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Dave Bradbeer · **Posted:** Mon Nov 18, 2013 3:21 pm

Cleethorpes Coast LNR :- 170 Snow Bunting now present.
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Humberston :- 2ndW male Hen Harrier, 2 Peregrine loafing on outer sandbank, 1 Jack Snipe, 2 Lapland Bunting, ( first of winter for me ) seems to be very few around.
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Cleethorpes Country Park :- single drake Goosander present.
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Female Blackcap in the garden for it's sixth day, feeding on elderberries.

Anthony Bentley · **Posted:** Mon Nov 18, 2013 4:06 pm

I found a picture on a facebook group of a purple sandpiper taken at Cleethorpes over the weekend. At the wonderland end close to the North wall. The purple sandpiper also seems to have netting wrapped around it's feet

Derick Evans · **Posted:** Mon Nov 18, 2013 4:49 pm

Anthony Bentley wrote:

I found a picture on a facebook group of a purple sandpiper taken at Cleethorpes over the weekend. At the wonderland end close to the North wall. The purple sandpiper also seems to have netting wrapped around it's feet

Glad you sent the report Anthony.
A birding friend of mine out with his kids last year, late in the day in October 2012.
He told me he had seen at least 8 Purple Sands. sat on the last Groyne opposite 'Wonderland' (now a car park) before flying off along Humber.

I went next day twice and again several more times in next 2 weeks, while staying just up the road but didn't connect.
So DB. Is this area historicaly good for Purple sands mate?

Dave Bradbeer · **Posted:** Mon Nov 18, 2013 9:58 pm

We used to get one or two wintering on the small rocky area on the beach behind the football ground but not had any for two or three years, your friend having eight on the groyne is decidedly dodgy to say the least, always plenty of winter plumaged Turnstone on there though!

Graham Catley · **Joined:** Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:20 pm **Posts:** 1667

Anthony Bentley wrote:

I found a picture on a facebook group of a purple sandpiper taken at Cleethorpes over the weekend. At the wonderland end close to the North wall. The purple sandpiper also seems to have netting wrapped around it's feet

Have you got a link to the photo Anthony?

Anthony Bentley · **Posted:** Mon Nov 18, 2013 11:58 pm

It's a group on facebook so I doubt the link will work but here it is anyway

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

Derick Evans · **Posted:** Tue Nov 19, 2013 1:49 am

Dave Bradbeer wrote:

We used to get one or two wintering on the small rocky area on the beach behind the football ground but not had any for two or three years, your friend having eight on the groyne is decidedly dodgy to say the least, always plenty of winter plumaged Turnstone on there though!

Hi dave.
Don't think the sighting was dodgy Dave. Unusual maybe.
If it hadn't been someone I know very well I might also have thought of those Turnstone that as you say regularly roost on that Groyne. He said he was surprised to see them himself and that his last Purple Sand. sighting was a couple of years ago just outside Bridlington Harbour on the concrete wall.

Sorry for late reply but I Have already posted this once but it appears to have gone AWOL.

Graham Catley · **Joined:** Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:20 pm **Posts:** 1667

Anthony Bentley wrote:

It's a group on facebook so I doubt the link will work but here it is anyway

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

Cheers anthony works fine; a worrying degree of rubbish round its legs

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