A great summer for Black-tailed Godwits

Hello

Yesterday (Friday) was a day out of the county with Eleanor competing with the collies in Staffordshire and I went to Norfolk with Michelle and the two respective spaniels Smeagol and Toby. It's been years since Smeagol had experienced the sea, something he really enjoys despite his physical limitations!

Yesterday's birds in the county included the Ferruginous Duck being reported at Daventry Country Park again, three Whinchats at Stanford Reservoir with two of them being caught and ringed and a further four Grasshopper Warblers being caught and ringed there. The Pectoral Sandpiper was still at Eyebrook Reservoir and present again today.

Other birds for yesterday included a Hobby, a Black-tailed Godwit and two Common Sandpipers at Clifford Hill Pits, seven Black-tailed Godwits, a Great White Egret and a Hobby at Summer Leys LNR, a Great White Egret at Higham Lakes and five Great White Egrets, eight Snipe, a Common Sandpiper and five Green Sandpipers in the Scaldwell Bay at Pitsford Reservoir.

Today (Saturday) and Summer Leys LNR attracted two Black-tailed Godwits, a juvenile Water Rail, a Great White Egret, a Greenshank, a Common Sandpiper, a Green Sandpiper and two each of Ringed and Little Ringed Plovers. A Marsh Harrier and a Black Tern graced Stanwick Pits.

Birds in and around the Scaldwell Bay at Pitsford Reservoir today included five Great White Egrets again, a single Red-crested Pochard, a juvenile Black-tailed Godwit, two Yellow-legged Gulls, two Green Sandpipers, a Common Sandpiper, five Common Snipe and a Wheatear.

Passerines at Harrington Airfield this afternoon included four Common Redstarts, three Whinchats and a Wheatear and nearby Lamport Hall hosted twelve Spotted Flycatchers and one or two Common Redstart(s). Up to three Peregrines have been present at Market Harborough town centre recently.

Regards

Neil M

Smeagol at the seaside!

Kestrel courtesy
of Robin Gossage.

Sparrowhawk courtesy
of Robin Gossage.