Wood Sandpipers, Clouded Yellows and more August treats

Hello

Another blustery day but decent temperatures and essentially dry.

A Wood Sandpiper was reported at Cransley Reservoir and like next door Thorpe Malsor Reservoir, an under-watched site that probably requires more attention.

Another Wood Sandpiper was at Clifford Hill Pits this morning where also a Common Sandpiper and four Oystercatchers.

Sixteen Black-tailed Godwits were in Wader Bay at Summer Leys LNR plus a Common Sandpiper and a Hobby.

At Pitsford Reservoir birds south of the causeway amounted to an Osprey, a Great White Egret, a Greenshank, six Common Sandpipers and a Common Redstart (in hedgerow by The Pigs). Birds north of the causeway included a Marsh Harrier, four Green Sandpipers and a Common Sandpiper.

At Hollowell Reservoir there were singles of Greenshank, Green Sandpiper and Common Snipe. A returning colour-ringed Caspian Gull was noted at Naseby Reservoir.

Two Marsh Harriers were at Stanford Reservoir today plus a Common Sandpiper and the butterflies included Clouded Yellow, Painted Lady and Small Copper.

Additions to the Common Redstart tally included one at Blueberry Farm, Maidwell and two or three again along the footpath in field hedges from Bridle Road, Old village heading south east.

A juvenile Marsh Harrier and an adult Grey Partridge with ten half-grown young were at Harrington Airfield. Several Grey Wagtails were in the Brampton Valley below Brixworth.

More Clouded Yellows included at least eight in the Alfalfa field south east of Cherry Hill off the footpath from Bridle Road, Old with at least six in a similar field just north of Collyweston Bridge in the north of the county.

Regards

Neil M

Common Tern.

Gatekeeper.

Dunnock courtesy
of John Tilly.

Female Broad-bodied Chaser
courtesy of Tony Stanford.