Warm and breezy Friday

Hello

Pitsford Reservoir hung on to some interesting birds today with at least one Osprey which caught a fish in the Scaldwell Bay early this morning, four or five Great White Egrets, the drake Red-crested Pochard, a couple of Hobbies and a Whinchat.

Two Ospreys were at Hollowell Reservoir this morning as was a Whinchat and Stanford Reservoir hosted an Osprey, a Ruddy Shelduck, a Mandarin Duck, a Goldeneye, a Common Sandpiper and six Ravens.

At least one male Common Redstart was at Woodford Halse LNR today and at Harrington Airfield this evening there were at least two Common Redstarts, a Whinchat and a Marsh Harrier with two Whinchats in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton.

In the Nene Valley a Black-necked Grebe was found on Delta Pit at Ditchford Pits and birds at Summer Leys LNR included a Marsh Harrier, a Greenshank, a Common Sandpiper and a Little Ringed Plover. Early morning birding provided a juvenile Caspian Gull and three Yellow-legged Gulls at Stanwick Pits on the main lake.

Regards

Neil M

Sedge Warbler courtesy
of Kenny Cramer.

Chiffchaff courtesy of
Tony Stanford.

Large Skipper.

Gatekeeper. In a poor year for
butterflies this species seems to
be bucking the trend and is in
good numbers.

Sunset at Harrington Airfield
this evening.