The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Having seen Marsh Sandpiper at Alkborough this week I realised that my total of wader species seen on the Humber estuary, or in its immediate tidal lagoon, was in fact 55 species. Th eHumber is of course the second estuary in Britain so I assume someone must have seen more in the Wash? but there are still plenty to go at with Terek and Stone Curlew being obvious absentees and then there is sure to be a Greater Yellowlegs and a Black-winged Pratincole soon plus of course a Great Knot and when the WWT loose a few probably a Spoon-billed Sand -- full list below

Oystercatcher
Black-winged Stilt
Avocet
Collared Pratincole
Little Ringed Plover
Ringed Plover
Kentish Plover
Lesser Sand Plover
Greater Sand Plover
Dotterel
American Golden Plover
Pacific Golden Plover
Golden Plover
Grey Plover
Lapwing
Knot
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Red-necked Stint
Little Stint
Temminck’s Stint
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird’s Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper
Dunlin
Broad-billed Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Ruff
Jack Snipe
Snipe
Great Snipe
Long-billed Dowitcher
Woodcock
Black-tailed Godwit
Hudsonian Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit
Whimbrel
Curlew
Common Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Green Sandpiper
Spotted Redshank
Greenshank
Lesser Yellowlegs
Marsh Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Redshank
Turnstone
Wilson’s Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Grey Phalarope

Where exactly does the Humber finish on the Lincs side? Having Lesser Sand Plover on the list, i presume it goes at least as far as Rimac, but does that mean i can include Titchwell in the Wash?

Looking at the OS map, I would say the Humber joined the North Sea around a line between Spurn and Tetney, so certainly not as far down as Rimac.

Geoff

The humber estuary as per WeBS ends at Mablethorpe north end so I would guess the Wash ends at Hunstanton and Gib point which still makes it a lot bigger!

The European designated Humber Marine Site extends down to Rimac and for the purposes of the Humber flood risk strategy the Environment Agency treats the Humber estuary as extending down to Rimac, so it would seem from the public authority point of view the Humber estuary does indeed extend to Rimac.

I have seen some authors suggest that geographically the estuary's southern limit is where the coast turns from running East West to North South where the look out towers are at RAF Donna Nook.

Most lists are a matter of personal choice e.g. does your British list include Isle of Man, Ireland, N Ireland or Channel islands, there is no right answer so I suggest Paul runs his Wash list to Cley if he wants, though I think Graham would be taking the (expletive deleted) if he extended his Humber list to Frampton.