The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Evening all, made my near-annual late autumn peregrination to the NE Lincs coast today; tried Theddlethorpe first thing, where there was a spectacular thrush fall (gas station attraction?) but nothing better than Hen Harrier and a few Woodcock, Brambling etc., too much cover, too hard....(too lazy?). Headed for Anderby Creek and then walked north to Hutoft before returning and thrashing around the village. Fewer thrushes along the coast there but still about 200 Goldcrest, a Blackcap and 7 Woodcock. 1 Common Redpoll flushed from the seabank at Mogg's Eye and a pair of Stonechat were present in the same area, rechecking the trees around the tennis court in the afternoon many new Goldcrests seemed to have filtered in off the dunes and I felt short-changed to find a Yellow-browed Warbler there (rather than humei). As a last resort I checked the south side of the village - 'the Dell' (beware irate residents) and found a Pallas's Warbler doing feeding circuits centered on the green, last seen at about 3.10 moving onto the caravan site.

cheers

Alex

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Dr Alexander C. Lees
Lecturer in tropical ecology
Manchester Metropolitan University

Lab Associate
Cornell Lab of Ornithology,
Cornell University

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I have spent the best part of sat, sun ,mon, birding the Rimac to Brickyard Lane area of the reserve and as you note its hard work with so much cover,
The only additions i can add to other reports are 1 hawfinch on sun,
31 snipe 2 jack snipe, 5 snow buntings c 180 scoter and at least 3 velvets on mon, and c 4000 mixed thrushes hundreds of crests robins and finches,
3 chiffchaffs and 1 blackcap the only warblers seen on mon. John.

Forgot to note the 7 lapland buntings in the saltmarsh, John.