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| The Leeds visitors - checking out Cleethorpes shorebirds |
SHOREBIRD-monitoring was this week underway on the beach outside Cleethorpes Leisure Centre.
The duo pictured had made the two-hour trip from Leeds to scan flocks of knot - a species which breeds in Greenland and northern Canada - in order to establish if any had colour rings on their legs which might give clues to their migration routes.
To their delight, they detected no fewer than nine colour ringed birds - the rings having been attached to their legs in locations as diverse as The Wash, Ireland, Iceland, Norway and the Netherlands.
When the tides are right and daylight is good, Cleethorpes in autumn and winter is one of the best places in Britain to watch shorebirds of many different species.
An added bonus for the Leeds visitors was that, during their spell here, they also glimpsed and heard (on Wednesday) a relatively rare Lapland bunting flying overhead.
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