Fitties to Tetney

Anthony Bentley · **Posted:** Sat Mar 05, 2011 7:52 pm

Not the best days to go for A walk towards Tetney Lock, the birds also din't really show either. Best of a miserable afternoon 1:00pm-4.00pm.

Humberston Fitties:

1 Ruff
1 Turnstone
1 Little Egret
2 Oystercatcher
2 Herring Gull
Lots of Mallard and Black Headed Gulls

Tetney Area

No sighn of Water Pipit
70+ Whooper Swans, 3 groups of birds in three fields around the oil tanks. Most Whoppers I have seen in a single day.
1 Grey plover
2 Redshank
2 Curlew
10 Mallard all paired up now
14 Moorhen
200 + Lapwing
4 Shellduck
1 Blackbird
5 Magpie
1 Little Egret
50 + Black Headed Gulls

Thanks Anthony

Russell Hayes · **Posted:** Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:07 pm

Hi Anthony, there were three main groups of Swans around the Oil tanks the other day, two large groups fairly distant in fields to the South of the tanks and one group North of the tanks. The two groups to the South were Mute Swans and the group to the North were Whoopers.
70 Whoopers would be a very good count if confirmed.

Russell

Dave Bradbeer · **Posted:** Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:04 pm

All Mutes apart from 11 Whooper nth side of oil tanks, i have checked the other flock in question almost every day for most of the winter.

Anthony Bentley · **Posted:** Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:12 pm

So have the smaller flock of Whoppers been In these fields all winter? What is the max you have counted in a day or has the small flock always been around the teens?

Thnaks Anthony

Russell Hayes · **Posted:** Sun Mar 06, 2011 6:53 pm

The first reported sighting was on:
12th January (Dave Bradbeer) - 7 Whoopers
Sightings again on:
20th January (Dave Bradbeer) - 7 Whoopers
29th January (Dave Bradbeer) - 7 Whoopers
8th February (Dave Bradbeer) - +9 Whoopers
3rd March (Russell Hayes) - 11 Whoopers( inc 5 Juveniles)

Max count 11 Whoopers all relate to the group North of the oil tanks.

Russell

The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Fitties to Tetney

Who is online