Birds

Childrey - Middleway Bottom - Childrey Field 12:30

Golden Plover: c300 in 3-4 groups
Lapwing: c50
Skylark: 10
Redwing &Fieldfare: c80
Stock Dove c20
Mixed flock; very mobile in this area

- South Leigh: 20th February
South Leigh Merlin Richard Catling Childrey Merlin Childrey Field (per Barry Hudson) ...

- The Downs 29/03/13
3 hours spent in the Nutwood Down & Mere End Down area from 6AM; Female Merlin just off of Gramps Hill 30ish Corn Bunting among a flock of 90+ Corn Buntings, Yellowhammers and Linnets. Asides from the flock; 5 singing Corn Buntings and 18 Singing...

- Devil's Punchbowl: 31st December
31st December Devil's Punchbowl Peregrine: f. ....also a stoat busily investigating the rabbit holes. Little else was stupid enough to be up there in what were fairly brutal conditions!. Childrey: Childrey Field 3 Corn Bunting Mark Merritt...

- White Horse Hill: 4th March
White Horse Hill 12 Corn Bunting Childrey: Childrey Field Short-eared Owl Mark Merritt...

- Balscote Quarry 28th November
Completely frozen with no open water Tree Sparrow 12Snipe 2Lapwing 100+Golden Plover c.60Skylark 20Fieldfare c.200Redwing c.100Linnet 1...

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