Exciting spring birds

Hello

It may not have been much of a day for many new arrivals in the county today but we are successfully hanging on to many scarce and classy birds!

Summer Leys LNR is a magnet for birds and birders alike at this time of the year and the next two months should see plenty of migrants stopping over and hopefully showing well. Birds there today included at least four Garganey, a Little Ringed Plover, two Ruff and a Willow Warbler with two Little Ringed Plovers, a Great White Egret and a Sand Martin of note on the adjacent Hardwater Lake.

The female Ring-necked Duck was again on the south side of Kinewell Lake at Ringstead Pits, showing well from fishing peg 29. Blackcaps were in song there too.

The Wood Sandpiper materialised at Upton Country Park again this afternoon, on a pool along the cycle path from farm buildings and the now long-staying Glossy Ibis was again on the Main Lake this evening at Stanwick Pits. Clifford Hill Pits attracted twenty-four Golden Plovers and four Oystercatchers this morning.

Pitsford Reservoir seems much quieter than the Nene Valley but the Common Sandpiper was again on the dam today and small numbers of Bramblings were at the Old Scaldwell Road Feeding station and also in plantations in the Scaldwell Bay. Up to ten Bramblings persist at Harrington Airfield around the ringing rides.

Regards

Neil M

Dueling Common Snipe
 courtesy of Dave Jackson.