Sunny Sunday

Hello

A lovely day with mild temperatures (at least until nightfall) and sunshine felt unseasonal with even bumblebees and butterflies on the wing.

First thing this morning and Steve Fisher watched a female Merlin pursuing a Redwing at Stanwick Pits - other birds included two Great White Egrets, a Peregrine and a Brambling.

Jim Dunkley saw the Great Northern Diver off the dam at Hollowell Reservoir today and over thirty Crossbills were still at Wakerley Wood today but the Parrot Crossbill wasn't reported.

Andrew Tyrrell noted thirteen Golden Plovers at the Nene Barrage plus a Little Egret and a Peregrine and four Brambling were ringed just east of Braunston this morning. John Friendship-Taylor located eight Crossbills and a Brambling down at Bucknell Wood in the south of the county.

Four Stonechats were in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton and a Raven and a Chiffchaff were near New Covert on the Kelmarsh Estate. Visible migration over Scaldwell village included a Brambling, six Redpolls, three Siskins and eight Tree Sparrows all going south.

Regards

Neil M

Juvenile Great Northern Diver.

Brambling courtesy of
John Tilly.

Merlin courtesy of
John Gamble.