October 2016

While on Humber bank first thing with dog saw first of the autumn/winter’s great flock of starlings rising from local reed-bed. One lot after another rose up, seemingly from the same area of the reed-bed, as if they had been roosting in tiers or had been massed together for warmth and comradeship. Strange weather – […]

Agreed at Thursday’s meeting that petition against the proposed ‘Top Field’ development by North Lincs. Council would be set-up in King St. between 10am and 12 and that I would take round A4 posters to local shops to see if they would display them. This we did, generally positive response from shops and people on

High tide of almost eight metres Tues. a.m. following full moon over weekend. This morning broken stratus cloud, occasional brief sunny spells, northerly breeze but surprisingly relatively mild, dry. Local flocks of geese reduced numbers, most must have flown on. Meeting of ‘Top Field’ sub committee this afternoon (campaign to object to proposed development of recreation

As seems likely Drogo de Beuvriere, first Norman Lord of Holderness, had his castle ‘motte’ built on a previous high status site (that may, or may not, have become redundant in the intervening centuries since the Iron Age), this site then being on an island in the early Holocene Bail Mere (one of many meres across

Since late September, as previous years, privileged to witness the great flocks of geese coming and going. Most seem to be interrupting their migration by spending some time roosting on (Reed’s Island) or around the Humber Estuary (mostly on north bank), flying south (inland) at dawn and returning at dusk. In their V formations (often