January 2024
31/01/2024
Bourne
3 Bewick's Swan
Gibraltar Point
Peregrine Falcon, 2000+ Pink-footed Goose, Hen Harrier, Smew, 51 Whooper Swan, Waxwing
Hawthorpe
Hen Harrier
Marston
Hen Harrier
Paradise
Green-winged Teal
Rimac
3 Cattle Egret

30/01/2024
Cleethorpes
Water Pipit
Covenham Reservoir
Great Northern Diver (unfortunately found dead)
Frampton
Lesser Yellowlegs
Marston
Hen Harrier
Paradise
Green-winged Teal, Eurasian Teal
Rimac
Cattle Egret
Willow Tree Fen
Hen Harrier

29/01/2024
Covenham Reservoir
Great Northern Diver (re-released back on to the Reservoir)
Cradge Bank
Velvet Scoter
Culverthorpe
Great White Egret
Deeping Lakes
Glossy Ibis, Long-eared Owl
Frampton
Lesser Yellowlegs
Freiston Shore
2 Great Scaup
Gibraltar Point
5 Corn Bunting, Lapland Bunting, 25 Snow Bunting, 3 Long-tailed Duck, HH (m), 4 Shore Lark, 4 Water Pipit, Smew (rh), 51 Whooper Swan, Bearded Tit, 2 Waxwing
Huttoft
2 Short-eared Owl
Mablethorpe
Purple Sandpiper
Scunthorpe
Glossy Ibis

28/01/2024
Common Drove, Crowland
7 Corn Bunting
Cowbit Marsh
Grey Plover, 21 Turnstone, Velvet Scoter, 2 Bewick's Swan
Deeping High Bank
37 Bewick's Swan, Whooper Swan
Wilder Doddington
Great Grey Shrike
Paradise
Green-winged Teal
Scunthorpe 
Glossy Ibis (Kingsway NR)
Stanton Pit
3 Russian White-fronted Goose
Trent Port
7 Bullfinch, 3 Buzzard, Peregrine Falcon, Little Grebe, Red Kite, Stonechat, Grey Wagtail

27/01/2024
Cowbit
Grey Plover, Velvet Scoter


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Velvet Scoter at Cowbit Marsh - Image Will Bowell

Deeping Lakes
Gloosy Ibis, Long-eared Owl
Wilder Doddington
Reed Bunting, Kestrel, Great Grey Shrike
Donna Nook
100+ Twite
Frampton Marsh
Lesser Yellowlegs
Gibraltar Point
Black-throated Diver, 3 Long-tailed Duck, Great Northern Diver, 4 Red-throated Diver, 2 Raven, 115 Shoveler, 2 Stonechat, 53 Whooper Swan, 3 Waxwing, Great Spotted Woodpecker
Grantham 
Waxwing
Marston
Hen Harrier
Paradise
Green-winged Teal

26/01/2024
Barton-upon-Humber
15 Waxwing (Baysgarth Park)
Covenham Reservoir
Great Northern Diver (distressed bird netted, relieved of obstructions and taken in to care)


The Great Northern Diver rescued at Covenham Reservoir

Wilder Doddington
Great Grey Shrike
Frampton Marsh
Great White Egret, Hen Harrier, Marsh Harrier, Pintail, 3 Ringed Plover, Water Rail, Whooper Swan, Lesser Yellowlegs (129th day)
Freiston Shore
2 Greater Scaup
Mablethorpe
Purple Sandpiper
Willow Tree Fen
8 Common Crane

25/01/2024
Covenham Reservoir
Great Northern Diver (distressed), Raven, Shag
Donna Nook
200 Twite
North Somercotes
2 Mandarin
Mablethorpe
Purple Sandpiper
Rimac
5 Cattle Egret, 1000+ Pink-footed Goose (over), 2 Stonechat
Sandilands
3 Short-eared Owl

