The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Started the day with a walk out to Cut End for (just after) high tide. Despite a more-than-brief flurry of snow, it turned out to be quite a nice hour or so. Highlight was a female Hen Harrier hunting over the edge of the saltmarsh as well as 31 Grey Plover, 9 Turnstone, 125+ Oystercatcher and 350+ Dunlin.

Then, after a quick change of tyres, onwards to Lincoln and, more precisely, Boultham Mere. My first visit proved to be a lucky one as within a couple of minutes of entering the hide a Bittern flew across the water and landed in the reedbed to the south. The first of two year ticks from my day; the other being a Willow Tit on the feeders:-

Bittern x 1
Goosander x 1(m) & 2(f)
Willow Tit x 1
Bullfinch x 1(m) & 1(f)
Fieldfare x 1

I would have liked to have had a walk around Swanpool woods but I was conscious that I was on a two hour parking limit. Still, it gives me something to look forward to next time!

Anyway, after inevitably taking a wrong turn and getting lost coming out of Lincoln, I finally made it back to Frampton Marsh just after four where my day was nicely capped off by a Green Woodpecker feeding slap bang in the middle of the wet grassland alongside the four long-staying White-fronted Geese.

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