During the past few days I have visited my usual hedgerows and bushes at Harrington Airfield,  Blueberry Farm area and around Hanging Houghton and it has been disappointingly quiet.  These areas have turned into "birdless zones" !! My best birds today were 2 Common Sandpipers and a family of Grey Wagtails on the dam at Pitsford Reservoir.                                    It seems to have been quiet everywhere today. A Marsh Harrier was again at Summer Leys,  Crossbills at Hollowell Reservoir and Yardley Chase, 2 Common Redstarts at Woodford Halse nature reserve  and another bird at Everdon. 

Yesterday following a successful day competing with Jaeger and Rouzel I came home via Boddington Reservoir.  Its somewhere that I haven't been for a while and it looks really interesting with plenty of mud and low water levels.  During my short visit I notched up an adult Mediterranean Gull but didn't find the 2 juveniles which have been present,  5+ Common Sandpipers, 4 Ringed Plovers and a Common Redstart.   3 Black Tailed Godwits and Green Sandpipers had been seen earlier.                                   My next stop off was Borough Hill and another short visit produced 2 Common Redstarts,  Whinchat and Northern Wheatear,  plus a Clouded Yellow Butterfly.     A very short stop at Ravensthorpe Reservoir to catch up with the 2 Black Terns which had been found earlier rounded off my day.                                          Other birds reported yesterday include a Marsh Harrier at both Hollowell and Pitsford Reservoirs,  Ospreys at Pitsford Reservoir and Titchmarsh LNR , Arctic Tern and Crossbills at Stanford Reservoir,  9 Cattle Egrets at Titchmarsh LNR and 3 at Kinewell Lake and 2 Curlews at Lilbourne Meadows. 

Regards Eleanor