Garsington: 31st August

Garsington
Pied Flycatcher 17:00. 

Stephen Lockey

Standlake Pit 60: 31st August

Standlake Pit 60
Mediterranean Gull: juv. Same bird as last night. 21:06.
Caspian Gull: is moulting to 2w. Same bird as last night. Revised age per lew. 21:06.
Green Sandpiper 21:06.
6 Yellow-legged Gull: Various ages. Including 2 jugs handful of LBBs HGs and 500 BHGs. 21:06.

Mick Cunningham

Bicester Wetlands 31st August

Green Sandpiper 6

Snipe 15

(per JFT)

Balscote Quarry B.O.S Reserve 31st August

Wood Sandpiper reported on the far pool briefly lthis afternoon (per RBA).

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Farmoor Reservoir 31st August

PURPLE SANDPIPER (E.U) along the causeway still present 17:07.

Purple Sandpiper courtesy of Steve Liptrot Photography.

Black Tern 2 early evening (per Steve Liptrot)

Ruff

Ringed Plover 

Dunlin 2

Egyptian Goose 

Swift 15+

Swallow 20

Sand Martin c600

Yellow Wagtail 

(per Ewan Urquhart).

Black Tern courtesy of Steve Liptrot Photography.

Lower Shiplake: 31st August

Lower Shiplake
Kingfisher: Came from under bridge on road at Nursing Home. Lashbrook Home . SU775791. 14:20.

Ralph Watts

Farmoor Reservoir 31st August

Just like buses!

A second juvenile Purple Sandpiper on the Causeway.

Not present at 1030 but arrived sometime before 1200

Muswell Hill nr Piddington: 31st August

Muswell Hill nr Piddington
2 Hobby 12:30.
2 Spotted Flycatcher 12:30.
30 Chiffchaff: Mix of Chiffchaff and Willow Warblers - minimum count. 12:30.
2 Raven 12:30.
Blackcap 12:30.
2 Wheatear 12:30.
150 Swallow: Resting on fences and bushes and actively feeding around trees - minimum count. 12:30.
32 Goldfinch 12:30.

Colin Oram

Standlake Pit 60: 30th August

Standlake Pit 60
Caspian Gull: 3cy. Hardest age to get correct. I'd say 2nd Summer moulting to 3rd winter in trad scheme. Has dropped outer primaries. 21:49.
Mediterranean Gull: juv. a beautiful juv with black-headed gulls. 21:49.
Green Sandpiper: SNT had seen this earlier. Still present as I was checking gulls between 6.45pm and 7. 40pm. 21:49.

Mick Cunningham

Tar Lakes: 30th August

Tar Lakes, Rushy Common
4 Red-crested Pochard 18:30.

Richard Catling

Farmoor Reservoir 30th August

1545-1700hrs

Ruff 1 juvenile male

Common Redshank 1

Common Sandpiper 2

Common Tern 3 all juveniles

Great Black backed Gull 1 adult

Yellow legged Gull 3+

Sand Martin ca 500

Swallow 2

Common Swift 1

Kingfisher 1

Farmoor Reservoir: 30th August

Farmoor Reservoir
Ruff 15:20.
Purple Sandpiper: Very tame on causeway near huts. 15:20.

Yacky Morris

Farmoor Aug 30th am

Knot - 1 (flew through)
Ruff - 1
Redshank - 1

Common Sandpiper   
Hobby - 2

Peregrine  
Garden Warbler - 1
Teal - 1
Wheatear - 1

Yellow Wagtail  
Swift - 10

(Dave Lowe, Mark Chivers)   

Ruff courtesy of Mark Chivers 

Drayton Flood 30th August

Green Sandpiper 4

Snipe 7

Egyptian Goose 3

Site is rapidly drying out.

