Birds
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 Yellowhammers.
2 Singing Bullfinches
2 Jays
Barn Owl
Handfuls of Redwing, Fieldfare, Stock Dove, Meadow Pipit and several singing Skylark.
Corvids, Woodpigeon and Dunnock ubiquitous.
...and a very close encounter with a Badger. Distance approx. 5 feet - hard to tell which of us was more surprised!
- Crog Hill: 20th Dec.
Stonechat, also 2 singing Corn Buntings....
- Radley Lakes: 16th April
Nightingale-1 singing Blackcap- 13 singing Willow warbler- 12 singing Chiffchaff- 9 singing Sedge warbler- 1 singing Cetti's warbler- 1 singing Tufted duck- 92 Shoveler- 11 Kingfisher- 1 Little grebe- 2 ...
- Letcombe Bassett 23rd March
Ring Ouzel, 2nd bird, also male, seen at Sparsholt Firs Wheatear, one of 17+ in the Letcombe Bassett / Devil's Punchbowl area this morning. 2 Raven 2 Corn Bunting...
- Great Grey Shrike
Monday 21st Jan, Cholsey Marsh. The Great Grey Shrike was around the Cholsey Marsh area, south of Ferry Lane from 4pm till dusk. Ranging both sides of the river but seemed to be interested in the Corn Buntings coming in to roost in the reeds on the Cholsey...
- West Ginge: West Ginge Down: 17th July
Kilman Knoll Down 3 Corn Bunting: 2 singing males. SU4583. Quail West Ginge Down 2 Corn Bunting: 2 singing males. Gavin Paterson...
Birds
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 Yellowhammers.
2 Singing Bullfinches
2 Jays
Barn Owl
Handfuls of Redwing, Fieldfare, Stock Dove, Meadow Pipit and several singing Skylark.
Corvids, Woodpigeon and Dunnock ubiquitous.
...and a very close encounter with a Badger. Distance approx. 5 feet - hard to tell which of us was more surprised!
- Crog Hill: 20th Dec.
Stonechat, also 2 singing Corn Buntings....
- Radley Lakes: 16th April
Nightingale-1 singing Blackcap- 13 singing Willow warbler- 12 singing Chiffchaff- 9 singing Sedge warbler- 1 singing Cetti's warbler- 1 singing Tufted duck- 92 Shoveler- 11 Kingfisher- 1 Little grebe- 2 ...
- Letcombe Bassett 23rd March
Ring Ouzel, 2nd bird, also male, seen at Sparsholt Firs Wheatear, one of 17+ in the Letcombe Bassett / Devil's Punchbowl area this morning. 2 Raven 2 Corn Bunting...
- Great Grey Shrike
Monday 21st Jan, Cholsey Marsh. The Great Grey Shrike was around the Cholsey Marsh area, south of Ferry Lane from 4pm till dusk. Ranging both sides of the river but seemed to be interested in the Corn Buntings coming in to roost in the reeds on the Cholsey...
- West Ginge: West Ginge Down: 17th July
Kilman Knoll Down 3 Corn Bunting: 2 singing males. SU4583. Quail West Ginge Down 2 Corn Bunting: 2 singing males. Gavin Paterson...