Freiston Shore

RSPB Freiston Shore is an excellent place to watch waterbirds, with hundreds or even thousands of wading birds coming into roost on the saline lagoon at high tide.   The wet grassland is a great place to see feeding brent geese which congregate in
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    WREN's help to put more ‘bums on eggs’!

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    We are delighted to announce that we've just started a five-year project to improve our 76 hectares wet grassland grazing marsh at Freiston Shore At present we rely on intercepting and storing excess winter rainfall to keep our wetlands wet into...
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    A rare visitor!

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    This week we have had the biggest high tides of the autumn. These bring birds into the inland water bodies of our reserves off of the saltmarsh. Giving you a real wader spectacular, as hundreds of waders – e.g. knot, oystercatchers, redshank, black...
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    The end of summer

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    We the end of summer, comes the rush to get all the habitat management tasks done before we reach winter water levels. At Freiston, this includes vegetation clearance on the islands on the lagoon, so I was joined by a group of volunteers and Graham...
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    April 2011

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    Recent Sightings With the return of spring, some of the highlights have include three wheatears (20 th ), two yellow wagtails (11 th ), one whimbrel (20 th ), all on the wet grassland. While on the inner sea bank, a willow warbler and a goldcrest ...
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    March 2011

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    Habitat Management After raising the water levels in the lagoon over the winter months, we used the low tides during March to let water off. The water level is now down to its spring height, exposing the larger islands to allow the black-headed...
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