A wet Pitsford WeBS count

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The Pitsford Reservoir WeBS count was completed today, in wet conditions at times. Two Greater Scaup were with the much-reduced Tufted Duck flock in the Scaldwell Bay this morning. Ten Great White Egrets were south of the causeway (none north of the causeway during the count) as were four Yellow-legged Gulls. Waders included a single Golden Plover, thirty-five Common Snipe and five Green Sandpipers. Other birds north of the causeway were a Kingfisher, eight Pintail and three Redpolls. Other passerines included about twenty-two Siskins, four Grey Wagtails, two Chiffchaffs, eleven Stonechats and three Ravens.

Elsewhere and the drake Lesser Scaup was again reported at Ditchford Pits and two Stonechats and a dozen Siskins were at Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows reserve with the three Glossy Ibis still at Summer Leys LNR plus a Green Sandpiper.

Clifford Hill Pits hosted a Dunlin, a Common Snipe, five Golden Plovers, a Goosander and a Yellow-legged Gull.

At least three Chiffchaffs were at Ravensthorpe Reservoir this afternoon and two Blackcaps were in a Hollowell village garden. 

A Siskin, a Raven and a Grey Wagtail were in Hanging Houghton village and a pair of Stonechats and four Bramblings were in the Brampton Valley below the village.

The American Golden Plover and a 'redhead' Smew remain at Eyebrook Reservoir and Stanford Reservoir was good for two Glossy Ibis plus two first year Mediterranean Gulls in the gull roost and four Water Rails and three Cetti's Warblers.

Regards

Neil M

Lesser Black-backed Gull.

Whooper Swan.

Brambling courtesy
of John Tilly.

Lesser Redpoll courtesy
of Tony Stanford.