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Kenny was back at Linford Lakes early this morning and managed to catch two Cuckoos, one of which was the male caught back on the 17th May and a new bird. This makes it four birds caught and ringed there this year.
Chris and Helen completed some ringing at a new site near Greens Norton, processing a very respectable thirty birds including a number of Blackcaps one of which was already bearing a ring from elsewhere. Birds on-site included Kingfisher and Grey Wagtail.
A Crossbill was heard calling distantly at Hanging Houghton this morning and the singing Quail continued to please quite a procession of visitors to Harrington Airfield today. A Barn Owl was seen a couple of times there today too.
Bird of the day though was a Rosy Starling photographed in a Hackleton garden this morning, but sadly not seen since. Hopefully this individual and maybe others to come will give themselves up eventually!
Pitsford Reservoir this afternoon hosted a Pink-footed Goose, a first summer Yellow-legged Gull, a colour-ringed Common Tern, a summer flock of twenty-one Lapwings and a Stoat, all in the Scaldwell Bay. The drake Red-crested Pochard remained on the visitor centre lake at Stanwick Pits this afternoon.
Regards
Neil M
Kenny was back at Linford Lakes early this morning and managed to catch two Cuckoos, one of which was the male caught back on the 17th May and a new bird. This makes it four birds caught and ringed there this year.
Chris and Helen completed some ringing at a new site near Greens Norton, processing a very respectable thirty birds including a number of Blackcaps one of which was already bearing a ring from elsewhere. Birds on-site included Kingfisher and Grey Wagtail.
A Crossbill was heard calling distantly at Hanging Houghton this morning and the singing Quail continued to please quite a procession of visitors to Harrington Airfield today. A Barn Owl was seen a couple of times there today too.
Bird of the day though was a Rosy Starling photographed in a Hackleton garden this morning, but sadly not seen since. Hopefully this individual and maybe others to come will give themselves up eventually!
Pitsford Reservoir this afternoon hosted a Pink-footed Goose, a first summer Yellow-legged Gull, a colour-ringed Common Tern, a summer flock of twenty-one Lapwings and a Stoat, all in the Scaldwell Bay. The drake Red-crested Pochard remained on the visitor centre lake at Stanwick Pits this afternoon.
Regards
Neil M
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| Cuckoo number four for Kenny this year. |
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| Great Crested Newt, also courtesy of Kenny Cramer. |
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| Bee Orchid at Harrington Airfield. |
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| Common Spotted Orchid at Harrington Airfield. |
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