5th February 2012
February 5, 2012 by wosuser
Little Egret – Slaughterford – Susi Bancroft
800+ Yellowhammer, 150+ Reed Bunting – farmland site in north Wiltshire – Matt Prior
75 Corn Bunting – Pewsey Vale – Brian Heath
2 Stonechat – Amesbury – Malcolm Royal
2 Little Egret, Kingfisher – Figheldean – Malcolm Royal
3 SHORT-EARED OWL - SPTA east – Malcolm Royal
4th February 2012
February 4, 2012 by wosuser
HEN HARRIER- Upper Upham – Malcolm Royal
5 Snipe – Corsham Lake – Len Ingram
Blakcap - Chippenham – Len Ingram
BITTERN - Coate Water – Neil Cowley
700 Lesser Black-Backed Gull, 200 Black-Headed Gull, 20 Common Gull, 18 Shoveler, 2 Wigeon, 8 Pochard – Langford Lakes – Mike Trew
WOS trip to Blashford Lakes will go ahead on 5th February
February 4, 2012 by wosuser
This field meeting will still go ahead. Snow tonight is expected to turn to rain tomorrow. Please meet in the car park by the tern hide, which is on the opposite side of Ellingham Drove from the visitor centre.
Please note there is a change of leader. For enquiries about the trip, please phone David Winnie, mobile: 0797 115 5131.
3rd February 2012
February 3, 2012 by wosuser
BITTERN – in reeds at Brockbank Lake, Langford Lakes – Pam Morgan
GREAT WHITE EGRET, Little Egret – from A345 layby at Figheldene – Rob Turner, Paul Fox
BITTERN, 10 Mandarin, 2 Kingfisher, Pintail - Coate Water – John & Robin Durrell, Graham Cox
Pintail - Graham Cox
3 Blackcap – Wroughton – John & Robin Durrell
Red Kite – Ogbourne St George – Jon Mercer
2 Red Kite – Froxfoeld – Jon Mercer
Blackcap – Chippenham – Lynne Hallam
Red-Breasted Goose – of unknown origin, Frogmore, Westbury – John Osborne
2 Little Egret, Raven, 2 Teal, 6 Wigeon, 40 Gadwall, 54 Tufted Duck, 7 Pochard, 11 Shoveler, 120 Common Gull – Langford Lakes – Bob Blamey
Coot
Raven, 2 Red Kite, 2 Lapwing, 80 Golden Plover, 100 Stock Dove, 40 Yellowhammer, 120 Corn Bunting – SPTA centre - Rich Prior
2nd February 2012
February 2, 2012 by wosuser
5 Red Kite – Druids Lodge – Phil Pykett
5 Goosander – Corsham Lake – Peter Basterfield
Goosander
10 Red Kite – Stapleford – Shayne Ford
GREAT WHITE EGRET - from layby on A345 at Fighledean – Keith Simpson
10 Lapwing – Erlestoke – Wes Parfitt
YELLOW LEGGED GULL, 180 Common Gull, Goosander, 17 Shoveler, 5 Pochard, Kingfisher, 2 Little Egret – Langford Lakes – Rob Turner
BITTERN, 3 Mandarin, Kingfisher, 20 Goosander, Dunlin, 5 Wigeon – Coate Water – Graham Cox
Dunlin
1st February 2012
February 1, 2012 by wosuser
Peregrine – Calne – Dave Sawyer
JACK SNIPE, Raven, Kingfisher – Bradford on Avon water meadows – Rowena Quantrill
WOODCOCK – Dunley Wood, Grittleton – Stewart Dobson
2 Blackcap – Hilperton Marsh – Pete Truscott
Cotswold Water Park online survey
January 31, 2012 by wosuser
Do you visit the Cotswold Water Park for birding? Where do you generally go and do you send in your sightings? Would you like more information to be made available about birding in the Water Park? Gareth Harris and Bob Philpott have put a short online survey on the Cotswold Water Park Bird Blog and would like to hear your views. The information gathered may be used as a basis for future articles for the Newsletter.
Please go to: http://cotswoldwaterpark.wordpress.com and click on the link on the home page.
Many thanks!
31st January 2012
January 31, 2012 by wosuser
7 Lapwing – Trowbridge – Steve Cladingboel
Blackcap – Westbury – John Osborne
GREAT WHITE EGRET - Fighledean - Keith Simpson
100 Meadow Pipit, 80 Redwing – Tellcroft, Corsham – Alan Carpenter
30th January 2012
January 31, 2012 by wosuser
3 SHORT-EARED OWL - Mountain Bower – Stewart Dobson
WOS Executive Committee Meeting
January 22, 2012 by wosuser
Title: WOS Executive Committee Meeting
Location: Crown Centre Devizes
Start Time: 19.30
Date: 2012-04-18
