and largely unobtrusive background music (the Nightjars's laguid wingbats accompanied by the Albinoni Adagio is a typically deft touch) should ensure that every viewer enjoys this admirable production and reliving happy days in the field.

Bryan Bland