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Eleanor's visit to Pitsford Reservoir provided sightings of a Great White Egret, a Greenshank and three Common Sandpipers south of the causeway and two Great White Egrets, two drake Red-crested Pochards, a Pink-footed Goose and a Green Sandpiper in the Scaldwell Bay. David Arden subsequently saw the male Common Redstart and a Hobby also in the Scaldwell Bay.
Three Common Redstarts were present at Harrington Airfield plus a Hobby and a family party of very young Grey Partridges plus a Clouded Yellow butterfly. Another male Common Redstart was seen at Blueberry Farm, Maidwell and two Green Sandpipers were on the scrape at Summer Leys LNR.
A number of Clouded Yellows in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton delighted a succession of observers today and Brimstone and Painted Lady butterflies and a Hummingbird Hawk-moth were all attracted to the nectar strips too. A Purple Hairstreak was a garden first for Fiona at Hanging Houghton today.
Birds at Stanford Reservoir today included the Garganey again, a juvenile Marsh Harrier, two Common Sandpipers, a Hobby and nine Ravens.
Regards
Neil M
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| Lesser Swallow Prominent. |
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| Rosy Footman. |
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| Emerald Damselfly. |
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| Blue-tailed Damselfly. |
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| A rather tatty White Admiral! |
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| Ruddy Darter in cop. |
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| Speckled Wood. |
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