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Some very wet weather out there today but it didn't deter the keenest of birders!
At Earls Barton Pits there were three Black-tailed Godwits at the eastern end of Hardwater Lake this morning and the two juvenile Black-necked Grebes were still on the Summer Leys LNR reserve.
Late morning and five Crossbills were in trees around the main car park at Wakerley Wood, very much a traditional stop-over site for them.
This afternoon and there were four Cattle Egrets on the Main Lake at Stanwick and Hollowell Reservoir continued to host the female Ruddy Shelduck plus a Little Ringed Plover and a Dunlin (with an Osprey in the morning).
The adult male Common Redstart was seen again this afternoon at Harrington Airfield, moving between bushes about 50m beyond the chippings compound. Also present was a pair of Grey Partridge and a foraging Stoat.
Information relating to the colour-ringed Common Tern seen at Pitsford Reservoir on Monday (and also Saturday by Adrian) has quickly been provided by the project ringer Andy Smith. The bird was ringed as a nestling at Watermead Country Park, Leicestershire on 18th June 2017, so it's not far from it's natal area. Hitherto it had been reported twice during it's life, the first time at Seaforth, Merseyside on 14th August 2017 and then on Coquet Island, Northumberland on 18th June 2019! Terns are amazing travelers and their light but strong frame takes them all over the globe and often very quickly.
Following its dispersal in the autumn of 2017 it no doubt traveled around quite a bit of the UK before heading off to winter in African coastal waters where in all probability it remained throughout 2018.
Clearly in the spring of 2019 it visited the NE coast of England (Coquet Island is the place in England for Roseate Tern and whilst there it would probably have been easily outnumbered by this species and Arctic Tern too). In any event this summer finds it back in the English Midlands where we might speculate as to whether it is one of the breeding birds on the tern rafts at Pitsford Reservoir.
Regards
Neil M
Some very wet weather out there today but it didn't deter the keenest of birders!
At Earls Barton Pits there were three Black-tailed Godwits at the eastern end of Hardwater Lake this morning and the two juvenile Black-necked Grebes were still on the Summer Leys LNR reserve.
Late morning and five Crossbills were in trees around the main car park at Wakerley Wood, very much a traditional stop-over site for them.
This afternoon and there were four Cattle Egrets on the Main Lake at Stanwick and Hollowell Reservoir continued to host the female Ruddy Shelduck plus a Little Ringed Plover and a Dunlin (with an Osprey in the morning).
The adult male Common Redstart was seen again this afternoon at Harrington Airfield, moving between bushes about 50m beyond the chippings compound. Also present was a pair of Grey Partridge and a foraging Stoat.
Information relating to the colour-ringed Common Tern seen at Pitsford Reservoir on Monday (and also Saturday by Adrian) has quickly been provided by the project ringer Andy Smith. The bird was ringed as a nestling at Watermead Country Park, Leicestershire on 18th June 2017, so it's not far from it's natal area. Hitherto it had been reported twice during it's life, the first time at Seaforth, Merseyside on 14th August 2017 and then on Coquet Island, Northumberland on 18th June 2019! Terns are amazing travelers and their light but strong frame takes them all over the globe and often very quickly.
Following its dispersal in the autumn of 2017 it no doubt traveled around quite a bit of the UK before heading off to winter in African coastal waters where in all probability it remained throughout 2018.
Clearly in the spring of 2019 it visited the NE coast of England (Coquet Island is the place in England for Roseate Tern and whilst there it would probably have been easily outnumbered by this species and Arctic Tern too). In any event this summer finds it back in the English Midlands where we might speculate as to whether it is one of the breeding birds on the tern rafts at Pitsford Reservoir.
Regards
Neil M
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| UO5 as a nestling just after being ringed in June 2017, image courtesy of Andy Smith. |
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| ...and this is what UO5 looks like now, a beautiful, sleek adult Common Tern. |
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| The Pitsford Oystercatchers of 2019 ( it might be the same pair again this year) courtesy of Robin Gossage. |
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| Ringlet butterfly courtesy of John Tilly. |
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| Small Tortoiseshell butterfly courtesy of Robin Gossage. |
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