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'Intermittent light rain' it said when we planned our Pitsford Reservoir WeBs count for today! Well it rained all day and mostly it wasn't light but we managed to complete our count nevertheless. Fortunately it wasn't cold and there was very little wind. The reservoir is well above it's water retention capacity and much of the waterside furniture/bushes/trees are underwater.
Bird-wise it seemed quiet, the highlights being a Great White Egret, four Little Egrets, a drake Mandarin Duck, forty-one Common Snipe, five Stonechats in the end, a Chiffchaff and two Grey Wagtails. A calling goose at dawn sounded like a White-fronted Goose but the Greylag flock remained in the fields and mostly obscured during the day so it wasn't possible to check them through properly. A Stoat was active south of the causeway and road-side Barn Owl sightings the last couple of days include the A361 at Fawsley and the minor road between Ravensthorpe Reservoir (dam end) and Teeton.
Regards
Neil M
'Intermittent light rain' it said when we planned our Pitsford Reservoir WeBs count for today! Well it rained all day and mostly it wasn't light but we managed to complete our count nevertheless. Fortunately it wasn't cold and there was very little wind. The reservoir is well above it's water retention capacity and much of the waterside furniture/bushes/trees are underwater.
Bird-wise it seemed quiet, the highlights being a Great White Egret, four Little Egrets, a drake Mandarin Duck, forty-one Common Snipe, five Stonechats in the end, a Chiffchaff and two Grey Wagtails. A calling goose at dawn sounded like a White-fronted Goose but the Greylag flock remained in the fields and mostly obscured during the day so it wasn't possible to check them through properly. A Stoat was active south of the causeway and road-side Barn Owl sightings the last couple of days include the A361 at Fawsley and the minor road between Ravensthorpe Reservoir (dam end) and Teeton.
Regards
Neil M
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