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Hello

The incredibly dull conditions of the last couple of days makes taking photographs of wildlife subjects very difficult so my apologies for my efforts below!

After making a start on bird feeding stations this morning I popped in to Market Harborough and spent about an hour walking along the River Welland hoping for an Otter. I had no joy but a successfully-fishing Kingfisher showed nicely in the rain and I saw a Grey Wagtail and a Mistle Thrush perched next to some mistletoe! I didn't see any Peregrines either so no doubt they were away hunting.

The two Corn Buntings were again with other birds in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton, spending their time perched on a hedge and visiting bird food cover by 'shrike hedge'. Seven Grey Partridges were there too. Two or three Bramblings were in a Scaldwell garden and birds at Pitsford Reservoir included a drake Smew and six Great White Egrets in the back of the Holcot Bay.

The hardy Black Redstart was again at Borough Hill Country Park today on the eastern-side of the compound and Stewart's visit to Harrington Airfield yielded a female Merlin, twenty-one Golden Plovers and about fifty Bramblings. A Woodcock and a Goosander were seen at Stanford Reservoir.

Regards

Neil M

Record shot of one of
the Corn Buntings in the 
Brampton Valley.

Common Buzzard.

Kingfisher.

Brambling.