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Grey partridges

Lincolnshire Coastal Country Park - November 2021

November was another busy month with good numbers of bearded tit, great sea-watching, a rescued grey seal pup, short-eared owls quartering over the Sandilands Golf Course and the completion of the…

Yellow-browed warbler (c) Alan Ball

Lincolnshire Coastal Country Park - October 2021

Although October failed to produce the favourable wind directions for scarce migrant birds there were lots of interesting sightings to keep one entertained. Sea watching was again one of the…

Flock of five snipe flying above water (c) Garry Wright

Lincolnshire Coastal Country Park - September 2021

September was an excellent month for sightings with a couple of locals finding some unusual hawkmoths in their gardens, a new record count of spoonbills, lots of migration from seabirds to pink-…

Flock of golden plover in flight over a coastal wetland (c) Garry Wright

Lincolnshire Coastal Country Park – August 2021

With northerly winds during the month, August was very exciting for our local sea watchers. They put in a huge amount of time (118 hours) sea watching, resulting in a great number of bird and…

Roe deer buck (c) Garry Wright

Lincolnshire Coastal Country Park – July 2021

July really did produce some very unexpected sightings from a new orchid discovery, unusual migrating waders, breaching dolphins all the way through to small moths. This just goes to show how much…

Brown argus butterfly

Lincolnshire Coastal Country Park – May 2021

Spring really is a great time of year to be out and about. There were lots of great sightings in May with new species of butterfly, dragonfly and orchid for the Lincolnshire Coastal Country Park…

Three lesser scaup

Lincolnshire Coastal Country Park – April 2021

A very quiet month for non-avian records with the prolonged arctic winds. Despite the cold weather and delay for many migrating species the majority did make it eventually. It was quiet surreal…

Brown hares on Anderby Marsh (c) Garry Wright

Lincolnshire Coastal Country Park - February 2021

February was certainly an interesting month starting off with Storm Darcy and freezing sub-zero temperatures and finishing with that incredibly warm spell that lasted for a short period. It seems…