A Week on the Estate: Cracking Weekend, Media Splash & Winged Wonders
If you were able to join us at the Estate Open Weekend (20th & 21st May), thanks for your company. We hope you enjoyed the sunshine, music, hospitality and walking as much as we did. So many of you headed out on our walking trails with our expert guides that it was hard to tell how many visitors we had.
Our introductory three-mile tour and our pram and pooch-friendly walks were so popular we had a few friendly traffic jams at stiles and kissing gates. Our guests thoroughly enjoyed the Goldilocks weather (not too hot, not too cold, but just right!), the lustrous countryside, the ever-present wildlife, the delicious lunch options and – of course – the busy sipping sessions at the Massingberd-Mundy Distillery.
The knowledgeable folks from Butterfly Conservation and the Lincolnshire Bird Club led walks designed to show off the Estate’s winged wonders. On the avian front, our sightings included buzzards, red kites, greylags, yellowhammers, chaffinches, tufted ducks, and a bevy of skylarks holding their very own Eurovision Song Contest. We heard but couldn’t quite see blackcaps and goldcrests. It was a little breezy for butterflies but we still did well, spotting orange-tips, large and small whites, peacocks, speckled woods and day-flying moths.