© Mike Weedon
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Friday, September 16, 2005
Thursday, September 15, 2005
38 Knot at Deepings Lakes NR
© Kevin Du Rose
An unprecedented flock of this normally coastal wader species and surely a PBC area record count. They normally occur as singles and then perhaps only one a year!
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Little Stint at Deeping Lakes LWT
© Mike Weedon
Photographed on 13.9.05, this juvenile Little Stint was found on 11.9.05 and was still present to 15.9.05 at least.
Monday, September 12, 2005
White Stork, Gunthorpe Road, Newborough
Present from 27 August to 20 September 2005 at least.
© Kevin Du Rose
© Steve Dudley
© Mike Weedon
© Brian Stone
This is the second well-watched White Stork in the PBC area in recent years. The previous one was “Marge”, a well-travelled individual with distinctive black and white barring in the wing and missing wing feathers that made it easy to track across the country. It had been in Essex and then spent a long time at Cottenham Long Drove in Cambridgeshire before turning up on the Nene Washes where it stayed for most of April 2003. It then returned to Cottenham and was found dead there in early January 2004.
Prior to that one was seen by an extremely lucky birdrace team flying towards Peterborough along the Nene Washes on 11 May 2002, one circled over Alwalton on 23 Apr 1998 before heading off north and there was one on the Nene Washes in 1996 wearing a metal ring, which was no doubt an escape from captivity. There have also been a couple of other reports recently from non-birders that couldn’t be checked, at Stilton (17 Dec 2003) and Deeping Gate (16 Jul 2005).
© Kevin Du Rose
© Steve Dudley
© Mike Weedon
© Brian Stone
This is the second well-watched White Stork in the PBC area in recent years. The previous one was “Marge”, a well-travelled individual with distinctive black and white barring in the wing and missing wing feathers that made it easy to track across the country. It had been in Essex and then spent a long time at Cottenham Long Drove in Cambridgeshire before turning up on the Nene Washes where it stayed for most of April 2003. It then returned to Cottenham and was found dead there in early January 2004.
Prior to that one was seen by an extremely lucky birdrace team flying towards Peterborough along the Nene Washes on 11 May 2002, one circled over Alwalton on 23 Apr 1998 before heading off north and there was one on the Nene Washes in 1996 wearing a metal ring, which was no doubt an escape from captivity. There have also been a couple of other reports recently from non-birders that couldn’t be checked, at Stilton (17 Dec 2003) and Deeping Gate (16 Jul 2005).
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Friday, September 09, 2005
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Little Egrets at Prior's Fen GP
© Kevin Du Rose
© Brian Stone
Prior's Fen attracted several Little Egrets from 12 August onwards and six present between 23 August and 6 September 2005 is a new record count for the PBC area.
Monday, September 05, 2005
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