Aye sea birds! Traditional Cache
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A simple drive-by at Budle bay bird sanctuary.
Small box in a camo bag.
This is a twitcher's paradise. Budle Bay represents the southern section of the 8650 acre Lindisfarne NNR,
currently managed by English Nature. The extensive mudflats, mussel beds, inter-tidal sand and saltmarsh are bordered by dunes, grassland, scrub and small patches of woodland. The Bay is a bird sanctuary and at low tide is the home to countless thousands of sea and land birds. Research of the county’s ornithological literature puts the Bay’s species list at about 225.
Protected as a no shooting sanctuary, the Bay is a safe haven for wintering wildfowl, the digging of bait is prohibited which eases disturbance to feeding waders at low tide. All visitors are thus requested to keep to the shoreline and not venture out onto the mudflats and keep dogs on a lead at all times.
There is plenty of parking on the roadside unless the posse of birdwatchers with their cameras and telescopes are there.
Be careful if crossing the road as it can get quite busy here.
There is a congratulatory magnet for the FTF. Please note, no decent maps were harmed during the making of this log book ;-)
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Fgrc ba vg!