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Blenheim: 30th August

Blenheim
Water Rail: On a muddy patch downstream from the Seven arches bridge.
2 Peregrine: One flying down side of the lake towards Bladon. The other harried from the Column of Victory and then chased by a Red Kite.
11 Shoveler

Bob Pomfret

Muswell Hill, 30th August

09-10:30

Wheatear

Spotted Flycatcher 4

Large mixed species flock containing several Blackcaps, Willow Warblers, Chiffchaffs and a Lesser Whitethroat in with Tits and Finches

Hundreds of Swallows and a few House Martins 

Appleford GPs 30th August

Black-tailed Godwit 2

Ruff 2

Greenshank 

Little-ringed Plover  juv

Green Sandpiper 

Common Sandpiper 2

Snipe

Common Tern 3+

Wigeon 

Black-tailed Godwit with Lapwing.

New Marston: New Marston Meadows: 30th August

New Marston: New Marston Meadows
Peregrine
2 Sand Martin: Flew through roughly south.

Tom Evans

Otmoor 30th August

Cattle Egret 13 (per RBA)

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Northern Wheatear

Grimsbury Reservoir 30th August

Redstart 3 

Wheatear 2

Whinchat probable 

(per Gareth Blockley et al)

Lark Hill 4pm Aug 29th

2/3 Redstart
6 Whinchat
2 Wheatear
1 Lesser Whitethroat

Dave Lowe & Leo

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Whinchat Stonefield Common courtesy of Paul & Vicky Wren.

Otmoor rspb 29th August

Cattle Egret 7 (per RBA)

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Farmoor Reservoir: 29th August

29th August

Farmoor Reservoir
3 Yellow-legged Gull: On buoys in f2. 08:54.
Dunlin: On causeway very tame. 08:48.
5 Yellow Wagtail: Mainly on causeway. 08:48.

Yacky Morris

Standlake, pit 60: 29 August

Garganey 2
Mandarin 1 (pit 27)
Black-tailed Godwit 1 juv
Common Sand 1
Black-headed Gull 1400
Yellow legged Gull 3
Redstart 2 (inc ad male)
Spotted Flycatcher 1
Little Egret 5
Common Tern 3
Shoveler 14, Teal 10

Appleford GPs 29th August

Caspian Gull 2 *1 juv (TM)

Common Tern 3 juvs

Little Egret 5

Ruff 2

Green Sandpiper 3

Common Sandpiper 2

Lapwing c50

Snipe 3

Little-ringed Plover 2 juvs

Egyptian Goose 12+

Shoveler 21

Gadwall 20+

Yellow Wagtail 4

+Painted Lady.

Farmoor Reservoir 29th August

0800-0930hrs

Ringed Plover 1

Dunlin 1 

Common Sandpiper 3

Sand Martin 250+

Swallow 2

Common Swift 20+

Blackcap 10+

Garden Warbler 1

Common Whitethroat 1

Common Chiffchaff 5+

Willow Warbler 2

Yellow Wagtail 8

Greater Black backed Gull 3

Yellow legged Gull 6+

Egyptian Goose 2

Barnacle Goose - feral flock 29

Common Pochard 1m

Peregrine 1

Little Egret 3

Little Grebe 4

 

Moreton nr Thame: Moreton Golf Course: 28th August

Moreton nr Thame: Moreton Golf Course
14 Yellow Wagtail 20:42.
2 Spotted Flycatcher: In a mixed warbler flock. 20:42.
Lesser Whitethroat: In the mixed warbler flock. 20:42.
4 Swift: Over main lake. 20:42.

Luke Marriner

Lark Hill 28th August

6 Whinchat

Redstart (m) 

Lesser Whitethroat

6 Yellow Wagtail

Grey Wagtail 

Farmoor: 28th August

Causeway evening:

Juv Little stint

Ruff

Dunlin

Ringed plover

Grimsbury Reservoir 28th August

Redstart 2

Spotted Flycatcher 3

Swift 12

Garde. Warbler

Yellow Wagtail 2

(per Gareth Blockley)

Chimney Meadows: 28th Aug.

