The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Pretty quiet as all fresh water bodies mostly frozen.
Pink-footed Goose - c800 these birds have been feeding on potato tailings just across the river for more than 2 weeks now.
Goosander - 2 flocks this afternoon of 26 and 46 birds respectively. The 26 flew S along the waters edge whilst the 46 flew directly inland over Mill Hill.
Iceland Gull - 1 1st w.
Yellow-legged Herring Gull - 1 ad
Shorelark - 11 This flock has now been around for at least 2 weeks
Snow Bunting - 35
Skua sp - looked a bit small for Pom?
Lapland bunting 2
Lapwing - small flocks in off the sea all pm
Herring Gull - 1000+ on the beach mostly argenteus but some argentatus and at least 2 darker backed birds grading towards LBB gull - interesting.
Barnacle Goose - 2
Plus various ducks on the sea - Eider,Wigeon,Scoter, RB Merg etc

with Rob Watson and John Shaugnessy

Another 5 Goosander went south along the tide line late pm. 4M and 1F.
Only about 300 Common Scoter seen offshore with 90% being 1W/Female types

Regards

Nige

In addition......

Woodcock 2
Water Rail 5
Velvet Scoter 4 (JS)
Waxwing 11 (Kev)

Rob

That is a massive count of goosander for Gib !! (previous record was 20 )- would be interesting to know if these are birds moving from frozen waterbodies inland or whether they are new in from Europe.

Kev

Interestingly the flock of 46 Goosander contained only 1 ad male whilst the flock of 26 had 4 ad males.

Even quieter today - the Shorelarks and Snow Buntings still present.
Also 2 Taiga Bean Geese and 32 Barnacle Geese with the Pinkfeet flock.