Harvesting back on

Hello

Following the rain blip yesterday the harvesting is back on and most farmers are now concentrating on the wheat crop. Much of this year's oats were planted late because of the wet spring and summer and will probably be the last of the cereals to be collected locally this year.

The Lesser Yellowlegs was still present at Lilbourne Meadows reserve but the bird only shows sparingly! Four Green Sandpipers were there too as was one of the long-staying Common Redstarts. Six Green Sandpipers were at Daventry Country Park.

The Little Stint was still at Eyebrook Reservoir and an excellent odonata find was a Southern Migrant Hawker at the Gullet Nature Reserve, Priors Hall, Corby.

At least three Ospreys were at Pitsford Reservoir this morning and there have been ones and twos all day long north of the causeway with several fish being caught...it's difficult to say how many birds might be involved! Several Great White Egrets remain as does the drake Red-crested Pochard in the Scaldwell Bay and a Whinchat and a Hobby and a Marsh Harrier were seen too. There will be some ringing around the Old Scaldwell Road Feeding Station tomorrow morning and also Sunday morning.

For the first time in a long while an Osprey wasn't reported at Stanford Reservoir today but birds noted were two Little Ringed Plovers, a Great White Egret, two Common Sandpipers, a Peregrine and a Hobby.

Harrington Airfield hosted a Cuckoo flying rapidly south this morning plus a Common Redstart and a Grasshopper Warbler with just two Spotted Flycatchers and a Common Redstart were seen at Lamport Hall. A Wheatear was just north east of Braunston.

Two Whinchats and three Barn Owls were in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this evening.

Regards

Neil M

Yellow-legged Gull.

Southern Hawker.

Speckled Wood butterfly
courtesy of Tony Stanford.

Green Sandpipers at Daventry
Country Park courtesy of Tony
Stanford.