Little Grebe | 1/1/2023 | Calvert BBOWT |
Great Crested Grebe | 1/1/2023 | Calvert BBOWT |
Black-necked Grebe | ********** | ********** |
Cormorant | 1/1/2023 | Calvert BBOWT |
Cattle Egret | 10/4/2023 | A full breeding-plumaged adult roosting on the main island at Spade Oak |
Little Egret | 1/1/2023 | Stowe Lakes |
Great White Egret | 6/2/2023 | Manor Farm |
Grey Heron | 1/1/2023 | Stowe Lakes |
Spoonbill | 4/6/2023 | Roosting adult at Spade Oak |
Mute Swan | 1/1/2023 | Stowe Lakes |
Whooper Swan | 1/1/2023 | 3 adults still just west of Cold Brayfield hamlet |
Greylag Goose | 1/1/2023 | Manor Farm |
Canada Goose | 1/1/2023 | Gallows Bridge Farm |
Barnacle Goose | 12/1/2023 | With Greylag at Castleman's Farm Poultry Fields |
Brent Goose | 1/1/2023 | Juvenile still in field NW of Foxcote Reservoir |
Egyptian Goose | 1/1/2023 | 104 at Castleman's Farm Poultry Fields |
Shelduck | 4/1/2023 | 3 at Spade Oak Pit |
Mandarin Duck | 9/1/2023 | Burnham Beeches NNR and Black Park CP |
Wigeon | 1/1/2023 | Foxcote Reservoir |
Gadwall | 1/1/2023 | Stowe Lakes |
Teal | 1/1/2023 | Manor Farm |
Mallard | 1/1/2023 | Stowe Lakes |
Pintail | 1/1/2023 | Drake at Manor Farm |
Garganey | ********** | ********** |
Shoveler | 3/1/2023 | College Lake (just 1 drake!) |
Red-crested Pochard | 9/2/2023 | A female on the Crowne Plaza Pit, Marlow |
Pochard | 1/1/2023 | Spade Oak GP |
Tufted Duck | 1/1/2023 | Calvert BBOWT |
Scaup | 21/3/2023 | Adult drake at Caldecotte Lake South |
Common Scoter | 16/9/2023 | An adult drake on the main lake at College BBOWT |
Goldeneye | 1/1/2023 | Foxcote Reservoir |
Smew | 9/10/2023 | A female on the Jubilee River 400 yards west of Dorney Wetlands. Two more at Fulmer Lake |
Goosander | ********** | ********** |
Red Kite | 1/1/2023 | Hyde Heath |
Sparrowhawk | 1/1/2023 | Dorney Common North |
Buzzard | 1/1/2023 | Calvert |
Osprey | 19/11/2023 | A very late juvenile on the River Chess |
Kestrel | 1/1/2023 | Calvert |
Hobby | ********** | ********** |
Peregrine | ********** | ********** |
Red-legged Partridge | 4/1/2023 | Smalldean Lane |
Grey Partridge | 3/1/2023 | 7 at Down Farm Cereal Fields, Pitstone Hill |
Quail | 15/7/2023 | 2 calling at Ivinghoe Hills NR |
Pheasant | 1/1/2023 | Foxcote Reservoir |
Water Rail | 21/1/2023 | Chesham Waterside |
Little Crake | 7/11/2023 | A juvenile at Linford NR - my first ever in the county |
Moorhen | 1/1/2023 | Calvert BBOWT |
Coot | 1/1/2023 | Calvert BBOWT |
Oystercatcher | 1/3/2023 | Pair at College Lake |
Avocet | 1/9/2023 | A moulting adult at Dorney Common Flood |
Little Ringed Plover | 16/3/2023 | Spade Oak Pit |
Ringed Plover | 8/5/2023 | Spade Oak Pit |
Golden Plover | 1/1/2023 | Gallows Bridge Farm |
