Late 18th Century attempts to make this a seaside resort were short-lived, however Frieston Shore is today a thriving RSPB Nature Reserve. This is the biggest example of such a project in the UK and over 150 bird species are recorded here each year. In the summer visitors can see breeding birds like redshanks, avocets and ringed plovers and in the winter there are geese, short-eared owls and hen harriers. The Plummers Hotel, which was bult in the mid eighteenth century, was once derelict. Twentieth-century reclamation has left this high and dry, several fields from the shores of the Wash, and now is once again a thriving hotel.
