Recording Area Annual Totals

97 Species in 2013, 99 in 2012, 94 in 2011, 108 species were recorded in 2010;



Saturday 27 December 2008


Continuing a full winter census of all of the birds in the Amersham Recording Area

CHRISTMAS EVE 2008

FLAUNDEN LANE EAST: 26 Carrion Crows scattered widely in large grassy field N of lane

FLAUNDEN LANE WEST: 87 winter thrushes feeding in field immediately west of Kenwood Farm Nurseries (at TL 027 026) comprising 63 FIELDFARES and 24 REDWINGS; also 3 Common Starlings

FLAUNDEN VILLAGE (TL 017 009): 6 HOUSE SPARROWS in ivy hedgerow at 'White Walls' garden
8 European Robins resident in village, along with Great Spotted Woodpecker

In horse paddocks just SE of village (at TL 018 007), 305 Woodpigeons feeding on the ground, along with 8 Black-headed Gulls.

BOIS MILL LAKE (SU 982 995)

The sub-adult Sinensis Cormorant remains, along with 7 Mute Swans (5 first-winters) and 163 Canada Geese, with just 1 LITTLE EGRET nearby east of Bois Mill

STONY LANE PADDOCKS, LITTLE CHALFONT (TQ 004 980): 3 FIELDFARES present; wintering female Common Kestrel still

CHURCH GROVE POND, LITTLE CHALFONT (TQ 005 978): 3 Moorhens present

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