The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Arrived at 08:00 on a beautiful morning. Recorded 41 species. The best being

Song Thrush
Grey Heron 3
Goldeneye 3 pairs
Pink Footed Goose 1 probably only one but I did see it on Grebe, Teal and Willow Lakes
Wren c20
Dunnock c40 their song was all over
Oystercatcher 4 flying into Grebe Lake together
Chiffchaff 1 by the road bridge over the path to Teal Lake and the railway and another down between Teal lake and Apex Pit
Little Egrets 0 - still awaiting my first one in the Lincoln area
Reed Bunting 4
Great Spotted Woodpecker 3
Kingfisher
Green Woodpecker 2
Whooper Swan 9 (high over Willow Lake)
Kestrel 1
Buzzard 2
Teal 2

Chris

I can only think that our paths must have crossed over at some stage today!

Whisby Quarry Settlement Lagoons (Eagle Lane)
The 9 Whooper Swans (7 adults 2 juvs) you saw over Willow Lake were on the settlement lagoons between 11.30 and were still there when I left at 12.00pm!
The colour dyed Oystercatcher was also still there!

Teal Lake
1 Little Egret (the other seems to have departed). I always see this/these bird(s) from the new viewpoint we have created on the south side of Teal Lake accessable form the north side of Apex Pit. One bird has been there most of the winter!
I did see your Pink-footed Goose (with the Greylags) and can confirm that we have just the one bird. Last Saturday I saw it on Willow Lake and in the fields to the NW of Whisby

Apex Pit
3 Chiffchaff - all singing today

Regards

Grahame

Grahame
I couldn't be bothered to look on the settlement lagoons at midday and drove straight past as I was starving and wanted to get home. I must admit it didn't look as though the whooper swans would have finished on the settlement lagoons from the direction they were flying

I looked from the new viewing platform for the Little Egrets but nothing was showing. A dog walker told me they were there just before I reached the platform. He called them Great Egrets but when I corrected him, he answered by telling he hadn't seen them this morning