Sunday 21 July 2019

Stortons ringing

Hello

Birds reported in the county today were limited to just a few regular observers and Steve Fisher again saw two Cattle Egrets and two Common Sandpipers at Stanwick Pits. Just down the road at Kinewell Lake (Ringstead Pits) a drake Red-crested Pochard was also located.

Birds north of the causeway at Pitsford Reservoir this morning included six Little Egrets and an adult Yellow-legged Gull. A Weasel was seen briefly by the Old Scaldwell Road Feeding Station.

Also today a small team of ringers operated at Stortons Pits catching some 68 birds made up of a Chiffchaff, 20 Reed Warblers, 5 Sedge Warblers, 3 Cetti's Warblers, a Garden Warbler, 10 Blackcaps, 3 Whitethroats, a Blackbird, 3 Song Thrushes, 2 Dunnocks, 3 Robins, 3 Wrens, 3 Long-tailed Tits, 3 Great Tits, 4 Blue Tits and 3 Goldfinches.

Regards

Neil M


This adult female Sparrowhawk
was today watched plucking a bird at
 Pitsford Reservoir which at the time
 I thought was a pigeon or dove.

 A close up of some
of the scattered feathers suggest it
 might have been a Great Spotted
Woodpecker. This plucking post is
actually a Common Buzzard nest
which wasn't used this year

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