Hello
Another cold and dull day and with a period of rain just around the corner it is forecast to remain wintry for a while yet.
Stanwick Pits continued to attract birds more associated with the Mediterranean/southern Europe in the shape of the two Glossy Ibis and six Cattle Egrets. A Marsh Harrier was there this morning too.
A little more seasonal was a report via Birdguides of a flock of forty-seven Waxwings in a Whitebeam tree at Fineshade Top Lodge this afternoon. From memory there are only a couple of such trees so if this is a genuine record that number will quickly eat all the berries!
Hollowell Reservoir hosted two adult Yellow-legged Gulls, a hundred and ten Cormorants (very large number for this site), three Stonechats and a Common Snipe. Single Lesser Redpolls were noted at Scaldwell and Hanging Houghton villages.
At Pitsford Reservoir the juvenile Great Northern Diver was still consuming crayfish off the dam and there was also a female/immature Common Scoter north of the dam plus an adult Caspian Gull and two Yellow-legged Gulls (adult and first year). A Great White Egret was north of the causeway.
Regards
Neil M
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| Mute Swans. |
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| Grey Heron. |
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| Magpie. |
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| Robin. All images taken by Tony Stanford at Stortons Pits. |
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