Ruffs, Covenham Reservoir

 

A walk round the reservoir for the little stint with dunlin, plenty of common sandpipers and a few ruffs

Little Stint and Dunlin, Covenham Reservoir

 

and a very distant, very flighty Little Stint

RSPB Blacktoft Sands with a couple of Little Stints and a wader fest !

 

A cracking morning visit to Blacktoft Sands. Not very often we get things spot on but today we certainly did. The mud infront of Singleton Hide was absolutely covered in waders and with the tide in, they were not going anywhere !

Ruffs, dunlin,  ringed plovers, curlew sandpipers and a couple of little stints,  it doesn't come much better than that!

Curlew Sandpipers

Little Stint - there were 2 out on the mud

Little Stint and Ringed Plover

The mud was covered - it was fantastic !

A fantastic few hours in Singleton Hide with only a handful of other folk enjoying the spectacle

Wheatears and Whinchats, Donna Nook, Lincs

 

A walk down the bushes at Donna Nook after the walk round Covenham (getting our steps in today!) gave us 3 wheatears, 8 whinchats, a redstart and a seconds glimpse of a pied flycatcher. Another brilliant day on the Lincs coast. Afraid returning there 2 days later gave us absolutely nowt !!

Red Knot, Covenham Reservoir, Lincs

 

A walk around Covenham Reservoir for the Little Stint but this knot was begging for it's picture taken !

The last dregs of the summer garden

 

A bumper, bumper crop of tomatoes this year, stones and stones of them, 2 freezers full of veg that will be delicious in pasta and curry sauces throughout the winter months.

Still harvesting spuds, they are delicious for lunch, boiled with garden mint served with butter and salt !

Our fuchsias have not done too well this summer, we think it was far too hot for them but they are all now starting to flower now the temperatures have dropped slightly. A stunning display infront of the shed !

Pixi in her usual spot in the greenhouse. The front shelves are now empty so she has moved in, snoozing tucked behind her cat nip !

A cracking crop of peppers this year. The greenhouse ones are spectacular but very proud of these grown outside in northern Britain, who would have ever thought that was possible.

The last remnants of the lunar eclipse

One days bean pickings, there will be more tomorrow !