Birds at Pitsford Reservoir today included a Water Pipit at dawn which seemingly didn't linger, four Great White Egrets, a leucistic drake Red-crested Pochard, eight Pintail, a Green Sandpiper, three Snipe and three Kingfishers. Jacob estimated the dispersing roosts of corvids and counted 990 Rooks and an amazing 6,100 Jackdaws and a post roost dispersal of 3,000 Starlings from elsewhere which flew high over the reservoir.
Ringing on site provided eighty captures of small birds which included ten Tree Sparrows (a reserve conservation priority species) and a pleasantly surprising total of twenty-five Greenfinches which is quite a number by modern day standards. Nearby a Blackcap was seen in Scaldwell village and a small number of Golden Plovers remain at Harrington Airfield.
Down at Greens Norton Chris and team completed another ringing session which provided 74 captures with thirty Redwings and four Lesser Redpolls within the total. A Woodcock was seen on-site.
Deene Lake hosted over two hundred Teal today plus four pairs of Shelduck, a pair of Egyptian Geese and a pair of Black Swans.
The four Black-necked Grebes were seen again at Stanford Reservoir and a Green Sandpiper was noted at Ashton Water Treatment Works.
Regards
Neil M
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| Lesser Redpolls courtesy of Chris Payne. |
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