Oxfordshire! 19th July 2026

Long tailed Shrike 1 male

Briefly crossed the Glos border into Oxon, remaining there for just a few minutes before returning back into Glos.

Whinchat 2 m/f (Adam Bassett, Ewan Urquhart)

Common Whitethroat 2

19 July Oxon Glos Border

                                                                    Long-tailed Shrike

   

Manor lake kirtlington: 19th July

Great White Egret: SP515192. 10:00.

David Watkinson

19 Jul 2026 13:57

Ardley 19th July

Peregrine - 2

Green Sandpiper - 1 on ERF lagoon

Little Ringed Plover - 5 on ERF lagoon

Grey Partridge - 8 (2 ad, 6 juv)

Stonechat - 1 juv

Otmoor RSPB; Saturday 18th July

 09-12:00; First Screen

Bittern

Cattle Egret

Great Egret

Marsh Harrier 3 (2 m, 1 juv)

Dunlin 2

Curlew

Common Sandpiper

Hobby

Common Tern c15 (incl 5 juv)

Common Gull 3

Old Caley's Diary

Lower Shiplake: 18th July

5 Egyptian Goose: f/juv. Near the river path. SU777797. 11:30.

Ralph Watts

18 Jul 2026 13:41

Standlake, pit 60: 18th June

37 Cattle Egret 1 GW Egret 2 Common Tern 2 Oystercatcher 4 Redstart, Thames Fields

Warburg BBOWT; Friday 17th July

14:30-17:00

Hawfinch 2 (male & female)

Blackcap (male)

Garden Warbler

Bullfinch 10+ (males, females & juveniles)

Siskin 3 (male & juveniles)

Old Caley's Diary

Segsbury Camp: 17th July

4+ Redstart

3 Grey Partridge

Successful breeding for Corn Bunting & Yellowhammer 

 

 

Hartslock 17 July

 Redstarts

Chinnor: Cement Works: 16th July

2 Common Sandpiper: Down the narrow end , hiding well under the trees. 20:00.

Mark Mckeown

16 Jul 2026 20:32

Port Meadow 16th July

Cattle Egret amongst the cows 17:20 (B)

RSPB Otmoor Thursday 16 July

Reedbed:
Great White Egret: 1
Redshank:1 

Green Sandpiper 1st screen 20:25 (per Paul Wilkinson)
Common Sandpiper: 1
Little Ringed Plover: 1
Snipe: 10
Common Tern: approx 10 

Ashgrave:

Little Egret: 7

Glossy Ibis: 1

Greenaways:

Grasshopper Warbler: 1 reeling

LRP courtesy of Paul Wilkinson

Sonning Eye GPs: 16th July

Yellow-legged Gull: ad. Regular bird on its favourite post. 12:26.

Marek Walford

16 Jul 2026 12:26

Warburg 16th July

Hawfinch 3

Spotted Flycatcher 

Marsh Tit

Coal Tit

Siskin

(per Russell Allen, Max Buckley)

Jay BBOWT Warburg Reserve courtesy of Russell Allen 

 

Otmoor rspb 14th July

Glossy Ibis 

Black-tailed Godwit 

Oystercatcher 

(et al)

Farmoor 14th July

Quail calling west of the reservoir (per Birdguides)

Bicester Wetlands Reserve 13th July

Green Sandpiper 7 (JT)

Key Holder Reserve.

Otmoor rspb 13th July

Black-tailed Godwit 2 at the 1st screen 19:41 (per Thomas Miller)

Ardley ERF Lagoon: 13th July

8 Little Ringed Plover 10:30.
7 Shelduck: Two adults five juveniles. 10:30.
2 Grey Partridge: Adults with at least four chicks. 10:30.

Laurie Bryant

13 Jul 2026 11:58

Warburg Reserve: 12th July

6 Bullfinch: mix of ad and juv. 18:30.

Hawfinch f  
Marsh Tit 18:30.
Spotted Flycatcher 18:30.

Matthew Lloyd

13 Jul 2026 00:12

Oxford: Magdalen College: 12th July

3 Tawny Owl: recently fledged juv. 2 recently fledged seen and a 3rd heard. 22:30.

Nick Suckling

12 Jul 2026 22:57

Otmoor Lane repairs 13th to 17th July

There are signs at the top and bottom of Otmoor Lane (in the village and in the RSPB car park) saying that work will be taking place between Monday and Friday of the week ahead. The sign says that access will be restricted and delays will be inevitable. 

