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, 7 September 2009

YELLOW WAGTAILS at Spade Oak

The YELLOW WAGTAILS are still present on the Thames meadows near Spade Oak Nature Reserve (aka LMGP).

On Thursday (3/9 at 17:30) there were 15 amongst cattle, but many initially flushed from the longer grass, near the Thames path at the meadow nearest Spade Oak. Also, at least 4 were reported with cattle at the meadow nearest Marlow Rugby Club.

I have put 3 photos on the new BBC Uploaded Photos site (Kevin Holt)

Thursday 3 September

At Linford NR this morning, a single SANDWICH TERN, 7 ARCTIC TERNS, 4 Common Terns and a Common Sandpiper were sighted.

Wednesday, 2 September 2009

SANDWICH TERN through

A SANDWICH TERN spent ten minutes at Spade Oak GP, Little Marlow, today (David Ferguson)

Monday, 31 August 2009

Large build up of YELLOW WAGTAILS

This evening with Kevin and Mike at Little Marlow GP - 35 Yellow Wagtails in meadow, 330 Greylags in at dusk and 1 Green Sandpiper (Alan Stevens)

Rowsham WHINCHATS

I went back down the fields tonight and found two WHINCHATS ( both looked like juveniles ) in the same place I found 1 this morning; tonight they were happily feeding from the tops of Wheat in a large field. However whilst I'm confident one was one of those from this morning, one clearly was different. I suspect the other I saw this morning was a female. So 3 today.

Also a nice little flock of YELLOW WAGTAILS in Rowsham earlier (Mike Wallen)

WHINCHATS in Stowe













3 WHINCHATS in Stowe. near the Bourbon Tower (Phil Tizzard)

Large flock of YELLOW WAGTAILS at Dorney

On the way to the carpark check amongst the cattle. At least 22 Yellow Wagtail seen this morning (Kevin Duncan). 2-3 COMMON GREENSHANK were also still present today on the Seasonal Pool.