I have been visiting Gibraltar Point in Lincolnshire for almost twenty years, sometimes as a birder and mor recently as a geography teacher. It can be a frustrating place.....incredibly 'birdless' compared to the riches just across the Wash in North Norfolk. The Wash Study Centre provides basic but cosy accommodation and SUPERB food and always compensates for a sparce day in the field. When Gibraltar Poibnt is good it is usually very good.....red-backed, great grey and isabelline shrikes, large flocks of brambling, black and common redstarts and great views of short-eared and barn owls. The weather conditions at the weekend for our A level sand dunes study were terrible....not only was it freezing but the wind was biting too. As ever, the students were stoic in their efforts and a credit to themselves. This great sequence by Bucks Birder Richard Billyard really captures the magic of the place and why I keep going back......
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