Windy then wet!

Hello

A breezy day gave way to some rain this evening as a front moved across the country west to east.

The Lesser Yellowlegs seemingly showed better today on one of the flood pools at Lilbourne Meadows reserve and other birds included two Green Sandpipers, a Common Snipe and three Swifts.

Two Ravens were at Hanging Houghton this morning and urban individuals were at Little Billing and Abington, Northampton.

The Little Stint was still at Eyebrook Reservoir today and Stanford Reservoir's birds again included Osprey, a Ruddy Shelduck, a Marsh Harrier and two Kingfishers.

Birds at Pitsford Reservoir were an Osprey, several Great White Egrets, the drake Red-crested Pochard still, two Green Sandpipers, a Common Sandpiper, a Kingfisher, three Yellow-legged Gulls and two Whinchats with most of these birds on show in the Scaldwell Bay. A juvenile Marsh Harrier and a Whinchat were at Hollowell Reservoir.

Four Cattle Egrets were at Stanwick Pits this morning and a Garganey and a Marsh Harrier remained at Summer Leys LNR.

A windy Harrington Airfield still provided for a Common Redstart, a Wheatear and two Whinchats with only about four Spotted Flycatchers sheltering in the bushes at Lamport Hall.

A Wheatear and two Whinchats were in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton and the two male Common Redstarts were still at Blueberry Farm, Maidwell.

Regards

Neil M

Common Darters
courtesy of Robin Gossage.

Kingfisher at Pitsford
Reservoir courtesy of
Tony Stanford.

Holly Blue courtesy
of Tony Stanford.

Juvenile Common Tern
at Pitsford Reservoir courtesy
of Tony Stanford.

Large Red-eyed Damselfly.