Hertfordshire Website Sightings Archive 2002
January 2002
22ND JAN: Adult ICELAND GULL in Amwell roost, also 2 Little Egrets
21ST JAN: Little Egret at Thames Water station, A4146 Hemel Hempstead, in field with ditch next to garden centre (2 present on 15th)....female Blackcap in a Hatfield Garden Village garden
20TH JAN: Little Egret, 9 Goosander, c45 Siskin, 30 redwing, 5 Fieldfare at Stockers Lake (Smew on Springwell Lake)....Greenshank at Otterspool, The Mundons, Watford (TQ128992) also Green Sand, 7 Snipe, 93 Teal, 5 Gadwall....Green Sand at Tyttenhanger on fishing lake....11 Grey Partridge east of Latchford....at Chadwell Meads - 30 Shoveler, 12 Gadwall, 33 Wigeon, 27 Teal, 15 Tufted, 2 Pochard....male Blackcap in a B Stortford garden....Barnacle Goose at Wilstone
19TH JAN: 2 Green Sands at Tyttenhanger, also Snipe....3 Wigeon & Green Sand at Redbournbury Mill....C Buzzard over Tingley Wood, Pirton....60+ Fieldfare at Abbotts Langley....50 Redwing & 19 Fieldfare at Puckeridge
18TH JAN: c50 Lesser Redpoll in Hawkshead Wood, N Mymms Park (1-2 showing whiter underparts)
17TH JAN: Probable Little Egret on Waterford Marsh, viewed from Hertford Rd at 1000....3 Teal in Pond Wood, Potters Bar
16TH JAN: Little Egret at Amwell late pm
15TH JAN: 7 Bramblings still in the Horns Mill garden
13TH JAN: Little Egret at Amwell till 1620 when flew to Rye Meads.... juv Bewicks still at Tringford, Peregrine over....Green Sand at Tyttenhanger, also 3 Wigeon & 19 Mute Swan....at Wilstone - 11 Goosander (7 males) & drake Pintail....Green Sand on flooded field at Stockers Lake, also 70 Siskin....pr Stonechat at Beech Farm
12TH JAN: 3 Bitterns at Marsworth
12TH JAN: L Egret at Radwell Lake on island at 3pm....Chiffchaff at Wilstone....male Blackcap in a Stevenage garden
11TH JAN: Little Egret at Radwell Lake....45+ Siskin at Gobions Pond, Brookmans Park
10TH JAN: At Tyttenhanger - Green Sand, 4 Pintail 5 Teal, 8 Golden Plover, 130 Lapwing & up to 20 Tree Sparrow around farm....4 Smew (3 drakes) at Amwell, 4 Goldeneye & Water Rail also....at Burymead Springs, Hitchin - 2 male Blackcaps, abietinus Chiffchaff (retrapped for 3rd time since last Nov), 2 Water Rail
9TH JAN: At Stockers Lake - 2 redhead Smew & 5 male Goosander....2 Bitterns roosted at Marsworth, Tring....juv Bewicks Swan still at Tringford
8TH JAN: Water Rail at East Hyde, on cress bed NW of road bridge....drake Pintail at Amwell, Cetti's Warbler heard several times....6 Brambling in a Horns Mill garden
6TH JAN: Little Egret at Radwell Lake....2 Ruddy Shelduck at Tyttenhanger....Little Egret on R Gade nr Fourways Farm between Water End & Dagnall, N of Hemel Hempstead at 1500....Little Egret on R Rib at Standon....10 Smew at Amwell (7 drakes)....Greenshank at Mundens, also 2 Green Sands & "several" Snipe....4 Goosander (3 drakes) & 2 Smew at Stockers Lake....juv Bewicks Swan at Tringford Resvr....8 Goosander at Wilstone, also redhead Smew, drake Pintail, pr RC Pochard....Bittern at Marsworth Resvr at dusk....Puckeridge - Kingfisher, Grey Wag, 30 Magpies (roost), 2 Yellowhammer, Little Owl, S'hawk
5TH JAN: 2 Ruddy Shelducks at Tyttenhanger, also 13 Teal....Mediterranean Gull (no age given) at Verulamium Park with BH Gulls....male Blackcap in a Chiswell Green garden....12 Redpoll over Tring sewage farm
4TH JAN: Female Hen Harrier at Abbots Langley....2 Ruff in winter wheat field behind Tyttenhanger Farm, male Brambling in hedge nearby with large flock of Reed Bunts, Yellowhammers, Greenfinch & Chaffinch, female Goldeneye & 4 Teal on pit....male Blackcap in a WG City garden
3RD JAN: Juv Bewicks Swan at Tringford with Mutes, 5 Whoopers, male Pintail & pr Goosander at Wilstone....3 Bitterns around reedbed at Marsworth....11 Smew at Amwell, 9 Goldeneye, Redpoll & Shelduck also...Common Sand still on R Lea at East Hyde (since 16th Dec), also Woodcock, several Snipe & Cormorant....200 Golden Plovers with lapwings at New Jeromes Farm, Redbourn, also Water Rail, Snipe & Kingfisher
2ND JAN: Black-tailed Godwit (colour-ringed) & RH Smew at Wilstone, also 5 Whooper Swans & 3 Pintail....juv Bewicks Swan at Tringford....Bittern over reeds at Marsworth at 1545, also 97 Corn Bunts in roost....Buzzard nr Albury....11 Siskins around Fourth Ave, Garston
1ST JAN: 2 Bitterns at Marsworth 1600....at Tyttenhanger - Jack Snipe, 5 Snipe, Redshank, 3 Green Sands, 20+ Tree Sparrows, Brambling....5 Smew at Amwell (2 male), also 2 Chiffchaff, Grey Wag, 10 Goldeneye....at Otterspool, nr Watford - Green Sand, Snipe, Kingfisher & 30+ Teal....41 Golden Plover over Wickham Hall Farm, B Stortford....Bittern & Water Rail from Bittern Watchpoint, Lee Valley....4 Brambling in a Horns Mill garden....on Mundens estate - Redshank, Green Sand & 58 Teal....200+ Lapwing at Langleybury....300 Woodpigeons Buntingford....75 Golden Plover at Moor Hall....2 Bramblings in a Gustard Wood garden