Autumn momentum

Hello

At Pitsford Reservoir this morning there was a modest ringing session in the Walgrave Bay which provided captures of seven Goldcrests, a Nuthatch and a handful of resident birds and warblers which included a confirmed six year old female Garden Warbler, first encountered in 2016. Other birds noted on-site included three or four Great White Egrets, a drake Red-crested Pochard (in the Scaldwell Bay) and an eclipse drake Mandarin Duck. At 5.30pm this afternoon a Marsh Harrier was again hunting the reserve north of the causeway and this evening there were two Common Sandpipers in Yacht Bay.

Yesterday (Tuesday) birds at Thrapston Pits included an Osprey and a Yellow-legged Gull, a Kingfisher and a Lesser Whitethroat.

Both yesterday evening and this morning a Marsh Harrier was seen at Summer Leys LNR and other birds on the Earls Barton Pits complex today included two Common Sandpipers and two Green Sandpipers. A Garganey was still at Stanwick Pits this evening.

Stanford Reservoir moved up a couple of gears today with a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker being seen and the ringers there handled over three hundred birds which included a Willow Tit and 67 Willow Warblers. Other birds on-site included the female Red-crested Pochard, a Kingfisher, a Peregrine, two Common Sandpipers and a Green Sandpiper.

Regards

Neil M

A first year male
Nuthatch in post-
juvenile moult.

A Red Kite also moulting, 
however this is an adult
bird with the majority of 
the moult process concentrating
on the tail and flight feathers.

A juvenile female
Green Woodpecker
which visited our
garden this afternoon.

Blueberry Farm and 
Blueberry Hill.