It certainly feels as if the eagerly awaited spring migration has been and gone and we are now at a standstill. I can never get enough of the wonders of migration and am always hoping for more. It doesn't matter where I am I'm always looking and listening to the birds around me, just in case !. This morning on my run I heard plenty of common Warblers, Tits, Skylarks, Reed Buntings and other resident/common birds plus a Spotted Flycatcher at Beck Dairy Cottesbrooke and a Cuckoo along the Brampton Valley Way. Visits to Harrington Airfield, Blueberry area and Pitsford Reservoir proved to be quiet. However the garden has been very busy and noisy with young Starlings. They are just so funny to watch but they are incredibly naive. So far we have lost at least one Starling a day to the local Sparrowhawk.
Very few reports of birds from the last couple of days. Yesterday there were 3 Cattle Egrets between Aynho and Clifton, a Bittern flying NE over Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows and Glossy Ibis at Summer Leys. Interestingly I can't find any reports of the Glossy Ibis at Summer Leys today but there was one on the main lake at Stanwick GP early this morning before flying off high NE over the visitor centre (07.55). Watch this space to see whether it reported again. Other birds today include drake Garganey at Stanford Reservoir, Nightingale at Sixfields and Bittern, Ruff, Whimbrel and Osprey at Summer Leys.
Regards Eleanor
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