Cataloguing the migrants.

Hello

Members from the Northants Ringing Group joined Stanford Ringing Group enthusiasts at Stanford Reservoir today to assist in the cataloguing of migrants moving through the site and just short of two hundreds small birds were processed, the majority being common warblers. Highlights were a Whinchat, three Grasshopper Warblers and a Kingfisher. Birds seen on-site included an Osprey which successfully caught a fish before departing, an adult Yellow-legged Gull, a Common Sandpiper and six Ravens.

At Pitsford Reservoir there were three Ospreys again early morning mostly centred around the Scaldwell Bay and single birds were seen during the day. Three Yellow-legged Gulls and a Common Sandpiper were at the dam area this evening. A Whinchat and a Common Sandpiper were at Hollowell Reservoir this evening.

A Green Sandpiper was calling over Hanging Houghton at 5am this morning and birds in the Brampton Valley below the village included four Whinchats near shrike hedge plus a Common Redstart with still two Common Redstarts and a Wheatear at nearby Blueberry Farm, Maidwell.

Harrington Airfield hosted similar birds with a Tree Pipit, a Common Redstart, a Wheatear and two Whinchats this morning.

Summer Leys LNR provided for three Garganey, a Wood Sandpiper, a Greenshank, three Common Sandpipers, a Green Sandpiper, four Ringed Plovers, two Little Ringed Plovers, two Common Snipe, a Marsh Harrier and a Great White Egret.

Clifford Hill Pits was in on the action today with a Wood Sandpiper, a Common Sandpiper, a Barnacle Goose and at least fifteen Common Swifts all this morning.

The Lesser Yellowlegs was reported from Lilbourne Meadows reserve today, seen both this morning and this afternoon.

Regards

Neil M

Grasshopper Warbler at
Stanford Reservoir today
courtesy of Michelle Spinks.

Two nicely-marked juvenile
Common Buzzards at Hardingstone
yesterday courtesy of 
Tony Stanford.