A murky Sunday

Hello

Misty, murky conditions with rain at times was the weather for the day but at least it was mild.

The Glossy Ibis was again at the Embankment at Wellingborough today.

At Pitsford Reservoir today the Black-necked Grebe was in the Narrows and there was a massive flock of two hundred and twenty-eight Cormorants in the Catwalk Bay. North of the causeway there were twenty plus Common Snipe, two male Stonechats and a Redpoll. A Blackcap was in Brixworth village.

Thrapston Pits was again the venue for a Firecrest in the scrub at the Willowbrook Angling Club pit and two Red-crested Pochard and a Black-tailed Godwit were on the Titchmarsh reserve with a drake Greater Scaup on Town Lake.

Eleven Goosanders and a Cetti's Warbler were at Clifford Hill Pits. Six Siskins were at Lings Wood, Northampton.

A Crossbill flew over Lower Wellingborough Lock in the Nene Valley where also an Oystercatcher. A pair of Stonechats were at Chester House Lake plus two Great White Egrets.

Single Blackcaps were at Brixworth village, Brington Feed Station and Moulton village. Six Bramblings were in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton.

Stanford Reservoir was the venue for ten European White-fronted Geese, five Great White Egrets, a Pintail, fifty-six Pochard and two Kingfishers.

Some garden ringing at Greens Norton provided captures of thirty-four Goldfinches, five Greenfinches, five Blue Tits, a Robin and a Siskin.

Regards

Neil M

Redwing.

Male Stonechat.

Male Siskin courtesy
of Chris Payne.

Some images of locally processed birds 
at the week-end. The Stonechat is a 
wintering bird at Pitsford Reservoir
originally ringed on 9th November 2025
and the Siskin was the Greens Norton
bird caught and ringed today.