Great Northern Diver | 18th November | Juvenile showing well on Caldecott Lake South (photographed) |
Little Grebe | 2nd January | |
Great Crested Grebe | 2nd January | |
Cormorant | 2nd January | |
Bittern | ********** | ********** |
Cattle Egret | | |
Little Egret | 2nd January | |
Great White Egret | 9th January | Linford NR roosting at dusk |
Grey Heron | 2nd January | |
Mute Swan | 2nd January | |
Whooper Swan | 8th November | An adult pair with Greylag Geese at Gallows Bridge (photographed) |
Pink-footed Goose | | |
White-fronted Goose | 3rd December | A very confiding adult with Egyptian Geese at Dorney Common North 0800 hours (photographed) |
Greylag Goose | 2nd January | |
Canada Goose | 2nd January | |
Barnacle Goose | 6th January | Marsworth Paddocks |
Egyptian Goose | 2nd January | |
Shelduck | 2nd January | |
Mandarin Duck | 2nd January | |
Wigeon | 2nd January | |
Gadwall | 2nd January | |
Teal | 2nd January | |
Mallard | 2nd January | |
Pintail | 24th January | A drake on Spade Oak |
Garganey | ********** | ********** |
Shoveler | 2nd January | |
Red-crested Pochard | 2nd January | |
Pochard | 2nd January | |
Ring-necked Duck | 22nd December | A first-winter drake hard up against the reeds in Bucks section of Marsworth Res (watched & photographed with Ian Williams) |
Tufted Duck | 2nd January | |
Common Scoter | 19th March | Sub-adult drake at Watermead Lake (photographed) (seen with Dan Forder & Dean Kingham) |
Goldeneye | 2nd January | |
Goosander | ********** | ********** |
Red Kite | 2nd January | |
Marsh Harrier | | |
Goshawk | | |
Sparrowhawk | 2nd January | |
Buzzard | 2nd January | |
Kestrel | 2nd January | |
Red-footed Falcon | | |
Hobby | | |
Peregrine | ********** | ********** |
Red-legged Partridge | 2nd January | |
Grey Partridge | 8th February | Ravenstone Sewage Works |
Quail | | |
Pheasant | 2nd January | |
Lady Amherst's Pheasant | 31st March | Thanks to Ian Ryder, eventually located 7 birds including a female; 2018 introduction |
Water Rail | 9th January | Calvert BBOWT |
Moorhen | 2nd January | |
Coot | 2nd January | |
Oystercatcher | 10th February | College Lake BBOWT |
Avocet | 14th March | Willen Lake North Basin. Flew off after a few minutes (photographed) |
Little Ringed Plover | 21st March | Pair on Marlow Flood Alleviation Scheme GP |
Ringed Plover | | |
Golden Plover | 23rd January | 28 in field near Clifton Reynes |
Grey Plover | 8th October | 2 juveniles in flooded muddy field; also 4 Dunlin, 3 Ringed Plover (photographed) |
Lapwing | 2nd January | |
Little Stint | 6th October | Spade Oak Pit (on the spit) |
Dunlin | | |
Ruff | 12th Sept | Juvenile at Willen Lake (drained) (photographed) |
Jack Snipe | 2nd January | |
Snipe | 2nd January | |
Woodcock | 8th February | Little Linford Wood |
Black-tailed Godwit | 2nd January | |
Curlew | 6th March | 4 birds (2 pairs) on flood meadows between Ickford and Shabbington |
Common Sandpiper | | |
Green Sandpiper | 8th March | College Lake BBOWT |
Greenshank | | |
Wood Sandpiper | | |
Redshank | 5th March | Pair at College Lake |
Turnstone | | |
Red-necked Phalarope | | |
Black-headed Gull | 2nd January | |
Little Gull | | |
Mediterranean Gull | 2nd January | |
Common Gull | 2nd January | |
Lesser Black-backed Gull | 2nd January | |
Herring Gull | 2nd January | |
Yellow-legged Gull | 2nd January | |
Caspian Gull | 2nd January | |
Great Black-backed Gull | 2nd January | |
Black Tern | | |
Common Tern | 6th April | 4 on Startop's End Reservoir, Tring, in Bucks section |
Arctic Tern | | |
Rock Dove / Feral Pigeon | 2nd January | |
