Heronry North: 2 RAVENS over NW end of pit at c.10:05, before heading off strongly NW calling.

Boughton Lodge Farm: Spotted Flycatcher with Tit and Warbler flock nr kissing gate at south end of cowfields.

Island Pit: Red Kite over in afternoon, also Green Sandpiper.

Spotted Flycatcher at Boughton Lodge Farm.

Diddington Pit: juvenile RED-BACKED SHRIKE on far west side of pit along hedgerow just SE of Diddington village and viewable from the public footpath. Also juvenile Whinchat, Lesser Whitethroat and several Common Whitethroats in the same hedgerow.

Boughton Lodge Farm: female-type Mandarin flew south along brook mid morning and a Small Heath butterfly was around the southern end of the cowfields.

Red-backed Shrike, Diddington Pit.

LATEST SIGHTINGS:

Heron Trail:
(birds)
cormorant
swallow
house martin
sand martin
willow warbler
garden warbler
song thrush
green woodpecker
buzzard
whitethroat
turtle dove
heron
pochard
tufted duck
mallard
great crested grebe
common tern
black headed gull
greylag goose
canada goose
(butterflies)
small copper
meadow brown
clouded yellow
small white
brimstone
(dragonflies & damsel flies)
emperor
brown hawker
common damselfly
azure
red-eyed
(reptiles & amphibians)
great crested newt (VC pond)
smooth newt
common toad
common frog
common lizard

Meadow Trail:
(birds)
great crested grebe
whitethroat
sparrowhawk
reed bunting
house sparrow
wren
dunnock
shovelor
tufted duck
greater spotted woodpecker
green woodpecker
kingfisher

Stirtloe Lane Footpath or Ouse Valley Way, looking over the Northern lakes:
23/8/13 - (Records from JW & MD)
(ask for directions/maps in Visitor Centre)
egyptian goose - pair + 4 young
barnacle geese 2
common sandpiper
green sandpiper
curlew
little egret
marsh harrier (2 F imm)
red kite
buzzard
sparrowhawk
hobby
caspian gull
yellow wagtail
snipe

Little Paxton village: 15+ Yellow Wagtails flew south in evening, also Green Sandpiper over.

Island Pit: Green Sandpiper feeding on mud in SW corner, Nightingale calling continuously and showing briefly at southern shore of pit, plus Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, Reed Warbler Chiffchaff and Willow Warblers with a few roaming Tit flocks. Also Painted Lady and Brown Argos at southern end of Pit.