Cleethorpes migrants

At 12.50pm yesterday, Aug 19, there were three swifts over the Kingsway Hotel on Cleethorpes seafront.

included in sightings in an evening scan of the foreshore out from Churchill car park on rising tide ( c 25% of foreshore)

2 wheatears , 148 ringed plover, 98 Dunlin,  1 arctic skua,  4 adult lesser black back gulls,  58 greater bb gulls, c 720 bh gulls,  418 com gulls 

148 sandwhich and 87 common terns .

several thousands of mixed gulls and terns out from Crook bank being counted by another birder  .

regards John

 

Two swifts over Taylors Avenue, Cleethorpes, at 8.15 am today and another over saltmarsh at 8.35am. Then another (in a hurry) over Cleethorpes at 4.55pm.

There was also a wheatear on the path through the saltmarsh.

On the beach, a grey plover was pondering its next move.