Lee Evans's 2024 year list

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SpeciesDateLocation
Great Northern Diver15/1/2024Juvenile at Calvert BBOWT Lake
Little Grebe12/1/2024Great Water
Great Crested Grebe12/1/2024Chesham Fishing Lakes
Cormorant
Cattle Egret26/2/2024A winter-plumaged adult at Ickford Bridge
Little Egret11/1/2411 in Pow Wow Lake roost (Chesham)
Great White Egret15/1/2024Calvert Sailing Lake
Grey Heron
White Stork21/3/2024Two adults from the Knepp introduction at Eythrope (GB28 and 81)
Glossy Ibis14/1/2024A juvenile showing very well in flooded fields at Little Marlow (photographed)
Mute Swan
Pink-footed Goose4/3/2024First-winter with Greyalgs in Marsworth Horse Paddocks
Greylag Goose12/1/2024Kennel Farm Water Meadows, Little Missenden
Canada Goose8/1/2024Dorney Common
Barnacle Goose26/2/2024Z90 - a non-naturalised bird from Merseyside on Dorney Common with Canadas
Egyptian Goose
Shelduck8/1/20243 on Dorney Common
Mandarin Duck12/1/202416 at Black Park Country Park
Wigeon8/1/2024Fulmer Lake
Gadwall10/1/24176 on College Lake
Teal8/1/2024Fulmer Lake
Mallard
Pintail19/1/2024A pair on the main lake at College Lake BBOWT
Garganey********************
Shoveler8/1/2024Fulmer Lake
Red-crested Pochard11/1/24College Lake (6 birds)
Pochard10/1/24College Lake
Tufted Duck
Scaup18/1/2024An adult drake on Willen Lake South Basin
Common Scoter19/2/2024Drake at Linford Nature Reserve
Goldeneye10/1/24A female on the main lake at College
Goosander********************
Red Kite
Marsh Harrier8/5/2024Female-type at Gallows Bridge
Sparrowhawk10/1/24College Lake
Buzzard
Kestrel
Hobby********************
Peregrine********************
Red-legged Partridge
Grey Partridge
Pheasant
Water Rail22/1/2024River Colne by Tilehouse Pit North
Moorhen
Coot
Oystercatcher19/2/2024Pair at Emberton Country Park
Black-winged Stilt28/4/2024A first summer in the NW corner of the large lake at College Lake
Little Ringed Plover18/3/2024A pair on Dorney Flood
Ringed Plover28/4/2024Logistics Park Flood
Golden Plover19/1/20243 at Down Farm cereal fields, Pitstone Hill
Lapwing8/1/2024Misbourne LNR
Dunlin28/4/2024A party of 6 at Logistics Park flood
Jack Snipe21/1/20242 on Stoke Common
Snipe10/1/24College Lake
Woodcock22/1/2024Charcoal Grove
Black-tailed Godwit11/2/2024Flying high over Drayton Beauchamp (from Wilstone)
Curlew26/2/2024A flock of 8 at Ickford Bridge floods
Common Sandpiper15/4/20242 on the South Basin at Willen Lake
Green Sandpiper9/2/2024Fulmer Lake
Greenshank6/4/2024College Lake BBOWT main marsh
Wood Sandpiper1/5/2024Spade Oak Pit
Redshank21/2/2024College Lake BBOWT
Black-headed Gull
Little Gull10/3/2024An adult winter feeding in the Bucks section of Marsworth Reservoir
Mediterranean Gull11/1/2024Adult winter in College Lake roost
Common Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Herring Gull
Yellow-legged Gull11/1/20242 adults in College Lake roost
Caspian Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Black Tern27/4/20242 at Calvert Sailing Lake
Common Tern1/4/24Spade Oak Pit
Arctic Tern23/4/2024A flock of 43 flew east over Drayton Beauchamp at 1015
Rock Dove / Feral Pigeon
Stock Dove
Woodpigeon
Collared Dove
Ring-necked Parakeet
Cuckoo25/4/20241-2 at Linford Lakes NR
Barn Owl29/1/2024Chesham local pair
Little Owl15/1/2024Usual tree at FFNR
Tawny Owl
Short-eared Owl********************
Swift24/4/20245 at Spade Oak
Kingfisher15/1/2024Calvert Sailing Lakes
Green Woodpecker25/1/2024Chalfont St Giles
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker********************
Skylark
Sand Martin28/3/248 at Spade Oak
Swallow28/3/24Single at Spade Oak
House Martin7/4/20243 over Bois Mill Lake
Tree Pipit2/4/2024Ivinghoe Beacon
Meadow Pipit
Yellow Wagtail11/4/20243 adulkt males on the flood at Amersham Flood Meadows
Grey Wagtail12/1/2024
Pied Wagtail
WaxwingA large irruption in January with several flocks encountered
Wren
Dunnock
Alpine Accentor4/5/2024Pitstone Quarry
Robin
Nightingale********************
Whinchat29/4/20244 together at Ivinghoe Beacon
Stonechat********************
Wheatear20/3/2024Male in sheepfield at Ivinghoe Beacon
Ring Ouzel6/4/20243 males on Pitstone Hill
Blackbird
Fieldfare
Song Thrush
Redwing
Mistle Thrush8/1/2024Hazlemere
Cetti's Warbler11/1/24College Lake
Grasshopper Warbler27/4/24Reeling male at Wicken Wood
Sedge Warbler8/4/24Singing male in reedbed
Reed Warbler8/4/24Singing male in reedbed
Blackcap
Garden Warbler24/4/2024Singing male at Spade Oak
Lesser Whitethroat18/4/2024Quainton Hills
Whitethroat18/4/2024Amersham Flood Meadows
Dartford Warbler********************
Chiffchaff19/1/20242 at The Wides, Wendover Canal
Willow Warbler25/3/2024Singing male at Spade Oak Pit
Goldcrest12/1/24
Firecrest12/2/20244 located in Littleworth Common area
Long-tailed Tit
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Coal Tit10/1/24Great Hampden
Marsh Tit
Nuthatch12/1/24Latimer House
Treecreeper10/1/24Great Hampden
Jay
Magpie
Jackdaw
Rook
Carrion Crow
Raven14/1/2024Little Marlow
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Brambling
Greenfinch15/1/2024College Road, Aston Clinton
Goldfinch
Siskin10/1/24Great Hampden
Linnet17/1/2024Saunderton
Lesser Redpoll17/1/20243 in Penn Wood
Mealy Redpoll13/3/20243 amongst 40 Redpoll on Rammamere Heath
Common Crossbill10/1/2440+ in the Great Hampden Larch woodland
Bullfinch12/1/24Chesham Pow Wow Lake
Yellowhammer
Reed Bunting17/1/2024Saunderton
Corn Bunting