Sabine's Gull

Hello

A visit to Harrington Airfield this morning provided two Grey Wagtails, two Bramblings, a Blackcap, three Stonechats (Bunker One), a Fieldfare and a light passage of Redwings and Starlings and Meadow Pipits. Two Ravens were at Hanging Houghton but the Brampton Valley below the village was devoid of interesting birds with just a single Clouded Yellow on the old nectar strips. Sadly a Common Buzzard was picked up dead on the A508 just outside the village.

A Rock Pipit was a good find at Clifford Hill Pits this morning on the main pit plus two Green Sandpipers and a Common Sandpiper. On the Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadow reserve there was a Little Stint on Dragonfly Lake and a Green Sandpiper on Ring Res this morning.

A Yellow-browed Warbler at Stanford Reservoir today was apparently on the Leicestershire side of the reservoir and seen within a roving tit flock. Other birds at the reservoir included six Stonechats, two Great White Egrets, a Pintail, a Water Rail and four Green Sandpipers.

About ten Clouded Yellow butterflies were in clover fields near Lower Benefield today.

Six Red-crested Pochard were in the mouth of the Walgrave Bay at Pitsford Reservoir this morning. An attempt to count the gull roost at the dam end of the reservoir this afternoon/evening provided some excitement with a vocal juvenile Sabine's Gull flying around out in the middle of the reservoir. With the light quickly fading I managed some blurred shots of this stunning gull on the only occasion it ventured to the area where I was standing. It left the reservoir to the south at about 6.40pm. A first winter Mediterranean Gull, two Yellow-legged Gulls, a Green Sandpiper and a Grey Wagtail were also present.

An additional page or Tab has been created which depicts images from a recent Naturetrek tour to the Isles of Scilly.

Regards

Neil M

Sorry about the quality of 
images, they don't do the
Sabine's Gull justice!