Common and Wood Sandpipers

Hello

Windy and sunny again and Summer Leys LNR seems to be hogging most of the birds today with the Glossy Ibis, a Black-tailed Godwit, a Bar-tailed Godwit, up to four Wood Sandpipers (an excellent spring for them), two Avocets, a Ringed Plover, a Curlew, a Whimbrel, a Ruff, a Common Sandpiper, one or two Mediterranean Gull(s), a Black Tern and two Grey Partridges. The Glossy Ibis subsequently visited Hardwater Lake.

Early afternoon at the New Workings section of Earls Barton Pits/Whiston Wetlands yielded four Wood Sandpipers, a Bar-tailed Godwit, a Whimbrel, two Greenshanks, two Ruff and a Sanderling.

Stanwick Pits provided a Bar-tailed Godwit, a Whimbrel and a Greenshank with two Greenshanks on the Titchmarsh Reserve at Thrapston Pits.

A female Yellow Wagtail at Clifford Hill Pits yesterday evening had a dull blue head and full supercillia resembling a Blue-headed race or similar. Today birds on-site included a Wood Sandpiper, three Whimbrel, a Greenshank, three Common Sandpipers, two Oystercatchers and four Little Ringed Plovers.

Two singing Nightingales remain at Stortons Pits and adjacent scrub at Sixfields Lakes, Northampton, and a Cuckoo is mobile in the same area.

Eight Common Sandpipers at Hollowell Reservoir were mirrored by eight more at Ravensthorpe Reservoir!

Five Wheatears and two pairs of Grey Partridge were located at Harrington Airfield this morning, an Oystercatcher and a Common Sandpiper were north of the causeway at Pitsford Reservoir and three Tree Sparrows remain at Rectory Farm, Old where we hope they will produce some youngsters.

Regards

Neil M

Sanderling.

Sheep of all sorts dominate
the fields at the Lilbourne Water
Meadows reserve. The lambing
season may have finished there but
it's just starting on some farms!

The fourteen or so Roe Deer
present on the Lilbourne Water
Meadow reserve do a good job
of keeping the bushes in check and grasses
to a reasonable length. With the M1
motorway on one side and the A5 
and DIRFT complex on the other
sides they are pretty much hemmed
in, unless they wander west into rural
Warwickshire.