Hello
A warm day and it's due to become warmer again it seems.
A wander at Harrington Airfield today provided views of a freshly moulted female Common Redstart between the Chipping Compound and Bunker One, three Ravens and the Grey Partridge family with about ten half-grown youngsters. A fresh emergence of Small Heath butterflies was apparent, Common Blues were in small numbers and I had a brief view of what appeared to be a Dingy Skipper.
A Common Redstart, two Whinchats and a juvenile Marsh Harrier were around shrike hedge in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this morning and a Crossbill flew south-west over the village.
At Stanford Reservoir the ringers processed one hundred and ninety-nine birds, ninety-four of them being Sedge Warblers! A Kingfisher was also ringed and birds noted on-site included two Marsh Harriers again, a Hobby and at least twelve Spotted Flycatchers.
At Pitsford Reservoir waders in the Scaldwell Bay included four Green Sandpipers, one or two Common Sandpiper(s) and a Dunlin. Two Great White Egrets, a Hobby and an Osprey were also seen north of the causeway. Odonata around Christies Copse ponds included Southern Hawker, Brown Hawker, Blue Emperor, Common Darter, Common Emerald Damselfly and Willow Emerald Damselfly.
The two Sandwich Terns were again at Eyebrook Reservoir and the Ruddy Shelduck remained at Ravensthorpe Reservoir. A Grey Wagtail was at Brafield Pond with Siskins in the churchyard there. Two Curlews flew over Hollowell village this evening heading towards Hollowell Reservoir.
Wherever I've been today there have been Ravens with two at Hanging Houghton, the three at Harrington, three at Pitsford Reservoir and two in the Brampton Valley below Brixworth.
Regards
Neil M
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| Common Redstart at Harrington Airfield today. |
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| Common Blue. |
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| Little Egret. |
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| Green Sandpipers and Dunlin. |
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| Red Fox. Above four images all taken at Pitsford Reservoir today courtesy of Tony Stanford. |
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