The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Todays Highlights:

Jack Snipe 1
Coal Tit 1
Merlin 1
Woodcock 2
Siskin 7
Redpoll 2
Sooty Shearwater 1 (JPS)
Bullfinch 1 (JPS)
Curlew 243
Mistle Thrush 1 (In song)
Little Egret 9

Cheers,

Richard

Black brant today (8th) - same bird as reported previously with 480 brent

Kev

Kevin,
I've posted pictur I took at tennysons . Is this the black brant or just some mixture please ?

Hi Les

The two birds in the photo seem to be dark bellied Brents but show light and dark ends of the range.
The bird I reported yesterday may be an integrade black brant with dark bellied Brent. It looks superficially like a black brant though but the collar is not complete at the front and the belly and upper parts maybe not dark enough.

However, in the flock today, there was a pure black brant probably new in today. Also new in were two pale bellied Brent's and another bird resembling pale bellied Brent at distance but could have been a remarkably pale dark bellied Brent, an integrade or maybe even verging on the

Kev

Couldn't spot any black brant from Tennysons this morning among the 400 or so brent geese
1 pintail was the highlight on the water
flyover pink footed geese 29
bearded tit 2
shoveler 10
tufted duck 24
teal 100
gadwall 2
pochard 1 pair
mute swan 2
little grebe 2
shelduck 20
golden plover c300
turnstone 9
curlew 116
snipe 3
goldeneye 4 (1drake & 3 females on the Mere)
woodcock 1
skylark 14
rock pipit 2
oystercatcher 82
redshank 44
bar tailed godwit 3
black tailed godwit 20
common scoter c70
knot 56
moorhen 6
coot 16