The migrants keep coming

Hello

A grey, cool and breezy day hopefully precedes a couple of nice warm days to come!

The first Willow Warblers of the spring were found in Northampton and Corby today, perhaps seeking the relative comfort of suburbia!

Rare county birds remained on show today with the Glossy Ibis seen at Thrapston Pits (both on the Titchmarsh reserve and the horse field by the A605 layby) and the drake Ring-necked Duck was seen again on the Main Lake at Stanwick Pits.

A Lesser Spotted Woodpecker was in the copse near to Beck Dairy, Cottesbrooke this morning, there were several Bramblings still at Harrington Airfield and a Woodcock was flushed from the Brampton Valley Way near the Kelmarsh Tunnels.

Other birds at Thrapston Pits included a Great White Egret, a pair of Oystercatchers, over a hundred Sand Martins, two Swallows and a Wheatear in a field next to the complex. Stanwick Pits also attracted a drake Smew on the north pits plus a Little Ringed Plover, a Black-tailed Godwit and two adult Mediterranean Gulls. Just down the road and Summer Leys LNR provided sightings of two Mediterranean Gulls, a Little Ringed Plover and a Black-tailed Godwit.

Over at Woodford Halse a flock of about one hundred and eighty Golden Plovers were disturbed from a bean field.

Hopefully a reduction in the wind and some rising temperatures during the next two days may provide more migrant opportunities.

Regards

Neil M

Black-tailed Godwit.

Summer plumage
Golden Plover of the
northern form.

Redshank.

Willow Warbler.