24/01/2024
Anderby Creek
Short-eared Owl
Covenham Reservoir
Great Northern Diver, Shag
Deeping High Bank
35+ Bewick's Swan, 450+ Whooper Swan
Deeping Lakes
Long-eared Owl
Cut End
5 Cattle Egret, Hen Harrier, Red-breasted Merganser
Wilder Doddington
Great Grey Shrike
Frampton Marsh
Hen Harrier (m), Lesser Yellowlegs
Gibraltar Point
Chiffchaff, Smew
Marston
Barnacle Goose, Hen Harrier, Marsh Harrier, Merlin
Pyewipe
Great Northern Diver
Twenty
6 Common Crane

23/01/2024
Boultham Mere
Pochard, Woodcock
Cress Marsh
Caspian Gull
Deeping Lakes
Glossy Ibis
Frampton
Lesser Yellowlegs
Freiston Shore
2 Greater Scaup
Gibraltar Point
55 Red-throated Diver, 2 Long-tailed Duck, 250 Eider, 10 Red-breasted Merganser, Velvet Scoter, 5 Woodcock
Grantham
2 Waxwing
Job's Lane
Smew (male)
Mablethorpe
Purple Sandpiper
Marston
Hen Harrier (male)
Trent Port
3 Bullfinch, 950 Black-headed Gull, 110 Fieldfare, 240 Common Gull, Shelduck, 2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Stonechat, 36 Teal, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker

22/01/2024
Black Bank
50 Golden Plover, 17 Mute Swan, 8 Whooper Swan
Burringham
47 Fieldfare, 100 Common Gull, 2 Kestrel, 100 Lapwing
Cleethorpes
Purple Sandpiper


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Purple Sandpiper at Cleethorpes - Image © Jim Wright


Cut End
50+ Red-throated Diver
Doddington Park
2 Siskin, 8 Lesser Redpoll, 500+ Starling (at dusk)
Dorrington Fen
Corn Bunting,100 Fieldfare, 1000 Golden Plover
Freiston Shore
8 Cattle Egret, 6000 Brent Goose. Water Pipit, 2 Greater Scaup
Frampton Marsh
8 Snow Bunting, 3 Long-tailed Duck, 4 Red Kite,150 Linnet, Barn Owl, 32 Whooper Swan, Twite, Waxwing, 4 Woodcock, Lesser Yellowlegs (car-park)

21/01/2024
Crook Bank
19 Snow Bunting
Deeping Lakes
Glossy Ibis
Gibraltar Point
Red-necked Grebe (off shore), 4 Shore Lark, Velvet Scoter (off shore)
Grantham
2 Waxwing (Princess Drive)
Mablethorpe
Purple Sandpiper
South Rauceby
Stonechat
Stanton's Pit
3 Russian White-fronted Goose
Wilder Doddington
Great Grey Shrike
Winter's Pool
2 Russian White-fronted Goose

20/01/2024
Bagmoor
Ring-necked Duck
Caenby Corner
40+ Waxwing
Cleethorpes
Purple Sandpiper
Cradge Bank
Grey Plover
Crook Bank
28 Snow Bunting
Deeping High Bank
Bewick's Swan (at last one)
Deeping Lakes
3 Cattle Egret, Glossy Ibis
Doddington Park
c2500 Starling (in to roost)
Donna Nook
100+ Twite
Frampton Marsh
2 Hen Harrier
Gibraltar Point
Puffin, Velvet Scoter
Haven Mouth
Spoonbill, Lesser Yellowlegs
Saltfleetby
Hen Harrier
Sandilands
2100 Common Gull, Marsh Harrier, 2 Short-eared Owl, 4 Whooper Swan
Wilder Doddington
2 Stonechat
Willow Tree Fen
Cattle Egret, 9 Common Crane, Peregrine Falcon, 72 Goosander, 2 Hen Harrier, Marsh Harrier, 3 Kestrel, Barn Owl, Water Rail,, Snipe, 2 Sparrowhawk, 32 Whooper Swan
Winter's Pool
Russian White-fronted Goose

