North Cave Wetlands may not be everyone’s destination of choice for a lazy Sunday afternoon… but it suits me fine. I saw a bittern in flight, a hobby chasing after dragonflies, kites and buzzards catching the thermals and a kestrel catching a mouse. I heard a cetti’s warbler’s explosive ‘song', and a water rail (it sounds like a pig being slaughtered with a rusty machete). A lot of the waders had left, but I still saw snipe, common and green sandpipers, a family of dunlin, both ringed and little ringed plover, a single curlew and a juvenile avocet (a count of wildfowl on the Humber today included a flock of 1,800 avocets: amazing).
Licensed yesterday: a delivery van in the market square, Uppingham...
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