Northamptonshire Birding

Hello Another mostly still and grey day but without the drizzle. At Earls Barton Pits the three Glossy Ibis were on the Summer Leys reserve ...

Hello Still birds on the move today in grey, drizzly conditions but less in the way of scarce birds. The Brampton Valley below Hanging Hough...

Hello A busy day in the county with heavy migration and oddities mixed in too! Redwings, Skylarks and Siskins and many others were moving al...

Hello The current weather conditions are good for the use of mist nets during bird ringing sessions and members of the Northants Ringing Gro...

It has been a quiet end to the week.  Very few birds reported and certainly from my own visits to Harrington Airfield and shrike hedge a not...

Two more lovely Autumn days, blue skies, warm sunshine and a gentle breeze.  It's nice not having to wear wellies and fleeces and the ru...

We are very lucky in Northamptonshire and tend to miss the worst of the weather and this was the case over the weekend with Storm Amy. It wa...

I was very relieved when the juvenile American Golden Plover was relocated at Pitsford Reservoir yesterday. It showed really well at the bac...

Great excitement yesterday when a juvenile American Golden Plover was located at Clifford Hill GP.  The bird showed well and despite taking ...

  Saturday was another lovely Autumn day and I was lucky to be able to be out and about enjoying myself as I ambled about with my four legge...

Over the last couple of days the weather has been very "autumnal " with misty early mornings giving way to sunshine,  blue skies a...

Hello A milder start to the morning and with some misty conditions in places, but later some super autumnal sunshine and cooling north-easte...