Lincolnshire Bird Sightings 2024

May 2024

17/05/2024
Cowbit
Common Crane
Crook Bank
Red-backed Shrike
Deeping Lakes
Glossy Ibis
Frampton Marsh
Garganey, Red-breasted Goose, Little Gull, Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, Black-winged Stilt. Temminck's Stint
Gibraltar Point
Little Gull, Wood Sandpiper, Spoonbill, Icterine Warbler

16/05/2024
Anderby Marsh
Temminck's Stint
Cowbit
Garganey, Grey Plover
Deeping High Bank
Garganey
Gibraltar Point
Turtle Dove, 2 Hawfinch, Golden Oriole, Woodlark
Saltfleetby/ Theddlethorpe
Red-backed Shrike

15/05/2024
Cowbit
5 Sanderling, 3 Wood Sandpiper, Temminck's Stint
Deeping High Bank
Red Knot, Grey Plover
Frampton Marsh
Pale-bellied Brent Goose, Red-breasted Goose, Spotted Redshank, Wood Sandpiper, Black-winged Stilt, Lesser Yellowlegs
Gibraltar Point 
Osprey

14/05/2024
Cowbit
5 Red Knot, Black Tern
Frampton Marsh
Red-breasted Goose, 2 Curlew Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Spoonbill, Black-winged Stilt, Lesser Yellowlegs
Gibraltar Point
Greater Scaup

13/05/2024
Deeping Lakes
Glossy Ibis
Frampton Marsh
Red-breasted Goose, Curlew Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Black-winged Stilt, Lesser Yellowlegs

12/05/2024
Alkborough
Spoonbill
Cowbit
8 Bar-tailed Godwit, Sanderling, Black Tern, Little Tern, 4 Turnstone
Deeping Lakes
Glossy Ibis, Black Tern
Donna Nook
Wood Sandpiper
Frampton Marsh
2 Garganey. Red-breasted Goose, Curlew Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Spoonbill, Black-winged Stilt, Temminck's Stint, Lesser Yellowlegs
Gibraltar Point
Wood Sandpiper
Sturton by Stow
Quail

11/05/2024
Alkborough Flats
Spoonbill
Baston & Langtoft Pits
Black Tern
Cowbit
Golden Plover, 3 Sanderling
Far Ings
Black Tern
Frampton Marsh
Red-breasted Goose, Little Gull, Curlew Sandpiper, Spoonbill, Black-winged Stilt, Little Stint, Lesser Yellowlegs
Lincoln
Hoopoe (private garden)
Gibraltar Point
Turtle Dove, 2 Little Gull, 2 Spoonbill, 2 Whooper Swan
Whaplode Drove
Quail

10/05/2024
Cowbit
Garganey
Deeping Lakes
Gloosy Ibis
Frampton Marsh
Little Gull, Curlew Sandpiper, Spoonbill, Little Stint,
Gibraltar Point
Avocet 16, Brambling, Peregrine Falcon, Hen Harrier, Osprey, Spoonbill, Tree Pipit

09/05/2024
Churchill Lane
Thrush Nightingale
Crowland
2 Common Crane
Frampton Marsh 
Garganey, Red-breasted Goose, Black-winged Stilt, Lesser Yellowlegs
Gibraltar Point
Turtle Dove, 650 Dunlin, Peregrine Falcon, 7000 Knot, Golden Oriole, 1250 Sanderling, 23 Little Tern, 6 Sandwich Tern, Woodlark
Keelby
Swift
Swanpool Cowfields
Wood Sandpiper

08/05/2024
Cleethorpes
Cetti's Warbler, Cuckoo, 3 Swift 
Deeping Lakes
Glossy Ibis
Frampton Marsh
Garganey, Red-breasted Goose, Thrush Nightingale, Black-winged Stilt, Lesser Yellowlegs
Gibraltar Point
440 Dunln, Peregrine Falcon, 60 Brent Goose, Hobby, 7000 Red Knot, 350 Oystercatcher, 3330 Grey Plover, 1250 Sanderling, 23 Little Tern 32 Turnstone
Scunthorpe
Goldcrest, Sparrowhawk

