YEARLISTING IN 2016

Compared to most recent years, when for example I recorded 165 species in the county in 2011, 187 in 2012 and 173 in 2013, this has been a particularly poor one with just 157 species recorded by mid December - one of my worst years on record

YEARLISTING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

It's all over - 2012 has come to an end. I managed a total of 187 out of the 198 species recorded all told in Buckinghamshire - 94% of the total - probably my highest-ever annual tally.

The current record is 191 species achieved in 2006 and held jointly by both Rob Hill and Simon Nichols



Monday, 29 March 2010

Another singing WILLOW WARBLER

An unproductive and very wet walk around the fields in Rowsham this morning, except for a pair of Grey Partridge, a pair of Common Teal and a singing WILLOW WARBLER.

Broughton Trout Pools held a few Common Teal and the lone ( presumed injured ) Eurasian Wigeon and a lone Atlantic Great Cormorant. However this Cormorant is a bit special, its the ringed 'carbo' DXA ( now an adult ), which winters at the Tring Reservoirs ( and Broughton in Spring ) which returns to its birthplace in the breeding season each year, NE of Aberdeen by the Ythan Estuary.

Onto Weston Turville Reservoir where there was a singing Cetti's Warbler and a pair of Mandarin mating (per Mike Wallen birding)