The Lincolnshire Bird Club

A football practice session in my garden with my 9 year old Son serenaded by twittering swallows and then, amongst the darting few, the shape, that shape, a swift. Dark and rigid it cut across the sky, even making a high speed low level sortie along the gutters like a roosting summer breeder. I gazed whilst the thud of leather threatened my face but I was lifted beyond care. Barton swift is back, Barton is wonderful for swift. Darkness eased in and we trudged to the back door, both smiling for different reasons.

Migrant arrival round the pits today; highlights female Redstart and male Whinchat Waters' Edge, 4+ groppers, increase to 30+ Sedge and 30+ Reed Warblers, Common Tern, 2 Greenland Wheatears and a lesser scaup type PochardxTufted hybrid displaying to female Pochards with 7 drake Pochard.

A report from a Far Ings Bird Group member this morning of a cuckoo on site and a barn owl. A grasshopper warbler along the New Pits too.