Whinchat
3 Redstart
3 Water Rail

Appleford GP: 28th August

Greenshank 1
Ruff 1 juv
LR Plover 2 juv
Common Sand 1

 

Otmoor Redstarts

Courtesy of Jeremy Dexter.

Otmoor rspb 28th August

Cattle Egret 14

Great white Egret Big Otmoor 

Garganey 2

Whinchat on the Closes

(per Pete Roby, Nick Truby)

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Stratfield Brake 27th August

1 Great White Egret 

Per Matilda 

Tar Lakes: 28th August

Tar Lakes, Rushy Common
Reed Warbler 19:30.

Richard Catling

Otmoor: RSPB reserve: 28th August

Otmoor: RSPB reserve
4 Mandarin Duck: f. Second screen, on tern raft. 08:50.

Rob Cadd

South Leigh: 28th August

South Leigh
3 Raven 13:00.

Richard Catling

Lark Hill 27th August

7 Whinchat

3 Wheatear

11 Yellow Wagtail

Appleford GP: 27th August

Baltic Gull 1, 1st summer 18.50 then flew N
Caspian Gull 1 juv
Black-tailed Godwit 2
Ruff 1 juv
LR Plover 4 juvs
Green Sandpiper 1
Common Sandpiper 3
Snipe 2
Yellow Wagtail 1
Common Tern 3
Swift 20

Standlake Pit 60: 26th August

Standlake Pit 60
Hobby: SP389017. 12:01.

Stephen Burch

Warburg Reserve: 27th August

Warburg Reserve
3 Marsh Tit 16:17.

Ralph Watts

Letcombe Regis: 27th August

Letcombe Regis
Wheatear
Redstart
Spotted Flycatcher

Mark Merritt

Ardley EDF Lake

 14 Green Sandpiper (most I've seen at this site)

266 L-B-b Gulls 

80 Canada Geese

Alan Peters

Muswell Hill, 27th August

14-15:00

Spotted Flycatcher (high in trees by manor)

Southfield Golf Course, Oxford: 27th August

1 Spotted Flycatcher, new in this morning. 

Farmoor Reservoir 27th August

Caspian Gull juv

Ringed Plover 2

Dunlin 3

Common Sandpiper 

Wigeon 5

Swift
Sand Martin 100+

Willow Warbler 3

Chiffchaff 15+

(per Ewan Urquhart, Johnny Eclipse)

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Letcombe Bassett: Gramps Hill: 26th August

Letcombe Bassett: Gramps Hill
3 Redstart
3 Raven

Mark Merritt

Farmoor Reservoir: 26th August

Evening:

Dunlin 4

Ringed Plover 2

Common Sandpiper 2 

Little Ringed Plover: juv. On causeway. 19:11.
Greenshank: Flew up from f1 over to f2. 19:11.

(Yacky Morris, Ewan Urquhart)

Hinksey Oxford 20th August

Belated report of a Spoonbill over Hinksey swimming pool.

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Lark Hill 26th August

6 Whinchat

3 Wheatear

14 Yellow Wagtail 

Appleford GPs 26th August

Ruff 2

Ringed Plover juv

Little-ringed Plover c5 juv

Common Sandpiper 3

Snipe 3

Egyptian Goose 4

Shoveler 6

Teal 2

Little Egret 9

Stock Dove 4

Yellow Wagtail 2

Muswell Hill nr Piddington: 26th August

Muswell Hill nr Piddington
2 Redstart 15:30.

Colin Oram

Farmoor Reservoir 26th August

Caspian Gull juv 08:04

Common Scoter F1

Little Egret 5

Turnstone 9 10:27

Ringed Plover 

Greenshank over

Swift 10

Yellow Wagtail juv

Wheatear 

(per Ewan Urquhart)

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Cassington GPs: 25th August

Cassington GPs
50 Snow Goose 19:00.

