Buckinghamshire bird news
Saturday 18th March 2017
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| Date | Species | Site | Count | Observer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18/03/17 | Blackcap | Buckingham | 1 | D Shephard |
| Singing early morning in garden. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Blackcap | Marlow Bottom | 1 | A D Bassett |
| Wintering male still singing in garden. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Siskin | Whitchurch | 1 | T Watts |
| Male on garden feeders again. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Blackcap | Marlow Bottom | 1 | A D Bassett |
| Wintering male still singing in garden. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Fieldfare | Rowsham | 20 | M Wallen |
| Fell out of the sky early morning and into hedgerow, had clearly been migrating east. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Redwing | Rowsham | 15 | M Wallen |
| Fell out of the sky and into a hedgerow early morning, had clearly been migrating East. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Grey Partridge | Rowsham | 2 | M Wallen |
| pair. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Blackcap | Rowsham | 1 | M Wallen |
| male. Singing from ivy, there has not been one here all winter, an obvious migrant. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Chiffchaff | Rowsham | 2 | M Wallen |
| Singing males, same birds as day before. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Black-headed Gull | Dorney Lake, Dorney | 150 | D L Cleal |
| In horse fields opposite DL entrance. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Redwing | Dorney Lake, Dorney | 6 | D L Cleal |
| In bushes in horse fields outside DL entrance. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Fieldfare | Dorney Lake, Dorney | 5 | D L Cleal |
| with Starlings. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Starling | Dorney Lake, Dorney | 120 | D L Cleal |
| Noisy active flock in horse fields outside DL entrance. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Oystercatcher | Little Marlow GP | 3 | D L Cleal |
| So with my DL sighting, 5 Oystercatchers in South Bucks!! | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Little Ringed Plover | Little Marlow GP | 1 | D L Cleal |
| 18/03/17 | Sand Martin | Little Marlow GP | 30 | D L Cleal |
| High over the wood behind the spit. With MM. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Wigeon | Little Marlow GP | 9 | D L Cleal |
| 18/03/17 | Shoveler | Little Marlow GP | 12 | D L Cleal |
| 18/03/17 | Oystercatcher | Dorney Lake, Dorney | 2 | D L Cleal |
| Looked paired up. Can't remember 2 here together before. By the Seasonal Pool, viewed from the entrance road. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Blackcap | Chesham Bois Village | 4 | J R Ogle |
| 2m 2f. A second female joined the 'resident' trio. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Woodcock | Prestwood | 1 | P Stanford |
| 11:30 | 1 flushed from edge of woodland. | |||
| 18/03/17 | Chiffchaff | Calvert BBOWT Lake, Calvert | 1 | L Evans |
| Singing male. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Great Crested Grebe | Calvert BBOWT Lake, Calvert | 3 | L Evans |
| 18/03/17 | Kingfisher | Calvert BBOWT Lake, Calvert | 1 | L Evans |
| 18/03/17 | Cetti's Warbler | Calvert BBOWT Lake, Calvert | 1 | L Evans |
| Singing away at dusk. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Black-headed Gull | Calvert BBOWT Lake, Calvert | 140 | L Evans |
| 18/03/17 | Yellow-legged Gull | Calvert BBOWT Lake, Calvert | 5 | L Evans |
| Very unusual for March and all sub-adult - 2 3cy and 3 4cy. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Lesser Black-backed Gull | Calvert BBOWT Lake, Calvert | 750 | L Evans |
| At least 750 in roost, largely migrant adults. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Herring Gull | Calvert BBOWT Lake, Calvert | 133 | L Evans |
| 133 in at roost by 1820. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Iceland Gull | Calvert BBOWT Lake, Calvert | 2 | L Evans |
| 4cy (essentially adult but with some dark peppering about nape and head and some brown in wing coverts) and a juvenile (still not bleached and with not much pink on the bill). The adult-type is different to the bird I saw on the Landfill on 3rd March (LGRE and Steve Rodwell). | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Shelduck | College Lake | 1 | A C Bayliss |
| Male. Arrived early afternoon. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Snipe | College Lake | 3 | A C Bayliss |
| On North island. Viewed from the Octagon hide. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Redshank | College Lake | 6 | A C Bayliss |
