Cold and sunny

Hello

Another cold day with a fresh breeze but also sunshine and blue skies too!

Harrington Airfield was home to plenty of birds today but the only noteworthy birds were a couple of Ravens, a flock of fifty Skylarks and a single Brambling.

At Pitsford Reservoir the Great Northern Diver was patrolling the Brixworth bank south of the causeway again, about two thirds from the causeway towards the Gorse Bushes. Other birds for the reservoir included a drake Pintail, a Redshank, a Green Sandpiper and a pair of Stonechats.

In the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton today bird flock counts were made of two hundred Fieldfares, a hundred each of Starling and Redwing, eighty-two Yellowhammers and seventy Linnets. The four Stonechats were still present and a Raven flew over the village.

Several Siskins were present at Kelmarsh Hall and gull stalwarts at Rushton Landfill located a third winter Iceland Gull and two Caspian Gulls with a herd of five Whooper Swans visiting Stanford Reservoir this morning.

The Nene Valley was visited by multiple observers with two Great White Egrets, a pair of Pintail and a Ring-necked Parakeet being seen at Thrapston Pits and down the road at Stanwick Pits there were at least twenty-seven White-fronted Geese, six Pintail, eleven Goosanders and three Redshanks. Summer Leys LNR hosted three Great White Egrets, a pair of Goosanders and a pair of Stonechats with a female Red-crested Pochard being located at Kislingbury Pits.

Regards

Neil M

Green Sandpiper.

Grey Heron.

Male Siskin.

Female Sparrowhawk.

All images courtesy of
Robin Gossage.