Holderness: Weel, Tickton and Hull Bridge

Today's walk takes me across a corner of Holderness just East of the river Hull near Beverley. This is a low lying almost flat area of Carrs and the walk meanders along Weel Carr, North Carr and Tickton Carr. There are some pastures, but the walk is mostly along large arable fields mostly edged by hedgerows and ditches. There are several plantations that give the walk some landscape interest. It is drizzling when I leave my bus at Beverley Swinemoor Lane. I walk by Grovehill Road and cross the narrow Weel Bridge. I take the grassy bank along the river, which gives a broader view, although my socks are quickly soaking wet. A Cetti sings and Reed Buntings call. A Kestrel is perched on a rooftop. I walk past a line of boats along the industrial area, many derelict or half sunk. Six Snipe fly over towards the fields. Three Curlew on the grassy fields of Hoggart House farm, with two doe Roe Deer watching a buck in the distance make for a good top shot. Skylarks chirp overhead,

Grovehill boats.

Kestrel.

Curlew.

Several Cormorants rest on telegraph poles by the hamlet of Weel. There are flocks of Redwings feeding on hawthorns, the first I see this year.

Cormorants.

The river Hull from its banks.

Redwing.

The fields North of Weel.

Rabbit near Corporation Farm.

Golden Plovers over.

Reed Bunting.

At Corporation farm I hear some tree sparrows in a hedge, but they won't show. I also think I hear a Raven, and watch a corvid with a large bill over, through my bins, too late to take a photo. Are there Raven's around here? The Golden plovers are a big surprise. About 180 are feeding spread on Tickton Carrs, with the start-stop gait of Lapwings.

Yellowhammer.

Roe Deer.

Golden Plover.

Pink-footed Geese. A flock of around 300 flew south.

Reed Bunting.

I make my way to Tickton and walk along the main street to Hull Bridge. It's just over half an hour walk to the centre of Beverley, where I go to have my lunch and take the bus home.

Goldfinches.

St Paul's Tickton.

Moorhen.