An early morning dash into Lincolnshire and to Rimac NR to try and find the Savi’s Warbler, I’d only seen before which was in Spain at the Coto Donana in 1987, so this would make a nice UK tick. When on site, it did take some finding, but it gave itself up eventually, but all too briefly, by the ut saw it we did.
We then moved onto RSPB Frampton Marsh, landing on site at about 10:30am. We started at the visitor centre area, seeing Avocet, Common Sandpiper, lots of Black-tailed Godwits, Dunlin, Lapwing, Little Egret, Little Ringed Plover being harassed by the Lapwings, with the Little Ringed Plover doing the broken wing ploy, Sand Martins lots of them, coming into land on one of the sand banks.
We moved around to the far side, where the Collard Pratincole was last seen this morning at 8am, then flew, whilst we were at Rimac, best we saw were Yellow Wagtail. Lots of butterflies about today, one being a fine male Essex Skipper which sat out for ages, letting us explore the finer details of the Essex, also about were Comma, Large Skipper, Small Skipper, Small Tortoiseshell, and Brimstone.
We ended up at the 360° hide, looking at the various birds here Avocet, Black tailed Godwit, Pintail, Greenshank, Spotted Redshank, Redshank, Ruff, Shelduck, Starling, Tufted Duck, Teal and Wigeon. I then decided to go onto the cafe for a coffee break whilst the guys moved on down to the saltmarsh.
After the coffee I caught up with the guys at the saltmarsh, who put me onto a perched Peregrine Falcon, I then found a few Mediterranean Gulls, on the way back to the car park we found a Painted Lady butterfly and a Corn Bunting.
Today saw three species added to the year list, Italics, one of those to the UK list, Bold. (191/200) 95.5%
Birds seen : Avocet, Bearded Tit, Black-headed Gull, Black-tailed Godwit, Blackbird, Carrion Crow, Common Sandpiper, Common Tern, Corn Bunting, Dunlin, Goldfinch, Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, Grey Heron, Jackdaw, Lapwing, Linnet, Little Egret, Little Grebe, Little Ringed Plover, Magpie, Mallard, Mediterranean Gull, Moorhen, Mute Swan, Oystercatcher, Peregrine, Pied Wagtail, Pintail, Redshank, Reed Bunting, Reed Warbler, Ringed Plover, Rock Dove/Feral Pigeon, Ruff, Sand Martin, Savi’s Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Shelduck, Shoveler, Spoonbill, Spotted Redshank, Starling, Teal, Tufted Duck, Wigeon, Woodpigeon, Yellow Wagtail, (48)
Butterflies seen : Brimstone, Comma, Essex Skipper, Gatekeeper, Large Skipper, Painted Lady, Peacock, Ringlet, Small Skipper, Small Tortoiseshell, Small White (11)
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