Recent Sightings

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October 2019

30^th Goldeneye: 3 – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
30^th Woodcock: Flushed by dogs – Stoke Goldington (BuBC)
30^th Goldeneye: 2 – Foxcote Reservoir (BuBC)
29^th Great White Egret: 2 – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
29^th Brambling: Back Wood (BuBC)
29^th Marsh Tit: Stowe (BuBC)
29^th Merlin: Flying from Stowe Castle towards Stowe Gardens – Stowe (BuBC)
29^th Fieldfare: Heard calling – Howe Park Wood, MK (BuBC)
29^th Fieldfare: 98 – Tattenhoe Park, MK (BuBC)
29^th Bittern: In RH channel – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
29^th Goldeneye: 6 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
29^th Cetti’s Warbler: Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
28^th Fieldfare: 377 passing over travelling SE-NW – Tattenhoe Park, MK (BuBC)
28^th Fieldfare: 10 flew into cemetery – Newport Pagnell (BuBC)
28^th Red-crested Pochard: 5 – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
27^th Fieldfare: 2 calling as they flew along the Tattenhoe valley – Tattenhoe, MK (BuBC)
27^th Blackcap: (m) – Maids Moreton Mill (BuBC)

27^th Stonechat: (m+f) – on the fence S of Hyde Lane pit (BuBC)

27^th Whooper Swan: 6 (2 adult, 4 juvenile) – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

27^th Great White Egret: Initially fishing , then joined Little Egrets in trees on Spinney Pit – Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)

27^th Fieldfare: 12 – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

26^th Bittern: Seen in RH channel – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

25^th Ruff: 1- Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

25^th Snipe: 2-4 – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

25^th Brambling: 2 singles with Chaffinches (visible migration) – Back Wood (BuBC)
25^th Fieldfare: 3 (visible migration) Back Wood (BuBC)
25^th Garganey: Close to far South bank ( to right of hides) – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

25^th Bittern: Seen in RH channel – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

25^th Hawfinch: Flying to SE over Tattenhoe Park, MK (BuBC)

24^th Fieldfare: 11 flying over – Kingsmead, MK (BuBC)

24^th Bittern: Seen from Hide 1 fishing in RH channel – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
24^th Garganey: Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
24^th Dogs Vomit Slime Mould (Fuligo septica): – In grassland near Great Brickhill (Julian Lambley)

Dogs Vomit Slime Mould (Fuligo septica) ©Julian Lambley, Great Brickhill 24 October 2019

24^th Earth Star (Geastrum triplex): – Brickhill Woods (Julian Lambley)

Earth Star (Geastrum triplex) ©Julian Lambley, Brickhill Woods 24 October 2019

24^th Hawfinch: 6 In trees alongside redway at side of primary school – Great Linford, MK (BuBC)
24^th Brambling : Tattenhoe, MK (BuBC)

24^th Fieldfare: 44, Tattenhoe Park, MK (BuBC)

23^rd Fieldfare: Pair calling while passing overhead – Tattenhoe Park, MK (BuBC)

23^rd Woodcock : Flying down main track from car park – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)

21^st Badger – 1 seen near sett at Linford Lakes NR. Others heard. (Martin Kincaid)

21^st Water Shrew (juvenile) – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)

21^st Bank Voles: 2 – Linford Lakes N (Martin Kincaid)

21^st Otter seen and photographed by several visitors – Heronry Hide, Linford Lakes N (Martin Kincaid)

21^st Pipistrelle bats: 2 – Linford Lakes N (Martin Kincaid)

21^st Noctule bat at dusk – Linford Lakes N (Martin Kincaid)

21^st Muntjac deer – 1 seen near badger sett, Linford Lakes N (Martin Kincaid)

21^st Common Sandpiper : Floodplain Forest (BuBC)

21^st Green Sandpiper : Floodplain Forest (BuBC)

21^st Green Woodpecker: drinking from bird bath – Shenley Church End, MK (Peter Hassett)

Green Woodpecker CC BY-NC-SA Peter Hassett, Shenley Church End, 21 October 2018

20^th Starlings: c 2,000 – Willen Lake North (Martin Kincaid/Helen Wilson)

20^th Fieldfare: 80 -Tattenhoe Park, Milton Keynes (BuBC)

19^th Pintail: 2 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

19^th Kingfisher : Millfield, Stony Stratford (Martin Kincaid)
19^th Peregrine: Floodplain Forest (Martin Kincaid)

19^th Red Admiral: Linford Lakes N (Martin Kincaid)

19^th Small White: Linford Lakes N (Martin Kincaid)

19^th Speckled Wood: Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)

18^th Hedgehog: in garden, Oldbrook (Martin Kincaid)

18^th Fieldfare:29 – Adstock (BuBC)

18^th Ring Ouzel: in hedgerow in field opposite builder’s compound near Snelshall Street,Tattenhoe Park, MK (BuBC)

17^thGrass Snake – 2 adults at Woughton on the Green (Martin Kincaid)

17^thHolly Blue butterfly – Woughton on the Green (Martin Kincaid)

17^th Caspian Gull : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

17^th Bittern: Flew from reeds in front of hide to far bank reeds – Calvert (BuBC)

17^th Chinese Water Deer, Broughton Linear Park (Joe Clinch)

16^th Bittern: Calvert (BuBC)

14^th Hedgehog: Shenley Church End, MK (Peter Hassett)

13^th Otter: 9:45 in the Canal between Wolverton and Blue Bridge (Karl McAlpine)

12^th Marsh Harrier: Foxcote Re (BuBC)

12^th Stonechat: (m) on W farm fencing – Foxcote Re (BuBC)

11^th Fieldfare : Tattenhoe, MK (BuBC)

11^th Fieldfare: 5 – Campbell Park (BuBC)

11^th Pintail: 2 opposite the Peace Pagoda – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

11^th Hawfinch: Howe Park Wood (BuBC)

10^th Gannet: 2 juv – Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

10^th Redwing: by the mill – Olney (BuBC)

9^thStonechat: (pair) Bury Field – Newport Pagnell

9^thPainted Lady , London Road Allotments, Stony Stratford (Joe Clinch)

9^th Jack Snipe: right side of middle channel – Calvert BBOWT (BuBC)

9^th Water Rail: Calvert BBOWT (BuBC)

9^th Little Grebe: 4 – Calvert BBOWT (BuBC)
8^th Redwing : 40 – Tattenhoe Park, MK (BuBC)

8^th Fieldfare : (Pair) heading south – Tattenhoe Park, MK (BuBC)
8^th Fieldfare : calling near Howe Park Wood, MK (BuBC)

8^th Redwing : Howe Park Wood, MK (BuBC)

7^thJack Snipe: along channel at western end SP801421- Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

7^thPale Tussock Moth: caterpillar (with no tail!), Stoke Goldington wall (Ian Saunders)

Pale Tussock Moth caterpillar (with no tail!) ©Ian Saunders, Stoke Goldington 7 October 2018

7^th Marsh Tit: Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

7^thFieldfare : Tattenhoe, MK (BuBC)

7^thRedwing: 36 – Tattenhoe Park, MK (BuBC)

7^thRedwing : 2 – Stowe (BuBC)

7^thFieldfare : Stowe (BuBC)

7^thJack Snipe: end of right channel in reeds from hide – Calvert (BuBC)

6^th Fieldfare: Single bird flying SW calling – Wing (BuBC)

5^th Hedgehog: on front drive @ 8 pm, Stoke Goldington

4^th Redwing: 3 – Tattenhoe Park (BuBC)

4^th Stonechat: (pair) On the Bury Field – Newport Pagnell (BuBC)

4^th Redwing: 5 Over west first here this autumn Buckingham (BuBC)

3^rd Wheatear : Ravenstone STW, Ravenstone (BuBC)

3^rd Fieldfare: 2 – Campbell Park (BuBC)

2^nd Stonechat : 2 – Tattenhoe Park, Milton Keynes (BuBC)

2^nd Fox: dead on A509 just north east of North Grafton Roundabout, MK (Ian Saunders)

1^st Badger: dead on B526 at Eakley (exactly one week after another badger casualty at the same spot! (Ian Saunders)

1^st Hobby: by the reserve – Stony Stratford (BuBC)

September 2019

30^th Chinese Water Deer: in field at western tip of Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington(Ian Saunders)

30^th Pintail : (f) On the Spinney Pit – Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
29^thRedwing : Tattenhoe Park, Milton Keynes (BuBC)

27^th Wheatear : Tattenhoe Park, Milton Keynes (BuBC)

27^th Spotted Crake : still in same area – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

26^th Stonechat : Pair feeding near metal bridge – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
26^th Common Sandpiper: Feeding in pools at the far western side. – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

25^th Hummingbird hawk moth: Brooklands Centre – Newport Pagnell (Carol Allen)

24^th Great White Egret : in trees far end – Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

24^th Dusky Cockroach: Ectobius lapponicus – Campbell Park Pavilion (Martin Kincaid)
24^th Oak Bush-cricket – Campbell Park Pavilion (Martin Kincaid)
24^th Speckled Buch-cricket: 3 – Campbell Park Pavilion (Martin Kincaid)

24^th Barred Sallow moth: Campbell Park Pavilion (Martin Kincaid)
24^th Small Copper butterfly: 2 – Atterbury (Martin Kincaid)

23^rd Arctic Tern : 5 – Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

23^rd Great White Egret : Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

23^rd Arctic Tern : 2 adult – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

23^rd Common Sandpiper : feeding on the spit – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

23^rd Great Black-backed Gull : 10 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

23^rd Osprey: high over Hill farm, grid ref SP 904 440, heading S – Moulsoe (Martin Cummins)

23^rd Cattle Egret : On rafts in front 1st hide – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

23^rd Spotted Crake : viewable from the Pagoda side path viewing across the reeds from in front of the Maze – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

23^rd Arctic Tern: 2 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

21^st Hobby : Great Linford (BuBC)

21^st Spotted Crake : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

20^th Chiffchaffs: 2 – Grebe Lake (BuBC)

20^th Water Rail: calling – Grebe Lake (BuBC)

20^th House Martins: 100+ – Foxcote (BuBC)

20^th Hobby : Soulbury (BuBC)

20^th Spotted Crake : Viewed from the SW corner of – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

20^th Common Sandpiper: on spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

19^th Hobby : Great Linford (BuBC)

18^th Whinchat : Tattenhoe Park (BuBC)

18^th Common Sandpiper: on spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

18^th Garganey: (Eclipse m) NW corner – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

18^th Spotted Crake: North of the Pagoda – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

17^th Osprey: Flew over Cosgrove (BuBC)

16^th Clifden Nonpareil moth: Newport Pagnell (Gordon Redford)

Clifden Nonpareil moth ©Gordon Redford, Newport Pagnell 16 September 2018

16^th Spotted Crake : Best viewed from in front of the hospice. – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

16^th Spotted Crake: viewable from in front of Hospice – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

16^th Hobby : 2 – Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)

16^th Garganey: (Eclipse m) – viewable from in front of Hospice, Willen Lake North (BuBC)

15^th Whinchat: pair still present, perched on fencing – Tattenhoe Park (BuBC)

15^th Spotted Crake : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

15^th Common Crossbill : Winslow (BuBC)

14^th Dunlin: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

14^th Hobby : (adult and a juvenile.) – Hardmead (BuBC)

14^th Hobby : 2 hawking for dragonflies over W. end of lake – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
13^th Whinchat : pair still present – Tattenhoe Park (BuBC)
12^th Whinchat : pair still present near linear park – Tattenhoe Park (BuBC)
12^th Sparrowhawk : (f) near iron trunk hide – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

12^th Lesser Whitethroat : path adjacent to canal by old lock – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

12^th Green Sandpiper : near farm hide – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

12^th Whitethroat : 2 (juv) path adjacent to canal by old lock – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

12^th Spotted Flycatcher : path adjacent to canal by old lock – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
12^th Spotted Crake : near Pagoda – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

11^th Whinchat : 2 still present – Tattenhoe Park, Milton Keynes (BuBC)

10^th Hobby : (juv perched in tree) – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

10^th Whinchat : Pair perched by one of the fields – Tattenhoe Park (BuBC)

9^th Common Sandpiper : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

9^th Spotted Crake : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

9^th Garganey : Foxcote Reservoir (BuBC)
9^th House Martin : Leucistic bird – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

8^th Common Sandpiper : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

8^th Arctic Tern : (juv) – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

8^th Spotted Crake : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

8^th Hobby : Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)

8^th Ruff : Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)

7^th Garganey: Willen Lake North (BuBC)

7^th Arctic Tern: Flew through south – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

7^th Hobby : Stony Stratford (BuBC)

6^th Tree Pipit : Tattenhoe Park, Milton Keynes (BuBC)

5^th Spotted Crake : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

5^th Wheatear : Ravenstone STW (BuBC)

5^th Whinchat : (1m, 1juv) – Ravenstone STW

5^th Hobby : Hardmead (BuBC) (BuBC)

4^th Comma, Polygonia c-album: – Little Linford Wood (Julian Lambley)

4^th Wren, Troglodytes troglodytes: – Little Linford Wood (Julian Lambley)

Comma (Polygonia c-album) ©Julian Lambley at Little Linford Wood 4 September 2018

Wren, Troglodytes troglodytes ©Julian Lambley at Little Linford Wood 4 September 2018

4^th Hobby : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

4^th Spotted Crake : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

4^th Lesser spotted woodpecker: in garden – Stony Stratford (BuBC)

3^rd Speckled bush-cricket (male) Leptophyes punctatissima – Oakgrove SP 8839 3853 – on my car bonnet; a Ladybird alongside it.(Mike LeRoy

3^rd Kidney-spot ladybird Chilocorus renipustulatus – Oakgrove SP 8839 3853 – on my car bonnet, then flew away (Mike LeRoy)

3^rd Hobby : Buckingham (BuBC)

2^nd House Martins: 300+ – Stowe Landscape Gardens (BuBC)

2^nd Tree Pipit : Buckingham (BuBC)

2^nd Greenshank: (juv) – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

2^nd Black Tern : Willen Lake South (BuBC)
2^nd Spotted Crake : Willen Lake North (BuBC)
2^nd Common Tern: from hide – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
2^nd Hobby : Hardmead (BuBC)

2^nd Redstart: (m) – Hardmead (BuBC)

2^nd Whinchat: (m) – Hardmead (BuBC)

2^nd Ruddy Darter: by garden pond, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

2^nd Emperor dragonfly: by garden pond, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

1^st Common Shrew: under board by disused railway line, 1km NE of Swanbourne station (Ian Saunders)

1^st Caspian Gull : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

1^st Spotted crake: view from N path looking back towards pagoda – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

1^st Hobby : Hardmead (BuBC)

1^st Whinchat: (m) – Hardmead (BuBC)

August 2018

31^st Tree Pipit : Sherington (BuBC)

31^st Black Tern: (3 juv) – Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

31^st Garganey: (m) – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

31^st Spotted crake: Willen Lake North (BuBC)

31^st Brown Hare: in stubble south of Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

30^th Fallow Deer: almost black specimen, Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

30^th Ruddy Shelduck: 2 from bird hide beside Queen Eleanor Street – Stony Stratford NR (BuBC)

30^th Garganey: (m) – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

30^th Greenshank : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

30^th Common Sandpiper : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

30^th Wheatear : (Juv) – Ravenstone STW (BuBC)

30^th Whinchat : (Juv) – Ravenstone STW (BuBC)

30^th Greenshank: Willen Lake North (BuBC)

30^th Spotted crake: Willen Lake North (BuBC)

29^th Spotted crake: on west side of Willen Lake North, view from north footpath looking back towards pagoda (BuBC)

28^th Fox: cub crossed path into ditch, west Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

28^th Redstart: (m) – Tattenhoe Park (BuBC)

28^th Common Sandpiper: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

28^th Hobby : Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

28^th Greenshank: Close to the spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

28^th Spotted crake: on west side of Willen Lake North, view from north footpath looking back towards pagoda (BuBC)
27^th Ruddy Shelduck: 2 – Floodplain Forest NR (Ian Saunders)

Ruddy Duck ©Zoe Raven, Floodplain Forest NR 27 August 2018

Ruddy Shelduck ©Zoe Raven, Floodplain Forest NR 27 August 2018

27^th Greenshank: (juv) – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

27^th Hobby : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

27^th Common Sandpiper: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

27^th Spotted crake: W side reeds, N of pagoda near shingle island – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

26^th Hobby : Scythed through hirundine flock over the island – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
25^th Redstart: (m) – Tattenhoe Park (BuBC)

25^th Common Sandpiper : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

25^th Common Sandpiper : Howe Park Wood (BuBC)

25^th Whitethroat : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

25^th Snipe : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

25^th Greenshank : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

25^th Swift: 2 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

25^th Green Sandpiper: 11, Green Sandpiper : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

25^th Great White Egret : Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

25^th Swift : with huge numbers of hirundines – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
24^th Swift: last bird of the year(?) over Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

24^th Greenshank: Willen Lake North (BuBC)

24^th Hobby: Sherington (BuBC)

24^th Hobby: 2 – Dunton (BuBC)

23^rd Swift: solitary bird first for almost two weeks – Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

23^rd Fallow Deer: One doe in west ride, Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
23^rd Greenshank: Willen Lake North (BuBC)

23^rd Common Sandpiper: Willen Lake North (BuBC)

23^rd Hobby: Willen Lake North (BuBC)
22^nd Greater Spotted Woodpecker on garden feeders, Shenley Church End (Peter Hassett)

Greater Spotted Woodpecker ©Peter Hassett in garden, Shenley Church End 22 August 2018

21^stCommon blue butterfly Polyommatus Icarus – Broughton Brook Linear Park/Magna Park SP 9168 3883 – dozens, probably hundreds, some mating pairs( Mike LeRoy)

21^stLong-winged conehead (male) [bush cricket] Conocephalus discolor – near Kingston Bridge/Magna Park SP 9075 3893 (Mike LeRoy)

21^stGreenshank : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

21^stWheatear: by the buildings – Floodplain Forest NR (Ian Hockings)

21^stSpotted Flycatcher: by the buildings – Floodplain Forest NR (Ian Hockings)

20^th Orange Swift Moth, in house, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Orange Swift Moth ©Zoe Raven, in house, Stoke Goldington 20 August 2018

20^th Spotted Flycatcher: 3 – Hanslope (BuBC)

20^th Green Sandpiper: (at least 2) Floodplain Forest NR (Joe Clinch)

20^th Northern Wheatear (f) Floodplain Forest NR (Joe Clinch)
20^th Redstart: calling – Padbury (BuBC)

19^th Common Sandpiper : on dam – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

19^th Greenshank: surprisingly elusive around the lake – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

18^th Greenshank: (juv) – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

18^th Common Sandpipe : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

18^th Common Sandpiper: 2 Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

18^th Great White Egret: chased off by heron, flew towards Stony – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

18^th Hobby: Lenborough (BuBC)

17^th Snipe: 3 – Floodplain Forest NR (Joe Clinch)

17^th Whinchat: (f) – Hardmead (BuBC)

16^th Fox: cub dead on road south of Eakle (Ian Saunders)

16^th Brown Hare: Pilch Field in larger field near water trough ( Jenny Mercer)

16^th Munjack deer: crossing Fulmer Street, Milton Keynes (Peter Hassett)

16^th Common Sandpiper : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

15^th Common Sandpiper: Foxcote Res (BuBC)

14^th Fox: two large cubs outside natal earth, West Stoke Goldingto (Ian Saunders)

13^th Turtle Dove: 2 – Padbury (BuBC)

12^th Galls of fruit fly Urophora cardui on Creeping Thistle, Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Galls of fruit fly Urophora cardui on Creeping Thistle, ©Zoe Raven, Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington 12 August 2018

12^th Green Sandpiper: 4 in front of hide, 4 S of main island, 3 on W side Willen Lake North (BuBC)

10^th Garganey: (f) – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

10^th Common Sandpiper : On the spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
9^th Common Sandpiper: 2 on dam and tern rafts – Foxcote Res. (BuBC)

9^th Hobby : Emberton (BuBC)

9^th Common Sandpiper: 3 – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

9^th Green Sandpiper: 14 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

9^th Dunlin: Willen Lake North (BuBC)

6^th Caspian Gull: (near ad) Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

6^th Common Sandpiper : Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

6^th Hobby : Wolverton (BuBC)

6^th Fallow Deer: three small herds totalling 20 animals (12 Does and 8 Fawns), Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

5^th Swift: 4 – above Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

5^th Willow Beauty Moth: light trap, garden, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

5^th Flounced Rustic Moth: light trap, garden, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

5^th Small Waved Umber Moth: light trap, garden, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Small Waved Umber Moth: light trap, garden ©Ian Saunders, Stoke Goldington 5 August 2018

Willow Beauty Moth: light trap, garden ©Ian Saunders, Stoke Goldington 5 August 2018

Flounced Rustic Moth: light trap, garden ©Ian Saunders, Stoke Goldington 5 August 2018

5^th Common Sandpiper: (Juv or moulting adult) -Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

5^th Hobby: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

4^th Garganey: (fem/juv) North of the island – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
4^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

4^th Common Sandpiper: 4 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

4^th Painted Lady butterfly – New Bradwell (Jane Grisdale)

3^rd Otter: Swimming – Furzton Lake (Chris Bull)

2^nd Painted Lady butterfly – New Bradwell (Jane Grisdale)

2^nd Redstart: Padbury (BuBC)

2^nd Black Ant (Lasius niger): queens emerging for nuptial flight, garden Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Black Ant (Lasius niger): queens emerging for nuptial flight, ©Ian Saunders garden Stoke Goldington 2 August 2018

1^st Fallow Deer: herd of 10 (5 does and 5 fawns), Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington

1^st Painted Lady butterfly – Little Linford Wood (Jane Grisdale)

1^st White letter hairstreak: on thistles – North Bucks Way (Martin Kincaid)
1^st Red Kites: 4 – Stony Stratford (Martin Kincaid)

July 2018

31^stWhite butterfly parasite (Cotesia glomerata): coccoons on cabbage leaf, allotments, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

White butterfly parasite (Cotesia glomerata): coccoons on cabbage leaf, ©Ian Saunders, allotments, Stoke Goldington 31 July 2018

31^stPainted Lady butterfly – Little Linford Wood (Jane Grisdale)

31^stClouded Yellow butterfly: – Stonepit Field (Martin Kincaid)
31^stLong-winged coneheads: – many seen on MKNHS walk at Elfield Park (Martin Kincaid)
31^stPurple Hairstreaks: – Elfield Park (Martin Kincaid)
31^stRoe Deer: – Elfield Park (Martin Kincaid)
30^th Lapwing: 16 – Foxcote Reservoir (BuBC)

30^th Grey Wagtail: Foxcote Reservoir (BuBC)

30^th Cormorant: 4 – Foxcote Reservoir (BuBC)

30^th Great Crested Grebe: 6 – Foxcote Reservoir (BuBC)

30^th Little Egret: Foxcote Reservoir (BuBC)

30^th Common Tern: (5, 3 jus) – Foxcote Reservoir (BuBC)

30^th Black Swan: Willen Lake South (BuBC)

30^th Reed Bunting: male -garden in Haversham (BuBC)

30^th Lesser whitethroat: garden in Haversham (BuBC)

29^th Common Sandpiper : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

29^th Common Sandpiper : Caldecotte Lake South (BuBC)

27^th Badger: crossing road just after midnight at Gayhurst (Ian Saunders)

26^th Bullfinch: Garden fence in Neath Hill (Stephie Davenport)
24^th Signal Crayfish: (Pacifastacus leniusculus) Underwater in brook at Bradwell (Julian Lambley)

Signal Crayfish: (Pacifastacus leniusculus) ©Julian Lambley. Underwater in brook at Bradwell 24 June 2018

24^th Hobby: Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
24^th Common Sandpiper: Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
23^rd Hobby : Checking out the swifts and house martins over our house – Buckingham (BuBC)

23^rd Common Sandpiper: 2 – Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

23^rd Hobby : Stowe (BuBC)

21^st Large White caterpillars on allotment cabbages, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

21^st Ringlet: Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

21^st Silver-washed Fritillary: Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

21^st Gatekeeper: Female, Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Silver-washed Fritillary ©Zoe Raven, Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington 21 July 2018

Gatekeepe (Female) ©Zoe Raven Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington 21 July 2018

Large White caterpillars on allotment cabbages ©Ian Saunders, Stoke Goldington 21 July 2018

Ringlet ©Zoe Raven, Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington 21 July 2018

21^st Brown Hawker: several patrolling the rides in Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
21^st Common Crossbill: 2 Over west calling – Stowe (BuBC)
21^st Spotted Flycatcher : Stowe (BuBC)

21^st Green Sandpiper: 2 – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

21^st Little Ringed Plover: (juv) – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

21^st Common Sandpiper: 2 – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)19^th Fox: young, dead on B526 East of Salcey Forest (Ian Saunders)
18^thCommon Sandpiper: Stony Stratford (BuBC)
17^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
16^th Fox: young, dead on B526, just south of Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

15^th Bladderwort: garden pond, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Bladderwort: garden pond, ©Ian Saunders Stoke Goldington 15 July 2018

15^th Small Skipper: Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

15^th SIlver-washed Fritillary, Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
15^thGreater Burnet Saxifrage (Pimpinella major) – new record for Little Linford Wood (Mary Sarre)