I hope that the repairs will be more comprehensive than the patchwork pothole filling that has happened recently. It might be advisable to avoid the lane in working hours next week.

(P.B)

Bicester Wetland Reserve: 12th July

Redstart: Calls heard bird not seen In hedgerow of exit to garden centre which borders entrance drive to wetlands site. 08:50.

Michael Hunt

12 Jul 2026 14:19

Otmoor rspb 12th July

Glossy Ibis 1st screen

Bittern 4

Great white Egret 

Cattle Egret 

Little Egret 

(per Pete Barker)

Standlake, pit 60: 12th July

Med Gull 1, 2nd summer 

Cattle Egret 9

GW Egret 1

Common Tern 2

Oystercatcher 1

Redstart 2m, Thames Fields 

Uffington 12th July

Singing Quail this morning 06:08 by parking area for Waylands Smithy (per Robin Smith)

Warburg Reserve Bix 11th July

Hawfinch 1 male

Marsh Tit 4

Siskin 2 juveniles

Warburg Reserve - Saturday 11th July 2026

 Siskin x 2 (juveniles), Marsh Tit x 2, Coal Tit, Bullfinch x7 (2m 2f+3 juveniles) Chiffchaff,

 Green Woodpecker x 2 (juveniles), Spotted Flycatcher, Hawfinch (m), Song Thrush,

Blackcap x 2 (m + f).

Spotted Flycatcher.

Farmoor Reservoir 11th July

Sandwich Tern present until 1300hrs at least on F1 but no further sign by 18:40 (per Mathew Loyd)

Otmoor rspb 11th July

Quail calling on Greenaway’s this morning. 

Crane on Big Otmoor

Glossy Ibis at 1st screen 

Greenshank (per Dan Bevan)

Great Egret

Cattle Egret 7

Little Egrets. 

Grasshopper Warbler (per Dan Bevan)

Otter seen there earlier in the morning.

(per Pete Barker)

Courtesy of Dan Bevan

Otter courtesy of Peter Milligan 

New Marston: New Marston Meadows: 11th July

Grasshopper Warbler: Marston Hamms. 07:15.

Steve Jennings

11 Jul 2026 11:03

Farmoor Reservoir 11th July

Sandwich Tern still present F1 12:07 (per Nick Truby et al)

Courtesy of Nick Truby 

Otmoor rspb 10th July

Glossy Ibis (per Birdguides)

Chinnor: Cement Works: 9th July

2 Oystercatcher 20:30.
2 Egyptian Goose 20:30.

Mark Mckeown

9 Jul 2026 21:03

Warburg Reserve - Thursday 9th July 2026

 Hawfinch x 2 (m + f), Siskin x 4 (m, f + 2 Juveniles), Bullfinch x 8 (2m 2f + 4 Juveniles),

Marsh Tit x 2 (Juveniles), Coal Tit x 2, Garden Warbler, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Treecreeper,

Nuthatch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Song Thrush, Jay.

Hawfinch -male

     

Hawfinch - male

                           

Hawfinch -female

                                          

RSPB Otmoor Thursday 9 July

Reed bed:
Kingfisher 1
Glossy Ibis 1
Great White Egret 1
Little Egret 7
Cattle Egret 1

Snipe 4

Common Tern approx 20

Greenaways:

Cattle Egret 6
Corn Bunting 1

Grasshopper Warbler 1 reeling

 

Quail calling on Ashgrave 13:37 (per Paul Wilkinson)

Grey Heron courtesy of Steve Liptrot 

Farmoor Reservoir 8th July

CASPIAN TERN

                     Caspian Tern flew over F1 calling at 9:50  heading North and didn't stop.

Bernwood Forest: 8th July

Spotted Flycatcher 11:30.

