Easter Monday wildlife

Hello

Another bright and sunny day with a pleasant breeze and some hazy cloud.

There were no reported significant findings today, the good weather providing an opportunity for good overhead movement and for many of the long stayers to move on too.

Birds at Summer Leys LNR today included a Great White Egret, Greenshank, two Ruff, two Little Ringed Plovers, a Snipe and a Lesser Whitethroat with two Bar-tailed Godwits and two Little Ringed Plovers on nearby Hardwater Lake. The Quarry Walk section held two Cuckoos, a Grasshopper Warbler and Grizzled Skipper butterfly. Other scarce butterflies included a Green Hairstreak and Dingy Skipper at Twywell Hills and Dales Country Park.

The Glossy Ibis was at Stanwick Pits today plus eight Cattle Egrets, three Great White Egrets and two Mediterranean Gulls and birds at Stanford Reservoir today included two Grasshopper Warblers, two Lesser Whitethroats (both ringed), four Cetti's Warblers, a Reed Warbler, a Green Sandpiper and an Oystercatcher.

Clifford Hill Pits today provided a Common Sandpiper, a Little Ringed Plover and a Wheatear. Honey Hill at Cold Ashby was visited but no Ring Ouzels were seen today. Two Ravens were at Hanging Houghton.

At Pitsford Reservoir it all seemed pretty quiet with a few Yellow Wagtails at both the dam and north of the causeway, a Common Snipe and two Common Sandpipers and a Yellow-legged Gull off the Sailing Club. A Sedge Warbler and three Tree Sparrows were ringed on the reserve there today. A male Brambling was in a Pitsford village garden this evening.

Hollowell Reservoir hosted a Common Snipe, a Jack Snipe and a Common Sandpiper.

Regards

Neil M

Sedge Warbler.

Common Whitethroat.

Reed Warbler.

All images courtesy of
Robin Gossage.