Started off at Freiston Shore with day list, finished on 83 species, then headed over to Frampton Marsh at midday. Finished the day on 108 species. In order seen...
Collared Dove 4 (Freiston) House Sparrow 100 (Freiston) Goldfinch 10 Greenfinch 4 Linnet 80 (Freiston) Blackbird 4 Wren 3 Dunnock 10 Starling 4000 (Frampton Marsh roost) Wood Pigeon 10 Swallow 150 Carrion Crow 10 Jackdaw 20 Little Egret 50 Magpie 4 Tree Sparrow 20 (Freiston) Pheasant 2 Common Gull 1 Yellow Wagtail 10 Black-headed Gull 3000 Black-tailed Godwit 74 (Freiston Shore), 1300 (Frampton Marsh) Great Tit 10 Stock Dove 1 Whitethroat 7 Mallard 30 Mute Swan 20 Avocet 18 (Frieston res), 100 (Frampton) Turnstone 76 (Freiston high tide) Ruff 3 (Frieston res), 100 (Frampton) Common Sandpiper 7 (Freiston res) Wood Sandpiper 6 (2 Freiston, 4 Frampton) Dunlin 518 (Freiston res), 2000 (Frampton) Pied Wagtail 20 (Freiston) Skylark 3 Oystercatcher 1500 (Freiston) Corn Bunting 1 (singing at Frampton behind Reedbed) Greylag Goose 1 Common Tern 150 (Freiston, high tide) Sandwich Tern 150 (Freiston, high tide) Meadow Pipit 10 Greenshank 22 (Frieston res), 4 (Frampton) Redshank 800 (Freiston) Cormorant 30 Herring Gull 40 Lesser Black-backed Gull 2 Golden Plover 200 (Freiston), 50 (Frampton) Ringed Plover 2 Gannet 8 (Freiston) Great Black-backed Gull 10 Lapwing 40 Grey Plover 10 (Freiston) Curlew Sandpiper 1ad (Freiston res), 5 (Frampton) Curlew 60 (Freiston) Sedge Warbler 2 Bar-tailed Godwit 35 (Freiston, high tide) Chaffinch 6 Blue Tit 4 Knot 50 (Freiston) Blackcap 2 (Freiston) Sand Martin 100 (Freiston) Teal 7 (Freiston) Robin 3 Gadwall 15 Great Crested Grebe 3 Brent Goose 1 (Freiston) Reed Bunting 10 (Freiston) House Martin 4 Whimbrel 118 (Freiston, high tide) whistling everywhere and good flocks around!!! Little Tern 1 (Freiston, Saline Lagoon at high tide) Arctic Skua 3 (Freiston, high tide) 2 pale-hase & 1 dark-phase harassing sandwich terns offshore Arctic Tern 2 (Freiston, high tide) Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 Swift 4 Common Buzzard 1 (Freiston) Eider 11 (Freiston) Common Scoter 70 N (Freiston) Moorhen 4 Little Grebe 8 (Freiston) Yellowhammer 5 (3 Freiston, 2 Frampton) Song Thrush 2 Treecreeper 1 (Freiston) (Been informed that this is a first for the Frampton/Freiston recording area!!) Sparrowhawk 1 (Freiston, caught a house sparrow) Peregrine 1 adult male (Freiston) hunting dunlin on saline lagoon Kestrel 1 Shoveler 3 MARSH SANDPIPER 1!!!!!!!! (Freiston Res) present with 22 Greenshank at 1045hrs and lingered for 10-15 minutes before flying off towards the Wash. Little Ringed Plover 1 (Freiston), 20 (Frampton, many juvs) Canada Goose 40 Whooper Swan 1 Jay 4 (Frampton) Reed Warbler 20 Spotted Redshank 5 (Frampton) Coot 4 Shelduck 10 Wigeon 1 Tufted Duck 14 Snipe 22 (Frampton) Grey Heron 2 Hobby 1 adult (Frampton) hunting swift over saltmarsh Marsh Harrier 4 (adult male, adult female, 2 juv) Frampton over saltmarsh Little Stint 3 (Frampton) Spoonbill 3 (Frampton) Green Sandpiper 3 (Frampton) PECTORAL SANDPIPER 1 (Frampton) Water Rail 1 (Frampton) Cettiās Warbler 4 (Frampton) family group by VC Grey Partridge 2 (Freiston) Chiffchaff 2 (Frampton)
Cheers,
Richard
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