Nene Valley birding

Hello

A wet start to the day and windy but milder and dryer this afternoon.

Birds at Earls Barton Pits today included a pair of Garganey and a Yellow Wagtail at Hardwater Lake with birds on the Summer Leys LNR including five Garganey (three drakes), a drake Pintail, over twenty Common Snipe and a Jack Snipe, a Great White Egret and a Yellow Wagtail that flew in this afternoon.

At Ringstead Pits the female Ring-necked Duck and a Common Tern were on Kinewell Lake and nearby the nine Cattle Egrets were in fields visible from Woodford Church.

The Glossy Ibis was reported as being present on the Main Lake at Stanwick Pits this morning and a Wood Sandpiper was reported at Upton Country Park on a small pool by a farm early this afternoon.

At Pitsford Reservoir today there was an adult Yellow-legged Gull on a buoy off the Sailing Club with at least two singing male Bramblings in the trees there (a regular spring stop-off location) and a Blackcap was heard singing from the adjacent Brixworth Country Park. Two or three Bramblings were in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton in trees by the large barn.

Bright yellow Yellowhammers and handsome black-headed male Reed Buntings were the best of our garden birds today.

Regards

Neil M

Yellowhammer.

Blue Tit courtesy of
John Tilly.

Bramblings courtesy of
John Gamble.

Long-tailed Tits courtesy
of John Gamble.