British Garden Birds - LWT Gibraltar Point

Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust's Gibraltar Point is just south of Skegness on the northern flank of The Wash. The reserve comprises sandy and muddy shores, dunes, salt and freshwater marshes and scrub.

My visits have been around the summer bank holiday weekend, a time when some summer visitors are heading south or gorging on fruits and waders are passing through, and sometimes rarities like the Red-necked Phalarope and Long-billed Dowitcher (2004) are present.

After walking around the reserve, scouring hedgerows and scrub for warblers, etc., and looking around the pools from the hides for waders and Kingfishers, it is usually time for lunch among the sand dunes to watch the terns and look out at sea for passing gulls, petrels, waders, skuas, etc.

What You Might See
Arctic Skua Arctic Tern Avocet Black-headed Gull Black-tailed Godwit Blackcap Blue Tit Canada Goose Carrion Crow Chaffinch Collared Dove Common Buzzard Common Gull Common Sandpiper Common Scoter Common Tern Coot Cormorant Curlew Curlew Sandpiper Dunlin Dunnock Fulmar Gadwall Gannet Goldfinch Great Black-backed Gull Great Crested Grebe Great Skua Great Tit Green Sandpiper Greenfinch	Greenshank Grey Heron Grey Plover Greylag Goose Herring Gull House Martin Jackdaw Kestrel Kingfisher Knot Lapwing Lesser Black-backed Gull Lesser Whitethroat Lesser Yellowlegs Linnet Little Egret Little Grebe Little Ringed Plover Little Tern Long-billed Dowitcher Long-tailed Tit Magpie Mallard Marsh Harrier Meadow Pipit Moorhen Mute Swan Oystercatcher Pheasant Pied Wagtail Red-necked Phalarope Redshank	Reed Bunting Reed Warbler Ringed Plover Robin Ruddy Duck Ruff Sand Martin Sanderling Sandwich Tern Sedge Warbler Shelduck Shoveler Skylark Snipe Sparrowhawk Stock Dove Stonechat Swallow Teal Tufted Duck Turnstone Turtle Dove Wheatear Whimbrel Whinchat Whitethroat Wigeon Willow Warbler Wood Warbler Wood Pigeon Wren Yellowhammer