Ringing at Scotland Wood

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A ringing session was held at the sheltered site of Scotland Wood on the Kelmarsh Estate today which resulted in eighty-five birds being processed in this mixed woodland. The birds amounted to a Great Spotted Woodpecker, four Dunnocks, seventeen Great Tits, forty-three Blue Tits, nine Coal Tits, two Marsh Tits, six Long-tailed Tits and three Chaffinches. Birds seen whilst we were there included about four Woodcock, a male Peregrine, two Ravens first thing and a couple of Siskins.

Four more Woodcock were seen at Glapthorn Cow Pasture first thing this morning, a male Blackcap was in a New Duston garden and a female Blackcap was in a Woodford Halse garden again with six Redpolls nearby.

A drake Smew was mobile north of the causeway at Pitsford Reservoir this morning where there was also a Pintail and a Stonechat in the Scaldwell Bay.

Two Otters were seen again on the River Welland in Market Harborough today and a concentration of good birds at Eyebrook Reservoir included two Scaup, thirteen Smew (nine drakes) and seven Great White Egrets.

Regards

Neil M

Adult male Great Spotted Woodpecker
at Scotland Wood, Kelmarsh Estate today
courtesy of Lewis Aaron.