Lincolnshire Bird News - December 2021
31/12/2021
Baston & Langtoft Pits
Ring-necked Duck (male)
Buck's Beck, Cleethorpes
Bar-tailed Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit in Cleethorpes - Image © Nick Coulbeck
Deeping Lakes
Cattle Egret
Gelston
2 Red Kite
Winters Pit, East Halton
Cattle Egret, White-tailed Lapwing (too late for most peoples Lincolnshire list perhaps ?)
Back of the camera shot White -tailed Lapwing now in Lincolnshire - Image © Graham Catley
30/12/2021
Boston
15 Curlew
West Deeping
Russian White-fronted Goose
Deeping High Bank
Little Owl
A stunning Little Owl along Deeping High Bank - Image © Dave Newman
Norton Disney
12 Whooper Swan
Frampton Marsh
Buzzard, Peregrine Falcon, 2 Marsh Harrier, Hen Harrier (male), Kestrel, Merlin, 1000's Golden Plover, Stonechat, 23 Whooper Swan
Grantham
Kingfisher, Raven
Marston
Siberian Chiffchaff, Kingfisher
Siberian Chiffchaff from the hide at Marston - Image © Steve Nesbitt
Trent Port, Marton
Little Egret, Kingfisher, 2 Red-legged Partridge, 2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Mistle Thrush
29/12/2021
Boultham Mere
2 Chiffchaff, 4 Little Egret, 6 Grey Partridge, 2 Water Rail, 30 Redwing
Covenham Reservoir
Great Northern Diver, European Shag
Deeping Lakes
Long-eared Owl
Freiston Shore
14 Russian White-fronted Goose
Swanholme Lakes
55 Gadwall, Goosander (15 male 9 female), Great Crested Grebe, 2 Grey Heron, 100 Jackdaw, 34 Shoveler, Siskin
Great Crested Grebe, Hartsholme Park - Image © Chris Grimshaw
Tallington Lakes
Ring-necked Duck, 17 Russian White-fronted Goose
28/12/2021
Covenham Reservoir
Great Northern Diver, European Shag
Deeping High Bank
8 Goosander, Short-eared Owl
Frampton Marsh
Peregrine Falcon, Marsh Harrier, Merlin, Pintail, Water Rail, Stonechat, 185 Whooper Swan
27/12/2021
Covenham Reservoir
2 Great Northern Diver, European Shag
Frampton Marsh
Hen Harrier (male & female)
Marston
Siberian Chiffchaff
Messingham
Chiffchaff, 5 Goldcrest, Lesser Redpoll, 3 Siskin, Willow Tit, 3 Treecreeper
North Hykeham
Siberian Chiffchaff
26/12/2021
Messingham
Bullfinch, 2 Little Egret, 70 Northern Lapwing, Redwing, Green Sandpiper, 4 Coal Tit 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker
Saltfleet
Hen Harrier (f)
25/12/2021
Boston Area
Grey Crowned Crane (escapee)
Louth Canal
Little Egret, Kingfisher
Kingfisher by the Louth Canal, Christmas Day - Image © John Clarkson
Witham End
4 Great Northern Diver, Twite
24/12/2021
Branston
18 Curlew, Great White Egret, Redshank, Ruff, Common Snipe, 12 Snipe
Great Cotes
Brambling
A Brambling in a private garden in Great Cotes - Image © Craig Sherwood
Deeping High Bank
2 Great White Egret, 5 Goosander (4 male 1 female), 4 Short-eared Owl
Lincoln, Doddington Park
Bullfinch, 60 Goldfinch
North Hykeham
Brambling, 14 Lesser Redpoll, 110 Siskin
Marston