15^th Common Sandpiper: Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)

14^th Mutjac Deer: Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

14^th Fallow Deer: Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

14^th Brown Hare: in field south of Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

14^th Fox (young): in field south of Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

14^th Raven: pair in conifers, south edge of Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

14^th Common Toad: rescued from well on allotments, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Common Toad: rescued from well on allotments ©Ian Saunders, Stoke Goldington 14 July 2018

14^th Common Sandpiper: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
13^th Hobby : Fenny Stratford (BuBC)

13^th Lapwing: 30 – on the spit at Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)
13^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – on the spit at Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)
13^th Artic Tern: 2 – on the spit at Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)

13^th Little Egret – on the spit at Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)
12^thFox foraging in field by Linford Lakes Nature reserve (SP843427) (Julie Lane)
11^th Stonechat: (m) – Hardmead (BuBC)

10^thSilver-washed fritillary in garden (SP884515) Olney (Julie Lane)

10^thLarge White butterfly in garden (SP884515) Olney (Julie Lane)

10^thGatekeeper in garden (SP884515) Olney (Julie Lane)

10^thHolly Blue in garden (SP884515) Olney (Julie Lane)

10^thBrimstone in garden (SP884515) Olney (Julie Lane)

10^th Little Owl on signpost (SP853487) Olney (Julie Lane)

7^th Swifts: 15-20 – Market Square, Stony Stratford (Mary Sarre)

7^th Hobby: 2 – Howe Park Wood (BuBC)

7^th Hobby: Stowe (BuBC)

6^th Chiffchaff: Tingewick (BuBC)

6^th Hobby: Soulbury (BuBC)

5^th Swift: 2 – Tingewick (BuBC)

5^th Common Sandpiper : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

4^thSkullcap (Scutellaria galericulata) in lake margin, Willen Lake north (Mary Sarre)

4^thSedge Warbler singing – in reeds, Willen lake north (Mary Sarre)
4^thRuby-tailed Wasp: flew into a bedroom, Tattenhoe (Janice Robertson)
4^thHobby: Buckingham (BuBC)

June 2018

29^th Badger: dead opposite southern end of Ravenstone Mill Road (Ian Saunders)
28^th Reed Bunting: 2 x singing on east edge of Bury Field, Newport Pagnell (Ian Saunders)
28^th Tree Pipit: song flight near model aircraft area, Bury Field, Newport Pagnell (Ian Saunders)
28^th Sedge Warbler: singing from Willowherb close to largest pool, south part of Bury Field, Newport Pagnell (Ian Saunders)
28^th Hobby: Over spooking the local swifts an house martins – Buckingham (BuBC)

27^th Marbled White butterfly: in meadow near Westside Farm, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

26^th Little Owl: being chased by a pair of carrion crows, north end of High Street, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

26^th Muntjac Deer: 2 adults and 1 young, Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

26^th Fallow Deer: 6 adults, 2 with fawns c. 1 month old, Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

26^th Brown Hare, Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

26^th Figwort Sawfly (Tenthredo scrophulariae)): garden, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Figwort Sawfly (Tenthredo scrophulariae) ©Ian Saunders in garden, Stoke Goldington 26 June 2018

26^th Hobby: Hunting dragonflies over Linford lakes NR (BuBC)

26^th Black Tern: (probable 2) Linford lakes NR (BuBC)

26^th Cuckoo: Over Goosey Meadows – Olney (BuBC)
26^th Tawny owls: Calling on village green – Deanshanger (BuBC)
25^thGrasshopper Warbler: Heard reeling at Chepstow Pond – Far Bletchley, SP846325 (BuBC)

24^th Brown Hare: Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

25^th Great Crested Grebes: carrying young chicks – Floodplain Forest NR (Martin Kincaid)
25^th Lapwing: 5 juvenile – Floodplain Forest Nature Reserve (Martin Kincaid)
24^thHedgehogs: 3 in garden, Oldbrook (Martin Kincaid)
24^th Pyramidal Orchids – Elfield Park (Martin Kincaid)
24^th Froglet, garden pond, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Brown Hare ©Steve Brightwell, Stoke Goldington 24 June 2018

Froglet ©Ian Saunders, Stoke Goldington 24 June 2018

24^th Red Fox: cubs x 2 relaxing near earth, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

24^th Fallow Deer: x 3 Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
24^th Tree Creeper: on Willow tree trunk – near Wolverton Mill Weir (Joe Clinch)

23^rd Marsh tit: 3 – Little Linford Wood (BuBC)

23^rd Wood White butterfly: Little Linford Wood (BuBC)

23^rd Common Crossbill: Calling from dense conifer plantation – Middle Claydon (BuBC)

23^rd Five-spot Burnet moth: Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Five-spot Burnet moth: ©Zoe Raven,Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington 23 June 2018

22^ndCommon Tern: 3 nests found on island at Stony Stratford Nature Reserve (Martin Kincaid)
22^ndHobby: Stony Stratford Nature Reserve (Martin Kincaid)
21st Mullein Moth: caterpillar, garden Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Mullein Moth caterpillar ©Ian Saunders, Stoke Goldington 21 June 2018

21^stWood White: Little Linford Wood (Phil Sarre)

21^stWhite Admiral: Little Linford Wood (Phil Sarre)

21^st Campanula Latifolia: in flower – Little Linford Wood (Phil Sarre)

Wood White ©Phil Sarre, Little Linford Wood 19 June 2018

White Admiral ©Phil Sarre, Little Linford Wood 19 June 2018

Campanula Latifolia ©Phil Sarre, Little Linford Wood 19 June 2018

21^st Green Sandpiper: 2 on the Spit – Willen Lake (BuBC)
20^th Cuckoo: flew over the lake and path and head towards the Mill area – Emberton (BuBC)

20^th Blood Vein moth: on larval food-plant in garden, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Blood Vein moth ©Ian Saunders, Stoke Goldington 20 June 2018

19^th Swift x 15: over village, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

19^th Wood white (female): Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

19^th Mini-miner bee (Andrena minutula?): small colony in bare earth of “goose feeding area”, SW corner of Tongwell Lake (Ian Saunders)
19^th Pyramidal orchid Anacamptis pyramidalis: 2 – Bradwell Common, Hampstead Gate (Mike LeRoy)
19^th Swift x 15: over village, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

19^th Wood white (female): Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

19^th Mini-miner bee (Andrena minutula?): small colony in bare earth of “goose feeding area”, SW corner of Tongwell Lake (Ian Saunders)
19^th Cuckoo: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

18^th Hobby : gliding low over fields before perching near ponds.Tattenhoe Park (BuBC)
17^th Scarce Tortoiseshell: Stoke Goldington (Judith Barnard)
17^th Beautiful Demoiselle: flying in Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington(Ian Saunders)

17^th Bee Orchid: garden, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Bee Orchid in grden ©Zoe Raven, Stoke Goldington 17 Jube 2018

Bee Orchid in garden ©Zoe Raven, Stoke Goldington 17 June 2018

16^th Ringlet: Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington(Ian Saunders)
15^th Hobby: Seen catching swallow – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
15^thWigeon: (m) – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
14^th Silver Y Moth: several feeding in broad daylight, garden Stoke Goldington ©(Ian Saunders)

Silver Y moth ©Ian Saunders, Stoke Goldington 14 June 2018

13^th Beautiful Demoiselle: flying in Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington(Ian Saunders)
13^th Hobby : Hawking very close at times to warbler hide – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

12^th Black Hairstreak: WIcken Wood (KS_Photo67)

12^th Wood White: WIcken Wood (KS_Photo67)

12^th Jay: Juv trying to feed from feeder – Tingewick (BuBC)

11^th Wood White: Four adults flying, Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Wood White ©Zoe Raven, Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington 11June 2018

11^th Mullein Moth: caterpillar on Figwort by garden pond, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Mullein Moth: caterpillar on Figwort ©Ian Saunders Stoke Goldington

11^th Common spotted orchid: Dactylorhiza fuchsii (single stem) Wimbledon Place, Bradwell Common SP 84547 39014 (Mike LeRoy)

10^thHobby : Hawking for dragonflies over lake – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
10^thStock Dove: 2 feeding on the bund – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

10^thSmall blue butterfly: on kidney vetch – Stonepit Field (Janice Robertson)

10^thWhite-legged damselfly: Stonepit Field (Janice Robertson)

Small Blue butterfly ©Janice Robertson, Stonepit Field 10 June 2018

White-legged damselfly ©Janice Robertson, Stonepit Field 10 June 2018

False oil beetle, Oedemera nobilis (female), ©Ian Saunders Feeding on spearwort, garden pond, Stoke Goldington 10 June 2018

Common Froglet ©Ian Saunders, garden pond, Stoke Goldington10 June 2018

Hover Fly, Helophilus pendulus ©Ian Saunders. garden pond, Stoke Goldington 10 june 2018

10^th Chiffchaff : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

10^th Reed Warbler: 2 – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

10^th Herring Gull : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

10^th Common Shrew: dead on path, Oakhill Wood near HMP Woodhill (Ian Saunders)

10^th False oil beetle, Oedemera nobilis (female): Feeding on spearwort, garden pond, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

10^th Bee orchids Ophrys apifera (8 stems) North Row, CMK SP 84480 38818 (Mike LeRoy)

10^th Hover Fly, Helophilus pendulus: garden pond, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

9th Smooth Newt: garden pond, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
9^th Beautiful Demoiselle: Calopteryx virgo Waterhall Park SP 88462 31984 (Mike LeRoy)
9^th Bee orchid: Ophrys apifera Edge of Portway H5 SP 84484 38888 (Mike LeRoy)
8^th Common Froglet: garden pond, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
8^th Painted lady: Oxley Park (Olivia Needham)

8^th Cuckoo: Calling from the Goosey Meadows – Olney (BuBC)

7^thGarden Warbler: singing, SE corner of Tongwell Lake (Ian Saunders)

5^thBlackcap: Tingewick (BuBC)
5^thJay: Tingewick (BuBC)
4^thCommon Spotted Orchid: flowering in Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
4^thRagged Robin: in flower, Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Common Spotted Orchid: flowering in Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington ©Ian Saunders 4 June 2018

Ragged Robin: in flower, Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington ©Ian Saunders 4 June 2018

4^thReed Warbler: x 2 singing at NW end of Tongwell Lake (Ian Saunders)

4^thCommon Tern: Feeding at Tongwell Lake (Ian Saunders)
4^thBittern: Seen from Heronry hide. Flew toward Stanton Low (BuBC)

4^thBee Orchid Ophrys apifera 5 stems in flower, Bradwell Common: SP 84447 38981 (Mike LeRoy)
4^thBlack Horehound Ballota nigra in flower, Bradwell Common by Redway: SP 84445 38936 (Mike LeRoy)
4^thBeautiful Demoiselles Calopteryx virgo by Watery Lane Brook, Beachampton: SP77436 (Mike LeRoy)

3^rdRed Fox: by Beachampton Grove: SP784363 (Mike LeRoy)

3^rdHedgehog ( large adult) home garden, Stony Stratford drinking from bird bath (Joe Clinch)

3^rdWhitethroat: 2 Floodplain Forest NR (Lisa Pye)

3^{^rd}Greater Scaup: Tattenhoe Park (Olivia Needham)

3^rd Cuckoo : Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

2^nd Common Zebra Spider: Salticus scenicus – Shenley Church End, MK (Peter Hassett)
1^st Small White butterfly: Pieris rapae – garden in Bancroft MK (Paul Lund)
1^st Painted Lady butterfly: Vanessa cardui – garden in Bancroft MK (Paul Lund)

May 2018

31^st Hobby : Flew S at 6:25pm carrying a kill – Broughton (BuBC)

30^th Twayblade in full flower home garden Stony Stratford (Joe Clinch)
30^th Green-winged Orchid: Tattenhoe (Harry Appleyard)

Green-winged Orchid ©Harry Appleyard, Tattenhoe, 30 May 2018

30^th Froghopper: (Cercopis vulnerata), Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Red-and-black Froghopper (Cercopis vulnerata), Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington ©Ian Saunders 30 May 2018

29^th Greater Spearwort: first flowers of year, garden pond Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Greater Spearwort: first flowers of year, garden pond Stoke Goldington ©Ian Saunders 29 May 2018

29^th Whimbrel: Stonebridge Park (BuBC)
29^th Spotted Flycatcher: Pair just returned today to last years nest site – Dunton (BuBC)

28^th Azure Damselfly: mating and egg-laying, garden pond, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

27^th Red Fox: vixen and two cubs at earth, west of Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

27^th Red Fox: Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

27^th Chinese Water Deer: in in rape field west of Stoke Wood, 7.30am Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

27^th Fallow Deer: five in and around Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

27^th Brown Hare: central meadow Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
27^th Black Tern : Willen Lake South (BuBC)

27^th Goosander: (2f) roosting on the shingle by the river bend – Olney (BuBC)
27^th Grasshopper Warbler: (m) reeling from bushes near 5 bar gate on Olney Meadows (BuBC)
27^th Male briefly reeling from bushes near 5 bar gate on Olney Meadows (BuBC)

27^th Common Sandpiper: 2 feeding on the spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

27^th Grey Plover: Feeding on small island of main lake – Stonebridge Park (BuBC)

27^th Whimbrel: Stonebridge Park (BuBC)

27^th Hobby: 2 birds seen hunting high over north lake Willen Lake North (BuBC)
27^th Turnstone: 3 (s/p) till feeding on the Ski tow. – Willen Lake South,

27^th Ringed Plover: 4 Tundrae race present on the Main pit – Stonebridge Park (BuBC)

27^th Black Tern : Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

27^th Spotted Flycatcher: 2 in garden – Stowe (BuBC)

27^th Sanicle Sanicula europaea in flower east-side ditch edges – Linford Wood (Mike LeRoy)

27^th Spotted Flycatcher : Hyde Lane (BuBC)

27^th Common Sandpiper : on spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

27^th Turnstone : 3 On ski platform quay? opposite Bandstand – Willen Lake South (BuBC)
27^th Cuckoo : Hillesden (BuBC)

27^th Spotted Flycatcher : Hillesden (BuBC)

27^th Fox: on spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
26^th European Hornet: Newport Pagnell (Colin Little)

Asian Hornet ©Colin Little, Newport Pagnell 26 May 2018

European Hornet ©Colin Little, Newport Pagnell 26 May 2018

26^th Spotted Flycatcher : Winslow (BuBC)

26^th Cuckoo: (m) – Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)

26^th Ringed Plover: 2 Stonebridge Park (BuBC)

26^th Ringed Plover: 2 feeding on the Bund – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
26^th Wasp Beetle, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

26^th Rhinoceros Beetle (Sinodendron cylindricum), near Ravenstone sewage works (Ian Saunders)

Rhinoceros Beetle (Sinodendron cylindricum) © Ian Saunders near Ravenstone sewage works 26 May 2018

Dragonfly: ten exuviae from garden pond ©Ian Saunders, Stoke Goldington 26 May 2018

Wasp beetle ©Ian Saunders, Stoke Goldington 26 May 2018

26^th Banded Demoiselle: next to Ravenstone sewage works (Ian Saunders)

26^th Dragonfly: ten exuviae from garden pond, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

25^th Fallow Deer: 8 grazing in main ride, Stoke Wood, 5.30pm, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
25^th Cuckoo: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

25^th Goosander: (f) – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

25^th Garganey: (f) – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

25^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – Willen Lakes (BuBC)

25^th Whimbrel: Stonebridge Lake (BuBC)

25^th Ringed Plover : 3 – Willen Lakes (BuBC)

25^th Garganey: (f) Stonebridge Lake (BuBC)

25^th Black Tern : Willen Lakes (BuBC)

25^th Turnstone: 4 between Farm Hide and Pony Pen- Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
25^th Dunlin Farm Hide and Pony Pen – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
25^th Cuckoo: on bridle path – Wavendon Gate MK (Jaki Hilton)

25^th Great Spotted Woodpecker by the brook – Wavendon Gate MK (Jaki Hilton)

25^th Common Sandpiper : on the dam – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

24th May Fallow Deer: three in Stoke Wood, 5.30 pm, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

24^th Yellow Archangel: Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

24^th Common Spotted Orchid: first of the year in Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington(Ian Saunders)
24^th Emperor Dragonfly: emerging from garden pond, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Yellow Archangel ©Ian Saunders Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington 24 May 2018

Common Spotted Orchid ©Ian Saunders, Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington 24 May 2018

Emperor Dragonfly: emerging from garden pond ©Ian Saunders, Stoke Goldington 24 May 2018

24^th Cuckoo: Being chased by a Meadow Pipit – Bury Field Newport Pagnell (BuBC)

24^th Sanderling: Willen Lake South (BuBC)

24^th Common Sandpiper: 2 on the ski tow – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

24^th Greenshank: 2 Feeding on the spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

24^th Hobby : One feeding over the Island – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

24^th Cuckoo : Seen flying across the lake – Linford (BuBC)

24^th Black Tern : Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

24^th Sanderling: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

24^th Greenshank: 3 – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

24^th Ringed Plover: 3 – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

24^th Little Ringed Plover: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

24^th Oystercatcher: 2 -Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

24^th Greenshank: 2 – – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

24^th Turnstone: Feeding on the spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

24^th Oystercatcher: 2 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

24^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

24^th SanderlingWillen Lake South (BuBC)

24^th Common SandpiperWillen Lake South (BuBC)

24^th Greenshank : 2 – Feeding on spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

24^th Common Sandpiper : Feeding on spit. – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

24^th Turnstone: Feeding on spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

23^rd Hobby : Caught a Dragonfly and flew off eating it – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

23^rd Greenshank : Olney Mill (BuBC)

23^rd Spotted Flycatcher : on wires close to rectory – Hardmead (BuBC)

23^rd Wood Sandpiper: Seen from Otter hide. Feeding on Bund. – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

22nd May Fallow Deer: yearling male browsing oilseed rape, west of Stoke Wood 5.30 pm, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

22nd May Four-spotted Chaser: immature female in Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
22^nd Cuckoo: Male singing on west side early pm – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

22^nd Wood Sandpiper : Feeding c100yds east of Farm Hide – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

22^nd Hobby : Over the west end – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

22^nd Small Blue:2 Blue Lagoon (Harry Appleyard)

22^nd Spotted Flycatcher: 2 singing males at the Rectory – Hardmead (BuBC)

22^nd Turnstone: still favouring West Island spit – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

22^nd Wood Sandpiper: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

21^st Duke of Burgundy butterfly: Blue Lagoon (Harry Appleyard)

21^st Black Tern : summer adult, my first here in some years. – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
21^st Common Sandpiper : Feeding on main island – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
21^st Cranes: 2 – Click here for more information Gallows Bridge. (Sue and Andrew Hetherington)

Cranes by Sue and Andrew Hetherington, Gallows Bridge 16 May 2018

21^st Swift, 9 over Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

21^st Swift: 6 over Weston Underwood (Ian Saunders)

20^th Lesser Whitethroat: at least 2 singing, Kingsmead Spinney (Ian Saunders)

20^th Garden Warbler: singing near Water Spinney, Tattenhoe (Ian Saunders)

20^th Rudd: shoal of small fish, shallows Loughton Brook (Ian Saunders)

20^th Reed Warbler: singing, west end of Furzton Lake (Ian Saunders)

20^th Grey Heron: Teardrop Lakes (Ian Saunders)

Grey Heron ©Zoe Raven, Teardrop Lakes 21 May 2018

20^th Cuckoo: in the garden of York House – Stony Stratford (Rien De Keyser)

20^th Cuckoo: SE of the Olney, near the river Ouse (Rien De Keyser)

20^th Spotted Flycatcher: 6 – Stowe (BuBC)
20^th Cuckoo: 2 – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
19^th Hedgehog: for third year running in garden in Emerson Valley, MK (Vera Abrams)

19^th Emperor moth: (m) in my Bancroft garden at 17:00 (Paul Lund)
19^th Cinnabar moth: in my Bancroft garden (Paul Lund)
19^th Cuckoo : Clifton Reynes (BuBC)

19^th Cuckoo: 5 – Weston Underwood (BuBC)

19^th Spotted Flycatcher : (m) Hardmead (BuBC)

19^th Cockchafer: 5 males in moth trap (no moths!), garden Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

18^th Swift: 3 over Weston Underwood (Ian Saunders)

18^th Swift: 7 over Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

18^th Garden Warbler: singing, Dag Lane, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

18^th Mistle Thrush: fledgeling, garden Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
18^th Hobby: heading south out of the reserve , chased off by a Crow – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

18^th Common Sandpiper: feeding on bund – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

18^th Common Sandpiper: 5 feeding on spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

18^th Cuckoo: 7 – Weston Underwood (BuBC)
18^th Crane: 2 – Gawcott (BuBC)

18^th Cuckoo : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

17^th Sedge Warbler: 3 – Emberton (BuBC)

17^th Cuckoo : Olney (BuBC)
17^th Singing in usual tree on Weston Road (BuBC)

17^th Crane : 2 – Gallows Bridge Farm, Gallows Bridge (BuBC)

17^th Muslin Moth: (male) in light trap, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Muslin Moth (male) © Ian Saunders, Stoke Goldington 17 May 2018

17^th Whitethroat: singing and chasing on embankment facing platform 6, MK Central Station (Ian Saunders)

16^th Speckled Wood butterflies, sparring in Stoke Wood (Ian Saunders)
16^thSwift: It occurred silently (ie no screaming) but was preceded by some very low flying arcs. – Gawcott (Sue Hetherington)

16^th Grass Snake: Campbell Park (Martin Kincaid)

16^th Goosander: (m) Roosting at east end just after midday – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

16^th Hobby : At least 2 hawking over reedbeds/water – Foxcote Res. (BuBC)

16^th Common Sandpiper: on dam – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

16^th Cockchafer, four males in moth trap, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Cockchafer ©Ian Saunders, Stoke Goldington 16 May 2018

15^th Death-watch beetle: found on ash tree, Linford Lakes (Martin Kincaid)
15^th Glow-worm: – 2 females found at Salcey Forest (Paul Lund)
15^th Wood Warbler: – 1 heard briefly at Salcey Forest (Martin Kincaid)
15^th Cuckoo: – Salcey Forest (Martin Kincaid)
15^th Ringed Plover: 2 Tundrae Birds feeding at the eastern end – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
15^th Hobby : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

15^th Red Kite, locally known as “Nick”, over Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Red Kite ©Steve Brightwell Stoke Goldington 15 May 2018

15^th Fox, two cubs outside earth, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
15^th Swift, five racing above Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
14th Large red Damselflies:, several pairs ovipositing in garden pond, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

14th Azure damselfly: garden pond, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
14th Hobby: feeding low over the stilt pit – Floodplain Forest Nature NR (BuBC)
14th Goosander: (pair) asleep on the easternmost island – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

14th Hobby: Feeding over the Sewage Farm car park – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

14th Ringed Plover: 4 Feeding at far eastern end near allotments – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

14th Hobby: Hawking over fields near Wolverton Mill, Stony Stratford (BuBC)
13^th Swift visiting nesting site, High Street Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

13^th Common Sandpiper : Feeding on the spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

13^th Hobby: Hawking over Willen Lake South (BuBC)

13^th Ringed Plover: 6 – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

13^th Black Tern: Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

12^th Whitethroat: Floodplain Forest NR (Roy Gray)

Whitethroat ©Roy Gray, Floodplain Forest NR

12^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

11^th Sedge Warbler: 3 – Emberton (BuBC)
11^th Hobby: 3 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
11^th Hobby: Stony Stratford NR (BuBC)
11^th Arctic Tern: Willen Lake South, in among 60+ Common Terns (BuBC)
11^th Black Tern: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

11^th Green Woodpecker: Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
11^th Reed Warbler: Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
11^th Common Tern: 2 – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
10^th Wheatear: Olney, along river down the Mill (BuBC)
10^th Goosander: 3 (2f, 1m) – Olney, along river down the Mill (BuBC)
10^th Cuckoo: Olney, singing in tree below Weston Road (BuBC)

9^th House Martins: visiting usual nest site for first time, Stoke Goldington High St. (Ian Saunders)

9^th Large Red Damselfly: at garden pond, first of year, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

9^th Wheatear (m): Ledburn (BuBC)

9^th Blue-tailed Damselflies: Campbell Park, emerging at canal-side ponds (Martin Kincaid)

9^th Common Blue Damselflies: Campbell Park, emerging at canal-side ponds (Martin Kincaid)
9^th Blue-tailed Damselflies: emerging at Elfield Park (Martin Kincaid)
9^th Swifts: 50+ over Willen Lake (Martin Kincaid)
9^th Cuckoo: Olney, singing in tree below Weston Road (BuBC)
9^th Sedge Warbler: 5 – Olney, Goosey Meadows below Weston Road (BuBC)
9^th Red-headed Cardinal Beetle: Bradwell Common/Portway SP845389 (Mike LeRoy)

8^th Swift: 6 – over Bradwell Common. The first seen at Wimbledon Place this year (Mike LeRoy)

8^th Hornet: Westbury Farm, queen feeding at Berberis (Martin Kincaid)

7^th Red Fox: vixen and three cubs sunning themselves outside their earth, W of Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

7^th Brown Hare: Stoke Wood (Ian Saunders)

