Hello
Another mild day with only a few showers on a breezy day which the corvids and raptors seemed to enjoy.
The initial favoured location for birding this morning was perhaps Clifford Hill Pits with the drake Lesser Scaup and drake Smew and a first year Caspian Gull present before considerable disturbance made it more difficult.
There was then a shift to Kinewell Lake, Ringstead Pits later in the day with the discovery of a fine Red-necked Grebe and the continued presence of the drake Ring-necked Duck. It's certainly been quality birding in the county this winter!
Just further upstream and Summer Leys LNR attracted a Bittern, a Marsh Harrier, two Black-tailed Godwits, a Redshank, a Cetti's Warbler and the long-staying Glossy Ibis and in-between Stanwick Pits hosted a Marsh Harrier and two European White-fronted Geese. Warmington Water Meadows continues to host twenty-one European White-fronted Geese.
A Stonechat was near the Welligborough Embankment with a Great White Egret and Cetti's Warbler further east along the Nene Valley.
A remarkable seventy-nine Pintail (surely a county record?) and a Curlew were on floods in the Welland Valley east of Harringworth this morning.
Birds near Stanford Reservoir included twenty European White-fronted Geese in the Percy Pilcher monument field at Stanford Hall with the reservoir attracting four Great White Egrets.
Four Ravens were at Hanging Houghton, the pair of Stonechats were in the Brampton Valley below the village and Harrington Airfield provided two Ravens and three Grey Partridges. Three Siskins visited a Woodford Halse garden.
Regards
Neil M
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| Red-necked Grebe at Ringstead Pits today courtesy of Nick Parker. |
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| Little Grebe. |
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| Great Crested Grebe. |
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| Cormorant. |
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