13 Curlew, Pink-footed Geese, Water Rail, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 2 Cetti's Warbler
Millennium Green
4 Bullfinch, 2 Chiffchaff, Mediterranean Gull, Kingfisher, 2 Tawny Owl, 9 Song Thrush, 2 Treecreeper
23/12/2021
Boultham Mere
Water Rail, 4 Whooper Swan
Denton
Brambling, 20 Chaffinch
Freiston Shore
15 White-fronted Goose
Gibraltar Point
Long-tailed Duck, 30 Common Scoter
Wainfleet
487 Curlew, Peregrine Falcon, 500 Bar-tailed Godwit, Hen Harrier, 8000 Red Knot, 10000 Golden Plover
Whisby
15000 Starling
22/12/2021
Barton upon Humber
45 Barnacle Goose
Covenham Reservoir
2 Great Northern Diver, European Shag
Gibraltar Point
Black-throated Diver, Great Northern Diver, Long-tailed Duck, 1100 Eider, 25 Red-breasted Merganser
Hill Holt Wood
Marsh Tit
Lincoln, Doddington Park
Sparrowhawk
Mablethorpe
6 Russian White-fronted Goose
21/12/2021
Frampton Marsh
2 Hen Harrier
Gibraltar Point
Long-tailed Duck
Mablethorpe
4 Long-tailed Duck, 1 Puffin, 700 Common Scoter, 2 Velvet Scoter
Millennium Green
Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, Kingfisher, 12 Lesser Redpoll, 59 Siskin, Green Woodpecker
Toft Newton Reservoir
2 Red-breasted Merganser, 3 Whooper Swan
Stamford
1 Waxwing
20/12/2021
Baston Fen
Short-eared Owl
Covenham Reservoir
Great Northern Diver
Frampton Marsh
Fieldfare, Hen Harrier 2, Redwing, Sparrowhawk
Lincoln
Redwing
Mablethorpe
4 Long-tailed Duck, Common Scoter, 2 Velvet Scoter
Marston
9 Pink-footed Goose
Messingham,
2 Buzzard, 2 Little Egret, Fieldfare (large flock), c1000 Pink-footed Goose, c 200 Linnet, 1 Merlin, 80 Redwing, 30 Mute Swan, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker,
Tallington Lakes
Greater Scaup, European Shag (briefly)
19/12/2021
Deeping High Bank
2 Goosander, Smew ♀︎
Hill Holt Wood
Brambling, 75 Goldfinch, 90 Lesser Redpoll, 45 Siskin
Huttoft Pit
60 Barnacle Goose
Mablethorpe
Purple Sandpiper
Trent Port, Marton
Chiffchaff, Pink-footed Goose, 8 White-fronted Goose, Treecreeper
18/11/2021
Baston & Langtoft Pits
Little Stint
Deeping High Bank
Short-eared Owl
Frampton Marsh
Little Stint
17/12/2021 (generally pretty foggy)
Boultham Mere
5 Whooper Swan
Grantham (St Wulframs Church)
Peregrine Falcon
East Halton Skitter
Water Pipit
Millennium Green
Kingfisher, Mandarin, 2 Pochard, 22 Redwing, Sparrowhawk, 10 Song Thrush, Cetti's Warbler
16/12/2021
Aubourn area
2 Corn Bunting, 5 Buzzard, Peregrine Falcon, 162 Pink-footed Geese, Little Owl, Tawny Owl
Boultham Mere
Goosander, 5 Whooper Swan
Cliff Farm, Branston
24+ Yellowhammer
Cleethorpes
Purple Sandpiper
Covenham Reservoir
Great Northern Diver, Eurasian Shag
Deeping St James
Siberian Chiffchaff
Far Ings
Bittern
East Halton Skitter
2 Short-eared Owl, Water Pipit, Lesser Yellowlegs (53 41 07N, 0 15 46W)
Lesser Yellowlegs at East Halton Skitter - Image © Brian Leman
