Autumnal morning, wet afternoon.

Hello

An early WeBS count was completed at Ditchford Pits today but it was mostly a bird-less zone! Birds east of Ditchford Lane amounted to a Kingfisher, a Cetti's Warbler and two Grey Wagtails. The pits west of Ditchford Lane provided a juvenile female Peregrine, a Great White Egret, a Cetti's Warbler, the usual white Carrion Crow and a pair of Egyptian Geese with three very late-hatched goslings. Sand Martins and Swallows were in reasonable numbers.

A Caspian Gull and a Black-tailed Godwit were at Stanwick Pits early morning and birds at Summer Leys LNR amounted to a juvenile Marsh Harrier, three Great White Egrets, a Green Sandpiper, four Common Snipe, five hundred Starlings nearby, one hundred and fifty House Martins and smaller numbers of Swallows and Sand Martins.

The Black-necked Grebe and two Whinchats were seen at Clifford Hill Pits this morning and two Ravens were seen flying from Great Billing towards Weston Favell.

Three Yellow-legged Gulls were off the dam at Pitsford Reservoir this evening and a collection of hirundines included many Swallows and House Martins and just a few Sand Martins.

Stanford Reservoir attracted a fly-through Ringed Plover, three Common Sandpipers and a Kingfisher.

After the rain had gone, birds in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this evening were four Whinchats, a Wheatear, a juvenile Marsh Harrier and two Barn Owls.

Regards

Neil M

Juvenile Marsh Harrier
at Summer Leys LNR
today courtesy of Tony Stanford.

Great White Egret at
Summer Leys LNR today
courtesy of Tony Stanford.

Common Buzzard.

Carrion Crow.