Birds after the storm

Hello

Still pretty wild and wet again today but some nice early morning calm if rather cool.

At Pitsford Reservoir the Great Northern Diver was present again in The Narrows, the adult Yellow-legged Gull was again off the dam and birds in the Scaldwell Bay included a drake Goosander, a Great White Egret and an Oystercatcher.

The two Hawfinches showed again at Cottesbrooke village this morning, again in trees viewable from the bus shelter in Station Road. There was at least one Raven present too.

At Earls Barton Pits there was a Ruff, a Dunlin, an Oystercatcher, about fifty Golden Plovers, a Curlew and a Great White Egret on the Summer Leys reserve and Hardwater Lake.

Stanford Reservoir attracted a Yellow-legged Gull, an Oystercatcher, a Great White Egret, a Goosander. a Water Rail, three Lesser Redpolls and a Siskin. Good numbers of Siskins remain in Harlestone Heath.

Regards

Neil M

Barnacle Goose.

Great Crested Grebes.

Scarlet Cup fungi.

All images courtesy
of Robin Gossage.