Hello
Seemingly a quiet day in the county today with few reported sightings.
I completed my last survey of the season this morning, so less 4am starts from this point onwards! A pair of agitated Spotted Flycatchers due to a Grey Squirrel clambering around was a good sign of established breeding but a bad sign if the squirrel had predatory considerations! There was a major hatch of Ruddy Darters with the fields covered in them and there was sufficient warmth and sunshine to bring forth a couple of Purple Hairstreak butterflies. A Red Fox, some Brown Hares, a pair of Kestrels on territory and a couple of Yellow Wagtails were the best of the rest!
One male Common Redstart persisted at Blueberry Farm, Maidwell this morning and the ponds there have provided breeding opportunities for Little Grebes with two broods of young today.
A Caspian Gull was at the north end of the new workings at Earls Barton Pits today and birds visible from the dam at Pitsford Reservoir included a Great White Egret and a Common Sandpiper (two yesterday).
An Osprey again showed several times today at Stanford Reservoir and there was a female Mandarin Duck there too.
A Marsh Harrier flew high NE over Stanwick Pits this afternoon and a Yellow-legged Gull was also present.
Regards
Neil M
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| Red-headed Cardinal Beetle courtesy of John Tilly. |
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| Great White Egrets courtesy of Tony Stanford. |
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| Grey Heron courtesy of Tony Stanford. |
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| Female Tufted Duck and ducklings. |
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| Ruddy Darter. |
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| Common Darter. |
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