The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Firstly some late news from 3rd Aug when a male red-backed shrike was showing well on one of the outer ridge dunes - according to a field sheet that I only saw today from John NIcholson.

For today, two wood warblers (one at Beach Car Park and the other along the south edge of the Plantation) and 5 spoonbills and the following seawatching info from Darren Matthews
most birds heading south
16xBlack Tern
223xLittle Tern
57xCommon Tern
19xCormorant
43xGannet
23xArctic Skua
3xKittiwake
247xSandwich Tern
2xManx Shearwater

Kev

223 Little Terns? that would surely be a county record by a huge margin -- the recent record at Spurn was 193 in 2008 moving south one evening (not go the exact date) associated with a big movement of Little Gulls -- it would be worth following this up for more information in a county context

That certainly is a big count, but from memory there have been some very high counts in recent years - these have generally been any time after mid June when we tend to get significant influxes of birds that have probably failed their first breeding attempt elsewhere.

Also, this spring, I recorded a pasage of birds northbound out of the Wash on one date - 120 in less than an hour - I was unable to stay and there was no-one else to follow up but that had the making of an exceptional number too.

I went down to the shore this evening to check out any evening tern movement and the juv little tern situation but got sidetracked by a white rumped sand that was mostly asleep and concealed in vegetation, then came out and showed on the mud distantly and then was lost with mobile dunlin flocks just before dusk.

Cheers

Kev

Additional little tern info - there were 127 pairs at Gib in 1927 !!

Apologies for the late posting !!

Kev