Migration continues despite the wind

Hello

Still breezy conditions today but plenty of sunshine after the early morning rain.

At Stanford Reservoir a juvenile Black-necked Grebe was found today and the female Ruddy Shelduck remained in situ and other birds were a Common Sandpiper, a Hobby and a Spotted Flycatcher.

At Pitsford Reservoir birds north of the causeway included an Osprey, a Hobby, a Green Sandpiper, a Whinchat, a Raven and two or three Great White Egrets with a flock of at least sixty Goldfinches in the Scaldwell Meadow. A Whinchat was still at Hollowell Reservoir this evening and a Green Sandpiper and a Common Sandpiper were at Ravensthorpe Reservoir.

Clifford Hill Pits managed to hang on to it's Wood Sandpiper today and there was also a Dunlin and a Common Sandpiper there. Summer Leys LNR also hung on to it's Wood Sandpiper and other birds included a Greenshank, a Common Snipe and a Marsh Harrier.

A windy Harrington Airfield proffered a Wheatear and a Common Redstart, there were two Whinchats and a Green Sandpiper in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton in the morning and a Marsh Harrier, two Barn Owls, two Hobbies and the Whinchats still this evening. A Hobby was at Lamport Hall this afternoon and at least four Spotted Flycatchers were in Scotland Wood on the Kelmarsh Estate (private woodland).

Two Green Sandpipers and a Little Owl were the best birds on offer at Lilbourne Meadow reserve.

Regards

Neil M

Starling - a juvenile moulting
into winter plumage.

Red Admiral.

Migrant Hawker.

Southern Hawker.

All above images courtesy
of Tony Stanford.

Little Ringed Plover courtesy
of Robin Gossage.