Hello
Still cold today but tonight should be the first night for a while where the temperatures don't dip below zero, a relief for birds that use a high proportion of their body fat to keep warm at night.
A Tundra Bean Goose and the ten European White-fronted Geese at Stanwick Pits were the choice finds of the day courtesy of Steve, particularly as they gave themselves up later in the day when feeding near North Lake after earlier flying off from the Main Lake. Two Goosanders were noted there too.
Pitsford Reservoir south of the causeway provided eleven European White-fronted Geese in fields behind Catwalk Bay, a 'redhead' Smew, a Slavonian Grebe in the Pintail Bay, an adult Yellow-legged Gull, a Common Sandpiper, a Green Sandpiper and one hundred and fifty Cormorants at the south end of the reservoir.
The two Glossy Ibis briefly visited the wet fields at the Embankment at Wellingborough again today.
The female Ruddy Shelduck appeared at Hollowell Reservoir today and sightings at Stanford Reservoir amounted to about sixty European White-fronted Geese, two Caspian Gulls in the roost and six Goosanders.
Nine Corn Buntings were visible from a footpath between Deanshanger and Wicken this morning, a male Blackcap was still in a Corby garden with another in a Duston garden. A Stonechat was at Upton Country Park.
An ice-bound Summer Leys LNR provided a brief visit from a Black-tailed Godwit, thirty Siskins, a male Blackcap and a Common Snipe.
Two Ravens were trying to dine on a road casualty Pheasant near Lamport this afternoon and there were a few Siskins at both Scotland Wood and Kelmarsh Hall. A Barn Owl was hunting at Lamport Hall yesterday afternoon.
Regards
Neil M
 |
| The Tundra Bean Goose and European White-fronted Geese at Stanwick Pits today courtesy of Steve Fisher. |
No comments:
Post a Comment