| Spent some of the day off the reserve but returned mid-afternoon. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Lapwing | College Lake | 4 | A C Bayliss |
| 18/03/17 | Oystercatcher | College Lake | 2 | A C Bayliss |
| 18/03/17 | Grey Heron | College Lake | 1 | A C Bayliss |
| 18/03/17 | Buzzard | College Lake | 1 | A C Bayliss |
| 18/03/17 | Kestrel | College Lake | 1 | A C Bayliss |
| 18/03/17 | Mute Swan | College Lake | 5 | A C Bayliss |
| 18/03/17 | Teal | College Lake | 3 | A C Bayliss |
| 18/03/17 | Pochard | College Lake | 6 | A C Bayliss |
| 18/03/17 | Tufted Duck | College Lake | 32 | A C Bayliss |
| 18/03/17 | Gadwall | College Lake | 38 | A C Bayliss |
| 18/03/17 | Wigeon | College Lake | 12 | A C Bayliss |
| 18/03/17 | Shoveler | College Lake | 7 | A C Bayliss |
| 18/03/17 | Song Thrush | College Lake | 1 | A C Bayliss |
| Singing. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Greenfinch | College Lake | 5 | A C Bayliss |
| 18/03/17 | Chiffchaff | College Lake | 2 | A C Bayliss |
| Singing despite the blustery wind and drizzle. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Skylark | College Lake | 1 | A C Bayliss |
| Singing. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Green Woodpecker | College Lake | 2 | A C Bayliss |
| 18/03/17 | Bullfinch | College Lake | 1 | A C Bayliss |
| Male. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Reed Bunting | College Lake | 3 | A C Bayliss |
| Two males and a female on the visitor centre feeders. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Little Grebe | College Lake | 1 | A C Bayliss |
| On the marsh. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Kingfisher | Little Marlow GP | 1 | K Holt |
| 16:00 | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Sand Martin | Little Marlow GP | 55 | K Holt |
| 16:00 | Groups of 32, 15 and 8 from 15:00 to 16:30 - moving through north beyond east side of lake. | |||
| 18/03/17 | Little Ringed Plover | Little Marlow GP | 1 | K Holt |
| 16:00 | On west edge of spit - feeding but very casually. | |||
| 18/03/17 | Fieldfare | Little Marlow GP | 70 | K Holt |
| 14:00 | Feeding with starling in 1st field east of concrete road. | |||
| 18/03/17 | Starling | Little Marlow GP | 50 | K Holt |
| 14:00 | Feeding with fieldfare in 1st field east of concrete road. | |||
| 18/03/17 | Skylark | Little Marlow GP | 1 | K Holt |
| 14:00 | Singing from second field east of concrete road. | |||
| 18/03/17 | Oystercatcher | Little Marlow GP | 3 | K Holt |
| 14:15 | On east edge of spit. | |||
| 18/03/17 | Little Egret | Little Marlow GP | 1 | K Holt |
| 14:30 | Perched low on north side of main island. | |||
| 18/03/17 | Reed Bunting | Stowe | 1 | M S Hunt |
| 18/03/17 | Meadow Pipit | Stowe | 1 | M S Hunt |
| 18/03/17 | Fieldfare | Stowe | 30 | M S Hunt |
| 18/03/17 | Chiffchaff | Stowe | 2 | M S Hunt |
| Singing. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Little Grebe | Stowe | 1 | M S Hunt |
| Trilling. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Redpoll | Flackwell Heath | 3 | J Chadbone |
| 14:30 | On feeders - first this year. | |||
| 18/03/17 | Black Redstart | Berryfields | 1 | D Parker |
| 12:00 | Male black redstart on rooftops in Jazz Road Berryfields Then flew off towards limelight Ave. | |||
| 18/03/17 | Barnacle Goose | Olney | 30 | C Harris |
| 12:00 | on olney meadows by the river. | |||
| 18/03/17 | Raven | Tom Burt's Hill, High Wycombe | 1 | P Lock |
| 10:45 | Unusual in the middle of Wycombe! | |||
| 18/03/17 | Sand Martin | Little Marlow GP | 4 | T James |
| 12:40 | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Chiffchaff | Little Marlow GP | 6 | T James |
| 12:40 | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Little Ringed Plover | Little Marlow GP | 1 | T James |
| 12:40 | On spit. | |||
| 18/03/17 | Oystercatcher | Little Marlow GP | 3 | T James |
| 12:40 | On spit. | |||
| 18/03/17 | Reed Bunting | Little Marlow GP | 1 | T James |
| 12:40 | N/side. | |||
| 18/03/17 | Fieldfare | Little Marlow GP | 30 | T James |
| 12:40 | In field north of reserve. | |||
| 18/03/17 | Sand Martin | Little Marlow GP | 37 | A D Bassett |
| 10:30 | mostly going west over the STW. | |||
| 18/03/17 | Little Ringed Plover | Little Marlow GP | 1 | A D Bassett |
| 10:30 | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Oystercatcher | Little Marlow GP | 3 | A D Bassett |
| 10:30 | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Black Redstart | Aylesbury | 1 | N Truby |
| fem. On roof by pond at bottom of Limelight Avenue. 10:00. | ||||
| 18/03/17 | Greenfinch | Buckingham | 1 | M S Hunt |
| 07:00 | "Dweezing " calls. | |||
| 18/03/17 | Blackcap | Buckingham | 1 | M S Hunt |
| 07:00 | Singing. | |||