The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Great start to the New Year spending all day at Gib. Total of 76 sp recorded with the following highlights:

Rough-legged Buzzard, seen on 3 occasions up to 1030 all in the East Dunes
Common Buzzard 1S
Marsh Harrier 1S
Whooper Swan 3S
Waxwing 6S
Snow Bunting 5 Millenium Ridge
Purple Sandpiper 1 Millenium Ridge
Brambling 3
Treecreeper 1
R B Merg 1
Corn Bunting 8

Happy New Year to all

Nige

Snow Bunting A brief visit during the early afternoon produced a small group of 9 flying over the CP near the visitor centre followed by an abrupt descent skim a few metres before settling. Flying off again did not give me much time to scan them in detail but two birds had white under-parts and a large amount of white in the wings and tail which suggests adult males. The remaining 7 appeared to have white much more obscurred by rusty brown on head/chest with a warm brown mottled back and may well have been 1st year birds/females.

A great start to 2013


Kind regards


George