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The heavy rain of the last two days has provided an opportunity to see some of the birds that would normally pass through the county unseen. Yesterday evening (27th) a Wood Sandpiper and a Garganey were located on the Titchmarsh Reserve at Thrapston Pits.
At 6am this morning two drake Common Scoters were located at Pitsford Reservoir off the dam and they meandered off to the east shore where they fed just a few feet off the bank. A little while later three drake Common Scoters swam out of the Pintail Bay into the main basin and later drifted north towards the causeway. Two adult Arctic Terns joined the Common Terns there and a Dunlin flew in. Three Yellow-legged Gulls were on the buoys and a family of Spotted Flycatchers were in hedging by the Sailing Club entrance. A Green Sandpiper and two Common Sandpipers were north of the causeway this evening.
Stanwick Pits/Lakes provided an impressive list of birds today including three Cattle Egrets, a Sanderling, a Dunlin, a Whimbrel, three Green Sandpipers, a Common Sandpiper, two Black Terns and five Arctic Terns with a possible juvenile Citrine Wagtail being seen by local guru Steve Fisher (the bird was distant and elusive). The Titchmarsh Reserve at Thrapston yielded two Garganey and a passage of Arctic Terns totalling seventeen birds. Summer Leys Reserve at Earls Barton attracted a Black Tern, a Sanderling, a Dunlin, a Green Sandpiper, four Common Sandpipers and a Greenshank and Clifford Hill Pits harboured three Arctic Terns this afternoon.
Finally birds in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this evening included a juvenile Marsh Harrier, two Whinchats and a Common Redstart.
Regards
Neil M
The heavy rain of the last two days has provided an opportunity to see some of the birds that would normally pass through the county unseen. Yesterday evening (27th) a Wood Sandpiper and a Garganey were located on the Titchmarsh Reserve at Thrapston Pits.
At 6am this morning two drake Common Scoters were located at Pitsford Reservoir off the dam and they meandered off to the east shore where they fed just a few feet off the bank. A little while later three drake Common Scoters swam out of the Pintail Bay into the main basin and later drifted north towards the causeway. Two adult Arctic Terns joined the Common Terns there and a Dunlin flew in. Three Yellow-legged Gulls were on the buoys and a family of Spotted Flycatchers were in hedging by the Sailing Club entrance. A Green Sandpiper and two Common Sandpipers were north of the causeway this evening.
Stanwick Pits/Lakes provided an impressive list of birds today including three Cattle Egrets, a Sanderling, a Dunlin, a Whimbrel, three Green Sandpipers, a Common Sandpiper, two Black Terns and five Arctic Terns with a possible juvenile Citrine Wagtail being seen by local guru Steve Fisher (the bird was distant and elusive). The Titchmarsh Reserve at Thrapston yielded two Garganey and a passage of Arctic Terns totalling seventeen birds. Summer Leys Reserve at Earls Barton attracted a Black Tern, a Sanderling, a Dunlin, a Green Sandpiper, four Common Sandpipers and a Greenshank and Clifford Hill Pits harboured three Arctic Terns this afternoon.
Finally birds in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this evening included a juvenile Marsh Harrier, two Whinchats and a Common Redstart.
Regards
Neil M
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| Arctic Tern. |
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| Black Terns. |
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| Whinchat. |
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