7^th Muntjac deer: Stoke Wood (Ian Saunders)

7^th Fallow deer: Stoke Wood (Ian Saunders)

7^th Common Tern: 7 – Stony Stratford NR (Ian Hockings)
7^th Lapwing (2 chicks): Stony Stratford NR (Ian Hockings)

7^th Ringed Plover (m): Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
7^th Common Frog Tadpoles: Stoke Goldington, garden pond (Ian Saunders)

Common Frog tadpoles ©Ian Saunders, Stoke Goldington 7May

7^th Swift: 3 flying over Stoke Goldington, first of the year (Ian Saunders)
7^th Little Egret: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
6^th Red Fox: Stoke Wood (Ian Saunders)
6^th Lapwing: Stony Stratford NR (Samantha Lovegrove)
6^th Common Tern: 3 – Stony Stratford NR (Samantha Lovegrove)
6^th Great Crested Grebe: Stony Stratford NR (Samantha Lovegrove)
6^th Coot: 2- Stony Stratford NR (Samantha Lovegrove)
6^th Mute Swan: 1f,1m – Stony Stratford NR (Samantha Lovegrove)
6^th Canada Goose: 6 – Stony Stratford NR (Samantha Lovegrove)
6^th Kingfisher: Stony Stratford NR (Samantha Lovegrove)
6^th Little Egret: Stony Stratford NR (Samantha Lovegrove)
6^th Mallard: 1m,1f – Stony Stratford NR (Samantha Lovegrove)
6^th Common Sandpiper: Foxcote Res. (BuBC)
5^th Brown Hare: Stoke Wood (Ian Saunders)
5^th Muntjac Deer: Stoke Wood(Ian Saunders)
5^th Grasshopper Warbler: Back Wood, male singing in same location (BuBC)

4^th Grasshopper Warbler: Back Wood (SP90 33 ), singing near London End Lane (BuBC)
4^th Tree Sparrow: 8 – Little Linford Wood (BuBC)
3^rd House Martins: above Stoke Goldington, first of the year (Ian Saunders)
3^rd Little Owl: Stoke Goldington, on church tower (Ian Saunders)
3^rd False Oxlip: Stoke Wood (Ian Saunders

False Oxlip ©Ian Saunders, Stoke Wood 3 May 2018

3^rd Brown Hare: Stoke Wood – 1 in clearing, 1 by hedge south of Wood, 1 in field (Ian Saunders)
3^rdMuntjac Deer: 3 – Stoke Wood (Ian Saunders)
3^rd Fallow Deer: 4 – Stoke Wood (Ian Saunders)
3^rd St Mark’s Flies (Bibio marci): several swarms south of Stoke Wood (Ian Saunders)
3^rd Whimbrel: 2 – flying over Tattenhoe, MK. (BuBC)
3^rd Cuckoo: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
3^rd Common Tern: 4 – Calvert Sailing Lake, present for last week (BuBC)
3^rd Black-headed Gull: 100 – Calvert BBOWT Lake, approx 53 nests so far on 4 tern rafts (BuBC)
3^rd Hobby: Foxcote Res. (BuBC)
2^nd Brown Hare: Stoke Wood (Ian Saunders)
2^nd Muntjac Deer: Stoke Wood (Ian Saunders)

2^nd Hobby: 2 – Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

2^nd Common Sandpiper: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

2^nd Arctic Tern: 5 feeding with Common Terns – Willen Lake South

2^nd Cuckoo (m): Emberton Country Park (BuBC)

2^nd Arctic Tern: 2 flying through – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

2^nd Great Crested Grebe: Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)

2^ndReed Bunting: Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)
2^nd Lapwing (pair): Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)

2^nd Oyster Catcher: Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)

2^nd Reed Warbler: Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)

2^nd Blackcap: Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)

2^nd Common Whitethroat: Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)

2^nd Meadow Saxifrage in flower: Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)

2^nd Roe Deer: Stanton Low Park, just off the grass track along the canal side (David Wilson)
2^nd Hairy-footed flower bee, garden in Olney SP884515 (Julie Lane)

Hairy-footed flower bee ©Julie Lane, Olney 2 May 2018

1^st Fallow Deer: Stoke Wood – 2m, 3f, on main (E-W) ride (Ian Saunders)
1^st Brown Hare: Stoke Wood – 2 in central clearing (Ian Saunders)
1^st Muntjac Deer: Stoke Wood – 4 separate sightings (Ian Saunders)
1^st Red Fox: Stoke Wood – along southern edge (Ian Saunders)
1^st Common Sandpiper: Hartwell House Lake, Upper Hartwell (BuBC)
1^st Wheatear: male, near Shakespeare Park building site – Kingsmead, MK (BuBC).
1^st Black Tern: Willen Lake South, s/p bird present for fourth day (BuBC)
1^st Hobby: Willen Lake South (BuBC)
1^st Swift: 2 – cruising over Gawcott (Sue Hetherington)
1^st Whinchat: 2 (1m,1f)- Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

April 2018

30^th Hobby: Caldecotte Lake (BuBC)
30^th Hobby: Willen Lake South (BuBC)
30^th Redstart (m): Tattenhoe Park (Harry Appleyard)
30^th Whinchat: 2(m) – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

30^th Cuckoo: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
30^th Common Sandpiper: Willen Lake South (BuBC)

30^th Black-tailed Godwit: 20 (s/p) – Floodplain Forest NR, flew strongly off to north (BuBC)

30^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – Willen Lake North, feeding on the spit (BuBC)
30^th Black Tern: Willen Lake South, s/p bird with mixed tern flock (BuBC)
30^th Arctic Tern: Willen Lake South, 2 minimum in mixed tern flock (BuBC)
30^th Great White Egret: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
30^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
30^th Wheatear: 2 (pair) – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
30^th Whinchat: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
29^th Cuckoo: Stanton Low Manor (Ian Saunders)
29^th Sedge Warblers: singing from reedbeds, Willen Lake North (Ian Saunders)
29^th Sedge Warblers: singing from reedbeds, Lodge Lake (Ian Saunders)
29^th Ramsons: in flower, North Loughton Valley Park (Ian Saunders)
29^th Ruddy Shelduck: Linford Lakes NR (Graham Johnson & Oliver Johnson)
28^th Arctic Tern: 8 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)
28^th Black Tern: Willen Lake South (BuBC)
28^th Hobby: Willen Lake North (BuBC)
28^th Arctic Tern: 19 – Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
28^th Yellow Wagtail: 3 – Foxcote Res – on the dam wall (BuBC)
28^th Common Sandpiper: 3 – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
28^th Black-tailed Godwit: 62 – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
28^th Pied Flycatcher: (m) – Floodplain Forest NR – in bushes west of Haversham viaduct (BuBC)

27^th Sedge Warbler: 10 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
27^th Reed Warbler: 4 – Willen Lake North, singing on the west side (BuBC)
27^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)
26^th Swift : Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
26^th Arctic Tern: 3 – Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
26^th Wheatear: near Shakespeare Park building site – Kingsmead, MK (BuBC)
26^th Common Sandpiper: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
26^th Garganey: (f) – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
26^th Early-purple Orchid: Howe Park Wood (Janice Robertson)

Early-purple Orchid ©Janice Robertson, Howe Park Wood 26 April 2018.

26^th Cuckoo : Seen from entrance track flying towards reserve – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
26^th Hobby : Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

26^th Arctic Tern : Willen Lake South (BuBC)

26^th Short-eared Owl : Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

25^th Ringed Plover: 2 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

25^th Common Sandpiper : Willen Lakes (BuBC)

25^th Little Gull : Foxcote Res (BuBC)

25^th Common Sandpiper: on dam – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

25^th Arctic Tern : 4 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

25^th Swift : 5 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

25^th Common Sandpiper : Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

25^th Arctic Tern : 3 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

25^th Swift : 3 – Foxcote Res. (BuBC)

25^th Sedge Warbler : Singing distantly from western end – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

25^th Wheatear: near Shakespeare Park building site – Kingsmead, MK (BuBC)

25^th Cuckoo : Hardmead (BuBC)

25^th Garganey: (f) – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

24^th Common Sandpiper : feeding on the spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

24^th Common Sandpiper : feeding on the ski tow – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

24^th Whimbrel : Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

24^th Firecrest : Tattenhoe, MK (BuBC)

24^th Wheatear: (pair) near Shakespeare Park building site – Kingsmead, MK (BuBC)

24^th Cuckoo: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

24^th Sedge Warbler: 2 Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

24^th Garden Warbler: 2 Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

24^th Common Sandpiper : 2 – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

24^th Hobby : Hawking on the east side by ouzel – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
24^th Reed Warbler : Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

24^th Swift: 60+ – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

24^th Common Sandpiper: 2 On the sky pad – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

24^th Arctic Tern : 6 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

24^th Snakes Head Fritillaries in flower – Water Spinney, Tattenhoe (Martin Kincaid)
24^th Grass Snakes: 7 under tins at Walton Lake (Martin Kincaid)
24^th Swallows: 20+ at Walton Lake (Martin Kincaid)
24^thBlackcap : near hide – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

23^rd Whinchat: (2m) Wingrave (BuBC)

23^rd Brown Long-eared bats: 5 in attic – Westbury Farm, Shenley (Martin Kincaid)

23^rd Swallow : Feeding over ground near entranceCalvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

23^rd Arctic Tern: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

23^rd Willow Warbler: 3 Near Railway Bridge – .Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

23^rd Common Sandpiper : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

23^rd Reed Warbler : Emberton (BuBC)

23^rd Sedge Warbler: 2 – Emberton (BuBC)

22^nd Cetti’s Warbler: calling, Caldecotte Lake (Ian Saunders)

22^nd Red Kite: soaring over Walton (Ian Saunders)

22^nd Common Terns: (approx 10) over Willen South Lake (Ian Saunders)

22^nd Garden Warbler: singing, near car park at east end of Campbell Park (Ian Saunders)
22^nd Reed Warbler : singing – Hyde Lane(BuBC)

22^nd Wheatear: 3 – Tattenhoe Park, Milton Keynes (BuBC)

22^nd Wheatear: 2 near Shakespeare Park building site – Kingsmead, MK (BuBC)

22^nd Reed Warbler : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

22^nd Orange tip butterfly: (f) – Shenley Church End, MK (Peter Hassett)

22^nd Holly Blue butterfly: Shenley Church End, MK (Peter Hassett)

22^nd Holly Blue butterfly: Linford Wood [SP 849407] (Mike LeRoy)

22^nd Early-purple Orchids: Orchis mascula in Little Linford Wood [SP 848403] (Mike LeRoy)

22^nd Cuckoo : Calvert (BuBC)

22^nd Sedge Warbler : Hyde Lane (BuBC)

22^nd Whinchat male along the Ouse – Beachampton (BuBC)
22^nd Goosander: 3 Beachampton (BuBC)
22^nd Common Sandpiper: Beachampton (BuBC)
22^nd Kingfisher: Beachampton (BuBC)
21^st Oystercatcher: 3 Stony Stratford NR (Samantha Lovegrove)
21^st Goosander (1f 2m) near mill race on the Great Ouse, Stony Stratford (Samantha Lovegrove)
21^st Little Owl, perched on outhouse roof of Church Farm, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

21^st Common Sandpiper : on dam – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

21^st Cuckoo : Hillesden (BuBC)

21^st Cuckoo: Newton Blossomville (Julie Lane)

21^st Sparrowhawk: Hunting near solar farm – Gawcott (BuBC)
21^st Reed Warbler: 2 Two birds singing in Reed bed – Hillesden (BuBC)

20^th Swallow, first of the year over Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

20^th Noctuid Moth (Large Yellow Underwing?) caterpillar crossing High Street, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Large Yellow Underwing caterpillar ©Ian Saunders, Stoke Goldington 22 April 2018

20^th Cuckoo : calling near Cosgrove caravan Park Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

20^th Ringed Plover : Floodplain Forest Nature Reserve (BuBC)

20^th Lesser Whitethroat: 2 – Tattenhoe Park, Milton Keynes (BuBC)

20^th Lesser Whitethroat : Magna Park , East Milton Keynes (BuBC)

20^th Yellow Wagtail : Magna Park , East Milton Keynes (BuBC)

20^th Common Sandpiper : Magna Park , East Milton Keynes (BuBC)

20^th Whitethroat : Broughton, MK (BuBC)

20^th Yellow Wagtail : Broughton, MK (BuBC)

20^th Common Sandpiper: From eastern hide – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

20^th Cuckoo : Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

19^th Barred Grass Snake, in compost heap on allotment, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

Bared Grass Snake ©Ian Saunders, Stoke Goldington 22 April 2018

19^th Whitethroat: singing along river in the linear park – Magna Park, MK (BuBC)
19^th Wheatear: 2 Between main field and metal fence – Magna Park, MK (BuBC)
19^th Sedge Warbler: 4 along the Hospice edge – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
19^th Common Sandpiper: rt hand raft in front of hide – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
19^th Lesser Whitethroat : Magna Park , East Milton Keynes (BuBC)
19^th Whitethroat : Magna Park , East Milton Keynes (BuBC)
19^th Reed Warbler: along Hospice reeds – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
19^th Grey Wagtail: 2 – Foxcote Res (BuBC)
19^th Wheatear : 1 on the fence and 1 on the track – Ravenstone Mill (BuBC)

19^th Whitethroat: 5 – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

19^th Lesser Whitethroat : Singing by the horse field. – Little Linford Wood (BuBC)
19^th Common Sandpiper : Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

19^th Cuckoo : Ravenstone Mill (BuBC)

19^th Lesser Whitethroat : Near the entrance track. – Ravenstone Mill (BuBC)

19^th Lesser Whitethroat : Tathall End (BuBC)

19^th Whitethroat : Ravenstone STW (BuBC)

19^th Arctic Tern: Willen Lake South (BuBC)

19^th Ring Ouzels: 3 – behind furthest Kuhne&Nagel building Broughton Brook Park (BuBC)

19^th Shelduck: 2 – Ravenstone Valley (BuBC)

18^th Dark-edged Bee-fly: in garden, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
18^th Orange Tip butterfly: (m f), in garden, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
18^th Fox: in pheasant cover south of Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
18^th Lesser Whitethroat: 2 – Tattenhoe Park (BuBC)

18^th Cuckoo: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

18^th Coal Tit: On garden feeder – Tingewick (BuBC)
18^th Great White Egret: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

18^th Oystercatcher: 2 – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

18^th Great White Egret : On Northern bank. Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

18^th Lesser Whitethroat : Stowe (BuBC)

17^th Redshank: Willen Lake North (BuBC)

17^th Green Sandpiper: Willen Lake North (BuBC)

17^th Little Ringed Plover: Willen Lake North (BuBC)

17^th Willow Warbler: by Aqueduct – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

17^th Cetti’s Warbler: by Aqueduct – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

17^th Lesser Whitethroat: by Aqueduct – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

17^th Goosander: (f) Iron Trunk Hide – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

17^th Arctic Tern: 4 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

17^th Lesser Whitethroat: Hardmead (BuBC)

16^thMuntjac deer Muntiacus reevesi: a dead male beside V6 (Grafton Street) east side, north of Aldi at Bradwell Common Boulevard (Mike LeRoy)

16^thRuff: feeding at west end of main island – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

16^thSong thrush: singing, near Stony Stratford Mill apartments (Mary Sarre)

16^thGreat White Egret: Hillesden (BuBC)

16^thCoal Tit: Tingewick (BuBC)

16^th Arctic Tern: 2 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

15^th Lesser Whitethroat : Tattenhoe Park, Milton Keynes (BuBC)

15^th Goldeneye: (pair) Foxcote Res (BuBC)

15^th Cuckoo : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

15^th Sedge Warbler : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

15^th Little Gull : Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

15^th Whitethroat: near railway line next to Floodplain Forest NR (Ian Saunders)

15^th Swallow:, flying over Floodplain Forest NR (Ian Saunders)

15^th Red Kite: flying low over Stoke Goldington gardens (Ian Saunders)
15^th Yellow Wagtail: In paddocks opp main lake – Newport Pagnell GP, (BuBC)

15^th Yellow Wagtail : In front of the pub – Caldecotte Lake (BuBC)

15^th Butterbur: Petasites hybridus Flower spikes open, large leaves follow – Calverton brook (Mary Sarre)

15^th Goldeneye: (pair) – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

15^th Common Sandpiper: 4 feeding on dam Foxcote Res (BuBC)

15^th Dunlin: 2 on Spit- Willen Lake North (BuBC)
15^th Redshank on Spit a- Willen Lake North (BuBC)
15^th Common Tern: On Willen Lake South (BuBC)
15^th Redshank: Willen Lake North (BuBC)
15^th Little Ringed Plover: 2 on Spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
15^th Ruff: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
15^th Yellow Wagtail: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
15^th Raven : 2 Circling over iron trunk hide – Floodplain Forest NR

15^th Yellow Wagtail: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

15^th Whimbrel: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

15^th Hedgehog: in garden – , Oldbrook (Martin Kincaid)
15^th Slow Worms 2 – Rammamere Heath (Martin Kincaid)
14^th Adder: – Stockgrove Country Park (Martin Kincaid)

14^th Common Lizard: – Stockgrove Country Park (Martin Kincaid)
14^th Common Bee-flies – Stockgrove Country Park (Martin Kincaid)
14^th Early Bumblebee: Bombus pratorum – Stockgrove CP (Martin Kincaid)
14^th Brown Hares 5 – Magna Park (Martin Kincaid)
14^th Chinese Water Deer: 10+ – Magna Park (Martin Kincaid)
14^th Soprano Pipistrelles – Magna Park (Martin Kincaid)
14^th Pygmy Shrew – Linford Lakes NR (Janice Robertson/Linford Lakes Mammal Group)
14^th Hairy Footed Flower Bee: (f) on garden Rosemary, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

14^th Tree Sparrows, 8 in tree next to Missenden Cottage, Dag Lane, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

14^th Willow Warbler: singing from back-garden Horse Chestnut, Stoke Goldington, (Ian Saunders)
14^th Little Gull: Willen Lake (BuBC)
14^th Redshank: Willen Lake (BuBC)
14^th Lesser Ringed Plover: Willen Lake (BuBC)
14^th Blackcap: Willen Lake (BuBC)
14^th Common Sandpiper: By the far eastern hide – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
14^th Wigeon: 6 – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

14^th Great White Egret: 2 on right hand ,Reed fringed pool- Hillesden (BuBC)

14^th Whitethroat : Hyde Lane (BuBC)

14^th Lesser Whitethroat: signing – Maid’s Moreton (BuBC)

14^th Little Owl: in large tree in field E. of pony field – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

14^th Egyptian Goose: – seen from Farm Hide – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

14^th Oystercatcher: 2, – seen from Farm Hide – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

14^th Cuckoo: (male) – SP841429 Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

14^th Wheatear: (m) – Ravenstone STW (BuBC)

14^th Ruff: (m) on bund opposite Farm Hide – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

13^th Red Tailed Bumblebee: (Queen) – edge of Stoke Wood, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

13^th Blackcap: (Pair) on path – Foxcote (BuBC)
13^th Chiffchaff: on path – Foxcote (BuBC)
13^th Willow Warbler: on path – Foxcote (BuBC)
13^th Kittiwake: (juv) – Foxcote (BuBC)
13^th Grey Wagtails: on the dam – Foxcote (BuBC)
13^th Brambling : by the North Bucks Way – Kingsmead, Milton Keynes.

13^th Hawfinch: Howe Park Wood (BuBC)

13^th Swallows: over Emberton Lakes. SP886501 (Julie Lane)

13^th House martins: over Emberton Lakes. SP886501 (Julie Lane)

13^th Wheatear: (m) – Central Milton Keynes (BuBC)

13^th Ruff: (m) in front of the Iron Trunk Hide – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

13^th Greenshank : Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

13^th Goosander: (f) – Stowe (BuBC)

13^th Little Gull: Willen Lake South (BuBC)
13^th Arctic Tern: 2 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)
12^th Queen Tree Bumblebee: in garden – Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

12^th White Wagtail: (m) on grassy area, just N of Premier Inn – Willen Lake S (BuBC)

12^th Yellow Wagtail: (m f) on grass N of Premier Inn at Willen Lake South (BuBC)
12^th Goosander: (pair) – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

12^th Greenshank : Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

11^th Frog Tadpoles: in garden pond – Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

11^th Bluebells: in flower in Stoke Wood – Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
11^th Hawfinch: Howe Park Wood (BuBC)
10^th Great White Egret : Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)

10^th Ruddy Shelduck: Black Horse Lake – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
10^th Sweet Violet: Verge of H5 near – Willen Lake (Janice Robertson)

Early Dog Violets Viola reichenbachiana, ©Janice Robertson Willen Lake 10 April 2018

Sweet Violet, ©Janice Robertson Willen Lake 10 April 2018

10^th Common Sandpiper: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

10^th Common Tern: 5 – Bradwell Lakes – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

10^th Common Sandpiper: on ski tow raft – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

10^th Yellow Wagtail: 2 – between Duck feeding area and Bandstand – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

10^th Chiffchaff: 3 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

10^th Willow Warbler: (3m) – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

10^th Blackcap: 4 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

10^th Common Scoter: (m) – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

9^th Common Scoter: (pair) – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

9^th Shelduck: on Spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

9^th Yellow Wagtail: just north of the Premier Inn – Willen Lake South (BuBC)
9^th Shelduck: Caldecotte Lake (BuBC)

9^th Blackcaps: at least 3 singing at Linford Lakes NR (Janice Robertson)
9^th Cowslips: Linford Lakes NR (Janice Robertson)
9^th Ground ivy: Linford Lakes NR (Janice Robertson)

Cowslips & Ground Ivy ©Janice Robertson, Linford Lakes NR 9 April 2018

9^th Brambling: (3m 2f) – Stowe (BuBC)

9^th Common Sandpiper: near bandstand – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

9^th Common Tern : Caldecotte Lake (BuBC)

8^th Brambling : Tattenhoe Park (BuBC)

8^th Willow Warbler : Tattenhoe (BuBC)

8^th Arctic Tern : Willen Lake South (BuBC)

8^th Willow Warbler: 2 -Foxcote Res (BuBC)

8^th Goldeneye: (pair) – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

8^th Redshank: 2 – Floodplain Forest NR (Jaki Hilton)
8^th Little Egrets 3 – Floodplain Forest NR (Jaki Hilton)
8^th Oystercatcher: Floodplain Forest NR (Jaki Hilton)
8^th Lapwing: Floodplain Forest NR (Jaki Hilton)
8^th Shoveler: (pair) – Floodplain Forest NR (Jaki Hilton)
8^th Gadwell: (pair) – Floodplain Forest NR (Jaki Hilton)
8^th Great White Egret: Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
8^th Kittiwake: 2 – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

8^th Oystercatcher: Flying around Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

8^th Shoveler: (m) lower hide – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

8^th Swallow : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

8^th Grey Wagtail: Ravenstone sewage works (Ian Saunders)

7^th Coltsfoot: in flower, Stoke Wood (Ian Saunders)

7^th Chiffchaffs: several singing in Stoke Wood (Ian Saunders)
7^th Osprey: 20 mins drifting lazily over – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

7^th Goosander: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

7^th Cattle Egret on the bund – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
7^th Sandwich Tern: circling high above Black Horse lake – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
7^th Hawfinch: 2 – Addington: (BuBC)

7^th Sedge Warbler: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

7^th House Martin: Willen Lake North (BuBC)

6^th Brown Hare: roadkill, on B526, just south of Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

6^th Fox: roadkill near Crossroads Farm, Haversham (Ian Saunders)

6^th Peacock butterfly: feeding on Butterbur spike, by stream alongside track off Dag Lane, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

6^th Blackcap singing, far end of track off Dag Lane, Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
6^th Ringed Plover, Tattenhoe Park, Milton Keynes (BuBC)

6^th Goosander: (f) – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
6^th Green Sandpiper : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

6^th Oystercatcher : 3 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

6^th Willow Warbler : Willen Lake South (BuBC)

5^th Little owl: calling in paddock by Church Farm, Stoke Goldington – 4pm (Ian Saunders)

5^th Chiffchaff: singing in Stoke Wood (Ian Saunders)

5^th Small Tortoiseshell: 2 – butterflies “sparring” in garden (Ian Saunders)

5^th Red Mason Bees – feeding on garden lungwort and inspecting holes in stonework (Ian Saunders)
5^th Great White Egret: came into roost at 19.50 – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
5^th Brambling: (m) – Stowe (BuBC)

5^th Redshank: on the Spit – Willen Lake South (Jaki Hilton)
5^th Lapwing: on the Spit – Willen Lake South (Jaki Hilton)
5^th Canada Goose: with full white neck and head on the Spit – Willen Lake South (Jaki Hilton)
5^th Buzzard: Flying over island – Willen Lake South (Jaki Hilton)
5^th Red Kite: Flying over island – Willen Lake South (Jaki Hilton)
5^th Willow Warbler : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

5^th Willow Warbler : Emberton (BuBC)

5^th Common Tern: Willen Lake North (BuBC)

5^th Willow Warbler: Willen Lake North (BuBC)

4^th Muntjac Deer: feeding on spilt pheasant grain – Stoke Wood – dusk (Ian Saunders)

