The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Frampton 29/03/2016 in 2.5 hours this morning

It certainly didn't feel like spring....

No accurate counts, but just to give an idea....and all added to birdtrack...

Mute Swan 6+
Greylag Goose 8
Canada Goose 8
Barnacle Goose 2 - Feral Birds....
Brent Goose (Dark-bellied) 377 (four different flocks on the salt marsh)
Shelduck 39
Wigeon 300+
Gadwall 8
Teal 110+
Mallard 24
Pintail 2
Shoveler 4
Pochard 8
Tufted Duck 20
Red-breasted Merganser 2 (Two males flew up the Witham towards Boston at high tide)
Pheasant 2
Little Egret 7
Great Crested Grebe 2
Moorhen 2
Coot 2
Avocet 78 (numbers building up....)
Oystercatcher 5
Golden Plover 4
Lapwing 60
Little Ringed Plover 1 (single bird in corner behind East hide - my first of the year)
Ringed Plover 8
Curlew 15
Turnstone 2 (near east hide at high tide)
Ruff 10+
Dunlin 73
Spotted Redshank 2 - When do they start a spring moult????
Black-headed Gull 150
Lesser Black-backed Gull 2
Herring Gull 2
Woodpigeon 1
Peregrine 1 (over wet garssland)
Magpie 1
Carrion Crow 2
Skylark 6
Sand Martin 3 (over reedbed, my first of the year)
Starling 65
Robin 1
Dunnock 1
Pied Wagtail 3
Meadow Pipit 2
Chaffinch
Greenfinch
Linnet 5
Yellowhammer
Reed Bunting

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