The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Guessing that Gib would be busy over the weekend I managed to get out all day Saturday and for 4 hours Sunday morning, concentrating on the area south of South Parade to north end of Gib and the eastern side of Seacroft Golf course. Cracking habitat, under watched like most of Lincs with a good list of good birds in the past
Chiffchaff 10 (most associating with Tit flocks)
Willow Warbler 1
Yellow browed 1
Lesser Throat 2
Blackcap 2
Whitethroat 1
Garden Warbler 1
Reed Warbler 1
Redstart 3
Pied Fly 2
Coal Tit 1
Spotshank 1 over
Grey Wag 1 over
Snow Bunting 1 over
Also had all too brief views of a phyllosc with bright pale supercilium and obvious white wing bar flitting around in the top of a sycamore, never to be seen again
Vis mig was fairly quiet, 100 + Meadow pipit, odd Chaffinch and Skylark etc.
The regular wintering flock of Common Scoter south of Skeg, approx 100 present

Reagrds

Nige

Sounds as if you did pretty well Nige.
I agree that much of the Lincs. coast is under-watched but it can be pretty soul-destroying.
Several of us were out in North Lincs. on Sunday.
Dave Bradbeer was checking Humberstone - Grainthorpe, at least. Chris Atkin was doing Stonebridge - Pyes Hall, at least. Graham and Neil Drinkall were at Horseshoe Point - North Cotes Point, and later Seaview. Linda and I did Stonebridge to the South End of Donna Nook to way beyond the farthest control tower. Howard Bunn checked Stonebridge - Pyes Hall in the afternoon.
Doubtless other Grimsby area birders were also out.
Graham & Neil reported one SEO and one Snow Bunting. Linda & I had 2 Wheatears, 1 Reed Warbler
and about 5 Chiffchaff - some giving odd calls. 8 Pinkfeet flew south.
Generally it was very quiet on the passerine front - quite different from nearby Spurn that we visited on Saturday when it was holding Woodchat Shrike, Red-backed Shrike, Short-toed Lark, Icterine Warbler, Lapland Bunting, Barred Warbler, Wryneck, male Red-breasted Flycatcher, numerous Whinchat, Redstart, Stonechat, Pied Flycatchers and Spotted Flycatchers plus other more common migrants.
Some of these species must also have been present in the areas we were checking but they sure take a lot of digging out!

Regards,
Roy