Just refound the NIGHTINGALE at Watermead! Further from the estate & well worth my white trainers getting covered in mud! Just enough battery left to post this after lots of recordings once it started singing. Hope it sticks around… #bucksbirdnews CHILTERNS NATURE - Chiltern Hills Birds & Wildlife Bucks Bird Alert

❌ No sign of the Nightingale at Watermead b/w 13.30 & 14.30, but 4 LESSER WHITETHROATS singing & a fairly early SMALL HEATH on the wing - a single last yr being the only record of this sp. in my time here… #bucksbirdnews #birdwatching #butterflies CHILTERNS NATURE - Chiltern Hills Birds & Wildlife Bucks Bird Alert

AYLESBURY PEREGRINES After a worrying evening when we received a message asking had the chick "gone" relieved to see it eating a hearty breakfast this morning facebook.com/RSPBNorthBucks…

Finding more nests on our beaches, we'd like to remind everyone to look out for roped off areas& give them a wide berth. As you see in our photos, sitting ringed plovers& their eggs are too well camouflaged to spot easily, so walking low down by the tide line also helps. 🙏👏🪺

RIP Rob - so sad to hear this news. Thoughts are with his family and all those who knew and loved him Leeds Rhinos

My camera is currently out of action but luckily had time to grab my scope for a #phonescope shot of this OYSTERCATCHER from my balcony at Watermead, attracted to the now ‘scrape’ since the heat has finally dried up the long-time flooding… #birding CHILTERNS NATURE - Chiltern Hills Birds & Wildlife Bucks Bird Alert

An aberrant GATEKEEPER, type subalbida with orange parts instead cream-white, at Watermead this morning. Rested just long enough for a short clip & screen grab… #butterflies #lepidoptera #aberration #wildlife #nature CHILTERNS NATURE - Chiltern Hills Birds & Wildlife BC Upper Thames

Adult Female GOSHAWK drifted S at Watermead just now - without optics just assumed large raptor circling at range was one of many Red Kites until swarmed by C.20 SWIFTS (that I hadn’t seen & not since), underside flashed white - Osprey? Bins on it… nope, F. Gos! #bucksbirdnews

Oh for crying out loud ITV News, I despair! I gather it’s a very slow news day? 🤷‍♂️

Truly shocking - please watch this video

It’s August so that means waders !! In the past two nights we have managed to catch 52 waders both mist netting and dazzling, highlights have included a Ruff and these stunning Sanderling! Fair Isle Bird Observatory

Find out how to get involved via badgertrust.org.uk/cull-day-of-ac…

Interesting HOBBY at Watermead y’day - only v. minimal light streaks to mid-upper breast w/ clear amber wash below contrasting w/ clean white cheeks, rather than usual bold streaks below. Screengrabs poor but show well enough… #bucksbirdnews Bucks Bird Alert CHILTERNS NATURE - Chiltern Hills Birds & Wildlife #birding

GREAT WHITE EGRET following the River Thame SW over partially flooded Watermead just now. Good test for taking screen grabs from video footage taken on my wife’s old #bridgecamera whilst mine’s repaired. #bucksbirdnews #birdwatching #nature #wildlife CHILTERNS NATURE - Chiltern Hills Birds & Wildlife Bucks Bird Alert

Juvenile MARSH HARRIER south over Watermead just now, only 2nd record - bulkiness of the bird suggests Female… #bucksbirdnews #birdwatching #nature #wildlife CHILTERNS NATURE - Chiltern Hills Birds & Wildlife Bucks Bird Alert

Only my 4th COAL TIT in 5 years at Watermead just now -woohoo! #bucksbirdnews #birdwatching #nature #wildlife CHILTERNS NATURE - Chiltern Hills Birds & Wildlife Bucks Bird Alert

The PINTAIL is at Watermead still, roosting amongst submerged branches opp. pub. Also ROCK PIPIT (poss. same bird? - wondering if it’s lingering on the undisturbed bank of private gardens or inaccessible flooded bay), & the 2cy YELLOW-LEGGED GULL again briefly… #bucksbirdnews

Shame on you Private Eye Magazine

Well done Virgil van Dijk for shutting down Michael Owen. You're the PAST Michael - don't knock a club that was so good to you.