BIRDS
9 Common Snipe, Cetti’s Warbler – Willen Lake hide (18th Feb)
Bittern and 2 male Smew still at Hanson Centre, Linford Lakes (21st – Chris Coppock)
Peregrine hunting over Willen Lake (21st Feb)
10 Goosander at Manor Farm, Old Woverton (23rd Feb)
Lesser Redpoll – Tattenhoe Park (18th)
Fieldfares – Tattenhoe Park (20th)
Red Kite – Whaddon (22nd)
Water Rail Stony Stratford (19th)
2 male Smew, Goldeneye, pair of Stonechats, Marsh Tit – Hanson Centre 21st Feb
Little Egret Loughton Brook, Furzton, (21st).
MAMMALS
2 Bank Voles – Hanson Centre
Red Fox Vulpes vulpes
Brown rat Rattus norvegicus (both in Paul Lund’s Garden)
INSECTS
Red Admiral butterfly – Willen Lake (18th Feb)
Peacocks, Small Tortoiseshells and Herald Moths
hibernating in cellar at Manor Farm, Old Wolverton.
Peacock butterfly flying outside. (22nd Feb)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee queen – Oldbrook (21st Feb)
Small Tortoiseshell – Howe Park Wood (18th)
FLOWERS
Good displays of Snowdrops in Campbell Park woodlands.
Primroses in flower – Linford Wood and grid roads.
Coltsfoot in flower, Willen Lake (19th Feb)