New Year's Day

Hello

New Year's Day generally provides the incentive for starting the year off bird-filled and so it proved to be.

A Brambling and two Ravens were in the village at Hanging Houghton today and birds at Hollowell Reservoir included a female Ruddy Shelduck, a Peregrine and two Common Snipe.

The two Yellow-browed Warblers were still at Mary's Lake, Earls Barton today, one showing significantly better than the other. A couple of Great White Egrets and a Pintail were on the adjacent Summer Leys LNR. Three drake Goosanders were at Stortons Pits, two Green Sandpipers and a Common Snipe were nearby at Upton Country Park and a female Red-crested Pochard was on Delapre Lake/Hardingstone Pits.

At Pitsford Reservoir today an adult Yellow-legged Gull was by the dam and birds north of the causeway included three drake Smew, two drake Pintail, a Great White Egret, a Redshank and a male Stonechat.

Stanford Reservoir birds on the first day of the year included a Caspian Gull, a Red-crested Pochard and nine Goosanders and eight drake Smew were at Eyebrook Reservoir.

Regards

Neil M

Yellow-browed Warbler
courtesy of David Arden.

Yellow-browed Warbler
courtesy of Robin Gossage.