River Humber

 

An evening walk along the River Humber at Barton made a change from our usual walk. Lovely sunset.

A few plants from our local walks

 

Yellow Archangel

Primroses

White Dead Nettles

Cuckoo Flower. one of my favorites

Cowslips

Celandine

and some beautiful blossom

A few birds from the weekend

 

Willow Warbler

Distant Spoonbills

Reed Bunting

A very distant cuckoo at Far Ings on Saturday, our first of the year

Common Tern from a couple of weeks ago, another yearly first for us

Cetti's Warbler, just visible for a split second !

RAF Cranwell

 

The VE Day 80, flypast rehersal over RAF Cranwell, Lincs on Monday. Afraid we had to battle with the sun and really wished we hadn't bothered as not many planes took part in the rehearsal. A big disappointment. 

Fish and Chips

 We haven't had fish and chips since my birthday in January so when Johnson's chip shop re-opened we couldn't resist a trip over to Gainsborough. Oh my goodness, they were gorgeous as you can see !

Toft Newton Reservoir

 

Not a ripple !

Simon found a patch of Bee Orchids so I e-mailed our contact at the EA telling him. Imagine our surprise next time we went to see that area nicely cordoned to hopefully, save them from the mower. Let's hope they flower (but I do think some rain is needed). I will keep you all posted. 

Thank you Environment Agency

Whitethroat

 

Singing away, happy times x

Our hobbies are back !

 

A walk round Messingham last Wednesday and Karen yells 'hobby'. Our first of the year and it flew and fed all morning. We got caught up in a garganey twitch that we were told was right infront of the hide....wrong, it was nowhere to be seen !  Now we wished we had stood and photographed the hobby as it had gone the following day. But there will be others on the way !

Sparrowhawk

 

We have a pair very close to our house that we see daily but this one was at Messingham Nature Reserve last week. They flew and displayed constantly, fantastic to see x

Buzzard