Colin Teal

Farmoor - 25 August AM

2 Wheatear on causeway
1 Caspian Gull in middle of F1 (thanks to Thomas Miller for scope view and ID!)

 Stephen Burch

Wheatear (c) Stephen Burch

Appleford: Appleford GP: 25th August

Appleford: Appleford GP
4 Caspian Gull: 2 juv, 2 1s. 17:00.

Thomas Miller

Farmoor Reservoir 25th August

Caspian Gull juvenile again on the causeway eating a fish 06:58 and still present early afternoon.

Little Gull juv F1 until c12:20 then flew high S/W (per Nick Truby).

Common Sandpiper 2

Barnacle Goose 29

Swift 6

Sand Martin 20

Wheatear 2

(per Ewan Urquhart).

Common Scoter: f. On F1. 16:50. (per Colin Teal)

Little Gull courtesy of Nick Truby.

 

3 Wheatear 

1 Redstart
1+ Yellow wagtail
Black swan

All at north side of F1

(per Andy Last)

Northern Wheatear

Black Swan

 Both photos courtesy of Ewan Urquhart.

Appleford GPs 25th August

Great white Egret 

Ruff 2 juvs

13:46 (per Johnny Eclipse).

Farmoor Reservoir: 24th August

First summer Baltic gull in roost on F1 at 20:00. Possibly Appleford "Bird 3" although more advanced in moult and losing the black tip to its bill. Primary moult break at P4/P5.

Otmoor: 24th August

Otmoor
2 Cattle Egret: From 1st screen, but flew off over Greenways around 3.45pm. 21:45.

Michael Hubbard

: 24th August

Otmoor
Greenshank: In flight over Big Otmoor (19.00). SP564113. 19:58.

Peter Moore

Appleford GPs 24th August

Caspian Gull 1sts (T.M) 18:06

Ruff 2

Ringed Plover 2 ad juv

Snipe 3

Little Egret 2

Egyptian Goose 4+

Wigeon 2 m/f

Teal c10

Yellow Wagtail 

(Thomas Miller, Badger)

Kings Lock: 24th August

Kings Lock
Whinchat: On a narrow boat moored on river just below the lock. Sat for a minute before I lost it when it flew into some nearby shrubs. 16:00.

Andrew Siantonas

Farmoor 24th

4 yellow wagtail (juv)
Caspian Gull on causeway 

Greenshank

Common Scoter (f) on north side F1
Ringed plover 

Peregrine
3 common sandpiper
c10 Swift 

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Cassington GPs: 24th August

Cassington GPs
3 Egyptian Goose 19:00.
3 Wigeon 19:00.

Colin Teal

Otmoor rspb 24th August

Cattle Egret 19 reported on Greenaways 13:52 (per RBA)

Hardwick GPs 24th August

Ruddy Shelduck 06:31 on pit 4 (DL)

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Little Egret Farmoor courtesy of Nick Truby.

Otmoor: Saunders Ground: 23rd August

Otmoor: Saunders Ground
12 Cattle Egret: All adult. 20:38.

Otmoor: River Ray
3 Mandarin Duck: Family group. 20:38.

Steve Roby

Tar Lakes: 23rd August

Tar Lakes, Rushy Common
Common Sandpiper 19:30.

Richard Catling

Farmoor 23rd Sept

Caspian Gull juv

Black Tern juv

Appleford GPs 23rd August

Caspian Gull 3 all juvenile 

Ruff 2

Pintail

(per Lew)

Abingdon 23rd August

Great white Egret in Abbey Meadow (per Giles Cooper).

