Despite the very welcome weather today, I was tempted to stay at home and watch the birds in the garden. A singing male Siskin, a smart male Great Spotted Woodpecker and singles of Reed Bunting and Yellowhammer made it all quite compelling.
Nevertheless there were duties to perform with more wild bird feeding stations to be maintained. A couple of Siskins were present around the feeders at Kelmarsh Hall where there were also good numbers of common finches too. The regularity of our visits ensure that some birds now come to greet us! Some of the Pheasants trail behind us and all the local Robins have tamed-up to the degree that a couple of them sit just a couple of feet away whilst we are filling up the feeders and sing to us!
Harrington Airfield attracted up to about 12 Bramblings today plus a Raven, a pair of Grey Partridge, the usual raptors and the Green Sandpiper still.
This afternoon a female Peregrine was in pursuit of about twenty Golden Plovers in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton. Approximately sixty Snipe were still in residence at Pitsford Res this afternoon and a pair of displaying Sparrowhawks in the Scaldwell Bay put on a good performance.
Regards
Eleanor and Neil
Goldeneye in flight, the duck
endeavouring to catch her drake!
Pitsford Reservoir
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