Pleasant before the deluge!

Hello

A pleasant, sunny and mild day in the county today but the rain begins tonight and is seemingly with us for most of tomorrow and with a shift in the wind direction to the north too!

The three Glossy Ibis were again at Summer Leys LNR today and other reported birds were a Water Rail, a Green Sandpiper and a Blackcap.

Clifford Hill Pits hosted six Golden Plovers this morning plus two Great White Egrets and a Goosander.

One or two pair(s) of Stonechat were in the Scaldwell Bay at Pitsford Reservoir this afternoon and six Golden Plovers were on the mud. Two Tree Sparrows were at Rectory Farm near Old village.

The 'redhead' smew was still at Eyebrook Reservoir and bird highlights at Stanford Reservoir were the two Glossy Ibis again, an amazing twenty Great White Egrets, a late Common Sandpiper, the female Ruddy Shelduck after an absence, a Pintail, two Kingfishers and a Brambling.

A juvenile Peregrine was over Hanging Houghton at 12.45pm and a Redpoll and a Grey Wagtail were in the village. Two Stonechats and six Bramblings were in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this morning.

Regards

Neil M

Glossy Ibis courtesy
of Dave Jackson.

Brambling courtesy
of Robin Gossage.

Greenfinch courtesy
of Robin Gossage.

Great White Egrets courtesy
of Robin Gossage.