Lapwing | 1/1/2023 | 1100 at Gallows Bridge Farm |
Knot | 24/9/2023 | A juvenile on Dorney Common Flood |
Little Stint | 17/9/2023 | A juvenile on Dorney Common Flood |
Temminck's Stint | 22/5/2023 | On the far spit at Spade Oak Pit found by Adam Bassett |
Dunlin | 14/3/2023 | Dorney Common Flood |
Ruff | 14/9/2023 | Dorney Common Flood (juvenile) |
Jack Snipe | 30/1/2023 | Stoke Common |
Snipe | 1/1/2023 | 3 at Spade Oak GP |
Woodcock | 1/3/2023 | Little Linford Wood |
Black-tailed Godwit | 8/4/2023 | 2 at College Lake from the Octagon Hide |
Curlew | 31/3/2023 | Pair on Dorothy Bolton Meadow |
Common Sandpiper | 8/5/2023 | Spade Oak Pit |
Green Sandpiper | 28/3/2023 | Wapsey's Landfill Reclamation |
Greenshank | 29/5/2023 | Spade Oak Pit |
Redshank | 2/3/2023 | College Lake |
Black-headed Gull | 1/1/2023 | Calvert |
Little Gull | 10/4/2023 | 3 (2 summer adults and a 2nd-summer) at Spade Oak Pit |
Mediterranean Gull | 16/3/2023 | A nice adult in breeding plumage at Spade Oak |
Common Gull | 1/1/2023 | Stowe |
Lesser Black-backed Gull | 1/1/2023 | Waddesdon |
Herring Gull | 1/1/2023 | Spade Oak GP |
Yellow-legged Gull | 1/3/2023 | A 4w at Newton Leys |
Caspian Gull | 26/1/2023 | 2 adults on Blue Lagoon Bletchley |
Glaucous Gull | 4/1/2023 | A juvenile at Springfield Landfill (observed with David J Bevan) |
Great Black-backed Gull | 1/1/2023 | Springfield Landfill/Spade Oak GP |
Black Tern | 1/6/2023 | On marsh at College Lake BBOWT |
Common Tern | 31/3/2023 | Foxcote Reservoir |
Arctic Tern | 4/11/2023 | A juvenile on Willen Lake North Basin |
Rock Dove / Feral Pigeon | 1/1/2023 | Aylesbury |
Stock Dove | 1/1/2023 | Stowe Park |
Woodpigeon | 1/1/2023 | Hyde Heath |
Collared Dove | 1/1/2023 | |
Ring-necked Parakeet | 1/1/2023 | Dorney Common |
Cuckoo | 6/6/2023 | 2 calling males at Linford NR |
Barn Owl | | |
Little Owl | 6/2/2023 | Manor Farm |
Tawny Owl | 26/1/2023 | Ashridge Forest |
Long-eared Owl | ********** | ********** |
Short-eared Owl | ********** | ********** |
Nightjar | ********** | ********** |
Swift | 8/5/2023 | 7 at Spade Oak Pit |
Kingfisher | 20/1/2023 | Pow Wow Lake Chesham |
Green Woodpecker | 1/1/2023 | Stowe Park |
Great Spotted Woodpecker | 5/1/2023 | Lower Pound Lane, Marlow |
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | ********** | ********** |
Skylark | 2/1/2023 | Misbourne LNR |
Sand Martin | 25/3/2023 | Spade Oak GP - 8 moved quickly through |
Swallow | 28/3/2023 | 2 with at least 98 Sand Martins over Spade Oak in heavy rain |
House Martin | 6/4/2023 | Spade Oak GP |
Tree Pipit | 21/8/2023 | Several grounded and flyover migrants over Ivinghoe Beacon in third week of August |
Meadow Pipit | 2/1/2023 | Misbourne LNR |