19/01/2024
Alkborough
Glossy Ibis
Cleethorpes
14 Snow Bunting
Deeping High Bank
30 Goosander, Great White Egret, Marsh Harrier, Red Kite, 4 Bewick's Swan, c800 Whooper Swan in two obvious large herds and several smaller little ones. (Grid Reference (TF22726 14144), (What Three Words - (seducing.powers.riverboat)

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Bewick's Swan New Road, Deeping High Bank - Image C Andy Sims

Deeping Lakes 
2 Cattle Egret, Great White Egret, Glossy Ibis, Kingfisher, c4 Long-eared Owl, 

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Glossy Ibis at Deeping Lakes - Image © Chris Grimshaw


Frampton Marsh
Shore Lark
Gibraltar Point
8 Snow Bunting, 3 Long-tailed Duck, Hen Harrier (m), 4 Shore Lark, 8 Waxwing
Huttoft
Short-eared Owl
Rimac
3 Cattle Egret
Skegness 
Caspian Gull
Tallington Lakes
24 Goldeneye, Great Scaup
Tongue End
2 Common Crane, 3 Short-eared Owl

18/01/2024
Alkborough Flats
Glossy Ibis
Boultham Mere
2 Woodcock
Cleethorpes
Purple Sandpiper
Frampton Marsh
Peregrine Falcon, Hen Harrier, Kingfisher, 100 Linnet,. Water Rail, Stonechat,  142 Whooper Swan
Gibraltar Point
Long-tailed Duck, 3 Water Pipit, 14 Waxwing, 39 Whooper Swan
Huttoft Bank
2 Short-eared Owl
Mablethorpe
Purple Sandpiper
Sibsey
2 Waxwing
Willow Tree Fen
3 Common Crane

17/01/2024
Cleethorpes
Purple Sandpiper, 10 Curlew
Cut End
Purple Sandpiper
Deeping Lakes
Red-throated Diver, Long-tailed Duck, Cattle Egret, Fieldfare, Long-eared Owl
Donna Nook
120 Twite

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Fieldfare at Deeping Lakes - Image © Mike Weedon


Frampton Marsh
Greater Scaup, Lesser Yellowlegs
Freiston Shore
Glaucous Gull, 2 Greater Scaup
Gibraltar Point
9 Snow Bunting, Red-throated Diver, Long-tailed Duck, Slavonian Grebe, 2 Hen Harrier, 4 Shore Lark, 8 Water Pipit, Bearded Tit,  2 Waxwing, 46 Whooper Swan
Millennium Green
3 Goosander, 2 Egyptian Goose, Redwing, 5 Siskin
RAF Woodhall Spa
3 Tundra Bean Goose
Rimac
Long-tailed Duck, Cattle Egret
Sutterton
Hen Harrier
Wilder Doddington
Goldfinch, Kestrel, Linnet, Redwing, Yellowhammer

16/01/2024
Covenham Reservoir
Great Northern Diver
Cowbit
Long-tailed Duck, Turnstone
Deeping High Bank
Short-eared Owl, 22 Bewick's Swan
Deeping Lakes
Red-throated Diver, 3 Cattle Egret, Glossy Ibis, 4 Long-eared Owl, 2 Bewick's Swan
Donna Nook
100 Twite
Elm House Farm
460 Pink-footed Goose
Fishtoft
3 Cattle Egret
Gibraltar Point
9 Water Pipit
Hartsholme Park
Goosander, 7 Grey Heron
Louth
10 Waxwing
RAF Woodhall Spa
3 Tundra Bean Goose
Sibsey
17 Whooper Swan
Tetney Lock
14 Waxwing
Willow Tree Fen
9 Common Crane

15/01/2024
Brant Broughton
Hen Harrier
Cowbit
Long-tailed Duck
Deeping Lakes
Red-throated Diver, Glossy Ibis, 2 Long-eared Owl
Frampton Marsh
Greater Scaup, Lesser Yellowlegs
Gibraltar Point
Hen Harrier, Short-eared Owl, Waxwing
Great Hale
5 Waxwing
Mablethorpe
Velvet Scoter
Tongue End
2 Common Crane, 2 Cattle Egret, 3 Short-eared Owl
RAF Woodhall Spa
3 Pink-footed Goose, 3 Tundra Bean Goose

