The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Absolutely epic weeks birding with Col Scott! Estimates of minimum numbers seen/high day counts (including a couple of visits to Buckton);

Highlights

Red-flanked Bluetail 1
Siberian Stonechat 1
Olive-backed Pipit 1
Red-breasted Flycatcher 3
Dusky Warbler 1
Barred Warbler 1
Pallas’s Warbler 3
Yellow-browed Warbler 11
Firecrest 1
Great Grey Shrike 3
Ring Ouzel 6
Redstart 2
Jack Snipe 1
Long-eared Owl 1 ‘in off’
Short-eared Owl 7, 2 ‘in off’
Barn Owl 4
Tawny Owl 1
Brambling 11
Woodcock 3, 1 ‘in off’
Merlin 3
Peregrine 3
Yellow-legged Gull 1
Velvet Scoter 3
Barnacle Goose 6
Brent Goose 2
Arctic Skua 2
Bonxie 39
Sooty Shearwater 11
Eider 14
Grey Wagtail 3
Fieldfare 75
Redwing 300
Rock Pipit 30
Goldcrest 1500
Great Spotted Woodpecker 3, 1 ‘in-off’!

Regards,

Ben

That is a formidable list for a mere week, Ben. How many of those were lifers?

Steve.

Thanks Steve!

11 of those were new birds for me! To be fair we were birding from dawn until dusk each day, often before and after.

Cheers,

Ben

Wow that's one of the best lists I've seen from there, well done!

Regards

Max

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GETTING OLD HAS IT'S ADVANTAGES BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT THEY ARE lol

Enviable list, well done both.

Oliver

Thanks!

Obviously got very lucky with the timing of the trip. Certainly we could have added more bits to the list had we been dashing round after everything reported, though the Barred Warbler and Buckton Olive-backed Pipit were blatant twitches! We were fortunate to be in the right place at the right time when the Siberian Stonechat and the Dusky Warbler (which became very difficult soon after) were discovered per L Johnson & C Thomas, otherwise mainly tried to do our own thing.

Cheers,

Ben

Fantastic list. Im here now for a few days part time birding and my timing was not so lucky. Jealous ?? just a little but hats orf to you.