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Phil Espin
 Post subject: Kingfishers
PostPosted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:43 pm 
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A walk from Louth town centre to the sewage farm below Ticklepenny Lock this morning produced 5 sightings of Kingfisher probably a minimum of 3 birds. On this showing they appear to have survived the hard winter surprisingly well. Also 2 Grey Wagtails, 2 Siskin and 2 Goldcrest. I was looking for Cormorant and Great Crested Grebe the two commonest birds missing from TF38 for the winter atlas that would have taken the square total to 100, but no luck in that direction.

Yesterday I walked 4 miles looking for Kingfisher and Grey Wagtail along suitable looking water courses in the River Bain catchment in TF27 in the Goulceby area. There are no winter records for this atlas period of either species in TF27 and Kingfisher has not been recorded in TF28, where the Bain rises and there are eminently suitable habitats like Biscathorpe Lake. What is it about the Bain catchment that these birds are so hard to find when they are easy 6 miles away in Louth. If anyone has any theories or better still, winter records of these species please let me know.

PS would also like to hear if anyone has had a winter record of Cormorant or GC Grebe in TF38 too!
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John Harry
 Post subject: Re: Kingfishers
PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:28 pm 
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Phil,

I am really struggling with Kingfishers - Kirkby on Bain, Scrub Hill, Coningsby and Tattershall have been scanned and I have not observed or heard one.
I think we have lost a lot here unless they moved to more productive areas?

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