Ringing at Stortons

Hello

A successful period of ringing at Stortons Pits today provided sixty-seven captures and a great variety of small birds amounting to sixteen Redwings, two Song Thrushes, a Blackbird, a Dunnock, five Robins, eight Wrens, eleven Long-tailed Tits, ten Blue Tits, two Great Tits, three Chiffchaffs, a Blackcap, two Cetti's Warblers, four Goldcrests and a Reed Bunting.

The Starling roost from the night before was seen departing just after 7am and the total was probably over the three thousand mark.

Birds at Pitsford Reservoir today included the Little Stint and Wood Sandpiper next to the causeway still, twelve Great White Egrets, four Red-crested Pochard, eight Goldeneye, over twenty Pintail, at least two Green Sandpipers, three Yellow-legged Gulls, five Stonechats and two Grey Wagtails.

Birds at Stanford Reservoir today included fourteen Red-crested Pochard, a Caspian Gull, a Yellow-legged Gull, a Great White Egret, thirteen Pintail, two Water Rails, a Green Sandpiper, a Golden Plover, a Kingfisher, a Peregrine and a Chiffchaff.

A Stonechat was seen at Clifford Hill Pits and Summer Leys LNR attracted a male Merlin at the scrape plus two Great White Egrets, a Green Sandpiper, a Kingfisher, a Grey Wagtail and a Stonechat.

Birds in the Brampton Valley below Brixworth today included a Raven, a Cetti's Warbler, a Grey Wagtail, several Redpolls and Siskins and two Water Rails.

Regards

Neil M

Chiffchaff.

Cetti's Warbler.

Redwing.

All images taken at Stortons Pits
today courtesy of Tony Stanford.