September wanderers

Hello

The three Marsh Harriers were all still at Stanford Reservoir again today including the two wing-tagged birds (ringed as nestlings this year in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk), plus the female Ruddy Shelduck, a Common Sandpiper, a Hobby and sixteen Siskins.

Hollowell Reservoir remains attractive to the Little Stint and other birds there today were two Great White Egrets, nine Ringed Plovers, four Dunlin, a Common Snipe, a Redshank, two Greenshank, six Common Sandpipers, a Hobby and four Whinchats. Two Great White Egrets were to the north of the causeway at Pitsford Reservoir and the dam area this evening was good for five Yellow-legged Gulls, three Common Sandpipers, two Common Terns, a Kingfisher and a Grey Wagtail.

At Summer Leys LNR the Pectoral Sandpiper was seen again and then seemed to disappear mid-afternoon and the Bittern was showing well again on the scrape. Other birds included a juvenile Shelduck, four Great White Egrets, two Ruff, five Common Sandpipers, a Common Snipe and two Ringed Plovers. A Black Tern was still at Clifford Hill Pits this morning and early afternoon.

There was a heavy Meadow Pipit passage over the county today, particularly with the first wind swirls after 8am and the chats are still moving with five Wheatears and two Whinchats at 'Shrike Hedge' in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this morning and a Common Redstart and two Whinchats at nearby Blueberry Farm, Maidwell. Two Ravens were noisy in Hanging Houghton village this morning.

Regards

Neil M

Little Ringed Plover.

Chiffchaff.

Long-tailed Tit.

All above images courtesy
of Tony Stanford.

Wheatear.

Whinchat.

Above two images courtesy
of Robin Gossage.