Hello
More cloud cover this afternoon and even a few spots of rain to tease us!
Gary found a Pectoral Sandpiper at Daventry Country Park, one of a very long line of scarce and rare birds he has located over the years in the west of the county. This bird maintained a presence for much of the day and the plumage on a fairly distant view indicates it's an adult (the vast majority of previous Pec Sands in the county have been juveniles). A Common Redstart and two Dunlin were also seen there.
At Stanford Reservoir the Ferruginous Duck of unknown provenance remained today and other birds were three Great White Egrets (flying west), a Common Snipe, four Common Sandpipers, a Green Sandpiper, a Hobby, twenty Yellow Wagtails and a Cetti's Warbler. A juvenile Kestrel was ringed there today.
The Wood Sandpiper and an Osprey were seen at Thrapston Pits today, the sandpiper on the Titchmarsh reserve where also two Common Sandpipers and a Ringed Plover, and the Osprey over Elinor Lake.
Summer Leys LNR attracted a Hobby, a Green Sandpiper and a Common Sandpiper.
An adult Caspian Gull was at Hollowell Reservoir this morning where also two Dunlin and four Common Sandpipers.
A Common Redstart was seen at Harrington Airfield and the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton provided a fly-past of fourteen Ravens this morning, and five or six Spotted Flycatchers next to the Brampton Brook this evening.
At Ecton Sewage Farm this evening there was a Greenshank, five Green Sandpipers and a Spotted Flycatcher.
Regards
Neil M
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| Swallow courtesy of Tyler Atkinson. |
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| Adult drake Mallard in eclipse plumage. |
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| Migrant Hawker courtesy of Tony Stanford. |
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