Monday 9 March 2009

WEEKEND BIRDING

Saturday: Steps Hill/Ivinghoe Beacon: 1 Golden Plover, Male Stonechat, 3 Siskin.

Ashridge - Monument Drive: 2 Mandarin Ducks (with DB, SW).

Pitstone Quarry: 32 Common Gulls, 1 Herring Gull, 26 Coot, 21 Teal, 17 Tufted, 2 Mallard, 4 Moorhen. (310 B.h.Gulls Sun).

College Lake: 1 L. Grebe, 2 Mute Swan, 51 Tufted, 8 Mallard, 5 Teal, 1 Wigeon, 1 hybrid R.C. Pochard x ?, 38 Coot, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Redshank, 15 Lapwing, 5 Snipe. (Sunday, also 1 G.C. Grebe, 6 Canada Goose, 6 Cormorant, 7 Shoveler, 6 Pochard).

Startops: 1 G.C.Grebe, 2 Mute Swan, 35 Tufted, 24 Pochard, 13 Mallard, 24 Coot. Adjacent canal: 2 Mute Swan, 3 Canada Goose, 18 Mallard, 4 Coots.

Marsworth: 24 G.C.Grebes, 1 Mute Swan, 15 Shoveler, 13 Mallard, female R.C.Pochard, 11 Coot, 2 Moorhen. 1 Cetti's Warbler.

Tringford: 1 L. Grebe, 7 Mute Swan, 36 Canada Goose, 42 Tufted, 1 Pochard, 9 Mallard, 2 Gadwal1, 15 Teal, 18 Coot, 4 Moorhen.

Wilstone: G.C.Grebe 7, 1 L. Grebe, 11 Greylag Geese, 24 Canada Goose, 1 Egyptian Goose (SW), 155 Tufted, 43 Pochard, 21 Gadwall, 48 Wigeon, 107 Shoveler, 28 Mallard, 5 Ruddy Duck, Teal 17, 13 Goldeneye (4M, 1F), 1 Oystercatcher (flew from College Lake area and returned back towards that direction), 5 Lapwings, 2 Snipe. Gull roost also had 84 Common Gulls, 1 L.B.B.Gull.

Sunday

Wendover Woods: 1 Raven, 10 Siskin.

Wilstone: 2 Little Egrets (1 roosted). Gull rost with Dave: 180 Common Gulls, 8 L.B.B. Gulls, 1 Herring Gull. 42 Cormorants roosted.

Pitstone: 2 of the College Lake Redshanks went to the small floodwater pond on farmland just before the Pitstone Industrial Estate.

Marsworth (evening): 1 Woodcock, 5+ Snipe, 1 Water Rail heard.

Steve Rodwell

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