The Lincolnshire Bird Club

worked the farmland north off donna nook to south off the horseshoe point road
some surprises
pyes hall end
2 buzzard
marsh harrier fem/imm
kestrel
5 waxwing what a surprise near the derelict barn flying from hedgerow to the floor, feeding on the floor then back, strange !!!
8 fieldfare
5 redwing
25 chaffinch
flock linnet 20 ish
green sandpiper not seen many green sands in january before what a surprise
30 shelduck
4 teal
100 starlings
blackbirds,pheasants, mixed gulls
2 grey heron
grainthorpe end
ring tail harrier drifting towards north cotes airfield
3 flocks starling 150 birds approx
50 golden plover
male sprawk
3 flocks linnet approx 100 birds
6 wigeon
1000 wood pigeons and 20 stock doves
250 covids mostly rooks but scattered crows and a few jackdaw
2 hare
i think thats it folks, anyone else had green sand this january ??
ps another buzzard
terry whalin

Great list, Terry, - congratulations.

Re your 5 Waxwings "flying from the hedgerow to the floor, feeding on the floor then back, strange!!!"
Waxwings often fly from a hedgerow to the floor (ground) to drink, even from quite shallow puddles which can be difficult to see if the ground is uneven. Were your Waxwings perhaps doing that?
I can't think of any standard food item they would find on the ground.

Regards,

Freddy

it was a field that had been ploughed with numerous small puddles so its possible, i thought after insects, a few gnats around in the sheltered areas despite the wind also checked its 10 years since i have seen a wintering green sand. that was on a sewage farm near derby.

terry whalin

A Green Sand has wintered in Buck Beck near Toll Bar school the last couple of years, not looked so far this winter.

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Regards, DJB. http://bradderscleebirding.blogspot.co.uk/

Hi Terry, I've had 2 green sands this month, 1 on the river Lud at Louth which has held a bird in winter for the last 8 years and the other on the Great Eau at Withern which was there last year.

The BTO winter atlas shows that they winter at very low density as singletons all along the coastal marsh in drains, ditches and rivers.

Hi Terry,

The only Green Sand I have had this month was a single bird on Nocton fen on 3rd.

Most winters I see one or two on the pits and drains around Lincoln.

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Regards,

Andy.

looked in the bird report, more common than i thought, i guess its being an inland derbyshire lad and not used to it, still its a fair record on open farmland and a bird i definately did not expect to see.

terry whalin

Probably thought a White-tailed Eagle as more likely eh Terry

ok i give in lol, i have ignored my own saying, you can never say never with birds, but notice their is no report off the 4 peahens i saw, lol, the prevailing winds were not favourable, lol

terry whalin

c 180 teal on Town Eau upstream of Pyes Hall and c 130 pink foot geese south yesterday
280113 .
Barn owl boxes are beining erected 1 c 200m south Horseshoe car park and 1 c 1km nw of car park
adjacent to sea banks also 2 at Donna Nook compensatione zone, and 2 in the quad 3 area Donna nook , 4 poles each with 4 batboxes ,(2x small 2x large) on each pole have been erected to the west of the new sea bank around the compensation zone adjacent to trees and large ditch.
A plot oc c 1 acre is to be planted with a mixture of native trees and bushes extending the current tree belt.
Hopefully some better weather this summer will see the project completed.

would like to see a Gyr falcon over the foreshore Terry if you can arrange that ?
regards John.

gyr hmm that would be nice, only ever seen one near vadso north norway grey phase male and a photo to boot, hmm wondering about the 70 wrens john, was that an owl box , no seriously saw the bat boxes, new owl boxes its coming on. took no notice off phils numerous sightings off green sand at louth, he is a show off . take care folks and i shall skulk around the corners at whisby on friday probably in disguise with a false mousetach and perhaps a glass eye and a trilby

terry whalin

Careful that mousetach dosen,t bite your nose terry , could make your eyes water at an inconvenient moment.
no wrens had squeezed into a generous sized great tit box if you see a nest with 7 or 8 young you wonder how they and brooding parent fit in, but they do.
cheers John.