A very warm Friday

Hello

Given the extreme heat locally it isn't surprising that very few birds were reported in the county today. And with the Global Bird Fair overlooking Rutland Water being on Friday to Sunday this will distract would-be observers too.

Two Little Ringed Plovers were on the dam at Stanford Reservoir today and three Oystercatchers were present too.

A Greenshank was at Summer Leys LNR this morning and very early morning birding around Abington Park, Northampton produced two more singleton Crossbills.

A number of observers picked up on hatches of Brown Argus butterflies at several sites. A butterfly transect at Bucknell Wood yielded good numbers of butterflies of sixteen species with many Silver-washed Fritillaries and smaller numbers of Wood Whites and Purple Hairstreaks.

Regards

Neil M

Common Buzzard courtesy
of John Tilly.

Silver-washed Fritillary courtesy
of David Arden.

Dark Green Fritillary courtesy
of David Arden.

Purple Hairstreak courtesy
of David Arden.

A summer evening at
Pitsford Reservoir.