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An early morning walk at Harrington Airfield this morning was cold and foggy and it was difficult to see very much at all! A decent flock of Fieldfares were swirling around and resting regularly on the plough of the top field and there were relatively small numbers of the other common thrushes too. Bramblings could be heard calling at various places but were not visible as were Golden Plovers!
A later visit to Pitsford Reservoir confirmed a significantly higher water level and with plenty of brown water swirling about, such conditions generally ensures something of an exodus of water birds and so it seemed to be. All I managed to see were four Red-crested Pochard (two drakes) north of the causeway.
Elsewhere, Mike Alibone hit on a 'ringtail' Hen Harrier at the DIRFT 3 site near Crick and birds at Clifford Hill Pits amounted to two drake Red-crested Pochards, a Stonechat and twenty-five Golden Plovers.
A couple of ringing recoveries have been received recently and are as follows:-
1. A female Blackcap was caught and ringed at Stortons Pits on 30th September 2018 and was then caught again at Rutland Water on 17th July 2019. It is assumed that this bird was initially encountered as a passage migrant but may have returned to the Midlands to breed at Rutland Water and she will have travelled a great deal more than the 49km distance between the two sites;
2. A Mallard duckling was ringed at Pitsford Reservoir on 17th June 2019 and like so many of our birds locally was reportedly shot near Lamport on 25th October when reported as a drake. The majority of the Mallard ringed at Pitsford are recovered within the county with one exceptional individual that found itself the other side of Moscow (also shot)!
Regards
Neil M
An early morning walk at Harrington Airfield this morning was cold and foggy and it was difficult to see very much at all! A decent flock of Fieldfares were swirling around and resting regularly on the plough of the top field and there were relatively small numbers of the other common thrushes too. Bramblings could be heard calling at various places but were not visible as were Golden Plovers!
A later visit to Pitsford Reservoir confirmed a significantly higher water level and with plenty of brown water swirling about, such conditions generally ensures something of an exodus of water birds and so it seemed to be. All I managed to see were four Red-crested Pochard (two drakes) north of the causeway.
Elsewhere, Mike Alibone hit on a 'ringtail' Hen Harrier at the DIRFT 3 site near Crick and birds at Clifford Hill Pits amounted to two drake Red-crested Pochards, a Stonechat and twenty-five Golden Plovers.
A couple of ringing recoveries have been received recently and are as follows:-
1. A female Blackcap was caught and ringed at Stortons Pits on 30th September 2018 and was then caught again at Rutland Water on 17th July 2019. It is assumed that this bird was initially encountered as a passage migrant but may have returned to the Midlands to breed at Rutland Water and she will have travelled a great deal more than the 49km distance between the two sites;
2. A Mallard duckling was ringed at Pitsford Reservoir on 17th June 2019 and like so many of our birds locally was reportedly shot near Lamport on 25th October when reported as a drake. The majority of the Mallard ringed at Pitsford are recovered within the county with one exceptional individual that found itself the other side of Moscow (also shot)!
Regards
Neil M
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| Reed Bunting. All images courtesy of Robin Gossage. |
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