When in Chesham today I took a stroll across the Town Bridge to see how the river had stood up to the summer. The flow was slow under the bridge and while the flow from the springs by the car part was strong there was very little water flowing from higher up. In terms of bird life there was a solitary moorhen. Not much in the way of bird life although last week I was lucky enough to see a little owl perched on a telegraph pole between Ley Hill and Latimer.
Once upon a time you could find me birding on the Thames marshes almost every weekend through the winter. For various reasons I am now seldom able to travel to good birding sites. I am lucky, however, to live in the beautiful Chiltern Hills and this blog is to document the birds that I see on my own patch.