4^th Colt’s-foot: Fine display off H3, Stantonbury (Martin Kincaid)
4^th Danish Scurvygrass: in full flower, Queen Eleanor Street, Stony Stratford (Martin Kincaid)
4^th Bluebells: in flower – Linford Wood (Martin Kincaid).
4^th Wood Anemone: in flower – Linford Wood (Martin Kincaid)
4^th Common Dog Violet: in flower – Linford Wood (Martin Kincaid)
4^th Yellow Archangel: in flower – Linford Wood (Martin Kincaid)
4^th Early Purple Orchids spiking at Linford Wood.
4^th White Wagtail: on grass to north of Premier Inn – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

4^th Little Ringed Plover: on spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

4^th Common Tern: 2 On the ski-tow boardwalk – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

4^th Common Scoter: (pair) Jubilee Lake – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

4^th Green Sandpiper: on the Spit – Willen Lake South (Jaki Hilton)
4^th Oystercatcher: 2 on the Spit – Willen Lake South (Jaki Hilton)
4^th Lapwing:on the Spit – Willen Lake South (Jaki Hilton)
4^th Shoveler: (m) on the Spit – Willen Lake South (Jaki Hilton)
4^th Gadwall: (pair) on the Spit – Willen Lake South (Jaki Hilton)
4^th Oystercatcher: 2 at the Spit – Willen Lake South (Jaki Hilton)(/div)

3^rd Osprey : Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
3^rd Bittern : Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
3^rd Great White Egret : Gayhurst Quarry

3^rd Wheatear: Tattenhoe Park, Milton Keynes (BuBC)

3^rd Common Tern: Over the floodwaters – Filgrave (BuBC)

3^rd Common Scoter: (f) Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

3^rd Lapwing – 2 active nests at Stony Stratford NR (Martin Kincaid)

Lapwing nest ©Martin Kincaid, Stony Stratford NR 26 March 2014

3^rd Redshank: (pair) on island at Stony Stratford NR (Martin Kincaid)
3^rd Goosander: (f) Stony Stratford NR (Martin Kincaid)
3^rd Grass Snake – Elfield Nature Park (Martin Kincaid)
3^rd Brimstone butterfly: (f) – Elfield Nature Park (Martin Kincaid)
3^rd Little Owl – Floodplain Forest Nature Reserve (Martin Kincaid)

3^rd Goldeneye: (pair) Foxcote Res (BuBC)

3^rd Common Tern : Willen Lake South (BuBC)

3^rd Common Tern : Ravenstone Mill (BuBC)

2^nd Goldeneye: (3m 1f) – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

2^nd Sand Martin: 50 Feeding quite high – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

2^nd Ring Ouzel: (m) between water park and hotel – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

1^stGoosander: (1m 2f) on flooded Ouse, E of the – Newport Pagnell (BuBC)

1^stWheatear: (m) in Sheep fields N of track to the STW – Ravenstone (BuBC)

1^stLittle Ringed Plover: (Pair) – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

1^stSwallow: 4 – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

1^stSand Martin:2 -Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

1^stGoldeneye: (pair) – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

1^st Sweet Violets: Floodplain Forest NR (Mary Sarre)

1^st Viola Odorata: Floodplain Forest NR (Mary Sarre)

March 2018

31^st Sweet violets: Viola Odorata – on road from Manor Farm Park to Floodplain Forest NR (Mary Sarre)
31^st Linnet: 7 on Grass by Premier Inn – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

31^st Pied Wagtail: 39 on Grass by Premier Inn – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

31^st Swallow: 3 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

31^st Sand Martin: 6- Willen Lake South (BuBC)

31^st Goosander: (pair) Stowe (BuBC)

31^st Wheatear: (3) Central Milton Keynes (BuBC)

31^st Common Scoter: (pair) – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

31^st Goldeneye: (pair) – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

30^thOystercatcher: 3 On South Lake island – Caldecotte Lake (BuBC)

30^thSand Martin: – 18 Willen Lake South (BuBC)

30^th Swallow: Willen Lake South (BuBC)

30^thEgyptian Goose: in fields with greylag – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
30^thTree Sparrow: up to 30 all year – Dag Lane – Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

30^thSiskin: (m) on garden feeder – Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
30^thPink-footed Goose: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

29^th Swallow: 2 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

29^th Sand Martin: – 15 Willen Lake South (BuBC)

28^th Pintail: (f) – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

28^th Sand Martin: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

28^th Great White Egret: settled on the bund at 19:28 – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

28^th Little ringed plovers: 2 – on spit at Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)
28^th Redshank: – on spit at Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)

28^th Spotted Redshank: – on spit at Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)
28^th Oystercatchers: 3 – on spit at Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)
28^th Dunlin: on spit at Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)
27^th Oystercatchers: 4 on bund Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

27^th Hawfinch: 10 – in the yews at Steeple Claydon Church (BuBC)
27^th Red-crested Pochard: 2 – feeding on front meadow – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

27^th Cattle Egret: Roosting in the heronry at 18:50 Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

27^th Great White Egret: flew into roost at 19:31 – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

27^th Shag: on grey pontoon opposite Pizza van – Willen Lake South (BuBC)
26^th Pink-footed Goose: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

26^th Brambling : Tattenhoe Park, Milton Keynes (BuBC)

26^th Little Ringed Plover: 2 on Spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

26^th Redshank: on Spit – Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)

26^th Little Egret: 5 – Spit Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)
26^th Shovelers: (4m) – Spit Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)
26^th Lapwing: – Spit Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)
26^th Red Crested Pochard: (Pair) – Linford Lakes NR(BuBC)

26^th Chiffchaff: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

26^th Cettis Warbler: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

26^th Woodcock: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

26^th Great White Egret: Blackhorse Lake – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

26^th Shag : on southern solar raft – Willen Lake South (BuBC)
26^th Common Bee-fly X2 – Linford Manor Park (Martin Kincaid)
25^th Wheatear (male) at Floodplain Forest (Martin Kincaid)
25^th Adder (f) basking at Stockgrove Country Park (Matt Andrews)

Adder ©Matt Andrews, Stockgrove Country Park 25 March 2018

25^th Brimstone butterfly – Stockgrove CP (Matt Andrews)
25^th Peacock butterfly – Stockgrove CP (Matt Andrews)
25^th Small Tortoiseshell – Stockgrove CP (Matt Andrews)
25^th Orange Underwing moth X5 – Rammamere Heath (Martin Kincaid)

25^th Common Scoter: (pair)Blue Lagoon, Bletchley (BuBC)

25^th Redshank: Floodplain Forest NR (Joe Clinch)
25^th Oyster Catcher: (pair), Floodplain Forest NR (Joe Clinch)

25^th Little Grebe: (pair) Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)
25^th Northern Wheatear: (m) o Opp Argos – Central Milton Keynes (BuBC)
25^th Goldeneye: 6 – Foxcote Res (BuBC)
25^th Brambling: eating seed on ground under feeders Great Linford (BuBC)

25^th Fox: Linford Lakes NR (Jaki Hilton)

25^th Kestrel: 2 exiting Owl box on far side of lake – Linford Lakes NR (Jaki Hilton)

25^th Gadwall: (pair) on bund – Linford Lakes NR (Jaki Hilton)

25^th Shelduck: on bund – Linford Lakes NR (Jaki Hilton)

25^th Shovelers: 10 on bund – Linford Lakes NR (Jaki Hilton)

25^th Little Egret: 5 from Far Hide – Linford Lakes NR (Jaki Hilton)

25^th Great White Egret: from Far Hide – Linford Lakes NR (Jaki Hilton)

25^th Woodcock : Furzton Estate, Milton Keynes (BuBC)

25^thGreat White Egret : Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)

25^th Woodcock: Flew over north. – Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)

25^th Goldeneye: 8 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

25^th Goldeneye: 8 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

25^th Swallow: Willen Lake South (BuBC)

25^th Common Scoter: (2m 1f) – Caldecotte Lake (BuBC)

25^th Shag : Feeding in front of Premier Inn – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

24^thPipistrelle Bat circling rear garden of Stoke Goldington Rectory at 4pm (Ian Saunders)

24^thMuntjac: in village allotments Stoke Goldington High Street at 4pm (Ian Saunders)

24^thPeregine: (pair) MK Dons stadium, Milton Keynes (Paul Cooper)

24^th Great White Egret : Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
24^th Goldeneye: 7 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

24^th Oystercatcher: 4 on spit – Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)

24^th Lapwing: 3 on spit – Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)

24^th Shoveler: (m) on spit – Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)

24^th Little Egret: on spit – Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)

24^th Goldeneye: (pair) – Willen Lake North (Jaki Hilton)

24^th Shoveler: (m) – Willen Lake North (Jaki Hilton)

24^th Oystercatcher: (pair) collecting worms by car park – Willen Lake South (Stephie Davenport)

24^thSwallow: Willen Lake South (BuBC)

24^thShag: Viewed from N edge of S Lake, sitting on water ski platform. – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

24^thGoosander: (1m 1f) On river rear of Mill Street – Newport Pagnell (BuBC)

24^thGreat White Egret: on bund – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

23^rd Chinese Water Deer: in fields near Eakley Christmas Tree Farm (Ian Saunders)

23^rd Hawfinch: 5 Flying in-between yews in churchyard and opposite house – Steeple Claydon (BuBC)

23^rd Oystercatcher: 2 – Willen Lake (BuBC)

23^rd Great White Egret: flew in to roost – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

23^rd Mediterranean Gull: (1st-w) Willen Lake South (BuBC)

23^rd Goosander: (m) – Tattenhoe (BuBC)

23^rd Hawfinch: at least 5 – Steeple Claydon (BuBC)
23^rd Goldeneye: 3 Willen Lake South (BuBC)

23^rd Shag: (Adult) on south most solar panel – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

22^nd Hawfinch: Tattenhoe (BuBC)

22^nd Lesser Celandine Ranunculus vicaria, first day in flower, Bradwell Common, by Redway close to Hampstead Gate [SP844389] (Mike LeRoy)

22^nd Tree Sparrow: in small tree line by sunflower patch – Little Linford Wood (BuBC)

22^nd Greenfinch: (4) Shenley Church End (Peter Hassett)

21^st Danish Scurvy-grass: in flower – Stony Stratford NR (Martin Kincaid)
21^st Lesser Celandine: in flower – Stony Stratford NR (Martin Kincaid)
21^st Marsh Marigold: in flower – Stony Stratford NR (Martin Kincaid)
21^st Common Bee-fly: – Stony Stratford NR (Martin Kincaid)
21^st Smooth Newts: in pond – Elfield Park (Martin Kincaid)
21^st Roe Deer: – Elfield Park (Martin Kincaid)
21^st Red-tailed Bumblebee: – Elfield Park (Martin Kincaid)
21^st Great Crested Newts in pond: – Westbury Farm, Shenley (Martin Kincaid)
21^st Smooth Newts: in pond – Westbury Farm, Shenley (Martin Kincaid)
21^st Smooth Newts in pond – Shenley Wood (Martin Kincaid)
21^st Common Toads in pond – Shenley Wood (Martin Kincaid)
21^st Barn Owl: hunting around the S-Bend on Haversham Road (BuBC)
21^st Great White Egret: NE corner of Blackhorse Lake – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

21^st Spotted Redshank: on spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

21^st Goldeneye: (14) – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

21^st Common Crossbill: (1m 2f) Back Wood, Woburn golf club (BuBC)

21^st Comma, Bradwell Common (SP 844 389) (Mike LeRoy)

20^th Great White Egret: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

20^th Goosander: (2m) Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

19^th Brimstone: in garden -Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)

19^th Brambling: (m) Stowe (BuBC)

19^th Stonechat : by Pagoda – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

19^th Little Ringed Plover: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

19^th Great White Egret: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

18^th Goldeneye: (3m 5f) – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

18^th Frog spawn: in garden pond -Stoke Goldington (Ian Saunders)
18^th Pink-footed Goose: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
18^th Ringed Plovers on Spit at Willen (BuBC)
18^th Great White Egret: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

17^th Green Sandpiper: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
17^th Oystercatcher: 2 on spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
17^th Lapwing: Floodplain Forest NR (Roy Gray)

Lapwing ©Roy Gray, Floodplain Forest NR 17 March 2018

17^th Oystercatcher (pair) Caldecotte Lake North (Ann Gray)

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Oystercatcher ©Ann Gray, Caldecotte Lake 17 March 2018

17^th Goosander: (m, 3f) – On river near Mill, Olney (BuBC)

17^th Cattle Egret: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

16^thSmall Tortoiseshell: Floodplain Forest NR (Janice Robertson)

16^thRed Admiral: Linford Lakes (Janice Robertson)

16^thCelandine: Ouse Valley Park (Janice Robertson)

16^thEpistrophe eligans hoverfly: Floodplain Forest NR (Janice Robertson)

Celandine ©Janice Robertson Ouse Valley Park 16 March 2018

Epistrophe eligans hoverfly ©Janice Robertson Floodplain Forest NR 16 March 2018

Red Admiral: ©Janice Robertson Linford Lakes NR 16 March 2018

Small Tortoiseshell ©Janice RobertsonFloodplain Forest NR 16 March 2018

16^thWhite-tailed Bumblebee: Linford Lakes NR (Joe Clinch)

16^th Tree Sparrow : Stoke Goldington (BuBC)

16^th Goldeneye: (3m 6f) – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

16^th Great White Egret: from hide – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

16^th Brimstone butterfly: Stoke Hammond (Julian Lambley)

16^th Redshank: on the spit – Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)

16^th Oyster Catcher: 2 – on the spit Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)

16^th Lapwing: on the spit – Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)

16^th Egyptian Geese: 3 on the island – Willen Lake (Jaki Hilton)

16^th Cattle Egret : Floodplain Forest NR SP81984234 (BuBC)
15^th Little Ringed Plover : Bradwell New Working – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
15^th Goosander: Pair flying downriver – Upper Tove Valley (SP74S) (BuBC)

15^th Merlin: (m) sitting on garden fence – Olney (Sharon Rogers)

15^th Great White Egret: On spit opposite hide – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

14^th Great White Egret: SW corner of Willen Lake North (BuBC)

14^th Swallow : @ north end of this lake near the ski-tow – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

13^th Kittiwake : Haversham (BuBC)

13^th Sand Martin: 2 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

13^thBrambling: 2 – Stowe (BuBC)

13^thGoosander: (2m 3f) – Stowe (BuBC)

13^thKittiwake: Willen Lake South (BuBC)

13^th Common Sandpiper: Willen Lake North (BuBC)

13^th Swallow:- Willen Lake South (BuBC)

12^th Brambling : Dunton (BuBC)

12^th Great White Egret: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

12^th Sand Martin: 3 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

12^th Oystercatcher: 2 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

11^th Goosander: (1m 1f) – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

11^th Cattle Egret: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

11^th Great White Egret: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

11^th Goosander: (3m 2f) – Stowe (BuBC)

11^th Brimstone butterflies: (m & f) – near Emerson Valley (BuBC)
11^th Grass Snake at Walton Lake (Ella Cooke)

Grass snake © Ella Cooke, Walton Lake 11 March 2018

11^th Slow Worm :– Elfield Park (Martin Kincaid)
10^th Frogspawn: Stantonbury (Kate Wyatt)
10^th Frogspawn: Oldbrook (Martin Kincaid)
10^th Frogspawn: Westrcroft ponds (Harry Appleyard)
10^th Great Crested Newt X2 – Howe Park Wood (Alan Mynard)
10^th Goosander: (f) – Wolverton Mill (BuBC)

10^th Stonechat: (m 3f) – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

8^th Egyptian geese:2 stilt pits – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
8^th Bittern: Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

7^th Barn Owl: on the Haversham road SP83504356 (Julie Lane)

7^th Roe deer: on the Haversham road SP83504356 (Julie Lane)

7^th Bittern : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

7^th Bluebells coming into flower – Linford Wood (Martin Kincaid)
7^th Common Dog Violets – Linford Wood (Martin Kincaid)
7^th Common Frogs in ponds – Campbell Park (Martin Kincaid)
7^th Red Kites: 2 – over Campbell Park (Martin Kincaid)

6^th Goosander: (2m 7f) Tongwell (BuBC)

6^th Stonechat : 2 – Stony Stratford (Martin Kincaid)

6^th Goosander: (Pair) – Stony Stratford (Martin Kincaid)

6^th Mistle Thrush: Field at Willen Pavilion (Amanda Lynham)

6^th Redwings: Field at Willen Pavilion (Amanda Lynham)
6^th Goosanders: at least 3 pairs Tongwell Lake (Amanda Lynham)
6^th Tree Creepers: along canal Great Linford park (Amanda Lynham)
6^th Little Egret: Willen lake north (Amanda Lynham)

5^th Barn Owl: peeking out of nest box opposite Near hide, – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

5^th Barn Owl: hunting over boundary walk – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

5^th Goosanders: (3 pairs) – Stony Stratford NR (Alan Clarke)

5^th Common Snipe Stony Stratford NR (Alan Clarke)

4^th Jack Snipe: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
4^th Woodcock: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
4^th Little Owl: Floodplain Forest NR (Peter Hassett)

Little Owl ©Julian Lambley, Floodplain Forest NR 4 March 2018.jpg

4^th Goosander: (4 pairs) – Floodplain Forest NR (Peter Hassett)

4^th Goosander: (4 pairs) – Emberton

4^th Mediterranean Gull: (Adult) – roosted at Willen South (BuBC)

4^th Oystercatcher: on ice – Mount Farm Lake (David Griffiths)

4^th Stonechat : Willen Lake North (BuBC)

4^th Great White Egret : from 1st Hide – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

3^rd Redwings: Tongwell industrial (Amanda Lynham)

3^rd Fieldfares: Tongwell industrial (Amanda Lynham)

3^rd Siskins: Tongwell industrial (Amanda Lynham)

3^rd Goldeneye : 19 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

3^rd Woodcock : Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

3^rd Great White Egret : in bittern channel – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

3^rd Mediterranean Gull : Willen Lake South (BuBC)

3^rd Goosander: (m) – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

3^rd Water Rail: Tongwell (BuBC)

2^nd Redwing: 3 – in Bletchley garden (David Griffiths)

2^nd Water Rail: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

2^nd Caspian Gull: Caldecotte South (BuBC)

2^nd Brambling : Buckingham (BuBC)

2^nd Water Rail: 2 – in front of hide on A5 (D) side Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)

1^st Shoveler: Willen Lake south (Amanda Lynham)
1^st Dunlin Willen Lake south (Amanda Lynham)
1^st Redwing: Peace Pagoda Willen Lake North (Amanda Lynham)

1^st Knot : Caldecotte Lake (BuBC)

1^st Fieldfare: 2 – Whitchurch (BuBC)

1^st Woodcock: Waddesdon (BuBC)

February 2018

28^th Egyptian Geese: 2 – on the Bund at Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
28^th Common Redshank: on the Spit at Willen (BuBC)
28^th Mandarin Ducks: 10 – Bow Brickhill (BuBC)
28^th Yellow Legged Gull: Caldecotte Lake (BuBC)
28^th Tufted Ducks: 116 – Caldecotte Lake (BuBC)
28^th Caspian Gull : 2 – Caldecotte Lake (BuBC)

28^th Ruff : 3 – Caldecotte Lake (BuBC)

28^th Goosander : (f) – Caldecotte Lake (BuBC)

28^th Dunlin : Newton Leys, Bletchley (BuBC)

28^th Stonechat : Bow Brickhill Wood (BuBC)

28^th Cattle Egret : Linford Reserve (BuBC)

27^thRinged Plover: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

27^th Goosander: (6m 3f) – Stony Stratford NR (BuBC)

27^th Goosander: (3m 1f) – Tongwell (BuBC)

26^th Goldeneye: 21 – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

26^th Great White Egret : Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

25^thGreat White Egret: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

25^th Hawfinch : Near Lamport Lodge. – Stowe (BuBC)

25^th Goldeneye: (20+) – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

25^th Goldeneye : (pair) – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

25^th Stonechat: (female) – Hyde Lane (BuBC)

24^thOystercatchers: 2 – R Ouse below Olney Mill (BuBC)

24^thGoosander: 14 – R Ouse below Olney Mill (BuBC)

24^thBarnacle geese: c40 – R Ouse below Olney Mill (BuBC)

24^thLittle Owl: R Ouse below Olney Mill (BuBC)

24^thGreat White Egret: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

24^th Merlin: (Female) Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
23^rdOystercatcher: Emberton CP (BuBC)

23^rdTree Sparrow: 7 – Dag Lane – Stoke Goldington (BuBC)

21^st Tree Sparrow: Dag Lane – Stoke Goldington (BuBC)

21^st Bittern : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

21^st Hawfinch: Behind Church then flew towards village – Stoke Goldington (BuBC)

20^th Goosander: (4m, 7f) – Tongwell (BuBC)

20^th Caspian Gull: (1ad, 1 3w) Caldecotte Lake (BuBC)

20^th Pintail: (10m, 12f) Foxcote Res. (BuBC)

20^th Caspian Gull: (2ad and 3w) – Caldecotte Lake (BuBC)

20^th Goldeneye: 8 – Foxcote Res. (BuBC)

19^th Great White Egret: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

19^th Green Sandpiper: 2 – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

19^th Woodcock : Tattenhoe (BuBC)

19^th Pintail: (10m, 12f) Foxcote Res. (BuBC)
19^th Goldeneye: 28 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

19^th Goosander : 6 – Emberton (BuBC)

19^th Goosander: (pair) – on the River Ouse at Olney Mill (BuBC)

19^th Goosander: (3m, 3f) – Tongwell (BuBC)

19^th Goldeneye: 6 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

19^th Cormorant: 64 – Caldecotte Lake (BuBC)

18^th Buff-tailed bumblebee: queen – Olney SP884515 (Julie Lane)

18^th Goosander: (2m 1f) – Stony Stratford (BuBC)

18^th Bittern : reedbed just to the north of the heronry island – Linford GPs (BuBC)

18^th Goldeneye: (3m 2f) Foxcote Res (BuBC)

18^th Great White Egret: On the bund – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

18^th Oystercatcher: On the bund – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

18^th Peregrine: (male) heading NW over Bancroft Park towards Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

18^th Badger: Linford Lakes (Keith Garner)
18^th Otter: Linford Lakes (Keith Garner)

18^th Bluebells beginning to flower at Blackhorse Wood, Great Linford (Martin Kincaid)
17th Glaucous Gull: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

17^th Cherry plum trees in blossom at Oldbrook (Martin Kincaid)
17^th Common Frogs in pond outside Howe Park Wood (Martin Kincaid)

17^th Goosander : (3m, 2f) – Tongwell (BuBC)

17^th Goosander (1m, 1f) – River Ouse Stony Stratford (Joe Clinch)

17^th Bittern : skulking’ on edge of reed bed – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

16^th Grass Snake basking at Linford Lakes (Martin Kincaid)

16^th Pink-footed Goose: Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)

16^th Stonechat: (female) – Olney Meadows (BuBC)

16^th Stonechat: (male) – Bury Field Newport Pagnell (BuBC)

16^th Great White Egret: at heronry end – Linford Lakes (BuBC)

16^th Woodcock: 2 – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

15^th Bearded Tit : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

15^th Woodcock: Wing (BuBC)

15^th Goosander: 12 – Emberton (BuBC)

14^th White Egret: on bund – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

14^th Merlin: (Male) Olney Meadows (BuBC)

14^th Goosander: (2 pairs) – Olney (BuBC)

14^thStonechat: (pair) – Olney Meadows (BuBC)

14^th Tree Sparrow: Dag Lane – Stoke Goldington (BuBC)

14^th Merlin: (Fem) – Linford Lakes NR and across Stanton Low fields (Martin Kincaid)
14^th Bluebell flowering in Water Spinney, Tattenhoe (Harry Appleyard)

Bluebell, Water Spinney, Tattenhoe, ©Harry Appleyard 14tFebruary 2018

14^th Merlin (Male) Olney Meadows (BuBC)

13^th Goosander: (4m 5f) displaying – Tongwell (BuBC)
13^th Woodcock: 3 – Little Linford Wood (Tony Wood)

13^th Lesser Redpolls: 3 -Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)

13^th Treecreeper: 2 – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
13^th Red Kites: 2 – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)

13^th Cattle Egret: Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)

13^th Great Crested Newts – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
13^th Red Kites: 2 – Shenley Church End (Peter Hassett)

12^th Field Vole and Pygmy Shrew – Westbury Farm, Shenley Wood (Martin Kincaid)
12^th Colt’s Foot in flower – Floodplain Forest (Martin Kincaid)

12^th Jack Snipe: from hide SP785410 – Stony Stratford NR (BuBC)

12^th Cattle Egret: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

12^th Stonechat (pair) – Bury Field Newport Pagnell (BuBC)

11^th Goosander: 5 – from hide SP785410 – Stony Stratford NR (BuBC)

11^th Jack Snipe: from hide SP785410 – Stony Stratford NR (BuBC)

11^th Pink-footed Goose: Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)

11^th Tawny Owl: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

11^th Barn Owl: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

11^th Caspian Gull: Foxcote Res (BuBC)

11^th Goldeneye: (3m 6f) – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

11^th Cattle Egret: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

11^th Great White Egret: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

11^th Goldeneye: Willen Lake South (BuBC)

11^th Oystercatcher : Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)

11^th Pink-footed Goose : Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)

