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Wildlife awards
Freiston Shore is one of the best places for wildlife in the UK.
Top things to do in Spring
- Look out for migrant birds such as yellow wagtails and wheatears returning from their wintering grounds in Africa
- Watch lapwings doing their tumbling display flights over the grazing marsh
- See hares 'boxing' on the grazing marsh
Top things to do in Summer
- Watch elegant avocets sweeping up microscopic aquatic animals with their sickle-shaped bills
- Experience the hustle and bustle of a busy gull and tern colony
- Look out for tree sparrows nesting in nearby buildings and hedgerows
Top things to do in Autumn
- At high tide, see roosting flocks of wading birds as they migrate south from their Arctic breeding grounds
- Keep an eye out for the first returning wigeons on the lagoon
- Look out for black-tailed godwits as they return from the short Icelandic breeding season
Top things to do in Winter
- Watch brent geese - wintering visitors from Siberia - bathing in the lagoon and feeding on the grazing marsh
- Look out for hen harriers and merlins hunting their prey over the saltmarsh
- Watch winter wildfowl congregate on the lagoon and saltmarsh, including pintails, teals, wigeons and shelducks
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