Hello
Unseasonably warm weather in the UK and Northants is hardly the conditions we expect in February and it doesn't seem to have produced any different birds locally.
Yesterday (Monday) and six Crossbills were still present at Irchester Country Park and at a time of the year when they should be breeding! Today (Tuesday) there were still at least three present, this time by the woodcutters huts.
The Great Grey Shrike wasn't reported at it's usual haunt between Hanging Houghton and Cottesbrooke both yesterday and today despite being looked for. A Corn Bunting, fifteen Tree Sparrows and two Bramblings were in the general area today...
Also today two Great White Egrets were at Summer Leys NR with three Red-crested Pochard on nearby Mary's Lake (courtesy of Kim Taylor).
News of the Great Spotted Woodpecker caught at Glyn Davies Wood at the weekend indicates that it was initially ringed as a young bird in August 2018 as far away as Wiltshire! This seems a rather unusual movement although is not unprecedented as a few years ago a bird first ringed in Hertfordshire as an adult in the breeding season (and colour ringed) was then seen in a Crick garden.
For a little while now Mute Swans have been ringed and had orange plastic darvic rings placed on a leg at the Embankment at Wellingborough. During the last month a couple of these birds have been re-sighted at Ditchford Pits and the ringers involved invite further reports of birds should you see them (visit the BTO website>click on Ringing on LHS of page> click on reporting a colour ringed bird). Grid references are requested if possible.
Regards
Neil M
Unseasonably warm weather in the UK and Northants is hardly the conditions we expect in February and it doesn't seem to have produced any different birds locally.
Yesterday (Monday) and six Crossbills were still present at Irchester Country Park and at a time of the year when they should be breeding! Today (Tuesday) there were still at least three present, this time by the woodcutters huts.
The Great Grey Shrike wasn't reported at it's usual haunt between Hanging Houghton and Cottesbrooke both yesterday and today despite being looked for. A Corn Bunting, fifteen Tree Sparrows and two Bramblings were in the general area today...
Also today two Great White Egrets were at Summer Leys NR with three Red-crested Pochard on nearby Mary's Lake (courtesy of Kim Taylor).
News of the Great Spotted Woodpecker caught at Glyn Davies Wood at the weekend indicates that it was initially ringed as a young bird in August 2018 as far away as Wiltshire! This seems a rather unusual movement although is not unprecedented as a few years ago a bird first ringed in Hertfordshire as an adult in the breeding season (and colour ringed) was then seen in a Crick garden.
For a little while now Mute Swans have been ringed and had orange plastic darvic rings placed on a leg at the Embankment at Wellingborough. During the last month a couple of these birds have been re-sighted at Ditchford Pits and the ringers involved invite further reports of birds should you see them (visit the BTO website>click on Ringing on LHS of page> click on reporting a colour ringed bird). Grid references are requested if possible.
Regards
Neil M
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