Sywell Buzzards

Hello

Another rather still, grey day but the hint of spring was still in the air!

A few new birds in at Pitsford Reservoir today included two unringed Barnacle Geese and three Shelduck in the Scaldwell Bay, with a Black-tailed Godwit spending a short time there too. Other birds included a pair of Oystercatchers, a Great White Egret, a Kingfisher, over eighty Snipe and four Jack Snipe. The Yellow-legged Gull was again off the Sailing Club and an Otter showed briefly in the Holcot Bay with a Stoat at the Old Scaldwell Road Feeding Station.

Two Grey Wagtails flew low over the garden here at Hanging Houghton this morning and there was a flurry of thrush movement including two Mistle Thrushes moving over north. Jacob's sound recording equipment picked up vocalising Little Grebe and Redwing over Scaldwell village during the night.

Over at Ditchford Pits the drake Ring-necked Duck continued to entertain, moving between the Skew Bridge Pit and Big Lake, and the drake Smew was still on Delta Lake.

The Glossy Ibis was again on the Titchmarsh Reserve at Thrapston this morning and there was a 'kettle' of raptors overhead which contained twenty-nine Red Kites and two Common Buzzards. 

A Great White Egret was noted heading west over Clifford Hill Pits and Stanwick Pits hosted a Black-tailed Godwit and the Ferruginous x Pochard hybrid. A Peregrine again showed on the National Grid communications tower at Northampton and a pair of Stonechats were still at Wicksteed Water Meadows with a Grey Wagtail on the stream between the new lodges.

Regards

Neil M

Two different Common Buzzards
posing at Sywell courtesy of
Jim Dunkley.