Monday 14 October 2013

An afternoon in Northamptonshire and Leicestershire - October 10, 2013

Dave, Roger and I went to Pitsford Reservoir in Northamptonshire as there had been two Great White Egrets reported yesterday.  As we pulled up on the causeway Roger noted an egret in the Holcot Bay, which turned out to be one of the Greta White Egrets but we couldn’t find the second during our visit.  A single Pintail and more unusually a single eclipse/juvenile Ruddy Duck were also observed and there were at least six Little Egrets.  A Sparrowhawk was also observed on a couple occasions and there were at least nine Tree Sparrows at the feeding station.


We paid a brief visit to Saddington Reservoir on the way home but other than another four Little Egrets there was nothing else of note.

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