Pitsford Spoonbill

Hello

Another mostly still and grey day but without the drizzle.

At Earls Barton Pits the three Glossy Ibis were on the Summer Leys reserve and a pre-roost gathering of gulls on Mary's Lake provided a Caspian Gull and three Yellow-legged Gulls. An adult Mediterranean Gull was at Titchmarsh LNR at Thrapston Pits.

At Stanford Reservoir the two Glossy Ibis showed up again early morning and other birds were two Great White Egrets, fifteen Little Egrets, at least five hundred and fifty Lesser Black-backed Gulls in the roost, two Water Rails, a Kingfisher, a Siskin, ten Redpolls, approximately seven hundred and fifty Redwings and thirty Fieldfares.

A Rock Pipit was on the reservoir bank at Boddington Reservoir where there was also a Kingfisher and a Tree Sparrow. Two Ravens were at Clifford Hill Pits and a Corn Bunting lingered in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton in the vicinity of shrike hedge where there were also three Stonechats, twenty Golden Plovers, a Grey Partridge and a couple of Redpolls and Bramblings. Six or more Bramblings and eighty Chaffinches were near Blueberry Farm, Maidwell and a flock of four hundred Chaffinches at Courteenhall also held at least four Bramblings.

At Pitsford Reservoir this afternoon a first year Spoonbill lingered north of the causeway and was feeding in the mouth of the Walgrave Bay. There were also at least six Great White Egrets, fourteen Pintail, sixty-seven Golden Plovers and a Ruff on the reserve with morning observations of a Stonechat and in the Holcot Bay two Kingfishers and two Green Sandpipers.

Regards

Neil M

Skylark.

Redwing.

Stonechat.

Ringing birds on the move
in the open countryside today.