SATURDAY 9 JANUARY
Still the same amount of lying snow and another sharp frost. Although the main roads are clear, the side and minor roads remain incredibly treacherous. A biting NE wind started to pick up during the afternoon. Although a local day, I managed four new birds - Great Spotted Woodpecker, COMMON CROSSBILL, Lesser Redpoll and Brambling, forwarding my 2010 List to 113 species.
CHAFFINCH HOUSE (LITTLE CHALFONT)
Refuelled all of the feeders, including the Sunflower Seed, Nyger and Peanut, with large numbers of common birds continuing to visit, including 6 Goldfinches, 35 House Sparrows, 5 Common Blackbirds, 5 Dunnocks and 3 Chaffinches. Highlight was a beautiful FIELDFARE.
HEDGERLEY TIP, NEAR BEACONSFIELD
An exceptional 96 RED KITES were swooping down on rubbish just south of the main contractor buildings adjacent to the A40, as well as 475+ Common Starlings.
PENN WOOD
(1400-1600 hours)
A deep snow covering but an excellent variety of species encountered, including COMMON CROSSBILL - a major rarity in my Recording Area.
Both Red Kite and Eurasian Sparrowhawk (male)
Wren (3)
Great Spotted Woodpecker (a belated first for the year)
Coal Tit (3)
Long-tailed Tit (16)
GOLDCREST (4)
Chaffinch (33)
*BRAMBLING (a minimum of 83 birds roosted, mainly males, all within 200 yards either direction of the Penna and along the main Rhododendron ride - easily my highest count of the winter)
GREENFINCH (167 in the main conifer roost - which also included 15 Brambling)
LESSER REDPOLL (5 noted including 3 males)
Bullfinch (3 roosting in the Rhododendron Tunnel 200 yards east of the Penna)
**COMMON CROSSBILL (5 noted including 3 adult males in tall pines along the main ride, 150 yards west of the Penna)
SHARDELOES LAKE
Completely frozen but sadly, the family group of 5 Mute Swans and a single Atlantic Canada Goose was standing on the ice - starving. Four Moorhen also appeared to be 'burrowing' into the snow at dusk
Still the same amount of lying snow and another sharp frost. Although the main roads are clear, the side and minor roads remain incredibly treacherous. A biting NE wind started to pick up during the afternoon. Although a local day, I managed four new birds - Great Spotted Woodpecker, COMMON CROSSBILL, Lesser Redpoll and Brambling, forwarding my 2010 List to 113 species.
CHAFFINCH HOUSE (LITTLE CHALFONT)
Refuelled all of the feeders, including the Sunflower Seed, Nyger and Peanut, with large numbers of common birds continuing to visit, including 6 Goldfinches, 35 House Sparrows, 5 Common Blackbirds, 5 Dunnocks and 3 Chaffinches. Highlight was a beautiful FIELDFARE.
HEDGERLEY TIP, NEAR BEACONSFIELD
An exceptional 96 RED KITES were swooping down on rubbish just south of the main contractor buildings adjacent to the A40, as well as 475+ Common Starlings.
PENN WOOD
(1400-1600 hours)
A deep snow covering but an excellent variety of species encountered, including COMMON CROSSBILL - a major rarity in my Recording Area.
Both Red Kite and Eurasian Sparrowhawk (male)
Wren (3)
Great Spotted Woodpecker (a belated first for the year)
Coal Tit (3)
Long-tailed Tit (16)
GOLDCREST (4)
Chaffinch (33)
*BRAMBLING (a minimum of 83 birds roosted, mainly males, all within 200 yards either direction of the Penna and along the main Rhododendron ride - easily my highest count of the winter)
GREENFINCH (167 in the main conifer roost - which also included 15 Brambling)
LESSER REDPOLL (5 noted including 3 males)
Bullfinch (3 roosting in the Rhododendron Tunnel 200 yards east of the Penna)
**COMMON CROSSBILL (5 noted including 3 adult males in tall pines along the main ride, 150 yards west of the Penna)
SHARDELOES LAKE
Completely frozen but sadly, the family group of 5 Mute Swans and a single Atlantic Canada Goose was standing on the ice - starving. Four Moorhen also appeared to be 'burrowing' into the snow at dusk
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