Grantham (St Wulframs)
Black Redstart
Mablethorpe
4 Long-tailed Duck, Common Scoter, 2 Velvet Scoter
Sandilands
Short-eared Owl
Sturton by Stow
Short-eared Owl
Whisby
Bittern
15/12/2021
Caenby Corner
Rough-legged Buzzard (possible that flew towards Atterby)
Covenham Reservoir
2 Great Northern Diver, 2 Eurasian Shag, 60 Fieldfare, Greater Scaup
Frampton Marsh
Peregrine Falcon, Fieldfare, 2 Hen Harrier 2♂, Marsh Harrier, Merlin, Water Rail, Redwing, Little Stint, Stonechat, 2 Bearded Tit
Gibraltar Point
Snow Bunting, Great Northern Diver, Red-necked Grebe
Mablethorpe
5 Long-tailed Duck, Common Scoter, Purple Sandpiper, 2 Velvet Scoter
A gorgeous photo of a Purple Sandpiper at Mablethorpe - Image © Russell Hayes
Millennium Green
Goosander, 3 Pink-footed Goose, 10000 Black-headed Gull, 2600 Common Gull, Mediterramean Gull, Mandarin, Sparrowhawk, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker
RAF Wainfleet
Hen Harrier ♂
14/12/2021
Bishop Norton
Rough-legged Buzzard (possible)
Brickyard Lane/Crook Bank
25 Snow Bunting
Butterly Pit - Lincoln (no public access)
Bittern
Frampton Marsh
Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint
Gibraltar Point
Lapland Bunting, 2 Great Northern Diver, 67 Red-throated Diver, Long-tailed Duck, Marsh Harrier, 8 Red-breasted Merganser, Stonechat
Mablethorpe
5 Long-tailed Duck, Purple Sandpiper, Common Scoter, Velvet Scoter
Winthorpe
12 Snow Bunting (by The Lookout Pub)
13/12/2021
Boultham Mere
25 Lesser Redpoll, 5 Whooper Swan
Covenham Reservoir
Great Northern Diver, Grey Phalarope, Shag
The two Great Nothern Divers pictued together at Covenham Reservoir - Image © John Clarkson
Frampton Marsh
Water Pipit, Little Stint
Huttoft Pit
Siberian Chiffchaff
Millennium Green
Lesser Redpoll
12/12/2021
Boultham Mere
8 Grey Partridge, Water Rail, 5 Whooper Swan, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker
Covenham Reservoir
2 Great Northern Diver, Caspian Gull, Grey Phalarope, 2 Shag
Crook Bank
26 Snow Bunting
Crowle Moor NR
3 Goosander, Smew (♀︎)
Deeping High Bank
3 Short-eared Owl
Deeping Lakes
Cattle Egret
Frampton Marsh
Merlin, Little Stint
Pyewipe, Grimsby
230 Curlew, 3700 Dunlin, 1200 Bar-tailed Godwit, 5060 Black-tailed Godwit, 187 Grey Plover, 270 Redshank, Purple Sandpiper, 850 Shelduck
East Halton Skitter
Water Pipit, Lesser Yellowlegs
Louth
Buzzard, Kingfisher, 70 Lapwing, Water Rail, 60 Redwing
Trent Port, Marton
5 Bullfinch, 5 Buzzard, Peregrine Falcon, 2 Goldcrest, 50 Goldfinch, 133 Lapwing, Redwing, Snipe, Sparrowhawk, 65 Wigeon, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker
Marston
Blackbird, Fieldfare, Redwing
Saltfleetby St Peter
Great Northern Diver
11/12/2021
Covenham Reservoir
Snow Bunting, Great Northern Diver, Caspian Gull, Grey Phalarope, Rock Pipit, Shag
Frampton Marsh
