Local breeders and some still on their journey north

Hello

Still evidence of high arctic spring passage with a Turnstone and ten Ringed Plovers on the New Workings/Whiston Wetlands this morning. Other birds included six Avocets, a pair of Shelduck, a Common Snipe and a Barn Owl.

Lilbourne Meadows reserve hosted up to nine Little Ringed Plovers which included three flying juveniles, three Redshank, two Oystercatchers and good numbers of singing Sedge Warblers and Reed Buntings. Two Ravens were at Honey Hill, Cold Ashby. Two Cuckoos including the rufous morph and a Cetti's Warbler were noted at Stanford Reservoir.

Regards

Neil M

Carrion Crow tucking into some nice trout!
The summering large gulls at Pitsford Reservoir
and other birds enjoy the bounty of moribund trout
which have been caught and released by anglers, with a
proportion subsequently dying from the rigours
 of being line-caught.

Just-fledged Carrion Crow.
The local Ravens and Rooks
fledged in May with some Ravens
in April, now it's the turn of the
remainder of the corvids.

Large Skipper.

Comma courtesy
of Tony Stanford.