Farmoor, 27th July

A very recently fledged juvenile Northern Wheatear at Farmoor this morning, probably not travelled very far. Also 5 juvenile Yellow Wagtails. Adult Black Tern.

Port Meadow 27th July

Black-tailed Godwit

Black-tailed Godwit

Sanderling

Wood Sandpiper

Wood Sandpiper

Some of the waders reported from Port Meadow today.

Port Meadow 27th July

Wood Sandpiper 2 (still present in N/W corner at 17:15 per Peter Law
& The Wickster)
Green Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper 2
Ringed Plover 1 (juv)
Little ringed Plover
Sanderling (still present 17:15)
Black-tailed Godwit 2
Oystercatcher
Snipe 3
Little Egret 24
Wigeon

(per Jarrod Hadfield & Badger)

Farmoor 27th July

Redstart still along the west side of F2 nr Buckthorn Meadow
Wheatear 2 along west side of F1
Whimbrel yesterday

The Insomniac Birder

Otmoor. A.M. 27th July.

2 Hobby
2 Common Terns
1 Whinchat
1 Wheatear

Cholsey: Cholsey Marsh Nature Reserve: 26th July

Cholsey: Cholsey Marsh Nature Reserve
Grasshopper Warbler: On sth side of reserve, nr boat-launch - ca. 30m out, singing loud and well for 20 min's, prob low-down in the large willow.
Grasshopper Warbler

Mike Amphlett

Port Meadow: 27th July

Port Meadow
2 Wood Sandpiper
Green Sandpiper
Sanderling
2 Black-tailed Godwit
Little Ringed Plover
2 Common Sandpiper

Jarrod Hadfield

Farmoor 26th July

66 Yellow-legged Gulls counted on F.1 this evening + 2 juvenile Mediterranean Gulls. 

The  second summer Mediterranean Gull (2XA5) seen last week was ringed at Sandycove, County Dublin in November 2011. It wintered in southern Portugal and was back in Dublin three days after it's last appearance at Farmoor.

Otmoor.A.M. 26th July.

1 Grasshopper Warbler ( 100 Acres )
3+ Redstart
1 Raven ( calling )

Kingham 25 July

At least 2 pairs of Spotted Flycatchers in the village

Also 67 bats of unknown species seen flying out of a residents chimney at Dusk

Farmoor 25th July

Turnstone 1

Dunlin 1

Common Sandpiper 2

Oystercatcher 1

Ringed Plover 1

Little Egret 2

Pochard 1

The Insomniac Birder

Warburg Reserve 25th July

4 Spotted Flycatcher Adults feeding juv's seen from visitor centre hide.
(Per Geoff Emmett)


Richard Marsh

Farmoor, 24th July

Huge increase in numbers this evening. 3+ Mediterranean Gulls (adult + 2+ juveniles). 45+ Yellow-legged Gulls. 

Port Meadow: 23rd July

Port Meadow
3 Green Sandpiper
2 Little Ringed Plover
Snipe

Richard Foster

Dorchester: Dorchester complex: 23rd July

Dorchester: Dorchester complex
2 Oystercatcher

Thomas Stevenson

Farmoor, 22nd July

The colour-ringed second summer Mediterranean Gull again in the roost as well as an adult. Yellow-legged Gulls at their peak at the moment with 30+ (mostly adults) at 21.00, and probably a lot more by dusk.  A juvenile Common Gull  plus 5 adults.

Black Tern Farmoor Res (per RBA)

Otmoor 22nd July

Redstart 4
Grasshopper Warbler 2+
Hobby 2+
Little Egret 2

Otmoor Birding

Bernwood Forest 22nd July

Crossbill
Spotted Flycatcher

Purple Emperor 6+ (per Ewan et al)
White Admiral 4
Silver-washed Fritillary 
Common Lizzard

Purple Emperor on Oliver Coopers hand
(c) O.Cooper


Some Video of some of the Bernwood Butterflies Here 

North Abingdon

Spotted Flycatcher (per Peter Law)

White Stork Deddington 21st July

Winston Churchill had a White Stork thermalling over Deddington at 3.35pm today (21st) before drfting south.

