REPORTED: Buff-breasted Sand at RSPB Frampton 29th Sept 2013

Andrew Chick · **Posted:** Sun Sep 29, 2013 2:49 pm

Katherine Birkett · **Posted:** Sun Sep 29, 2013 5:13 pm

Hope it lingers on until Tuesday!

Andrew Chick · **Posted:** Sun Sep 29, 2013 8:08 pm

Paul Sullivan has posted an image on twitter of the Buff-breasted sandpiper at Frampton this afternoon http://pic.twitter.com/qswm4ka13g

John Badley · **Posted:** Sun Sep 29, 2013 8:10 pm

Great find by Brian Stone from Peterborough.

It was associating with a mobile flock of about 15 ruff on the grassland opposite the Visitor Centre and on the Marsh Farm reservoir.

Park in the VC car park. Walk left out of the car park and follow the road you came in on for 100m, then turn left onto the footpath that runs through the hedgerow. Follow this until you come out at a single lane track, then bear left. The track then turns 90 degrees left and heads towards a barn with Marsh Farm reservoir on your right. The bird was either feeding in the grassland on the left of the track or resting on the reservoir.

Also about today two little stints and two curlew sandpipers.

A record 29 species of wader were recorded in September!

Cheers,

John

Andrew Chick · **Posted:** Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:15 am

Reported still present this morning....

Andrew Chick · **Posted:** Tue Oct 01, 2013 10:31 am

Reported still present on 1st Oct

Jonathan Savory · **Posted:** Tue Oct 01, 2013 11:33 am

Good view from near the mound 0930 today (raised area where the path to the hides goes North East from the road. As usual flying with about 12 ruff so if you see these birds you may be lucky. They mostly frequent the wet grassland between the mound and the reservoir South West of there.

Also 5 little stints and 1 curlew sandpiper on the scrapes.

Jonathan Savory

Katherine Birkett · **Posted:** Tue Oct 01, 2013 5:59 pm

Went for it this afternoon - couldn't find it! It had flown on to the scrapes from the grassland/reservoir, and when I arrived at the small gathering of telescopes & birders, there was some discussion as to whether or not a very distant bird was the Buff-breasted, or a female Ruff. After waiting 15-20 mins for a clearer/closer look, the group dissipated and went their separate ways. A full car park on arrival became vacant by circa 16:00.

As Berk from the Trap Door might say, "Oh, GLOBBITS!" #-o

Katherine Birkett · **Posted:** Tue Oct 01, 2013 6:12 pm

Report on BirdGuides saying that the bird has relocated back to the reservoir. Desperately trying to persuade Dad (who is short on time tomorrow) to take me on a repeat visit!

Daniel Newton · **Posted:** Tue Oct 01, 2013 8:53 pm

Bird was still on the reserve this evening - still moving about with the highly mobile flock of Ruff. The group briefly dropped onto the south scrape shortly after 18:00, staying no more than four or five minutes before heading back out over the grassland.

We stayed in pretty much the same spot until around 19:00 but didn't pick them up again after that above sighting. I'll keep my fingers crossed that you find it tomorrow, Katherine.

Other highlights this evening were a striking male Sparrowhawk sat out on a scrape and a Kingfisher flitting across the access road and into the drain that runs between it and the grassland.

Katherine Birkett · **Posted:** Sat Oct 05, 2013 6:10 pm

Still there!

John Badley · **Posted:** Mon Oct 07, 2013 2:07 pm

Although it appears to have gone walkabout for a while on Sunday it was seen on South Scrape in the evening in company of a Pectoral Sandpiper (Frampton's sixth this year I think). The Pec was still present today at lunchtime.

Cheers,

John

The Lincolnshire Bird Club

REPORTED: Buff-breasted Sand at RSPB Frampton 29th Sept 2013

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