Birds
Around midday several Blackcap were noted but I didn't count them, pretty much one in every patch of scrub but very little else around. Not having much to look at around the reservoir itself I turned my eyes to the skies. I had already seen a few Buzzard around which is more than normal. The more I looked the more I saw, many only visible with bins looking further than the previous one. My tally got to 13 birds, all thermalling extremely high. Two were very very pale almost completely white.
Three 'duck-like' birds were flying high over north-west. So high I don't know what they were even. This is annoying as any wildfowl at Grim res is a bit 'special'. All I could see was they were mostly white/pale with some darker bits towards the front. I put them down as putative Shelduck but I will never know. A Raven flew through from the south, caught a thermal and was off high to the north. Over about hour 16 Common Gulls had dropped in and passed through.
A late evening visit to see if anything had dropped in turned up another Swallow. There was also 14 Pied Wags.
Gareth
- Grimsbury Reservoir: 3rd December
Brent Goose juv. with c.80 Canada geese on reservoir before relocating to nearby cattle field. 12:45. Dunlin: dropped in before flying high east. 12:55. Peregrine: flew north. 12:55. (per John Friendship-Taylor) Grimsbury Birds Photo courtesy of John...
- Grimsbury Reservoir: 18th April
Grimsbury Reservoir 3 Arctic Tern: Two this evening, which both left around 19:30. Then another dropped in just after 20:00. Maybe a sign that several have passed through during the day?. Little Egret: Flew over south west towards town. Gareth Blockley...
- Grimsbury Reservoir: 30th September
Grimsbury Reservoir Peregrine: Hunting over the back fields. Seen heading off south west. 4 Jay: 1 in the wood and 3 high over north west. 15 Meadow Pipit: 15+ over south east. 16 Swallow: over south. 3 Grey Wagtail 25 Siskin: c.15 in the wood and...
- Grimsbury Reservoir: 2nd September
Grimsbury Reservoir 2 Redstart: 1 female (also seen by Clive Payne) at northern end of cattle field seen on fence and along ditch but disapears into wood when disturbed. 1 male (seen by CP) in scrub between the res and the wood. Lapwing: Flew over west....
- Farmoor F1 26th March
Open Bill, Close Bill, Swallow Perhaps 8-10,000 B H Gulls by dusk not knowing which way to catch a fly next as possibly billions of insects emerged this evening, forming a dense low mist around the perimeter of the Reservoir. Just two wp adult Little...
Birds
Grimsbury Res 01/04/12
Around midday several Blackcap were noted but I didn't count them, pretty much one in every patch of scrub but very little else around. Not having much to look at around the reservoir itself I turned my eyes to the skies. I had already seen a few Buzzard around which is more than normal. The more I looked the more I saw, many only visible with bins looking further than the previous one. My tally got to 13 birds, all thermalling extremely high. Two were very very pale almost completely white.
Three 'duck-like' birds were flying high over north-west. So high I don't know what they were even. This is annoying as any wildfowl at Grim res is a bit 'special'. All I could see was they were mostly white/pale with some darker bits towards the front. I put them down as putative Shelduck but I will never know. A Raven flew through from the south, caught a thermal and was off high to the north. Over about hour 16 Common Gulls had dropped in and passed through.
A late evening visit to see if anything had dropped in turned up another Swallow. There was also 14 Pied Wags.
Gareth
- Grimsbury Reservoir: 3rd December
Brent Goose juv. with c.80 Canada geese on reservoir before relocating to nearby cattle field. 12:45. Dunlin: dropped in before flying high east. 12:55. Peregrine: flew north. 12:55. (per John Friendship-Taylor) Grimsbury Birds Photo courtesy of John...
- Grimsbury Reservoir: 18th April
Grimsbury Reservoir 3 Arctic Tern: Two this evening, which both left around 19:30. Then another dropped in just after 20:00. Maybe a sign that several have passed through during the day?. Little Egret: Flew over south west towards town. Gareth Blockley...
- Grimsbury Reservoir: 30th September
Grimsbury Reservoir Peregrine: Hunting over the back fields. Seen heading off south west. 4 Jay: 1 in the wood and 3 high over north west. 15 Meadow Pipit: 15+ over south east. 16 Swallow: over south. 3 Grey Wagtail 25 Siskin: c.15 in the wood and...
- Grimsbury Reservoir: 2nd September
Grimsbury Reservoir 2 Redstart: 1 female (also seen by Clive Payne) at northern end of cattle field seen on fence and along ditch but disapears into wood when disturbed. 1 male (seen by CP) in scrub between the res and the wood. Lapwing: Flew over west....
- Farmoor F1 26th March
Open Bill, Close Bill, Swallow Perhaps 8-10,000 B H Gulls by dusk not knowing which way to catch a fly next as possibly billions of insects emerged this evening, forming a dense low mist around the perimeter of the Reservoir. Just two wp adult Little...