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Farmoor Reservoir 23rd August

Common Scoter

Common Redstart

Caspian Gull

0800-1430hrs

Common Scoter 1f  with the Tufted Duck flock at northwest corner of F1

Caspian Gull 1 juvenile

Greater Black backed Gull 2 adults

Yellow legged Gull c6 various ages

Black Tern 1 juvenile

Common Tern 3

Ringed Plover 2

Common Sandpiper 2

Common Redstart 1f

Common Whitethroat c2

Lesser Whitehroat c2

Garden Warbler c1

Blackcap c1

Willow Warbler c2

Common Chiffchaff 20+

Yellow Wagtail 1 juvenile

Swallow 2

Kingfisher 1

Little Grebe 2

Little Egret 2

Egyptian Goose 2

Mediterranean Gull 1 - Juvenile in gull roost at 1916hrs

 

Port Meadow: 23rd August

Port Meadow
9 Egyptian Goose: 2 adults/7 juv. On the river bank opposite the Perch. The family still all together and the juveniles looking very grown up! 15:30.

Andrew Siantonas

Farmoor Reservoir: 23rd August

23rd August

Farmoor Reservoir
2 Common Sandpiper: 2 on causeway flew on to tern rafts. 15:34.
Black Tern: Flying up and down f1. 13:35.

Yacky Morris

Tar Lakes: 22nd August

Tar Lakes, Rushy Common
Great White Egret 15:00.

Richard Catling

Cassington GPs: 23rd August

Cassington GPs
Pintail 19:30.
Teal 19:30.

Colin Teal

Farmoor Reservoir 23rd August

Black Tern juv (DL) still 14:40 F1 (per Nick Truby)

Caspian Gull again along the causeway early a.m

Common Scoter f/imm N/W corner of F1

Redstart

(per Ewan Urquhart).

Otmoor 23rd

3 Cattle Egret
4 Garganey
Golden plover
Green Sandpiper
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Cholsey: 23rd August

Cholsey
Whinchat: from Silly Bridge, south of the railway station. SU588854. 09:30.

Michael Pocock

Grimsbury Reservoir 23rd August

Spotted Flycatcher 

Redstart f

Common Sandpiper 

Peregrine 

Yellow Wagtail 2

(per JFT)

Letcombe Bassett: Gramps Hill: 22nd August

Letcombe Bassett: Gramps Hill
5 Yellow Wagtail
Redstart: m.

Mark Merritt

Applefords GPs

Ruff - Juv still present

Ringed plover - 8

Little ringed plover - 5

Green sandpiper - 3

Common sandpiper - 3

Snipe - 4 

Standlake Pit 60: 22nd August

Standlake Pit 60
Garganey: eclipse bird. I think the 'second' individual on face pattern. Apart from a moribund lapwing, not a single wader; no shoreline. 20:16.

Mick Cunningham

Farmoor Reservoir: 22nd August

Farmoor Reservoir
Caspian Gull: juv. 09:00.
5 Yellow-legged Gull 09:00.
Greenshank 09:00.
2 Ringed Plover 09:00.

Peter Alfrey

Waterstock: River Thame: 22nd August

Treecreeper 08:00.
Tree Pipit: Heard, low over. 08:00.
Kingfisher 08:00.
Mandarin Duck 08:00.
Raven 08:00.
36 Swallow 08:00.
4 Goosander: 4 r/h family party still. 08:00.
2 Little Egret 08:00.
2 Garden Warbler 08:00.
9 Chiffchaff 08:00.
3 Blackcap 08:00. 
2 Sedge Warbler 08:00. 
2 Willow Warbler 08:00. 
2 Lesser Whitethroat 08:00. 
75 Linnet 08:00. 
3 Reed Bunting 08:00. 
5 Whitethroat 08:00. 
2 Goldcrest 08:00. 

Nick Marriner

 Rushey Common lake 22nd August

Great White Egret

Little Egret 2

Red Crested Pochard 1m 2f

Hobby 2

Kingfisher

Pit 60 Standlake 22nd August

Garganey (per RBA)

Otmoor: 22nd August

Otmoor
Great White Egret 12:00.
3 Cattle Egret 12:00.
Bittern: Flew over screen 1. 12:00.

Garganey (per RBA)  
Raven 12:00.
Greenshank: Seen at first screen. 12:00.
Oystercatcher 12:00.

