Quiet and cold

Hello

A quiet and cold day in the county today with few reports of birds on the move.

The dam area at Pitsford Reservoir this afternoon continued to host a pair of Stonechats, a Redshank and a Grey Wagtail with two Grey Wagtails in the Brampton Valley below Brixworth.

A small field at the back of Christies Copse at Pitsford Reservoir appears to be a bird food crop with plenty of spent sunflowers. Yesterday the Greenfinch flock there had grown to at least sixty birds with smaller numbers of Chaffinches, Goldfinches and Linnets. Marsh Tits from the reserve were exploiting the seeds on offer in the field with short flights in and out from neighbouring hedges.

Back to today and a Grey Wagtail was in Hanging Houghton village and birds at Harrington Airfield this afternoon amounted to a pair of Stonechats and fifteen Golden Plovers with small flocks of Skylark, Yellowhammer and Starling feeding in the top fields.

A pair of Stonechats and two Ravens were at Upton Country Park today.

Regards

Neil M

Carrion Crow courtesy
of John Tilly.

Stonechats today at Upton
Country Park courtesy of
Tony Stanford.

A morning garden ringing
session began with a Tawny Owl!