Bank Holiday birding

Hello

Nearly four hundred new birds were ringed at Stanford Reservoir today which included a Whinchat and two Common Redstarts and other birds seen there today included  a large flock of twelve Oystercatchers, three Green Sandpipers, a Hobby, a Water Rail, three Common Snipe, four Cetti's Warblers, a Kingfisher and two Spotted Flycatchers.

Some more bird ringing in the Brampton Valley below Brixworth provided nearly seventy captures including a nice mix of common warblers plus a Grey Wagtail, common passerines, a Woodpigeon etc. Birds noted included a Water Rail, a Kingfisher, up to five more Grey Wagtails and two Ravens.  

At Stanwick Pits this morning there were four Cattle Egrets and two Great White Egrets and Summer Leys LNR attracted two Greenshanks, a Green Sandpiper, a Common Sandpiper and a Great White Egret. A Pintail was noted at Hollowell Reservoir and passerines at Harrington Airfield this morning included four Common Redstarts, five Whinchats, a Wheatear and a Tree Pipit and two Siskins flew over. A Whinchat was in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton.

This evening there were seven Yellow-legged Gulls, twenty Common Terns and a Common Sandpiper visible from the Sailing Club at Pitsford Reservoir.

Regards

Neil M

Cattle Egrets.

Cormorant.

Yellow-legged Gull.