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Lincs found list
As some of you know I have for several years maintained a table of Lincolnshire listers and what they have sighted in the county. If you wish to add your name please contact me by PM or email and I’ll supply you with a list to fill in. The hope is that it will encourage members to spend more time in the county rather than travelling to the avian deserts of Yorkshire and Norfolk!
Several people have suggested that I also start a Lincs FOUND list and I shall be emailing that shortly to members who I think will be interested. If you would like to be included please let me know. Again, the idea driving this is to encourage county birders to get out in the field and find their own birds.
The rules are relatively straightforward. You read through the list and place a 1 by each species you have found. So I would assume that everyone has found Mute Swan, Kestrel, Chiffchaff, Reed Bunting and so on. County rarities would need to be approved through the LBRC and national rarities by BBRC. Sometimes one person finds a bird but often birders work in tandem in which case 2-4 people may claim the find.
Relocating a bird seen on a previous date or close by, say up to 2kms away when the bird was known to be present, may not usually be claimed but when sightings of a rarer bird are separated by considerable distance and time then the second finder may rightfully claim it. Seabirds present some problems and I have no qualms about several people at different locations claiming for their list a Sabine’s Gull or similar at Donna Nook, Chapel Point and Gib Pt as it passes South.
Picking up a bird previously seen in a different part of the UK, such as flying south at Spurn, will qualify as a find even though the observer knows the bird to be a likely find if they intercept it somewhere.
For rarer birds put the location and date in the notes column at the right.
John Clarkson
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