Birds

River Thame 7th December

I am just back from visiting a farm west of Thame on the south side of the river, which is doing lots of good habitat management work with RSPB support. One of his wild bird cover strips had at least:
Linnet 250+
Reed bunting 100+
Yellowhammer 20+
Brambling 1
Chaffinch 100+
Greenfinch c50
Goldfinch c100

We also had a male goosander fly over as well as several teal on the river.

No bitterns.

Cheers

Mike Shurmer

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