Sunday 15 February 2009

WEEKEND ROUNDUP WITH STEVE RODWELL

Marsworth - also a single small bat, Pipestrelle type and yesterday evening with Stuart and Chris Evans a WOODCOCK was again seen flying over Marsworth reservoir. Caught up with the 5 GREY PARTRIDGE where Roy has reported them several times between Miswell Farm and the dry canal, close to the small pond where the path braches off N.E. to Little Tring.

At Tringford 4 Siskins and 10 Golden Plover over.

At the Wilstone gull roost with Dave Bilcock there were 88 Common Gulls, 1 first-winter Herring Gull (2 adults earlier over Marsworth) and only 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls.

Some Waterbird counts (Sunday): G.C.Grebe 2 Tford, 7 Wils, 6 Mars, 2 Stops. L. Grebe 1 Wils. Mute Swan 14 Tford, 3 Stops, 2 Wils. Greylag Goose 30 Stops, 4 Wils. Canada Goose 48 Wils. Mallard 15 Tford, 45 Stops, 11 Mars, 18 Stops. Gadwall 68 Wils. Shoveler 135 Wils. Wigeon 584 Wils. Teal 41 Tford, 26 Wils. Pochard 6 Tford, 37 Stops, 7 Mars, 74 Wils. Tufted Duck 22 Tford, 62 Stops, 1 Mars, 121 Wils. Goldeneye 2 Stops, 5 Wils (on 14th Feb, Total of 11 (4m, 7f) at Wils, DB). Ruddy Duck 4 Wils. Coot 470 Wils, 34 Tford, 8 Mars, 40 Stops. Moorhen 6 Tford, 4 Mars, 3 Wils (Steve Rodwell)

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