Red-backed Shrikes, Donna Nook, Lincs

 

Not one, but two red-backed shrikes around the car park at Donna Nook

Monday afternoon birding doesn't get much better !

Some excellent views of the two shrikes at Donna Nook. They did both land on top of the same bush for a second. Pity the photographers hounded them, getting closer and closer with a couple walking right into the bushes.....flipping idiots !  One whinchat was the only supporting cast. 

A few local pics from last week

 

Beautiful yellow wagtails infront of the hide

Whinchat

Tussling sparrowhawks

Sparrowhawk

Lots of Snipe, very cryptic almost disappearing in the vegetation

A distant red kite any hirundines

A couple of pairs of distant ravens

The pink-footed geese arrived on the Humber this week, thousands of them, their sound signifies the change of seasons with winter not too far away

Pied Wagtails

 Peregrines

Kestrels

and a beautiful roe deer, watching us watching it .....soon turning it's heels and away

Pectoral Sandpiper, RSPB Blacktoft Sands

 

Afraid it never came close preferring to feed and sleep on the opposite mud but it did have a fly around with the lapwings

Redstarts, Flycatchers, Whinchats and Lesser Whitethroats, Donna Nook, Lincs

 Headed back to Donna Nook for the red-backed shrike that had been reported earlier. A walk along the coastal path to Pye's Hall was, without doubt, the best birding day we have ever had on the Lincs coast with a massive fall of birds. The path was littered with wheatears, pied and spotted flycatchers were in every bush along with redstarts and whinchats and a few lesser whitethroats made Simon's day.  It was spectacular and we loved every minute of it. What made it extra special was that there was just us two and a million mosquitoes !  Hope you like our pics x

What a fantastic day !