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Not much in the way of opportunity to be out and about today but a short lunchtime walk at Harrington Airfield provided the usual couple of Grey Partridges. The Common Spotted Orchids are looking much better now since the rain even if they are not in profusion this year. Butterflies included my first Ringlets of the year with still reasonable numbers of Common Blue and Small Heath on the wing. Day-flying moths included Cinnabar and Latticed Heath.
At least one Barn Owl was hunting in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this morning and at Pitsford Reservoir nineteen more Common Terns chicks and two more Black-headed Gull chicks were ringed on the rafts. The summering first year Yellow-legged Gull remains (present since last autumn) and other large larids taking advantage of dead and dying fish are fluctuating numbers of Lesser Black-backed Gulls and a couple of summering Great Black-backed Gulls.
Regards
Neil M
Not much in the way of opportunity to be out and about today but a short lunchtime walk at Harrington Airfield provided the usual couple of Grey Partridges. The Common Spotted Orchids are looking much better now since the rain even if they are not in profusion this year. Butterflies included my first Ringlets of the year with still reasonable numbers of Common Blue and Small Heath on the wing. Day-flying moths included Cinnabar and Latticed Heath.
At least one Barn Owl was hunting in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this morning and at Pitsford Reservoir nineteen more Common Terns chicks and two more Black-headed Gull chicks were ringed on the rafts. The summering first year Yellow-legged Gull remains (present since last autumn) and other large larids taking advantage of dead and dying fish are fluctuating numbers of Lesser Black-backed Gulls and a couple of summering Great Black-backed Gulls.
Regards
Neil M
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| Great Black-backed Gull. |
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| Ringlet. |
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| Common Tern. |
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