Buzzard, Peregrine Falcon, 8000 Golden Plover, Water Pipit, Grey Plover, 200 Redwing, Little Stint, 40 Whooper Swan
South Ormsby (Railway Tavern Trail)
42 Blackbird, 10 Brambling, 8 Bullfinch, 400 Fieldfare, 200 Linnet, 80 Redwing, 150 Tree Sparrow, Water Rail, 80 Yellowhammer
East Halton Skitter
Water Pipit
Mablethorpe
2 Long-tailed Duck, Velvet Scoter
Tallington Lakes
Scaup
Witham End
Great Northern Diver, Slavonian Grebe, Mediterranean Gull
10/12/2021
Boultham Mere
Great White Egret, 5 Whooper Swan
Covenham Reservoir
Grey Phalarope, Water Pipit, Snow Bunting
Snow Bunting at Covenham Resevoir - Image © Russell Hayes
Cress Marsh
3 Whooper Swan
Dunsby Fen
Brambling, Peregrine Falcon, Fieldfare, Redwing
Gibraltar Point
20 Snow Bunting, 3 Great Northern Diver, Long-tailed Duck
Hartsholme Park/ Swanholme Lakes
2 Coal Tit, 4 Cormorant, Goosander (5♂ 4♀︎), 2 Jay, Kingfisher, 50 Mallard, 1/2 Nuthatch, c70 Shoveler, 60 Tufted Duck,100 Wigeon
Kirkby on Bain
Bullfinch, Little Egret,, 8 Egyptian Geese, 5 Goldeneye, Kingfisher, 340 Lapwing, 2 Water Rail, Redshank, 5 Siskin
Mablethorpe
Long-tailed Duck, 400 Common Scoter
Marston
Short-eared Owl
Messingham
2 Buzzard, Chiffchaff, Geat White Egret, 3 Goldcrest, Egyptian Goose, 400 Greylag Goose, 24 Common Gull, 2 Lesser Redpoll, 7 Shelduck, 8 Siskin, 14 Pochard, 16 Shoveler, 2 Treecreeper, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Cetti's Warbler
Wroot
Hen Harrier (♂)
09/12/2021
Covenham Reservoir
Grey Phalarope, Snow Bunting
Crook Bank
30 Snow Bunting
Gibraltar Point
Great Northern Diver, White-billed Diver ( the two divers flew south in to the Wash), Red-necked Grebe
Mablethorpe
Long-tailed Duck, Purple Sandpiper
Millennium Green
22 Cormorant, 124 Tufted Duck, 12 Goldeneye, 2 Goosander, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Egyptian Goose, Jay, 12 Siskin, Song Thrush, 34 Long-tailed Tit
Egyptian Geese on Millennium Green, Lincoln - Image © Chris Grimshaw
Westwoodside
35 Whooper Swan
Witham End
Red-throated Diver, 20 Eider, 9 Goldeneye, 6 Guillemot, Slavonian Grebe, 6 Red-breasted Merganser
Nice close up of an Eider at Cut End - Image © Dave Roberts
Wroot
c1000 Pink-footed Goose, 54 Whooper Swan
08/12/2021
Brickyard Lane
Siberian Chiffchaff
Covenham Reservoir
Grey Phalarope
Gibraltar Point
5 Little Gull (S), Water Pipit
Mablethorpe
Purple Sandpiper
Whisby area
Bittern, 150 Blackbird, Blackcap, 17 Bullfinch, Chiffchaff, Great White Egret, 2 Goosander, Oystercatcher, 2 Water Rail, 115 Lesser Redpoll, 38 Redwing, 42 Siskin, 3 Treecreeper, Grey Wagtail
07/12/2021
Boultham Mere
5 Whooper Swan
Covenham Reservoir
Snow Bunting, Grey Phalarope
Frampton Marsh
100 Dunlin, Spotted Redshank, Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint
Gibraltar Point
Lapland Bunting, 3 Snow Bunting, Great Northern Diver
Saltfleetby
33 Snow Bunting
06/12/2020
Barton - Far Ings
