Hoopoe

Hello

A garden-visiting Hoopoe in Hanging Houghton village sadly wasn't relocated this afternoon, the photo taken with the bird just outside the window. With unprecedented numbers arriving in the south west, south and west of the UK it seems logical that a few permeate further inland. A Raven, two Swallows and a Little Owl were noted in the village whilst looking for the Hoopoe.

The Whiston Wetlands area was again the place to be with a White Stork moving over west late morning...presumably the same bird turned up at Napton, Warwickshire in the afternoon. Other birds in the Nene Valley in this area were the two Garganey, a singing Lesser Whitethroat, a Pink-footed Goose, eleven Egyptian Geese and two Little Ringed Plovers.

The Glossy Ibis was in a field opposite the Sand Martin bank at Summer Leys LNR late this morning and a Common Sandpiper and two Little Ringed Plovers were at Stanwick Pits. A Common Sandpiper and two Little Ringed Plovers were at Clifford Hill Pits this morning. Titchmarsh NR also attracted a Common Sandpiper, a Dunlin and in excess of eighty-five Sand Martins.

Away from the Nene Valley and there was a Ring-necked Parakeet visiting an Abington garden feeder in Northampton, a male Common Redstart was at Harrington Airfield in vicinity of Bunker Two and a Common Sandpiper and two Yellow-legged Gulls were at the dam at Pitsford Reservoir with a Green Sandpiper in the Scaldwell Bay. Four Golden Plovers were at Hinton Airfield and a Grey Wagtail, a Green Sandpiper and two Little Ringed Plovers were in the Brampton Valley below Brixworth.

At Stanford Reservoir today there was a Pink-footed Goose, a Great White Egret, two Oystercatchers and two Cetti's Warblers and a Caspian Gull was again at Eyebrook Reservoir.

Regards

Neil M

Hoopoe courtesy
of Percy May.

A different kind
of Rouzel in flight!

Jaeger also in action.

Nuthatch courtesy
of Tony Stanford.

Herring Gull courtesy
of Dave Jackson.