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Debbie and Eric Graham continued their local patchwork birding today with another stroll around the Titchmarsh reserve near Thrapston. With a sudden increase in green foliage it is now becoming more difficult to see our summer migrants, but again there were plenty of common warblers in song and a couple of hidden Nightingales too. Swifts and martins had increased in number and a Cuckoo was still present as were two Little Egrets.
I completed a Common Bird Census around the reserve section of Pitsford Reservoir this morning. Five Black Terns were present first thing but had departed by mid-morning. Other wildlife interests included the pair of Oystercatcher, excellent numbers of very vocal Garden Warblers, two singing Lesser Whitethroats, a singing Spotted Flycatcher, three Marsh Tits, a singing Willow Tit and a singing Nuthatch. Two Grass Snakes were my first of the year and the regular Muntjac now have one or two resident Roe Deer to munch alongside.
A quick visit to Fermyn Wood Country Park this afternoon was sufficient to see singletons of Dingy Skipper butterfly and a submerged Great Crested Newt.
Regards
Neil M
Debbie and Eric Graham continued their local patchwork birding today with another stroll around the Titchmarsh reserve near Thrapston. With a sudden increase in green foliage it is now becoming more difficult to see our summer migrants, but again there were plenty of common warblers in song and a couple of hidden Nightingales too. Swifts and martins had increased in number and a Cuckoo was still present as were two Little Egrets.
I completed a Common Bird Census around the reserve section of Pitsford Reservoir this morning. Five Black Terns were present first thing but had departed by mid-morning. Other wildlife interests included the pair of Oystercatcher, excellent numbers of very vocal Garden Warblers, two singing Lesser Whitethroats, a singing Spotted Flycatcher, three Marsh Tits, a singing Willow Tit and a singing Nuthatch. Two Grass Snakes were my first of the year and the regular Muntjac now have one or two resident Roe Deer to munch alongside.
A quick visit to Fermyn Wood Country Park this afternoon was sufficient to see singletons of Dingy Skipper butterfly and a submerged Great Crested Newt.
Regards
Neil M
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| Male Muntjac sporting his 'fangs' and a cloven ear! Pitsford Reservoir |
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| Singing Song Thrush at Pitsford Reservoir. The relatively low numbers of Song Thrush on the reserve nevertheless appear to be stable. |
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| Cormorant nesting tree at Pitsford Reservoir. With young in the nest since March, the Walgrave Bay will be a noisy place until the last individuals fledge in September! |
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| A Rook with impeccable table manners at Fermyn Country Park! Image courtesy of Sarah Gibbs. |
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| Great Crested Newt at Fermyn Country Park Courtesy of Sarah Gibbs. |
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| Teasel at Fermyn CP. Courtesy of Sarah Gibbs. |
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| Dingy Skipper butterfly at Fermyn Wood CP. Courtesy of Sarah Gibbs. |
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| Early Purple Orchid. Grafton Park Wood.. |
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