Birds of the wet and bluster

Hello 

A mild but blustery and wet day didn't produce many fresh sightings of interest in the county today.

The two White-fronted Geese were still present at Clifford Hill Pits yesterday (Thursday) and were seen again today. Also yesterday there was an impressive gathering of eight hundred Golden Plovers at Summer Leys LNR in the afternoon.

Today and the seven White-fronted Geese were still at the north-east end of Stanwick Pits and Summer Leys LNR attracted two Great White Egrets and also seven Ravens in sheep meadows between there and Wellingborough.

A flock of up to fifty Redpolls have been witnessed gathering in a paddock in the centre of Rothersthorpe village, generally in the afternoon. Four Black-necked Grebes were at Stanford Reservoir again today.

Birds at Pitsford Reservoir today included a Great White Egret and a Grey Partridge in the Scaldwell Bay where Bethan and Jacob also caught and ringed a Mallard and a Coot!

Regards

Neil M

Drake Mallard.

Coot,

Images courtesy
of Bethan Clyne.