Last day of July

Hello

A quiet day in the county today with little significantly different on the last day of the month.

A Common Redstart and a Whinchat were at Harrington Airfield this afternoon and the Scaldwell Bay at Pitsford Reservoir hosted the two drake Red-crested Pochard, a Goldeneye and a Kingfisher this evening.

At Hollowell Reservoir this morning the female Ruddy Shelduck was still present plus an Oystercatcher, a Little Ringed Plover, five Green Sandpipers and three Common Sandpipers.

Birds recorded at Stanford Reservoir today included six Spotted Flycatchers, a Common Sandpiper, two Oystercatchers, eight Shelduck, eight Ravens and five Lesser Whitethroats. A Great White Egret was present at Summer Leys LNR as was a Red Underwing moth.

Of the many Common Terns found dead at Pitsford Reservoir this year at least four were previously ringed made up of three birds raised on the rafts there in previous years plus a bird ringed as a nestling at Ferry Meadows Country Park, Cambridgeshire way back on 27th June 2013. Well in excess of twenty Common Terns died at Pitsford earlier in the season all presumed victims of the bird flu which claimed many Black-headed Gulls too.

Regards

Neil M

Common Tern.

That has to hurt? Juvenile
Cormorants don't have the
best table manners when Mum/
Dad brings in the food!
Images courtesy of
Robin Gossage.

Holly Blue butterfly.

Pebble Prominent moth.