The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Anderby Creek – 25th Oct 2011
Seawatch between 12:00-17:30hrs

Starling c500 (numerous parties off sea)
Eider Duck 1S 5N
Great Skua 2N
Common Scoter 5N 5S (same birds?)
Diver sp (sat offshore at about 300m) – looked like a summer plumage GND?
Skua sp 1N
Brent Goose 32S 1N
Gannet 12S 1N
Wigeon 8S
Kittiwake 7S 11N
Peregrine 1S
Great Crested Grebe 1N
SABINES GULL – 1st Winter bird off shore at 13:46hrs – briefly landed on the sea before flying south.
Cormorant 1S
Dunlin 5S
Little Gull 4 Adults &1 first cal yr bird
Swallow 1

Anderby Creek – 26th Oct 2011
Seawatch 09:00 – 1700hrs

Goldfinch 63S
Skylark 42S
Meadow Pipit c50S
Reed Bunting 3S
Siskin 5 S
Linnet c25S
Kestrel 2S
Chaffinch 3S
Brent Goose 7S
Eider Duck 4S
Skua sp 3
Common Scoter 65N 59S
Short-eared Owl 1S
ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD – 1 first cal year bird south along beach at 11:15am, being mobbed by carrion crow photos to follow
Great Skua 1S
SHAG – imm bird south, landed on sea near outflow, then beached. Drifted off south later.
Pink-footed Goose 52S
Blackbird c20 in off the sea – one being chased by great black-backed gull
Woodcock 1 off sea
Redwing – 20S

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Andrew Chick
Website: http://www.forktail.co.uk/

Anderby Creek – 27th Oct 2011
Seawatch 11:00hrs – 16:00hrs

Common Scoter 18N
Great Crested Grebe 1N
Shelduck 1N
House Martin 1
Shag 3 – imm bird beach again at low tide, and 2 adults flew south at 14:07hrs
Sandwich Tern 1S (1st win)
Gannet 9S
Godlen Plover 21
Little Gull 5 Ad’s (minimum count, offshore for most of the day?)
Velvert Scoter 1N male
Red Throated Diver 1S
Kittiwake 3S
Great Skua 3S
Skua Sp 2

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Andrew Chick
Website: http://www.forktail.co.uk/