An Osprey was on the roam today being seen at a number of locations including Pitsford, Ravensthorpe and Hollowell Reservoirs with a different individual being seen over Ecton Lakes.
Other birds at Pitsford Reservoir today included a Great White Egret, fifty Golden Plovers, a second calendar year female Peregrine, ten Sand Martins, twenty-seven Chiffchaffs, nineteen Goldcrests and four Siskins with northward movements of Meadow Pipits and Fieldfares.
Harrington Airfield hosted a male Wheatear at Bunker Two and a minimum of four Bramblings were present too. Two Mediterranean Gulls were located with Black-headed Gulls at Isebridge south of Burton Latimer, an area of the county that seems to be poorly covered by active birders.
The Nene Valley below Earls Barton was utilised by significant flocks of Sand Martins today and Little Ringed Plovers were located at a couple of spots too plus a White Wagtail and two Green Sandpipers. Summer Leys LNR attracted a Black-tailed Godwit and three Mediterranean Gulls and Clifford Hill Pits pulled in four Wheatears and a Little Ringed Plover. Another Wheatear was at Chelveston Airfield, the Glossy Ibis was reported again in it's field next to Thrapston Pits and the drake Smew was seen again on Delta Lake at Ditchford Pits.
Two Avocets were on the Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows reserve and the drake Ring-necked Duck was seen again on the Main Lake at Stanwick Pits, this latter site still providing provision for four Cattle Egrets.
Ravensthorpe Reservoir provided some migration respite for at least ten House Martins and fifty Sand Martins and Hollowell Reservoir continues to house a flock of at least five Crossbills and a Jack Snipe.
Regards
Neil M
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| Mediterranean Gull. |
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| Cattle Egret. |
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| Wheatear courtesy of Jacob Spinks. |
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| Kestrel courtesy of Robin Gossage. |
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