Birding at Pitsford Reservoir.

Hello

A fairly quiet day in the county today with little new found.

At Pitsford Reservoir there were at least two Great White Egrets north of the causeway plus an adult Yellow-legged Gull, a Marsh Harrier, two Whinchats between Maytrees Hide and the causeway, one or two Green Sandpiper(s), three Red-crested Pochard (two drakes) in the Walgrave Bay and this evening a vocal Common Redstart in roadside bushes between the top of the Old Scaldwell Road and the causeway.

Birds at Harrington Airfield this morning included two Common Redstarts, a Whinchat, a Wheatear and three Grey Partridges. Birds in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton included five Whinchats and a Wheatear and two Grey Partridges at 'Shrike Hedge' and a Kingfisher at the brook. Two or three Common Redstarts were at nearby Blueberry Farm, Maidwell.

Three Common Redstarts were visible from the footpath running from Bridle Road, Old to the Walgrave Bay at Pitsford Reservoir early this afternoon and two male Common Redstarts were located at Fleetland Farm, Duston this morning.

Hollowell Reservoir provided views of an Osprey, a Pink-footed Goose, two Greenshanks, a Green Sandpiper, three Common Sandpipers and a Wheatear. Two Common Redstarts were on show at Stanford Reservoir and other birds logged were a Grasshopper Warbler, no less than twenty-six Ravens, two Common Sandpipers, ten Lesser Whitethroats and a Hobby.

In the Nene Valley there was a Ruff, a Common Sandpiper and a Little Ringed Plover at Summer Leys LNR and Clifford Hill Pits hosted an Osprey for fifteen minutes this morning and a Wheatear.

Regards

Neil M

Willow Warbler.

Whinchat.

Green Sandpiper.

All above images taken
at Pitsford Reservoir today
courtesy of Tony Stanford.

Mmmmm Blackberries!
I have never managed to take
a good photograph of a Grey
Partridge although today's
example is the best to date 
(must try harder)! This bird
appears to have a large tick
near the base of the bill.