The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Hi

I’m planning a visit to Gibraltar Point next Tuesday, i have been to Gib once but that was about 27 years ago (i saw my first LRP there – i was 8 years old!). I’m also a regular reader of the Lincs Bird Forums.

Could you please post an item for me of your forum asking firstly, where are the best places to look at Gib for migrants; and secondly what the general consensus is about the recent RB Shrikes (and Wryneck – although i understand that this has now moved on) hanging around until next Tuesday?(!)

Also, as someone with very little direct knowledge of that part of the coast, what am i likely to see in terms of scarcities (and where to look), and specifically, what are the chances of catching up with Skuas, Greenshank, Wood Sand (all common birds that have so far eluded me this year)

Finally, i read an earleir post stating that there is work going on to (re)build a hide on Tennysons(?), can you please ask if this is having a detrimental effect on the numbers of birds seen in the area and am i likely to be dissapointed?

Many thanks in advance for your help.

Mike Feely mike.feely@btinternet.com

Kirkby in Ashfield

Notts

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Andrew Chick
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Hi Mike

I'm afraid the red-backed shrikes and wryneck have moved on now and I wouldnt like to predict what scarce migrants you could see next week without having an idea of the longer term weather forecast.

The buiding work at Tennyson's Sands is not disturbing the birds as much as I had expected.

Anyway, if you have a day here; worth doing the lagoons at Tennyson's Sands and Jackson's Marsh early on then getting int the dunes to check for migrants which can turn up pretty much anywhere.

The sea is always worth a look as there are good nos of sandwich terns fishing offshore, attracting skuas.

The tern roost builds up late afternoon at Greenshanks Creek - they can be watched from the west side of the creek without disturbing them and on the rising evening tide reasonable nos of waders may come up.

If you can stay til dusk, up to 2000 swallows and martins are roosting at the Mere and two barn owls are showing well here too.

Hope this helps - more detail in our annual wildlife reports obtainable form the Visitor Centre or 'where to watch birds in E Midlands'

Regards

Kev

Mike asked me to thank those that passed him information about Gib. Hopefully he had a good day today