The Lincolnshire Bird Club

1st post and off to a flyer with this one. Just had a call from my old man who was at Tetney Pools and had a BLACK STORK fly in off and circle down behind the farmhouses to the west of Tetney lock. He didn't see it land but also didn't see it come up. An hour of light left for locals to have a nosey?

Reported viewable from Tetney Pools at 20:01hrs

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Andrew Chick
Website: http://www.forktail.co.uk/

Jogged back from my evening stroll up to Raithby Lake and had a look at the eastern side of the canal from Thoresby Bridge up to Tetney Lock without success but did not have time before dark to walk to some of the best pasture fields which could hold a Black Stork. Steve Meek was looking on the other side west of the oil tanks at Tetney Lock. It will be worth a look in the morning.

A nice bonus was an Otter in the canal to the east of Tetney Lock at around 20.45.

Folk were out from 05.00 but the Black Stork was not seen at Tetney Lock this morning. Geoff Williams had it over Stonebridge heading towards the Warren at just after 10 and a number of people started looking between Rimac and North Somercotes. I was scanning the recently mowed hayfields just south of Rimac at 11.00 when I got a call from Steve Meek to say it was coming south over the dunes at Rimac.

A fine sight, it touched down briefly on the freshmarsh at Rimac and was flushed by walkers and continued to drift south. Tony Houseman and Terry West were also there. Chris Atkin was directed to Churchill Road and saw it as it flew south over Coastguard Cottages around 11.10. John Walker could not be raised on the phone.

It looked like an adult* and Terry has record shots which should show that. It appeared to continue to drift slowly south along the dunes between 50 and 100m up towards Mablethorpe and will hopefully turn up later today at Gib or Frampton.

*NB now that Terry's photos are available to look at full screen the bird was quite clearly a juvenile as Graham Catley has pointed out in a separate post