The Lincolnshire Bird Club

A total of 91 species today (Dawn - Dusk), will get that 100 one day.

Highlights include:

Yellowhammer 1 (Singing West Dunes)
Turtle Dove 3
Cormorant 138 (West over Croft marsh)
Yellow Wagtail 21 (inc 3 Juv)
Spoonbill 1 (Mere, at Dawn)
Crossbill 1
Greylag Goose 72 (Jacksons, at Dusk)
Little Tern 13
Common Tern 6
Sandwich Tern 1000
Arctic Skua 8 (6 Skuas mobbing 1 Sandwich Tern, a bit unfair)
Gannet 13 (North)
Kittiwake 1
Common Buzzard 1 (per KWilson)

Waders:

Temminck's Stint 1 (Showing Well all day, in front of Harveys)
Common Sandpiper 2
Green Sandpiper 3
Curlew Sandpiper 1 (per TBagworth)
Greenshank 21 (31 yesterday, (Fenland Lagoon)
Redshank 81
Avocet 32
Little Ringed Plover 5
Whimbrel 4
Knot 3000 (Majority in breeding plumage)(Numbers starting to build up rapidly)
Ringed Plover 31
Turnstone 4
Sanderling 350
Dunlin 308
Golden Plover 21 (South)
Grey Plover 1
Spotted Redshank 1
Ruff 1
Lapwing 26
Oystercatcher 27
Black-tailed Godwit 52
Curlew 79


Cheers,

Richard

NO sign of the temmincks stint today
present today were
spotted redshank on the mere
common sandpiper on the mere
c70 black tailed godwit on the mere and 3 at Jacksons
1 whimbrel on the beach
about 20 reed warblers
green sandpiper at Jacksons
c300 sandwich tern + 3 on Jacksons
2 little tern
5 little ringed plover
2 ringed plover

Hi Richard and Chris,
Your lists of species barely mention passerines. My experience of Gib at this time of year is the sea buckthorn can be alive with Whitethroats, Willow Warblers (998 ringed in one week in August 1985), Lesser Whitethroats etc. Are they not there or do your efforts concentrate on the sea and scrapes??

Hi Stuart
Today I didn't wander far from the path from the beach car park to the beach and the path from Tennysons to Jacksons hence my lack of warblers. The paths I walked were quiet (very quiet) as was the sea in contrast to Richards report from yesterday. I recorded about 48 species in contrast to Richards figure of 91

Stuart

Whitethroat activity does seem low at the momemt - maybe weather related.

However, the decline of the willow warbler is very serious from early asessment of the common bird census data - linnets also in very low numbers, but turtle dove stable or showing slight increase on previous survey in 2006 - I will give an update when the full analysis has been carried out.

Kev

Thanks Chris and Kev. I thionk the decline of Willow Warblers is county wide though I'm surprised at the lack of Whitethroat activity at Gib - I went ringing yesterday at Walesby Moor where I've been ringing for 30 years and young Whitethroats were everywhere (16 ringed). Something that I've never seen before was that some 10+ Whitethroats were feeding off the ears of wheat in an adjacent field - I had a close look and there were lots of small insects/aphids etc. Has anyone else seen this before?
Stuart