The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Highlights today:
1 White rumped sandpiper on reed bed.
15 Curlew sandpipers - reed bed and scrapes
2000 Black tailed godwits
50 Dunlin
10 Red Knot
1 Snipe
4 Green Sandpipers
1 Golden Plover and 1 Grey Plover
5 Whimbrel on riverside
Turtle dove and Black cap song.

Cheers Jonathan

White-rumped Sandpiper still giving decent views this evening. Other big highlight were four Wood Sandpipers feeding together on South Scrape near road at 1900 approx. (with Ian Ellis):-

Black-tailed Godwit x c750
Dunlin x c300
White-rumped Sandpiper x 1
Wood Sandpiper x 4
Green Sandpiper x 9
Common Sandpiper x 3
Curlew Sandpiper x 6
Knot x 3
Spotted Redshank x 1
Greenshank x 1
Turnstone x 1
Whimbrel x 1
Snipe x 2
Golden Plover x 21 (over)
Grey Plover x 4
Ringed Plover x 2
Little Ringed Plover x 1
Ruff x 11

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Patch YTD: 155

Hi,

The White-rumped Sandpiper is still on the Reedbed today, viewable from/near the Visitor Centre.

John

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or is it? -- anyone coming up with an identifiable photo yet?

Now being reported on BirdGuides as Bairds...

John

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There is a video on You Tube, Bairds Sand at Frampton Marsh.

Bird was half hidden on far side of an island half way between the visitor centre and the path to 360/Reedbed Hides. (Lower body was below the lip of the island)
The consensus when I left was that this was indeed a Baird's Sandpiper but the the debate was whether or not this bird was in addition to the white-rumped or whether that bird had been misidentified
The Baird's was stubborn in moving from its hiding place (mid-afternoon) making a detailed description difficult. Hopefully that will be forthcoming