Northamptonshire Birding

Hello Another day of pleasant temperatures and weather and the female Ring Ouzel at Harrington Airfield performed rather well to all-comers ...

Hello As forecast a much warmer day and with some nice sunshine too brought forth a number of insects and the birds were in full voice. Ther...

Hello For those that were patient enough to wait the Purple Heron showed itself at Stanford Reservoir a couple of times today. Other birds o...

Hello Another day of strong weather with powerful south-west gusts, squally showers and periods of sunshine. The best find of the day was un...

Hello A relatively calm day following the strong gusts of the week-end meant that ringers could once again utilise mist nets! Dave Francis c...

Hello Two Short-eared Owls and two male Wheatears were at Blueberry Farm, Maidwell this morning and a female Wheatear and about fifty Fieldf...

Hello Some early morning birding around Cottesbrooke provided more spring migrants with a few of Swallow, Yellow Wagtail, Willow Warbler and...

Hello A blustery day with strong southerlies began with rain but later also some pleasant sunshine and mild temperatures. A male Common Reds...

Hello Yesterday (Wednesday) seemed a generally quiet day in the county but two Cattle Egrets overflew Stanwick Pits, a Short-eared Owl was s...

This morning I decided to revisit the Blueberry area and it was whilst I was standing "watching the world wake up " that I heard t...

  It has certainly been a funny old day weatherwise. My heart sank when I awoke to heavy rain.  Thankfully this was short lived and I was ab...

Hello A mostly cool, grey and murky day with mist and fog first thing but it didn't prevent some more interesting records in the county....

Hello A cold dawn led into a cracking day's weather with plenty of blue sky and warm sunshine and stimulating lots of bumblebees and but...