January birds of the mist and murk

Hello

Yesterday there were Blackcaps in gardens at Duston and Moulton and this morning a Barn Owl was in flight between the villages of Scaldwell and Old.

A Brambling was at Harrington Airfield this morning and Golden Plovers could be heard calling in the mist there but were unseen. A Woodcock was flushed at Lamport Hall and fifteen Golden Plovers and forty Lapwings were in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton.

Redpoll, Siskin and Cetti's Warbler were all reported from Summer Leys LNR today and six Smew were at Eyebrook Reservoir including five drakes. Stanford Reservoir recorded two Caspian Gulls, ten Goosanders and seventeen Lesser Redpolls.

At Hollowell Reservoir today the female Scaup was still present as was the Ruddy Shelduck and fifteen Common Snipe and a Caspian Gull was noted on the ice at Daventry Country Park this morning.

Two Siberian Chiffchaffs were again seen by bridge K121 at Billing Pits/Ecton SF this afternoon and there was a report of a Common Sandpiper and a Grey Wagtail at Frosty Hollow Park, East Hunsbury, Northampton. Five Stonechats were at Upton Country Park.

Regards

Neil M

The Otters at Market Harborough
have been proving hard to see in 
recent days but at least two Kingfishers
show well along the River Welland there.

Great Spotted Woodpecker.

All images courtesy of
Jim Dunkley.