August long-stayers

Hello

The Pectoral Sandpiper was still at Daventry Country Park today, probably best viewed from the new viewing platform with the bird at the north-western end of the old reservoir.

At Stanford Reservoir the Ferruginous Duck remained. No less than three colour-ringed Black-headed Gulls were at Stanford today - the bird from Belarus, a bird so marked at Stanford and a third bird with origins in Holland. A juvenile Peregrine that was present and attempting to take a Black-headed Gull was itself a colour-ringed bird. Other birds on-site were three Kingfishers, three Common Sandpipers, a Green Sandpiper, a Hobby, thirty Yellow Wagtails and seven Spotted Flycatchers. One hundred and thirty-six birds were caught and ringed today.

The Titchmarsh reserve at Thrapston Pits is doing well hanging on to it's waders and today the Wood Sandpiper was still present plus a Greenshank, a Ringed Plover, two Common Sandpipers, a Black-tailed Godwit and a Garganey.

Summer Leys LNR provided views of a Hobby, two Greenshanks and a Common Sandpiper with another Common Sandpiper on Mary's Lake.

At Pitsford Reservoir there were two Black-tailed Godwits in the Scaldwell Bay plus two Ruff and three Greenshanks with a Common Sandpiper, at least three Ringed Plovers and two Yellow-legged Gulls in the area of the dam.

A Raven and a couple of vocal Little Owls were at Hanging Houghton village and one or two Common Redstart(s) and at least twelve Spotted Flycatchers were at Lamport Hall.

Three Common Redstarts remain in hedging adjacent to the footpath that runs south of the villages of Old, Cherry Hill and Walgrave, and where half a dozen Clouded Yellows persist.

Two Common Redstarts were between the Chippings Compound and Bunker One at Harrington Airfield this morning and a Raven was heard calling distantly. A couple of Grey Wagtails were in the Brampton Valley below Brixworth.

Regards

Neil M

Garganey.

Greenshank and Wood Sandpiper.

All images from Titchmarsh reserve
at Thrapston Pits courtesy of
 Nick Parker.