Dull weather Wednesday

Hello

An early morning stint at Blueberry Farm, Maidwell in the mist provided some birds which included at least one Short-eared Owl, a Barn Owl, several calling Grey Partridges and two Common Snipe. Two Green Sandpipers were in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton.

Harrington Airfield attracted hundreds of Fieldfares and Starlings feeding on the saturated fields, an influx of Chaffinches and a covey of twelve Grey Partridges.

An adult Yellow-legged Gull was again off the dam at Pitsford Reservoir this afternoon and the Earls Barton Pits complex included a Scaup at Grendon Lakes and Summer Leys LNR attracted two Cattle Egrets, four Great White Egrets, five Pintail, four Oystercatchers, three hundred plus Golden Plovers, two Redshanks and two Siskins. The Mary's Lake Starling murmuration was still impressive the previous evening.

Three Siskins and a Blackcap were in a Weston Favell, Northampton garden this afternoon and a single Siskin was a visitor to a garden in Moulton.

A ringing session at Stortons Pits today provided forty-five birds which included Blue and Great Tits, Long-tailed Tits, a Chiffchaff, two Reed Buntings, two Goldfinches, a Blackbird, a Wren and four Dunnocks.

Regards

Neil M

Green Woodpecker courtesy
of Tony Stanford.

Bittern courtesy of
Robin Gossage.

Mute Swans courtesy
of John Tilly.

Goldfinch courtesy
of Tony Stanford.