Read's Island Nature Reserve is part of the Upper Humber SSSI, SPA, SAC and RAMSAR site. It is currently the second largest semi-permanent island in the estuary and is particularly noteworthy for its nationally important estuarine habitat and until r...
Visit at high tides from autumn to spring for close-up views of roosting wading birds - the bigger the tide, the better the spectacle!
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At Freiston Shore you can get excellent views of waterbirds on the salt water lagoon, especially at high tide when wading birds roost, sometimes in their thousands.
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Tetney Marshes covers over 1,500 hectares of coastal mudflats, salt marsh, dunes and saline lagoons on the north Lincolnshire coast. The reserve forms an important part of the Humber estuary, which is one of the top five estuaries for birds in the UK...
'Ings' is an old English word for the wet pastures to the west of Barton which, before embankment, were part of the Humber flood plain. Since Roman times the underlying clay has been used to make bricks and tiles.
In the late 19th century there we...
Chambers Farm Nature Reserve is located on the site of a medieaval woodland and is well known for its wide range of butterflies. The 360-hectare (900-acre) beauty spot, near Wragby, Lincolnshire, has been rated as one of the best Forestry Commission ...
Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve covers three miles of coast from Skegness to The Wash. Habitats include sandy and muddy seashore, sand dunes, saltmarsh and freshwater marsh with ponds and lagoons. The reserve is recognised internationally for...
In June, the grassland of Collyweston Quarries Nature Reserve glows with the golden-yellow flowers of common rockrose, common bird's-foot-trefoil and dyer's greenweed, whose flowers were once gathered to produce a yellow dye.
This colourful displa...
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