A mild and moist start to February

Hello

A mild, cloudy day with light rain and drizzle at times and seemingly nothing new found in the county of note. The conditions seemed to stimulate plenty of bird song today with the Robins and Song Thrushes sounding particularly vibrant and widespread.

At Pitsford Reservoir there was a Jack Snipe north of the causeway plus about twenty-five Common Snipe, two Stonechats and singles of Redpoll and Brambling with a Grey Wagtail at the dam end.

At Hollowell Reservoir there was a single European White-fronted Goose, a Jack Snipe, a Caspian Gull and three Stonechats. Seven Egyptian Geese and a Shelduck were at Blatherwycke Lake with a Brambling along the track to the church. Two Ravens were at Grafton Underwood.

Gamboro' Plantation hosted up to twenty-two Crossbills today plus two Woodcock and a pair of Stonechats and four Bramblings were nearby at shrike hedge in the Brampton Valley fields. Three Goosanders were at Harlestone Lake.

A drake Pochard x Tufted Duck hybrid was at Clifford Hill Pits today and Summer Leys LNR was good for a Cattle Egret, a Caspian Gull, a drake Pintail and a Marsh Harrier.

The Glossy Ibis was again in fields off the Embankment, Wellingborough and four White-fronted Geese appeared again on the main lake at Stanwick Pits.

A Red-crested Pochard or hybrid was at Stanford Reservoir where also six Great White Egrets, four Goosanders and a Redpoll.

Regards

Neil M

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Roe Deer.

Great White Egret
courtesy of Dave Jackson.