On a weekend break Norfolk birdwatching recently, I discovered that the coastal area in particular has premier locations for seeing our feathered friends as well as being home to some fabulous Norfolk luxury hotels.
I started at Blakeney Point National Trust Reserve.
The point itself is a shingle spit that has grown four miles to the east since the 13th century.
It is home to the Common Tern, Sandwich Tern and Little Turn, all here to breed in the spring and summer.
It is also a good centre for boating, both powered and sail.
Along the coastal there is the Norfolk Wildlife Trust Reserve in Cley-next-the-Sea.
This beautiful place was first founded in the 1930s and is a Mecca for those with an interest in birds.
It is closely connected to Salthouse Heath, located just inland and comprising of dense bushes with open heath and some woodland.
Birds to be seen are Nightingales and Nightjars.
Back to the coast are the Salthouse marshes which almost always host a plethora of wildlife - ducks, meadow loving waders and shore birds in particular, as well as Lapwings, Meadow Pipits and Skylarks.
Moving further east, you are soon at the Titchwell Bird Reserve with its large, custom-built visitors' centre offering great views of the shore and marshes.
Any of these places are great spots from which to watch the migrating birds.
The views of thousands of Geese flying in for the winter, for example, is truly one of the great spectacles in the English birdwatching calendar.
Further west along the coast is the pretty Morston Harbour where you can park and walk along the marshes or you stroll along the coast to Blakeney and beyond (wrap up warm, though, if the wind is coming from the north).
When we went, we took along a delightful picnic hamper that we purchased from a wonderful delicatessen in the nearby town of Holt.
If you walk west you will come to Wells-next-the-Sea which is a quaint harbour and village as well as being the gateway to the magnificent, open, golden, sandy beaches.
There are brightly-coloured beach huts on the sand just by the harbour entrance and, if the tide is out, you might be lucky, as we were, and be able to walk out to the basking seal colonies.
Walking west you arrive at one of the truly great East of England beaches, Holkham.
But from there we had to drive inland, reluctantly, and head back to one of the North Norfolk Hotels.