Back at Frampton Marsh for day 2, had till about 15:00 hours today, before I was due back at Mablethorpe, so I had a six hour stint, and I was doing a different attack route today, I went left at the visitor centre instead of my usual right.
Seeing at first a male Marsh Harrier, Greylag Geese, Mallard, Wigeon, a heard only Water Rail as it did its pig like squeal from the reedbed, Greenfinch, Blue Tit, Long tailed Tit, House Sparrow, and a Common Darter Dragonfly. Getting around to the other side, opposite the Visitor Centre, is a big bed of Sunflowers, where there happened to be a large mixed flock of Greenfinch, Goldfinch and Linnets, all enjoying the seeds, needless to say I enjoyed the moment so spent a bit of time around here.
I headed on after down to the Reedbed Hide, enjoying the vast spectacle of so many Geese in the air, Greylag Geese, Canada and Pink footed Geese, a great sight and noise, and also a small flock of fourteen Egyptian Geese. Viewing from the hide were a lot of Whooper Swans, Shovelers, Gadwall, Pintail, Wigeon and Mallard, from here I also saw a distant Buzzard, it also seemed that the tide was coming in, at a guess, as a lot of waders had started to appear, these were mainly Black tailed Godwits, Lapwing, Golden Plover, Dunlin, Ruff and Redshank.
After dinner, I decided on looking around the sunflower bed again, over on the far side. On arrival I could see there were still a good size mixed flock of Goldfinch and Greenfinch, but I knew this time there was a Stonechat here, I took some finding, sadly it was only too brief when it did. 43 species toady 58 for the weekend.
Bird List: Black tailed Godwit, Blue Tit, Brent Goose, Buzzard, Canada Goose, Carrion Crow, Cetti’s Warbler, Chaffinch, Dunlin, Egyptian Goose, Gadwall, Golden Plover, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Grey Heron, Greylag Goose, House Sparrow, Kestrel, Lapwing, Little Egret, Little Grebe, Long tailed Tit, Magpie, Mallard, Marsh Harrier, Moorhen, Mute Swan, Pied Wagtail, Pink footed Goose, Pintail, Redshank, Ruff, Shelduck, Shoveler, Snipe, Starling, Stonechat, Teal, Water Rail, Whooper Swan, Wigeon, Woodpigeon, Wren (43) (58)
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Greenfinch
Grey Heron
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