Eynsham: Chil Brook: 21st July

Eynsham: Chil Brook
Tree Sparrow: 2, male and fem.

Thomas Stevens

Wantage: 21st July

Wantage
Spotted Flycatcher: In Betjeman park.

Mark Merritt

Otmoor 21st July

Green Sandpiper
Hobby 3+
Grasshopper Warbler 4

Otmoor Birding

Bernwood 21st July

Crossbill 2+
Yellow Wagtail
Marsh Tit


Purple Emperor 8+ (along the main track from the car park 10:45-14:30)
White Admiral 
Silver-washed Fritillary  6+
Emperor Dragonfly
Brown Hawker
Southern Hawker

Port Meadow: 21st July

Port Meadow
Green Sandpiper

Jarrod Hadfield

Otmoor 20/07/12

Grasshopper Warbler

Otmoor. 20th. July.

2 Turtle Doves.
2 Snipe (drumming)

Henley Road GPs: 20th July

Henley Road GPs
Green Sandpiper

Marek Walford

Port Meadow: 19th July

Port Meadow
Mediterranean Gull: 2s.
3 Oystercatcher

Adam Hartley

Farmoor 19th July

The gulls are roosting on the causeway currently, unless there is a lot of disturbance, then they go over onto F.1. Three Mediterranean Gulls this evening; adult, juvenile and the above British ringed second summer. Also a few Yellow-legged Gulls, including the first juvenile of the autumn. + 1 Black-tailed Godwit.

Farmoor 18th July

Med Gull in roost this evening (per Andy Last)

B.H.G's & Wildfowl

Rushy Lock

20+ Tree Sparrow (per Barry Hudson)

Farmoor 17th July

Sanderling 7
Turnstone 2
Redshank 2
Dunlin 2
Common Sandpiper 1
Oystercatcher 2
Ringed Plover 1

The Insomniac Birder

Bernwood 17th July

Peter Law reports that there are two Purple Emperors at Bernwood Forest near the log stacks presently. A total of 7 has been reported today so it's obviously a good day for them.

 Purple Emperor (c) Peter Law

Otmoor: 17th July

juv Turtle Dove (c) Pete Coombes

3 Hobby
Raven: On post on big Otmoor.
3 Turtle Dove: Two juveniles and one adult. On wires near cattle pen.
2 Grasshopper Warbler: One near carpark and another near feeders.

Peter Coombes

Port Meadow: 16th July

Port Meadow
Mediterranean Gull: 2s.
Sand Martin

Adam Hartley

Farmoor 16th July

Turnstone along causeway 09:05 (per Dai)

The Insomniac Birder

Otmoor 15th July

female Redstart (c) Badger

3 Redstart: 1m/2f (et al)
Black-tailed Godwit: Flying (Big Otmoor).
Cuckoo: juv. Being fed by Reed warblers in reeds in front of first screen.
Grasshopper Warbler

(Peter Coombes)

Otmoor Birding

Purple Emperor Bernwood Forest again along the main track from the car park 
mid-morning. More at Black Audi Birding

Grimsbury Reservoir: 15th July

Grimsbury Reservoir
Yellow Wagtail: Over south.

Gareth Blockley

Farmoor 15th July

Sanderling photo taken in 2011

Redstart 3
Dunlin 7
Sanderling 1
Oystercatcher 1
Common Sandpiper 1

(c) Badger

Farmoor 14th July

Male Redstart Shrike Meadow.
Little Owl Buckthorn Meadow.

Silver-washed Fritillary near Bushy Leaze Copse. 

Otmoor 14th July

The Public (burger filled) face of Otmoor Birding...

Redstart 3
Snipe 6

(per Bark)

Port Meadow: 13th July

Port Meadow
Mediterranean Gull: 2s.
3 Black-tailed Godwit
4 Oystercatcher

Adam Hartley

Otmoor 13th July .A.M.

