Bygone birding (2) Bee-eater, Grey Phalarope and Tegmalm's Owl in Lincolnshire

From The Zoologist journal, December, 1880

Editor -

On August 16th a Bee-eater was shot at Tetney Haven, seven miles south of Grimsby, by William Stubbs, a professional shore-shooter.

Stubbs had seen the bird on the previous day. On Monday, he went out with his gun, and, after a long chase, succeeded in procuring it.

On October 22nd I got a Grey Phalarope, shot on the 21st in the same locality. It is in fine winter plumage.

On November 5th I was shown by Kew, the Louth birdstuffer, a very fine Tengmalm's Owl shot on October 22nd by the son of the Rev. J. Pretyman, of
Carlton, on the sandhills near Saltfleet Haven. It is a mature bird, the plumage somewhat injured in shooting; sex undetermined.

This bird must have arrived with the same winds (N. and N.W.) which brought the great flight of Woodcocks on our coast from Flamborough to Cromer on the night of October 18th and morning of the 19th, and again on the 22nd, along with large numbers of Short-eared Owls and other immigrants.

John Cordeaux
Great Cotes
Ulceby
Lincolnshire