The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Covered all the farm tracks and roads to the east of A52 today between Skegness and Friskney in the hope of finding Dotterel but failed miserably. Best bits were:
Blackcap 10
Willow Warbler 5
Whitethroat 15
Reed Warbler 1
Sedge Warbler 4
Yellow Wag 31
Pied Wag 7
Reed Bunt 12
Corn Bunt 9
Yellowhammer 6
Tree Sparrow 8
Wheatear 7
Whimbrel 2
Barn Owl 1
SEO 2
Little Egret 7

Also 22 Brown Hare, 3 Roe Deer, 2 Muntjac and a Stoat

Nige

I have been checking the usual areas on the Wolds close to where I live but no sign of Dotterel there either.
Strangely, I have yet to find a pea field, which is one of their favourite habitats, but there are plenty of suitable sugar beet fields.
What has been pleasing is the good quantity of singing male Corn Buntings I have seen so they must have bred well last year and also had a plentiful food supply in the winter - probably from the sowings by local farmers of wild bird seed mixture.
Also had two male Wheatears today and a singing male Garden Warbler yesterday - the first I have seen.

Still no Cuckoo seen or heard in this neck of the woods.

Roy

Scanned 2 fields of peas whilst surveying along sea banks at Merrikens to Donna Nook,
no dotterel seen 1 green sand and 1 greenshank in pools along bank frontage. John.

Been scanning all suitable fields along the trent on my sojourns out that way,for dotterel.but alas poor yorick..

Nige,

If I'd seen that lot I wouldn't be bothered about seeing any Dotties, that's a grand total for us amateurs

Cheers

Max

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