VISITING KINGFISHER PROVIDES SPLASH OF COLOUR ON CLEETHORPES SALTMARSH

                                           

THE kingfisher is favourite bird of  a lot of people including, incidentally, the actress  Alison Steadman.

But despite their bright plumage, they are often difficult to detect - except, perhaps, as dazzling jewels whizzing along a water course.

The species is not thought to have a summer breeding presence in North East Lincolnshire, but individuals  spend winter here at suitably watery sites such as the River Freshney or the Buck Beck.

Sometimes they also turn up less familiar locations such as caravan park fishing lakes, creeks and gullies along the shoreline in Humberston and, as in this picture, perched on a post on Cleethorpes saltmarsh.

J