Hello
Plenty more heat today but perhaps the last of the really hot days?
A juvenile Marsh Harrier was again at Stanford Reservoir today plus two Common Sandpipers, broods of Shoveler and Gadwall ducklings and a Grasshopper Warbler.
An immature male Goshawk was seen north of Bucknell Wood today - it seems bit by bit we are slowly attracting more of these secretive raptors into the county as they slowly re-populate the UK after years of persecution.
A Common Sandpiper and a Common Snipe were the only birds of note at Summer Leys LNR and two Oystercatchers and a Curlew were at Lilbourne Water Meadows.
Two Common Redstarts were at Harrington Airfield this afternoon, one not far from the chipping compound, and the second just south of Bunker One. A Marsh Harrier and two Clouded Yellows were also present.
The calling Quail was still in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this morning, between shrike hedge and Blueberry Farm, Maidwell.
Several Clouded Yellows were on a nectar strip near Gamboro' Plantation between Cottesbrooke and Hanging Houghton. Two more were seen near Braunston north and east of the village.
A Lesser Emperor was at Hollowell Reservoir by the sailing club with an amazing horde of one hundred and seventy five Black-tailed Skimmers along the west shore. Another Lesser Emperor was at Ravensthorpe Reservoir just south of the causeway.
Regards
Neil M
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| Juvenile Pied Wagtail courtesy of Tyler Atkinson. |
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| Juvenile Meadow Pipit courtesy of Tyler Atkinson. |
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| Ringlet. |
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| Green-veined White. |
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| Red Admiral. |
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