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| Date | Species | Site | Count | Observer |
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| 05/10/23 | Marsh Harrier | Weston Turville Reservoir | 1 | T Wallen |
| 16:40 | Flew very low out of the reservoir and west towards Aylesbury. | |||
| 01/10/23 | Marsh Harrier | Foxcote Res | 1 | P Gomersall |
| 09:45 | fem. Flew from the point and over western reeds. | |||
| 28/09/23 | Marsh Harrier | Gallows Bridge Farm, Gallows Bridge | 1 | N Giles |
| 17:00 | Initially on ground in main field in front of seasonal hide. Dark bird with lighter crown. Took off and drifted towards Marsh Gibbon. | |||
| 27/09/23 | Marsh Harrier | Foxcote Res | 1 | P Gomersall |
| 11:07 | fem. Seen on 10 / 09 /23 only found when downloaded photos. | |||
| 24/09/23 | Marsh Harrier | Linford Reserve, Linford GPs | 1 | M Haberfield |
| 12:00 | Two buzzards calling attracted attention to a Marsh Harrier flying over the field across the lake from Otter Hide. The Harrier then flew directly towards and over the hide heading south-west. Photo in gallery. | |||
| 23/09/23 | Marsh Harrier | Steps Hill | 1 | M Wallen |
| 09:00 | juv. Arrived low down from the East, it may have got up off of the ground somewhere there. Proceeded to rise up and then crossed the hill and headed towards Pitstone/ College Lake/ ressies. Watched with Brendan. Photo'd. | |||
| 13/09/23 | Marsh Harrier | Steps Hill | 1 | P Gibbs |
| 10:05 | Male. Circling near Beacon car park, headed towards College Lake. | |||
| 09/09/23 | Marsh Harrier | Great Brickhill | 1 | R D Andrews |
| 10:29 | female/imm. Seen from front garden heading over to the east. Luckily Julie managed to get a photo as it was heading away. 2nd for the garden. | |||
| 28/08/23 | Marsh Harrier | Wingrave | 2 | G Hinton |
| 15:00 | One with a red wing tag. Both were on the ground at the previous location. Unrigged one was hawking over the uncropped field. SP875190. | |||
| 28/08/23 | Marsh Harrier | Crafton | 1 | G Hinton |
| 12:40 | Hunting over newly cropped fields off Leighton road. Seen going down on ground near crafton. Had a red wing tag. SP884192. | |||
| 17/08/23 | Marsh Harrier | Little Marlow GP | 1 | A D Bassett |
| 07:15 | Juv flew north up the east side of the lake. | |||
| 10/08/23 | Marsh Harrier | New Bradwell | 1 | R C B'stard |
| 21:57 | fem. All dark bird, long tail, cream head. | |||
| 27/07/23 | Marsh Harrier | Gallows Bridge | 1 | A Roach |
| 15:32 | Immature bird viewed from screen and hide 2 perching along fence posts briefly in flight. | |||
| 14/07/23 | Marsh Harrier | Foxcote Res | 1 | R S Hill |
| 09:00 | Cream-crowned bird. Very dark, with reduced dark yellow patches on forewing, and a dark tail. Suspect immature female. Came in from NE, quartered the reedbeds for a bit, then lost to view in the SW corner. | |||
| 09/07/23 | Marsh Harrier | Rowsham | 1 | M Wallen |
| 09:15 | ad fem. Fantastic views as it flew really low over a Wheat field, then turned onto the track I was on and flew towards me ! It then looped up and appeared to land in a hedge, but not relocated. What was surely the same bird passed over the garden to the West early afternoon (MSW, TJWa). The distance between the two locations being about 3/4 mile. Clearly an adult female. | |||
| 02/05/23 | Marsh Harrier | Drayton Beauchamp | 1 | D Hutchinson |
| 13:20 | Flew from Wilstone Reservoir into Bucks. | |||
| 28/03/23 | Marsh Harrier | Dorney Common, Dorney | 1 | K P Duncan |
| 18:09 | fem. assumed to be the same bird that has been in the area all winter. Drifted over the border from the common into Berkshire over the Eton Wick flood then drifted ESE towards Eton/Windsor. | |||
| 25/03/23 | Marsh Harrier | Great Brickhill | 1 | R D Andrews |
| 16:27 | Seen from bedroom window as it flew over trees behind the house heading SW being mobbed by 2 Crows. They harassed it all the way over Rushmere until out of sight. | |||
| 27/01/23 | Marsh Harrier | Dorney Common, Dorney | 2 | J E Rose |
| 14:30 | Two female types over the Common but then flew high S towards Windsor (per Colin Barnes). | |||
| 20/01/23 | Marsh Harrier | Great Brickhill | 1 | R D Andrews |
13:17 | Seen distantly and briefly from garden through bins. Expected the usual Buzzard but looked longer winged and as the sun caught the underside it appeared all dark brown. Frustratingly it disappeared before I could get the scope on it as it disappeared North. | |||