14/01/2024
Cowbit
Turnstone
Crook Bank
8 Snow Bunting
Cut End
Goosander, Red-throated Diver, Red-breasted Merganser, Grey Plover, Common Scoter
Deeping High Bank
6 Bewick's Swan
Deeping Lakes
Red-throated Diver, Glossy Ibis, 2 Long-eared Owl


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Red-throated Diver that showed nicely at Deeping Lakes - Image © Will Bowell

Digby Fen
3 Goosander
Donna Nook
120 Twite
Frampton Marsh
9 Avocet, Bearded Tit, Brambling, Peregrine Falcon, 14 Goldeneye, Merlin, Greater Scaup, Stonechat
Gibraltar Point
2 Hen Harrier
RAF Woodhall Spa
3 Great White Egret, 3 Pink-footed Goose, 3 Tundra Bean Goose
Rimac
5 Water Pipit
Skegness
3 Long-tailed Duck
Willow Tree Fen
9 Common Crane, 2 Cattle Egret, 106 Goosander, 2 Hen Harrier, 28 Marsh Harrier, Merlin, Barn Owl, Little Owl, Tawny Owl, Sparrowhawk, 3 Bewick's Swan, 150 Whooper Swan

13/01/2024
Deeping Lakes
Red-throated Diver, Glossy Ibis, 2 Long-eared Owl
Donna Nook
2 Lapland Bunting, Hen Harrier, Merlin, 210 Twite
Frampton Marsh
Hen Harrier, Greater Scaup, Lesser Yellowlegs
Gibraltar Point
18 Snow Bunting, 3 Long-tailed Duck, Little Gull, Hen Harrier (m&f), 4 Shore Lark, 5 Waxwing (approach road)
Rimac
34 Snow Bunting, 4 Water Pipit
Old Wood
Buzzard, Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch
Wilder Doddington
2 Reed Bunting, Kestrel, Redwing, Great Grey Shrike (north of road)
Willow Tree Fen
5 Common Crane, Hen Harrier, Short-eared Owl, 3 Bewick's Swan

12/01/2024
Anderby Creek
2 Short-eared Owl
Cradge Bank
Little Gull, Short-eared Owl
Deeping High Bank
Spotted Redshank
Deeping Lakes
Glossy Ibis, Long-eated Owl
Frampton Marsh
Avocet, Brambling, Buzzard, Long-tailed Duck, Peregrine Falcon, 20 Marsh Harrier, Merlin, Barn Owl, Pintail, Stonechat, Whooper Swan, Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Yellowlegs
Freiston Shore
Water Pipit
Gibraltar Point
2 Snow Bunting, 8 Red-throated Diver,  Long-tailed Duck, 6 Eider, Goldeneye, Bean Goose, 800 Brent Goose, Guillemot, 4 Shore Lark, Barn Owl, 3 Water Pipit, 60 Redwing, Whooper Swan, 4 Woodcock, Harbour Porpoise
Pyewipe
Spotted Redshank

11/01/2024
Deeping Lakes
Glossy Ibis, Long-eared Owl
Deeping St Nicholas
2 Bewick's Swan, 359 Whooper Swan
Doddington Park
2 Lesser Redpoll, 2 Siskin
Frampton Marsh
Lesser Yellowlegs
Gibraltar Point
7 Snow Bunting, 3 Long-tailed Duck, Peregrine Falcon, Hen Harrier, 4 Shore Lark, Red-breasted Merganser, Barn Owl, 2500 Grey Plover, Ringed Plover, c80 Common Scoter, Woodcock


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One of the four elusive Shore Lark on the beach north of Greenshank Creek at Gibraltar Point - Image © Andy Sims

Rimac
5 Cattle Egret
Saltfleet
24 Little Egret, Song Thrush
South Ormsby
70 Brambling, 12 Red Kite
Tallington Lakes
3 Greater Scaup
Tongue End
8 Common Crane
Willow Tree Fen
2 Buzzard, 5 Common Crane, 2 Cattle Egret, 22 Goosander, Hen Harrier, 8+ Marsh Harrier, 1000 Lapwing, 150 Golden Plover, Ruff

