The Lincolnshire Bird Club

All my sightings over the last 5 months have been fairly local to home. All have been single birds and the two separate locations might suggest that I have been reading too much into the information. I am now beginning to consider if in actual fact I have had repetition of possibly only two non-breeding individuals.
Needless to say how the easterly drift of this species into the county has changed in the last 10 years!

24/04/10 Fishtoft
15/05/10 Havenhouse
29/05/10 Bellwater Nr Firsby
08/06/10 Heckington
17/06/10 Bellwater
25/06/10 Threekingham
08/07/10 Rauceby
24/07/10 Thorpe Culvert
07/08/10 Heckington
08/08/10 Heckington
21/08/10 Bellwater
28/08/10 Swineshead

We have one or more (together) over Fulbeck 2 or more times a week continuously now for months. I mainly see them over a patch of semi-parkland pasture with beasts on, which is just across from my kitchen window - which is why I see them so often. Quite often there are 2 together and the maximum number at any one time was 5, presumably adult(s) and juveniles, at the end of the summer 2009. I also never fail to see one or two when on cycle rides towards the Newark or Grantham areas. A far cry from the days when I was thrilled to see just one a year in Derbyshire!

David

We saw 7 Buzzards wheeling over my garden in Rippingale last Sunday.They are fairly common here in the SW of the county but not quite as many this year as the previous two years. We actually saw 3 separate Buzzards today; Kates Bridge, Rippingale and Folkingham.

Regards,

Ian