The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Decided to have a look at the high tide but arrived a little late due to a fire in a car on the Lincoln bypass
It was one of those days when you want to be in a lot of different places at the same time
The birds
Pied Wagtail 10
Barn Swallow c120
Wood Pigeon c200
Robin 4
Little Egret 31
Grey Heron 1
Mallard 100+
Western Jackdaw c150
Common Teal c130
Greylag Goose 64
Black-tailed Godwit c150
Common Redshank 117
Northern Lapwing 59
Black-headed Gull c1600
Little Grebe 13
Tufted Duck 4
Moorhen 12
Common Coot 9
Avocet 18
Dunlin c1000
Greenshank 18
Spotted Redshank 5
Sandwich Tern 62
Common Kestrel 7
Marsh Harrier 2
Gadwall 6
Lesser Black-backed Gull 7
Common Snipe 1
Reed Warbler 2
Shoveler 5
Mute Swan 2
Whinchat 4 (3 close to Mere hide and one on the fence around the workings of the new visitor centre)
Common Pheasant 7
Grey Plover c1000
Oystercatcher c1400
Bar-tailed Godwit c2500
Eurasian Curlew c100
Ringed Plover 46
Blue Tit 4
Red Knot c3000
Common Scoter 32
Common Eider 7
Red-throated Diver 1
Northern Gannet 8
Great Cormorant 18
Turnstone c80
Wood Sandpiper 1
Magpie 2
Common Starling c130
Common Chaffinch 2
Great Tit 1
Eurasian Spoonbill 1
Pink-footed Goose 2
Goldfinch 2
Great Black-back Gull 36
Common Shelduck 1
Yellow Wagtail 1

A great list Chris. However, you can call me old fashioned if you like but why do you use such terms as Western Jackdaw, Common Teal, Northern Lapwing, Common Kestrel etc. etc. Surely at Gib Point in September a Jackdaw is a Jackdaw etc. I'm not "au fait" with the current BOU titles so I'm probably out of touch - however I will continue to use the common generic names rather than these strange new titles that have appeared in recent years. Does anyone else share my views?

I tend to agree with you Stuart but I use them when I remember because I copy them directly into Bird Club Forums database which I help Colin and Sheila with

Thanks, Chris - that's fair enough!

Hi Stuart

We agree with you and Chris but the county recorders feel we should use the correct British Birds names - the list can be downloaded from http://britishbirds.co.uk/birding-resou ... irds-list/. We currently use the British Birds list of birds of the Western Palearctic 2015 and they do seem to make changes most years - usually to the taxonomic order! As you can imagine this makes work for us each year!

Regards,

C&S

C&S,
I realize the tremendous amount of data you religiously collate and publish every year and any list which helps you is fine by me. Fortunately EURING ( the governing body of European Ringing) have not adopted the British Birds list so I am quite the happy to still call a spade a spade (or a Jackdaw a Jackdaw)!!
Regards,
Stuart

Stuart

Surely you mean 'a single bladed manually operated digging instrument'

John

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Thanks, John but I think you could be more concise!!

Why don't we all try and call birds by their Latin names?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Where there is a will, there is a way....

Not such a bad idea, Alastair - I've put a fuller response in the "Chat" section.

On this rare occasion, I find myself in disagreement with Stuart.

I particularly like the term barn swallow - it's historically accurate and captures something of the charm of the bird.

Furthermore, it provides a constant reminder of the potential value of barns (which are increasingly being lost to residential conversions) as important bird habitats.

Does anyone seriously object to use of the term barn owl?

To adopt a call-a-spade-a-spade approach, as urged by Stuart, reflects a regrettably utilitiarian and unromantic attitude which does an injustice to birds and birding.

Let's make birding more appealing to the rest of the world!

So long as it is not deemed insensitive to women (and hence politically incorrect), we could start by restoring jenny wren to everyday usage.

chat section???? now that is a little vague, should we be looking at the saxicolas or the light hearted birdwatching section on the web site?