With Brian away with his family for the weekend, we think the chance of getting up to Lincolnshire for a lifer, a Black Stork is slim. It had been seen for a couple of days but I didn't fancy the long drive. The bird was still being seen on Tuesday and a call from Brian telling us to get down to his house as he can take us to Frampton Marsh in the hope of seeing the Stork. It's late morning and we quickly hit heavy traffic on the roads heading up there, when we get there we are told that the Stork had flown out of sight, so a bad start after the traffic troubles. We decide to walk out from the car park through the avenue of trees to look for the bird ourselves. we keep walking and as we turn a corner some people had got there in cars, pity we didn't know about that beforehand. As we approached the cars a fellow jumped out of his car and tells us the Stork is flying high above some pylons. We are straight onto it to give us a distant view of another lifer. The bird heads out of sight so we walk across the center path to the seawall. Once on the wall, we get 3 more flight views and see the bird land in the field in front of us for a great view, but just as we think we are going to get some good photos the farmer starts calling his heard of cows, and it scares the Stork away and over the trees and out of sight.
On a walk around the reserve, we pick up a year tick when Jimmy spots a Little Stint, no sign of the Pacific Golden Plover that was a shame. Never mind we got what we came for so smiles all around on the way home.
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| Lifer Black Stork |
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