The Lincolnshire Bird Club

starting the ball rolling perhaps we could just add locality counts to this post;

Sutton-on-Sea 08:00 - 12:30 watching with scope -- from 13:00 standing on waters edge hoping for close Little Auks so only close birds logged;

Little Auk 62 -- one came up the beach and then flew past my shoulder missing me by about 4 feet; another in off high with a flock of Starlings; no party bigger than 6 birds; a few ditching in the surf and being swamped by the breakers
Bonxie 36 south
Pomarine Skua 19 south including one adult with full spoons
Kittiwake 680+ south
Little Gull 10
Red-throated Diver 17
Great Northern Diver one north
Eider 7 south 5 north
Common Scoter 140+
Gannet 80+ south
Red-breasted Merganser 3 north
Short-eared Owl one in off the sea dropped on the first bit of beach
Merlin 1 south
notably no Purple Sands amongst the small number of Dunlin heading north

Highlights from a dawn till dusk sea-watch at Gib today:

LITTLE AUK 94 (12S, 82N)
Kittiwake 897 (551S, 346N)
Gannet 367 (78S, 289N)
POMARINE SKUA 14 (11S single flock late morning, 3N)
Great Skua 8 S (another 2 blogging about in The Wash)
Arctic Skua 1 S
Sooty Shearwater 2 N
Little Gull 8 N
GREAT-NORTHERN DIVER 2 S
Goosander 6 S
Red-breasted Merganser 3 S
Velvet Scoter 4 N
Auk Sp 18 N
Whooper Swan 14 S
Teal 231 S
Wigeon 90 (62S)
Common Scoter 100
Great Crested Grebe 8 S
Goldeneye 3 N
Starling 1189 'in off'
Manx Shearwater 1 N
'small' Skua Sp 3N out of The Wash
Short-eared Owl 1 'in off'

YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER 1 trapped at the bird observatory mid-morning (G.Gregory)

Cheers,

Richard

After seeing reports of Little Auks along the east coast I went down to Saltfleet Haven for the afternoon high tide. 1 Little Auk landed on the haven for 5 minutes before flying off. 5 Eiders flew south, a Short-eared Owl landed on the seaward side of the marsh and on the ponds were 1 Goldeneye and a Kingfisher.
Geoff

At Donna Nook.

A one hour watch from the dunes from 1005. Due to the bombing range, the watch was over quite a distance. Moving north were 2 Little Auks, 2 Little Gulls, 2 Gannets and 5 Eiders. To the south were 16 Gannets, 3 Fulmars, 57 Kittiwakes, 5 Arctic Skuas, 2 Great Skuas, Pomarine Skua, 6 skuas sp., 5 auks sp., 4 Common Scoters, Eider, Teal and 3 Red-throated Divers.
A tired-looking Short-eared Owl was flushed from the edge of the dunes. 40 Whooper Swans and 2 Taiga Bean Geese on the fields.

On the Humber off Barton this morning at least 72 Little Auks but at least 2 taken by the local Peregrine pair and possibly others went that way.
4 female Goosander west, one Dark bellied Brent, 1 juv Gannet, 159 Teal and 100 Wigeon.
Had a report this afternoon of a Hoopoe on Waters Edge but not had chance to look for it yet: the last Barton bird was also there late Oct to Nov 2nd 1999