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Bird ringing activity at Pitsford Reservoir today concluded with a total of 112 birds being processed which included a boat trip out to the tern rafts and ringing 16 Common Tern chicks. Other birds of another twenty species included a Kingfisher, a Blackbird, a Song Thrush, 6 Dunnocks, 9 Robins, 10 Wrens, a Treecreeper, 2 Goldcrests, 4 Willow Warblers, 8 Chiffchaffs, 5 Garden Warblers, 8 Blackcaps, a Whitethroat, 5 Reed Warblers, 17 Great Tits, 9 Blue Tits, a Coal Tit, 2 Marsh Tits, 4 Long-tailed Tits and a Bullfinch.
Other birds noted on the reserve included a Great White Egret, an adult Yellow-legged Gull and three drake Red-crested Pochards.
Hollowell Reservoir today supported waders in the shape of a Dunlin, three Green Sandpipers, five Common Sandpipers, a Redshank and a Little Ringed Plover. Stanwick again hosted a Cattle Egret today plus two Green Sandpipers and five Common Sandpipers.
A walk in the cooling evening at Harrington Airfield was good for two moulting juvenile Common Redstarts (by the Shooting Wall and at the ringing ride near to Bunker One), a Turtle Dove, a pair of Grey Partridge, a juvenile Grasshopper Warbler, an influx of Willow Warblers and a juvenile Sedge Warbler trying it's best to sing! A Hobby raced past the garden here at Hanging Houghton this afternoon in pursuit of Swallows and a male Sparrowhawk was punching above it's weight with it's capture of a Collared Dove.
Regards
Neil M
Bird ringing activity at Pitsford Reservoir today concluded with a total of 112 birds being processed which included a boat trip out to the tern rafts and ringing 16 Common Tern chicks. Other birds of another twenty species included a Kingfisher, a Blackbird, a Song Thrush, 6 Dunnocks, 9 Robins, 10 Wrens, a Treecreeper, 2 Goldcrests, 4 Willow Warblers, 8 Chiffchaffs, 5 Garden Warblers, 8 Blackcaps, a Whitethroat, 5 Reed Warblers, 17 Great Tits, 9 Blue Tits, a Coal Tit, 2 Marsh Tits, 4 Long-tailed Tits and a Bullfinch.
Other birds noted on the reserve included a Great White Egret, an adult Yellow-legged Gull and three drake Red-crested Pochards.
Hollowell Reservoir today supported waders in the shape of a Dunlin, three Green Sandpipers, five Common Sandpipers, a Redshank and a Little Ringed Plover. Stanwick again hosted a Cattle Egret today plus two Green Sandpipers and five Common Sandpipers.
A walk in the cooling evening at Harrington Airfield was good for two moulting juvenile Common Redstarts (by the Shooting Wall and at the ringing ride near to Bunker One), a Turtle Dove, a pair of Grey Partridge, a juvenile Grasshopper Warbler, an influx of Willow Warblers and a juvenile Sedge Warbler trying it's best to sing! A Hobby raced past the garden here at Hanging Houghton this afternoon in pursuit of Swallows and a male Sparrowhawk was punching above it's weight with it's capture of a Collared Dove.
Regards
Neil M
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| Furtive Grasshopper Warbler at Harrington Airfield this evening. |
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| Sparrowhawk. |
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