The Lincolnshire Bird Club

No sign of the Dartford Warbler at Gib this morning between 08.20-11.40 in bitterly cold conditions. KW has had no further reports from this afternoon, unless anyone else knows differently. Graham Hardly et al stayed a bit after this...anything to add Graham ?

Phil

Unfortuneately no Phil. Derek Pell and I stayed until about 1pm and did not see or hear of any reported sightings - we were frozen to the marrow.

We did see an distant escapee raptor with jesses - had the look of Lanner in it - but too distant. Did anyone else see this bird?

Graham Hardy & Derek Pell.

Yes I was there in the hide with you and after looking at the pictures in your book I would agree that it certainly looked like a Lanner. The poor light didn't help with identity. I couldn't see it later when I went for another look

Earlier in the morning whilst looking for the dartford I saw a hen harrier chasing what looked like a sparrowhawk but now I wonder if it was this "lanner"

Also seen in the afternoon was a merlin

Other highlights included
pintail (late afternoon back at Tennyson's
red throated diver
eider 4
goldeneye a pair
bar tailed godwit
grey plover
turnstone

All the common species kept there heads down. Didn't see a tit of any sort or robins either. For the second visit in succession I didn't see a pigeon either

Did see some carrion crow feeding on a dead common seal

Greenshank Creek has been somewhat reconfigured by the tide but am not sure when this happened. There was an awful lot of seaweed in the vicinity of the creek