The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Three hours at Huttoft Car Terrace this morning seawatching.
Highlights were:
Leach's Storm Petrel - 1 north
Grey Phalarope - 1 north
Also seen:
Sooty Shearwater - more than 50 with some very close birds. But passage both north and south and counting difficult
Manx Shearwater - 4 at least
Bonxie - 10+
Pomarine Skua - 10+ all juvs
Arctic Skua - 7
Auks - Don't remember ever seeing so many. Hundreds from close in to very distant. Mostly Guillemots when ID possible but at least 7 Razorbills
GN Diver -1
RT Diver - 20+
Eider - 2
Common Scoter - a few small groups.
Little Gull - 2 juvs
Gannet - more than a thousand probably but did not attempt a count.

I had very similar counts to Eds from Mablethorpe dunes car park I can add 1 velvet scoter
but did not see the phalarope, ( 0650 to 0930 hrs ) , I counted 37 sooty shearwaters north but did
not count south bounds which were always further out GN diver fairly close in giving good views
as was 2 manx shears with the high tide at base of dunes.

shared a walk at Legbourne wood later with Pete Childs 1 party of 7 redwing over and a flock of c 40 either song thrush or redwing
also over but only brief views and birds not calling, strong northerly well into afternoon..

regards John

In contrast Freiston could only muster 1 pom, 1 arctic skua, 1 auk and a few hundred gannets. Only stayed an hour or so tagged onto end of Webs. 7300 Black-tailed godwits on the res was a good count. Returned in afternoon for yb warbler.

I forgot to mention my first seawatch Short-eared Owl of the autumn which came inshore from over the horizon.
Also twenty or so Sandwich Terns.

Highlights from Gib today.

Sea watch from Mill Hill 0700 to 1200 and 1430 to 1745. Other records from Plantation. Dipped on the Petrel and the Phalarope obviously!

Pink-footed Goose 55S
Teal 24S
Eider 10S
Red-throated Diver 42 (30S and 12N)
Manx Shearwater 3N
Cormorant 28
Grey Heron 2 in/off
Pomarine Skua 1 juv N
Long-tailed Skua 3 juvs N
Puffin 1S
Unidentified auk 65
Common Tern 2N
Common/Arctic Tern 4N
Merlin 2
Yellow-browed Warbler 7 (3 Mill Hill, 2 Plantation and 2 between Beach Car Park and Syke’s Farm. Not quite 18 James! Good effort!)
Blackcap 5
Ring Ouzel 2 (1 East dunes and 1 Plantation)
Song Thrush 6
Mistle Thrush 1
Stonechat 2 Main car park
Grey Wagtail 1S
Brambling 8
Wigeon 52 (26S and 26N)
Tufted Duck 1N
Common Scoter 104N
Sooty Shearwater 36 (35N and 1S. Unusual to see Sooties going south!)
Gannet (1500). All over the place all day. I stopped counting after 2 hours when I had logged 297. Passage all day a conservative estimate of 1500
Arctic Skua 8N
Great Skua 14N
Guillemot 2N
Sandwich Tern 51
Arctic Tern 4N
Kittiwake 9 adults N
Kestrel 2
Peregrine 1
Chiffchaff 4
Garden Warbler 1
Redwing 20
Wheatear 1
Tree Sparrow 2
Siskin 5

Regards

Nige