Lincolnshire Bird News - April 2020

30/04/2020
Alkborough
Ring Ouzel
Huttoft
13 Yellow Wagtail, 51 Whimbrel

29/04/2020
Barton Pits
2 Sanderling, Arctic Tern, Little Tern, Whimbrel
Toft Newton Reservoir
Hobby
Snipe Dales
Great White Egret

28/04/2020
Barton Pits
Ring Ouzel
Pyewipe, Grimsby
Glaucous Gull
Baston & Langtoft Pits
Wood Sandpiper
Wainfleet
12 Avocet, Hobby, 6 Sand Martin, 4 Little-ringed Plover, Wood Sandpiper, 30 Swallow, Yellow Wagtail

27/04/2020
Alvingham
Grey Wagtail
Fulbeck
3 Golden Plover
Pyewipe, Grimsby
Glaucous Gull
Healing 
70 Fieldfare
Kettleby Quarries
Grasshopper Warbler
New Holland
Common Sandpiper
Rippingale
Cuckoo
North Somercotes
Reed Warbler
Swanholme Lakes
3 Garden Warbler
Swanpool
Cuckoo 

26/04/2020
Anderby Creek
4 Buzzard, 2 Marsh Harrier, Merlin, Osprey, Short-eared Owl, Sparrowhawk
Barton Pits
Ring Ouzel
Gibraltar Point 
150 Jay in off the sea I read the post  correctly
Grantham
4 Swift
Grasby
3 Swallow
Legbourne
Hobby, Osprey
Swanpool
2 House Martin Sand Martin, 15 Swallow, 

25/04/2020
Barton Pits
Ring Ouzel
Baston & Langtoft Pits
Common Crane
Boultham Mere, Swanpool
Cuckoo,  2 Grey Partridge, Little Ringed Plover,Sedge Warbler. Common Tern 

Common Tern, Boultham Mere - Image © Andy Sims

Keelby
Buzzard, Oystercatcher, 5 Skylark, Mistle Thrush, 3 Treecreeper, Lesser Whitethroat
Walesby Moor
Grey Partridge, 5 Swallow
Toft Newton Reservoir
Blue-headed Wagtail
Temple Wood
30 Blackcap, Cuckoo, 2 Nuthatch, 4 Garden Warbler, 7 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker

24/04/2020
Anderby Creek
Richard’s Pipit
Baston & Langtoft Pits
2 Black Tern
Deeping Lakes NR
Little Gull
Huttoft
Blue-headed Wagtail, 13 Whimbrel
Lincs Coast
Grasshopper Warbler
Swanpool
Buzzard, Fieldfare, Grey Heron, Little Ringed Plover, Garden Warbler, Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, 

Buzzard over Skewbridge - Image © Chris Grimshaw

Grantham
Red Kite, Ring Ouzel, Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat
Whisby
Cuckoo, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat 

23/04/2020
Cleethorpes CP
Cetti’s Warbler, Garden Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, Sedge Warbler
Deeping Lakes NR
6 Bar-tailed Godwit
Dunston
2 Common Crane (over)
Kettleby Quarries
2 Grey Plover, Common Sandpiper, Wheatear, Common Whitethroat
Manby Wetlands
Whinchat
Hartsholme Park
3 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 9 Grey Heron
Swanpool
2 Fieldfare, 2 House Martin, 2 Grey Partridge, 4 Barn Swallow, Yellow Wagtail, Grasshopper Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 5 Whitethroat, Green Woodpecker
Toft Newton Reservoir
Black Tern., 4 Common Swift

22/04/2020
Covenham Reservoir
Wheatear
Rippingale
Little Egret, Great White Egret 

21/04/2020
Cleethorpes
2 Kingfisher
Covenham Reservoir
2 House MartinCommon Sandpiper, 20 Arctic Tern,  Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear,
Pyewipe, Grimsby
2 Little Gull, Glaucous Gull
Swanpool
Fieldfare

20/04/2020
Covenham Reservoir
19 Arctic Tern
Hartsholme Park/ Swanholme Lakes
5 Blackcap, Buzzard, 5 Chiffchaff, 5 Great Crested Grebe, 7 Grey Heron, 2 Shoveler, Willow Warbler 15 Wren
Rimac
Marsh Harrier, Ring Ouzel
Saltfleetby St Peter
Iceland Gull, 23 Arctic Tern
Swanpool
Lesser Whitethroat
Toft Newton Reservoir
2 Avocet, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, 9 Arctic Tern, 2 Wheatear,  White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail

19/04/2020
Anwick Fen 
Grasshopper Warbler
Baston & Langtoft Pits
Little Gull
West Deeping
White-tailed Eagle
Frithville 
Mediterranean Gull
Ness End Farm
Alpine Swift
Swanpool
3 Whooper Swan
Toft Newton Reservoir
4 Wheatear
Wainfleet
6 Bullfinch.9 Blackcap, 16 Chiffchaff, Little Egret, 4 Jay, 2 Song Thrush, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Yellow Wagtail

18/04/2020
Scunthorpe area
Wryneck in a private garden!!!

