Birds of the heat and thunder

Hello

A warm and sunny day for most in the county today with darkened skies and sporadic thunderstorms and even some rain in some parts this afternoon.

For those that were patient, the Purple Heron was seen on several occasions at Summer Leys LNR today, a very good looking individual that finds the vegetation around the scrape to it's liking.

A Birdguides report of a Quail over Higham Ferrers at 11.10pm last night was presumably heard calling! 

An adult Yellow-legged Gull was north of the causeway at Pitsford Reservoir this afternoon and two Hobbies were hunting dragonflies in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this evening. Two Cuckoos were still at Stanford Reservoir today and a Black-tailed Godwit was at Stanwick Pits on the Main Lake early this morning.

Regards

Neil M

Broad-bodied Chaser.

A fledgling Carrion Crow
out of the nest too early!

Common Whitethroat.

All images courtesy of
Tony Stanford from Stortons
Pits and Hardingstone.