3 hour seawatch from 08.15 produced the following in intermittent heavy showers and a light NE wind. All birds north unless stated otherwise:
Black tailed Godwit 23 Golden Plover 6 Herring Gull 23 Sandwich Tern 34 Common Scoter 140 Grey Plover 2 Bar tailed Godwit 4 Ringed Plover 6 Curlew 3 Turnstone 4 Dunlin 22 Gannet 10 Knot 26 Arctic Skua 4 Oystercatcher 41 (S) Common Tern 17 Black headed Gull 6 Little Tern 7 Commic Tern 5 Shelduck 10 Teal 16 Tufted Duck 1 Whimbrel 3 (2 in off) Great Black backed Gull 2 Fulmar 1 Shoveller 3
With Andy Sims, Rick Bennett, Rob Carr
Subsequently confirmed Pheasant breeding in TF58, now confirmed in all 19 East Lincs squares and following a visit to Huttoft Pit a Hooded Crow type, possibly a hybrid by the side of the road next to Sandilands golf course.
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