On 30th I treated myself to a morning with nature at Cleethorpes/Fitties. On a mild (15C) overcast morning I parked the car at Buck Beck and set out along Anthony's Bank towards the Fitties with a few spits of rain in the air. Being a Sunday morning the sea front was busy with people but things became more quiet once I reached the sea bank running past the Fitties. The harsh calls of gulls were a constant companion along with the bubbling song of curlew. Oystercatchers were continually piping and in the background the more bass notes of brent geese. I had caught the tide right: just on the ebb with birds withing good viewing range. It made a change to visit this section of our local coastline and the birds were differnet. Further upriver black-tailed godwit are more common but here there are mor bar-tails. Sanderling were present feeding frantically on the tide line and good numbers of turnstone were present among the vast numbers of knot, dunlin and oystercatcher. I was pleased to see a single ringed plover, while out on Tetney Marsh I thrilled to the unusual call of a whimbrel.
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