A Birding Walk at Cleethorpes and The Fitties.

 Another bright and sunny day. We decided on a change of scene today a parked at Buck Beck in Cleethorpes. It was a beautiful morning with plenty of birds about. We followed the usual route towards the yacht club and on to Tetney Marsh RSPB reserve. We stopped for our picnic overlooking the beach and the Haille Sand Fort with views across to Spurn. Today we had remebered the cheese and hula hoops. Our lunch had added excitement (for us) of watching two people being rescued by the coastguard. They had crossed the creek to the aid of their dog which had got stuck in the mud. One of the part had sung up to the top of his thighs in the mud. It must have been frightening. A salutory lesson to us all. We logged 32 bird species today and finished with a drink in the Rose and Crown on the way home.

A Frosty Walk in the Lincolnshire Wolds

 A cold and cloudless day greeted us this morning. After breakfast, later in the morning, we headed out into the Wolds to Tealby. Parked up by the village hall, we were soon walking along the Viking Way towards the settlement of Risby, passing first the now derelict Castle Farm. Immediatley after walking through the edge of Bedlam Plantation we stopped at our regular place: a bench looking out over the valley towards the Lincoln Cathedral. Here we had our lunch of Christmas cake and, for me, tomato soup. Annoyingly we forgot the cheese and hula hoops. While we were sitting up here enjoying our picnic a raven flew out of the wood kronking loudly and a tawny owl hooted sleeply form inside the wood. As we moved on the crisp cold air up here tingled the nostrils. At Risby we turned uphill to the east and walked out to the narrow lane that leads up from Tealby. We walked along the road for a while before crossing fields and then down to Tealby.

A short but excellent walk topped off by a drink in the warm, cosy bar of the King's Head.