I take the 8:00am X7 bus at Hull city centre, and I'm at Patrington at 9:00. It is a bright, mild day with barely a breeze. I wander around the streets of the village, recording birds and plants. Rooks are busy at their nests, a Chiffchaff sings. St Patrick's Church, 'Queen of Holderness', a Grade I listed building, looms large in the village and is a great landmark, visible for miles in this flat landscape. I make a quick stop at the Greenwich Meridian, just outside the village, on Welwick road. A flock of Fieldfare, Redwing and Starlings are feeding on a ploughed field. I take Saltmarsh lane, an unsurfaced lane, with plenty of puddles, but it has been dry lately, so I don't get too muddy. Skylarks and a Yellowhammer sing. a Kestrel lands on a pile of straw bales. I turn right onto the footpath crossing South Field, fortunately it is along farm tracks. The landscape is mostly flat and arable farmland, but there is a little rise, which means there are not as many ditches as in other areas of Holderness. Skylarks sing at both sides of the path. In front of me, there is a resting roe deer by a hedge, when it stands, I realise there are three others. I soon get to Patrington Haven, which used to have a navigable canal to the Humber, long silted up. Bees feed on Red deadnettles, including Hairy-footed flower bee males. I take a permissive path by the caravan park which leads to Enholmes Farm. I flush a Great Spotted Woodpecker. There are several linear plantations in the distance, some with rookeries. I turn right at Enholmes Farm. Woodland plants are flowering at Cherry Plantation. I'm soon back at Patrington, where I treat myself to a lunch at the cafe.
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