Yellow Wagtail | 10/4/2023 | 4 males in the Marsworth Horse Paddocks |
Grey Wagtail | 20/1/2023 | Fulmer Lake |
Pied Wagtail | 1/1/2023 | Dorney Common North |
Waxwing | 15/12/2023 | A flock of 7 spent 20 minutes in my garden and road |
Wren | 1/1/2023 | |
Dunnock | 1/1/2023 | |
Robin | 1/1/2023 | |
Redstart | 7/8/2023 | 3 at Rowsham |
Whinchat | 7/8/2023 | Moulting adult at Ivinghoe Beacon sheep pens |
Stonechat | ********** | ********** |
Wheatear | 19/3/2023 | 2 males on the Hay Meadow at College Lake |
Ring Ouzel | 8/4/2023 | 3 males at Ivinghoe Beacon |
Blackbird | 1/1/2023 | |
Fieldfare | 1/1/2023 | |
Song Thrush | 1/1/2023 | Edgcott |
Redwing | 1/1/2023 | |
Mistle Thrush | 5/1/2023 | Lower Pound Lane, Marlow |
Cetti's Warbler | 1/1/2023 | Eton Wick Roundmoor Ditch |
Sedge Warbler | 12/4/2023 | Marsworth Reedbed |
Reed Warbler | 12/4/2023 | Marsworth Reedbed |
Blackcap | 16/2/2023 | A male in Richard Ness's back garden in Hilltop, Chesham |
Garden Warbler | 8/5/2023 | 2 singing males at Spade Oak Pit |
Lesser Whitethroat | 2/5/2023 | |
Whitethroat | 6/4/2023 | A singing male by the railway near Spade Oak GP |
Dartford Warbler | ********** | ********** |
Chiffchaff | 1/1/2023 | Emerson Valley |
Willow Warbler | 1/1/2023 | Emerson Valley - my first ever wintering bird in the county |
Goldcrest | 1/1/2023 | Emerson Valley |
Firecrest | 6/2/2023 | Wendover Canal (The Wides) |
Spotted Flycatcher | 6/6/2023 | Pair around pond in School House garden in Hardmead |
Pied Flycatcher | 27/4/2023 | Cracking male at Howe Park Wood (photographed) |
Long-tailed Tit | 1/1/2023 | Emerson Valley |
Blue Tit | 1/1/2023 | |
Great Tit | 1/1/2023 | |
Coal Tit | 5/1/2023 | Hampden House |
Marsh Tit | 30/1/2023 | Ashridge Forest |
Nuthatch | 2/1/2023 | Great Hampden House |
Treecreeper | 1/1/2023 | Emerson Valley |
Jay | 1/1/2023 | |
Magpie | 1/1/2023 | |
Jackdaw | 1/1/2023 | |
Rook | 1/1/2023 | |
Carrion Crow | 1/1/2023 | |
Raven | 5/1/2023 | Pair at Great Hampden House |
Starling | 1/1/2023 | |
House Sparrow | 1/1/2023 | Aylesbury |
Tree Sparrow | 4/9/2023 | 2 juveniles in stubble at Amersham Flood Meadows |
Chaffinch | 1/1/2023 | |
Brambling | 4/1/2023 | Just 2 females in the Penn Wood Penna roost |
Greenfinch | 1/1/2023 | |
Goldfinch | 1/1/2023 | |
Siskin | 1/1/2023 | Emerson Valley |
Linnet | 1/1/2023 | |
Lesser Redpoll | 1/3/2023 | A single at Grove |
Common Crossbill | 26/10/2023 | At least a dozen in Wendover Woods (Hale end) |
Bullfinch | 17/2/2023 | Pair at Chesham Fishing Lakes |
Hawfinch | 2/1/2023 | Great Hampden House - the 2 wintering males |
Yellowhammer | 1/1/2023 | Gallows Bridge Farm |
Reed Bunting | 2/1/2023 | Misbourne LNR |
Corn Bunting | 26/1/2023 | Smalldean Lane in Saunderton - 30 in setaside |