With limited opportunities to head out to the great outdoors there is a natural limit on interesting sightings to report on.
More signs of spring ahead was evident on a couple of Starlings seen close up - both were males and the lower mandibles were turning blue in preparation for the breeding season. Brown Hares are also more evident and are gathering in twos and threes in preparation for a long breeding season with leverets potentially born from February onwards.
Jon located a flock of nine Crossbills at Hollowell Reservoir today where a flock has been consistently present since the autumn - February is the month when Crossbills often begin nesting so it will be interesting to see if they remain.
Bramblings at Harrington Airfield today included a single by the concrete track entrance and two by the museum. At Pitsford Reservoir today it was rather static with a Great White Egret, a Snipe, two drake Pintails and four Stonechats on show north of the causeway; yesterday there were three Lesser Redpolls in Scaldwell village with one still there today.
Birds in the Harlestone Lake area today included two Goosanders, a flock of Redpolls and about a hundred Siskins and at Stanwick Pits five Cattle Egrets were on North Lake.
Regards
Neil M
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| Starling. |
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| Brown Hare. |
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| Redpoll, this one a Common Redpoll of the Iceland race. |
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