Garden birding

Hello

Another particularly wet morning didn't stop the Green-winged Teal being spotted at Stanwick Pits first thing although it wasn't seen when searched for later.

Two Short-eared Owls were on the edge of the Blueberry Farm complex this morning and one was seen this afternoon. The two Stonechats were in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton where there were also two Green Sandpipers and two Grey Wagtails. This afternoon a female Merlin and another pair of Stonechats were seen from the footpath leading from Hanging Houghton to Scaldwell. A male Siskin was in our Hanging Houghton garden this morning where there was also an influx of up to a dozen Greenfinches. Yesterday two Blackcaps and two Siskins fed in a Weston Favell garden.

Birds at Summer Leys LNR today included two Cattle Egrets, a showy Barn Owl, three Great White Egrets and  six Common Snipe.

Regards

Neil M

Garden birds courtesy of
Dave Jackson with a male and
female Blackcap and male and
female Siskin as photographed
yesterday.

The below videos depict the 
impressive Starling murmuration
yesterday evening at Stortons
Pits courtesy of Graham Bentley
and also a short clip from an owl
box courtesy of Suzy Boys with a
Tawny Owl taking out a Barn Owl.