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John Woollett and team completed a ringing session in cool, rather breezy conditions at Stortons Pits this morning. Thirty-eight birds were caught and released made up of 20 Blue Tits, 6 Great Tits, a Greenfinch, 3 Goldfinches, a Reed Bunting, a Dunnock, 2 Robins, a Blackbird, a Cetti's Warbler (a female first ringed in 2015) a Treecreeper and a Long-tailed Tit.
Eric Graham scoured the Titchmarsh Reserve at Thrapston today seeing a Great White Egret on Heron Lake, two Little Egrets, three Goosanders on Aldwincle Lake, four singing Cetti's Warblers and a Water Rail.
A walk at Harrington Airfield this morning was rather cool and the only birds of note were a small party of twenty Golden Plovers. A walk around Cottesbrooke village failed to locate any Hawfinches although a pair of Raven were on territory. A Barn Owl was in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this morning and a Grey Wagtail was at Brixworth Treatment Works.
A cool, grey and breezy gull roost this afternoon at Pitsford Reservoir finally paid off when a first winter Kittiwake was located among the Common and Black-headed Gulls.
Regards
Neil M
John Woollett and team completed a ringing session in cool, rather breezy conditions at Stortons Pits this morning. Thirty-eight birds were caught and released made up of 20 Blue Tits, 6 Great Tits, a Greenfinch, 3 Goldfinches, a Reed Bunting, a Dunnock, 2 Robins, a Blackbird, a Cetti's Warbler (a female first ringed in 2015) a Treecreeper and a Long-tailed Tit.
Eric Graham scoured the Titchmarsh Reserve at Thrapston today seeing a Great White Egret on Heron Lake, two Little Egrets, three Goosanders on Aldwincle Lake, four singing Cetti's Warblers and a Water Rail.
A walk at Harrington Airfield this morning was rather cool and the only birds of note were a small party of twenty Golden Plovers. A walk around Cottesbrooke village failed to locate any Hawfinches although a pair of Raven were on territory. A Barn Owl was in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this morning and a Grey Wagtail was at Brixworth Treatment Works.
A cool, grey and breezy gull roost this afternoon at Pitsford Reservoir finally paid off when a first winter Kittiwake was located among the Common and Black-headed Gulls.
Regards
Neil M
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| First winter Kittiwake. |
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| Female Blackbird, courtesy of John Tilly. |
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| Robin. Courtesy of John Tilly. |
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