First local GREAT GREY SHRIKE in decades

Last Friday, a visiting Canadian birdwatcher chanced upon a GREAT GREY SHRIKE in the Misbourne Valley - showing well in isolated bushes within the hedgerows 200 yards south of the A413 about a third of a mile east of Old Amersham. This was the first record within the immediate Amersham Recording Area in several decades.....a corking record

Record influx of ATLANTIC CANADA GEESE

I witnessed a flock of 470 ATLANTIC CANADA GEESE present on Lowndes Park, Chesham, today - the largest number ever recorded in the area and Chess Valley. The single GREYLAG GOOSE was also still with them...

ROBINS return to garden for winter

This first day of October saw the arrival of not one but 2 ROBINS in my garden today - both singing to each other; also plenty of Jays on the move locally...