The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Little Auks at Gib Pt yesterday and Rimac today plus the handsome Hooded Crow at Rimac mean that my Low Carbon Green BOU list has finally reached 230 species.
Three members of the Green 200 club were at Rimac today hopefully scanning the sea for new Green ticks as a touch of excitement and suspense enter the arena for I am reliably informed that there are three Green listers now on 203,203 and 202. Watch this space!!!

Do Hooded Crows come this far south, then?

Yes - or this far West if they are continental. Though they are nowhere near as regular as they used to be. The odd bird still turns up on the Lincs coast associating with the Carrion Crows that winter along the dunes and beach. Today there were in excess of 200 Carrion Crows on Rimac beach.

Also in the area:

Snow Buntings 3 right next the sea at Churchill Lane
Purple Sandpiper 1 at the Haven mouth Rimac
Merlin 1 salt marsh
some quite tame Knot for those of you with big lenses.

Adi

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Coincidently, I was watching a lone lost Carrion Crow amongst Hooded Crows last week up in Kilchoan on Ardnamurchan on Scotland's West Coast - like this one at Rimac, rather unusual these days and the first I've seen there in 5 yrs regular birding.

Also a single lapland bunting overhead as we watched the hooded crow and 2 water pipits have been seen in the Rimac foreshore, another 5 whooper swans south , and yet more small flocks of siskins, John.