The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Nocton Fen 10.30am - 12noon 6.03.09
78 Mute Swan
8 Shelduck
14 RL Partridge
2 Grey Partridge
1 Kestrel
1 Marsh Harrier fem
Dave Purnell

10:30 to 15:00 The Fen, Neville Woods and the Pit. Nice to feel the sun on ones bones again

Dave, I counted 79 mute swans

little owl 2 in the building the other side of the road to the swans
barn owl 1 with a vole n its claws about midday - up by Neville Wood
kestrel 3
fieldfare just 1
lapwing
skylark a few singing
willow tit
green woodpecker 2
great spotted woodpecker 4
buzzard 1
nuthatch 1
redshank 2 along the Witham
all the normal wildfowl on the pit other than goldeneye and mallard
nice view of a stoat swam across a drain then came within a couple of yards then vered off as it noticed me
didn't see the marsh harrier or the stonechats which were supposed to be in the area at the Neville Wood end of the fen

Nocton Fen 15.30 to 17.30 on 06.03.2009

2 Little Owl in the barn by the swans
1 Buzzard hunting from the barns just before the swans
1 Barn Owl hunting close to the road by the bend (accompanied by a Kestrel!)
1 Peregrine on the tall chimney of the Sugar Beet Factory
1 male Hen Harrier passed over the fields near the Factory heading towards Wasps Nest.
2 Shelduck in a wet patch by the pits.

Regards,

David Cohen

p.m.

1 Common Buzzard
1 Marsh Harrier f
1 Little Owl
62 Mute Swan

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Would someone be available to take me around Nocton Fen some time? I'd be able to get to Metheringham by bus or train, but would need picking up from there....

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