Today John, Allan and I undertook the B.O.S. Short Day Count for the 10 km square SP44. For more information on this survey please see the B.O.S. website here.
This square includes all of the Grimsbury reservoir, woodland NR and Upper Cherwell Valley patch area and we managed to record 46 species here today. Highlights were four Goosander (2 drakes), Lapwings and Snipe. The Lapwings were good and we had four grounded at the reservoir (quite unusual) and c.150 flying over the U.C.V. We also found a couple of fresh Otter spraints along the canal.
Over the whole of SP44 we recorded 64 species, with Peregrine, Teal, Golden Plover and Marsh Tit being the other notable species.
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