Nightingales

4 males held territories for 3 consecutive years on Saltfleetby Theddlethorpe nnr during 1980s nothing since, as a ringer I ringed 3 each trapped
on 21st April in the 3 years .

regards John

You never know Jim, climate change may bring them creeping back north in the future, like with Blackcaps and Chiffchaffs. Let’s hope so!

Disappointing to learn from the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust that this year’s national decline in nightingales was reflected at Whisby with just three singing males and possibly no more than one breeding success.
There is a theory that part-way through their migration to our shores, they were disrupted by easterlies - the so-called ‘beast from the East’.
Sadly Lincolnshire prospects for this species don’t look rosy.