Thursday: walk with waterfall and pies, also Tree-creepers

Route: just over 6 miles (phone gets it wrong)

We parked near the old railway station at Cloughton and walked along the disused railway line for a bit, then went along the coast path.

Railway line
Coast path

Some birds: Yellowhammer.

Yellowhammer

Then down through the woods to the waterfall at Hayburn Wyke.

Woods

Waterfall

Had lunch on the beach, nice left-over pie from Tuesday. That’s pies for lunch three days in a row.

Lovely pie by the sea

We went back up through the woods and got slightly lost, then we had a coffee at the Hayburn Wyke Inn. We took the footpath rather than the railway track back, walking through meadows and coming across a pool that wasn’t on the OS map.

Meadows

Pool, with geese and ducks

Chiffchaffs and Chaffinches were making a right din, we saw Long-tailed Tits and Bullfinches and a bit further on we sat for half an hour and watched Great Tits coming to and from their nest hole in an old tree stump.

Long-tailed Tit

Great Tit

We drove back. Approaching the front door we came across a family of Tree-Creepers, four young and the adults coming to and fro to feed them.

Tree-creeper (baby)

Young Tree-creepers

We packed some stuff up and then walked the half-mile to the Homestead Kitchen for another very nice meal.

Curlew calling on the way out.