The Lincolnshire Bird Club

The prolonged north-easterly winds have been bringing in Scandinanvian migrants throughout the past 24 hours, these include:

Fieldfare 3000+
Redwing 2000+
Blackbird 500+
Song Thrush 23
Mistle Thrush 4
Ring Ouzel 20
Brambling 147
Woodcock 2
Black Redstart 6 (A group of 5 at the shorebird hut, which included 2 stonking adult males)
Snow Bunting 1

With continuous north-easterly winds and fog forecasted for the next 24 hours there could be even more tomorrow!

Cheers,

Richard

221012 0700 to 1600

What a great day! It was quite evident at first light that there was a major fall of Thrushes and it continued nearly all day. I covered the East side of the reserve from The Ring (briefly) up to the North east corner of Measure’s near the Golf Course, taking in Mead’s, Shoveler’s and a small bit of Measure’s. The count of Thrushes relates just to this area and does not include unseen fly over birds or the west side of the reserve

Grounded thrush flocks included 130 Redwing and 60 Fieldfare on Golf Course adjacent to Measure’s. 300 Redwing and 300 Fieldfare on Freshwater Marsh and 140 Redwing in Army Swaithe. Total day count was
Fieldfare 2490
Redwing 1810

Also of note were a total of 68 Brambling. A flock of 42 (including at least a dozen cracking males) landed in a Hawthorn bush north of North building early on. Other flocks of 6, 6 and 4 with the rest fly overs.

Other totals were

Blackbird 210
Song Thrush 80
Mistle Thrush 4
Ring Ouzel 4 (at least)
Goldcrest 38
Chiffchaff 2
Robin 60
Black Redstart (male in bottom of Hawthorn bush north of North Building) I hear RD had 5 together near the Tern Hut but they must have moved on as I couldn’t find them.
Woodcock 2
Swallow 10S

The only thing missing was a Pallas’s, Radde’s or RFBT but there is always tomorrow!!

Nige