[chaz g harrison]

Just seen your comment, Stuart. If you are in the area again, especially in spring, you might want to visit the Shatterford & Denny Wood area. Start at the Shatterford car park adjacent to Beaulieu Road railway station (4 or 5 miles S of Lyndhust). The pine trees that surround both car parks (there is one on either side of the railway) are a good place for coal tits and often crossbills. Walk SW and the gravel track will lead you across the Shatterford itself. This marshy dip has nesting curlews in season (not easy to find unless they take to the air when their calls will draw you attention). A little further on there is a bridge over a stream. Willow warblers, redstarts and occasionally hobbys. In winter the surrounding heath is supposed to be good for great grey shrike - although I've never seen one.
Carry on over the bridge into the woodland fringes - this is an excellent area for cuckoos - I have had seven sightings in one day - in the woods all three species of woodpecker can be seen, although lesser spotted are very hard to find. Garden warblers and wood warblers do occur occasionally and a nightjar is possible. Usually lots of stonechats and sometimes a wheatear on the heath. The heath has also been good for dartford warblers but I think they did very badly in the snow and ice as I haven't seen one there this year. Woodlarks are a scarce sighting in the woodland clearings, which also are sometimes the haunt of spotted flycatchers. If you turn right there is a path that leads you along the edge of the woods - redstarts, whitethroats and blackcaps - and eventually another track will lead you back over the heath to the car park.
Chaz