Wagtails, chats and ducklings!

Hello

A breezy but mild day with a little sunshine and still plenty of evidence of migration.

In the Brampton Valley below Brixworth there was a Green Sandpiper, six Yellow Wagtails and three Grey Wagtails and in the same valley below Hanging Houghton there was a Whinchat and a Wheatear. Nearby two Common Redstarts remain at Blueberry Farm, Maidwell.

Birds at Stanford Reservoir included a Black Tern which lingered, a Great White Egret, six Common Sandpipers, two Shelduck, a Kingfisher, a Tufted Duck with thirteen ducklings and a Grasshopper Warbler which was caught and ringed. Three Black Terns were at Eyebrook Reservoir.

The Cattle Egret was still on the scrape at Summer Leys LNR this morning and later a Marsh Harrier appeared. At Hollowell Reservoir an Osprey and a Marsh Harrier were seen this morning.

A mixed migrant flock of forty wagtails on the dam at Pitsford Reservoir this evening included twenty Yellow Wagtails and several apparent juvenile White Wagtails. Other birds included two adult Yellow-legged Gulls, two Green Sandpipers, three Common Sandpipers and a Kingfisher.

Regards

Neil M

Jaeger the harvest collie.

Yellow Wagtail.

Green Sandpiper.

Juvenile Whinchat.