Visit to Filey Dams : 8th August 2013
On the morning of the 8th we had got up early and had a walk along Flamborough Cliffs before retuning to the Bempton Cliffs but since we were in the area there was one last place we wanted to visit and that was the one recommended to us at Spurn, the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust site at Filey Dams Wetlands , a freshwater marsh curiously situated in the middle of a bunch of newish housing estates. We had been told that it was fantastic for waders but it seemed a little unlikely at first as we drove around suburban housing estate streets looking for the entrance. We did eventually find it and parked up. There are a couple of hides and we started off at the left side hide, the so-called “Main Hide. Here there were a few Gadwall and a Mallard and a pair of Greylag Geese but not a lot else. We stayed for a while but eventually we decided to take the path to the right hand side to get to the “East Pool Hide” where things improved.