The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Collingham Old Pits & River Trent: 16.10 - 17.00ish

Cuckoo - 1 [heard and seen]
Corn Bunting - 2
Grasshopper Warbler - [Dave heard and saw one and Pete heard two]
Common Tern - 2
Cormorant - 10
Hirundines

Collingham New Pits: 17.45 - 19.45

Turtle Dove - 2 [over]
Dunlin - 13
LRP's
Shelduck - 5
Yellow Wag - 2
Grey Wag - 1
Gadwall - 1
Shoveler - 1
Hirundines

We were told by a birder in the lane that the Temmincks Stint had been seen one hour before we got there. The luck of the draw! A few other birders were there when we left, so maybe...

with Dave and Pete Johnson

Cheers

I last saw the stints at 1600hrs.They were to the left of the central earth ridge not far from a large odd boulder.they were settled/roosting having been feeding/probing busily.
Even though @300yrds away I thought only one bird showed lighter legs.Both showed a large grey nape...different from the little stint I GRIPPED on at norton

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Viking says Keep Ahaad

Hi Ericmd,

If we hadn't taken so many wrong routes in the village trying to find the exact place we would have been there about the time you were!

Never mind eh.

It is a faff finding a way through those backstreets.I remember having a face off with another motor on one of the one-track roads...he alofted from his vehicle and I backed off......he was ex england rugger fullback Dusty Hare!a big lad!
I wlked further along the quarry road to view the largwer lake behind Besthorpe reserve and saw a bar-tailed godwit roosting with shelduck.3 turtle doves on the resrve island too.
things can only get better

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Viking says Keep Ahaad