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19th April 2021
Mt. Biking: Around Felixstowe
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Weather: sunny and warm
Max Speed: 19.24 (knots - unless stated otherwise)
Distance Covered: 13.43 mile (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)

Monday 19th April - bike ***** - Around Felixstowe including lunch at Trimley Marshes and home via Levington Marina – sunny and milder.

The sunshine continues and luckily milder too so as usual spent the morning doing my exercises in the back garden with Mag gardening with the kittens bird watching, I think the wildlife is safe as they struggle to catch a fly! Mag goes to Lidl and comes back with some yummy cheese rolls which I pack up for our picnic and head out on our bikes for the second day running. I drop off a windsurf sail with Ian Clarke just down the road catching him working in the garden so we stop for a chat:) We then continue down to Trimley Marshes for a spot of bird watching hoping to sit in the only open hide, the rapter one on the entrance. A car has just driven down the lane, probably Suffolk wildlife people who stop at the hide so we carry on! I then ride along the River Orwell path and it is absolutely stunning view, a deep blue cloudless sky, the Orwell a lovely colour too and the reed fringed marsh floods are full of birds, quiet too, just love it, we are so lucky to live here:) It is a shame the bird hides are closed because you would get a closer view of the avocets, godwits, geese, marsh harriers, lapwings gulls, shell ducks and circling bluzzards could be seen from the path. We continued to the creek and with the tide very low there is loads of mud but enough water for several yachts to enjoy the light breeze. The whole of the shingle bar is exposed so I walk out to talk a few pics and get back just in time before the incoming tide covers the beach! We then sit on the bank for ages to enjoy our picnic watching grebes and cormorants fishing before carrying on to the three deed trees in the lagoon and Mag spots our first herd of deer, again with a pair of buzzards overhead. We stop and watch taking a few pics, then a long tailed tit land in the brambles and a hare runs off, we love a hare:) Then onto Levington cliff with amazing views up the river before biking past Loompit lake with a yellow, grey wagtail and tufted ducks. At the marina we bump into windsurfing mate and new father Jamie and have a nice chat. Out of the marina we take the footpaths back, again spotting a small herd of deer in the three-tree field. Back along the tree lined avenue to Trimley, then home for homemade cake and a cuppa. What a top wildlife spotting bike ride, milder than of late being out four hours covering 13.43 miles, looking good for another bike ride tomorrow then perhaps some more foiling of Wednesday:)

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