Whimbrel showing well at a very cold Jobs Lane @lincsbirding.bsky.social

@lincsbirding.bsky.social Grasshopper Warbler And Common Sandpiper at Gibraltar Point last Saturday. One close right in front of the hide and the star playing hard to get and not close

Male Smew at Jobs Lane again today right Hand pit @lincsbirding.bsky.social

He never was - he will never will be

Its a shame that the Iranians aren't too.

@lincsbirding.bsky.social A Black-necked Grebe at a very uncomfortable Covenham Reservoir in a howling gale today. Supported by two Swallows and a House Martin who must have wondered why they had bothered to fly north just yet. With Andrew Vaughan and Matt Dineen

Is there a bird more handsome than this in Lincolnshire today? A Black-necked Grebe at an extremely uncomfortable Covenham Reservoir with a howling gale. A supporting cast of a couple of Swallows and a House Martin must have wondered why they bothered to fly north just yet. With Andrew Vaughan.

He should have done that in my time of working in a factory. Too late now - hillock

@lincsbirding.bsky.social And to think Ann never got out of the car to look! Common Crane at Willow Tree Fen a couple of days ago. I saw six in total

Two Whooper Swan at Job’s Lane this afternoon. No sign of the Smew @lincsbirding.bsky.social

@lincsbirding.bsky.social The three Glossy Ibis that showed well across the river at Deeping Lakes yesterday afternoon

Three glossy ibis on the Welland at Deeping Lakes @lincsbirding.bsky.social

A beautiful male Siskin in my garden in Lincoln this morning

@lincsbirding.bsky.social Egyptian Goose at Doddington Hall near Lincoln

That’s nice. 30 Whooper Swan just flown over my house in Doddington Park in Lincoln @lincsbirding.bsky.social

@lincsbirding.bsky.social Five of the seven Common Crossbill from Tunman Woods. Possibly two female in the photo but taken from about 300 yards away. An excellent spot by Andy Simms as he spotted them in flight

@lincsbirding.bsky.social With my car serviced and not that far from Fillingham, it was just a short detour to see the Grey Grey Shrike again. It showed well in its favoured field again on a miserable morning. It did a full circuit just for my entertainment

@lincsbirding.bsky.social Plenty of Redpoll in my Lincoln garden again this morning. This one obliged by posing briefly

At least 15 lesser redpoll on my garden feeders here in Lincoln. Along with lots of hungry goldfish I think I need a bank loan to replace the seed that is being consumed @lincsbirding.bsky.social

After yesterdays dreary day when the sun and birds disappeared this morning is totally different. Both are back and put a different outlook to my Lincoln garden. And today, they even allowed me to get a half decent photo. Lesser Redpoll and the beautiful Siskin @lincsbirding.bsky.social

A lone female Pintail on the mail Lake at Messingham SQ yesterday @lincsbirding.bsky.social

@lincsbirding.bsky.social Great Grey Shrike half a mile away again in its usual field at Fillingham, Lincolnshire with St Mary's Church distantly

Snow Bunting very close to where we saw the Glossy Ibis this morning in Cleethorpes. A record shot as they say @lincsbirding.bsky.social

@lincsbirding.bsky.social A long staying Glossy Ibis at Buck Beck, Cleethorpes

@lincsbirding.bsky.social Kingfisher at Buck Beck Cleethorpes. Female I think!

The long staying Glossy Ibis at Buck Beck, Cleethorpes on a very dull dull day. Nothing dull about the birds though. My very first visit to the area and certainly not my last

Goldfinch @lincsbirding.bsky.social

@lincsbirding.bsky.social Just a moment or two before I interrupted this GWE's feeding, Swanpool cow-fields, Lincoln. Wonder if its Mother will scold it for its mucky feet?

@lincsbirding.bsky.social Oops, just a little greedy there Christpher, Great White Egret on the Catchwater Drain at the Swanpool cow-fields, Lincoln

@lincsbirding.bsky.social Redpolls have been back in my garden since before Christmas. Increasing in numbers during this cold spell they are still present in smallish numbers (probably six to eight today) and also still camera shy

Lesser Redpolls are back now in my garden - albeit in smallish numbers and a bit camera shy

The reason I always think about today is it was 108 years ago today that my father was born and also the day that I started work at Ruston & Hornsby's 63 years ago. I stopped at the company all my working life and through its many name changes until I retired Officially old. Where did the time go?

A coat of many colors. Joseph the Gadwall at Hartsholme on New Years Day @lincsbirding.bsky.social

That is it . A long walk with the dog and now the first beer of the year - heaven

@lincsbirding.bsky.social At least half a dozen lesser redpoll in my Doddington Park garden and double that number of goldfinch to warm up a cool morning and not even dressed yet

@lincsbirding.bsky.social Great White Egret from the roadside at Deeping High Bank on Wednesday. Same bird - who knows - but there was probably three along there

Back in May when the weather was slightly better on the Swanpool cow-fields

@lincsbirding.bsky.social Don't see many of these in Lincolnshie so it was worth a quick dash down the A1 to Grantham to see this. Thanks Dave and Andy. Ring-necked Parakeet

@lincsbirding.bsky.social Goldfinch Doddington Park Lincoln

@lincsbirding.bsky.social Lesser Redpoll - first of the winter. One of three and 13 days earlier than last winter

@lincsbirding.bsky.social Gadwall, Hartsholme Lake - ordinary duck? I think not!

@lincsbirding.bsky.social Great Northern Diver from yesterday at Covenham Reservoir

@lincsbirding.bsky.social Great Northern and Black-throated Divers at a breezy Covenham Reservoir showing well this afternoon. An added bonus was a Red-breasted Merganser which never came close

#lincsbirding.bsky.social Only two of the three divers for me at Covenham Reservoir. Missing was the BtD. Compensation was the snow bunting and a green sandpiper, raven and and my first goldeneye of the autumn

A shoveler showing nicely in the midday sun at Hartsholme Park. Also close by four female goosander and several siskin (both the first of the autumn for me #lincsbirding.bsky.social

this lttle beauty showed itself right at the end of a long walk in the Huttoft/Sandilands are this afternoon

#lincsbbirding snow bunting just inside the left hand car terrace at terrace until 13:45 at least

Come on you experts. What is this. Is it eatable

I don't think the Baird's Sandpiper was seen yesterday at Rutland Water so this may have been among the last photos taken of this very obliging bird

Bitterly disappointed with the quality of yesterdays photos and once news came through that it was still there. It was Ann and the dog into the car for another trip down to Rutland Water for the Baird's Sandpiper. This time I was happier and had the bird all to myself on the far side of the inlet