Still more waders and terns

Hello

A very windy day with sporadic showers didn't feel very May-like and still cool too!

Thrapston Pits today provided viewings of a Sanderling, three Dunlin, a Whimbrel, two Common Sandpipers and a Cuckoo. The weather ensured there were plenty of hirundines and Swifts over the water there and probably all significant waters in the county.

Clifford Hill Pits hosted forty-two Dunlin, six Whimbrel and an Arctic Tern and the haul at Summer Leys included two Spotted Redshanks now, a Ruff, twenty-two Dunlin, four Black-tailed Godwits, a Common Sandpiper, two Ringed Plovers, a Garganey and a photogenic Hobby. In the evening one hundred and fifty plus Common Terns were joined by about twenty Arctic Terns.

Stanwick Pits also enjoyed the Dunlin/Arctic Tern fest with twenty five Arctic Terns and at least twenty-three Dunlin

Hollowell Reservoir still had two Whimbrel today and Pitsford Reservoir hosted two Arctic Terns, two Little Egrets and a Great White Egret and birds at Boddington Reservoir included a successfully hunting Barn Owl, a Cuckoo and four Arctic Terns. Two Wheatears were in a bean field near Maidwell this morning and two Arctic Terns were seen briefly at Stanford Reservoir.

The two Dotterel were apparently seen again south-west of Piddington and the Wryneck sometimes showed well at Borough Hill Country Park, Daventry and no doubt the appropriate pictures will be in circulation soon!

Regards

Neil M

Swallow courtesy
of Nathan Jones.

Black-tailed Godwit at
Summer Leys LNR today
courtesy of Dave Jackson.

Hobby at Summer Leys LNR
today courtesy of Dave Jackson.