The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Picked this booklet up today on my travels,report from 1953!!,entitled;bird observatory and field research station,gib point,report for 1953,got it when i bought some other books and they chucked this in for free!!also records insects,lepidoptera etc etc,didnt know they did reports this far back,if any one has info when they started doing yearly reports id be interested to know..quick look throu reveals poss alpine swift,....
regards,
rog.

I do have these early reports and the first one for 1949 was published by the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Trust in 1950. As well as birds, the report lists butterfly occurrences and also includes a survey of vegetation. R. Wood Powell was the chairman of the Bird Observatory Committee at the time and Ted Smith was the Hon. Secretary. Other committee members were F. R. Bean, S. A. Cox, P. Lill, Dick Cornwallis and the hon. warden Lenten Ottaway. There is a foreword to the report by the great W. B. Alexander who was the chairman of the Bird Observatories Committee at the BTO.

Hi Roger,
I spent a couple of days in February at Gib. helping to check the data import from paper reports to computer that has nearly been completed. The first report we checked was 1948 - the year I was born!! If you contact Kevin Wilson he will be able to tell you exactly!!
Stuart

Hi,
Thanks everyone,
Rog.