The Lincolnshire Bird Club

A female/juv (more likely) Lapland Bunting showed very well in the dunes adjacent to the seawall at 5pm today as I was settling down for a sea watch.

The sea watch itself was pretty dire
Wigeon 7N
Red throated diver 1N
Gannet 1N
Fulmar 1N

Regards

Nige

Lapland Bunting Nth Cotes Pt this morning, my earliest ever, + Whinchat, Peregrine, LRP, 2 Green Sandpiper, 50 Wigeon, 45 Common Scoter, Common Buzzard, Marsh Harrier, also 32 Little Egret on Tetney Marshes.

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Regards, DJB. http://bradderscleebirding.blogspot.co.uk/

From the website Birding Iceland,
27/8/2010 -Up to 27 Lapland Buntings at Heimaey,Iceland. Flocks of this size are rare in Iceland.
31/8/2010 - There were an astonishing120 birds at Heimaey today which is by far a record number for Iceland.
Lapland Buntings are scarce migrants from East Greenland and occasional breeders in Iceland.
Looks like they have had a good breeding season.
Temperatures in Greenland are still warm,up to 19 degrees C, so it's not the cold thats moving them on.

Warm in Greenland, however the weather has been unusually cold in northern Norway for the last two weeks of August with temperatures down to 2 C and some substantial snow falls on high ground. Also winds have been from the north east, so birds arriving on the British east coast could well be Scandinavian birds. I suppose we will never know unless someone finds a ringed bird.