Calvert BBOWT; Visited before sunrise, BITTERN in roost spot and preened, stretched and dropped into reeds at 0725./Water Rail squealing/ biggest gull roost of Winter so far, with sailing lake covered and c1,500 also on BBOWT in the darkness.
Hillesden; pools/lakes frozen, site birdless!! 20 Siskin/2 Redpoll in alders.
Drove around various roads/watchpoints looking for Swans/Geese in Padbury/Claydons brook areas but no luck. Seems to be a lack of Mute Swans in mid-Bucks this year. There are still c10 in small domesticated paddock with Chickens etc, roadside, between Calvert and Hillesden.
Grendon Underwood layby; 12-2. c200 mixed finch flock contained a male Brambling/ Large female PEREGRINE perched in dead tree. 2-3: viewed same block from different spot, much smaller, male PEREGRINE hunting. The usual large numbers of Plovers were not present, only c50 Lapwing seen.
TIM WATTS
About Me
- Lee G R Evans
- I have been birding since 1969 but became obsessed with 'twitching' in 1974 and haven't looked back since. Have driven over 1.3 million miles in pursuit of rare birds in the UK, where to date I have recorded 588 species in Britain and Ireland. I also have a fascination for the Birds of the Western Palearctic, where I have currently recorded 880 of the 1,064 species ever recorded. I am widely travelled in North America, as well as in Africa and Asia, and have written at least 29 books on my chosen subject, including best-sellers ''Ultimate Site Guide to Scarcer British Birds' and 'Rare Birds in Britain 1800-1990'. Established the UK400 Club in 1981 to cater for the most obsessive of the British birding fraternity and now concentrate on online publishing, via the www.uk400clubonline.co.uk website. Record Birding achievements include recording 386 species in Britain & Ireland in 1996 and 627+ in the Western Palearctic in 2008
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