YEARLISTING IN 2016

Compared to most recent years, when for example I recorded 165 species in the county in 2011, 187 in 2012 and 173 in 2013, this has been a particularly poor one with just 157 species recorded by mid December - one of my worst years on record

YEARLISTING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

It's all over - 2012 has come to an end. I managed a total of 187 out of the 198 species recorded all told in Buckinghamshire - 94% of the total - probably my highest-ever annual tally.

The current record is 191 species achieved in 2006 and held jointly by both Rob Hill and Simon Nichols



Tuesday 10 August 2010

BLACK-TAILED GODWITS at Foxcote

Two Black-tailed Godwits at Foxcote today. When I arrived there were two godwits hunched up asleep on the spit amongst a horde of Lapwings, and I took them to be the Bar-tailed reported earlier--and I texted Si Nicholls. However just as I had finished counting the Lapwings something spooked them. I didn't see the godwits fly, but they reappeared on the mud at the west end left of the hide when they could be seen to be Black-tailed (Phil Tizzard)