Migration in full swing

Hello

A ringing session at Woodford Halse today provided seventy-two birds of fifteen species with perhaps the highlights being eleven Blackcaps, a Treecreeper, a Yellowhammer, a Nuthatch and a young female Green Woodpecker. Two Ravens and a Grey Wagtail were also present.

Over at Stanford Reservoir the concentrated effort of ringers today provided over four hundred new birds, with eight hundred birds being newly ringed in the previous three days. Most of these birds are migrant warblers and yesterday included a northern-type Willow Warbler and today and yesterday single Spotted Flycatchers. Other birds noted there today included a Ruddy Shelduck, a Common Sandpiper and three Ravens.

At Earls Barton Pits an Osprey was over the new workings this afternoon and birds noted at Summer Leys LNR included a Marsh Harrier, three Garganey, two Greenshanks, two Green Sandpipers, two Ringed Plovers and three Common Snipe. A Ringed Plover, a Green Sandpiper and a Common Sandpiper were at the Titchmarsh Reserve, Thrapston Pits. A Spotted Flycatcher was at Upton Country Park.

Two Common Redstarts and three Ravens were at Harrington Airfield this morning and at least fifteen Spotted Flycatchers and a Common Redstart were at Lamport Hall. A Whinchat was at Hollowell Reservoir and a single Osprey was seen in the Scaldwell Bay at Pitsford Reservoir on two occasions this morning.

Two Common Redstarts were at Blueberry Farm, Maidwell today and birds in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton were two Whinchats, two Grey Wagtails, five Spotted Flycatchers and this evening a Corn Bunting.

A revival in Robin song is as a result of some of the adult males having now finished the moult process and also juvenile birds which have similarly concluded their post juvenile moult and are now seeking territories of their own.

Regards

Neil M

Spotted Flycatcher Upton
Country Park courtesy of
Tony Stanford.

Peacock butterfly.

Treecreeper.

Green Woodpecker at
Woodford Halse today.