Mid-April birding

Hello

A wander around Harrington Airfield this morning provided some migrants with a male Ring Ouzel along the main concrete track close the shooting wall and a male Common Redstart by Bunker One being the best. Other birds were four Wheatears, common warblers, two Yellow Wagtails and two pairs of Grey Partridge.

In the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton there were two male Wheatears near shrike hedge and six Yellow Wagtails flying over. This afternoon a female Wheatear was where the missing males had been!

At Pitsford Reservoir this morning birds north of the causeway were an Arctic Tern, a Great White Egret, two Ravens, two singing Lesser Whitethroats, a Sedge Warbler and a Redpoll.

A Grasshopper Warbler was reeling near Weekley Hall, Kettering and Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows hosted three Sandwich Terns, a Common Tern and a Greenshank. A singing Lesser Whitethroat was in a garden in the old village at Corby, and seven Wheatears were in fields between Clopton and Bythorn.

Earls Barton Pits, particularly Summer Leys LNR, provided plenty of birds with two Ring Ouzels, the Glossy Ibis, a Wheatear, a Greenshank, a Ruff, a Dunlin and a singing Nightingale.

The Whimbrel was still at Clifford Hill Pits and Stanford Reservoir recorded a Peregrine, a Great White Egret, two Oystercatchers, two Common Sandpipers and a Fieldfare.

Regards

Neil M

Blackcap.

Long-tailed Tit.

Sparrowhawk.

Above images courtesy
of Tony Stanford.

Cowslips.

Large White butterfly.