Description

This is no Farmoor, Otmoor or Port Meadow. This is Grimsbury. It's Grim up north!

There is a running total year list in the link above.

Please send in your bird sightings to the B.O.S. and/or to me directly for inclusion on the blog. If you have some photos you would like to contribute please let me know (contact via the comments box on the right if you do not have my email already). Thank you.

2022 Bird List

  1.  Canada Goose
  2. Greylag Goose
  3. Mute Swan
  4. Egyptian Goose
  5. Shelduck
  6. Mandarin
  7. Shoveler 
  8. Gadwall
  9. Wigeon
  10. Mallard
  11. Pintail
  12. Teal
  13. Red-crested Pochard
  14. Pochard
  15. FERRUGINOUS DUCK (second site record following one in Feb 1987)
  16. Tufted Duck
  17. Goldeneye
  18. Goosander
  19. Pheasant
  20. Little Grebe
  21. Great Crested Grebe
  22. Heron
  23. Great White Egret
  24. Little Egret
  25. Cormorant
  26. Sparrowhawk
  27. Red Kite
  28. Buzzard
  29. Water Rail
  30. Moorhen
  31. Coot
  32. Oystercatcher
  33. Lapwing
  34. Golden Plover
  35. Little Ringed Plover
  36. Whimbrel
  37. Curlew
  38. Bar-tailed Godwit
  39. Black-tailed Godwit
  40. Dunlin
  41. Woodcock
  42. Jack Snipe
  43. Snipe
  44. Common Sandpiper
  45. Green Sandpiper
  46. Redshank
  47. Greenshank
  48. Black-headed Gull
  49. Mediterranean Gull 
  50. Common Gull
  51. Great Black-backed Gull
  52. Herring Gull
  53. Caspian Gull
  54. Yellow-legged Gull
  55. Lesser Black-backed Gull
  56. Sandwich Tern
  57. Common Tern
  58. Feral Pigeon
  59. Stock Dove
  60. Wood Pigeon
  61. Collared Dove
  62. Cuckoo!
  63. Barn Owl
  64. Swift
  65. Kingfisher
  66. Great Spotted Woodpecker
  67. Green Woodpecker
  68. Kestrel
  69. Peregrine
  70. Jay
  71. Magpie
  72. Jackdaw
  73. Rook
  74. Crow
  75. Raven
  76. Coal Tit
  77. Blue Tit
  78. Great Tit
  79. Skylark
  80. Sand Martin
  81. Swallow
  82. House Martin
  83. Long-tailed Tit
  84. Willow Warbler
  85. Chiffchaff
  86. Sedge Warbler
  87. Reed Warbler
  88. Grasshopper Warbler
  89. Blackcap
  90. Garden Warbler
  91. Lesser Whitethroat
  92. Whitethroat
  93. Firecrest (first record since Jan 2003)
  94. Goldcrest
  95. Wren
  96. Nuthatch
  97. Treecreeper
  98. Starling
  99. Blackbird
  100. Fieldfare
  101. Redwing
  102. Song Thrush
  103. Mistle Thrush
  104. Spotted Flycatcher
  105. Robin
  106. Redstart
  107. Whinchat
  108. Stonechat
  109. Wheatear
  110. House Sparrow
  111. Dunnock
  112. Yellow Wagtail
  113. Grey Wagtail
  114. Pied Wagtail (+ White Wagtail)
  115. Meadow Pipit
  116. Rock Pipit
  117. Chaffinch
  118. Brambling
  119. Hawfinch
  120. Bullfinch
  121. Greenfinch
  122. Linnet
  123. Lesser Redpoll
  124. Goldfinch
  125. Siskin
  126. Yellowhammer
  127. Reed Bunting