Second day of 2023.

Hello

A cold but pleasant winter day provided a nice array of birds in the county and with the two Yellow-browed Warblers still in the vicinity of Mary's Lake at Earls Barton Pits.

Two Ravens, a Siskin and a Redpoll were on the Kelmarsh Estate this morning with another two Ravens in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton.

Helen Franklin conducted a little garden ringing just across the border at Priors Marston and caught and processed forty-three birds which included a male Sparrowhawk, a male Blackcap, a Dunnock that was at least six years old and an amazing eleven Robins.

Birds at Harrington Airfield this afternoon included a Woodcock, a Brambling, two Redpolls and two Ravens. A Green Sandpiper and a Barnacle Goose were at Upton Country Park this morning and the female Red-crested Pochard was still at Hardingstone Pits/Delapre Lake.

A male Blackcap was seen in a Kettering garden and a female was in a Sywell garden and at Hollowell Reservoir the Ruddy Shelduck was still present as was an adult Caspian Gull, four Common Snipe and a female Stonechat.

At Pitsford Reservoir today there were two drake Smew in the Holcot Bay with a Scaup reported too and two Pintail remained in the Scaldwell Bay. Two adult Caspian Gulls were off the dam this afternoon.

At least four Goosanders were at Kinewell Lake, Ringstead Pits this afternoon and at least ten Smew were at Eyebrook Reservoir.

Regards

Neil M

Sparrowhawk courtesy
of Helen Franklin.

Eurasian Wigeon courtesy
of John Tilly.

Pochard courtesy
of John Tilly.