White-tailed Lapwing. East Hide, Frampton Marsh RSPB, Lincolnshire. DSC_2449.jpg
The "mega" vagrant from Central Asia that first showed up at Blacktoft Sands RSPB on the Yorkshire river Ouse on 26 August 2021, stayed for 4 months, before relocating around the Lincolnshire coast at Halton Marshes until early March, before again relocating to Frampton Marsh RSPB.
Several people were in the hide from 6 am when I arrived at circa 8:40 am after a painfully slow run over from Nottingham (6:30 am set off!) and the lengthy walk from the old car park on arrival. The bird was presumably sleeping and preening nearby in the fresh marsh but unseen; it was first spotted about 11 am. It was largely hidden in some tussocks at the top of a channel, running out to the sea wall, beyond the fence, some way off and barely visible except to scopers and into the sun. We didn't get any real joy until midday, when it flew from there, across the front of the hide and onto the the bank running out west from the hide, next to the adjacent scrape (here) and fairly close in. It marched into the vegetation below the bank and foraged in and out of cover around the edge of the small wet scrapes for circa 50 minutes, before it was chased away back towards the sea wall by a gull.
We didn't see it then until 5 pm, when it reappeared on the sea wall side of the hide, where it foraged fairly close in, up and down one of the channels running out westwards, but in rather poor directional light and unattractive vegetation, so I didn't bother with the camera at that point.
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White-tailed Lapwing. East Hide, Frampton Marsh RSPB, Lincolnshire. DSC_2449.jpg
The "mega" vagrant from Central Asia that first showed up at Blacktoft Sands RSPB on the Yorkshire river Ouse on 26 August 2021, stayed for 4 months, before relocating around the Lincolnshire coast at Halton Marshes until early March, before again relocating to Frampton Marsh RSPB.
Several people were in the hide from 6 am when I arrived at circa 8:40 am after a painfully slow run over from Nottingham (6:30 am set off!) and the lengthy walk from the old car park on arrival. The bird was presumably sleeping and preening nearby in the fresh marsh but unseen; it was first spotted about 11 am. It was largely hidden in some tussocks at the top of a channel, running out to the sea wall, beyond the fence, some way off and barely visible except to scopers and into the sun. We didn't get any real joy until midday, when it flew from there, across the front of the hide and onto the the bank running out west from the hide, next to the adjacent scrape (here) and fairly close in. It marched into the vegetation below the bank and foraged in and out of cover around the edge of the small wet scrapes for circa 50 minutes, before it was chased away back towards the sea wall by a gull.
We didn't see it then until 5 pm, when it reappeared on the sea wall side of the hide, where it foraged fairly close in, up and down one of the channels running out westwards, but in rather poor directional light and unattractive vegetation, so I didn't bother with the camera at that point.
Thank you for your faves and comments.