The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Both Manby Flashes and the adjacent Levee Doors have plenty of mud at the present. At Levee Doors this evening were 8 Green Sands and a Redshank. Manby held 2 Green Sands, 1 Black-tailed Godwit and a Greenshank.
Geoff

Today there were 22 Green Sandpiper (21 LD's, 1 M). I would be interested to hear if there is a better count in the county or indeed the country.
Also today there were 2 Greenshank and 4 Dunlin on Manby Flashes.
26 Grey Heron and 5 Little Egret were also a good count for here.

Evening visit today, there was a minimum of 35 Green Sandpiper (33 LD's and 10 Manby), 2 Snipe (1 LD's and 1 M). Most of the birds were at Manby which included, 1 Wood Sand. 7 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Garganey, several Teal, 4 Common Tern including 1 juvenile and still at least 10 juvenile Shelduck and 1 Little Egret. There were 89 Lapwing at LD's.
Geoff

Another evening visit today.
Manby Flashes, 1 Little Egret, 1 Garganey, 1 Dunlin, 20 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Wood Sandpiper and 4 Green Sandpiper.
Levee Doors, 28 Green Sandpiper so a total of 32 altogether (no disturbance tonight), 4 Snipe and 1 Greenshank.
Geoff

I had hopes that the thunderstorm would have brought something in but no. There was a total of 31 Green Sands (7 Manby, 24 Levee Doors), 1 Wood Sand and 4 Snipe still and there were ca. 18 Black-tailed Godwit. Phil Espin had the Garganey earlier.
Geoff

Tonights totals, 3 Snipe, 38 Black-tailed Godwit, 37 Green Sands, 2 Wood Sands, 1 Greenshank, 1 Dunlin.
Geoff.

A remarkable count of Green Sandpipers Geoff but surprised that there are no Common Sands amongst them, there being quite a lot in some areas with Neil Drinkall reporting about 30 Common Sands sat on one log at Trent Falls last week.

Roy

Common Sands don't seem to like this place much, although I have seen one or two at times. I see there were 8 reported in the log this morning but suspect they were actually Green Sands. I visited Frampton Marsh this morning and only saw 2 Common Sands there.
Saltfleet Haven can be good for passage Common Sands with up to a dozen birds.
It appears that Manby and Levee Doors are the Green Sand capitol of the country, the highest count ever recorded in the West Mids was 34 at Brandon Marsh, Warks. in July 1993. I believe Norfolk has had some high counts over the years though.
Geoff

Morning and evening visits, I find the evenings are best for counts of Green Sands and tonight the number had increased again to 42 (no Common Sands). New in were 2 Golden Plover and a juvenile Redshank, also seen were 27 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Snipe, 2 Wood Sand, 4 Greenshank, 3 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher and 2 Bullfinch.
Geoff

Two visits today, 38 Green Sands, 3 Wood Sands, 1 Common Sand, 6 Snipe, 15 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Greenshank, 1 juvenile Redshank, 2 Little Egret, 1 Common Tern and a Sparrowhawk.
Geoff

This morning at Levee Doors there were 23 Green Sandpipers, 2 Wood Sandpipers, 2 Black-tailed Godwit and 2 Snipe. At Manby Flashes, 1 Greenshank, 17 Black-tailed Godwit, 7 Green Sandpipers, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Little Egret and 3 Grey Heron.
I will be away for a week or two so if anyone wants to carry on the counts, please do.
Geoff

Evening visit and my first visit since the 4/8. Levee Doors is nearly dry and numbers of Green Sandpipers had gone down, however Manby Flashes still looks good.
Over the two areas were 3 Snipe, 12 Green Sandpiper, 35 Black-tailed Godwit, 7 Ruff, 83 Teal, 2 Shoveler, 1 juvenile Shelduck, 1 Buzzard, 1 Sparrowhawk and 200-300 Swallow dropped in briefly.
Geoff

Today at both places were 2 juvenile Shelduck, 10 Shoveler, 1 Little Egret, 1 juvenile Marsh Harrier interacting with a Buzzard, 23 Ruff, 31 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Spotted Redshank, 1 Greenshank, 9 Green Sandpiper, 1 adult and 1 juvenile LRP and 1 Snipe.
Geoff