1 Tawny Owl
1 Redstart (F)

Black headed Gulls at Radley

Farmoor 12th July

Whimbrel over F2 20:00
Redstart (f) near Shrike Meadow this morning
+Silver-washed Fritillary near Bushy Leaze Copse.

(per Dai)

The Insomniac Birder

Wantage 12 July

What a great summer!

(c) Stephen Burch www.stephenburch.com

Port Meadow: 12th July

Port Meadow
9 Little Egret
2 Black-tailed Godwit
3 Oystercatcher
31 Lapwing: At least, difficult to count in the long grass.
Red Kite: Over west.

Gareth Blockley

Otmoor 12th July

(c) Pete Coombes

Redstart 2 (m/f) on Otmoor this morning (per Paul Greenaway)


Purple Emperor Bernwood forest about 200 yards along main footpath just past the log stacks and before the second crossroads c11:45a.m (per Gnome & Peter Law)

 Purple Emperor at Bernwood Forest (c) Gnome

More photos of the Purp here

Peregrine family in Oxfordshire

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Willow Tits

Two Willow Tits at Grimsbury reservoir today, in the Woodland. Both were loosely associated with a family group of Great tits in the scrubby northern edge of the wood (along the railway embankment).

Port Meadow: 11th July

Mediterranean Gull: 2s. Found by Jarrod Hadfield.
Black-tailed Godwit: ad. s/p.
5 Oystercatcher
Common Sandpiper: Heard only.

Adam Hartley

Farmoor 10th July

A first summer Common Tern this afternoon, an unfamiliar plumage at Farmoor. The juvenile Mediterranean Gull again in the roost, presumably this bird hasn't travelled too far......
5 summer plumaged Black-tailed Godwits.

Otmoor 10th july Tree Pipit

Terry Tossel has seen and heard a Tree Pipit, including a display flight. Starting in the carpark field and then moving along the Closes side of the hedgerow towards the hide. He looked for it further but had not relocated it by four pm.
Bark

Otmoor 10th July early morning

Normal stuff still around with the addition of a Whinchat in the hedge just before the turing to the hide.
Bark

Farmoor Roost

21:40 25 common Terns roosting on eastern most floating perch line on F1. Minimum of 3 Yellow-legged Gulls; 10 plus L B-b 's; 1 adult Common Gull and c1000 B H Gull's. Redshank and Oystercatcher both heard only. Pied wagtails numbers building now.. c 40 plus? in SE of f1 around 8pm Only <10 Swift. All in all very quiet although the mobile red van Bird observatory may have seen more.....

Otmoor 9/07

3 Black-tailed Godwits
4 Redshank
Around 100 Lapwing
2 Common Terns
Pochard with chicks
Little Egret
Grasshopper Warbler
Swifts
Red Kite
Sedge Warbler
Reed Warbler
Stock Dove
Gadwall
Teal
Chaffinch
Mallard

Charlotte Rogers

Port Meadow: 8th July

Port Meadow
2 Common Sandpiper

Adam Hartley

A4260 Rowsham Gap: 8th July

A4260 Rowsham Gap
3 Raven

Nick Suckling

Otmoor 8th July

Black-tailed Godwit 2 (Ashgrave)
Green Sandpiper 2+
Dunlin
Little Ringed Plover
Redshank 10+
Lapwing c120
Teal 30+
Little Egret 7
Hobby 2+
Sprawk
Cuckoo
Grasshopper Warbler 3 (2 in car park field)

Otmoor Birding

   Gropper in the Car park field on Otmoor unfortunately it remained distant.

