Saturday's birds

Hello

A greyer, cloudier day provided more migrants which included a drake Garganey in the Brampton Valley below Brixworth plus two Grey Wagtails, a couple of Sedge Warblers and a Water Rail.

Swifts made an appearance across the county today including breeding sites, a Wood Sandpiper remained at Eyebrook Reservoir and at Pitsford Reservoir there was an Osprey, two Yellow-legged Gulls and a Common Tern north of the causeway this afternoon.

A Ring Ouzel was at Bunker Three Harrington Airfield this afternoon and a Wheatear was seen there earlier and an Osprey was fishing at Stanford Reservoir this evening, where also a Cuckoo.

An Osprey and an influx of Sedge Warblers were at Hollowell Reservoir this morning and the Earls Barton Pits complex including the Whiston Wetlands provided records of a Bittern, two Cuckoos, a Greenshank, two singing Grasshopper Warblers and four Ruff.

Regards

Neil M

Common Sandpiper
courtesy of John Tilly.

Grey Wagtail courtesy
of Dave Jackson.

Bittern courtesy of
Tony Stanford.