The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Dawn till dusk (06:25 - 17:50)

A great days birding despite the wind

Iceland Gull 1 (Flew in at 15:34, very pale bird, lacking the dark primary feathers of Kumliens)
Twite 20 (flying around seawall at noon)
Hen Harrier 1 (Male)
Marsh Harrier 4 (Over saltmarsh at 17:16)
Merlin 1
Barn Owl 1
Kestrel 1
Brent Goose 3000 (over half consisting of juvenile birds)
Pale-bellied Brent 43
Barnacle Goose 1
European White-fronted Goose 5
Canada Goose 97
Greylag Goose 113
Knot 1000
Spotted Redshank 3
Redshank 18
Curlew 76
Black-tailed Godwit 21
Snipe 2
Oystercatcher 2
Ringed Plover 1
Ruff 18
Golden Plover 209
Lapwing 1000
Grey Plover 1
Dunlin 52
Pintail 311
Scaup 3 (2 adult males, 1 young male)
Gadwall 92
Shoveler 9
Shelduck 63
Goldeneye 5 (Females)
Wigeon 2565
Great Crested Grebe 1
Teal 181
Mallard 57
Tufted Duck 88
Pochard 46
Little Grebe 3
Moorhen 9
Coot 61
Yellohammer 3
Jay 1
Woodcock 1 (Over car park at Dusk)
Tree Sparrow 13
Chaffinch 9
Greenfinch 25
Skylark 23

Swan Herds:

South of reserve: Whooper Swan 16 (Flew in to roost on reedbed at 17:21

West of reserve: Whooper Swan 8 (Inc 3 juv, flew in to roost on reedbed at 17:27), Bewick's Swan 18 (Flew from 360 scrape at 06:43 to feed on fields then returned to roost on 360 scrape at 17:36), Mute Swan 11 (4 came into roost on Reedbed at 17:36)

Totals:
Whooper Swan 24
Bewick's Swan 18

Cheers,

Richard

Congratulations, Richard, on a great piece of work : the commitment, the counting and the reporting.

Freddy

Richard - without wishing to detract in any way from what can only be described as a model day's birdwatching and recording - I have to take small issue with your estimate of the percentage of 2cy Dark-bellied Brent Geese. John Walker and Myself have aged 7575 individual DB Brents along the Lincs coast this winter( including Frampton ) and out of this total only 12.55% were 1cy/2cy. A 50% breeding success rate has never been recorded and only once in 25 years has the total surpassed 30%. Did you actually count and age every bird!?
Again - well done on a superb day's birding.

Hi Ed,
Thanks for picking that out, don't no what happened there, what I did was sampled about a 600 brents which around half were juveniles, so roughly 300 young birds estimated. I saw about 3000 birds in all throughout the day. What i should have put was Brent Goose 3000 (Out of a sample of 600, half of which consisted of juvs). Apologise for that.