I had a few days off to visit a friend of mine in Lincolnshire, our main aim was to chill out and do some bird watching. Frampton Marsh was the first place we visited and sadly we dipped out on the Great White Egret which had flown the morning we arrived. Skylarks were in abundance as were Reed Bunting, in fact it was a long list of birds/waders with a few I had never seen before, including the Tree Sparrow
Our next days adventure was Far Ings, we had been there on a previous occasion and enjoyed lovely views of the Kingfisher. No Kingfisher this time but we were rewarded with a pair of Great Crested Grebes, they did do part of the courtship but we didn’t see the finale where they run across the water. Not as many birds here but the Grebes made the day despite it being windy.
Our final day was Gibraltar Point and boy was it windy! Having spent my childhood going to Skegness for holidays I knew about it being ‘bracing’, this went beyond that and didn’t see many new birds, they were probably all tucked up somewhere out of the wind. Each reserve had its good point to remember and I would love to go back there in a month’s time when a lot of the migrant birds will have arrived but it is doubtful really.
To top off the holiday was seeing the birds that frequent my friends’ garden, each morning she goes out to feed them and they remain so close to her while she chatters away to them all. The Blackbird was very close while patiently waiting for its food. The female Great Spotted Woodpecker has been visiting for many weeks now and it was a pleasure to finally see it and manage a photograph. Time to head home but with a special stop on the way to see my sister and her husband before they flew off to visit our other sister and family in Australia, Oh how I wish I could have been with them...
