Not much different!

Hello

A very spring-like day today - dull, breezy and with intervals of sunshine and the odd shower thrown in!

Chiffchaffs continue to pile in with hedgerows, copses, willows and garden vegetation all providing foraging and song-posts for these harbingers of spring! However little else seems to be different and apart from gulls, wagtails and Meadow Pipits it was difficult to witness diurnal migration today.

A few Siskins and fifty Fieldfares with up to a dozen Redwings were still with us east of Cottesbrooke village and birds showing at Harrington Airfield involved approximately one hundred and five Golden Plovers, a pair of Grey Partridge and three Ravens.

Hollowell Reservoir continues to attract two Jack Snipe and seven Common Snipe and Stanford Reservoir's birds amounted to a Pink-footed Goose, a Goosander and a Water Rail.

The two Mealy Redpolls remain at the Sandy Lane attenuation pool on the outskirts of Duston with a small flock of Lessers and a pair of Pintail and four Oystercatchers were on flooded fields next to Upton Mill.

The Earls Barton Pits complex today (including Summer Leys LNR and the New Workings) came up with two Cattle Egrets, a Great White Egret, a Shelduck, eight or nine Redshanks, eleven Common Snipe, two Oystercatchers, two Little Ringed Plovers, four Green Sandpipers, two Redpolls and five Siskins.

Two Short-eared Owls remain in a field west of Lamport but rarely fly during daylight conditions.

Regards

Neil M

Teal courtesy of
Tony Stanford.

Male Pied Wagtail
courtesy of John Tilly.