Black-necked Grebes and Blue-eyed Hawkers

Hello

Similar weather to the last couple of days and nothing extraordinary found.

The exception was Stanford Reservoir where a Black-necked Grebe was found off the dam this morning and other birds were the female Ruddy Shelduck still and three Common Sandpipers.

The three Black-necked Grebes were also still at Daventry Country Park today where also a Dunlin, a Common Sandpiper and a Green Sandpiper.

A breeding pair of Spotted Flycatchers were located in Guilsborough, two Common Redstarts were at Blueberry Farm, Maidwell this morning and a female was at Bunker Two at Harrington Airfield.

The two juvenile Common Redstarts were still at Clifford Hill Pits this morning, in the south-west corner of the complex.

At Pitsford Reservoir there were one or two juvenile Marsh Harrier(s) north of the causeway, with one spending a long period of time perched in trees on The Point and preening. Other birds noted were an adult Yellow-legged Gull, three Great White Egrets and a juvenile Cuckoo. Two Yellow-legged Gulls were seen in the vicinity of the dam in the afternoon.

Nine Wasp Spiders were found at Summer Leys LNR today plus Hummingbird Hawk-moth, Brown Argus and Small Copper butterflies. Blue-eyed Hawkers (or Southern Migrant Hawkers if you prefer) were seen at South Gullet upstream from Priors Hall Lake, Corby (what3words nuggets.shrugging.clasp) and from a private area at Denton Wood in the Yardley Hastings complex.

There was a Hummingbird Hawk-moth in a Creaton garden and at least three Clouded Yellow butterflies at Collyweston bridge.

Regards

Neil M

Great White Egret courtesy
of Tony Stanford.

Wasp Spider at Summer Leys LNR
courtesy of Tony Stanford.

Blue-eyed Hawker (alternative name
Southern Migrant Hawker) courtesy
of Steve Brayshaw.

Blue-eyed Hawker (or Southern Migrant
Hawker) courtesy of Nigel Muddiman.

Linnet courtesy of
John Tilly.