First day of Feb

Hello

A breezy, bright day and with relatively high temperatures and warmish sun made it feel more like a spring day!

The county hotspot today was Ravensthorpe Reservoir with birds on show including a drake Smew, a Pink-footed Goose and up to five Great White Egrets and two Siskins. The three White-fronted Geese seem to be enjoying the parkland surroundings of Stanford Hall still with birds at nearby Stanford Reservoir amounting to a Great White Egret, three Ravens, a Kingfisher and two Bramblings.

Stanwick Pits is still pulling in the egrets with two Cattle Egrets and fifteen Great White Egrets there with the three Nene Valley White-fronted Geese being seen on the Main Lake there this afternoon.

Three Caspian Gulls were together at the pools off the A5 near Lilbourne early this afternoon and single Green Sandpipers were seen at Upton CP and Pitsford Reservoir.

This morning there were six Bramblings again at the summit of Blueberry Hill near Maidwell and Harrington Airfield this afternoon held about forty Bramblings, a pair of Ravens and two pairs of Grey Partridge and twenty-nine Pied Wagtails.

Regards

Neil M

Starling courtesy of
John Tilly.

Pied Wagtail.

Drake Goldeneye.