Gemma Gadd
10:37Thursday 05 May 2016
Twitchers and wildlife
photographers are flocking to RSPB Frampton Marsh to catch a glimpse of a rare
bird to Britain’s shores.
The black-winged stilt was
pictured at the nature reserve near Boston enjoying a wade around the wetlands
and looking for food.
The site’s visitor experience
manager Chris Andrews said: “Sometimes referred to as the Naomi Campbell of the
bird world, due it its elegance and incredibly long legs, the black-winged
stilt should be in the Mediterranean but instead arrived here on Tuesday. Maybe
it heard the weather report for the weekend?”
The sighting has attracted
bird-watchers to the site from as far afield as Yorkshire and Hertfordshire.
Mr Andrews said only a couple of
the birds were seen in the UK each year - but numbers have gone up slightly in
recent years to around a dozen ‘due to global warming’.
It is, however, the fourth year
in a row the RSPB site has been visited by a solo black-winged stilt.
“We do a lot of work making the
reserve absolutely brilliant for birds - and the wildlife is flourishing as a
result,” Mr Andrews added. “We are swiftly gaining a reputation not just as one
of the best reserves in Lincolnshire, but in the whole UK.”
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