A late-night call gets us up early for a trip to a real favorite reserve of ours in Lincolnshire Frampton RSPB.
We arrive in the car park at 8 am and scan over the fence where there is loads of water and it is packed with many birds.
The boys already had the Lesser-Yellowlegs from another trip that I missed but I soon put that right when the Lesser-Yellowlegs showed well for my tick.
A Black-winged Stilt was soon found over the back of the scrape for a good tick. Looking over this scrape is so good that we had to drag ourselves away to look for more stuff.
Up at 360 hide, Ringed and Little Ringed Plover are seen, while in the hide a lady that we had been talking to came back to the hide to tell us that the Black- Tern that had been reported had just been relocated up by the end of the track to the hide, so a quick run up there see's us get a really good year tick, the Tern gives a really good up and down display.
Brian then picked out a couple of Little Gulls for another good tick and then a fellow next to us found a Gull that he wasn't sure of, so he got Brian to have a look and it turned out to be a Bonaparte's Gull. it had been reported the day before but had not been seen today so a really great find.
Also seen while here Greenshank, Spotted-Redshank, a few Yellow-Wagtails a White Wagtail, a Great-white Egret, and a Little Egret a sedge Warbler get us a year tick.
As I said we love this place and on the right day it's a magic place for us, and this visit was one of them.
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| The Black Tern |
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| Again |
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| The Bonaparte's Gull |
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| A bit far off but the Black-winged Stilt |
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