South through Lincolnshire

On Tuesday July 19th David and I we left Beverley en route home. We decided we had a little time to spare and first drove north out of Beverley to Tophill Low Nature Reserve. We had no great expectations of the place but it turned out to be something of a little gem.

The reserve has a number of hides overlooking ponds and scrapes on which a couple of Green Sandpipers were the highlight. A woodland area gave me my FOY Eurasian Treecreeper and a Eurasian Sparrowhawk flew over as we walked around the reservoir.

The next part of the day wasn't fun with temperatures reaching 33C, 91F as we drove south over the Humber Bridge and down to Boston to visit two RSPB reserves. The first Freiston Shore did not have a visitor centre and was underwhelming in part to due to bad luck with the tide. Good birds listed on websites were nowhere to be seen! We drove on to the nearby Frampton Marsh reserve which was much better and from one of the hides had Ringed Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff and Red Knot.

Red Knot

We then headed to the station in Peterborough for my train home, spending a little time nearby hoping in vain for Red Kite.