Lovely evening at Otmoor yesterday. American Golden Plover showing from the Wetland hide. Lots of singing warblers and a couple of very vocal Cuckoos.

Stunning Channel Wagtail at Staines Reservoirs this lunchtime. Head colour quite variable depending on the light.
#ukbirding

Lesser Scaup - College Lake (Buckinghamshire) 5/4/26 #bucksbirds #ukbirds #ukbirding #birds @bbowt.bsky.social @btoengland.bsky.social @britishbirds.bsky.social

Lesser Scaup at College Lake today. A long awaited first for Buckinghamshire! Performed well for the admiring crowd of local birders. Seemed particularly keen on one of the local female Tufties!
#ukbirding
#rarebirdsuk

Five Water Pipits hanging out around the south tower at Staines Reservoir this morning. A couple of them looking very peachy
#ukbirding

Lovely Wheatear at Staines Reservoir this morning. Also a Black-tailed Godwit and 3 Water Pipits. All hanging around the south tower. A massive irruption of insects along the causeway in the last couple of days (my photo doesn’t do the numbers justice).

Very happy to spend a bit of time this morning watching a pair of Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers. Much trickier to find nowadays.
#ukbirding

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

#ukbirding

Marsh Tit this morning at Effingham Forest. Also 3 Hawfinch and a fair few Crossbills
#ukbirding

This regular returning hybrid Tufted Duck x Pochard at #LMGP is getting reported as a Scaup, so one to be aware of #UKBirding

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

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

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
#ukbirding

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.

#ukbirding

Finally managed to catch up with the Staines Res Black Redstart yesterday afternoon. Appeared in its usual spot by the S tower at the W end of the causeway. Also 2 Greater Scaup in that area, and what was presumably the Lesser Scaup asleep with the Pochards in the far SE corner of the S basin

Killdeer at Ripley Farm Reservoir this morning. Spent a lot of the time hunkering down to keep out of the howling wind, but popped up often enough to make the trip worth while. Also a bonus 4(four) White-tailed Eagles, and a Little Gull.
#ukbirding
#rarebirdsuk

#ukbirding

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.
@bucksbirdclub81.bsky.social
#ukbirding

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...

Red-flanked Bluetail at Crockham Hill this morning. Showed 3 times in the 2 hours that I was there, in its favourite gully. Worth the wait though

#ukbirding
#rarebirdsuk

Quick pre-work stop at Staines Reservoir this morning. Beautiful sunrise but freezing cold. Greater and Lesser Scaups both still in the north west corner of the south basin
#ukbirding

#ukbirding

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 !

Black-winged Kite at Ludham Bridge this morning. Rubbish photos, but excellent ‘scope views. Watching it hunting across the Norfolk countryside was sensational.
#ukbirding
#rarebirdsuk

Common Tern F27 from LMGP. Photo courtesy of Ollie Fox

Exciting news from Gambia! Common Tern F27 was photographed enjoying the sun there in October. F27 was born, raised and ringed on one of the Bucks Bird Club funded rafts at Little Marlow Gravel Pit, and was last seen there in July. Why not join the BBC and help fund more exciting projects !

#ukbirding

Another big gull roost at Little Marlow on Sunday. The best birds being a 1cy Yellow-legged Gull, and a distant 1cy Caspian (top marks if you can see it in the photo!). Most interesting bird though had to be the returning Tuftie x Pochard hybrid. The 4th or 5th year it’s been around apparently.

#ukbirding

A wet afternoon wandering around Staines Moor today. At least 3 Water Pipits and a pair of Goosander the highlights. No sign of any SEOs just yet.

This adult Caspian Gull was a late arrival in the evening gloom at Little Marlow Gravel Pit this evening. Gull numbers have been decent the last few weeks, but Casps have been few and far between

#ukbirding