11^th Cattle Egret: Far hide on heron island – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

11^th Great White Egret: on bund – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

10^thCettis Warbler: Willen North (BuBC)

10^th Caspian Gull: Blue Lagoon (BuBC)

10^th Goosanger: (3m 1f) – Tongwell (BuBC)

8^th Goosander: (2m 1f) – Stony Stratford NR (BuBC)

8^th Jack Snipe: 2 from hide behind Queen Eleanor St. – Stony Stratford NR (BuBC)

8^th Goldeneye: (3 pair) – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

7^th Jack Snipe: Stony Stratford NR SP787410 (BuBC)

6^th Goldeneye: 2 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

6^th Jack Snipe: 2 – Stony Stratford NR (BuBC)

5^thGoosander: (5m 5f 2juv) – Emberton (BuBC)

5^thWoodcock: Emberton SP899485 (BuBC)

5^thBullfinch: (pair) – Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)

5^thReed Bunting: Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)

5^thLittle Grebe Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)

5^thSnipe: 2 – Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)

5^th Hawfinch: 3 – Stowe SP67937 (BuBC)

5^th Jack Snipe: Stony Stratford NR (BuBC)

5^th Woodcock flushed in Linford Wood (Martin Kincaid)
5^th Bluebell spikes: Linford Wood (Martin Kincaid)

5^th Snowdrops: in flower: Linford Wood (Martin Kincaid)

5^th Primroses: in flower – Linford Wood (Martin Kincaid)

3^rdChinese water deer: (male) on the Hardmead road SP93649 (Julie Lane)

3^rdBarn Owl: on the Hardmead road SP93649 (Julie Lane)

3^rd Little Grebe: 12 – South Caldecotte Lake (Martin Kincaid)
3^rdPeregrine: South Caldecotte Lake (Martin Kincaid)

3^rd Red Kites: 2 – South Caldecotte Lake (Martin Kincaid)

3^rd Brown Hares: 2 – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
3^rd Muntjac:– Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)

3^rd Fox: Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
3^rd Siskins: 15+ – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
3^rd Common Frogs: in pond – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
4^th Tree Sparrow: 4 – Upper Tove Valley (SP74S) (BuBC)

4^th Herring Gull: 1000 – Quainton Hills (BuBC)

4^th Pintail: (m) – Tongwell (BuBC)

4^th Cattle Egret: – roosting at the back of Heron Island – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

4^th Stonechat: (m) On fenceposts along Swans Way – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

4^th Snipe: Floodplain Forest NR (Joe Clinch)

4^th Goosander: (4m 5f) – Stowe (BuBC)

4^th Hawfinch: 25 in tall deciduous trees near Lord Cobham’s Pillar – Stowe (BuBC)

4^th Goldeneye: 12 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

4^th Great White Egret: is on the spit at Willen Lake North (BuBC)

4^th Jack Snipe: on island in front of hide – Stony Stratford NR (BuBC)

3^rdStonechat: Bury Field – Newport Pagnell (BuBC)

3^rdStonechat: 2 at St Peters Church – Linford (BuBC)

3^rdJack Snipe: on island in front of hide – Stony Stratford NR (BuBC)

2^ndSnipe: 12 – Stony Stratford NR(BuBC)
2^ndJack Snipe: Stony Stratford NR(BuBC)

2^nd Goosander: (2m 1f) Stony Stratford (BuBC)

2^nd Redshank: Willen Lake North (BuBC)

2^nd Song Thrush: 3 On island from hide – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

1^st Long-eared Owl : In roadside hedge – Wing (BuBC)
1^st Raven: Salcey Forest SP807509 (Julie Lane)

January 2018

31^st Chinese Water Deer between Gayhurst and Haversham SP834471 (Julie Lane)

31^st Great White Egret: On the spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
30^th Snipe: 3 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

30^th Hawfinch: Buckingham (BuBC)

30^th Bittern: Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

29^th Lapwing: 143 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

28^th Goosander: (pair) Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)

28^th Goosander: 6 – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

28^th Cattle Egret: Haversham Mill (BuBC)

28^th Stonechat: (2m 1f) – Hyde Lane (BuBC)

28^th Goosander: (2m 2f) – Stony Stratford NR SP785410 (BuBC)

27^thPink Footed Goose: Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)

27^th Cattle Egret: Haversham Mill (BuBC)

27^th Great White Egret: roosting – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

27^th Bittern: in reeds, left of hide – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

26^th Bittern: Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

26^th Jack Snipe: on island, directly opp hide, Queen Eleanor St. (BuBC)

26^thSnipe: 6 – on island, directly opp hide, Queen Eleanor St. (BuBC)

26^thStony Stratford26^th Goosander: (5m 3f) – Stowe (BuBC)

26^th Goosander: (9m 9f) – Emberton Country Park (BuBC)

26^th Goosander: (2m 1f) – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

25^thStarling: Murmuration over Tickford St and Rivers Estate Newport Pagnell dropped into the bushes around Harben House by 16:50 (BuBC)

25^thGreat White Egret: on island, seen from hide – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
25^thSnipe: (3) – to left of hide Willen Lake North (Peter Hassett)
25^th Tree Sparrow: (2pr) – Dag Lane, Stoke Goldington (BuBC)

25^th Goosander: (3f) – Emberton Country Park (BuBC)

24^thCattle Egret: Haversham Mill (BuBC)

23^rdCattle Egret: Haversham Mill (BuBC)

23^rdGoosander: (pair) – Tongwell (BuBC)

22^ndGoosander: (7m 6F) – Emberton (BuBC)

22^ndCattle Egret: Haversham Mill (BuBC)

22^ndGoldeneye: (5m 7f) 2 displaying – Willen Lake South SP879400 (BuBC)

22^ndBittern: 2 – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

21^stFieldfare: 200+ – Bridleway North east of Castlethorpe (BuBC)

21^stRedwing 130 – Bridleway North east of Castlethorpe (BuBC)

21^st Hawfinch: (1m) on bird table – Wing (BuBC)

21^st Bittern: 2 – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

20^th Great White Egret: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

20^th Stonechat: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

20^th Water Rail: – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

20^th Lesser Redpoll: – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

20^th Barn Owl: over far reed bed – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

20^th Common Snipe: rough ground near the Viaduct – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

20^th Common Stonechat: rough ground near Viaduct – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

20^th Jack Snipe: rough ground near the Viaduct – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)

20^th Goldeneye : 11 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

20^th Little Egret : 7 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

20^th Hawfinch : Buckingham (BuBC)

20^th Bittern : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

19^th Goosander: (1m 1f) – Floodplain Forest Nature Reserve (BuBC)

19^th Short-eared Owl : Granborough (BuBC)

19^th Bittern : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

19^th Goldeneye: (2m) – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

18^th Hawfinch: 2 – in and around yews by Chinese house, Stowe (BuBC)

18^th Goosander: (2m, 2f) – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

18^th Goldeneye: (4m, 2f) – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

18^th Goosander: (8m,3f) – Stowe (BuBC)

18^th Goosander: 12 Spread about the lakes in their pairs – Emberton (BuBC)

18^th Black Swan: Haversham sailing lake

17^th Cattle Egret – Haversham Mll (Martin Kincaid)
17^th Bittern – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
17^th LONG EARED OWL – in egret roost, Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
17^th Kingfisher: 2 – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)

17^th Water Rail:Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
17^th Stonechat: Stanton Low (Martin Kincaid)
17^th Iceland Gull: Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
17^th Caspian Gull: 2 – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

17^th Cattle Egret: Haversham from the gate at the back of Hill Farm (BuBC)

17^th Goosander: (7m 2f) – Stowe (BuBC)

16^thIceland Gull : Calvert BBOWT Lake, Calvert (BuBC)

16^th Cattle Egret: Haversham Mill, Linford (BuBC)

15^th Polecat ferrets: 2 dead on A509 South of Emberton at Sherington intersection (Steven Cousins)

Polecat/ferret ©Steven Cousins, Emberton 15 January 2018

15^th Hawfinch: 2 – Gayhurst Court view from the churchyard (BuBC)

15^th Brambling: (1m) – Stowe (BuBC)

15^th Goosander: (8m 6f) – Emberton (BuBC)

14^th Goldeneye : Willen Lake South (BuBC)

14^th Cattle Egret: Access Lakes Lane, Newport Pagnell – Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)

14^th Great White Egret: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

13^th Great White Egret: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

13^th Cattle Egret : (Adult) roosting in the heronry – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
13^th Stonechat : (pair) – Hyde Lane (BuBC)

13^th Great White Egret : from hide – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

13^th Woodcock: on path to Far Hide – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)

13^th Red Kite: Walnut Tree (Sharon Klein)

12^th Bittern : Calvert BBOWT Lake, Calvert (BuBC)

12^th Iceland Gull : Calvert Landfill, Calvert (BuBC)

12^th Hawfinch: 4 – Gayhurst Court seen from the churchyard (BuBC)

11^th Iceland Gull : Calvert Sailing Lake, Calvert (BuBC)

10^th Iceland Gull : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

10^th Caspian Gull: 5 – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

10^th Hawfinch: 5 – Stowe (BuBC)

10^th Goosander: (4m 6f) Stowe (BuBC)

10^th Pink-footed Goose: in fields south of Eleven Acre Lake – Stowe (BuBC)

10^th Red Kite: 12.15 – circling over parkway landscape alongside Portway H5 Bradwell Common SP846391 (Mike Leroy)

9^th Short-eared Owl: Hogshaw (BuBC)

9^th Goosander: (2m 1f) above weir near Northampton Rd, Newport Pagnell (BuBC)

9^th Stonechat: (pair) – Bury Field, Newport Pagnell (BuBC)

8^th Goldeneye: Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

8^th Iceland Gull: Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

8^th Caspian Gull: 2 – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

8^th Linnets: with a flock of goldfinch – Floodplain Forest NR (Alan Clarke)

8^th Goldcrest: Bancroft (Paul Lund)

7^th Goosander: (pair) – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

7^th Goldeneye: 9- Foxcote Res (BuBC)

7^th Goldeneye: Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)

7^th Short-eared Owl: Hogshaw (BuBC)

7^th Great Northern Diver: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

7^th Lesser Redpoll: 5 – Lillingstone Lovell (BuBC)

7^th Goosander: (4m 2f)Manor Farm Quarry (BuBC)
7^th Otter: near the storm drain area – Willen Lake North (Stu Johnson)

7^th Goldeneye: 8 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)

6^th Bittern: BBOWT Lake, Calvert (BuBC)

6^th Great Northern Diver: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

5^th Otter: Unfortunately it was hit by a car – Bancroft (Victoria O’Neill)
5^th Caspian Gull: 2 – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
5^th Great Northern Diver: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
5^th Brambling: 3 – Lathbury (BuBC)
5^th Tree Sparrow: Dag Lane, Stoke Goldington (BuBC)
5^th Goosander: (3 pairs) – Tongwell (BuBC)
4^th Lesser Celandine in flower, Woughton on the Green (Joe Clinch)
4^th Bittern: BBOWT Lake, Calvert (BuBC)
3^rd Bittern: BBOWT Lake, Calvert (BuBC)
3^rd Goosander: (5m 6f) – Emberton (BuBC)
3^rd Great Northern Diver: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
1^st Great White Egret: Ravenstone Mill (BuBC)
1^st Brambling: Leckhampstead Wood (BuBC)
1^st Bittern: BBOWT Lake, Calvert (BuBC)
1^st Goldeneye: (4m, 10f/imm) – Foxcote Res (BuBC)
1^st Great Northern Diver: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)

December 2017

31st Goosander: (6m, 7f) – Manor Farm Quarry. (BuBC)
31st Pintail: (1m, 1f) – Manor Farm Quarry. (BuBC)
31st Goosander: 5 – Tongwell (BuBC)
31st Otter: at the reedy end at 9.45 – Tongwell (BuBC)
31st Stonechat: (pair) – Hyde Lane (BuBC)
31st Goosander : Hyde Lane (BuBC)
30^th Goosander: (3m 3f) – Tongwell (BuBC)
30^th Great Northern Diver: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
30^th Woodcock : Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
30^th Goosander: pair – Caldecotte Lake (BuBC)
29^th Goosander: 3m 1f – Stowe (BuBC)
29^th Hawfinch: 3 – Stowe (BuBC)
28^th Golden Plover: 68 – between Potterspury and Yardley Gobion (BuBC)
28^th Yellowhammer: c.30 – between Potterspury and Yardley Gobion (BuBC)
28^th Cormorant: 85 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)
28^th Water Rail: 3 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)
28^th Goosander: 2 – Tongwell (Peter Hassett)

28^th Bittern: 9:00 Right hand reed beds in front of hide. BBOWT Lake, Calvert (BuBC)
28^th Great Northern Diver: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
27^th Great Northern Diver: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
27^th Peregrine, Foxcote Res (BuBC)
27^th Caspian Gull: (1 ad and 1w) – Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
27^th Brambling: 2 – Lathbury (BuBC)
27^th Goosander: 6 – Tongwell (BuBC)
26^th Bittern: 2 – Calvert Sailing Lake, Calvert (BuBC)
26^th Woodcock: 2 – Calvert Sailing Lake, Calvert (BuBC)
26^th Great Northern Diver: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
25^th Goosander: 4 – Tongwell (BuBC)
25^th Brambling: Stowe (BuBC)
25^th Goosander: (2m 1f) Bolbeck Park, Milton Keynes SP863413 (BuBC)
24^th Great Northern Diver: Charndon end -Calvert Sailing Lake, Calvert (BuBC)
24^th Bearded Tit: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
24^th Hawfinch : Near the aqueduct – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
22^nd Goldeneye: 15 – Foxcote Res. (BuBC)
22^nd Brambling: 2 – Lathbury (BuBC)
22^nd Bearded Tit: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
22^nd Great Northern Diver: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
21^st Brambling: 4 – Gawcott (BuBC)
21^st Red-throated Diver: on main lake, Blue Lagoon, Bletchley (BuBC)
21^st Goosander: 6 – Emberton (BuBC)
20^th Hawfinch: Heard calling near Howe Park Wood, Tattenhoe, MK (BuBC)
19^th Goldeneye: (3m; 5 f/imm) – Foxcote Res (BuBC)
19^th Goshawk: Floodplain Forest NR from iron trunk hide (Alan Clarke)
18^th Goosander: 8 (1m 5 f) – by island Lake, Emberton Park SP886495 (BuBC)
18^th Hawfinch: Wolverton (BuBC)
17^th Goldeneye: fem – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
17^th Goosander: 4 – Bradwell New Workings, Manor Farm Quarry (BuBC)
17^th Great Northern Diver : Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
17^th Goosander: 3 – confluence of Rivers Ouse and Ouzel Newport Pagnell (Joe Clinch)
17^th Red Kite, Bletchley MK3 7RY (Richard Thompson)
17^th Pintail: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
16^th Otter: at least 800 m from the nearest river – Lakes Lane, Newport Pagnell (David Kirkbright)

Otter at Newport Pagnell by David Kirkbright 16 December 2017

16^th Goosander: 26 – Emberton (BuBC)
16^th Redwing: 3 – in garden Shenley Church End (Peter Hassett)

Redwing ©Peter Hassett, Shenley Church End 18 December 2017

15^th Bittern: Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
15^th Great Northern Diver : Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
15^th Goosander: 2 – Manor Farm Quarry (BuBC)
14^th Caspian Gull: 5 (1w,2w,3w and 2 ad) – Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
14^th Brambling: At least 8 in mixed Finch and Bunting flock in game crop field – half a mile NW of Lathbury (BuBC)
14^th Great Northern Diver: 2 – Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
14^th Tree Sparrow: Tingewick (BuBC)
14^th Brambling: 2 – Gawcott (BuBC)
14^th Hawfinch: m – Great Linford (BuBC)
13^th Goosander: f – Caldecotte Lake (BuBC)
12^th Bittern: Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
12^th Goldeneye: 7 (2m, 5f/imm) Willen Lake South (BuBC)
11^th Great Northern Diver : Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
11^th Goldeneye: 6 (1 ad male) -Foxcote Res (BuBC)
11^th Brambling: male – Stowe (BuBC)
11^th Goosander: 24 (5m, 19 f/imm – Emberton (BuBC)
10^th Goosander: 1m 1f – Newport Pagnell SP877442 (BuBC)
9^th Whooper Swan : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
8^th Great Northern Diver: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
6^th Goosander: 3m, 14f – Emberton (BuBC)
6^th Great Northern Diver: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
5^th Stonechat: fem – Tattenhoe Park (BuBC)
5^th Hawfinch: Tattenhoe Park (BuBC)
5^th Bittern: 2 – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
5^th Great Northern Diver: Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
4^th Caspian Gull : (3 ad and 1w) Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
4^th Goosander: 2m Calvert Sailing Lake, (BuBC)
4^th Bittern: 2 – Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
4^th Great Northern Diver : Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
3^rd Goldeneye: 2m 2f Willen Lake South (BuBC)
3^rd Great Northern Diver : Calvert Sailing Lake, Calvert (BuBC)
3^rd Little Grebe: 6 – Haversham Lake (BuBC)
2^nd Hawfinch: Calling in flight – Howe Park Wood (BuBC)
2^nd Mealy Redpoll: 2 – – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
2^nd Tree Sparrow: 2 – Tingewick (BuBC)
2^nd Caspian Gull: Adult – Foxcote Res (BuBC)
2^nd Goldeneye: Female – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
2^nd Goldeneye: 9 – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

November 2017

30^th Stonechat: pair – Bury Field Newport Pagnell (BuBC)
28^th Hawfinch: Howe Park Wood (BuBC)
26^th Goosander: 18 – Emberton (BuBC)
26^th Goldeneye: Foxcote Res (BuBC)
26^th Caspian Gull: 2 adults in roost – Foxcote Res (BuBC)
25th Great White Egret: Linford Lakes NR
24^th Brambling: Stowe (BuBC)
23^rd BLACK REDSTART: on roof of depot – Stacey Bushes (Martin Kincaid)
23^rd Weasel: 2 – Floodplain Forest NR (Martin Kincaid)
23^rd Red Admiral: flying – Floodplain Forest NR (Martin Kincaid)
21^st Bittern: at dusk in far reed bed – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
22^nd Goosander: Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
22^nd Goldeneye: 4 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)
21^st Woodcock : Tattenhoe (BuBC)
19^th Goosander: 3 male 11 fem – Emberton SP886507 (BuBC)
19^th Hawfinch: 4 – Stowe (BuBC)
19^th Goosander: 2 fem – Stowe (BuBC)
19^th Goosander: 2 male 7 female – Emberton (BuBC)
18^th Redwings: 8 – in field next to Floodplain Forest NR (Saffron Summerfield)
18^th Goosander: (3 male, 4 fem) – Emberton (BuBC)
17^th Hawfinch: 2 – Padbury (BuBC)
16^th Goldeneye: 4 – Willen Lake South
16^th Hawfinch: Buckingham (BuBC)
15^th Hawfinch: Howe Park Wood (BuBC)
14^th Stonechat: fem – Tattenhoe Park (BuBC)
14^th Hawfinch: Howe Park Wood (BuBC)
14^th Hawfinch: 3 – Tattenhoe (BuBC)
14^th Goosander: 2m 2f – Emberton (BuBC)
14^th Goosander: 2 (ad male) – Caldecotte Lake (BuBC)
13^th Hawfinch: Tattenhoe Park (BuBC)
13^th Goldeneye: 3m 1f seen from area behind bandstand – Willen Lake (BuBC)
12^th Goldeneye: 2m 2f – Foxcote Res (BuBC)
12^th Raven: 4 at Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
12^th Brambling: Stowe (BuBC)
12^th Red-crested Pochard: fem – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
11^th Ring-necked Parakeet: 11.45hrs at Waterhall Park (SP 883 333) calling, on Poplar tree by Canal Broadwalk alongside Grand Union Canal (Mike LeRoy)
10^th Hawfinch: In town car park trees – Buckingham (BuBC)
9^th Brambling: Buckingham (BuBC)
9^th Goosander: 3 – Emberton (BuBC)
8^th Hawfinch : Howe Park Wood (BuBC)
8^th Grey Wagtail: Viaduct hide – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
8^th Goosander: 3 (fem) opposite Iron Trunk hide – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
7^th Hawfinch: Tattenhoe (BuBC)
7^th Hawfinch: 2 Howe Park Wood (BuBC)
7^th Stonechat: 5 – Stanton Low Park, Milton Keynes SP838424 (BuBC)
7^thBrambling: 5 – Buckingham (BuBC)
7^thHawfinch: 2 – Buckingham (BuBC)
6^thPintail: 2 – Willen Lake (Martin Kincaid)
6^th Starlings: Approximately 2,000 in roost – Willen Lake (Martin Kincaid)
6^th Hawfinch: 2 Both feeding in a maple tree – Tattenhoe, MK (BuBC)
5^thNatterer’s Bat found in bat box, Linford Lakes (Martin Kincaid)
5^th: Verdigris agaric fungus Stropharia aeruginosa: 3 – Linford Lakes (Martin Kincaid)
5^th Hawfinch: Cranfield heading towards Newport Pagnell (BuBC)
5^th Hawfinch: Willen Lake North (BuBC)
5^th Tree Sparrow: Juv – Stowe (BuBC)
5^th Hawfinch: 3 flew west over NT gardens Stowe (BuBC)
4^th Goldeneye: 6 – Foxcote Res (BuBC)
4^th Hawfinch: 2 – Stowe (BuBC)
2^ndGrey Plover: Padbury (BuBC)
2^ndGoosander: 2 male by weir back of Mill Street Pagnell(BuBC)
1^st Starling:1200 Pre-roost gathering at 16:30 – Foxcote Res (BuBC)
1^st Stonechat: male – Berryfields (BuBC)
1^st Hawfinch: 5 Tattenhoe linear park (BuBC)
1^st Brambling: Buckingham (BuBC)

October 2017

31^st Brambling: 10-20 – Back Wood, Lt Brickhill (BuBC)
31^st Goldeneye: 3 (male, fem and imm) – Foxcote Res. (BuBC)
31^st Great White Egret: 2 present from hide – Foxcote Res. (BuBC)
31^st Cetti’s Warbler: called by hide and showed briefly in reeds – Foxcote Res. (BuBC)
31^st Hawfinches: 5 – west over Little Linford Wood (BuBC)
31^st Hawfinch: 2 – Howe Park Wood (BuBC)
31^st Hawfinch: Buckingham (BuBC)
30^th Cattle Egret: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
30^th Hawfinch: Tattenhoe (BuBC)
30^th Hawfinch: Tattenhoe Park (BuBC)

29^th Hawfinch: Tattenhoe (BuBC)
29^th Hawfinch: Padbury (BuBC)
29^th Hawfinch: Howe Park Wood (BuBC)
29^th Brambling: 6 – Padbury (BuBC)
29^th Pink-footed Goose: 2 – Padbury (BuBC)
29^nd Broad-Leaved Helleborine: Linford Wood (Stephen Wells)

Broad-leaved Helleborine by Stephen Wells, Linford Wood 29 October 2017

28^th Stonechat: male – upstream of Mill House, Newport Pagnell (BuBC)
28^th Hawfinch over Wolverton Mill with 8 Redwings (BuBC)
28^th Fieldfare: 89 – Ravenstone Mill (BuBC)
28^th Fieldfare: 26 – Little Linford Wood (BuBC)
28^th Hawfinch: Tattenhoe (BuBC)
28^th Fieldfare: 20 Heading west – Stowe (BuBC)
27^th Fieldfare: Pair heading towards Westcroft- Howe Park Wood (BuBC)
27^th Hawfinch: passing over – Tattenhoe Park, Milton Keynes (BuBC)
26^th Stonechat: 3 – On the common,Newport Pagnell (BuBC)
26^th Hawfinch : Tattenhoe Park, Milton Keynes (BuBC)
26^th Chaffinch: 47 in 2 quite large flocks calling constantly – Wolverton (BuBC)
26^th Greenfinch: 5 – Wolverton (BuBC)
25^th Stonechat: 2 – Bury Field Newport Pagnell (BuBC)
24^th Hawfinches: 2 – South over Willen Lake South (BuBC)
24^th Stonechat: pair – in field near linear park – Tattenhoe Park (BuBC)
24^th Hawfinch: 2 – Tattenhoe Park (BuBC)
23^rd Merlin: reed bed at Willen (Martin Kincaid)
23^rd Peregrine: Floodplain Forest NR (Martin Kincaid)
23^rd Stonechat: Floodplain Forest NR (Martin Kincaid)
23^rd Common Snipe: 2 – Floodplain Forest NR (Martin Kincaid)
23^rd Tawny Owl – NT Stowe (Martin Kincaid)
23^rd Little Owl – NT Stowe (Martin Kincaid)
23^rd Spotted Flycatcher – NT Stowe (Martin Kincaid)
23^rd Treecreepers: 3 – NT Stowe (Martin Kincaid)
23^rd Redwings migrating – NT Stowe (Martin Kincaid)
23^rd Little Grebe – NT Stowe (Martin Kincaid)
23^rd Beefsteak fungus Fistulina hepatica – NT Stowe (Martin Kincaid)
23^rd Giant Puffballs Calvatia gigantea – NT Stowe (Martin Kincaid)
22^nd Merlin : Campbell Park (BuBC)
20^th Pintail: fem On the spit -Willen Lake North (BuBC)
19^th Stonechat: fem – Tattenhoe Park, Milton Keynes(BuBC)
18^th Great White Egret: Willen Lake North (BuBC)
18^th Stonechat: pair – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
17^th Small copper butterfly – Olney Limestone Escarpment SP879510 (Julie Lane)
17^th Hawfinch: 3west over Partridge Hill, Great Brickhill (BuBC)
15^th Stonechat: 2 Pair – base West slopes.Quainton Hills (BuBC)
15^th Noctule bats: 5 over Aspley Guise golf course 6pm (Viola Read)
15^th Peregrine devouring a pigeon in garden in Downs Barn (Gina & Nick Leese)
15^th Green Sandpiper: Manor Farm Quarry (BuBC)
14^th Pink-footed Goose: Seen and heard calls Buckingham (BuBC)
14^th Stonechat: male – Hardmead (BuBC)
12^th Goosander: 2 fem – Manor Farm Quarry (BuBC)
11^th Fieldfare : Tattenhoe (BuBC)
10^th Spotted Flycatcher: Tattenhoe (BuBC)
10^th Stonechat: 2 pairs from the middle hide. Manor Farm Quarry (BuBC)
9^th Redwing: 30 Buckingham (BuBC)
9^th Raven: Flying over iron bridge calling – Newport Pagnell (BuBC)
9^th Spotted Flycatcher: Tattenhoe (BuBC)
8^th Redwing: Passenham, Tattenhoe, Buckingham, Stowe (BuBC)
7^th Goldeneye : Linford Lakes NT (Janice Robertson)
6^thWryneck – Pitstone Hill (BuBC)
6^th Broad-leaved helleborine: a very late flowering BLH spotted at Linford Wood (Steve Wells)