Gropper (c) Paul Greenaway

Port Meadow: 7th July

Port Meadow
8 Common Sandpiper
Black-tailed Godwit
Redshank

Adam Hartley

Otmoor 7th July

Reed Warbler

Reed Warbler

Green Sandpiper

Turtle Dove

Otmoor 7th July

Green Sandpiper 3
Redshank 6
Lapwing c80
Hobby 3+
Turtle Dove 2
Grasshopper Warbler 3
Lesser Whitethroat

Otmoor Birding

Whitethroat(c) David Cuddon

Rushy Common 7th July

Common Sandpiper 3
Willow Warbler

(per Clackers)

Port Meadow: 6th July

Port Meadow
Redshank: per Richard Foster.
2 Oystercatcher: per Richard Foster.
Common Sandpiper
5 Dunlin
6 Little Ringed Plover
24 Little Egret: per Jarrod Hadfield.

Adam Hartley

Farmoor July 6th

Redshank 3
Greenshank 1
Common Sandpiper 3
Egyptian Goose 3
Little Egret 1
Common Gull 1

 Common Gull

The Insomniac Birder

Rushy Common 6th July

Green Sandpiper 2
Egyptian Geese   2
Common Tern    4
Garden Warbler

(per Clackers)

Otmoor 5th July

Green Sandpiper Big Otmoor pools

Redshank 7

Little Ringed Plover 2

Hobby

Little Egret 5

Grasshopper Warbler 2

Otmoor Birding

Port Meadow: 5th July

Greenshank

Sydney Penner

Also,

2 Oystercatchers
10 Common Terns
9 Little Egrets
2 Common Sandpipers
6 Little Ringed Plovers

Adam Hartley

Also this evening
1 Curlew
1 Little Gull


and the Greenshank still

 Adam Hartley

Otmoor 5/7/12 AM

2 green sandpiper
Little ringed plover
Hobby
7+ common terns
6 little egret
Grasshopper warbler reeling from car park field and path to screens
2 turtle dove, 1 purring by gate into greenaways

Farmoor 4th July

Adult and juvenile Mediterranean Gull this evening, plus 15+ Yellow-legged Gulls and an Egyptian Goose

Port Meadow: 4th July

Port Meadow
Black-tailed Godwit
2 Common Sandpiper
7 Little Ringed Plover: a mix of ad & juv. birds.
Curlew: flew over calling.
6 Little Egret

Adam Hartley

Some rather grainy video footage of the bird, filmed in gloomy conditions

More at Port Meadow Birding

Chipping Norton
Peregrine Bliss Mill (per Steve Akers)


Western-on-the-Green 
Spotted Flycatcher 4+ (2ad 2 juv) (per Dave Daniels)

Otmoor 4th July

3 Hobby
2 Little Ringed Plover: 2nd scrape big Otmoor.
Raven
2 Grasshopper Warbler
4 Turtle Dove

Peter Coombes

Farmoor 4th July

No sign of the Common Scoter this morning (per Dai)

Filmed by Jeff P more of Jeff's superb videos at jpbirds

Port Meadow 3rd July

1 Black-tailed Godwit
1 Oystercatcher
1 Little Gull
4 Little Egrets

per Ian Smith & Mary Gregory

Also
2 Common Sandpipers
4 Little Ringed Plover


Adam Hartley

Farmoor, 3rd July

Common Scoter is not an un-common bird at Farmoor but you don't often see their legs and feet. This bird has virtually no tail feathers, which might explain its predicament....more photos....

Farmoor 3rd July

Common Scoter south side of F2 08:06 (per Dai)
Still present at 5p.m

The Insomniac Birder

Both photos (c) Dai

Talk this evening 3rd July

Professor Ben Sheldon, Director of The Edward Grey Institute at the

Department of Zoology will be speaking to the Society on the subject

"Pox and 'bad air': studies of the natural history of disease in

native birds" this Tuesday evening (3rd July) 7:45-9:15pm, 

(more information within the Forthcoming Talks page) 

Port Meadow: 2nd July

Port Meadow
5 Little Ringed Plover

Adam Hartley

Chipping Norton 2 July

Female Peregrine still perched on Bliss Mill Chimney this morning.
seen with a pigeon kill first thing per Steve (Oriental Dove) Akers