07/05/2025
Cowbit
Wood Sandpiper
East Butterwick
2 Grey Partridge, 3 Swallow
Elmhouse Farm
Cuckoo, 2 Garganey, Greenshank, 2 Redshank, Sand Martin, 2 Wood Sandpiper, Snipe, c12 Swallow, Swift,  Wheatear
Frampton Pond
Garganey, Greenshank, Red-breasted Goose, Little Gull, Mediterranean Gull, Black-winged Stilt, Little Stint, Whimbrel
Heydourn Pond, Grantham
Common Sandpiper
Rimac
2 Avocet, Turtle Dove. Cuckoo, Marsh Harrier, 2 Whimbrel


Image
Turtle Dove hiding in the Dunes at Rimac - Image © Andy Sims

06/05/2024
Alkborough
Garganey, 3 Spoonbill
Frampton Marsh
Wood Sandpiper, Black-winged Stilt, Lesser Yellowlegs
Halton Marsh
Osprey, Wood Sandpiper
Holywell
Greater Scaup
Messingham
2 Buzzard, Cuckoo, 2 Marsh Harrier, 2 Hobby, Common Sandpiper, Sparrowhawk, 1 Arctic Tern, 4 Common Tern, 4 Cetti's Warbler

05/05/2024
Alkborough Flats
4 Common Crane
Deeping Lakes
3 Little Egret, Glossy Ibis, 2 Shelduck, 4 Common Tern
Frampton Marsh
Black Brant, 3 Garganey, Red-breasted Goose, Little Gull, Black-winged Stilt, Little Stint, Lesser Yellowlegs
Freiston Shore
Spoonbill
Gibraltar Point
Pied Flycatcher, 3 Spoonbill
Willow Tree Fen
3 Common Crane, Marsh Harrier, Red Kite

04/05/2024
Alkborough Flats
26 Arctic Tern
Deeping Lakes
Glossy Ibis
Frampton Marsh
Temminck's Stint
Gibraltar Point
3 Common Crane, 2 Firecrest, 2 Spoonbill
Halton Marsh
3 Common Crane

03/05/2024
Baston & Langtoft Pits
Kittiwake, 6 Arctic Tern, Little Tern
Boultham Mere
5 Arctic Tern
Cowbit
Kittiwake, Turnstone
Deeping Lakes
40 Arctic Tern
Frampton Marsh
3 Common Crane, Garganey, Red-breasted Goose, Little Gull, Black-winged Stilt, 5 Arctic Tern, Lesser Yellowlegs


Image
The Red-breasted Goose on the Wet Grasslannd at Frampton Marsh - Image © Paul Sullivan

Gibraltar Point
Garganey, Hawfinch, Arctic Tern
Trent Port
Bullfinch, Little Egret, Treecreeper, Sedge Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat


02/05/2024
Anderby Marsh
Garganey, Wood Sandpiper, Woodchat Shrike
Baston & Langtoft Pits
2 Arctic Tern
Boultham Mere
Hobby
Cowbit
Spotted Redshank, Black-winged Stilt
Deeping Lakes
Glossy Ibis
East Halton Skitter
Woodchat Shrike (first claimed on 29/04)
Far Ings
4 Hobby, 2 Common Tern, 5 Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler
Frampton Marsh
Garganey, Red-breasted Goose, Little Gull, Wood Sandpiper, Spoonbill, Little Stint, Lesser Yellowlegs
Gibraltar Pont
Caspian Gull, Wood Sandpiper
Huttoft
Short-eared Owl
Sleaford
Spotted Flycatcher

01/05/2024

Anderby Marsh
Garganey, Wood Sandpiper
Bonby Carrs
2 Common Crane, Bar-tailed Godwit
Boultham Mere
Black Tern
Covenham Reservoir
20 Arctic Tern, 19 Black Tern
Cowbit
Turnstone
Frampton Marsh
2 Common Crane, 2 Garganey, Red-breasted Goose, Little Gull, Spotted Redshank, Wood Sandpiper, Spoonbill, Black-winged Stilt, Temminck's Stint

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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.