Some like it Hot!

Hello

The heat continues but new arrivals on the bird scene seem minimal.

Stanford Reservoir hosted a Marsh Harrier, five Common Sandpipers, a Spotted Flycatcher and a Cetti's Warbler and a Wood Sandpiper remained at Eyebrook Reservoir.

The White Stork was seen again, this time flying high up over Northampton General Hospital towards the University early this afternoon.

Thrapston Pits saw action around Elinor Lake with an Osprey seen flying away and a Whinchat and a Common Redstart in hedging in the south-west corner this morning.

Observers at Clifford Hill Pits enjoyed a Hobby, a Great White Egret, a Ringed Plover and a Common Snipe, with a juvenile Cuckoo and two Barnacle Geese being seen later in the day.

Pitsford Reservoir hosted six Green Sandpipers, a Black-tailed Godwit, five Common Snipe, a Dunlin and a Yellow-legged Gull, all in the Scaldwell Bay.

Four Greenshanks and a Green Sandpiper were seen on the scrape at Summer Leys LNR, three Ravens were at Harrington Airfield and the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton attracted a Marsh Harrier, and two Hobbies this evening with a Marsh Harrier, a Common Redstart, a Whinchat, a Wheatear and a few Clouded Yellows earlier at Blueberry Farm, Maidwell.

Jersey Tiger Moths appeared in a Duston Moth Trap and garden from overnight.

Regards

Neil M

Green Tiger Beetle
courtesy of Robin Gossage.

Cormorant courtesy of
Robin Gossage.

Black-headed Gull courtesy
of Robin Gossage.

Robin courtesy of
John Tilly.

Common Tern courtesy
of Tony Stanford.

Brown Hare courtesy
of Tony Stanford.