The latest bird and wildlife news from Paxton Pits. Paxton Pits Local Nature Reserve is managed by Huntingdonshire District Council in partnership with The Friends of Paxton Pits Nature Reserve.
Friday 30 April 2010
Island Pit: drake Red-crested Pochard, 1-2 Cetti's Warblers.
Thursday 29 April 2010
Wednesday 28 April 2010
Island Pit: Cetti's Warbler still in NW corner.
Pumphouse Pit: 8+ Little Egrets, Hobby, 3 Dunlin, 3 Little Ringed Plovers, 3 Common Sandpipers, 2 Greenshank, c.8 Yellow-legged Gulls, 64 Common Terns, 3 Black Terns, c.50 Swifts, male Blue-headed Wagtail with 31 Yellow Wagtails, male Greenland Wheatear, Nightingale, Grasshopper Warbler.
Tuesday 27 April 2010
Monday 26 April 2010
Sunday 25 April 2010
Heronry South: female PIED FLYCATCHER in conservation area between the Hayden & Kingfisher Hides late afternoon and early evening; female Marsh Harrier high north at 19:20,plus Red Kite and a singing Garden Warbler.
Pied Flycatcher, Heronry South © Mark Hawkes
Heronry North: 2 adult Little Gulls.
Island Pit: Drake Red-crested Pochard, Grasshopper Warbler, Cetti's Warbler.
A1 North Pit: Grasshopper Warbler.
Diddington & Pumphouse Pits: female GOSHAWK again, showing between 14:35 & c.15:45 occasionally with Common Buzzards, before heading southwards; 2 Little Egrets, Red Kite, 7+ Buzzards, Hobby, male Peregrine, Tundra Ringed Plover, 3 Whimbrel, 2 Common Sandpipers, c.60 Common Terns, 2 Arctic Terns, 2 Cuckoos, 2 Greenland Wheatears
Video of Goshawk over Diddington Pit © Jamie Wells
Saturday 24 April 2010
Heronry South: pair Red-crested Pochards, 2 Sparrowhawks, Hobby, 2 Cuckoos, 10 singing Nightingales, 2+ Lesser Whitethroats.
Island Pit: drake Red-crested Pochard.
Friday 23 April 2010
Diddington & Pumphouse Pits: drake Wigeon, c.5 Goldeneye, 5 Little Ringed Plover, 9 Ringed Plover, 3 Dunlin, 3 Black-tailed Godwits, Common Sandpiper, adult Yellow-legged Gull, 21 Common Terns, Arctic Tern, 19+ Yellow Wagtails (inc. female Flava-type).
Boughton Lodge Farm/Farm Pit: 2 Buzzards, Lesser Whitethroat.
2 of 3 islandica Black-tailed Godwits at Diddington Pit.
Thursday 22 April 2010
Wednesday 21 April 2010
Tuesday 20 April 2010
Monday 19 April 2010
Heronry South: 3 Red-crested Pochards (2 drakes), Kingfisher.
Island Pit: 2 drake Red-crested Pochards.
Meadow Trail: 2+ Cetti's Warblers.
Little Paxton village: 2 House Martins.
Saturday 17 April 2010
Friday 16 April 2010
Thursday 15 April 2010
Wednesday 14 April 2010
Tuesday 13 April 2010
Sunday 11 April 2010
Diddington & Pumphouse Pits: 3+ Buzzards, Sparrowhawk, Bar-tailed Godwit, Little Ringed Plover, adult Yellow-legged Gull, Common Tern.
Meadow Trail: 4 Buzzards, Sparrowhawk, 2 singing Cetti's Warblers.
Several Sedge Warblers now singing around complex.
Saturday 10 April 2010
Cloudy Pit: Cetti's Warbler singing.
Rudd Lake: a second singing Cetti's Warbler.
Meadow: Cuckoo heard to the south of meadow.