Once again we decided to take part in the https://ebird.org/globalbigday which is where you try to see as many bird species in 24 hours - last year we managed to get what we think is the Lincolnshire record of 131 so we were hoping to beat our own record however once again we got 131. Here's a bit of a summary of the 24 hours! -
00.00 - Alkborough Flats = Bittern, Water Rail
01.30 - Whisby = Nightingale
02.30 - Laughton Forest = Big dip Nightjar, Woodcock, all the Owls, Tree Pipit, Grasshopper Warbler
06.30 - Messingham = Willow Tit, Red Crested Pochard, Egyptian and Pink-footed Goose
08.15 - Twigmoor = Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher
10.00 - Alkborough = Marsh Harrier, Spotted Redshank, Wigeon, Teal, Bearded Tit
11.00 - Barton = Goldeneye, Scaup
11.15 - Off to Frampton = Woodsandpiper, Curlew Sandpiper, Little and Med Gull, Big dip Turtle Dove - nice Wood duck but not countable!
16.15 - Off to Gibraltar Point = Great White Egret, Little, Arctic and Sandwich Tern, Fulmer, Grey Plover, Sanderling
21.00 leave for home!
In hindsight it may have been better to go to Gib before Frampton as we would possibly have had Green Woody, Serin and Siskin - ironically we had lots of Siskin in Twigmoor only two days earlier. During the whole day we only had two Swifts and they were as we were driving through Horncastle.
Out of the 131 species 22 species only had one individual recorded indicating such a fine balance between seeing and not seeing. We could easily have broken our record had we seen the following birds - Jay, Greenwoodpecker, Raven, Redpoll,Hobby, Siskin, Knot, Turnstone, Common Sand, Bar-wit, Nightjar - It always happens that the very next day you see birds your missed - this year Redpoll flew over the garden! Many thanks go to Gibraltar Point especially Kev Wilson, Ben Ward and Nigel Lound - roll on next year!
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