Titchwell Marsh RSPB

I've taken a day off work, so I can have an extra long Easter holiday weekend. We head off to one of our favourite birding spots: Titchwell Marsh, on the north Norfolk coast. It's over two and a half hours there and we get stuck behind a slow lorry on the way, and in heavy traffic on the way back - but it's worth it.
The weather has a nip in it, but I imagine nowhere near as as much as when the winter surges flattened the sand dunes where the reserve meets the shore, and turned the boardwalk into matchsticks.
We head for one of the hides, and are thrilled when a snipe lands right under the window and calmly starts to feed, affording us good views of how he stabs and prods the mud with his long beak. We feel honoured, until another pair of birdwatchers come in and we quietly point him out. 'Ah yes', they say 'he was here yesterday as well'.