Holderness: Seaton, Wassand and Hornsea

A cool, sunny and breezy day, I get bus 24 to Seaton and walk to Wassand and along the public right of way on the south side of Hornsea Mere to Hornsea. Seaton has a small common or green and a village pond. A Moorhen skulks on the margins. Plenty of finches, with Linnets, Goldfinches, Chaffinches and Greenfinches in the village. I cross the busy A1035 and then I'm in the Wassand estate. A large pond holds Greylag, Moorhen and Little Grebe. A Kestrel flies away and then I hear raptor calls, there are two Marsh Harriers, one of them showing very well.

Seaton village pond.

Peacock.

Little Grebe in the Wassand pond.

Wassand pond.

New lambs with ewe.

Marsh Harrier.

Skunk Cabbage in bloom, a plant that can become invasive and favours wet woodland. Seems to be doing very well here by a ditch.

The first distant view of the mere. Also the top photo, with a curious old coppice stool with still some life in it.

Another pair of Marsh Harriers displaying.

Lund.

Skylark rising.

Reed Bunting singing.

The mere.

I get to Hornsea and join the Transpennine trail on the old railway line, finishing at the old railway station, which is the start of the long distance trail. I get my lunch at the Bay Tree Kitchen and then walk to the beach until the end of the sea defences, before getting my bus back home.

The Old Railway station.

Station and monument to the Transpennine trail.

Stream Dyke, the outflow of Hornsea Mere.

At the end of the Hornsea Defences, the sea is eroding the boulder clay cliffs creating an embayment between Mapleton (in the distance, also defenced) and Hornsea.

Some of these static caravans are sticking out of the cliff edge. I don't fancy their chances!

St. Nicholas Church.