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An early morning visit to Pitsford Reservoir provided a fresh batch of migrant waders with the spit near the Moulton Grange Bay providing most of the records. A summer plumage Knot was a different bird to yesterday and there were also 2 Grey Plovers, 4 Ringed Plovers, 5 Little Ringed Plovers, at least 7 Common Sandpipers, 3 Dunlin, a Sanderling, 2-3 Oystercatchers and 2 Greenshank. Pitsford spring records of wader passage have been poor in recent years and this passage is somewhat unprecedented and helped by low water levels.
Other birds on-site today included a female Blue-headed or Channel Wagtail, two Hobby, a Black Tern, two Shelduck and a drake Red-crested Pochard.
Eleanor had five Whimbrel flying north over Blueberry Farm this morning and there were two singing Grasshopper Warblers there too. A Barn Owl was again hunting in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this evening.
Regards
Neil M
An early morning visit to Pitsford Reservoir provided a fresh batch of migrant waders with the spit near the Moulton Grange Bay providing most of the records. A summer plumage Knot was a different bird to yesterday and there were also 2 Grey Plovers, 4 Ringed Plovers, 5 Little Ringed Plovers, at least 7 Common Sandpipers, 3 Dunlin, a Sanderling, 2-3 Oystercatchers and 2 Greenshank. Pitsford spring records of wader passage have been poor in recent years and this passage is somewhat unprecedented and helped by low water levels.
Other birds on-site today included a female Blue-headed or Channel Wagtail, two Hobby, a Black Tern, two Shelduck and a drake Red-crested Pochard.
Eleanor had five Whimbrel flying north over Blueberry Farm this morning and there were two singing Grasshopper Warblers there too. A Barn Owl was again hunting in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this evening.
Regards
Neil M
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| Little Ringed Plover courtesy of Robin Gossage. |
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| Waders at Pitsford Reservoir today - Dunlin, Knot and Ringed Plover. |
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| Cuckoo at Summer Leys today courtesy of Robin Gossage. |
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