The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Saturday afternoon:

3 Turtle Doves seen and heard from 2 territories.
6+ Stock Doves
40 Lapwings
2 Red legged Partridges
5 Kestrels
1 Common Buzzard
1 Sparrowhawk
Whitethroats in every bit of hedge
3 Reed Warblers still singing
1 Sedge Warbler
3 male Reed Buntings holding territories in oil seed rape
Also Large and Green Veined Whites, Red Admiral, Ringlets and Meadow Brown butterflies.

Ian

A bike ride down Dunsby Fen this evening produced:
10 kestrels, mainly juveniles
1 Buzzard
1 Barn Owl
2 Tawny Owls, juvenile
2 Little Owls, 1 juvenile sitting on the road which ran towards me! I picked it up and put it back in the barn where it had come from.
1 Turtle Dove
The oilseed rape is now being cut so too late for a second brood of Reed Buntings but they seem to have done well with many juveniles about.

In Dunsby Spotted Flycatchers are sitting on eggs, I think the first brood were unsuccessful due to cats. Turtle Doves are purring and Hobby is regularly seen.

Hugh Dorrington

Two Corn Buntings down Rippingale Fen two hundred metres east of the old station.

Ian