The Lincolnshire Bird Club

A visit today between 0700 and 1130 hours (high spring tide = 7.9m):
Lagoon:
1 Wren
606 Oystercatcher
c4000 Dunlin
c10000 Knot
1 Blackbird
8 Avocet & 1 yg
9 Little Tern
4 Ringed Plover
c200 Redshank
16 Common Tern & 12 yg/juv
14 Turnstone
1 Bar-tailed Godwit
1 Kestrel (saw female feeding a screaming juvnile!)
2 Pink-footed Geese
1 Greylag Goose
22 Canadian Geese
1 Tree Sparrow
3 House Sparrow

Seawall shelter / saltmarsh:
3 Lesser Black-backed Gull
25 Black-headed Gull
12 Little Egret
10 Eider
Swallow passage I counted 109 close, however many more out in the Wash were passing.
Sand Martin passage I counted 25
345 Golden Plover
5 Whimbrel
1 Shelduck juv
1 Marsh Harrier
4 Cormorant
20 Mallard
17 Curlew
c200 Starling
1 Herring Gull
1 Pied Wagtail juv
4 Meadow Pipit

Tides are even higher tomorrow and Sunday!

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JH Birding
http://jhbirding.blogspot.com

Hi
Things had certainly calmed down on the Lagoon by the time we were there at 3.30:-
25 Avocetts
20+ Blackheads
75 Canada's
50+ Dunlins flew in.
1 Little Egret
1 Lapwing
5 Magpie (upsetting the Blackheads and Terns)
30 Oystercatchers +1 chick
4 House Sparrows
4 Swallows
10 Common Terns
1 Cuckoo (Heard)
1 Whinchatt in the Car Park.

On the way to Freiston saw Marsh Harrier cross the 7 mile straight.
1 Yellow Hammer

Cheers Malcolm.