30th September - 6th October.

30th at least 138 Lapwings in cultivated field at Aston Clinton. 14 Pied Wagtails, 20 Linnets, a few Goldfinches & Meadow Pipits, with 2 Ravens over Halton Airfield. 6 Hornets feeding on the Ivy flowers in the garden as I picked all the reachable Apples, which have cropped well this Autumn, as have the Conkers, presumably due to the hot summer.
1st Tawny Owl hootin' just before daylight; an hour later it was trying to settle down for the day, but the constant clammer of the various garden birds drove it from tree to tree, but was later heard around midday giving a couple of hoots. Marsh Tit. Dead Badger on the road at Lee Common, sad to see the trail of blood it had left on the road as it crawled along after the collision.
2nd Grey Wagtail over & female Blackcap calling from garden on several occasions during the day.
3rd first Sky Lark of the Autumn, over heading south, as was a Meadow Pipit, Marsh Tit in ours & neighbouring garden, Sprawky bathing in the pond for 10 minutes. Tawny Owl roosting in neighbours garden today, from where it called. It's good working for the neighbours, if I hadn't been here for the last few days I would have missed all of the above; off to the delights of Latimer tomorrow.

 At least 12 Blue Tits taking it in turns to enter a neighbours nesting box this morning, no doubt feeding on the insects within.

4th
5th pair of Tawnies chatting in the garden at daybreak; later at dusk presumably the same pair were calling in neighbouring garden, while in ours another gave that strange warbling call. Ring Necked Parakeets squawking at Latimer.
6th after parting company with their manager on Monday, Chesham United finally win a league game at the ninth attempt 0-1.

All images Copyright : Sarah Dubus.