Hello
More powerful weather again today but at least this morning was mostly dry!
Scouting around the Kelmarsh Estate this morning didn't produce any birds of note and a breezy excursion to Harrington Airfield was good for three Bramblings and a pair of Grey Partridge but not much more. A roadkill Pheasant which I moved to a safer place provided good feeding for a Common Buzzard but a Red Kite was too skittish to take advantage and the buzzard had the lion's share!
An adult Mediterranean Gull was still at Stanwick Pits this morning and the Summer Leys LNR provided for a Black-tailed Godwit and two Great White Egrets. A Peregrine was again on the church at Higham Ferrers and at Ditchford Pits the drake Ring-necked Duck was still on the Big Lake and the drake Smew materialised again on the Delta Lake.
A Lesser Redpoll, Siskins and two male Bramblings were on feeders at Wakerley Wood car park this morning with a few Crossbills in the larches there, and there were three Siskins in a Scaldwell village garden. The Blackcap was again in Ian's Woodford Halse garden and our garden at Hanging Houghton attracted four Reed Buntings and two Yellowhammers amongst more regular fare.
Nocturnal sound recording over Scaldwell last night provided fourteen Redwings, two Common Gulls, three Black-headed Gulls, a Lapwing, a Coot and a Teal and diurnal vis mig birds today comprised of one hundred and forty Fieldfares and thirty-five Redwings heading north-east.
Regards
Neil M
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| Happy Mother's Day courtesy of John Tilly! |
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| Not exactly wildlife but certainly seasonal! |
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| Common Buzzard. |
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| Red Kite. |
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