SUNDAY 13 MARCH
An invariably wet morning but pleasantly mild, with temperatures hovering at around 13 degrees C. A fresh westerly wind eventually cleared the rain and the afternoon was bright and mainly clear.
BOIS MILL LAKE, CHESS VALLEY (BUCKS)
Still 1 Little Egret present and 45 Redwings in flight
IVINGHOE BEACON (BUCKS)
My first NORTHERN WHEATEAR of the year - a nice male - feeding on the slope just SE of the Beacon and presumably one of the two birds found by Dave Bilcock yesterday; also my first Bucks Meadow Pipits of the year (5+) and several Eurasian Skylarks in full song - 5 Linnets also but no Common Stonechats
At least 11 Common Gulls were wandering amongst the lambs and sheep on the slope
DOWN FARM AND PITSTONE HILL AREA (BUCKS)
I could not find the Northern Wheatear that DB saw earlier on the fenceline but 13 male Skylarks were in song and one jangling CORN BUNTING on the wires
ALDBURY VILLAGE (HERTS)
A herd of 32 Fallow Deer just north of the village and 19 active Rook nests opposite the Walled Garden (in Walk Wood) at SP 963 135
An invariably wet morning but pleasantly mild, with temperatures hovering at around 13 degrees C. A fresh westerly wind eventually cleared the rain and the afternoon was bright and mainly clear.
BOIS MILL LAKE, CHESS VALLEY (BUCKS)
Still 1 Little Egret present and 45 Redwings in flight
IVINGHOE BEACON (BUCKS)
My first NORTHERN WHEATEAR of the year - a nice male - feeding on the slope just SE of the Beacon and presumably one of the two birds found by Dave Bilcock yesterday; also my first Bucks Meadow Pipits of the year (5+) and several Eurasian Skylarks in full song - 5 Linnets also but no Common Stonechats
At least 11 Common Gulls were wandering amongst the lambs and sheep on the slope
DOWN FARM AND PITSTONE HILL AREA (BUCKS)
I could not find the Northern Wheatear that DB saw earlier on the fenceline but 13 male Skylarks were in song and one jangling CORN BUNTING on the wires
ALDBURY VILLAGE (HERTS)
A herd of 32 Fallow Deer just north of the village and 19 active Rook nests opposite the Walled Garden (in Walk Wood) at SP 963 135