Hello
After initial showers today was a bright, breezy and cool day and little different was found in the county.
A great deal of watercraft activity at Pitsford Reservoir today meant the waterbirds were pushed around south of the causeway but the Black-necked Grebe was located in the Pintail Bay. Other birds south of the causeway were two Yellow-legged Gulls, a Great White Egret and a Common Sandpiper in the grounds of the Sailing Club. North of the causeway there were three Green Sandpipers in the Holcot Bay and a Raven in the Walgrave Bay.
Eyebrook Reservoir's purple patch continues with the find of a drake American Wigeon and the long-staying female Scaup was still present and a Short-eared Owl was seen.
Stanford Reservoir attracted a Peregrine, twelve Great White Egrets, seventy Pochard including one fitted with a French nasal saddle, a Common Snipe and two Stonechats.
A Marsh Harrier was seen at Deenethorpe Airfield this morning and Hollowell Reservoir was good for an adult Caspian Gull, five Stonechats and a Chiffchaff.
Thirty Siskins were briefly in a Creaton garden this morning, Fawsley Park provided for two Goosanders and two Woodcock with neighbouring Badby Woods hosting a Crossbill and a Raven.
This afternoon the female Merlin was again in the Brampton Valley between Blueberry Farm, Maidwell and Hanging Houghton where also a pair of Stonechats and at least two Bramblings.
Regards
Neil M
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| Red Kite. |
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| Common Buzzard. |
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| A local picture from the archives (2015) depicting a Marsh Tit and a Willow Tit alongside each other (Marsh Tit on the left and Willow Tit on the right). Sadly Willow Tits no longer exist in the county. |
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