Ringing at Kelmarsh Hall.

Hello

The first hints today of some colder, wintry weather ahead of us with hail, sleet and snow and even a peal of thunder being recorded locally today!

Some bird ringing at Kelmarsh Hall provided captures of a Blackbird, four Dunnocks, three Robins, a Wren, fifteen Great Tits, twenty-two Blue Tits, two Coal Tits, two Marsh Tits, five Long-tailed Tits (including birds bearing rings not associated with the site), thirteen Goldfinches, a Chaffinch and four Greenfinches. Other birds on-site included two Ravens, a Kingfisher and up to twenty-five Siskins.

At Hollowell Reservoir today a female Scaup was a good find (off the eastern end of the dam) and other birds there included two Caspian Gulls, four Common Snipe and a female Stonechat. Three drake Pintail and a Stonechat were in the Scaldwell Bay at Pitsford Reservoir and a Red-crested Pochard remains at Stanford Reservoir.

Five Great White Egrets, thirteen Goosanders and a Redshank were noted at Stanwick Pits this morning and a Stonechat was again at Upton Country Park.

An Otter and a Peregrine were again seen in Market Harborough town centre.

Regards

Neil M

Red Kite.

Muntjac.

Carrion Crow.