Broad-leaved Helleborine by Steve Wells, Linford Wood 6 October 2017

3^rd Raven, pair: Tattenhoe Park (Janice Robertson)

3^rd Small Copper: Tattenhoe Park (Janice Robertson)

3^rd Common Pipistrelles, Soprano Pipistrelles and Natterer’s Bat found in boxes at Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
3^rd Field Blewitt mushrooms at Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
3^rd Swallows: 4 – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
3^rd Raven – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
3^rd Grass snakes still active at Walton Lake (Martin Kincaid)
3^rd Hobby – Walton Lake (Martin Kincaid)
1^st Yellow-browed Warbler: Milton Keynes (BuBC)

September 2017

29^th Redwing: Flying over Tesco car park – Wolverton (BuBC)
29^th Meadow pipit: 4 – Wolverton (BuBC)
26^th Common Sandpiper: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
25^th Goosander: 9 (sub-adult) – Manor Farm Quarry (Martin Kincaid)
25^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – Manor Farm Quarry (Martin Kincaid)
24^th Merlin: fem – Old Wolverton, Stony Stratford SP799415 (BuBC)
23^rdKidney-spot Ladybird – Buckingham Garden Centre (Martin Kincaid)

Kidney-spot Ladybird by Martin Kincaid, Buckingham Garden Centre, 23 September 2017

22^ndLong-winged Conehead, Dark and Rosel’s Bush-crickets, Pineham Park (Martin Kincaid)
22^ndArctic Tern & 2 Little Grebes – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
22^nd Hobby: Hanslope (BuBC)
21^st Kidney-spot Ladybird: Stonepit (Martin Kincaid)
21^st Woodlark: with small flock of Skylarks on stubble field near Akely (Joe Clinch)
20^th Brown Birch Bolete Leccinum scabrum – Campbell Park (Martin Kincaid)
20^thHygrocybe conica and Peziza badia fungi – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
19^th Spotted Flycatcher: Quainton Hills (BuBC)
19^th Green SandpiperFloodplain Forest NR (Joe Clinch)
19^th Wigeon: 2 – Floodplain Forest NR (Joe Clinch)
19^th Teal: 2 – Floodplain Forest NR (Joe Clinch)
19^th Tree Sparrow: Hardmead (BuBC)
17^th Hobby: Willen Lake North (BuBC)
16^th Ringed Plover: Juvenile – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
16^th Yellow-browed warbler: by small stream and wooden bridge at N end of Caldecotte south lake (BuBC)
15^th Common Crossbill: Over s/w calling – Buckingham. (BuBC)
14^th Manx Shearwater: Tattenhoe (BuBC)
14^th Arctic Tern: Juvenile – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
12^th Common Sandpiper: Foxcote Res (BuBC)
10^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – Foxcote Res (BuBC)
10^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – Manor Farm Quarry (BuBC)
10^th Hobby: Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
10^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – Manor Farm Quarry (BuBC)
10^th Hobby: Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
9^th Common Sandpiper: Willen Lake North (BuBC)
9^th Green Sandpiper: 10 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
8^th Spotted Flycatcher: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
8^th Wheatear: 1 top Sth slopes/ 1 base South – Quainton Hills (BuBC)
7^th Sepedon sphegea: Howe Park Wood ponds, SP832346 (Janice Robertson)

Sepedon sphegea ©Janice Robertson at Howe Park Wood 7 September 2017

7^th Common Sandpiper: Old Wolverton, Stony Stratford (BuBC)
7^th Whinchat: In horse paddock – Quainton Hills (BuBC)
7^th Wheatear: 3 base Nrth slopes/ 1 base Sth/ 1 base S/W – Quainton Hills (BuBC)
7^th Spotted Flycatcher: 7 – Quainton Hills (BuBC)
7^th Southern hawkers: Howe Park Wood (Janice Robertson)
7^th Goosander: On the river at the weir, took off north – Olney (BuBC)
6^th Wheatear: 2 base Nrth slopes/ 1 base South – Quainton Hills (BuBC)
6^th Spotted Flycatcher: 7 feeding base South slopes – Quainton Hills (BuBC)
5^th Ravens; 2 – Olney (Julie Lane)
4^th Green Sandpiper : Foxcote Res (BuBC)
4^th Common Sandpiper: 2 On dam Foxcote Res (BuBC)
3^rd Wheatear: 2 -Tattenhoe Park (BuBC)
3^rd Common Sandpiper: 3 – Manor Farm Quarry (BuBC)
3^rd Common Sandpiper: Foxcote Res (BuBC)
3^rd Common Sandpiper: Willen Lake North (BuBC)
3^rd Hobby: 4 – Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
3^rd Common Sandpiper: Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
3^rd Greenshank: Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
2^nd Greenshank: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
2^nd Whinchat: Quainton Hills (BuBC)
2^nd Spotted Flycatcher: 4 – Quainton Hills (BuBC)
2^nd Wheatear : Quainton Hills (BuBC)
2^nd Common Sandpiper: 7 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)

August 2017

31^th Hobby: Claydon Lakes (BuBC)
31^th Greenshank: On Fishing Pit – Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
31^th Whinchat: male around first shooting hide – Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
31^th Hobby: Adult and 2 juveniles. In poplars along river – Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
31^th Wheatear: Top North slopes – Quainton Hills (BuBC)
31^th Redstart: 5 – Quainton Hills (BuBC)
31^th Spotted Flycatcher: 3 – Quainton Hills (BuBC)
31^th Southern Hawker: possible over garden pond – Stony Stratford (Mary Sarre)
30^th Hobby: Emberton (BuBC)
30^th Hobby: Hardmead (BuBC)
30^th Wheatear: 1 base South slopes, 1 top South, 1 base North – Quainton Hills (BuBC)
30^th Whinchat: Base South slopes – Quainton Hills (BuBC)
29^th Night-heron: Claydon Lakes (BuBC)
29^th Common Sandpiper: By the weir on the east side – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
28^th Hedgehog: large in garden – Stony Stratford (Mary Sarre)
28^th Night-heron: Claydon Lakes (BuBC)
28^th Hobby: Linford Lakes NRs (BuBC)
27^th Redstart: male – Claydon Lakes (BuBC)
27^th Night-heron: Claydon Lakes (BuBC)
27^th Lapwing: 100 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
27^th Cetti’s Warbler: Calling in front of pagoda – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
26^th Hobby: Claydon Lakes (BuBC)
26^th Redstart: (1m 1f) – Kingswood Village (BuBC)
26^th Willow Emerald Damselfly: 4 – Tattenhoe Park (Janice Robertson)
26^th Small Copper: 2 – Tattenhoe Park (Janice Robertson)
25^th Marsh Harrier: Linford Lakes NR (Janice Robertson)
25^th Red-crested Pochard: Linford Lakes NR (Janice Robertson)
25^th Kingfisher: Linford Lakes NR (Janice Robertson)
25^th Night-heron: Claydon Lakes (BuBC)
24^th Small Copper: Floodplain Forest NR (Janice Robertson)
24^th Bar-headed Goose: 2- Floodplain Forest NR (Janice Robertson)
24^th Red-eyed Damselfly: Floodplain Forest NR (Janice Robertson)
24^th Wheatear: 3 – Quainton Hills (BuBC)
24^th Redstart: 10 – Quainton Hills (BuBC)
24^th Spotted Flycatcher: 7 – Quainton Hills (BuBC)
23^rd Yellow Wagtails: juv along the road – Leckhampstead Wharf (BuBC)
23^rd Wheatear: 2 Leckhampstead Wharf (BuBC)
23^rd Common Sandpiper: 3 – Foxcote (BuBC)
23^rd Marsh Harrier: Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
23^rd Night-heron: Claydon Lakes (BuBC)
23^rd Wheatear: Fem looking for insects and worms – Tattenhoe Park, Milton Keynes (BuBC)
22^nd Bar-headed Geese: 2 with a group of Canadas – Linford Lakes today, (BuBC)
22^nd Swift flying waist height along Newport Pagnell high street (BuBC)
21st swift flying waist height along Newport Pagnell high street (BuBC)
21^st Dunlin, Arctic Tern & Barn Owl – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
21^st Wheatear: Juv – Ravenstone STW (BuBC)
21^st Arctic Tern: 2 Juvs – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
21^st Spotted Flycatcher: 2 imms around car park – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
21^st Swift: 8 Briefly flying with house martin.Then drifted south – Wolverton (BuBC)
21^st Common Scoter: Furzton Lake, Milton Keynes (BuBC)
20^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – Manor Farm Quarry (BuBC)
20^th Common Lizards: 80+ – Stockgrove Country Park (Martin Kincaid)
20^th Adder – Stockgrove Country Park (Martin Kincaid)
20^th Purple Hairstreaks: 2 – Stockgrove Country Park (Martin Kincaid)
20^th Heather: in flower – stunning displays, Stockgrove Country Park (Martin Kincaid)
19^th Lapwing: 68 – Stony Stratford Nature Reserve (Martin Kincaid)
19^th Green Sandpipers: 2 – Stony Stratford Nature Reserve (Martin Kincaid)
19^th Kingfisher – Stony Stratford Nature Reserve (Martin Kincaid)
19^th Purple Hairstreak – Linford Wood (Martin Kincaid)
19^th Spotted Flycatcher: catching flies near Howe Park Wood – Tattenhoe, MK. (BuBC)
19^th Hobby : Quainton Hills (BuBC)
19^th Ringed Plover: One on the dam side flew toward rocks on far side – Foxcote Res (BuBC)
19^th House Sparrow: 70 At entrants to farm near wood – Wicken. (BuBC)
19^th Redstart: Foxcote Res (BuBC)
19^th Common Sandpiper: Foxcote Res (BuBC)
19^th Grey Wagtail: 2 under bridge between lakes, another one at overflow – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
19^th Hobby: Hunting Linnets – Hardmead (BuBC)
17^thCommon Sandpiper : Foxcote Res SP860306 (BuBC)
17^th Wheatear: 4 – Leckhampstead Wharf SP860306 (BuBC)
17^th Grass Snake – 2 basking on stone walls at St. Andrew’s Church, Great Linford (Martin Kincaid)
16^th Common Sandpiper – Floodplain Forest NR (Saffron Summerfield)
16^th Wheatear: Juv. – Ravenstone STW (BuBC)
15^th Wasp Spider Argiope bruennichi found in long grass at Simpson (Ruth McCracken) (reported to Parks Trust)

15^th Common and Slender Groundhoppers found on MKNHS Walk at Bury Field, Newport Pagnell (Martin Kincaid)
15^th Hobby: Hardmead (BuBC)
15^th Whinchat: 1 fem/juv on fence posts by Tove, Castlethorpe Mill (BuBC)
15^th Spotted Flycatcher: 4 in churchyard/ 1 top South slopes – Quainton Hills (BuBC)
14^th Redstart: Quainton Hills (BuBC)
14^th Little Egrets: 4 across from the hide, which are always present – Willen Lake (Anthony Sharpe)
14^th Kingfisher: at the river, at the back of Willen Lake (Anthony Sharpe)
13^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
11^th Greenshank: 2 – Manor Farm Quarry (BuBC)
10^th Common Sandpiper: Over Sailing club lake – Emberton (BuBC)
9^th Puffballs in a row (either large Bovista nigrescens or small Calvatia gigantea?), Portway grid-road verge near North Witan roundabout (Mike LeRoy)
08^th Wheatear : Manor Farm Quarry (BuBC)
08^th Hobby: Manor Farm Quarry (BuBC)
08^th Hobby: Wolverton (BuBC)
08^th Greenshank: Calling over the church at dusk – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
08^th Cattle Egret: Willen Lake North (BuBC)
08^th Ringed Plover: Manor Farm Quarry (BuBC)
08^th Common Sandpiper: Manor Farm Quarry (BuBC)
7^th Noctule and Pipistrelle bats flying at dusk, Floodplain Forest NR (Martin Kincaid)
7^th Hummingbird Hawk-moth egg-laying on valerian in garden, Oldbrook (Martin Kincaid)
7^th Sparrow-hawks: Juvenile around nest site, Shenley Wood (Martin Kincaid)
7^th Brown Argus:4 1 Painted Lady – Stonepit, Great Linford (Martin Kincaid)
7^th Painted Lady – Stonepit, Great Linford (Martin Kincaid)
7^th Cattle Egret at Willen in front of hide but only viewable from east bank (that’s the Pineham side) (BuBC)
6^th Wheatear: Ravenstone Mill (BuBC)
6^th Hobby: Passed low under the red kites – Shipton (BuBC)
6^th Common Sandpiper: Willen Lake North (BuBC)
5^th Hobby: Manor Farm Quarry (BuBC)
5^th Bar-headed Goose: 2 By eastern hide with grey lag – Manor Farm Quarry (BuBC)
5^th Wheatear: juv – Hardmead (BuBC)
4^th Caspian Tern: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
4^th Swifts: 4 – Wolverton (BuBC)
3^rd Common Sandpiper: Foxcote Res. (BuBC)
3^rd Goosander : Foxcote Res. (BuBC)
3^rd Hobby: Hardmead (BuBC)
2^nd Common Sandpiper: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
2^nd Painted Lady: 2 – Floodplain Forest NR (Martin Kincaid)
2^nd Small Copper – Floodplain Forest NR (Martin Kincaid)
2^nd Common Sandpiper: 2 – Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
2^nd Goosander: 7 (fem and 6 full size juv) – Olney, At the mill (BuBC)
1st Great Crested Newts: Howe Park Ponds (Lawrence Pepper)
1^st Adonis’ Ladybird: Willen Island (Martin Kincaid)
1^st Short-winged Coneheads: Willen Island (Martin Kincaid)
1^st Grass Poly in flower – Willen Island (Martin Kincaid)
1^st Greater Dodder in flower – River Ouzel, North Willen (Martin Kincaid)
1^st Oak Bush Cricket, Campbell Park (Martin Kincaid)
1^st Spotted Flycatcher: 4 Adults feeding at least 2 young at nest- Hardmead (BuBC)
1^st Field Vole: Edgewick Farm (Julian Lambley)

Field Vole ©Julian Lambley, Edgewick Farm 1 August 2017

July 2017

31^st Grass snake seen near Goosey Bridge, Olney Meadows West (Julie Lane)
31^st Ringed Plover: On the spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
31^st Common Sandpiper : On the spit then flew to weir on east side- Willen Lake North (BuBC)
30^th Common Tern (5 adults, 1 fledged young, 1 chick) Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)
30^th Lapwing: (4 adults) Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)
30^th Small Red-eyed Damselfly: Caldecotte Lake Business Park (Janice Robertson)
30^th Common Sandpiper: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
28^th Corn Mint: Shenley Wood (Janice Robertson)
28^th Goosander: : juv fem – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
28^th Black-tailed Godwit: On spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
28^th Goosander: : juv Downstream from The Mill – Olney (BuBC)
27^th Scarce Chaser dragonfly at Linford Lakes Nature Reserve (Martin Kincaid)

Scarce Chaser Dragonfly by Martin Kincaid, Linford Lakes NR 27 July 2017

28^th Ringed Plover: On the spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
26^th Hobby : Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
26^th Common Sandpiper: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
26^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
25^th Turnstone: On the spit – Willen (BuBC)
25^th Oystercatcher: On the spit – Willen (BuBC)
25^th Volucella zonaria Hoverfly: Johnson’s Field, Olney Julie Lane

Volucella zonaria Hoverfly ©Julie Lane. Johnson's Field, Olney. 25 July 2017

24/7 : Hobby : Caldecotte Lake (BuBC)
23^rd Redstart : Stowe (BuBC)
23^rd Common Sandpiper : 15 -Foxcote Res. (BuBC)
23^rd Goosander :3 (fem/imm) – Foxcote Res. sat on dam (BuBC)
23^rd Hobby : Flying over reeds to west of hide – Foxcote Res. (BuBC)
23^rd Common Sandpiper: 6 – Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
23^rd Hobby: Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
21^st Common Sandpiper : Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
20^th Hobby: hunting swallows- Ford (BuBC)
20^th Common Sandpiper: 4 – Foxcote Res.(BuBC)
18^th Ruddy Shelduck : Tattenhoe Park (Harry Appleyard)
18^th Clouded Yellow (1), Painted Lady (4), Small Copper (1) and many Essex Skippers among 14 butterfly species at Pineham Park (Martin Kincaid)
18^th Roesel’s, Dark and Speckled Bush-Crickets at Pineham Park (Martin Kincaid)
18^th 3 Chinese Water Deer – Pineham Park (Martin Kincaid)
18^th Female Purple Emperor, near Visitor Centre, Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
17^th 2 Silver Washed Fritillaries still at Shenley Wood (Martin Kincaid)
17^th Serotine and Pipistrelle bats recorded at The Green, Woughton-on-the-Green (Martin Kincaid)
17^th White Admirals: several – Shenley Wood and Hazeley Wood (Lindsey Moreland)
17^th Silver washed fritillaries – Shenley Wood and Hazeley Wood (Lindsey Moreland)
17^th Purple hairstreak: Hazeley Wood in a clearing (Lindsey Moreland)
17^th Purple Emperor Hazeley Wood (Lindsey Moreland)
14^th Redstart: male – Stowe (BuBC)
14^th Redstart: male 2 – Quainton Hills (BuBC)
14^th Spotted Flycatcher: 4 – Quainton Hills (BuBC)
10^th Goosander : fem on spit – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
9^th Quail : Hardmead (BuBC)
9^th Hobby: Willen Lake North (BuBC)
9^th Spotted Flycatcher: Swanbourne (BuBC)
5^th Purple hairstreak:- Little Linford Wood (Julian Lambley)
5^th White admirals: – Little Linford Wood (Julian Lambley)
5^th Silver washed fritillaries – Little Linford Wood (Julian Lambley)
5^th Redstart: Male – Stowe (BuBC)
2nd Great Crested newt: Old Wolverton Allotments (David Christopher)

Great-crested newt ©David Christopher, Old Wolverton Allotments 2 July 2017

3^rd Goosander: 4 (juv) – Olney Mill (BuBC)
2^nd Red Kite (pair) over St Mary’s Church, Shenley Church End (Charlie Scott)
2^nd Hobby : Buckingham. Seen to stoop at high speed after House Martin (BuBC)
1^st Ringed Plover: Manor Farm Quarry (BuBC)
1^st Common Tern: 4 -Foxcote Res (BuBC)

June 2017

29^th Ringed Plover: 2 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
27^th Spotted Flycatcher: Breeding pair – Dunton (BuBC)
26^th Red Kite: over CMK Library Midsummer Boulevard (Mike LeRoy)
26^th Cuckoo: Adult Male – Flood Plain Forest NR (Joe Clinch)
25^th Hobby: Woolstone, Milton Keynes (BuBC)
25^th Ringed Plover: 2 – Manor Farm Quarry (BuBC)
25^th Ringed Plover: Willen Lake North (BuBC)
25^th Common Sandpiper: Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
24^th Spotted Flycatcher: Middle Claydon (BuBC)
22^nd Tree Sparrow: 8 – Lavendon Mill, SP9354, nesting in a hedgerow north of Harrold Road (BuBC)
21^st Wood White: Stoke goldington (Pete Best)
17^thRed Kite: New Bradwell (Valérie Demouy)
17^th Hobby: Stowe (BuBC)
16^th Spotted Flycatcher: (pair) – Hardmead (BuBC)
14^th Quail: Hardmead (BuBC)
13^th Barn owl: Bury Common, Newport Pagnell (Ann Jones)
13^th Cuckoo: calling – Bury Common, Newport Pagnell (Ann Jones)
11^thSpotted Flycatcher : on aerial of White House at Sherington Bridge (BuBC)
11^th Tree Sparrow: Singing at traditional breeding site – Little Linford Wood. (BuBC)
9^th Ringed Plover: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
8^th Redlegged partridge: 2 – Pilch Fields (Jenny Mercer)
8^th Stock dove – Pilch Fields (Jenny Mercer)
8^th Reed warblers: 2 – Pilch Fields (Jenny Mercer)
8^th Green woodpecker – Pilch Fields (Jenny Mercer)
8^th Starling nest with young in big field hedge adjacent to poultry farm – Pilch Fields (Jenny Mercer)
8^th Spotted Flycatcher: 2 – Sherington in garden of Bridge Leys Cottage (BuBC)
8^th Spotted Flycatcher: 4 – Newport Pagnell, Pair nesting in Ousebank Gardens and another by Great Ouse (BuBC)
7^th Goosander: Female with 8 young – Newport Pagnell still at Ousebank Gardens near the cemetery (BuBC)
5^th Goosander: female with two young – on the Ouse at Beachampton where it forms the Bucks-Northants boundary (SP 770 374) (BuBC)
3^rd Wood White: 32 butterflies at Wicken Wood (Martin Kincaid)
3^rd Grizzled Skipper at Wicken Wood (Martin Kincaid)
3^rd Cuckoo calling at Wicken Wood (Martin Kincaid)
3^rd Painted Lady in Deanshanger (Martin Kincaid)
3^rd Hummingbird Hawk-moth in Stony Stratford High Street (Martin Kincaid)
3^rd Common Tern: 6 nests at Stony Stratford Nature Reserve (Martin Kincaid)
2^nd Water Shrew – Kingsmead Wood (Martin Kincaid)
1^st Quail : Hardmead (BuBC)
1^st Goosander: Female with 8 young Newport Pagnell on river near cemetery (BuBC)
1^stBeautiful demoiselles: large numbers at Little Linford Wood (Julian Lambley)
1^stMarsh Orchids: 81 flower heads – private land at Stoke Hammond SP892284 (Julian Lambley)
1^stMarsh Orchids: 4 – Golf course at Stoke Hammond SP892284 (Julian Lambley)
1^stBee Orchid: – Golf course at Stoke Hammond SP892284 (Julian Lambley)
1^st Goosander: 5 Juveniles at the weir – Olney (BuBC)

