The third section of the south Holderness coast walked, introduced by the previous blog/post, is the bottom section of Sunk Island, the vast area of land ‘reclaimed’ from the Humber mudflats over the past few centuries. This being so the region is all but flat, the estuarine silts providing some of the most fertile arable […]

Just last week I, along with two friends this time, walked a third section of the south Holderness/north bank of the Humber, this time walking east from Stone Creek to Patrington Haven – for a record of the first two sections of this region walked see two blogs/posts from back in January ’23. This time

The young ash tree shown on the right above (also see It’s the trees 2) is now, cautiously, coming into leaf. It looks like it was coppiced (s.p.b.) at a young age with five equally thick branches rather than a main trunk. Why this should have been done given its location is unknown; in fact,

In the photo shown on ‘Its the Trees 2’ the bare-looking tree on the right is a young-mature ash tree. Bare-looking because ash trees are virtually the last species to come into full leaf in late spring. It use to be said that the ash was the last to get leaves and the first to

The horse chestnut shown in yesterday’s photo has progressed from closed buds to full leaf in three weeks, despite the weather! The pinnacles of flowers (see centre) are much more prominent than the flowers on many other species of tree, although at the moment the flower-heads are being battered by a cold north wind, so

The view west from my living room window shows an image of another slow spring, like last year, although for opposite reasons. In 2022 there had been virtually no rain from the first of April, and this was to continue. This year April, and March, have been very wet, and with little settled sunny weather