Monday's migrants

Hello

A busy day in the county with heavy migration and oddities mixed in too! Redwings, Skylarks and Siskins and many others were moving all day as the conditions permitted south-bound migration with some flurries of Fieldfares too.

A Yellow-browed Warbler was discovered at Daventry Country Park but this elusive bird apparently wasn't seen after the initial sighting.

Stanford Reservoir had a busy day with two Glossy Ibis, a Bittern, five Red-crested Pochards (almost certainly the same birds from yesterday at Hollowell Reservoir), an adult Mediterranean Gull, a Kingfisher and a Brambling.

An adult Caspian Gull was off the dam at Ravensthorpe Reservoir and a Pintail was north of the causeway; the Pectoral Sandpiper was again at Hollowell Reservoir. Two adult Caspian Gulls were at Naseby Reservoir plus an adult Yellow-legged Gull and with thirty Golden Plovers flying over.

Another adult Caspian Gull was off the dam at Pitsford Reservoir where there were also two adult Yellow-legged Gulls, three Great White Egrets, fifteen Little Egrets, seventy Cormorants and two Grey Wagtails.

Two Grey Wagtails and a pair of Stonechats were in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton and two Bramblings were in our Hanging Houghton garden this afternoon.

Clifford Hill Pits hosted four Common Scoters this morning plus a Great White Egret, a Common Sandpiper, fifty plus Meadow Pipits and over a hundred Linnets.

A Black Redstart was a seasonal but scarce visitor to Rectory Farm near Old village today.

Summer Leys LNR provided for three Glossy Ibis, a Jack Snipe, six Pintail, several Redpoll and up to fifty Golden Plovers with a Yellow-legged Gull, a Mediterranean Gull and one hundred and sixty-four Gadwall at nearby Mary's Lake.

Thrapston Pits was in on the action too with a Glossy Ibis, two Common Scoters, a Ruff, a Yellow-legged Gull and a juvenile Hobby.

A wander at Harrington Airfield yielded a male Ring Ouzel, over a hundred Fieldfares, a constant Redwing passage, three or four Bramblings, two Redpolls, a pair of Stonechats, sixty plus Golden Plovers and a female Merlin.

Regards

Neil M

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