Started the day at Laughton Forest in search of the adders that every man and his dog seems to have seen but not us!! however we did have a male Redstart singing his head off at the top of a very wind swept pine.
On to Messingham where an adult male Peregrine was causing havoc with the Lapwings and I had my first Garden Warblers of the season. After a couple of hours of strong winds and nothing much else we came home for shelter but Wayne soon got itchy feet and headed out again to Alkborough Flats, I was soon to discover I'd made a made regretful decision to stay home........ 2 hours later Wayne comes flying in claiming a lifer. I knew immediately it wasn't a bird but a badger - we have discussed many times how we have travelled the world and seen all the 'special' mammals but never our own badger. The nearest we have come were 3 dead ones only half a mile from our house but this evening he had one in full view in daylight running across a field - he'll gloat about this for weeks.
Wayne also had the best birding down at Alkborough for a long time seeing a Temminck's Stint, 2 Little Stints, 1 Sanderling, 165 Dunlin and 40 Ringed Plover.
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