Friday 20 July 2018

Post-breeding dispersal

Hello

Eric Graham's foray at Thrapston Pits today provided sightings of two Great White Egrets on Aldwincle Lake, 5/6 Little Egrets and a Green Sandpiper.

Eleanor's efforts in the Brampton Valley have of late produced little in the way of interest and again it was quiet today. With the oil seed rape fields now being harvested and the cereal fields not far behind, the agricultural landscape will change locally and hopefully provide a fresh suite of birds.

At Pitsford Reservoir this evening an influx of Little Egrets provided a roost of ten birds on The Point and there were up to three Yellow-legged Gulls loafing around.

Regards

Neil M



Little Egret. Post-breeding
birds are now dispersing...

Glossy Ibis.
The conditions at Pitsford look
just right for this nomadic wanderer
but will there be anyone there to see it?
 The majority of the birds that have turned up in
 the county have only stayed a matter of minutes
or a couple of hours before moving on again!

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