FROM AFRICA TO CLEETHORPES - THEN THEY'RE BACK ON THEIR JOURNEY NORTH

 

It's always a sign of summer days ahead when wheatears (pictured) start turning up on the edge of Cleethorpes saltmarsh as has been happening this week. Sometimes as many as five birds at a time have been seen. The birds, which have flown from Africa in advance of swallows, only spend a short here before heading north to dales and moorland where they often nest in vacated rabbit burrows.