Birds of a hot September day

Hello

Another very warm day but with more of a breeze made it very pleasant.

A Bittern seen on the main scrape at Summer Leys at about 6pm this evening was probably bird of the day. Other birds included a juvenile Shelduck, three Ringed Plovers and three Common Sandpipers.

Clifford Hill Pits attracted three Wheatears and a Whinchat with a Common Redstart nearby opposite the hotel on Hardingstone Lake and two Spotted Flycatchers at Delapre Park - all this morning.

Just two Common Redstarts were on show at Blueberry Farm, Maidwell this morning but Harrington Airfield was busier with four Common Redstarts, thirty plus Blackcaps, twenty plus Common Whitethroats, two Lesser Whitethroats, two Spotted Flycatchers, a Wheatear and a Marsh Harrier. Lamport Hall continued to attract Spotted Flycatchers which numbered at least twenty birds and also two Common Redstarts.

Honey Hill, Cold Ashby was good for at least two Common Redstarts, a Spotted Flycatcher, a Wheatear, six Ravens and migrant Meadow Pipits.

Hollowell Reservoir hosted two Whinchats, a Wheatear, the Pink-footed Goose, two Greenshanks, a Common Sandpiper, a Ringed Plover and two Spotted Flycatchers.

Regards

Neil M

Juvenile Shelduck at
Summer Leys LNR
courtesy of Tony Stanford.

Common Buzzard
courtesy of Tony Stanford.

Kestrel courtesy of
Tony Stanford.

Male Siskin caught and ringed
in the county today, image courtesy
of Chris Payne.

Three Barn Owl chicks ringed
in the county this evening.