It was time to shake of the confines of the county today and head for somewhere different. Alan Shorrock and I headed over to the popular RSPB reserve at Frampton Marsh near Boston where we enjoyed a decent enough day's birding. To add to our enjoyment the weather turned out to be fairly decent and was pleasantly warm.
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| Spoonbill and Little Egret. |
Waders are usually one of the major draws here and they did not disappoint today. The highlight perhaps was a couple of Spotted Redshanks that Alan picked out though we had to hang around and wait for them to wake up before he could convince me that they were, waders were never one of my strong points. More straightforward perhaps were a brace of juvenile Curlew Sandpipers that I found a little while later. Ruffs were one of the commoner species today though a large arrival of Black-tailed Godwits brought in several hundred as well as a few Knots. Other than a few Dunlin, Snipe and Avocets there was not much else to report wader wise.
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| Spotted Redshanks and Ruff. |
Among the wildfowl present was the resident Whooper Swan and an over summering Brent Goose and we also saw an Egyptian Goose. Plenty of Pintail were on site and also a large number of Wigeon. Frampton is quite a regular spot for Spoonbills nowadays so it was not a surprise to find of a flock of these birds, more surprising perhaps was that some were awake! Raptors were represented by several Hobbies and a few Buzzards while the best passerines were the many Yellow Wagtails that were either seen or heard. Not much in the way of insects with a Red Admiral the best butterfly and Migrant Hawker the best of the dragons.
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| Whooper Swan, Yellow Wagtail and Migrant Hawker. |
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