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A busy birding day at Stanford Reservoir with a Merlin through, fourteen Red-crested Pochard, a Pintail, two Water Rails, a Great White Egret, a Green Sandpiper, three Lesser Redpolls, a Siskin and two Cetti's Warblers and the gull roost provided a Yellow-legged Gull and no less than three Mediterranean Gulls!
A Marsh Harrier was seemingly present in and around Summer Leys LNR for much of the day and at Hanging Houghton a 'ringtail' Hen Harrier showed in the Brampton Valley between the village and Blueberry Farm and later in fields off the A508 between the village and Brixworth. There were also two Ravens at Hanging Houghton, a male Brambling in the village and several in hedging behind the large barn below the village near Brampton Valley Way.
Large numbers of winter thrushes were gorging themselves on hawthorn berries in the same area of the Brampton Valley and a similar thing was happening at Harrington Airfield this morning with just a fly-over Golden Plover of note there.
My team of helpers and I are busy setting up the winter feed stations now as the weather turns cooler and wetter with feeding stations in operation at Harrington Airfield, on the Kelmarsh Estate (two sites) and Pitsford Reservoir (four sites) with a couple more coming online soon.
A Bearded Tit still remains at Stanwick Pits along the causeway on the A45 pits and there were seven Cattle Egrets with cattle on the Roadside Pit. Two Little Gulls flying through Summer Leys LNR was a good record for this time of the year and a Goosander was at Abington Park, Northampton where a group of Ring-necked Parakeets continues to reside. A Merlin was seen at Stowe Nine Churches at about 8.30am this morning.
Regards
Neil M
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| A two metre high Kingfisher! |
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| Grey Heron. |
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| Lapwing. All images courtesy of John Tilly. |
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