14th March '09 Sewerby Foreshore

Very cold, some sunshine, very strong westerly.

Sewerby Foreshore.

View looking towards Sewerby foreshore.

This will be our first of many trips in this area for the rest of the year, has it has been for the last four years. I managed to get a couple of hours on the foreshore. It was exceedingly raw, so don't think because you may have been sunning yourself on a beach down south we were doing the same up north. Its a good job I put that spare jumper in my bag! I love these little bits of exposed shores. When the tide is out the place is alive with activity. Sanderlings running in and out with the tide as though they are afraid to get their feet wet, Turnstones doing what their name implies although not so much stones but shells and Oyster Catchers and Redshanks all busily foraging. Its just amazing how day in day out, areas like this maintain an ever supply of food at each low tide. The further you walk away from the main routes of folks, more often with their dogs, the better the bird population gets. Frozen solid from the hour or two trying to creep up on some of the waders for a snapshot and with the feelings of an oncoming bug I made my way back to basecamp. Indeed I was well and truly struck down and am writing this blog two days later and still house bound with the heating on permanently! Anyone will tell you I must have been at deaths door to have permitted that. Still I did insist that it remained on minimum!

View looking towards the Flamborough Headland

Oyster Catcher, Sanderling, Redshank, Turnstone, Herring Gull, Common Gull.