Ringing at Stortons Pits

Hello

A very busy ringing session at Stortons Pits today targeted the Goldfinches and Redwings on-site and proved to be successful with seventeen Goldfinches and a huge haul of seventy-one Redwings being successfully mist-netted, ringed and released. Other birds were three Wrens, a Dunnock, three Blackbirds, two Great Tits, eight Blue Tits, seven Long-tailed Tits, a Cetti's Warbler, three Chiffchaffs, two Blackcaps, two Chaffinches, two Greenfinches and a Reed Bunting.

Otherwise the day belonged to Hawfinches with two being seen flying over Stanford Reservoir, eight sitting up in trees at Cottesbrooke village, one at Eurohub (Corby) and four at Short Wood near to Oundle.

At Pitsford Reservoir today there was a Stonechat, a drake Pintail and a flying Dunlin in the Scaldwell Bay and this afternoon an adult Yellow-legged Gull was in the roost off the dam plus a Stonechat below the dam and two Grey Wagtails.

At Stanford Reservoir other birds included an adult Caspian Gull in the gull roost, two Water Rails, a Great White Egret, eight Common Snipe, two Kingfishers and two Cetti's Warblers. Two Caspian Gulls roosted at Boddington Reservoir this evening and the Ruddy Shelduck was noted at Winwick Pools. A female-type Scaup was reported at Blatherwycke Lake.

The Glossy Ibis was again seen on the Summer Leys LNR this morning, visible from the Paul Britten hide, two Woodcock were at Blueberry Farm, Maidwell and a male Merlin was in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this afternoon pursuing finches near to 'shrike hedge' which included several Bramblings and two Redpolls.

Regards

Neil M

Herring Gull.

Yellow-legged Gull.

Great White Egret.

Otter at Stortons Pits
courtesy of Tony Stanford.

Stonechat courtesy
of Tony Stanford.