Michael Violette

Farmoor Aug 22nd (am)

 Caspian Gull - 1 Juv (as per P.Alfrey) 
Teal - 6 (1 south, then 5 south) first of autumn
Goosander - 2 females on F1 then south 
Swift - 9 
Whimbrel - 1 south at 07:46
Greenshank - 1 south east at 09:43 (also 6 south the previous evening) 
Ringed Plover - 2 adults 
Yellow Legged Gull - c10 adults and at least 1 Juv 
Great BB Gull - 3 ads and 1 2CY
Kingfisher - 1 
Hirundines - light passage of mainly Sand Martin (c60), some Swallow (c30) and a couple of House Martin
Meadow Pipit - 1 (first of autumn) 
Lesser Whitethroat - 4 
Raven - 2 south 
(Med Gull - 1 Juv in the roost the previous evening - Aug 21st) 

Appleford GPs 22nd August

Ruff.

Ruff juv

Ringed Plover 3 (2 juv)

Little-ringed Plover 5+

Common Sandpiper 3+

Snipe

Sparrowhawk f

Little Egret 4

Drayton Flood:

Green Sandpiper 9

Snipe

Stonesfield Common 22nd August

Redstart 2
Tree Pipit

(per Paul Wren)

Photo courtesy of Paul Wren.

Oxford: Iffley Road: 22nd August

Oxford: Iffley Road
2 Raven: Flying over calling. 09:32.

Steve Roby

Stonesfield Common 21st August

Tree Pipit
Redstart 

(per Paul Wren)

Photo courtesy of Paul Wren.

Chipping Norton: 21st August

Chipping Norton
Green Sandpiper: Calling loudly whilst feeding in the shallows of small lake near Cornwell. SP283268. 19:30.
3 Teal: SP283268. 19:30.
2 Grey Heron: SP283268. 19:30.

Steve Akers

Otmoor: 21st August

Otmoor
Whimbrel: One flew west calling. 18:30.
8 Yellow Wagtail 18:30.
Great White Egret: Still on Big Otmoor. 18:30.
3 Cattle Egret: Greenaways. 18:30.
Curlew 18:30.
3 Greenshank 18:30.
Green Sandpiper 18:30.
2 Crane 18:30.

Peter Alfrey

Lark Hill 21st August

6 Redstart (4m, 2f)

2 Whinchat

11 Yellow Wagtail

4 Willow Warbler

5 Chiffchaff

Otmoor rspb 21st August

Cattle Egret 3+

Great white Egret 2

Golden Plover 

Greenshank 

Ruff

Black-tailed Godwit 

Ruff 

Snipe c60

Water Rail 

(per Bark et al)

Great white Egret courtesy of Bryan Manston.

Marsh Baldon: 21st August

Marsh Baldon
2 Wheatear: 2 Wheatear in arable fields west of Marsh Baldon. SU577997. 16:10.

Paul Torevell

Appleford GPs

Sanderling - picked up in flight from sandy spit but appeared to land

Common Sandpiper

Green Sandpiper - 5

Snipe - 3

Common Tern - 5 (3 juvs and parents returning with food)

Little Grebe - 3

Egyptian Goose - 2

Drayton flood

Green sandpiper - 7

Egyptian Goose - 2

Barnacle Goose - 2

Farmoor Reservoir 21st August

Caspian Gull 1 juvenile

Greater Black backed Gull 1 

Yellow legged Gull 4+

Green Sandpiper 1 - along  RiverThames by Pinkhill Reserve

Dunlin 1 juvenile

Ringed Plover 2

Common Sandpiper 3

Common Whitethroat c9

Lesser Whitethroat 1

Reed Warbler c11 - at least two family parties

Blackcap c10

Common Chiffchaff 40+

Willow Warbler c3

Sand Martin 50+

Swallow 5

Egyptian Goose 6

Gadwall 4

Little Grebe 3 - first of the autumn

Little Egret 3

Tawny Owl 1 - male calling from willows by River Thames