Bittern, 6 Brambling, 4 Marsh Harrier, Raven, 40 Siskin
A gorgeous shot of a Bittern taken in the Barton area - Image © Graham Catley
Cleethorpes
Red Knot, Turnstone
A turnstone at Cleethorpes - Image © Andy Sims
Covenham Reservoir
Grey Phalarope
Crook Bank
2 Long-tailed Duck, Great White Egret, 2 Velvet Scoter, Jack Snipe
Gibraltar Point
12 Snow Bunting
Mablethorpe
Caspian Gull
Millennium Green
Mandarin Duck, Great White Egret, 17 Goldeneye, 68 Redwing, 17 Siskin, 3 Whooper Swan
Trent Port
2 Peregrine Falcon, 120 Fieldfare, 120 Pink-footed Geese, 268 Redwing, 2 Sparrowhawk
05/12/2021
Chapel Point
Red-necked Grebe
Cleethorpes
25 Snow Bunting
Covenham Reservoir
Snow Bunting, Grey Phalarope
Cress Marsh
2 Reed Bunting, 60 Gadwall, Goldeneye, Little Grebe, 6 Black-headed Gull, 40 Great Black-backed Gull, 39 Herring Gull, 9 Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 5 Shoveler, 13 Mute Swan, 17 Teal
Crook Bank, Churchill Lane
20 Snow Bunting
Donna Nook
Caspian Gull
Frampton Marsh
Peregrine Falcon, 3 Marsh Harrier, Little Stint, Stonechat
Gibraltar Point
Great Northern Diver
Pinchbeck
Cattle Egret
Tallington Lakes
Greater Scaup
Trent Port
52 Blackbird Peregrine Falcon, 110 Fieldfare, Kingfisher, 240 Redwing, Sparrowhawk, Treecreeper
Witham End
Long-tailed Duck, 14 Eider
04/12/2021
Far Ings
Bittern
Frampton Marsh
2 Little Stint, Twite
East Halton Skitter
2 Barnacle Goose, Bittern, 3 Marsh Harrier, 2 Water Pipit, 4 Common Scoter, 2 Stonechat
03/12/2021
Covenham Reservoir
Grey Phalarope
A stunning photograph of the Grey Phalarope at Covenam Reservoir - Image © Graham Catley
Far Ings
Bittern, Marsh Harrier, Redshank
Frampton Marsh
Peregrine Falcon, Hen Harrier (2 ♂ 1♀︎), Marsh Harrier, Merlin, Short-eared Owl, Little Stint
Gibraltar Point
Long-tailed Duck, Great Northern Diver, 16 Snow Bunting
Mablethorpe
25 Snow Bunting, 4 Long-tailed Duck, Peregrine Falcon, 3 Velvet Scoter
Millenium Green
2 Brambling, Siberian Chiffchaff, Firecrest, Goldcrest, 14 Goldeneye, 4 Goosander, 2 Goldcrest, 2 Tree Sparrow, Grey Wagtail
02/12/2021
Boultham Mere
2 Bullfinch, Little Egret, 20 Redwing, 5 Whooper Swan, Cetti's Warbler
Cleethorpes
Mediterranean Gull, Purple Sandpiper
Covenham Reservoir
Grey Phalarope
Gibraltar Point
Great Shearwater
Grantham
3 Lesser Redpoll
Huttoft
Great Shearwater
Millennium Green - North Hykeham
Siberian Chiffchaff
Tallington Lakes
Greater Scaup
01/12/2021
Baston Fen
Water Pipit
Frampton Marsh
Hen Harrier, Little Stint
Gibraltar Point
Great Northern Diver, 32 Snow Bunting
Millennium Green
Blackcap, Brambling, Chiffchaff, Great White Egret, Little Grebe, 2 Jay, 170 Lapwing, 2 Whooper Swan, Great Spotted Woodpecker
Trent Port, Marton
2 Bullfinch, 70 Fieldfare, Jay, Kingfisher, 80 Redwing, 3 Whooper Swan, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker
Wroot
Hen Harrier (♂)
