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A late evening walk in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton yesterday evening (Monday) was good for a hunting Barn Owl and a 'reeling' Grasshopper Warbler.
Eric paid the lakes in the north of the county a visit today (Tuesday) seeing a family party of Spotted Flycatchers, Gadwall with broods of young, three adult Black Swans and six Little Egrets all at Blatherwycke. Nearby Deene Lake hosted an Osprey, a drake Pochard, a Snipe and five Green Sandpipers.
Dave Francis paid the tern rafts a visit at Pitsford Reservoir today and ringed a further eight Common Tern chicks and another Black-headed Gull chick. Also in the Scaldwell Bay was a female Tufted Duck with just a single duckling, eleven Little Egrets now next to the Willow Hide and three broods of Mute Swans generally north of the causeway.
This evening a flock of about thirty Black-tailed Godwits were visible on the Summer Leys Reserve at Earls Barton, on the island in front of the screen hide. Earlier Hollowell Reservoir played host to the long-staying Ruddy Shelduck, a Yellow-legged Gull and two Little Ringed Plovers
Five members of the Northants Ringing Group supported a Bioblitz Day as managed by the Parks Trust with a bird ringing demonstration at Howe Park Wood, Milton Keynes. Although not a regular ringing site some well positioned mist nets succeeded in catching 63 birds of eleven species, the highlights being two juvenile Nuthatches, a juvenile Goldcrest and a Blackcap. This small but excellent mixed deciduous wood was also home to butterflies including Marbled Whites (near to the wood), Silver-washed Fritillary and Purple Emperor.
Regards
Neil M
A late evening walk in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton yesterday evening (Monday) was good for a hunting Barn Owl and a 'reeling' Grasshopper Warbler.
Eric paid the lakes in the north of the county a visit today (Tuesday) seeing a family party of Spotted Flycatchers, Gadwall with broods of young, three adult Black Swans and six Little Egrets all at Blatherwycke. Nearby Deene Lake hosted an Osprey, a drake Pochard, a Snipe and five Green Sandpipers.
Dave Francis paid the tern rafts a visit at Pitsford Reservoir today and ringed a further eight Common Tern chicks and another Black-headed Gull chick. Also in the Scaldwell Bay was a female Tufted Duck with just a single duckling, eleven Little Egrets now next to the Willow Hide and three broods of Mute Swans generally north of the causeway.
This evening a flock of about thirty Black-tailed Godwits were visible on the Summer Leys Reserve at Earls Barton, on the island in front of the screen hide. Earlier Hollowell Reservoir played host to the long-staying Ruddy Shelduck, a Yellow-legged Gull and two Little Ringed Plovers
Five members of the Northants Ringing Group supported a Bioblitz Day as managed by the Parks Trust with a bird ringing demonstration at Howe Park Wood, Milton Keynes. Although not a regular ringing site some well positioned mist nets succeeded in catching 63 birds of eleven species, the highlights being two juvenile Nuthatches, a juvenile Goldcrest and a Blackcap. This small but excellent mixed deciduous wood was also home to butterflies including Marbled Whites (near to the wood), Silver-washed Fritillary and Purple Emperor.
Regards
Neil M
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| Sparrowhawk. Images courtesy of Dave Jackson. |
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