Stock Dove | 2nd January | |
Woodpigeon | 2nd January | |
Collared Dove | 2nd January | |
Ring-necked Parakeet | 2nd January | |
Cuckoo | | |
Barn Owl | 2nd January | |
Little Owl | 17th January | Old Amersham |
Tawny Owl | 18th January | Roosting in usual ivy-covered tree at Ivinghoe |
Long-eared Owl | ********** | ********** |
Short-eared Owl | ********** | ********** |
Swift | | |
Kingfisher | 2nd January | |
Green Woodpecker | 2nd January | |
Great Spotted Woodpecker | 2nd January | |
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | ********** | ********** |
Woodlark | | |
Skylark | 2nd January | |
Sand Martin | 19th March | 27 at Spade Oak Pit |
Swallow | 6th April | Spade Oak |
House Martin | | |
Tree Pipit | 7 September | Pitstone Hill |
Meadow Pipit | 2nd January | |
Yellow Wagtail | 7th April | 2 males in Marsworth Horse Paddocks |
Grey Wagtail | 2nd January | |
Pied Wagtail | 2nd January | First White Wagtail at Fulmer Lake on 7 April |
Dipper | 14th March | Black-bellied showing well at Wycombe Rye (photographed) |
Wren | 2nd January | |
Dunnock | 2nd January | |
Robin | 2nd January | |
Nightingale | | |
Black Redstart | ********** | ********** |
Redstart | 13th July | A 2nd of the autumn at Ivinghoe - a moulting female |
Whinchat | 25th July | A moulting adult on Pitstone Hill |
Stonechat | ********** | |
Wheatear | 16th March | A marked early fall of birds at Pitstone Hill and the Beacon |
Ring Ouzel | 6th January | Pitstone Hill (photographed) - my first-ever overwintering bird in the county (observed with Dave Hutchinson) |
Blackbird | 2nd January | |
Fieldfare | 2nd January | |
Song Thrush | 2nd January | |
Redwing | 2nd January | |
Mistle Thrush | 2nd January | |
Cetti's Warbler | 2nd January | |
Grasshopper Warbler | | |
Sedge Warbler | 1st April | Singing male in the canal reedbed at Marsworth Reservoir |
Reed Warbler | 10th April | Marsworth Canal Reedbed |
Blackcap | 6th March | Male in subsong in my garden |
Garden Warbler | | |
Lesser Whitethroat | | |
Whitethroat | | |
Dartford Warbler | ********** | |
Yellow-browed Warbler | 13th October | Bancroft Park, Milton Keynes (showing well at times and quite vocal) |
Chiffchaff | 2nd January | |
Willow Warbler | 6th April | 3 singing males at Spade Oak |
Goldcrest | 24th January | Chenies Bottom |
Firecrest | 3rd April | Singing male in Wendover Forest |
Spotted Flycatcher | | |
Bearded Tit | 18th November | Male at Calvert BBOWT Lake |
Long-tailed Tit | 2nd January | |
Blue Tit | 2nd January | |
Great Tit | 2nd January | |
Coal Tit | 2nd January | |
Marsh Tit | 6th January | College Lake BBOWT |
Nuthatch | 2nd January | |
Treecreeper | 2nd January | |
Jay | 2nd January | |
Magpie | 2nd January | |
Jackdaw | 2nd January | |
Rook | 2nd January | |
Carrion Crow | 2nd January | |
Raven | 2nd January | |
Starling | 2nd January | |
House Sparrow | 2nd January | |
Tree Sparrow | | |
Chaffinch | 2nd January | |
Brambling | 12th October | Ringshall Slope, Ivinghoe Beacon |
Greenfinch | 2nd January | |
Goldfinch | 2nd January | |
Siskin | 14th February | Great Hampden (15 birds in Larch plantation) |
Linnet | 9th January | Newton Leys |
Lesser Redpoll | 5th March | 3 with Goldfinch and Siskin in Alders at Stowe Lakes |
Common Crossbill | | |
Bullfinch | 6th January | Pair at Pitstone Hill |
Hawfinch | 8th October | Looking to be another Hawfinch autumn with passage at Ivinghoe Beacon picking up |
Yellowhammer | 2nd January | |
Reed Bunting | 24th February | College Lake feeders |
Corn Bunting | 2nd January | |