10/01/2024
North Cotes
Black Brant
Deeping Lakes
Gloosy Ibis, Long-eared Owl
Short Ferry
2 Red Knot, Waxwing
Frampton Marsh
Lesser Yellowlegs

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The very obliging Lesser Yellowlegs that dropped in to the car-park at Frampton Marsh shortly after we arrived - Image © Chris Grimshaw

Gibraltar Point
2 Corn Bunting, Snow Bunting, Black Throated Diver, Great Northern Diver, 2 Long-tailed Duck, 4 Shore Lark, Sooty Shearwater, Jack Snipe, 50 Whooper Swan
Whisby
Great White Egret
Wilder Doddington
Stonechat

09/01/2024
Cowbit
Turnstone
Deeping Lakes
Glossy Ibis, Long-eared Owl
Frampton Marsh
Brambling, Long-tailed Duck, Dunlin, Peregrine Falcon, Fieldfare, Goldeneye, 2 Hen Harrier, 35 Marsh Harrier, 3000 Lapwing, Linnet, Merlin, 500 Golden Plover, Redwing Ruff, 2 Greater Scaup, Whooper Swan, 5000+ Wigeon, Lesser Yellowlegs (day 113)
Gibraltar Point
4 Shore Lark
Grantham
4 Waxwing
Halton Marshes
Hen Harrier, Russian White-fronted Goose
Job's Lane
Smew
Rimac
4 Cattle Egret
Willow Tree Fen
11 Common Crane, 2 Cattle Egret, 2 Hen Harrier

08/01/2024
Cherry Willingham
2 Waxwing
Deeping Lakes
Glossy Ibis, Long-eared Owl
Elm House Farm
680 Brent Goose, 21 Pink-footed Goose, c400 Mixed Gull. Marsh Harrier. 2 Kestrel, 750 Lapwing, 200 Starling
Far Ings
Bittern, Sparrowhawk
Frampton Marsh 
Merlin, Greater Scaup, 5 Bewick's Swan, Lesser Yellowlegs
Grantham
300 Pink-footed Goose, 8 Waxwing
Rimac
4 Water Pipit
Tallington Lakes
Red-throated Diver, Greater Scaup
Willow Tree Fen
5 Common Crane, 2 Cattle Egret, 51 Goosander, Hen Harrier, 28 Marsh Harrier, 2 Sparrowhawk, 6 Bewick's Swan, 86 Whooper Swan

07/01/2024
Baston Fen
Water Pipit
Bourne (floods)
1 Bewick's Swan, 11 Whooper Swan
Cleethorpes
4 Snow Bunting
Covenham Reservoir
Great Northern Diver, Shag
Cowbit
Long-tailed Duck
Deeping Lakes
Glossy Ibis, Long-eared Owl
Donna Nook
160+ Twite
Frampton Marsh
Hen Harrier, Glossy Ibis, 4 Brambling, Lapland Bunting, Merlin, Water Pipit. Greater Scaup, 2 Stonechat, 4 Bewick's Swan, Lesser Yellowlegs
Gibraltar Point
2 Long-tailed Duck
Grantham
4 Waxwing
New Holland
2 Waxwing
Leadenham
Waxwing
Swanpool
Goldcrest, Stonechat, Song Thrush
Twenty
9 Common Crane
Willow Tree Fen
Cattle Egret, 2 Hen Harrier

06/01/2024
Alkborough Flats
Bearded Tit
River Ancholme
13 Goosander
Cowbit
Avocet, Long-tailed Duck, Peregrine Falcon, Greater Scaup, Sparrowhawk
Deeping Lakes
Glossy Ibis
Dorrington Fen
3 Buzzard, 100 Fieldfare
Frampton Marsh
3 Greater Scaup. 3 Waxwing, Lesser Yellowlegs
Grantham
5 Waxwing
Job's Lane
Smew
Osgodby
Nuthatch, 2 Siskin, Great Spotted Woodpecker
Seacroft
4 Waxwing
Swanpool
103 Pink-footed Goose
Willow Tree Fen
Cattle Egret, Hen Harrier, Marsh Harrier

