The Lincolnshire Bird Club

17th July 2015
Decided to do a bird race on the reserve yesterday. All three harriers seen and epic numbers of terns at dawn. List in order of birds seen.

Little Tern 200 (On/out of The Wash at dawn)
Sandwich Tern 5500 (On/out of The Wash at dawn)
Black-headed Gull 500
Redshank 403(13 south)
Oystercatcher 343(43 south)
Skylark 15
Cormorant 4
Herring Gull 100
Ringed Plover 14
Grey Plover 8
Dunlin 352(102 south)
Common Gull 30
Whimbrel 221(206 south)
Common Tern 100
Meadow Pipit 20
Shelduck 150
Black-tailed Godwit 76(33 south)
Great Black-backed Gull 20
Eider 13(1 south)
Arctic Tern 2
Mallard 40
Ruff 2(1 south)
Greenshank 16
Common Scoter 52 south
Swift 2248 south
Knot 2237(1136 south)
Teal 20
Sanderling 300
Wood Pigeon 150
Starling 150
Pheasant 2
Barn Owl 1
Kestrel 3
Gannet 32 south
Guillemot 1
Pied Wagtail 5
Yellow Wagtail 6
Swallow 14
Little Egret 15
Bar-tailed Godwit 2
Lesser Black-backed Gull 15 south
Turnstone 6(5 south)
Carrion Crow 1
Whitethroat 30
Lesser Whitethroat 1
Dunnock 5
Wren 15
Robin 8
Blue Tit 5
Chaffinch 10
Great Tit 15
Blackbird 4
HEN HARRIER 1 (second calendar year)
Blackcap 7
Jackdaw 50
Common Buzzard 1
Lapwing 3
Magpie 4
Long-tailed Tit 4
Chiffchaff 6
Green Woodpecker 1
Grey Heron 1
Common Sandpiper 1
Avocet 42
Stock Dove 2
Coot 30
House Martin 50
Tufted Duck 3
Green Sandpiper 1
SPOONBILL 10
Moorhen 13
Gadwall 15
Canada Goose 50
Greylag Goose 20
Sand Martin 153 south
Linnet 15
Greenfinch 10
Pink-footed Goose 1
Spotted Redshank 2
Little Grebe 15
Great Crested Grebe 1
Golden Plover 5(4 south)
Mediterranean Gull 2 adults
Reed Warbler 1
Sedge Warbler 2
Bullfinch 1
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
Song Thrush 1
Mute Swan 2+4 cygnets
Yellowhammer 1
Marsh Harrier 1
MONTAGU'S HARRIER 2 ringtails(1 south down East Dunes)
Reed Bunting 1
Treecreeper 1
Siskin 2
Turtle Dove 3
Manx Shearwater 1 south
Hobby 1 south
Little Gull 2ads north

Missed a few things too: Little Ringed Plover, Coal Tit, Shoveler, Willow Warbler(scarce at Gib nowadays), Grey Partridge and Sparrowhawk.

Cheers,

Richard

Well done Richard - an impressive list!

Roy

Inspirational as always Richard, the benchmark for day-listing!!!

Regards,

Ben

Only got 54 species when I had my had my first outing in over three weeks. But then again at 04:30 the time Richard started I still had four hours left in bed
sandwich tern 66
little tern 4
common tern 13
curlew sanpiper 3
marsh harrier 1
kestrel 2
black-tailed godwit c100
avocet c54
turnstone 7
dunlin 62
sanderling 3
common sandpiper 2
curlew 18
greenshank 26
ringed plover 8
redshank 71
oystercatcher 7
spoonbill 7
cormorant 7
swift 46
swallow 26
house martin 12
little egret 33
grey heron 2
linnet 1
teal 15
mallard c60
magpie 3
meadow pipit 3
skylark 1
moorhen 16
coot 12
wren 3
chiffchaff 1
pink-footed goose 1
mute swan 1
great crested grebe 2
little grebe 3
wigeon 4
corn bunting 1
pied wagtail 2
canada goose 32
black-headed gull c150
wood pigeon c30
tufted duck 16
shelduck 5
chaffinch 4
dunnock 2
goldfinch 6
robin 1
lesser blk-bkd gull
common gull
herring gull
great blk-bkd gull

Top work Richard, (and Chris).

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George Rutter

Great day of birds for you, well done.