Northamptonshire Birding

Hello Our intention to ring at Harrington Airfield today was cancelled due to the weather, which ended up being quite fortuitous for me! ...

Hello A stunning day's weather at Pitsford Reservoir today, and just perfect to complete the last Common Bird Census of the season. ...

Hello Time was spent at Harrington Airfield today in an effort to make it ready for some bird ringing this autumn. Some of the original r...

Hello Yesterday evening (Wednesday 15th) and a scan from the dam at Pitsford Reservoir produced just a solitary adult Yellow-legged Gull....

Hello A visit to the Old Scaldwell Road Feeding Station at Pitsford Reservoir with a 'scope this evening provided a few sightings of ...

Hello This morning Neil H explored the Scaldwell Bay at Pitsford Reservoir and espied singles of Common and Green Sandpiper. There are so...

Hello I have just returned from a week on Sule Skerry, a very small island off the Caithness coastline, 25 miles out to sea and technical...

Yesterday (Thursday) saw me visiting the Fermyn/Souther/Lady Wood complex near Corby, an annual pilgrimage to view a stunning local speciali...

Chris Payne spent most of yesterday out with Paddy Jackson checking approximately a dozen Barn Owl boxes. some of the boxes had not been us...

Another ringing session was conducted at the Scaldwell CES site on Sunday by Dave Francis. 78 birds were caught as follows: Kingfisher 2 ...

I took a walk down the Scaldwell bay on Friday morning in warm sunshine. A Marbled White was on the wing near to the Maytree's Hide.  A ...

Hello Below are some images of the Eurasian Bee-eater, surely one of the most beautiful and charismatic birds of the Mediterranean region...