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A second day of ringing at Harrington Airfield this morning took place in much milder conditions and provided sixty-six encounters which included forty more Redwings, a Blackbird, a Fieldfare and four new Bramblings. A fifth Brambling was found to already be wearing a ring and perhaps provides some evidence as to exactly where all these Bramblings are coming from. The ring was from one of the Norwegian ringing schemes and we hope to soon find out where she was initially ringed. Birds noted on-site included a passage of large gulls moving west/south-west, three Woodcock, a Barn Owl, a few Siskins and Redpoll, Grey Partridges, Golden Plover and approximately a hundred Bramblings continually on the move.
The two drake Smew were again seen in the Holcot Bay at Pitsford Reservoir again today but perhaps were not showing so well as yesterday. Other birds noted on-site included at least ten Pintail, at least five Great White Egrets and a Goosander.
At Stortons Pits today there were twenty Redpolls and eight Goosanders and at Summer Leys LNR there were two Ruff, a Black-tailed Godwit and an adult Mediterranean Gull. The Dark-bellied Brent Goose and a drake Pintail were still at Clifford Hill Pits today.
About thirty Bramblings and a pair of Stonechats were at 'shrike hedge' in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this morning (with an excellent sixteen Grey Partridges there yesterday) and a Barn Owl was perched on a fence post at Blueberry Farm, Maidwell. Approximately twenty-five Bramblings were in Cottesbrooke village today, the majority between the church and the sports field. Two Ravens were in Hanging Houghton village.
Regards
Neil M
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| Water Rail. Both images taken yesterday by Dave Jackson at the new viewing screen in the Scaldwell Bay at Pitsford Reservoir. |
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