Day Out Flitwick Moore, Blows Down & Dunstable Sewage Works

Started out very early with my mate Mark on a quest to Flitwick Moore for the third time to try and get a decent picture of the Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers. Unfortunately I failed in this mission once again even after giving it 4-5 hours on site, saw the little beggars again at the bottom end by the bridges but no pictures!!

We did however bump into Great Spotted and Green Woodpeckers, Jay, Magpie, Crow, Jackdaw, Buzzard, Blackbird, Dunnock, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Chaffinch, Robin, loads of Wren & Treecreepers, Great, Blue and Long-tailed Tit. We then moved on to Blows Down where Wheatear and Ring Ouzel were reported, we only managed to catch up with the Wheatear, I then moved on to DSW where I ran into Teal, Mallard, Pochard, Snipe on the main scrape along with 2 Water Rail, lets hope they are a pair?

Great day out around Beds and thanks to Mark for his company and patience as we didn't get the LSW on film, we did try very hard, perhaps next time we will be lucky.

Intersex Mallard

Intersex female Mallard, Blunham Lake, 13th December 2013

Lovely morning at Dunstable Sewage works which is open to all Birders 08.00 to 12.00 on the 1st Sunday of every month. Bit short on water birds and waders as the Anglers were in when they shouldn't have been, but overall achieved 34 species seen this morning by me notably, Kingfisher, Yellowhammer, Corn Bunting, Wren, Dunnock, Pied or White Wagtail which was hawking for food, I couldn't work out which so posted a photo so any help appreciated, Common Whitethroat and lots of very noisy Reed & Sedge Warblers, there seem to be loads more Warblers on site this year than last. The Water Rail was heard on many occasions but didn't appear, I also got a report from 3 very reliable sources that we had a Turtle Dove flyover but as usual I missed that one.

White Or Pied???

Woke up this morning to a lovely crisp day, decided to try and track down the Mealy & Lesser Redpolls, Siskin and Brambling's at Sandy and the Merlin and Redheads at Broom. Managed to track down 5 of the 6 as I still haven't managed to meet up with the Merlin, still I am not the only one on this quest. When I arrived home, I heard a female arrived at Broom about half an hour after I left Hey Ho!!

Out and About In Beds May/June 2012

Crow Stockgrove

Goldfinch 

Blackbird

Coot Nest Tiddenfoot

Blue Tit

Collard Dove

Great Tit Tiddenfoot

Green Woodpecker Stockgrove

Greenfinch

Grey Heron Rushmere

Grey Lag Goose Woburn

Grey Wagtail Tiddenfoot

Grey Wagtail Tiddenfoot

House sparrow

Jay Stockgrove

Jackdaw

Kestral Woburn

Lapwing MVCP

Blackbird

Mallard Tiddenfoot

Manderine Duck Tiddenfoot

Marsh Tit Stockgrove

Little Grebe MVCP

Nuthatch Stockgrove

Robin

Song Thrush Stockgrove

Starling

Starling

Tufted Duck MVCP

great Crested Grebe Tiddenfoot

Various Pictures from my Garden in Leighton Buzzard, MVCP, Stockgrove, Rushmere, Woburn & Tiddenfoot during May/June 2012. Arn't we lucky to have such great places close to hand.