May 2017

30th Spotted Flycatcher: pair – Hardmead (BuBC)
26^th Hobby: Tyringham Park (BuBC)
24^th Duke of Burgundy butterflies: 5 at Totternhoe (Douglas Goddard)
24^th Spotted Flycatcher: Padbury (BuBC)
24^th Tawny Owl : Winslow SP777264 (BuBC)
23^rd Glossy Ibis: Summer Leys (TheWildlifeTrustBCN)
23^rd Spotted Flycatcher : Buckingham (BuBC)
22^nd Arctic Tern : Willen Lake South  (BuBC)
22^nd Raven: flying SE over Haversham estate  (BuBC)
21^st Hobby: 5 hawking insects – Hyde Lane (BuBC)
21^st 7 Grass Snakes, Great Crested Newt, Water Shrew, Pygmy Shrew and Common Toads found under tins at Linford Lakes Nature Reserve (Martin Kincaid/Carol Watts)
21^st Hobby at Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
20^th Dingy Skipper – North Bucks Way (Martin Kincaid)
20^th Swifts: 50+ over South Willen Lake, plus House Martins, Swallows and 33 Common Terns (Martin Kincaid)
20^th – Greater Butterfly Orchids and Common Twayblade in flower at Linford Wood (Martin Kincaid)
20^th Angle Shades moth: Calverton End, Stony Stratford (Joe Clinch)
20^th Spotted Flycatcher: 2 – Biddlesden Park SP625390 (BuBC)
20^th Swifts: 2 – North Bucks Way, north of Hazeley Wood (SP812370) (Janice Robertson)
20^th Lesser Whitethroat – North Bucks Way, north of Hazeley Wood SP812370 (Janice Robertson)
19^th Hobby : Hawking insects over R.Ouse – Newport Pagnell SP875442 (BuBC)
19^th Hobby: over reeds opposite hide- Foxcote Res (BuBC)
19^th Spotted Flycatcher: Hardmead (BuBC)
18^th Spotted Flycatcher: 2 – Winslow (BuBC)
17^th Swifts: 2 – Tattenhoe (near Howe Park Wood) SP835341 (Janice Robertson)
15^th Redstart: 2 male 2 male -Blue Lagoon (Fran Whelan)
14^th Swifts: 10 screaming – Stony Stratford (Mary Sarre)
14^th Spotted Flycatcher: 2 Singing males – Stowe (BuBC)
14^th Spotted Flycatcher: 3 – Waddesdon (BuBC)
14^th Hobby: 3 – Foxcote Res (BuBC)
14^th Hobby: – Tyringham Bridge (Julie Lane)
14^th Red Kite: – Tyringham Bridge (Julie Lane)
14^th Common terns: 2 – Tyringham Bridge (Julie Lane)
13^th Spotted Flycatcher: Hillesden (BuBC)
13^th Black Swan – Willen Lake South (BuBC)
12^th Muntjac deer – Wolverton road in Newport Pagnell (Sophie Scard)
12^th Cuckoo seen and heard in Emberton Park (SP886501) (Julie Lane)
12^th Swifts Weston Road, Olney (SP883510) (Julie Lane)
10^th Whinchat – Linford Lakes NR (Robert Phillips)
10^th Yellow Wagtail – Linford Lakes NR (Robert Phillips)
10^th Large Red Damselfly – Linford Lakes NR (Robert Phillips)
10^th Azure Blue Damselfly – Linford Lakes NR (Robert Phillips)
10^th Hobby: Hyde Lane (BuBC)
10^th Spotted Flycatcher: Maid’s Moreton  (BuBC)
9^th Ringed Plover: 3 – Linford Lakes NR  (BuBC)
9^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – Linford Lakes NR  (BuBC)
8^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – Foxcote Res. (BuBC)
8^th Little Gull: first summer bird – Foxcote Res. (BuBC)
7^th Cetti’s Warbler : Willen Lake North (BuBC)
7^th Cuckoo: Stowe (BuBC)
7^th Cuckoo: Hillesden (BuBC)
7^th Grey Plover : Willen Lake North (BuBC)
7^th Firecrest: Horton Wood, near the footpath on SE side of the wood (BuBC)
7^th Goosander: Female adult & 9 young – Olney own from the Mill.  (BuBC)
7^th Common Sandpiper: 6 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
7^th Wheatear: 6 – Ravenstone STW (BuBC)
6^th Hobby : Willen Lake South (BuBC)
6^th Arctic Tern: Willen Lake South (BuBC)
6^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – Linford Lakes NR  (BuBC)
6^th Common Sandpiper: 6 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
6^th Swifts: Olney (SP884515) (Julie Lane)
6^th Grasshopper Warbler: calling from field by river – Manor Farm Quarry  (BuBC)
6^th Cetti’s Warbler: 2 – Linford Lakes NR  (BuBC)
6^th Ringed Plover: Willen Lake North (BuBC)
6^th Terns: 98 Common, 1 Arctic, 1 Black – Willen Lake South (BuBC)
6^th Cuckoo: 3 – Linford Lakes NR  (BuBC)
6^th Black-necked Grebe: male – Linford Lakes NR  (BuBC)
6^th Swifts: 3-10 – Tongwell street near Willen Lake (SP882412) (Julie Lane)
6^th Wigeon: Foxcote, Willen and Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
6^th Black Necked Grebe: Linford Lakes NR, at end of Bund viewable from Near hide (BuBC)
5^th Cuckoo : Emberton (BuBC)
5^th Cetti’s Warbler : Emberton (BuBC)
5^th Arctic Tern: 2 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)
5^th Swift: – Foxcote Res (BuBC)
4^th Cetti’s Warbler: Willen Lake North (BuBC)
4^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – Willen Lake North (BuBC)
4^th Arctic Tern: 4 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)
4^th Grasshopper Warbler Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
3^rd Wheatear: (1 male, 9 fem) – Ravenstone STW, including 2 big Greenlanders. (BuBC)
3^rd Hobby: Foxcote Res (BuBC)
3^rd Common Sandpiper: 2 – Foxcote Res (BuBC)
2^nd Large Red Damselfly: Large numbers around Tattenhoe (Harry Appleyard)
2^nd Azure Damselfly: Several in Tattenhoe Park (Harry Appleyard)
2^nd Four-spotted Chaser: Two in Tattenhoe Park (Harry Appleyard)
2^nd Black Tern: Willen Lake South (BuBC)
2^nd Common Sandpiper: Caldecotte Lake South (BuBC)
2^nd Cetti’s Warbler: Caldecotte Lake north and south (BuBC)
2^nd Garden Warbler: Caldecotte Lake south (BuBC)
2^nd Common Terns: Caldecotte Lake north and south (BuBC)
1^st Grey Partridge: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
1^st Black Tern: Willen Lake South (BuBC)
1^st Ringed Plover : Foxcote Res. On the dam (BuBC)
1^st Common Sandpiper: 2 – Foxcote Res. Both on the dam wall (BuBC)
1^st Common Sandpiper : Willen Lake South (BuBC)
1^st Common Sandpiper: Foxcote Res. On the dam.  (BuBC)
1^st Cuckoo : Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
1^st Great White Egret: Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)
1^st Goosander: Gayhurst Quarry (BuBC)

April 2017

30^th Wheatear: Fem – Tattenhoe Park, SP827334. Looking for insects in field near the linear park (Harry Appleyard)
30^th Common Sandpiper : Willen Lake North (BuBC)
30^th Cuckoo: Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
30^th Common Sandpiper: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
30^th Yellow Wagtail:2 – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
30^th Great White Egret: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
30^th Cuckoo: New Bradwell New Workings (BuBC)
29^th Herb Paris Paris quadrifolia in flower – Linford Wood (Mike LeRoy)
29^th Common Terns: 55 – Willen Lake South (BuBC)
29^th Song Thrush: Newport Pagnell (BuBC)
29^th Cuckoo : Emberton. Heard singing river side. (BuBC)
29^th Wheatear: 12 – Sheep fields, Ravenstone STW (BuBC)
29^th Yellow Wagtail: 3 -Ravenstone STW (BuBC)
29^th Cuckoo : Olney Meadows, singing in a dead tree under Weston Road (BuBC)
29^th Swift: 2 – Foxcote Res (BuBC)
29^th Common Sandpiper : Foxcote Res (BuBC)
29^th Cuckoo: Stowe. Heard calling from Stowe Gardens (BuBC)
29^th Wheatear: 3 – Lenborough (BuBC)
29^th Swift: Olney Meadows (BuBC)
29^th Cetti’s Warbler – Emberton Park (BuBC)
29^th Black-tailed Godwit: Olney – Just down from the Mill (BuBC)
29^th Wheatear: Olney Meadows (BuBC)
29^th Goosander: 11 (fem and 10 juv) – Olney. By the A509 bridge (BuBC)
28^th Swifts: Stony Stratford centre (Phil Sarre)
28^th Cuckoo : Hillesden calling from SE corner of nature reserve (BuBC)
28^th Yellow Wagtail: 2 – Foxcote Res (BuBC)
28^th Cuckoo : Hillesden. (BuBC)
28^th Cuckoo : Lillingstone Lovell. Along Akeley Lane. (BuBC)
28^th Common Sandpiper : Foxcote Res (BuBC)
28^th Common Sandpiper : Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
28^th Peregrine: Aylesbury the single egg has hatched overnight (BuBC)
27^th Cuckoo: calling – Linford Lakes NR (Mike LeRoy)
27^th Yellow Wagtail : Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
27^th Grasshopper Warbler: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
27^th White Wagtail: Bradwell New Workings, Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
27^th Common Sandpiper : Bradwell New Workings, Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
27^th White Wagtail: Male on Stilt scrape – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
26^th Goosander: Duck with 4 ducklings On River between Manor Farm & Cosgrove Park Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
26^th Hobby: Willen Lake North, Willen Lakes (BuBC)
26^th Arctic Tern: 2 – Willen Lake South in the ski-tow area (BuBC)
26^th Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper and Ringed Plover. Overhead: two Swifts.Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
26^th Wheatear: 2 – Ravenstone STW, On fence by rabbit bank (BuBC)
26^th Swift: Tattenhoe Park flying low over fields and ponds, Milton Keynes SP824331 (Harry Appleyard)
26^th Early Purple Orchid: 16 in flower in Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
25^th Oak apple galls Biorhiza pallida: – many on veteran Oak near Shenley Wood (Mike LeRoy)
25^th Yellow Wagtail: 2 – Olney Down from the Mill (BuBC)
25^th Common Sandpiper: Olney. Down from the Mill.(BuBC)
25^th Common Sandpiper: 2 – Linford Lakes NR Sitting on poles in front of near hide.(BuBC)
25^th Lesser Whitethroat: 2 -opposite building works for Kents Hill school (BuBC)
24^th Arctic Terns: 2 and 42 Common Terns – WIllen Lake South (BuBC)
24^th Hobby and 2 each of Ringed Plover & Little Ringed Plover – WIllen Lake North (BuBC)
24^th Common Sandpiper: 2 Floodplain Forest NR SP80942 (BuBC)
24^th Goosander: Female with 10 young – Olney (BuBC)
24^th Ring Ouzel: 1 male in Tattenhoe Park (Harry Appleyard)

Ring Ouzel, by Harry Appleyard, Tattenhoe Park 24 April 2017

24^th Yellow Wagtail: 1 calling in flight over Tattenhoe Park (Harry Appleyard)
23^rd Small Copper Butterfly: 1 near Water Spinney, Tattenhoe (Harry Appleyard)
23^rd Holly Blue Butterfly: 1 male basking near Tattenhoe allotments (Harry Appleyard)
23^rd Large Red Damselfly: Large numbers around Tattenhoe ponds (Harry Appleyard)

Meadow saxifrage by Jenny Mercer, Stony Stratford NR 23 April 2017

23^rd Meadow Saxifrage, Cuckoo Flower, Ground Ivy –
in Parks Trust meadow on immediately to left at junction of Car park access road and Queen Eleanor St§ ( Stony Stratford loop road/ by pass) (Jenny Mercer)
23^rd Badgers: 3 – Old Wolverton (Martin Kincaid)
23^rd Slow Worms: 2, 1 Common Lizard – Rushmere Country Park. (Martin Kincaid)
23^rd Cetti’s Warbler: 2 – Willen Lake North Both singing, 1 by hide, other along western edge. (BuBC)
23^rd Common Sandpiper: 2 -Willen Lake South, On the Pontoon (BuBC)
23^rd – Poplar Hawk-moth in Gordon Redford’s trap, Linford Lakes N.R. (Martin Kincaid)
22^nd – Tree Sparrows, Yellowhammers, Linnets and Skylarks in fields outside Little Linford Wood. (Martin Kincaid)
22^nd – Ruff, 4 Redshank, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Wheatear – Floodplain Forest N.R. (Martin Kincaid)
21^st – Shelduck – a pair at Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
21^st Tree Sparrows – Wood Farm (derelict) west of Little Linford Wood (Mike LeRoy)
21^st Skylarks: 4 singing – near Wood Farm (west of Little Linford Wood) (Mike LeRoy)
22^nd Cetti’s Warbler: Singing – Foxcote Res. (BuBC)
22^nd Ruff: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
21^st Goosander: fem – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
21^st Yellow Wagtail:- Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
21^st Yellow Wagtail:- Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
21^st Osprey: flew west, low and slow- Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
21^st Reed Warbler: 2 singing- Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
21^st Sedge Warbler: 2 singing- Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
21^st Common Sandpiper: Bradwell New Workings, Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
21^st Whitethroat: Singing – Padbury. (BuBC)
21^st Pintail: Foxcote (BuBC)
20^th Lesser Whitethroat: 1 singing in Tattenhoe Park (Harry Appleyard)
20^th Sedge Warbler: – Emberton (BuBC)
20^th American Robin in Kingswood village (BuBC)
20^th Grasshopper Warbler: 2 – Arncott MOD (BuBC)
20^th Lesser Whitethroat : 2 – Arncott MOD (BuBC)
20^th Whitethroat : 3 – Arncott MOD (BuBC)
19^th Meadow Saxifrage just coming into flower Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)
19^th Cuckoo : Olney Meadows (BuBC)
19^th Wheatear: male -Ravenstone STW. On rabbit bank (BuBC)
19^th Lesser Whitethroat: Calling male – Hardmead (BuBC)
19^th Cetti’s Warbler: male – Olney near the children’s play area on Weston Road (BuBC)
19^th Blackbird: 2 Juvenile calling near Tattenhoe Linear Park (Harry Appleyard)
19^th Ruby Tiger Moth: 1 near Kingsmead Wood (Harry Appleyard)
19^th Large White Butterfly in Tattenhoe Park (Harry Appleyard)
19^th Garden Warbler: 1 singing in Tattenhoe Park (Harry Appleyard)
19^th Common Whitethroat: 1 singing near Kingsmead Wood (Harry Appleyard)
19^th Whitethroat: OU and Simpson (BuBC)
19^th Reed Warblers: Simpson pond (BuBC)
18^th Large Red Damselfly: 12 around Tattenhoe (Harry Appleyard)

Large Red Damselfly by Harry Appleyard, Tattenhoe 18 April 2017

18^th Holly Blue Butterfly: 1 basking by Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
18^th Scorpion-fly: Male in Tattenhoe Park (Harry Appleyard)
18^th Yellow Wagtail: 3 in flight near Howe Park Wood (Heading east) (Harry Appleyard)
18^th Redstart: 1 male by field by Winfold Lane, near Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
18^th Ring Ouzel: female – Quainton Hills. On east slopes. (BuBC)
18^th Lesser Whitethroat : Turweston Airfield, East, Turweston (BuBC)
18^th Osprey: Bradville SP842406. Over the A422 towards linford lakes. (BuBC)
17^th Ring-necked Parakeet: 2 – 2 flew over Sherwood Drive just outside Bletchley Park Museum (BuBC)
17^th Yellow Wagtail: 5 (male) – Ravenstone STW, On the works.(BuBC
17^th Wheatear: 4 – Ravenstone STW, Above the rabbit bank. (BuBC)
17^th House Martin: 4 – Foxcote Res (BuBC)
17^thWheatear: male – Lillingstone Dayrell.(BuBC)
17^th Cuckoo – Lillingstone Dayrell.(BuBC)
17^th Swallows, Sand Martins and House Martins Caldecotte both lakes. (BuBC)
17^th Cetti’s Warbler and Reed Warblers – Caldecotte both lakes (BuBC)
17^th Yellow Wagtail: Caldecotte south lake. (BuBC)
17^th House Martin: with Swallows – Olney  (BuBC)
17^th Cetti’s Warbler: Olney near the children’s play area on Weston Road (BuBC)
17^th Sedge Warbler: 2 – Olney near the children’s play area on Weston Road (BuBC)
17^th Grasshopper Warbler: 2 – Olney near the children’s play area on Weston Road (BuBC)
17^th Goosander: 5 – Olney – On the river down from the Mill.  (BuBC)
17^th Yellow Wagtail: 6 – Olney. On the Meadows just down from the Mill.  (BuBC)
16^th Yellow Wagtail:5 – Olney. On the Meadows with the pied.  (BuBC)
16^th Cuckoo: heard calling – Linford Lakes NR  (BuBC)
16^th Grey Partridge: 2 – Ravenstone STW  (BuBC)
16^th House Martin: 3 – Linford Lakes NR  (BuBC)
16^th Cuckoo : Hardmead (BuBC)
16^th Reed Warbler: 2 – Willen Lake North  (BuBC)
16^th Cetti’s Warbler : 3 singing males – Willen Lake North  (BuBC)
16^th Sedge Warbler : 4 singing males – Willen Lake North  (BuBC)
16^th Sedge Warbler : 1 showing very well at end of bandstand peninsula – Willen Lake South (BuBC)
15^th Roesel’s Bush cricket, Metrioptera roeselii: 1st stage instar along the butterfly bank – Linford Lakes NR (Simon Bunker)
15^th Kingfisher: along the section of stream between the railway & industrial estate of Bradwell Abbey, from the railway tunnel to the A5 underpass into wymbush  (Paul Manchester)
15^th Great Crested Grebe on nest by the edge of the water at lodge lake on the corner by the Kam Tong Garden.  (Paul Manchester)
15^th Wheatear: five males, two females; feeding on insects on cultivated field – Lillingstone Dayrell  (BuBC)
14^th Common Whitethroat: 1 in full song by Kingsmead Wood (Ringed on right leg) (Harry Appleyard)
14^th Swallow: 1 in flight over Tattenhoe (Harry Appleyard)
12^th Bee Orchid leaf rosettes: 47 – Walton Hall on large lawn north now of the Jennie Lee Building (Kevin Ryan)
12^th Bee Orchid leaf rosettes: 8 – Walton Hall At rear (south) of Jennie Lee Building on small square of uncut grass more marked with explanatory board provided by “Estates Ground Team” (Kevin Ryan)
12^th Wheatear: male – Ravenstone STW, On rabbit bank. (BuBC)
12^th Sand martins plus a few Swallows – Foxcote Res (BuBC)
11^th Redstarts at Tongwell Lake (BuBC)
11^th Cetti’s Warbler : Mount Farm (BuBC)
11^th Redstart: male – North Marston in Horse paddock (BuBC)
11^th Yellow Wagtail: 2 – Olney Meadows (BuBC)
10^th Bee Orchid leaf rosettes: 2 – Walton Hall SP 885 369 (Kevin Ryan)
10^th Bee Orchid leaf rosettes: 98 – Crownhill SP 8260 3765 (Kevin Ryan)
10^th Leucojum aestivum (Summer snowflake) – Stony Stratford Along the banks of the river Great Ouse  (Mary Sarre)
10^thMarsh Marigold – Stony Stratford Along the banks of the river Great Ouse  (Mary Sarre)
09^thCetti’s Warbler :- Willen Lake North, Willen Lakes heard , 1 either side of hide (BuBC)
09^th Common Tern- Willen Lake North (BuBC)
9^th Little Tern: 2 – Foxcote Reservoir (BuBC)
9^th Pintail: 2 – Willen Lake North, pair on spit (BuBC)
9^th Hedgehog i active in my garden in Woburn Sands (Viola Read)
8^th Yellow Wagtail: Olney – On the river spit down from the Mill (BuBC)
8^th Redstart at Blue Lagoon (BuBC)
7^th Wheatear: Female near Warrington Lodge Farm (BuBC)
7^th Toad spawn: large quantity in pond in Aspley wood near old fullers earth workings (Viola Read)
7^th Goldeneye: 2 – Foxcote Res (BuBC)
7^th Slender Groundhopper’s x3. Tetrix subulata – Linford Lakes NR round the back of the centre just at the end of the wooden walkway (Simon Bunker)
7^th Slender Groundhopper x2. Tetrix undulata – Linford Lakes NR, round the back of the centre just at the end of the wooden walkway (Simon Bunker)
7^th Osprey: Newport Pagnell – Flying over (BuBC)
6^th Grasshopper Warbler singing – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
6^th Kingfisher – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
6^th Redshank: 2 on island North Willen Lake (Martin Kincaid)
6^th Great White Egret on island North Willen Lake (Martin Kincaid)
5^th Goldeneye : Foxcote Res. (BuBC)
5^th Ringed Plover: 2 – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
5^th Green Veined White butterfly – Stony Stratford NR (Martin Kincaid)
5^th Snakeshead Fritillaries: 3 – Stony Stratford NR (Martin Kincaid)
5^th Green Sandpiper Floodplain Forest NR (Joe Clinch)
4^th Blackcap singing Caldecotte Lake (Joe Clinch)
3^rd Waxwings: 7 still present at Calverton End, Stony Stratford (Joe Clinch)

Waxwing by Julian Lambley, Stony Stratford 3 April 2017

3^rd Holly Blue Butterfly: 1 in Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
3^rd Speckled Wood Butterfly: 1 in Water Spinney, Tattenhoe (Harry Appleyard)
3^rd Orange Tip Butterflies: Several males around Tattenhoe (Harry Appleyard)

Male Orange Tip Butterfly by Harry Appleyard, Howe Park Wood 3 April 2017

3^rd Redwing: 1 in Tattenhoe Park (Harry Appleyard)
3^rd Swallow: Padbury (BuBC)
3^rd Lapwings nesting on island – Stony Stratford NR (Martin Kincaid)
3^rd Skylark nesting – Stony Stratford NR (Martin Kincaid)
2^nd Bluebells, Daphne laureola and coltsfoot all in flower – Finemere wood (Mary Sarre)
2^nd Marsh Harrier: Female over Bletchley Bus Station (BuBC)
1^st Cardamine pratensis, Ladies Smock in full flower – Little Linford Wood (Julian Lambley)
1^st April – Common Shrew, Water Shrew, Wood-mouse, Rabbit, Fox, Badger (3), Muntjac deer (2) and 1 Noctule bat – (Linford Lakes Mammal Group)
1^st Red kites: 3 flying over Stony at the same time, displaying (Michèle Welborn)
1^st Buzzards: 2 displaying over Stony Stratford (Michèle Welborn)
1^st Willow Warbler – Buckingham (BuBC)
1^st Sand martins – Linford Lakes NR checking out the holes at the near hide (BuBC)
1^st Redstart: fem fly catching in sunshine nr entrance – Foxcote Res. (BuBC)
1^st Goldeneye: 2 – Foxcote Res (BuBC)

March 2017

31^st Bee-flies and Ashy Mining Bees near car park – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
31^st Calocybe gambosa , St George’s fungus . Stony Stratford. (Julian Lambley)
31^st Swallow: 4 – Foxcote Reservoir (BuBC)
31^st Sand Martins – Foxcote Reservoir (BuBC)
31^st Sandwich Terns: 3 on the ski pontoon on Willen south (BuBC)
30^th Common Tern: 2 – Willen (BuBC)
30^th Willow Warbler: 1 singing near St.Giles Church, Tattenhoe (Harry Appleyard)
30^th Swallow: 1 in flight over Kingsmead Wood, heading towards Westcroft (Harry Appleyard)
30^th Small White Butterfly: 1 near Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
30^th Orange Tip Butterfly: 1 by Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
29^th Cetti’s Warbler : Newport Pagnell next to the footbridge into riverside meadow off willen road (BuBC)
27^th Fallow deer – Pilch Field NR (Jenny Mercer)
27^th Hare – Pilch Field NR (Jenny Mercer)
27^th Waxwings: 7 – Calverton End, Stony Stratford (Joe Clinch)
27^th Little Ringed Plover: 3 – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
27^th Snipe: 2 – Floodplain Forest NR (Joe Clinch)
27^th Oyster Catchers 2 – Floodplain Forest NR (Joe Clinch)
27^th Little Ringed Plover 2 – Floodplain Forest NR (Joe Clinch)
27^th Redshank – Floodplain Forest NR (Joe Clinch)
26^th Avocet, Foxcote (BuBC)
26^th Redshank: 2 Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
26^th Swallow: Whitchurch. (BuBC)
26^th Green Sandpiper – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
25^th Swallow – Claydon Lakes. (BuBC)
25^th Possible Egyptian goose – Floodplain Forest NR (Phil Sarre)
25^th Wood anemone – Little Linford Wood (Mary Sarre)
25^th Early Dog violet – Little Linford Wood (Mary Sarre)
25^th Barren strawberry – Little Linford Wood (Mary Sarre)
25^th Wood sorrel – Little Linford Wood (Mary Sarre)
25^th Comma butterfly (2) – Little Linford Wood (Mary Sarre)
25^th Little Owl in tree on edge of Gayhurst – (Mary Sarre)Park.
25^th Sand Martin: Stowe.First back at breeding site. (BuBC)
24^th Wood anemones – Shenley Wood. (Mary Sarre)
24^th Primroses – Shenley Wood. (Mary Sarre)
24^th Celandines, – Shenley Wood. (Mary Sarre)
24^th Sweet violets, (white and Purple) – Calverton (Mary Sarre)
24^th Gorse in flower along V2 Medbourn (Mary Sarre)
24^th Little Ringed Plover: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
24^th Waxwing: 23 in oak tree about half way down Hendrix Drive, Crownhill (BuBC)
23^rd Goosander: 2 (m+f) – Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
23^rd Redwing: 50+ briefly in Walnut Tree (BuBC)
22^nd Bluebells: Starting to flower in Howe Park Wood and Water Spinney, Tattenhoe (Harry Appleyard)
22^nd Cowslips: large numbers of in flower – Atterbury (Martin Kincaid)
22^nd Bee-fly Bombylius major – 2 seen visiting primroses along Railway Walk, Great Linford (Martin Kincaid)
22^nd Common Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum – Great Linford (Martin Kincaid)
21^st Snipe: 12 – Stony Stratford Nature Reserve (Martin Kincaid)
21^st Wheatear – a female at Stanton Low (close to St Peter’s Church) (Martin Kincaid)
21^st Goosander: 7 (3 ad male,1 imm male,3 fem) Olney (BuBC)
21^st Caspian Gull: Quainton Hills. In sheep field. (BuBC)
21^st Iceland Gull: Quainton Hills. In sheep field. (BuBC)
21^st First Aylesbury peregrine egg of the 2017 season laid (BuBC)
20^th Bearded Tit: female at Willen in reedbed in front of hospice (BuBC)
20^th Sand Martin: 13 at Willen Lake South (BuBC)
20^th Iceland Gull: Quainton Hills (BuBC)
20^th Herring Gull: Calvert Landfill (BuBC)
20^th Bittern: Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
20^th Common Sandpiper: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
19^th Red Kite: Bletchley (Raymond Copeland)
19^th Cetti’s Warbler : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
19^th Red Kite: Shenley Church End (Peter Hassett)
18^th Iceland Gull: 2 Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
18^th Cetti’s Warbler : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
18^th Iceland Gull : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
18^th Bearded Tit: female – Willen Lake North in front of the Peace Pagoda, in the reedbed just in front of the wooden posts (BuBC)
18^th Shelduck: Floodplain Forest NR (Peter Hassett)
18^th Red Admiral: Floodplain Forest NR (Peter Hassett)
18^th Little Ringed Plover: Floodplain Forest NR (Peter Hassett)
17^th Caspian Gull: 3 Calvert (BuBC)
17^th Iceland Gull : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
17^th Little Ringed Plover: Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
17^th Black Redstart: Imm – Central Milton Keynes. On the waste ground opposite large car park between Argos and Sainsbury’s. (BuBC)
15^th Brimstone butterflies: 5 male – Bradwell Common (Mike LeRoy)
15^th Small Tortoiseshell butterflies: 4 – Bradwell Common (Mike LeRoy)
15^th Waxwings: 30 in oldbrook behind lidl and tesco in play park (BuBC)
14^th Red-tailed Bumblebee: 2 in Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)

