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Yesterday's birds included a single Crossbill at Hollowell Reservoir and thirty Redpolls in Greens Norton and a Hawfinch was reported at Weldon, near Corby in the afternoon.
With rainfall yesterday, overnight and today we are again a county with significant flooding associated with the river valleys.
A noisy male Brambling at Harrington Airfield this morning was with other finches and buntings attracted to the broadcast seed and other foodstuffs which during this cold weather is also pulling in a regular flock of Starlings, corvids and others. The sodden fields prove attractive to the nomadic flock of Golden Plovers which completely forsake the site when there are hard frosts, but today they were back with about two hundred and thirty birds present.
Our garden is still attracting reasonable numbers of Goldfinches, Blackbirds and other common birds but nothing unusual. A pair of Stonechats remains in the Brampton Valley below the village.
Some preliminary work on the Northants Ringing Group 2020 data by our group secretary Nick Wood indicates that our small group was responsible for the monitoring of nearly nine thousand birds ringed and over two thousand re-traps and re-sightings. Considering the really significant restrictions imposed on us during the Covid-dominated year this is an excellent result. However most of our long-running projects had to be suspended due to the restrictions - which included most of the nest box schemes, Constant Effort Sites, Swift and House Martin projects, owl box monitoring and tern rafts. We are planning further work to enhance the colonial breeding of Swifts, Sand Martins and Tree Sparrows in 2021 but there is a danger that the on-going pandemic may adversely affect these initiatives too - time will tell!
Regards
Neil M
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| Swift. |
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| Sand Martin courtesy of Robin Gossage. |
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| Tree Sparrow courtesy of Robin Gossage. |
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