Little opportunity for birding today but I noticed two Siskins and a couple of Ravens in the village at Hanging Houghton today and there was a small party of Golden Plovers and about twenty Bramblings at Harrington Airfield this morning.
At Thrapston Pits there was a Shelduck, two Oystercatchers, five Great White Egrets and eight Little Egrets and at Stanwick Pits there were four Cattle Egrets this afternoon. A dozen Siskins were on the Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadow reserve at Ditchford Pits and Earls Barton Pits hosted a Water Rail, a Shelduck, two Oystercatchers, a Great White Egret and a drake Red-crested Pochard on a small fenced-off lake behind and to the right of Mary's Lake. Two Oystercatchers were also at Clifford Hill Pits so it seems they are back at all their normal Nene Valley haunts!
The drake Red-crested Pochard was still at Ravensthorpe Reservoir today, south of the causeway and two Woodcock were at Blueberry Farm. Maidwell this afternoon.
Birds at Stanford Reservoir today included a Yellow-legged Gull in the roost and about one hundred and thirty Golden Plovers.
Regards
Neil M
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| Cormorant and Oystercatcher courtesy of John Tilly. |
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| Oystercatcher. |
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| Golden Plovers. |
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| Mute Swan. |
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| Mallard. Over two hundred Mallard have been caught and ringed at Pitsford Reservoir over the last couple of decades with one recovery the other side of Moscow. |
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