MAMMALS

Pygmy Shrew recorded by Linford Lakes Mammal Group on 11^th – plus field sign of 10 other species including badger, mink, otter and Muntjac deer.

Noctule bat over Tattenhoe – 8^th (Harry Appleyard)

BIRDS

Female Scaup and Woodcock at Linford Lakes N.R. (11^th)

Red Kite over Shenley Church End – 11th (Peter Hassett)

Red Crested Pochard – pair still at South Willen Lake (9^th)

3 Stonechats on fence posts – Floodplain Forest Nature Reserve (7^th)

FUNGI

Oyster mushrooms Pleurotus spp. on willow stump at Floodplain Forest Nature Reserve (7^th)

Tremella mesenterica (Yellow Brain Fungus) – plentiful at Linford Lakes NR (11^th)

(All sightings not otherwise attributed by Martin Kincaid)