The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Three hours atlasing this morning proved bracing. The new LWT reserve between Anderby Creek and Wolla Bank was looking good with 155 Golden Plover, 186 Lapwings, 2 Water Pipits and 2 Peregrines over the waterlogged field.

The other main highlight was a Kingfisher.

You should have called in at Chapel Pt for a seawatch Phil!
Leach's Petrel 1
Little Auk 3
SE Owl 1
Wigeon 370
Pintail 26
Goldeneye 17
Smew 1
Scaup 4
Teal 180
RB Merg 5
Eider 11
Tufted 16
C Scoter 34
Velvet Scoter 2
LT Duck 3
Gadwall 3
Mallard 2
Brent Goose 46

Sounds like a good seawatch but I wasn't carrying a scope and Chapel Point didn't fall into the tetrads I was doing. I finished around 12.30, what time did you have the birds?

One other point, aside from the ttv data I added 5 new species for the square TF57 winter list and from a brief look at the atlas website, you saw a lot more species that haven't been recorded.

It gives an extra dimension to your birding if you can look out for species that haven't been recorded in the square of your local patch and won't feature in the atlas book unless you enter them via roving records. The way I look at it is, do you want to look at the atlas in 5 years and see that Chapel Point looks like a rubbish place to go birding in winter?

I should add that LBC records posted here will get picked up for the atlas in due course if they are clearly in a particular 10k square, which Chapel Point is, but others won't where there is any doubt, so its safer to do it yourself!