A beautiful September day

Hello

A glorious day of autumnal weather with warm sunshine, a gentle breeze and no rain.

Just outside the county and a Baird's Sandpiper at Eyebrook Reservoir was a good find today, and where there was also a Garganey.

Summer Leys LNR continues to provide for a Glossy Ibis which again showed well at times and the Bittern which was far more reclusive! Both birds regularly visit the scrape. Four Greenshanks were also present today.

Birds north of the causeway at Pitsford Reservoir today included a Wheatear, two Ospreys, a Hobby, three Black-tailed Godwits, three Ruff, at least two Greenshanks and four Green Sandpipers.

Birds utilising Naseby Reservoir were the Caspian Gull again, a Greenshank, two Common Sandpipers and two Spotted Flycatchers with a Wheatear and a Little Ringed Plover at Hollowell Reservoir.

Little Owls were recorded at Newton Bromswold and Hanging Houghton (where also a Grey Wagtail) and five or six Spotted Flycatchers were at Lamport Hall.

The Hen Harrier and two Common Redstarts were at Blueberry Farm, Maidwell and birds near shrike hedge in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton were a Common Redstart, a Wheatear, eight Yellow Wagtails and four Whinchats. Clouded Yellows were there enjoying the sunshine.

Titchmarsh reserve at Thrapston Pits today provided some good birds with a Cattle Egret, a juvenile Marsh Harrier, a Black-tailed Godwit, a Ruff, two Little Ringed Plovers and a Common Sandpiper. A Wheatear was nearby at Elinor Lake. Three Cattle Egrets were at Kinewell Lake, Ringstead Pits this afternoon.

A mixture of birds at Stanford Reservoir included the Ruddy Shelduck still, a Bittern, a Tree Pipit, five Siskins, three Common Sandpipers and the ringers there caught and ringed three Grasshopper Warblers.

Regards

Neil M

Box Bug courtesy of
Jim Dunkley.

Hoverfly Volucella inanis courtesy
of Jim Dunkley.

Hoverfly Volucella zonaria courtesy
of Jim Dunkley.

Cormorant.

Female Siskin.

Male Siskin.

Siskin images courtesy
of Dave Jackson.

Hobby courtesy of
Robin Gossage.