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8th November 2020 Hiking - Walking: Birdwatching along the Deben Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny and warm Max Speed: Distance Covered: 4 miles (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise) Sunday 8th November - walk ***** - Birdwatching along the River Deben from Felixstowe Ferry – sunny, still and warm. The great weather continues and I even did my exercises in the back garden today:) I usually go down the seafront and take pics of the Remembrance service but as we are in Lockdown had to give it a miss:( As there was a clear blue sky and light airs Mag and I decided to go on a walk, defrosted some yummy homemade soup and drove the few miles to Felixstowe Ferry, parking near a friends cottage at the end of the golf course. Then up onto the sea wall past the Martello tower and onto the jetty, always pretty as a picture. Nearly everyone we passed had a take away coffee and discovered the Ferry Café doing a roaring trade! We walked through the boatyard with me happily snapping away, I must have hundreds of pics taken here! We pass the old house boats as we head out into the countryside as a tractor is busy sowing seeds accompanied by hundreds of gulls! I swop to my big lens in hope of spotting some birds feeding in the reeds that run along side of the dykes. Instead of walking along the top of the sea wall we walk down by the reeds and soon see loads of Stone Chats happily sitting on white marker posts. We also see Reed Buntings but sadly no Bearded Tits. At Kings Fleet we see some anglers in a punt spinning for pike and notice the huge hay stack has gone! We continue walking in the farmers field on the sunny side of the reeds still seeing Stone Chats and Buntings and then our luck changes as we spot half a dozen Bearded Tits arrive. We are then treated to a fantastic display of then feeding on the reed heads. They are just the most fantastic birds, must be the prettiest birds in the UK:) Then an old acquaintance Roger the birdwatcher appears along the seawall and stops to see if he can see the tits. We walk up and have a lovely catch up with Roger as a Sparrow hawk fly’s overhead upsetting the birds in the fields! We then carry onto the water ski jetty for our soup but there is a fisherman there so we return to where we see the Bearded Tits and enjoy our soup as the sun is covered by clouds and the temperature drops! Time to walk the two miles back to the van and the large number of gulls suddenly leave the tractor and fly to the river! There is a nice sky now and I get some nice pics. Then its home for a mega vegetable peeling session followed by a cuppa and rock cake by the real fire to be entertained by the kittens:) So a 5 star weekend biking and walking with some wind to look forward too later in the week! Photo Gallery Here |
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