Mid Bucks Wildlife

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Evening Walk

A short evening walk once the day had cooled down, nice to see a Roe Deer close up and a retreating Fox.

Meadow Brown

Red Admiral

Thursday, June 25, 2026

Emerging Broad - bodied Chaser

First time I've witnessed this, a Broad - bodied Chaser transitioning from a Nymph.

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Orchids

Spent a couple of hours at BBOWT College Lake looking for Orchids found three species.

Common-spotted Orchid.

Pyramidal Orchid.

Bee Orchid.

Plenty of other flowers to be seen including this one... Dragon's-teeth which I particularly like, just look at those veins in the petals.

Images Copyright : Don Stone.

Grey Heron

Grey Heron stood on the river bank patiently waiting for an unsuspecting meal to appear.

Monday, June 8, 2026

Broad - bodied Chaser

We've had a male Broad-bodied Chaser visiting the garden pond daily since 21st May.

Saturday, June 6, 2026

Beautiful Demoiselle

Two delightful Beautiful Demoiselle in the vegetation by the river Misbourne.

Sunday, May 31, 2026

Misbourne Valley

I spent a couple of hours in the Misbourne Valley, visiting Shardeloes Lake and Little Missenden.

Monday, May 25, 2026

Blackbird

This female Blackbird had a busy time gathering nesting material from our garden pond.

Sunday, May 24, 2026

Orange Tip

This Orange Tip brightened up a dull day, when Butterflies were resting up in the overcast conditions.

Thursday, May 21, 2026

Lapwings

I visited Gallows Bridge Farm Nature Reserve which is always a good spot for breeding Lapwings and they seem to be having another decent Spring.

Located on a small island, this bird was sitting on it's nest on 14th April.

There was plenty of airborne threats from Crows and this Marsh Harrier, which the Lapwings always "Mobbed" if it came near.

Returning on 5th May, it was good to see that there was a tiny chick on the island where I saw the adult sat on the nest during my previous visit. (can just about see the chick in the bottom left hand corner in this photo).

Several larger chicks running around.