Tuesday 2 July 2024

Still cool for July!

Hello

An Osprey was again fishing north of the causeway at Pitsford Reservoir this morning and a Great White Egret was there too.

No waders were noted on the pools in the Brampton Valley below Brixworth this morning but there were seven Little Egrets including at least one juvenile plus a Kingfisher and a couple of Grey Wagtails.

The Quail was again heard calling from fields off Broughton Road, Walgrave this afternoon, opposite a haybale stack. Summer Leys LNR attracted a Great White Egret, two Black-tailed Godwits and two Little Ringed Plovers today.

Yesterday (1st) and Stanford Reservoir provided sightings of a Barn Owl, two Oystercatchers, a Common Sandpiper, a Kingfisher and about a hundred Common Swifts.

A Barn Owl was in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this evening.

The video (below) depicts a just out-of-the-nest juvenile Cuckoo at one of our local reserves in the county courtesy of John Boland.

Regards

Neil M



Male Broad-bodied Chaser.

An athletic Roe Deer!

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