05/01/2024
Deeping Lakes
Glossy Ibis
Doddington Park, Lincoln
12 Lesser Redpoll
Tetney Lock (village)
4 Waxwing
Wilder Doddington
Great Grey Shrike
Willow Tree Fen
Common Crane 

04/01/2024
Anderby Creek
Snow Bunting, 3 Great Northern Diver
Cleethorpes
50 Snow Bunting
Wilder Doddington
Great Grey Shrike
Gibraltar Point
3 Long-tailed Duck, 3 Marsh Harrier, 4 Shore Lark
Grantham
17 Waxwing on Primrose Way and another 15 by the Asda car-park)
Lincoln (Carram Way)
2 Waxwing
Messingham,
Bittern, Buzzard, 9 Goldeneye, 120 Pink-footed Goose, Marsh Harrier, 120 Lapwing, 5 Shelduck, Cetti's Warbler
Seacroft
3 Waxwing
Willow Tree Fen
9 Common Crane

03/01/2024
Covenham Reservoir
Great Northern Diver, Shag
Deeping Lake
Glossy Ibis
Wilder Doddington (please note that from now on the whole of the extensive Doddington Hall Estate will be called Wilder Doddington)
Great Grey Shrike
Frampton Marsh
2 Great Scaup, Lesser Yellowlegs
Freiston Shore
Spooonbill
Gibraltar Point
4 Shore Lark
Lincoln (Carram Way}
2 Mistle Thrush, 11 Waxwing
Normanby-le-Wold
6 Waxwing
Rimac
6 Water Pipit

02/01/2024
Deeping Lakes
Long-eared Owl
Doddington Hall (area)
Great Grey Shrike
Doddington Park
10 Lesser Redpoll
Frampton Marsh
Hen Harrier, Greater Scaup
Gibraltar Point
4 Snow Bunting, Long-tailed Duck, 4 Shore Lark, Velvet Scoter
Grantham
1 Waxwing
Holbeach St Matthew
Hen Harrier
Job's Lane
Smew (male)
Lincoln (St George's Hospital area)
9 Waxwing
Willow Tree Fen
Common Crane

01/01/2024
Covenham Reservoir
Shag
Cut End
4 Cattle Egret
Job's Lane
Smew (male)
Deeping Lakes
Glossy Ibis
Doddington Hall
Great Grey Shrike
Doddington Park
34 Goldfinch, 8 Lesser Redpoll
Frampton Marsh
Lesser Yellowlegs
Gedney Drove End
Lapland Bunting,. Fieldfare, Hen Harrier, Yellowhammer
Gibraltar Point
9 Corn Bunting, 4 Snow Bunting, Great Northern Diver, 3 Long-tailed Duck, 100 Eider, Peregrine Falcon, Red-necked Grebe, 3000 Pink-footed Goose, 3 Little Gull, Hen Harrier, 4 Shore Lark, 4 Red-breasted Merganser, Merlin, 2 Pintail, Water Pipit, Water Rail, 11 Waxwing, 4 Woodcock
New Holland
2 Waxwing
Rimac
Long-tailed Duck, 4 Cattle Egret, 3 Water Pipit


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Long-tailed Duck on the River Eua at Rimac - Image © Roy Harvey

Saltfleetby
28 Snow Bunting, Long-tailed Duck, 3 Water Pipit
Seaview Farm
Hen Harrier
Trent Port
Hen Harrier
Willow Tree Fen
2 Common Crane

About Us

We are the Lincolnshire Bird Club

Our aims are to encourage and further the interest in the birdlife of the historic County of Lincolnshire; to participate in organised fieldwork activities; to collect and publish information on bird movements, behaviour, distribution and populations; to encourage conservation of the wildlife of the County and to provide sound information on which conservation policies can be based.