Local Birding In Leighton Buzzard Area This Week

100 Acre birds

Common Tern

Linnet

Little Ringed Plover

Ringed Plover

Wheatear

Some fantastic images from Dene Gruber from 100 Acre, Meadow Lane GP, 30th April 2015.

Arctic and Common Terns

Two Arctic and two Common Terns, Broom GP, 20th April 2014.  These images just illustrate how difficult this species pair can be to identify.  Which are which in these images?

Dunstable Sewage Works Sunday 7th July 2013

What a lovely day weather wise in fact probably too hot at 28 deg! Had a great start to the day on the photography front, with some nice shots of Swift, Blackbird and Goldfinch in the garden early this morning before moving on to the Dunstable Sewage Works for a brief visit today as it was the first Sunday of the month.

Things were quite active at DSW this morning with lots of Sedge, Willow & Reed Warblers, Reed Bunting, Pied Wagtail, Dunnock, Wren, Blackcap, Canada Geese, Coot, Moorhen, Swift, House Martin, Buzzard, Mallard & Tufted Ducks, Magpie, Green Sandpiper, Common Tern, Black Headed Gulls and Heron amongst others, many with young by their sides.

I was treated to a blackcap singing in the car park on arrival, and on my travels around the site spotted all the above. Got some nice sequence shots of a Common Tern scanning the pond for a meal, it eventually dived and got the fish but I missed the important bit as usual?

Colour ringed Common Tern

This juv. Common Tern has spent the past week at Grovebury, it is one of the forty ringed at Wilstone Reservoir this year.