September birds on the move

Hello

Birds at Pitsford Reservoir today included the Glossy Ibis still, at least one juvenile Osprey, at least six Great White Egrets, three Common Terns, two Ruff, two Common Sandpipers, a Green Sandpiper, a Common Snipe, a Hobby, a Raven, a Grey Wagtail, twenty Siskins and one or two Stonechat(s). A short ringing session there provided over fifty captures which included eighteen Meadow Pipits, nineteen Chiffchaffs, a Sedge Warbler and a Stonechat.

Birding at Stanford Reservoir today provided a Black-necked Grebe, the three Glossy Ibis again briefly, a Cattle Egret, a Great White Egret, twenty-eight Little Grebes, a Hobby, two Kingfishers, two Siskins and a Redpoll.

Chris Payne at Greens Norton ringed no less than sixty-three Goldfinches in his garden today (plus six Greenfinches and a Collared Dove).

In the Nene Valley a Sandwich Tern was at Stanwick Pits and Summer Leys LNR recorded the Glossy Ibis again plus a Marsh Harrier and a Common Sandpiper. A Common Redstart was at Clifford Hill Pits and two Greenshanks and a Green Sandpiper were at the New Workings, Earls Barton. A covey of twelve Grey Partridges were near Ecton as was a Grey Wagtail and a Siskin.

A Raven was in Hanging Houghton village and a Corn Bunting was a brief visitor in the Brampton Valley below the village where also a pair of Stonechat. Two Whinchats were at Blueberry Farm, Maidwell.

Harrington Airfield provided a Wheatear, a pair of Stonechat, a Marsh Harrier, ten Siskins, four Ravens, a Common Whitethroat and a big influx of Meadow Pipits moving over.

Regards

Neil M

Stonechat courtesy of
Sean Gower.

Stonechat courtesy of
Jane Neill.

Black-headed Gull 
courtesy of John Tilly.

Common Sandpiper
courtesy of Tony Stanford.