Spent the morning fruitlessly searching for migrating Redstarts in the Chilterns. Spent the afternoon watching Britain’s third Long-tailed Shrike on the edge of the Cotswolds ! #ukbirding #rarebirdsuk

Many thanks Nick for our early morning trip over Lodge Hill escarpment and its surrounding farmland, some of which has been supported through the BBC winter bird feeding and also through our members engaging with Nick’s Project 👉 www.chilterns.org.uk/flagship-pro... #ukbirding

Many thanks to Rob Andrews for your tour around Rushmere Country Park. 33 species in total with Firecrest,Treecreeper and elusive Spotted Flycatchers as highlights. More fabulous Bucks habitat for us to explore. On to Greenham next week!

Eastern Subalpine Warbler at Cow gap this morning. Fortunately stuck to the same area, popping up fairly regularly from the dense undergrowth. Heck of a steep walk back to the car park ! #ukbirding #rarebirdsuk

Tawny Pipit at Landguard yesterday. Good views once the heat haze had died down, although not reflected in the quality of my photos. #ukbirding #rarebirdsuk

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

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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 #ukbirding

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

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

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

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

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 !

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.

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

Managed to catch up with the Bucks Montagu’s Harrier this morning, thanks to a very early start. Watched her for about 30 minutes before she disappeared across the road. More than made up for missing out by 15 minutes on Thursday evening #ukbirding

Lovely views of the Red-necked Grebe at Denham yesterday. Great to have one so close by , just a shame it’s not quite in Bucks ! #ukbirding

35 years after dipping the Golden-winged Warbler just up the road(long story) ,I finally caught up with an american warbler in Kent. This time the lemony Yellow Warbler at New Hythe. It even had the courtesy to announce its arrival with a series of sharp calls. #ukbirding

Really pleased to catch up with the family party of 5 White-fronted Geese on Dorney Common this morning. Not a common bird in Bucks at all. Absolutely freezing mind you, although probably still warmer than where they have come from. #ukbirding

Hawfinch at Great Hampden Church this morning. Elusive but worth the wait. Then a trip up the M40 to see the 2 Velvet Scoters at Grimsbury Reservoir. Seemed to be relatively unbothered by the various boats on the water and all the Canada Geese #ukbirding

Another visit to the south coast , this time an early morning trip to Seaford to see the Pied Wheatear. Decent views through the bins, but tricky to get photographs, not least due to its proximity to the cliff edge ! #rarebirdsuk #ukbirding

Spent the weekend checking what felt like every Red Kite in the Home Counties in a futile attempt to connect with the Booted Eagle. But then the Lapland Bunting at Staines Res this morning brightened up the week. Smashing little bird, showing amazingly well . #ukbirding #rarebirdsuk

Early morning visit to the south coast to catch up with the Beachy Head Desert Wheatear.Cracking bird #ukbirding

Decided to chance the weather on Sunday morning and try to see the Gillingham Isabelline Shrike. Showed really well in the in end, but the conditions were awful, hence the dodgy photos !

You can’t beat an end of week visit to a Landfill site. Two First Winter Caspian Gulls at Springfield Landfill this afternoon #ukbirding #bucksbirdalert

A very wet visit to Houghton Regis this morning to see the Red-backed Shrike. It looked as fed up with the weather as I was . #ukbirding

A quick diversion on the way home from work today to see the Pink-footed Goose found earlier at Fulmer Lake in South Bucks. Very wary and not associating with the local Canada flock. #ukbirding #bucksbirdalert

Wheatear, Stonechat and Whinchat from a weekend wander in South Bucks #ukbirding #bucksbirdalert

A decent couple of days for birders in Bucks, and I managed to dash out a couple of times despite work! Garganey on Dorney Flood last night. Then Little, 3 x Sandwich and what looks like a 2cy Arctic Tern at #LGMP this lunchtime. #ukbirding