Gib Point 29/08/12

Chris Atkin · **Post subject:** Gib Point 29/08/12

Highlights from today at a wet and windy Gib:

4 Spoonbill (though 6 reported earlier)
1 Pectoral Sandpiper
1 Little Stint
3 Spotted Redshank
11 Greenshank
3 Whimbrel
2 Little Ringed Plover
77 Black-tailed Godwit
1 Green Sandpiper
2 Common Sandpiper
2 Ruff
12 Avocet
2 Marsh Harrier
1 Merlin
250 Swift south
1 Wheatear
1 Pied Flycatcher
2 Lesser Whitethroat

Also:
2 Common Buzzard near Walmsgate
1 Curlew Sandpiper on Cleethorpes foreshore

regards

Chris (with Tony Housman and Ian Shepherd)

Chris Grimshaw · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2012 4:17 pm

Visited Gib before Hurricane Isaac arrived about lunchtime hotfoot from America. Ed Mackrill had warned the weather was about to change for the worse and it did!
Still before it did it had been a good morning
Saw
3 spoonbill
1 marsh harrier
1 pectoral sandpiper
1 little stint
1 spotted sandpiper
1 ruff
78 black tailed godwit
12 avocet
1 dunlin
1 ringed plover
100+ curlew
5 greenshank
6 snipe
3 common sandpiper
3 green sandpiper plus 2 more at a very cold Fiskerton Fen on the way home
1 little egret plus 2 more at FF
lots of swallow perhaps 200
didn't get down to the sea due to the horizontal rain
whooper still at FF

Freddy Johnson · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2012 5:47 pm

Chris,

Was that really a spotted sandpiper or really a spotted redshank ?

Freddy

Chris Grimshaw · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2012 6:33 pm

spotted redshank - fingers sometimes are like my mouth - fail to work as the brain tells them to

Richard Doan · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:17 pm

30.08.12

Seawatch from 17:00 - 19:00
Manx Shearwater 2 (S)
Kittiwake 21 (N)
Gannet 17 (N)
Great Skua 2 (S)
Arctic Skua 21 (18 S)
Guillemot 9

Other bits around the reserve
Marsh Harrier 2 (Pair of adults from Wash Viewpoint at dawn)
Golden Plover 50
Redstart 1 (Stonking adult male)
Short-eared Owl 1
Wheatear 2
Swift 8 (S)
Swallow 174 (S)
Spoonbill 6+ early morning
Yellow Wagtail 28 (S)

Cheers,

Richard

Roy Harvey · **Joined:** Thu Dec 30, 2004 10:23 pm **Posts:** 956

Has anyone been able to get a picture of the Pectoral Sandpiper at Gib.?
I should be grateful for any shot that shows what the bird is.

Thanks

Roy
roy.harvey100@btinternet.com

Edmund Mackrill · **Posted:** Fri Aug 31, 2012 7:48 pm

Hi Roy - What do you mean?
{I should be grateful for any shot that shows what the bird is}

James Siddle · **Joined:** Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:40 am **Posts:** 289

Hi Roy

I managed a few record shots when I found the bird and will include them with the description (which is already written).

James

Anthony Bentley · **Posted:** Fri Aug 31, 2012 10:02 pm

Is the Pec Sand still around today? Possibly going tomorrow. Also where is the best place to seawatch at Gib?

Matthew Strahan · **Posted:** Fri Aug 31, 2012 11:23 pm

The Pec Sand is still there Anthony on the Tennysons Sands complex of lagoons, or it was when I left at 1920pm this evening. Dont know how well you know Gib, I dont know it well at all but here are a few directions:if you park at the South end of Beach Car Park, cross over the road, go through the access point in the hedge line, turn left and then the next right, that will lead you to the Hide from where i saw the bird this evening looking left towards Jacksons Marsh. Think its called the Fenella Hope hide...? Not sure. Anyway, the bird was favouring a drying up muddy depression, not in the main pools.
Also seen:
6 x Spoonbills
22 x Greenshank
2 x Spotted Redshank
7 x Little Egret
2 x Dunlin
1 x Pintail
66 x Black Tailed Godwits
4 x Common Snipe.
Cheers,
Matthew.

Roy Harvey · **Joined:** Thu Dec 30, 2004 10:23 pm **Posts:** 956

Thanks James, had not realised that you found the bird.
As you know, a picture of a 'description species' always makes the task of the LBC Rarities Committee
that much easier!
Thanks also to Chris and Les for proving photo's.

Regards

Roy

The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Gib Point 29/08/12

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