Wildlife of Pitsford

Hello

Birds at Pitsford Reservoir this morning included four Yellow-legged Gulls at the dam with three Common Sandpipers there too. This afternoon a Wood Sandpiper was found feeding close to reeds in front of the Bird Club hide in the Scaldwell Bay and four Great White Egrets were north of the causeway. Also this afternoon three Otters were seen twice in the Holcot Bay.

Stanford Reservoir hosted an eclipse drake Red-crested Pochard today, a Common Sandpiper, a Wheatear and two Spotted Flycatchers. Two hundred and forty-eight new birds were ringed there today which included one hundred and ninety-five Blackcaps!

Hollowell Reservoir provided for two Greenshanks, a Common Sandpiper, a Pink-footed Goose, thirteen Yellow Wagtails and two Whinchats.

Summer Leys LNR yielded a Great White Egret, four Little Egrets, two Snipe, five Ringed Plovers, a Ruff, a Dunlin, three Common Sandpipers and a Black-tailed Godwit. A Clouded Yellow butterfly is the first local record for a while. A Ruff and four Snipe and two Wheatears were at Clifford Hill Pits.

At Blueberry Farm, Maidwell this morning there were still two Common Redstarts with two Wheatears nearby and two Whinchats and a Wheatear at Shrike Hedge in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton. Diurnal migrants on the move included Yellow and Grey Wagtails and Meadow Pipits with an unseasonal singing Sedge Warbler, two Grey Wagtails and a Little Egret at the brook there.

About twenty Spotted Flycatchers and a Whinchat were at Lamport Hall this evening.

Regards

Neil M

Juvenile and adult
Yellow-legged Gulls.

Wood Sandpiper.

Brown Hare leveret.

Otters.

All images from Pitsford Reservoir
today, the Brown Hare and Otters 
courtesy of Tony Stanford.