Spent today exploring the local area. In the morning I visited Waterstock Local Wildlife Site (with permission of the owner) and in the afternoon we went on a family walk around Worminghall Airfield. Ebird list HERE. Pretty quiet at the Old Vic itself- just a couple of Hebrew Character in the trap and nothing on the noc-mig recordings last night.
Worminghall Air Field
What looks like a migrant trap has been sitting right under my nose- literally within 10 minutes walking distance of the Old Vicarage. With Jacob throwing the mother of all tantrums preventing me from birding properly I still managed to see 5 Wheatear, 6 Yellow Wagtail and a cracking male Firecrest singing from a group of pines. There was also 4 Corn Bunting and very good numbers of Skylarks- I'm planning on getting up early and going back there tomorrow morning.
Male Firecrest
Male Wheatear- one of five birds
Yellow Wagtail- at least six birds around (above and below)
Waterstock Local Wildlife Site
I did a morning walk from Waterperry to Waterstock and popped into the local wildlife site. Best bird was a Yellow Wagtail but I was mainly checking out this little hot spot for invert potential and there are also some special plants here too later on in the year. It's also a site for Otter and Polecat. I've got permission from the very nice landowner to do some further exploring of the area and after lockdown may even be able to do some moth trapping there.
Comma
Cuckoo Flower
Snake's-head Fritillary (introduced)
Worminghall Airfield- a lot of the migrants were hiding on the tussocks on the old runways- it was a bit like desert birding
Waterstock Local Wildlife Site
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