Red-tailed Bumblebee by Harry Appleyard, Howe Park Wood 14 March 2017

14^th Chiffchaff: 8 singing around Tattenhoe (Harry Appleyard)
14^th Skylark: 1 singing near Tattenhoe Park (Harry Appleyard)
14^th Wood Anemone Anemone nemorosa flowering – Linford Wood (Mike LeRoy)
14^th Dog’s Mercury Mercurialis perennis flowering – Linford Wood (Mike LeRoy)
14^th House Sparrows: mating – Stony Stratford garden (Michèle Welborn)
14^th Eristalis pertinax Stony Stratford garden (Michèle Welborn)
14^th Vole: Linford Lakes NR (Mark Lynham)

Bank Vole by Mark Lynham, Linford Lakes NR, 14 March 2017

13^th Skylark singing above Bury Field Common, Newport Pagnell (Arthur Allen)
13^th Robins: mating – Stony Stratford garden (Michèle Welborn)
13^th Warbler: Newport Pagnell GP (BuBC)
13^th Sand Martin, Dadford (BuBC)
13^th Sand Martin, College Lake (BuBC)
13^th Buzzard: 5 at Willen Lake North (BuBC)
13^thWaterail: calling – Lodge Lake (BuBC)
13^thchiffchaff – Lodge Lake (BuBC)
13^thsparow hawk: female – Lodge Lake (BuBC)
13^thStonechat: male – Stony Stratford (BuBC)
13^thGoosander, Stony Stratford(BuBC)
13^th Green Sandpiper: Willen Lake North (BuBC)
13^thChiffchaff: Willen Lake North (BuBC)
13^thRedshank : Willen Lake North (BuBC)
13^thComma, Brimstone and small tortoiseshell butterfly Stony Stratford (Julian Lambley)
12^thPochard: Leucistic drake – Foxcote (BuBC)
11^th Redshank : Willen Lake North (BuBC)
11^th Goosander: Male – Floodplain Forest Nature Reserve (BuBC)
11^th Goldeneye: 13 at Foxcote Reservoir (BuBC)
11^th Muntjac: 1 barking in Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
11^th Common Toad: 46 around Tattenhoe (Harry Appleyard)
11^th Marsh Tit: 1 in Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
11^th Skylark: 2 singing near Tattenhoe Park (Harry Appleyard)
11^th Chiffchaff: 2 singing around Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
11^th Waxwings: by roundabout on Douglas Place, Oldbrook. (BuBC)
10^th Hedgehog: Shenley Church End (Peter Hassett)
10^th Common Toad: 33 around Tattenhoe (Harry Appleyard)
10^th Cetti’s Warbler: 2 Calvert BBOWT Lake, Roosting in reeds. (BuBC)
10^th Bittern : Calvert BBOWT Lake, Roosting in reeds. (BuBC)
9^th Goosander: male – Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
8^th Little Egret: 5 at Old Haversham behind church feeding in horse field. (BuBC)
7^th Tree Sparrow : Tingewick (BuBC)
7^th Water rail right outside hide, Foxcote (BuBC)
7^th Fieldfare (some Redwing) in hedge leading to hide. Foxcote (BuBC)
7^th white-faced Tufties. Foxcote (BuBC)
7^th Stonechat (? pair) on b/w fence along minor road from Foscott Park to A422 (BuBC)
6^th Hedgehog active in back garden (Newport Pagnell) (Arthur Allen)
6^th Water Rail : Caldecotte Lake SP890347 (BuBC)
5^th Waxwings (3) feeding on cotoneaster berries, Calverton End, Stony Stratford (Joe Clinch)
5^th Oystercatchers:4 , 5 Red Kite and still 2 Stonechat at Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
5^th Scaup : Foxcote Res. female. (BuBC)
5^th Goldeneye: 11 at Foxcote Res. (BuBC)
4^th White-fronted Goose: 40 Hillesden. (BuBC)
4^th Goosander (3 male 2 female) Floodplain Forest NR (Joe Clinch)
4^th Stonechat (2 male 1 female) Floodplain Forest NR (Joe Clinch)
4^th Great Crested Grebe (pair nest building) Floodplain Forest NR (Joe Clinch)
4^th Cattle Egret : Fenny Stratford.  In field with cattle West of the A5 (BuBC)
4^th Goosander: Two pairs Hartwell House Lake, Upper Hartwell village (BuBC)
3^rdCaspian Gull : Calvert Sailing Lake (BuBC)
3^rd Waxwings: 30 in Kristal Place Oldbrook, feeding on berries (BuBC)
3^rd White-fronted Goose: north of Wing Road about a mile east of Cublington. (BuBC)
2^nd Bittern in full view – Linford Lakes NR  (Mike LeRoy)
2^nd Great-crested Grebe: two pairs of – Linford Lakes NR  (Mike LeRoy)
2^nd Lapwing: 46 – Linford Lakes NR  (Mike LeRoy)
2^nd Oystercatchers: 2 – Linford Lakes NR  (Mike LeRoy)
2^nd Bittern : Calvert BBOWT Lake, Calvert (BuBC)
2^nd Long-Tailed Tit: Pair nest-building in Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
2^nd Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly: 1 near Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
2^nd Cattle Egret : Fenny Stratford.  In field with cattle East of the A5 (BuBC)
1^st Buff-tailed Bumblebee – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
1^st Brimstone butterfly: female – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
1^st Great Crested Newts active – Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
1^st Colt’s Foot in flower – South Willen Lake (Martin Kincaid)
1^st Scaup – female still at Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)

February 2017

28^th Danish Scurvygrass coming into flower along Queen Eleanor Street, Stony Stratford (Martin Kincaid)
28^th Primroses in flower along H7 (Fishermead) and at Bradwell Abbey. (Martin Kincaid)
28^th Goldeneye: 22 at Foxcote Reservoir. (BuBC)
28^th Mediterranean Gull: First winter in roost. Foxcote Res. (BuBC)
27^th Cherry (Myrobalan) Plum Prunus cerasifera tree breaking into blossom – first one at Witan Gate/Bradwell Common roundabout (Mike LeRoy)
27^th Bittern : Calvert BBOWT Lake (BuBC)
26^th Goldeneye: 15 Willen Lake South (BuBC)
26^th Cattle Egret : Fenny Stratford. Still, in field West of A5 (BuBC)
25^th White-fronted Goose : 41 at Hillesden (BuBC)
25^th Jack Snipe : Floodplain Forest Nature Reserve opp Farm Hide. (BuBC)
25^th Bean Goose : Hillesden. (BuBC)
25^th Cattle Egret : Fenny Stratford. Still, in field West of A5 (BuBC)
24^th Bittern : Calvert BBOWT Lake, Calvert. (BuBC)
24^th Bean Goose : Hillesden. (BuBC)
24^th White-fronted Goose : 40 at Hillesden (BuBC)
24^th Goldeneye: 13 at Foxcote Reservoir (BuBC)
24^th Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly: 2 in Tattenhoe (Harry Appleyard)
24^th Tree Bumblebee: 1 near Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
24^th Buff-tailed Bumblebee: Large numbers around Pussy Willow trees in Tattenhoe (Harry Appleyard)

Tree Bumblebee by Harry Appleyard, Tattenhoe 24 February 2017

24^th Bank Vole: 2 in Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
24^th Red Kite: 2 circling near Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
24^th Cattle Egret: Fenny Stratford in field adjacent to Dobbies Garden Centre. (BuBC)
23^rd Goldeneye: 19 at Willen Lake South (BuBC)
23^rd Cattle Egret: Fenny Stratford in favoured field East of A5 (BuBC)
22^ndWhite-fronted Goose : 40 at Hillesden (BuBC)
21^st Stonechat: pair Manor Farm Quarry by Farm Hide (BuBC)
21^st Cattle Egret: Fenny Stratford in favoured field west of A5. (BuBC)
20^th White-fronted Goose : 40 at Hillesden (BuBC)
20^th Bean Goose: Hillesden. In long grass to the right of the main pool, looking from the path (BuBC)
20^th Comma and Brimstone butterflies at Community Orchard, Woughton on the Green (Martin Kincaid)
20^th Buff-tailed Bumblebee – a queen at Woughton on the Green (Martin Kincaid)
20^th Grass Snake basking at Walton Lake (Martin Kincaid)
20^th Woodcock and 2 Red Kites at Elfield Nature Park (Martin Kincaid)
20^th Frogspawn – lots of in ponds at Elfield Nature Park (Martin Kincaid)
18^th Whirligig Beetles in pond at Little Linford Wood (Martin Kincaid & Joe Clinch)
20^thRed kites: 3 and one buzzard circling low over centre Woburn Sands 12.30 (Viola Read)
20^th Goldeneye: 23 Willen Lake South. (BuBC)
19^th Frogs: 10, probably males in our pond yesterday, and last night escorted a frog across the road (Mary & Phil Sarre)
19^th Oyster Catcher (1) at Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)
19^th Goosander (pair) at Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)
19^th Shoveller (3) at Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)
19^th Reed Bunting (8) at Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)
19^th Greenfinch (10) at Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)
19^th Bullfinch (1) at Stony Stratford NR (Joe Clinch)
19^th Bank Vole in tussock grass near bank of River Ouse Stony Stratford (Joe Clinch)
19^th Stonechat : male – Ravenstone STW, (BuBC)
19^th Cattle Egret : Fenny Stratford. On the east side of the A5 with cattle, (BuBC)
19^th Waxwing: 16 at West Bletchley SP841330. (BuBC)
19^th Scaup: male Linford Lakes NR -last seen between the centre and bund at 13.30. (BuBC)
19^th Waxwing: Group of 22 over Tattenhoe Park heading towards Tattenhoe (Harry Appleyard)
18^th Whirligig Beetles in pond at Little Linford Wood (Martin Kincaid & Joe Clinch)
18^th Little Grebes: 2 from the Far Hide. Linford Lakes NR (Amanda and Mark Lynham)
18^th Fieldfare about 20-30 near the car park. Linford Lakes NR (Amanda and Mark Lynham)
18^th Bank Vole Linford Lakes NR (Peter Hassett)

Bank Vole by Peter Hassett, Linford Lakes NR 18 February 2017

18^th Goldcrest Linford Lakes NR (Peter Hassett)

Firecrest by Peter Hassett, Linford Lakes NR 18 February 2017

18th Cattle Egret : Fenny Stratford approx 500 metres up the A5 from the roundabout on the West side of the road. (BuBC)
18^th Scaup: female still at Linford Lakes NR (Peter Hassett)
17^th Red Kite: 3 Circling above houses.Two Mile ash SP8203. (BuBC)
17^th Tawny Owl: 1 Roosting in Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
17^th Honey Bees: Large numbers feeding on Pussy Willow buds around Tattenhoe (Harry Appleyard)
17^th Buff-tailed Bumblebee: 3 by Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
17^th Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly: 1 by Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
17^th Crocus: Purple and Yellow Flowers near Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
17^th Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly: 1 Shenley Church End (Peter Hassett)

Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly by Peter Hassett , Shenley Church End 17 February 2017

17^th Red Kite : Shenley Church End (Peter Hassett)
16^th Goosander : 6 at Emberton. On lake just to right of visitor entrance. (BuBC)
16^th Tree Sparrow : 2 (male) at Dag lane Stoke Goldington. (BuBC)
16^th Skylark: 1 Singing over fields near Tattenhoe Park (Harry Appleyard)
16^th Red Kite: Multiple birds circling over Tattenhoe and Kingsmead (Harry Appleyard)
16^th Marsh Tit: 1 in Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)

Marsh Tit by Harry Appleyard, Howe Park Wood 16 February 2017

16^th Chaffinch: 1 singing in Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
16^th Smooth Newt: 1 in Kingsmead (Harry Appleyard)
16^th Water Rail: 1 in Tattenhoe Linear Park (Harry Appleyard)

Water Rail by Harry Appleyard, Tattenhoe Linear Park 16 February 2017

16^th Cattle Egret : feeding with cattle EAST of the A5 opposite Crossroads Farm at SP 896 338. (BuBC)
16^th White-fronted Goose at Claydon (BuBC)
15^th Cattle Egret near Caldecotte Lake SP892337 (BuBC)
15^th Bean Goose : Claydon Lakes. (BuBC)
14^th Goosander : 12 (male 6, fem 6) : Emberton SP881502 (BuBC)
14^th Skylarks singing over Floodplain Forest NR (Martin Kincaid)
14^th 6 Snipe, 3 Kestrels and Little Owl – Floodplain Forest NR (Martin Kincaid)
14^th Bittern and female Scaup still at Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
14^th Stonechats : 2 at Stanton Low (Martin Kincaid)
14^th Cetti’s Warbler : Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
14^th Bean Goose : Claydon Lakes. (BuBC)
14^th White-fronted Goose : 41 at Hillesden (BuBC)
14^th 5 Pintail : Foxcote Res. 4 males + female.(BuBC)
13^th Goosander : (2 ad male,1juv male,2 fem) Olney (BuBC)
13^th Goldeneye : 6 pairs Willen Lake south (Ann Strutton)
12^th Water Rail : from hide number 3 Linford Lakes NR (Mark Lynham)

Water Rail by Mark Lynham, Linford Lakes NR 12 February 2017

12^th Little Owl (calling) at dusk today hedgerow Passenham side of the River Ouse, Stony Stratford (Joe Clinch)
12^th Bean Goose : Middle Claydon, east of Old Blackmore hill farm (BuBC)
12^th Goosander : 2 at Stony Stratford, (BuBC)
11^th Red kites, one over Newport Pagnell High Street, one over Willen Church (Ann Strutton)
11^th Scaup : female Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
11^th White-fronted Goose : 41 at Hillesden (BuBC)
11^th Goosander :13 at Emberton (BuBC)
11^th Bean Goose at Blackmorehill Farm between Middle Claydon and Calvert (BuBC)
10th Redwings : 10+ Willen Lake Poplar plantation (Ann Strutton)
10th Cetti’s warbler and Water Rail Willen Lake north (Ann Strutton)
10^th Bean Goose : Claydon Lakes. (BuBC)
9^th White-fronted Goose : 41 at Hillesden (BuBC)
09^th Stonechat : Bradwell New Workings, Manor Farm Quarry. (BuBC)
8^th Water Rail: 2 in Tattenhoe Linear Park (Harry Appleyard)
8^th Common Scoter, Calvert (BuBC)
8^th White-fronted Goose : 41 at Hillesden (BuBC)
7^th Waxwings : 2 outside The Point, Milton Keynes at 8:36. (BuBC)
7^th Magpies building nest, Emerson Valley (Harry Appleyard)
7^th Male Wigeon, Emerson Valley brook (Harry Appleyard)
7^th Red Kites circling regularly over Tattenhoe (Harry Appleyard)
7^th Marsh Tit, Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
7^th Buff-tailed bumblebee and small group of honey bees, Howe Park Wood (Harry Appleyard)
7^th Snowdrops flowering in Tattenhoe Linear Park (Harry Appleyard)

Snowdrops by Harry Appleyard , Tattenhoe 4 February 2017

Snowdrops – Harry Appleyard, Tattenhoe 4 February 2017

6^th Cetti’s Warbler : Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
6^th Goosander : 6 at Floodplain Forest NR  (BuBC)
6^th Stonechat at Floodplain Forest NR  (BuBC)
6^th Pintail : Male at Floodplain Forest NR  (BuBC)
6^th White-fronted Goose : 39 at Hillesden. (BuBC)
5^th Caspian Gull : Willen Lake South (BuBC)
5^th Goosander : 2 pairs Gayhurst Quarry. (BuBC)
5^th Goosander : 2 Tongwell (BuBC)
5^th Goosander : 2 at Stony Stratford NR,  (BuBC)
5^th Golden Plover : 4 Tongwell (BuBC)
5^th Peregrine Falcons: 2 StadiumMK (BuBC)
5^th Scaup: female Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
5^th White-fronted Goose 39 at Hillesden. (BuBC)
5^th Cetti’s Warbler Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
5^th Mandarin duck – pair at Stony Stratford NR (Martin Kincaid)
5^th Grey Wagtail – , riverside walk. (Martin Kincaid)
4^th Snipe: 6 outside hide at North Willen Lake (Martin Kincaid)

Snipe by Tony Woods at Willen Lake, 4 February 2017

4th Water Rail outside hide at North Willen Lake (Martin Kincaid)
4^th Fine display of Snowdrops in woodland at Campbell Park (Martin Kincaid)
4^th Jack Snipe: 15:00 at Linford Lakes NR on the bund. (BuBC)
4^th Waxwing: 18 at Bradwell Common, by footbridge from Hadley Place over H5. (Mike LeRoy)
4^th White-fronted Goose :39 (ad/juv) at Hillesden. (BuBC)
4^th Pintail: 2 mail at Floodplain Forest NR. To the right of Farm Hide. (BuBC)
4^thScaup female Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
4^th Northern Pintail male Linford Lakes NR (BuBC).
03^rd Bean Goose : Hillesden. (BuBC)
03^rd White-fronted Goose 40 at Hillesden. (BuBC)
03^rd Goosander @ 11:30 : 4 pairs Emberton. (BuBC)
03^rd Waxwing @ 11:00 : 35 In car park off Secklow Gate. Central Milton Keynes, (BuBC)
02^nd Red-crested Pochard : Willen Lake South (BuBC)
02^nd Scaup : Willen Lake South near the climbing wall (BuBC)
02^nd Waxwings 37 @ 08:56. SW Corner of The Point car park CMK.(BuBC)
01^st Scarlet Elf Cup fungus Sarcoscypha coccinea – large quantities on dead wood at Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
01^st Siskins 30+ , female Scaup and Bittern at Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
01^st Waxwings. Flock of 30 in CMK, close to Christ the Cornerstone church (Harry Appleyard)
01^stBittern : Linford Lakes NR In usual reed bed as viewed from Far Hide. Please note permit is required for access (BuBC)
01^st Scaup : Linford Lakes NR Behind bund viewed from Far Hide. Please note permit is required for access (BuBC)
01^st Stonechat : 2 (pair) Linford Lakes NR (BuBC)
01^st Woodcock : Little Linford Wood. (BuBC)
01^st Waxwing 30 at 14:00 Milton Keynes SP853389. In the tops of trees on Midsummer Boulevard by the Point. (BuBC)

January 2017

31^st Jan – Common, Pygmy and Water Shrews all found under tins at Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
31^st Jan – Woodmice and Bank Voles in log piles at Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
30^th Jan – Snowdrops beginning to flower at Stony Stratford NR (Martin Kincaid)
29^th Winter Aconite, Eranthis hyemalis, in flower Calverton (Mary Sarre)
28^th Red Kite near Triple Star sculpture at Furzton Lake (Mike LeRoy)
27^th Stonechat (male) on Olney Meadows. (BuBC)
27^th Goosander (2 pairs) Caldecotte Lake North.  (BuBC)
27^th Short-eared Owl : Hollington Wood SP897483. (BuBC)
27^th Goosander 6 (3male,3 fem) On the river at Olney Mill.BuBC)
26^th Barnacle Goose among Canada goose flock at Floodplain Forest (Martin Kincaid)
26^th Snipe 5 at Floodplain Forest (Martin Kincaid)
26^th Marsh Tit on feeders at Stony Stratford Nature Reserve (Martin Kincaid)
26^th Bullfinches 4 beautiful male on the bird table at Summer Leys.(Julie Lane)
26^th Green woodpecker on the pasture near the lake at Summer Leys. (Julie Lane)
26^th Goosander 2 (pair) at Emberton Lakes which are 95% frozen. (BuBC)
26^th Woodcock – 1 seen in flight over houses Deanshanger Road, Stony Stratford (BuBC)
25^th Badger crossing the Haversham road above Linford Lakes. (Julie Lane)
24^th 6 snipe, kingfisher, bank vole Before the lakes froze, Willen Lake North (Ann Strutton)24^th Several pairs of golden eye after the lakes froze, Willen Lake South  (Ann Strutton)
24^th displaying wigeon after the lakes froze. Willen Lake South (Ann Strutton)
24^th 3 bank voles, 2 field mice! Caught in the Strutton’s attic. (Ann Strutton)
24^th Little Egret between the Iron Bridge & wooden foot bridge, Newport Pagnell (Arthur Allen)
23^rd Goosander (pair), River Ouse Stony Stratford (Joe Clinch)
23^rd Tree Creeper, tree by River Ouse Stony Stratford (Joe Clinch)
23^rd 3 Goosander, 2 male and one female on Great Ouse West of Stony. Moving about a lot. (Mary and Phil Sarre)
23^rd 3 Goosander (2 males, 1 fem), Caldecotte Lake on South lake  (BuBC)
23^rd Water Rail by the hide,  Walton Balancing Lake  (BuBC)
23^rd 24 Goldeneye, Willen Lake South (BuBC)
22^nd Woodcock : Linford Lakes NR  (BuBC)
22^nd 12 Goosander, 20+ Snipe at Floodplain Forest Nature Reserve (Ian Saunders)
22^nd Crossbills – small flock at Rushmere Country Park (Martin Kincaid)
22^nd Goldeneye – 12 (6 of each) Goldeneye : Willen Lake South  (BuBC)
21^st Goosander – 9 at Floodplain Forest NR (BuBC)
20^th 2 Bitterns roosting in reed bed at Linford Lakes NR (Martin Kincaid)
20^th Goosander (female) on River Ouse Stony Stratford (Joe Clinch)
20^th Grey Wagtail River Ouse Stony Stratford (Joe Clinch)
20^th Waxwing – Outside the Plumb Centre, Denbigh (BuBC)
20^th Goldeneye – 13 Willen Lake South
19^th Bittern one roosting at Walton Lake (hide facing out to H8) (MK)
18^th Peacock butterfly – seen at Walton Lake during Parks Trust work party (Martin Kincaid)
17^th Scaup – female at South Willen Lake (Martin Kincaid)
17^th 8 Common Snipe – outside hide at North Willen Lake. (Martin Kincaid)
17^th Bittern – in reeds at Linford Lakes Nature Reserve (Carol Watts)
15^th 30 Waxwings – in rowan trees outside IKEA, Denbigh (BuBC)
14^th Red kite -Linford Wood (Ann Strutton)
14^th 2 Waxwings – near Genesis House, CMK (Martin Kincaid)
14^th Water Rail and Kingfisher – North Willen Lake (Martin Kincaid)
13^th Otter – Willen Lake North yesterday at dusk (Ann Strutton)
13^th Siskins – Large group of near St.Giles Church, Tattenhoe (Harry Appleyard)

Male Siskin by Harry Appleyard, Tattenhoe 13 January 2017

13^thWater Shrew – Linford Lakes Nature Reserve (Martin Kincaid)
12^th Peregrine – Floodplain Forest (Ashley Beolens)
12^th Otter – flood control structure at North Willen Lake (Mark Strutton)
7^th Fieldfare – St.Giles Church orchard, Tattenhoe (Harry Appleyard)
7th Wigeon – Emerson Valley brook (Harry Appleyard)
4^th Bittern – 1 seen roosting at Linford Lakes at 4pm (Martin Kincaid)
4^th Goosander – A pair at Stony Stratford N.R (Martin Kincaid)
3^rd Wigeon – Loughton Brook, Emerson Valley (Harry Appleyard)
2^nd Waxwings – 15 reported from near Roade Main Garage, Roade
2^nd Barn Owl – one at Olney Meadows (Paul Moon)
1^st Water Rail – Willen North (Peter Hassett)
1^st Snowdrops – Willen Hospice
1^st 200 Jackdaws roosting at Linford Wood (Mike LeRoy)