Mostly sunny here this week, with the odd showers early on.
Abi is still on school holidays so we took her to Cleethorpes for a few days – we need a holiday now to get over it!
The sea is a long way from the shore mostly, with quite a long walk, to find anything possibly Wader like.
Nevertheless a few birds did appear in the bins from time to time.
On Thursday I had a long outing hoping to track down a Purple Sandpiper - the best I achieved was a couple of flocks of Redshank that flew very fast overhead.
This outing started with a walk along the beach, east, towards the Fitties, where a large ditch stopped me in my tracks.
I retraced my steps and continued along the beach until nearly opposite the pier.
Then back again to the 'Pirate Ship' on the beach where a real 'dodgy' slurp of a path nearly cost me my boots!
There is a massive beach here, with undulating sands that 'fill up' as the tide comes in.
It can fill up behind you, leaving you stranded, if you don't watch it.
There are various gruesome tales of folk being caught out by the tides here – the worst was of some people riding horses along the beach when a thick fog came in.
They completely lost their bearings and headed out to sea instead of towards the land and the sea claimed the riders and the horses both.
My whole outing today reminded me of one of those tacky magnets on sale saying 'I went to Cleethorpes and and all I got was this lousy magnet' however in my case it was a matter of … “ I walked up and down Cleethorpes beach for 3 hours and all I got was a few Waders!”
There are hundeds of Gulls here (probably thousands of Gulls if you included those on the distant horizon).
The ones with in bins range failed to bring me a Med. Variety though but I bet there are some!
Earlier in the week I had seen a few Little Egret, Curlew, Knot and Redshank by the Fitties area and lots of Sandwich Terns, House Martin and Swift high overhead.
Some Birds:-
Black Headed Gull, Herring Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull.
Great Black-backed Gull.
Oystercatcher, Redshank,, Little Egret, Grey Heron.
Sandwich Tern, Linnet, House Sparrow, Meadow Pipit.
Barnacle Goose, Greylag Goose.... lots in the park of both Geese species.
and probably 'a few' more birds, that were too distant for me to ID!
Including possible Golden Plover in one photo.
Redshank:
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