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A/the pair of Raven paid us another morning visit to the village here at Hanging Houghton - it is likely that they have very large territories locally and pairs regularly tour around, re-establishing the boundaries, checking foraging areas and assessing potential nest sites all in readiness for breeding attempts early in 2019.
Eleanor's trek around Blueberry Farm paid off this morning with a juvenile Marsh Harrier quartering The Hill field (harvested oat crop) and two Redstarts in the hedging surrounding the short turf field just south of the farm (a traditional stop-over site in the autumn and sometimes spring too).
Birds north of the causeway at Pitsford Reservoir today included a pair of Hobby, two juvenile Ravens and an adult Yellow-legged Gull. The Tree Sparrow flock around the Old Scaldwell Road Feeding Station totalled in excess of forty birds.
The evening gull roost of the Sailing Club contained ten Yellow-legged Gulls (a variety of ages) and the only wader seen was a smart summer plumage Turnstone.
Regards
Neil M
A/the pair of Raven paid us another morning visit to the village here at Hanging Houghton - it is likely that they have very large territories locally and pairs regularly tour around, re-establishing the boundaries, checking foraging areas and assessing potential nest sites all in readiness for breeding attempts early in 2019.
Eleanor's trek around Blueberry Farm paid off this morning with a juvenile Marsh Harrier quartering The Hill field (harvested oat crop) and two Redstarts in the hedging surrounding the short turf field just south of the farm (a traditional stop-over site in the autumn and sometimes spring too).
Birds north of the causeway at Pitsford Reservoir today included a pair of Hobby, two juvenile Ravens and an adult Yellow-legged Gull. The Tree Sparrow flock around the Old Scaldwell Road Feeding Station totalled in excess of forty birds.
The evening gull roost of the Sailing Club contained ten Yellow-legged Gulls (a variety of ages) and the only wader seen was a smart summer plumage Turnstone.
Regards
Neil M
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| Tree Sparrows. Courtesy of Robin Gossage. |
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| Turnstone. |
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| Juvenile Mistle Thrush. Most Mistle Thrushes will have finished breeding now and it is at this time of the year that they form up into post-breeding flocks. These groups include birds raised this year and moulting adults and is likely to be the only time of the year when it is possible to see a sizable flock of Mistle Thrushes. |
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