Cool but sunny Sunday

Hello

Cool winds but sunny weather today made it a good day to be out!

At Lilbourne Water Meadows this morning there were two Great White Egrets, two Oystercatchers, a Green Sandpiper and a Common Snipe.

An Oystercatcher was in the Brampton Valley below Brixworth first thing this morning and small numbers of Siskins were noted at Cottesbrooke and Kelmarsh Hall. 

At least one of the Mealy Redpoll was still at the Sandy Lane attenuation pool, Duston, Northampton this morning. A Swallow was seen with about twenty Sand Martins in the Nene Valley at Whiston Lock and a Wheatear was at Hinton Airfield at the south end on a ploughed field west of the barn.

Two more Wheatears were discovered at Willowbrook Industrial Estate at Corby at lunchtime and were still present early this afternoon.

Clifford Hill Pits hosted a 'redhead' Smew, a Peregrine and a pair of Oystercatchers and the Earls Barton quarry held a pair of Shelduck, five Redshanks, a Green Sandpiper, an Oystercatcher and a Little Ringed Plover. Three Cetti's Warblers were noted at Stortons Pits.

Regards

Neil M

Chiffchaff courtesy
of Tony Stanford.

Mute Swans courtesy
of Tony Stanford.

Rooks courtesy
of John Tilly.

Oystercatchers.