It's a cold easterly wind!

Hello

The overnight snow didn't last very long but the cold easterly wind all the way from the Baltic is very much with us! 

An Iceland Gull was at Rushton Landfill (seen the day before too) and today a Caspian Gull was seen there too. Sadly the Ring-necked Duck wasn't seen at Ditchford Pits today.

A male Blackcap was in a Woodford Halse garden today and at Astcote John Woollett attracted a pair of Ravens to his garden after putting food out for the local Red Kites.

A Peregrine and a pair of Stonechats were in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this morning and this afternoon there were two Ravens at Harrington Airfield plus three Bramblings and about one and hundred and fifty Golden Plovers. Three Ravens were noted at Pitsford Reservoir today.

Regards

Neil M

Artist's impression of the
White-tailed Eagle in the
Walgrave Bay at Pitsford
Reservoir last Sunday morning
courtesy of David Arden.

The Pitsford Great
Northern Diver  
courtesy of David
Arden.

A Brambling at 
Harrington Airfield
today.

Common Buzzard at
Scaldwell village
 yesterday, courtesy
of Bethan Clyne.