Lark Hill 23rd September

Tree Pipit
4+ Stonechat
7 Yellow Wagtail
Barn Owl
Sparrowhawk pair
2 Reed Bunting
c70 Meadow Pipit
c400 Swallow

Farmoor 23rd

Red Necked Phalarope

Dunlin

Yellow Wagtail

Farmoor 23rd September

Curlew Sandpiper 1 flew through heading south 10.30am (per Fraser Cottingham)

Farmoor Sept 23rd

Red Necked Phalarope - 1 juv still present along causeway 16:30 (per Andy Last
Dunlin - 1 juv
Common Sandpiper - 2
Scaup - eclipse drake until 9:30 when flushed by boats
Shag - 1 juv base of water tower on F1

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Farmoor Reservoir 22nd September

 Juvenile Red necked Phalarope

  

 

Farmoor Reservoir 22nd September

RED-NECKED PHALAROPE (juv) still present 15:30 F1
Scaup ecl drake F2 off southern bank.
Shag (juv)
Black Tern
Little Gull (per RBA)

(per Paul Greenaway, Ewan Urquhart, Mark Chivers)

courtesy of John Workman

Bicester Wetlands Reserve 22nd September

GREY PHALAROPE still present 15:00 (per Nick Truby)

Key holder reserve

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Farmoor: 21st September

Some more Red-necked Phalarope pictures from this evening:

Short blog post here

Farmoor Reservoir 21st September

RED-NECKED PHALAROPE found by Dai, Dave Daniells.
Still present in N/E corner of F1 17:30 (per Tom Bedford).

Scaup ecl drake found by DL still present off S/W bank of F2 15:04 (The Wickster,Tezzer)
Shag (juv) F1
Albino House Martin

Farmoor Reservoir 21 September - early evening

Red Necked Phalarope in NE corner of F1.

Red Necked Phalarope (c) Stephen Burch

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Farmoor :21st September

Red-Necked Phalarope

Red-Necked Phalarope

Red-Necked Phalarope

Scaup


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Farmoor 21st September

House Martin

Farmoor Reservoir: 21st September

Scaup

Red-necked Phalarope

Leucistic House (?) Martin

Bicester Wetlands

GREY PHALAROPE still at 12.25pm

Key holder reserve

Kingston Bagpuize: 21st September

Kingston Bagpuize
Marsh Harrier: Fem/Imm flew South at medium height. 07:15.

Jed Cleeter

Farmoor Reservoir, 20th September

Today's juvenile Little Stint, present 9:30-10:30am at least:

Blog post here.

Rushey Common lake, 20th September

PM
Yellow Wagtail  3 few over east end of lake from derelict farm fields
Common Sandpiper
Kingfisher
Pochard f
Wigeon 2f
several groups of Swallows passing through
large (100+) mixed flock of House Martins and Sand Martins high above lake

Clackers

Otmoor.A.M. 20th September.

1 Peregrine
2+ Kingfisher
1 Marsh Harrier (f)
1 Raven (over)
Lots of Swallows going through.

Grimsbury Reservoir: 20th September

Grimsbury Reservoir
Whinchat: Along W side near bench.

John Friendship-Taylor

Farmoor Reservoir 20th September

Little Stint along causeway 08:55 (per Brian Walker)
Ringed Plover
Dunlin
Common Sandpiper 2+

(per Dai)

Grimsbury Reservoir 19th September

Courtesy of John Friendship-Taylor

Little Gull 1w briefly this evening (per John Friendship-Taylor)

Grimsbury Birds

Bicester Wetland Reserve 19th September

Grey Phalarope photos courtesy of Alan Peters

GREY PHALAROPE 18:13 (per Nick Truby) left from the car park hide, only showing on and off.

3 Green Sandpipers
1 Little Grebe
15 Moorhens
20 Teal
1 Little Egret

Key Holder Reserve
Alan Peters

Otmoor.A.M. 19th September.

2 Hobby
6 Wigeon
1 Raven (over)
14+ Snipe.

Osprey and Grey Heron having a contretemps taken on the 17th courtesy of Ewan Urquhart
Black Audi Birding

Radley GPs 19th September

No sign of the juvenile Osprey 06:30-09:30 (per Ewan Urquhart,Tezzer)
Probable 2 Raven: ad and juv Radley village hall (per Paul Parrish)

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Bicester Wetlands Reserve 19th September

GREY PHALAROPE still present 09:30 (per Ewan Urquhart)

Key holder reserve.

Bicester Wetland Reserve 18th September

GREY PHALAROPE 17:00 found by Alan Peters. Bicester Wetlands is a key holder Reserve with access in conjunction with Thames Water and gates may be locked without notice.

Record shots of the grey phalarope at 18:30 in poor light

Otmoor 18th evening

5:15pm-6:45pm

2 Stonechat
c30 Yellow Wagtail among cattle on ashgrave
Sparrowhawk

TS, SR, AL

Radley GP's: 18th September

Osprey (juv) still at Radley GPs, Thrupp lake at 12:00 originally perched in conifer they flew off in direction of Abingdon.

Osprey photo top courtesy of John Reynolds
Left courtesy of Peter Law.

Lockinge: 17th September

Hobby
Raven

Leo Bateman

: 18th September

Thrupp Lake Radley
Osprey: Circling the lake approx 200m up. SU519975. 10:30.

Dave Higginson

Otmoor.A.M. 18th September.

1 Hen Harrier (m)
2 Marsh Harrier (m&f)
4+ Cettis Warbler (h)
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Curlew (h).

Barn Owl Radley courtesy of Eddie McLaughlin

Farmoor 17th

Evening 5pm-6:40pm

2 Dunlin (flew through)
Common Sandpiper
Peregrine
Shag: juv. on pontoon at far end of causeway (per Alan Horsley)

RBA report of two Little Stints late morning was erroneous (Badger) 

Leucistic Coot

2 Dunlin

Kingston Bagpuize: 17th September

17th September

Kingston Bagpuize
Osprey: North of the village flying SW at medium height. 14:02.
Hobby: Flew East hunting. 13:02.

Jed Cleeter

Radley GPs 17th September

Osprey (juv) again at Radley GPs circling high over Thrupp Lake then lost to view 13:21 (per Mark Chivers)
c07:00 and again at 09:18 then flew towards Thames.
(per Eddie McLaughlin).

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Kingston Bagpuize: 17th September

Kingston Bagpuize
8 Yellow Wagtail: Flew South calling together. 18:50.

Jed Cleeter