Birds of the fog!

Hello

More foggy conditions and cold temperatures made it feel wintry today.

A Short-eared Owl showed well at Clifford Hill Pits before disappearing into the murk.

Two Marsh Harriers and three Common Snipe were at Summer Leys LNR today.

A grey male Black Redstart popped up in the grounds of the Sailing Club at Pitsford Reservoir today and other birds at that end of the reservoir were four Yellow-legged Gulls, two Great White Egrets and six Siskins. Two Great White Egrets and five Shelduck were later in the Walgrave Bay.

A pair of Stonechats and a singing Cetti's Warbler were at Hunsbury Meadows/canal corrider on the south side of Northampton.

A female Red-crested Pochard was again at Ravensthorpe Reservoir where also a Green Sandpiper and a Common Snipe.

A Barn Owl was in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton today and there was also the remnants of a freshly-predated second bird. A Woodcock was also seen.

A Caspian Gull was at Stanford Reservoir today plus two hundred and two Pochard, ten Goosanders and two Kingfishers.

Regards

Neil M

Short-eared Owl.

Golden Plovers.

Grey Plover.

Birds of a fog-bound Clifford Hill Pits
courtesy of Tyler Atkinson.