Hertfordshire/Middlesex/Bedfordshire Birding

[Mungo]

I couldn't find anything on Hertfordshire/ Middlesex / Bedfordshire areas.

Thought I would ask if there are any birders and where you go. Being new to birding I'm looking to learn from you guys and get out there a little more.

Cheers

[aeshna5]

There is a Helm Where to watch birds in Beds, Berks, Bucks, Herts + Oxon which should have much info in it.

[Adam Cheeseman]

You can also try the London Birders website for sites.

Cheers,

Adam

[Rob_D]

Site guide on Herts Bird Club has the most covered Herts sites. Check out the online bird atlas too which will give you some clues where to look for commoner species.

Alot of Herts sightings come from Tring area, which is too far for me really.
Since there's not alot of open water near my home, I often go to Broom Gravel Pits just over the Beds border (just W of Biggleswade) for waders, wildfowl, gulls/terns etc.

Otherwise I spend time out exploring the large hilly area between Baldock, Royston and Buntingford. For example there are some good spots in the fields near Wallington, Sandon, Kelshall and Therfield Heath. Not usually anything spectacular but not bad for birds of prey/ owls, good numbers of farmland birds like grey partridge, corn bunting and sometimes migrant specialities like ring ouzel and dotterel in spring and quail in summer.

Good luck.

[Mungo]

Thanks for the info folks, much apreiciated.

Rob you are up the road from me
I took a trip out to Fowlmere last weekend, might pop over there again in the morning.

[RobinP]

For Herts the hotspots are Tring Res, Tyttenhanger (nr St Albans), Amwell (nr Stanstead Abbots) King's Mead (nr Ware) Stockers lake (nr Rickmansworth) but do have a look on the Herts Bird Club website, there are lots of other locations that turn up 'goodies'. The Baldock area is particularly good in late summer, as is Therfield Heath (nr Royston).

[Mungo]

Thank you Robin, I will have a look at the Herts Bird Club site. I recent search online never brought that one up.
Fankoooo

[Mungo]

Got an early start this morning and headed off to Fowelmere, not many birds to see, but saw plenty of Muntjacs and some fallow deer

Headed onto Rye Meads, when I saw my first Kingfisher, it sat on a post for 5 minutes posing as I took some shots, well happy!

Also saw a couple of ducks I couldn't identify, think one was a Gadwall. Still not sure what the other one was

Great day out, now I'm bloomin' freezing.

Anyone else venture out today?

[photomaniac]

hey mungo and all,

i live in letchworth in herts.

if u no the grange recreaction ground, there are fields behind it and fields by the road linking stotfold and letchowrth together, thet is my fav spot

anyone else been there?

[Tursiops2]

Originally Posted by Mungo

I couldn't find anything on Hertfordshire/ Middlesex / Bedfordshire areas.

Thought I would ask if there are any birders and where you go. Being new to birding I'm looking to learn from you guys and get out there a little more.

Cheers

They may be a bit outside your area, but the West London Reservoirs have a deserved reputation for good birds. Most of them are Permit Only (presumably from Thames Water?) but Staines Reservoir is crossed by a public footpath on a causeway giving good views. I spent many happy hours there when I was younger.
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