More of the same...

Hello

A much more comfortable day's weather with less heat and a lively breeze.

The regular female Ruddy Shelduck was today at Stanford Reservoir where also two Common Sandpipers.

The Quail was still audible in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this morning and again this evening, still in fields between the shrike hedge and Blueberry Farm, Maidwell. A Common Redstart was around the Blueberry Farm complex.

Two more Common Redstarts and a Wheatear were at Harrington Airfield early this afternoon and butterflies were two Clouded Yellows and plenty of Marbled Whites and Painted Ladies.

Quarry Lake at Priors Hall, Corby was the location for a Common Sandpiper and two Blue-eyed (Southern Migrant) Hawkers - a regular venue for this rare species of dragonfly in the county.

A pair of Black Swans have two cygnets at Deene Lake where also a Green Sandpiper and a Mandarin Duck.

In the Nene Valley the two juvenile Common Redstarts were still at Clifford Hill Pits in hedges on the west side by buildings. A Common Sandpiper was also there plus broods of Tufted Duck and Little Grebe.

An Osprey was seen to catch a fish on the Elinor Trout Lake at Thrapston Pits this afternoon and a Red Kite was seen to take a juvenile Black-headed Gull.

Regards

Neil M

Osprey.

Juvenile Reed Warbler.

Banded Demoiselle.

Common Blue Damselfly.

Red Kite with juvenile Black-headed Gull.

Images courtesy of Ryan Atkinson.