What’s About – week of 20th December 2016

INSECTS

Herald moth by Martin Kincaid, Manor Farm cellar

Herald moth by Martin Kincaid, Manor Farm cellar

Buff tailed bumblebee queen feeding at Mahonia in garden, Oldbrook (17th)
Small tortoiseshell and peacock butterflies and Herald moths hibernating in cellar, Manor Farm, Old Wolverton (18th)

MAMMALS

Otter at North Willen Lake (16-17 – Mark Strutton)

BIRDS

Great White Egret – one at Floodplain Forest (18th)
Bittern – one roosting high up in willow tree at Linford Lakes Nature Reserve (18th) Also Barn Owl and 3 Red Crested Pochard present.
Goosander – various numbers at Emberton Country Park, Tongwell Lake, South Willen, Stony Stratford Nature Reserve and Floodplain Forest.
Woodcock – one flushed in Linford Wood (16th)

(All sightings not otherwise attributed by Martin Kincaid)