March 2026

Having been away for the first week see below just catching up but migrants decidedly limited so far on the local patch

Goshawks continue to show - here a 2cy male sparring with a Common Buzzard

a new 2cy monster female

a 2cy male in same area

rubbsih shot but think its the first time I have seen a Gos with Marsh Harrier in Lincs

2cy female again

different 2cy female to earlier in the year with some adult feathers

Nice Crossbills from the same trip

went down the Lincs coast to Theddlethorpe for this male Lapland Bunting - not often you see them well on the deck and getting rarer year on year

a nice frlock of Knot on the beach by the Lap Bunt

This Scandinavian Rock Pipit, littoralis, was on the dune slacks nearby and had been widely reported as a Water Pipit

Back on the patch photo challenge Wren is 67

68 Blackcap - I saw what was presumably this female in a neighbours garden weeks ago but this week it came for a couple of our ivy berries - taken through the window - when I went outside after she moved off east I could hear a male singing a couple of gardens away which is what presumably attracted her - a wintering bird meeting a spring arrival

Assume this is the same early male I photographed last year back on the same territory on Waters’ Edge - it was sipping nectar from the blackthorn flowers on a rather cool morning

flying Moorhen

69 Rook - one of the local breeding birds on our neighbours aerial

70 Lesser Black-backed Gulls - formerly a passage bird several pairs now summer around town and there is a thriving breeding colony only about 7 miles away - maybe breed on local rooves out of sight