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Hello. I've recently joined LBC and this is my first blog...so I hope I don't make a gaff of things! By very quick introduction, I've worked in nature conservation since the mid 70s, on nature reserves from Lincs to Scotland. Spent a few years at Thorne Moors [now the Humberhead Peatlands NNR] being in the midst of conservation and the peat extraction industry - a time to be diplomatic! but the breeding of White-spotted Bluethroat was a bonus. More recently I worked at the Lower Derwent Valley NNR and one bird I found facinating was the Whimbrel. There was always a good spring passage and birds regularly used nearby pasture fields each year to feed, roost at Wheldrake Ings before moving on. A colour ringing programme supported this and we kept seeing the same birds, using the same fields. Here there has been some good Whimbrel sightings around Sea View near Saltfleetby. Interestingly small groups of birds used the shorter vegetated areas of the salt marsh as feeding/roosting areas on the spring passage - I searched in vain for colour rings...nothing. Returning birds to have been frequent, again using the salt marsh. During July small groups of birds have been passing through but no colour ringed birds. I just wondered if there are any known Whimbrel 'drop off points' in some of the remaining pastures of the marshland fringe.
A quiet day between The Haven and Rimac, hardly a twitter.
Thanks for reading.
Peter
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