End of week sightings

Hello

A grey and damp Common Bird Census was completed on the reserve at Pitsford Reservoir where there were reasonable numbers of warblers with Garden Warblers the last ones in. A Little Egret was in the Scaldwell Bay and the Cattle Egret was between the causeway and Maytrees Hide and a Hobby was by the Fishing Lodge but on the bird front it was otherwise pretty staid. Muntjac Deer proliferated all the way around the reserve and an Otter was briefly visible running along a meadow in the Scaldwell Bay at about 10.30am. Amongst the moths caught in the moth trap today was a super Lime Hawk-moth.

Three Hobbies were seen hawking over Town Lake at Thrapston Pits this morning where there was also a Cuckoo and the Nightingale was singing by the bridge to the Titchmarsh LNR. Three more Hobbies were over the south east corner of Clifford Hill Pits and a Turnstone was reported on the north side of the barrage.

A Knot was seen near Lilbourne on the A5 roadside pools.

A second camera trap video from John Boland features Otters!

Regards

Neil M

You may require x ray vision to
make them out but these images
depict a Swift in a nestbox affixed 
to John Hunt's house in Spratton.
A pair have returned to the usual box
but the exciting news is that two further birds
have been spending time in a new box.
It seems the new pair had a bit of an
argument but hopefully they'll make up
and perhaps be a second successful pair.
Images courtesy of John Hunt.

Lapwing courtesy
of Robin Gossage.

Cock Linnet courtesy
of Nathan Jones.