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Low cloud and drizzle this morning produced large numbers of migrants at Harrington Airfield probably amounting to over a thousand small birds in and over the bushes around the bunkers. The biggest numbers included 275 Redwings, 200 Chaffinches, 50 Skylarks, 50+ Meadow Pipits, 50 each of Linnet and Goldfinch and Yellowhammer, over a hundred Starlings with smaller numbers of Blackbirds, Song Thrushes, Reed Buntings, Greenfinches, Tree Sparrows, Siskins, Redpolls and wagtails. Once the breeze kicked in and the drizzle lifted, many of the birds appeared to depart. An immature male Merlin was a bit late for the party and whizzed off north.
Steve's efforts at Stanwick Pits this morning provided a Great White Egret, two Cattle Egrets, a Ruff, two Fieldfares. five hundred Redwings, eighteen House Martins and fifteen Siskins.
Eleanor spent some hours this afternoon in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton and up at Blueberry Farm and notched up an immature Ring Ouzel in a hedge at the bottom of Hill Field and the area around 'shrike hedge' provided a female Merlin, a pair of Stonechat and a Barn Owl.
The gull roost at Pitsford Reservoir this evening provided a second winter Mediterranean Gull and nine Yellow-legged Gulls.
Regards
Neil M
Low cloud and drizzle this morning produced large numbers of migrants at Harrington Airfield probably amounting to over a thousand small birds in and over the bushes around the bunkers. The biggest numbers included 275 Redwings, 200 Chaffinches, 50 Skylarks, 50+ Meadow Pipits, 50 each of Linnet and Goldfinch and Yellowhammer, over a hundred Starlings with smaller numbers of Blackbirds, Song Thrushes, Reed Buntings, Greenfinches, Tree Sparrows, Siskins, Redpolls and wagtails. Once the breeze kicked in and the drizzle lifted, many of the birds appeared to depart. An immature male Merlin was a bit late for the party and whizzed off north.
Steve's efforts at Stanwick Pits this morning provided a Great White Egret, two Cattle Egrets, a Ruff, two Fieldfares. five hundred Redwings, eighteen House Martins and fifteen Siskins.
Eleanor spent some hours this afternoon in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton and up at Blueberry Farm and notched up an immature Ring Ouzel in a hedge at the bottom of Hill Field and the area around 'shrike hedge' provided a female Merlin, a pair of Stonechat and a Barn Owl.
The gull roost at Pitsford Reservoir this evening provided a second winter Mediterranean Gull and nine Yellow-legged Gulls.
Regards
Neil M
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| Merlin. |
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| Redwing. |
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| Ring Ouzel (this one an adult female). |
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| Meadow Pipit. |
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