The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Me and Andy Sims went yesterday and it was completely flooded. 2 avocets, 2 black tailed godwits and a female marsh harrier, lots of sand martins, gulls and shelduck and that was about it.
As it is quite a hike for most of us could anyone who knows the place well advise as to how we might reasonably predict if it will be flooded before making the trip. Any help gratefully received. Cheers. Rick

The only advice I can offer is look at the tide tables and the height of the tide.
All this week are mainly spring tides, ie. Monday was 6.3 metres rising to 7.4 metres on Friday and Saturday, before decreasing again. But at what height the flats actually get covered you will need more local knowlege.
Hope this is of some help, Mike Surr

Many thanks Michael. We thought as much, but the precise high tide mark that results in flooding is the crucial statistic. It was certainly well flooded at 9am on Wednesday. Can anyone come up with a rough value above which flooding is likely? Cheers. Rick

I'm sure GPC will know and if he doesn't he knows the right people to ask that do. Better still ask those who put out the monthly report, they must know the Flatts like the back of their hand.

Max

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Rick,
The main area of mud was flooded by the high tide a couple of weeks back when the Pec. Sand. was there so it doesn't take a particularly big tide for the viewable area of mud to be unavailable to waders. My advice would be to try and plan visits to avoid high tides altogether as I am not sure that anyone is able to state the minimum high tide level that covers most, or all, of the main viewing area.
Graham may be able to offer further guidance.

Regards,
Roy

Many thanks everyone. The answer seems to be tide tables. Cheers. Rick

you not only need tide tables but weather forecasts and wind directions as the amount of flood water varies on even predicted tides with inflow from the Ouse and Trent into the Humber and backup due to wind --in general it floods for 6 days on the highest spring tides of a monthly cycle covering all the mud but there is a progressive build up of water during the 6 days so water stays on longer later in the series; you will also need tide tables for Blacktoft as upper estuary tides and times are very different to the rest of the estuary

Hi,
The internet site-easytide is very good,it gives you Blacktoft.
Roger.