Ringing at Linford Lakes.

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A determined week-end's ringing at Linford Lakes, Milton Keynes provided nearly three hundred birds of a variety of species which included twenty-three Redwings, a Fieldfare, fifteen Blackbirds, three Song Thrushes, twenty-seven Greenfinches, ten Chaffinches, thirty-two Goldfinches, two Redpolls, six Cetti's Warblers, seven Chiffchaffs, four Blackcaps, a Kingfisher, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, two Stock Doves, three Goldcrests, a Meadow Pipit and two Treecreepers.

Two Scaup were on Town Lake, Thrapston Pits at dusk today and other birds on-site were two Marsh Harriers, two Peregrines and three Stonechats.

A 'ringtail' Hen Harrier was between Rushden and Newton Bromswold and rough fields there also supported over one hundred and fifty Linnets, at least two Redpolls and six Bramblings.

A Ring-necked Parakeet flew over Moulton this morning and Summer Leys LNR attracted a Glossy Ibis and a Raven. A late-season Black-tailed Godwit was at Clifford Hill Pits plus eight Golden Plovers.

Three drake Pintail were at Blatherwycke Lake plus a Raven and Grey Wagtail, two Grey Wagtails were in the Brampton Valley below Brixworth and a flock of fifty Skylarks were in fields south of Lamport Hall.

Two Barn Owls and four Grey Partridges were in the Brampton Valley below Hanging Houghton this evening and a Yellow-legged Gull, three Great White Egrets and a Raven were by the dam at Pitsford Reservoir.

Stanford Reservoir today was the site for six Red-crested Pochard, twelve Goosanders, four Egyptian Geese, twenty-five Great White Egrets, a Caspian Gull and a Redpoll.

Regards

Neil M

Blackcap.

Chaffinch.

Fieldfare.

Redpoll.

Stock Doves.

Images courtesy of Kenny Cramer.