Ringing at Linford Lakes.

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Kenny and a sizeable team operated equipment at Linford Lakes, Milton Keynes today to process well over a hundred birds, the majority of them this year's youngsters and newly ringed.

The total included five Sand Martin nestlings, three Wrens, four Robins, six Dunnocks, eight Great Tits, twenty-six Blue Tits, seven Long-tailed Tits, a Treecreeper, six Reed Warblers, two Sedge Warblers, twenty-three Blackcaps, two Garden Warblers, seven Willow Warblers, eight Chiffchaffs, two Whitethroats, two Cetti's Warblers, a Woodpigeon, a Greenfinch and a feisty male Sparrowhawk which was probably terrorising all of them!

A sizeable Grass Snake was seen and a calling Cuckoo was heard.

An Osprey was seen at Hollowell Reservoir at lunchtime and a Cattle Egret was seen at Stanwick Pits with a Great White Egret and a Mediterrranean Gull seen at Earls Barton Pits yesterday.

Two Peregrines were adorning the church spire in the town centre at Market Harborough this morning with two juvenile Grey Wagtails along the River Welland there.

A Caspian Gull was off the A5 between Lilbourne and the DIRFT3 site this afternoon and a pair of Grey Partridge and an adult male Peregrine were at Harrington Airfield this evening.

Regards

Neil M

Sand Martin nestling.

Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler.

Juvenile Robin.

Sparrowhawk.

Grass Snake.

All images courtesy of
Kenny Cramer.