Green Woodpecker

Copyright P Beesley

Male Green Woodpecker at Thorpe Hall

Great Crested Grebe at Ferry Meadows

Male Whinchat at Maxey, 4.5.10

Mike Weedon Digiscoped with Canon Powershot A640 and Kowa 823 + 32xW

Swallow at Ferry Meadows

Sedge Warbler - Ferry Meadows

Ⓒ Roy Norris

Sand Martin -Ferry Meadows

Ⓒ Roy Norris

Meadow Pipit at Nene Low Washes

Red-rumped Swallow at Ferry Meadows

Great find by Paul Gallagher on 1.5.10. This compilation from digiscoped images taken on 2.5.10

Mike Weedon Digiscoped with Canon Powershot A640 and Kowa 823 + 32xW

Whinchat at Castor Meadows

Sandwich Tern at Ferry Meadows

Common Snipe at Nene Low Washes

Garden Warbler - Ferry Meadows

Ⓒ Roy Norris
Observed on the edge of the Reserve adjacent to Ham Bridge.

Ring Ouzel

Male Ring Ouzel at Castor Meadows

Whitethroat - Ferry Meadows

Ⓒ Roy Norris

Blackcap - Ferry Meadows

Ⓒ Roy Norris

Ring Ouzel at Castor Mill, 23.4.10

Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus, male Mike Weedon Digiscoped with Canon Powershot A640 and Kowa 823 + 32xW

Ring Ouzel, Castor Mill

Found by Don Gardener on the western side of the Castor Mill houses along with the same or another male Redstart.

Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus, male

Brian Stone Digiscoped with Canon Powershot A640 and Leica APO77 x20

Redstart, Ring Haw

Another day, another Redstart, this time at Ring Haw NR.

Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus

Brian Stone Digiscoped with Canon Powershot A640 and Leica APO77 x20

Grasshopper Warbler, Castor Hanglands

Grasshopper Warbler

© Mac Bell

Redstarts galore

Brian Stone found this male and a female at Castor Hanglands this morning. Another is still present at Castor Mill making three in the Castor area.

Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus

© Brian Stone Digiscoped with Canon Powershot A640 and Leica APO77 x20

Redstart, Ferry Meadows

He's done it again. Don Gardener is like a magnet for Redstarts and found a corking male on the Coney/Oak Meadow boundary at Ferry Meadows today.

Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus

Digiscoped with Canon Powershot A640 and Leica APO77 x20

More Chiffchaff - Ferry Meadows

Ⓒ Roy Norris

Ferry Meadows -23 March

Chiffchaff - Reserve


Common Buzzard over Bluebell Wood


Red Kite over Gunwade Lake


Ⓒ Roy Norris

Ferry Meadows - Pochard and Tufted Duck

Ⓒ Roy Norris

Grey Herons - Ferry Meadows

Ⓒ Roy Norris
13 Grey Herons on Heron Meadow.

Buzzard sitting on fence post in the pouring rain on the old A1 near Stilton

Jay - Ferry Meadows

Ⓒ Roy Norris
Observed in Bluebell Wood

Lesser Redpoll - Ferry Meadows

Ⓒ Roy Norris

North Bank Sewage Works

This site is often good during cold weather and today held 10 Redshank, 5 Snipe and 3 Green Sandpipers as well as a wintering Chiffchaff and a female Sparrowhawk.

Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita


Snipe Gallinago gallinago


Redshank Tringa totanus


Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus


© Brian Stone Digiscoped with Canon Powershot A640 and Leica APO77x20

Red-crested Pochard at Ferry Meadows

3 males and a female were on the ice-free part of Gunwade Lake.

Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina, males

© Brian Stone Digiscoped with Canon Powershot A640 and Leica APO77x20

Redwing

© Roy Norris
Castor & Ailsworth area