As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Sunday 2 September 2018

Visitors flock to see stilt sandpiper in Frampton Marsh



24 August 2018
Hundreds of visitors have flocked to a nature reserve to get a glimpse of a rare bird thought to have ended up in Lincolnshire after getting lost.
A stilt sandpiper landed at the RSPB's Frampton Marsh site near Boston earlier this week.
The wading bird is usually found along the shore of the USA's East Coast and it is only the second one ever seen in the county.
The RSPB said it was likely the bird had got lost on its annual migration.
About 200 to 300 visitors a day have been arriving at the reserve.
RSPB officials tweeted a warning to motorists to drive carefully through a nearby village after "hearing reports of cars speeding down to reserve".
Assistant warden Anthony Bentley said the bird flown across the Atlantic after getting lost on its annual migration.
"It really shouldn't be here," he said.
"It should be travelling down to South America at the movement."


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