Ducks, a few waders, egrets and a Water Pipit.

Hello

A breezy day with showers and rather mild provided a few birds locally.

Pitsford Reservoir hung on to some of the regular birds but the Wood Sandpiper wasn't seen (it can be elusive). The goose flocks still contained the Barnacle Goose and drake Mandarin Duck and other birds north of the causeway included nine Great White Egrets, thirteen Red-crested Pochard, thirteen Pintail, a Green Sandpiper, a Redshank, a Dunlin, two Ravens and two Bramblings. Two Sparrowhawks quickly caught avian prey almost simultaneously at the Old Scaldwell Road Feeding Station this morning.

A Water Pipit on the scrape at Summer Leys LNR was a good find today; in recent years it has been difficult finding one in the county that has stayed put.

Five Cattle Egrets were again in a field between Brightwells Farm, Irthlingborough and the Lakes and Meadows reserve and six Goosanders were further west on the same Ditchford Pits complex.

A Barn Owl was hunting at Blueberry Farm, Maidwell this morning with a scattering of Bramblings there and in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton.

Regards

Neil M

Shoveler.

Pintail.

Lapwing.