What a garden tick - Image © Clare Gillat

17/04/2020
Apex Pits
5 Swallow
Alkborough
4 Ring Ouzel
North Lincs Coast
Hawfinch
Frampton Marsh
Sedge Warbler
Gibraltar Point
2 Common Crane (over)
Toft Newton Reservoir
Blue-headed Wagtail
Rimac
Ring Ouzel
Whisby
Blackcap, Cuckoo, Curlew (over), Peregrine Falcon, Sand Martin, Reed Warbler, Whitethroat

16/04/2020
Grantham
2 Ring Ouzel, Common Scoter
Off-shore Skegness
Black Redstart
Swanpool
Grasshopper Warbler, Grey Partridge
Whisby
2 Whimbrel

15/04/2020
Barnetby
Ring Ouzel
Bottesford
Blackcap, Reed Bunting, Chiffchaff, 6 Collared Dove, Sparrowhawk, 3 Song Thrush
Cleethorpes CP
2 Cetti’s Warbler, 3 Grasshopper Warbler, 6 Sedge Warbler
Norton Disney
4 Common Crane
Frithville 
Black Redstart

Not a bad garden tick Black Redstart - Image © Steve Keightley

Grantham
Ring Ouzel
Pyewipe, Grimsby
Glaucous Gull
Somerby
Ring Ouzel
Swanpool 
Cuckoo, Goldeneye
North Thoresby
2 Cetti’s Warbler, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Common Whitethroat, 5 Yellowhammer

14/04/2020
Bardney
Sparrowhawk
Barnetby
Ring Ouzel
Buck Beck,  Cleethorpes
2 Swallow
Crowland 
Hen Harrier
Eagle 
Wheatear
Frampton Marsh
Corn Bunting, Barn Owl
Frithville
Blackcap, Fieldfare, Red Kite
Humberstone Fitties
Red Kite
Pyewipe, Grimsby
Glaucous Gull
Kettleby Quarries
Ring Ouzel
Scooby
2 Buzzard, 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 3 Willow Warbler
Swanpool
Common Redstart, Grasshopper Warbler

13/04/2020
Bardney
3 Jay, Green Woodpecker
Dunston
Great White Egret, Red Kite

12/04/2020
Anderby Creek
Richard’s Pipit, 2 Garganey,
Bottesford
4 Chiffchaff, Nuthatch, 2 Skylark, 2 Swallow
Boultham Mere
Little Gull
Goxhill Haven
Ring Ouzel
Howdens Pullover
Wheatear
Keelby 
Red Kite
Saltfleet Haven
Great Crested Grebe, Linnet, Common Whitethroat
Trent Port, Marton
Sedge Warbler
North Thoresby area
3 Blackcap, Linnet, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler
Swanpool
Grasshopper Warbler

11/04/2020
Anderby Creek, Barnetby, Brigg, Goxhill Haven, Kettleby Quarries, Elsham, Garthorpe, Tetney Lock 
All had Ring Ouzel present
Anderby Creek
7 Marsh Harrier, 8 Sparrowhawk, Wheatear
Barnetby
Common Redstart
Botany Bay Plantation
2 Chiffchaff
Fulbeck
2 Raven
Huttoft Marsh 
Green Woodpecker
Kettleby Quarries
2 Common Whitethroat
North Somercotes
Tree Sparrow, Swallow, 4 Wheatear
Swanpool
Ringed Plover 2 Stonechat
Toft Newton
Blue-headed Wagtail
Wainfleet
7 Avocet, 8 Blackcap, 4 Bullfinch, 23 Chiffchaff, 10 Lapwing (7 on nests), 3 House Martin, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Green Sandpiper, 15 Snipe, 5 Swallow, 4 Yellow Wagtail, Willow Warbler, 3 Yellowhammer

10/04/2020
Barton
Lesser Whitethroat
Denton
Ring-necked Parakeet
Doddington Park, Lincoln
Blackcap
Fulbeck
Willow Warbler
Grantham
Wheatear
North Thoresby
3 Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Swallow, 2 Mistle Thrush, 1 Willow Warbler
Trent Port, Marton
Blackcap, 90 Fieldfare, Yellow Wagtail, 3 Swallow, Willow Warbler
Rippingale
Lesser Black-backed Gull, Herring Gull, Raven
Saltfleet Haven 
Ring Ouzel
Scrooby Top
3 Common Tern
North Somercotes 
6 Buzzard
Swanpool, Lincoln
Oystercatcher

