Saturday 7 January 2017
Thursday 15 December 2016
Monday 28 November 2016
Finally connected with a DARK-BELLIED BRENT GOOSE this year - thanks Adam!
MONDAY 28 NOVEMBER
A beautiful, calm, crisp early winter's day,
with clear blue skies throughout and a peak temperature of just 4 degrees
Centigrade. Following a mid-morning text from Adam Bassett, I finally connected
with a DARK-BELLIED BRENT GOOSE this year in the county. The bird was at SPADE
OAK PIT, LITTLE MARLOW and was actually Adam's second of the year, following one
earlier in September. This one was highly nervous, swimming at the east end of
the pit and surrounded by Black-headed Gulls. In fact, shortly after I arrived,
it decided to have a fly around but did alight back in the same
place.
Also on site were the Black Swan pair, a
Bar-headed Goose, 4 Egyptian Geese, 90 Teal, 40 Wigeon, 63 Tufted Duck, 43 Great
Crested Grebe, 6 Little Egret, 40 Redwing and 15 Fieldfare
Wednesday 9 November 2016
Yet another VELVET SCOTER and a late autumn KNOT!
Well what a week this has been
locally.......
On Sunday, I had never seen a VELVET SCOTER in
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE in my 50-year birding career in the region but by Wednesday, I
had seen three!! The two juveniles that Paul Moon had discovered at Willen Lake
South Basin on Monday (and still present today) and a juvenile drake that Dave
Cleal discovered at Dorney Rowing Lakes on Tuesday and I watched until dusk that
day. My best shots of the latter are published below.
Add to this another Paul Moon discovery today
(Wednesday 9th November). This very confiding juvenile (GREY) KNOT on the mud in
front of the Viaduct Hide at the Floodplain Forest Local Nature Reserve at Manor
Farm, Old Wolverton. We get on average just 1 Knot a year in Bucks and this was
it!!
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