Well looks like we picked an appalling weekend weatherwise for the winter bird race but good luck to all the participators. Its still not too late to register a square if you want to take part over the next 3 days.
There was an interesting article on the UK winter atlas this week by Andy Musgrove of BTO on Birdguides http://www.birdguides.com/webzine/article.asp?a=2475. It shows a UK wide species richness map and unsurprisingly the best square in England is Titchwell, Norfolk with 207 species.
The Lincs coast comes out well and the best squares in Lincs so far is TF49 Donna Nook/Rimac with 160 species closely followed by TF55 Gibraltar Point with 147. The best inland square with 129 species is SK96 which covers SW Lincoln and Whisby Pits. SE92 Far Ings is the best square in Humberside (which includes Spurn Point) with 130 species and further up on the Yorkshire coast TA09 Filey Brig has 164 species.
Good luck in getting out and finding those missing birds.
Phil
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