Local Patch & Beyond 2024.

Burringham: AM & PM

Blackbird - 2
Jay - 4
Fieldfare - 40
Goldfinch - 8
Pink-feet Goose - c80 going East
Feral Pigeon - c700
Magpie - 9
Wood Pigeon - 62
Mallard - 2
Reed Bunting - 1
Kestrel - 2
Roe Deer - 7
Crow - 30
Lapwing - c600 going East
Little Egret - 5

East Butterwick: PM

Cormorant - 6 in a tree
Grey Partridge - 10
Mallard - 2
Crow - 20
Starling - c500 ( noticed when about half were on telegraph wires a Kestrel was perched inches from them on telegraph post, managed a record shot)
Gulls - c400 mostly Black-head +Common

Had a brilliant day but cut short when I became unwell.

Ably assisted by Everard 

Max

While waiting to have my annual copd review nipped up road and had ninety minutes at one of my sites.

Burringham: 15:00 to dusk

Little Egret - 2
Starling - c3000 going to roost north-east, first decent amount have had this season.
Lapwing - 1
Magpie - 1
Pheasant - 1
Crow - 24
Wood Pigeon - 6
Common Gull - 100 going to roost
Buzzard - 1 with prey on ground, it was plucking it, then a vehicle came past and it carried it in talons about twenty yards, prey looked like juv Moorhen.

Highlight a dead heat between the sight of Starlings and Buzzard!

Max 

Kirton Lindsey: PM

Pintail - 1 male active all time (also seen later through my scope by David)
Whooper Swans - 30 including 4 juvs
Mallard - 6
Teal - 27
Shoveler - 15
Mute Swan - 9
Little Egret - 1
Lapwing - 60
Assorted Gulls - c100
Long-tailed Tit - 8
Cormorant - 2
Grey Heron - 2
Gadwall - 2
Starling - 3
Buzzard - 1
Jay - 1

Really enjoyed seeing the Pintail, must be a decade since last one!

Max.

First time out for three weeks and it did my mental health the world of good!

Burringham: PM 
Magpie - 2
Buzzard - 1
Wood Pigeon - c50
Corvids - c40
Feral Pigeons - c200

Carr Dyke: PM
Moorhen - juv
Pheasant - 4
Linnet - 12

East Butterwick:PM

Goldfinch - 9
LBB Gull - 2
Black-headed Gull - 1
Assorted Gulls distant - c400 following tractor
Kestrel - 1
Buzzard - 2
Pied Wag - 1
Yellowhammer - 2
Redwing - 5
Grey Partridge - 15
Jackdaw - 61
Wood Pigeon - 15
Starling - 4
Greenfinch - 1
Pheasant - 22 m&f
Grey Heron - 1
Linnet - 8
Pink- feet - c200 going east  (my first of season)
Corn Bunting - 1
Magpie - 1
Crow - 10

On way home six Greylag or Canada came over M180 bridge near Yaddlethorpe.

Cheers

John aka Max 

Nebraska Wetlands:  13.40 - 17.40 sunny and warm

Lapwing - c200
Wood Pigeon - 4
Mallard - 15
Crow - 12
Cormorant - 4
Common Snipe - 1
Long-tailed Tit - 6
Black-headed Gull - c150
Shoveler - 5
Greylag - 1
Teal - 19
Buzzard - 1
Little Egret - 1
Grey Heron - 2
Linnet - c50
Starling - 40
Kestrel - 1
Whooper Swan - 2

An enjoyable few hours and a very informative chat to two farmers.

Regards

Max 

First time out for more than a month, had business in Brigg so decided to try my luck and one bird made me very happy 

Bentley Farm Pumping Station - River Ancholme - Brigg: PM

Hadn't been parked two mins when a Kingfisher landed fifty feet away on a hawthorn bush facing me, of course I didn't take my camera, that was best view of one in ten years! Also saw
one Buzzard over, six Mallard on river, one Common Gull over, two Magpie perched and twenty Wood Pigeon over.
Had to cut short visit as I started to fell unwell so went home the scenic route but saw nowt.

Max