Tetney Lock sightings

Sightings this morning (Friday  August 11) included
1 Kingfisher
2/ 3 Green/ wood sandpiper
5 Common sandpiper
1 Curlew
c 20 Redshank
1 Goosander
2 Housemartin
1 Wheatear

There were also  two deer on the RSPB-managed saltmarsh.

I spoke to an angler who said his usual catches at the outfall sluice were flatfish and bass but he was hoping to strike lucky with a school of sea  trout that had recently been on the scene.

He said his bugbear was jetkiers who come up the canal from the Humber Estuary at very high tides.

He also mentioned a tent that had recently put up in he copse near the sluice. On investigation, he said it included drug-taking paraphernalia and women's clothing, plus, under a pillow, a long-bladed knife.

He didn't like the idea of a drug-crazed knifeman being on the scene, so he confiscated the knife, snapped it from its handle and buried it in the outfall mud.

Who was the tent's owner?

I think I might have met him later sunbathing on a wartime fortification on the seabank. He told me he was spending some time there to celebrate the memory of his brother because they had spent happy times there together. He further told me that, sadly, his brother had taken his life last year.   
  


 

August 8
Highlights this morning in area around outfall sluice (tide was high)  included:
4 Goosander
1 Shelduck
6 Common sandpiper (including one being chased in flight by a swallow)
1 Greenshank (heard only)
1 Green/ wood sandpiper (in flight)
6 Yellow wagtail
100+ Starling (including one albino or near albino)