Waders, warblers and chats!

Hello

More marathon ringing at Stanford Reservoir saw another two hundred and forty-two birds ringed today which included one hundred and sixty-five Blackcaps, six Grasshopper Warblers and yet another Common Redstart. Other birds on-site included a Ruff, two Green Sandpipers, a Kingfisher, eight Pintail, a Cetti's Warbler and four Ravens.

At Naseby Reservoir today there were two Ruff and two or three Common Sandpipers and the Scaldwell Bay at Pitsford Reservoir provided views of an Osprey, six Great White Egrets, two Greenshanks, four Green Sandpipers, at least nine Common Snipe, three Pintail (two of which were south of the causeway), the female Red-crested Pochard, a Yellow-legged Gull, three or four Spotted Flycatchers and a Grey Wagtail with two probable Ruff flying north.

In the Nene Valley a Wheatear was found at Clifford Hill Pits and birds at Summer Leys amounted to a Ruff, a Greenshank, two Common Sandpipers, a Common Snipe, a juvenile Ringed Plover, two juvenile Little Ringed Plovers and a Water Rail.

A Common Redstart remained at Woodford Halse near to the reserve in a hedge next to the Jurassic Way footpath and at Blueberry Farm, Maidwell there were two Common Redstarts with four Whinchats and a Clouded Yellow butterfly in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton.

The Pectoral Sandpiper was still at Eyebrook Reservoir today.

Regards

Neil M

Great Black-backed Gull.
This is the fourth consecutive
season with summering birds
at Pitsford Reservoir.

The numbers of Great White Egret
are slowly on the up at Pitsford
Reservoir, the receding water levels
providing ideal fishing opportunities
for these patient stalkers.

Small Copper butterfly.