Great Northern Diver on the move?

 Hello

A wet middle of the day but okay again by mid-afternoon and still fairly mild for the time of the year.

Two Cattle Egrets were again at Stanford Hall today with a Brambling noted at the nearby Stanford Reservoir where the ringers processed sixty-seven birds which included an excellent forty-nine Redwings.

At Summer Leys LNR today there were one or two Marsh Harrier(s), three Great White Egrets and a pair of Stonechats. 

The female/immature Common Scoter was still at Ravensthorpe Reservoir this morning and at Pitsford Reservoir the Great Northern Diver was present between the dam and the Moulton Grange Bay early in the afternoon. Later in the afternoon there were large numbers of water craft on the water at the south end of the reservoir and the Great Northern Diver was both vocal and mobile and was last seen flying high to the north over the causeway. Time will tell if it has actually gone.

Other birds at Pitsford Reservoir included a Chiffchaff just south of the causeway plus an adult and a third winter Yellow-legged Gull around the mouth of the Catwalk Bay.

A Barn Owl was in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this morning and a Grey Wagtail was in the village.

Regards

Neil M

Another victim of fishing line
caught up in waterside vegetation,
this Magpie stood no chance with the
sheer amount of killing nylon all 
over the trees at Boddington Reservoir.

Drake Goldeneye at
Pitsford Reservoir today.