09/04/2020
Baston & Langtoft Pits 
Reed Warbler
Fillingham
Ring Ouzel, 2 House Martin, 3 Swallow, Yellow Wagtail
Fulbeck
Blackcap
Gibraltar Point 
Bluethroat
Huttoft
Hooded Crow, Jack Snipe
Meal Hill area
6 Ring Ouzel
Trent Port, Marton
Yellow Wagtail
Spalding
Black Redstart
Swanpool 
Common Whitethroat

08/04/2020
Deeping St James
Common Tern
Old Bolingbroke
c2 Ring Ouzel
Chapel Pit 
Firecrest, 2 Mediterranean Gulls
Grantham
2 Peregrines with 4 eggs on St Wulfram’s Church
Healing
Blackcap
Hill Holt Wood
Willow Warbler, Blackcap
Louth
Tawny Owl
North Somercotes
Hooded Crow
North Thoresby 
2 Ring Ouzel

07/04/2020
Anderby Creek
Firecrest
Baston & Langtoft Pits
Avocet, Hen Harrier, Common Whitethroat
Bottesford
5 Chiffchaff, Little Owl, Nuthatch, Redwing, 6 Skylark
Deeping High Bank
Yellow Wagtail
Grimsby
Glaucous Gull
Lincoln
Tawny Owl
Louth
Ring Ouzel, 3 Willow Warbler
Trent Port
Blackcap, Great Crested Grebe, 3 Redshank, Swallow
North Somercotes
Hooded Crow
North Thoresby
2 Blackcap, Swallow

06/04/2020
Anderby Creek
Firecrest, 4 House Martin, 4 Sand Martin, Grasshopper Warbler, 4 Swallow, Willow Warbler, Wheatear
Grimsby
Glaucous Gull, Black Redstart (in private garden)
Huttoft
Ring Ouzel
Lincoln, Doddington Park
Siskin
Manby Wetlands
2 Avocet, Buzzard, 50 Linnet, 2 Snipe, 7 Swallow, 8 Whooper Swan,
Swanholme Lakes
2 Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff
Swanpool
Shelduck

05/04/2020
Anderby Creek
Firecrest
Baston & Langtoft Pits
Sandwich Tern
Far Ings
Spoonbill
Fulbeck
Swallow
Grantham 
14 Fieldfare
Keelby
60 Pink-footed Geese
Kettleby Quarries
6 Little Ringed Plover
Lincoln
6 Chiffchaff, 7 Redwing, Sparrowhawk
Saltfleetby
Grey Phalarope 
Stamford 
25 Golden Plover (over)
Toft Newton Reservoir
Oystercatcher, Sand Martin, Willow Warbler, Wheatear

04/04/2020
Barnetby
Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Sand Martin, Little Ringed Plover
Barton
132 Whooper Swan in two flocks
Cleethorpes
2 Chiffchaff, 4 Redwing
Fishtoft
39 Whooper Swan
Fulbeck
Swallow
Grimsby
2 White-tailed Eagle. Two White-tailed Eagles from the Isle of Wight reintroduction project were tracked through the county and finished within 6 miles of each near Grimsby. Brought up together these two birds have not been together since their release
New Holland
Peregrine Falcon
Huttoft 
Willow Warbler
Louth
White-tailed Eagle
Manby Wetlands
8 Avocet, 3 Buzzard, 4 Chiffchaff, 17 Little Egret, 20 Shoveler, Whooper Swan,
Trent Port, Marton
Great White Egret
Toft Newton Reservoir
Yellow Wagtail
Swanpool
Little Ringed Plover, Water Pipit, White Wagtail

White-tailed to the East of Louth - Image © Owen Beaumont

03/04/2020
Alkborough
Swallow
Cleethorpes,
Reed Bunting, 2 Buzzard, Chiffchaff, 24 Curlew, Little Egret, Grey Heron, 6 Linnet, Sparrowhawk
Fillingham 
Common Scoter
Grantham
Bullfinch
Legbourne
Common Scoter
Lincoln
Common Scoter
Quadring
2 Common Crane (over a.m.)
Sleaford
Peregrine
Spalding
Common Scoter
Wainfleet
Common Scoter
Swanpool
3 Little Ringed Plover, White Wagtail

02/04/2020
Bottesford
Buzzard, 2 Chiffchaff, Sparrowhawk
Boultham Mere
4 Little Ringed Plover
Louth
Common Scoter
Skegness
Common Scoter

01/04/2020
Bardney
2 Great White Egret
Bottesford
Brambling, Buzzard, Kestrel, Sand Martin, Little Owl, Skylark, 2 Song Thrush
Spalding
Short-eared Owl
Swanpool
2 Little-ringed Plover, 50+Redwing

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