Mid Bucks Wildlife

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Hampden Pond, Wendover

Popped into Hampden Pond as I was passing by, spent a pleasant hour there under the cooling shade of the trees. Several young Moorhens being attended to by their parents, as was a lone Little Grebe chick with only one adult accompanying it.

Moorhen

Little Grebe

A second after this photo was taken the Mallard momentarily drowned the Little Grebe chick.

Mandrin Duck

Monday, August 10, 2026

Froglet

The garden ponds are drying out rapidly due to this unprecedented heatwave, resulting in just a little patch of water left from which a couple of Froglets appeared the other evening, running to grab my camera, I just manage to get a photo of one of them.

Friday, August 7, 2026

Brown Trout

It's not often I get to see a Brown Trout motionless like this in the river Misbourne.

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Grey Wagtails

Grey Wagtails have bred successfully at Missenden Abbey again this year, with at least three juveniles seen.

Dunnock

Dunnocks have bred in the garden again this year, we had at least three juveniles on the lawn, here's one of them lagging behind the rest as they all flew off over the roof, this one was doing it in stages as it ran up the tiles.

Thursday, July 30, 2026

Garden Butterflies

It's been a crackin' year so far for Butterflies in the garden with twenty species seen to date. Here are just a few in no particular order.

Large Skipper

Small Skipper

Small Copper

Common Blue

Sunday, July 26, 2026

Robins

There are currently several Robins in the garden, an adult that's starting to moult and a couple of juveniles.

Thursday, July 23, 2026

Greenfinch

Every evening we have a Greenfinch serenading us as it sits on it's favourite "Dweezing" branch.

Monday, July 20, 2026

House Martins

The House Martins that return annually to our eaves have been steadily dropping in numbers over the last three Summers. We have nine natural nest cups on our house, along with two more on the neighbouring property, nine were occupied three years ago, now we're down to just three in use so far this year. The first of which successfully fledged a brood on 26th June.

25th April need to do some tidying by the looks of those cobwebs.

26th June Fledging.

Friday, July 17, 2026

Scarlet Tiger Moth

Had a couple of these colourful daytime flying Moths visiting our garden.

This one is a bit past it's best.