The Lincolnshire Bird Club

When the wind gets into the north in September and blows upto 30mph get over to the coast for a
Seawatch!
07:00 - 10:30
SABINES GULL - 1 juv north. I would have missed this bird - thanks to Steven Lewis ( who had popped over from Melton Mowbray for a seawatch) for the pointer!!
Sooty Shearwater - 46 north - some quite close in. Only odd ones after ten o clock.
Manx Shearwater - 22 north
Balearic Shearwater - 1 north
Bonxie - 13 south
Arctic Skua - 7 south
Pom Skua - 3 south
Black - throated Diver - 1 south
Red - throated Diver - 7 south, 5 north
Guillemot - 15 north
Brent Goose - 5 north
Kittiwake - 10 juvs north
Gannet - 100+ mostly south
Also hundreds of Teal, Wigeon and Common Scoter plus about 30 Pintail north.
And a few Sandwich and Commic Terns and assorted waders and gulls.

You did a lot better than I did Ed although I also enjoyed the fabulous spectacle. I was sea watching from the north car park: 0650-1105

Wigeon - 495 (mostly N)
Common Scoter - 342
Teal - 574 (most N)
Arctic Skua - 14 (5N 9S)
Sanderling - 99N
Kittiwake - 11N
Brent Goose - 6N
Golden Plover - 5N
Bonxie - 2N
Grey Plover - 11N
Shelduck - 5N
Sooty Shearwater - 24N
Manx Shearwater 2N
RT Diver 8S 4N
Pintail 12N
Guillemot -6N
Tufted Duck 4N
Gadwall - 3N
Knot - 79N

James

I have a very comfortable seat in the back of my Peugeot Partner and with the tail gate up I can watch without being duly bothered by the elements and have a stable platform for my scope. Perhaps I was able to take in more distant birds because of this? The horizon was always dodgy at the best of times!!
Apologies to Roger Labbet for omitting to mention that he was also with us for some time this morning.

It is always fascinating to see the birds recorded at sea from different points along the Lincs coast. I was at Mill Hill, Gib from 0630 to 1030 (KMW present most of the time too) and had the following:

Pink-footed Goose 31W
Shelduck 6N
Teal 207
Pintail 4 (2S and 2N)
Common Scoter 117
Fulmar 14N
Manx Shearwater 16N
Cormorant 108N
Grey Heron 9 (1S and 8 in/off)
Slavonian Grebe 1 drifting south offshore
Great Skua 1S
Auk sp 9
Common Tern 40
Common/Arctic Tern 12
Grey Wagtail 2S
Rock Pipit 1S
Brent Goose 6N
Wigeon 66
Mallard 5
Shoveler 3S
Red-throated Diver 15 (3N and 12S)
Sooty Shearwater 62N
Gannet 83
Great Crested Grebe 1 on sea
Arctic Skua 11 (3N and 8S)
Guillemot 4
Sandwich Tern 80
Arctic Tern 3N
Kittiwake 6N (5 ads and 1 juv)
Swallow 11N
Yellow Wagtail 3S

Along with the high tide wader fest I cannot think of a better way to spend a Saturday morning. Will be down again later this aft for more.

Regards

Nige

i was further north at spurn, must have seen over 100 sooty's this morning plus all 4 skua species and a sabs, bit wet though
terry whalin

Where did you see the Sabs Gull Terry??,i was outside the hide with Tim Jones and Adam Hutt all day and we didn't have any??.


Regards,


Steve.

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steve it was from the car park near the cafe about 10/12 of us there, i was there from 07.30 till about 14.00 it was towards mid day way out near the platform heading north. one chap had a radio someone else picked it up and radioed the info to him and about 4 of us got a very distant view, only guessing around twelve ish because we were to busy with all the passing stuff, think that 100 sooty's very conservative estimate 900 went past flamborough. we also had great northern south. the info on the gull came from down your way towards the hide. tried to get in the hide but no chance lol. take care steve

I did 2.5 hours at Mablethorpe, Trusthorpe Point this afternoon and was less lucky!

Manx Shearwater 1
Arctic Skua 6
Gannet 18
Sandwich tern 39
Common Scoter 240
Velvet Scoter 4
Guillemott 1

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