Pulfin Bog.
From the R Hull looking towards Beverly Minster.
Just yards off our route we are parked up and next to the R Hull beside a riverside hostelry. I was quite surprised at the size of the river, it looking no more than a large stream at this point.
A steady walk along the levee top soon brings us to a large lake. This is not the objective of our trip. A short walk around the lake, after disturbing the peace and quiet of a couple of hundred geese, and Pulfin Bog is reached. The bog is formed by a layer of peat on clay and where drainholes were built years ago to improve farmland the opposite effect happened with small bogs now at each hole.
The lake, notice the line of geese on the long gravel bar.
Despite the rainfall this summer the bog appears quite dry. A quick look around reveals nothing birdwise or any other wise for that matter. So after a bit of lunch we rejoined the path around the lake. More sightings were made of Kingfishers near where part of the R Hull flows into the lake presumably to maintain water levels in the lake. On the opposite side of the lake we saw Willow Warblers that were always one bush in front of us.
This is part of Pulfin Bog, about the size of a small playground.
Goldfinch, Yellow Hammer, Wren, Greylag, Kingfisher, Great Crested Grebe, Linnet, Willow Warbler.
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