Buckinghamshire Bird Club

Still present today

Mediterranean Gull still on Dorney Common flood this morning, along with a couple of Shelduck @bucksbirdclub81.bsky.social

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Photo by Jim Rose

Photo by Marcus Warden

Don’t forget to keep posting your Buckinghamshire Song Thrush and House Sparrow records on the sightings page - www.goingbirding.co.uk/bucks/birdne...
Unfortunately both species appear to be less numerous than they once were, so this year we would like to assess their current status.

Photo courtesy of Lynne Lambert

Photo courtesy of Lynne Lambert

Two new barn owl boxes funded by Bucks Bird Club went up today near Marsh Gibbon.These boxes are part of a new farmer cluster on the River Ray. 10 boxes funded by the club and to be installed over 2 years - thanks to all club members - your membership being put to good use 👍👏👏

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Winter-bird survey—tick On Valentine’s day, a rare day of sunshine, I completed my winter-bird surveys (WiBS) for the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO). This is a new survey, and I was asked in the autumn if I wan…

I've completed my winter bird survey for @btobirds.bsky.social and report on it campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/w... @bucksbirdclub81.bsky.social

Out looking for displaying Goshawk. Super surprised to see see a Marsh Harrier enjoying the thermals. Similar area to where the Berks/Bucks/Oxon Booted Eagle was a couple of years ago so this intially got the heart thumping! 🙂 @bucksbirdclub81.bsky.social

Spring on its way here in Amersham/Chesham Bois, with 40+ Stock Doves on the move. Also 3+ Firecrest and 2 m Blackcap in subsong

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Many thanks to Ed Griffiths for the BBC guided trip around BBOWT College Lake this morning. Considering the weather recently we were lucky to have a dry day. It was great seeing new faces, new members, new comers to birding and of course the Slavonian Grebe. 34# species
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Thrush aplenty here around Amersham with 2+ Song Thrush singing and 10+ Redwing around a small part of the town. Also Snowdrops blooming.

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The College Lake Slavonian Grebe - photo by Tony James

Russian Whitefronts - photo by David Bevan

A good morning to be out and about in Bucks. Slavonian Grebe still at College Lake (first in the county since 2021). 43 Russian Whitefronts in the fields just outside Ivinghoe, and two Marsh Harriers at Gallows Bridge. There’s also a Smew in the Herts section of Marsworth Reservoir.

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Nice to have what is only the 2nd Goldcrest for the garden through this morning, excitedly calling as it flitted about

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Couple of Caspian Gulls at #LMGP roast yesterday evening @bucksbirdclub81.bsky.social

Nice to have House Sparrows back in the garden with a group of 7 on the fat balls yesterday. Also the first Buzzard of the year for the garden.

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First time out since joining @patchbirding.bsky.social Above average no’s of wildfowl at Linford NR, esp Wigeon & Tufties. 2 Oycs were - if breeders - very early returnees. Herons nest-building. @bucksbirdclub81.bsky.social #PWC2026 #ukbirding

Brilliant write up in British Birds of his local Bucks patch by Bucks Bird Club member @harryswildlife.bsky.social .
It was also the venue for one of our January field trips, led of course by Harry !

Don’t forget about the Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend. It’s not too late to participate

The latest sightings reports for September through to November are now up on our website. Some great records, excellent analysis and cracking photos. Well worth a read .

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Great to see plenty of Brambling in the traditional Penn Wood roost on Friday. At least 25 in the trees by 15:45, and more birds coming in all the time.
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@marlowbirder.bsky.social picked out a Caspian this evening at LMGP that we suspect is a return bird from 2023. A noticeably closed right eye and long bill seem to match. @bucksbirdclub81.bsky.social

A fabulous start to the club’s 2026 evening lectures. Many thanks to Mark Sullivan for your brilliant tour of all things birding in north-east Scotland

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Don’t forget to register for the RSPB Big Garden Bridwatch. A brilliant bit of citizen science that is a great way of getting friends family and neighbours involved in birds (spread the word!!).

Harry’s patch At first glance Harry Appleyard’s birding patch at Tattenhoe, Milton Keynes, might appear unpromising, but that would be the wrong conclusion. In more than 20 years of studying birds here, Ha…

Lovely visit to Tattenhoe Valley Park, Milton Keynes, with @bucksbirdclub81.bsky.social great spot and productive morning @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/h...

GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL N thru Watermead 2day - only my 3rd here & 1st Ad.
Also RAVEN, 11 SISKIN & 2 TEAL. + CHIFFCHAFF with tad too much yellow in good light to be a Sibe tristis but v.grey & no olive, so assume a Scandi abietinus
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2026's local birding in Milton Keynes off to a good start with over 60 species within 4 miles of home in the past few days, highlights featuring one of the wintering Firecrests kindly sticking around, 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull and a 3rd-winter Caspian Gull. @bucksbirdclub81.bsky.social

Tundra Bean Goose at Maplin Park near Langley this afternoon. My luck was in when it took off with the local Greylags (and 11 Whitefronts), and flew into Buckinghamshire. First county tick of the year !

A few 2025 Bucks highlights for me. Here’s to more in 2026 🍾🥂 @bucksbirdclub81.bsky.social

Good to be out at #LMGP in South Bucks - lots of gulls in the roost alongside Lapwing and ducks #ukbirds

Arrived at #LMGP this morning just as news broke of 4 Red-crested Pochards having been found. First of the year here and #136 for my patch year list. Still hoping to add to that with the current influx of near continental geese and swans #UKBirding

This hybrid Tufted Duck x Pochard is back at #LMGP for its 7th winter. Not always on Spade Oak lake, but has been there several times in December #UKBirding

Original photo of the Waddesdon Snow Bunting by Matt Milne

Merry Christmas from the Bucks Bird Club. Thank you for supporting the club in 2025.If you are not yet a member, please consider giving yourself a present and joining our ever growing tribe. bucksbirdclub.co.uk/club-news-and-… it’s only £15 a year. See you in 2026.
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