Nick Suckling

8 Jul 2026 12:04

Farmoor Reservoir 8th July

CASPIAN TERN flew over the reservoir heading north c09:50 (per Roger Wyatt)

3 Lesser Emperor along causeway (per Conor MacKenzie)

Chinnor: Cement Works: 7th July

2 Oystercatcher: By west screen Lake 2b. 10:30.
Common Sandpiper: Lake 2b. 10:30.
2 Egyptian Goose: Lake 2b. 10:30.
Hobby 10:30.

David Stracey

8 Jul 2026 08:26

Cornwell Marsh and Wetland: 7th July

Green Sandpiper: With the Mallards at dusk on the wetland. 21:19.
15 Mallard 21:19.
2 Moorhen: juv. 21:19.
Chiffchaff 21:19.
2 Swift 21:19.
4 Swallow 21:19.
Kestrel: Heard. 21:19.
Barn Owl: Hunting over the marsh as night fell. 21:19.

Steve Akers

7 Jul 2026 23:44

Otmoor rspb 6th July

Black-tailed Godwit 9 at the 1st screen this evening (D.B)

Glossy Ibis (K.N)

Aston Upthorpe: 6th July

Redstart: fem type. Grims ditch area of Juniper Valley. SU542829. 20:31.

Steve Violette

6 Jul 2026 20:34

Dunsden Green: 6th July

Redstart: fem. Very elusive,,between the 2 telegraph poles. 11:37.

Mick Hannington

6 Jul 2026 11:40

Cornwell Marsh and Wetland: 5th July

Green Sandpiper: On the wetland with the mallards. 10:14.
39 Mallard: In the duck roost on the wetland. 10:14.
Pied Wagtail 10:14.
Carrion Crow 10:14.
2 Tawny Owl: At least two active as night fell - possibly more. 10:14.

Steve Akers

5 Jul 2026 23:31

Milcombe: 5th July

8 Swift 15:22.

Mary Clifton

5 Jul 2026 22:23

Farmoor 5th July

 

Dunlin x 1 on the Causeway

Yellow Wagtail Juvenile on F2

Cattle Egret F1  

Little Egret 1 Pinkhill 

Blenheim: Combe Gate: 5th July

2 Spotted Flycatcher 18:30.
Nuthatch 18:30.

Matthew Lloyd

5 Jul 2026 21:04

Standlake Pit 60: 5th July

7 Black-tailed Godwit 17:30.

Dave Murphy

5 Jul 2026 19:10

Hardwick Estate & Whitchurch on Thames: 5th July

10 Swallow: 10-15 flying around former stables/stud farm and paddocks. Stables now permanently closed but still open access for swallows apparently using this historic nesting site. Paddocks to be cultivated for additional organic food farming in due course. SU653779. 11:00.

Andrew Taylor

5 Jul 2026 17:54

Standlake, pit 60: 5th July

Common Sandpiper 1 

LR Plover 1 

Curlew 6 

Common Tern 3 

Cattle Egret 4

GW Egret 1

Oystercatcher 2, pit 27 

Redstart 1m & 1 juv, Thames Fields

Farmoor 4th July

Redshank on the Causeway 

Common Tern x 4 

Portway & south of B4030 junction: 3rd July

Corn Bunting: Singing from a bush to west of road. SP499241. 11:49.

Patrick Keiller

4 Jul 2026 23:31

Middleton Stoney: 4th July

 Yellowhammer on the footpath between Trow Pool and Middleton Stoney.

Ashbury: Waylands Smithy: 4th July

Quail: Singing male heard distantly to South West of Wayland's Smithy. SU278853. 12:57.

Phil Chapman

4 Jul 2026 12:59

Cornwell Marsh and Wetland: 4th July

Kingfisher: Flew through over the Wetland close to the Swale. 08:36.
Green Sandpiper 08:36.
Lapwing: With GS on the wetland. Roe Deer Doe too. 08:36.
2 Moorhen 08:36.
11 Mallard 08:36.
2 Stonechat: ad male; juv. On bullrushes on the marsh. 08:36.
21 Reed Bunting 08:36.
3 Sedge Warbler 08:36.
2 Yellowhammer 08:36.
11 Wren 08:36.
3 Swift 08:36.
10 Swallow 08:36.
Lesser Black-backed Gull 08:36.
2 Kestrel: juvs. 08:36.
2 Buzzard 08:36.
4 Red Kite 08:36.

 Steve Akers

4 Jul 2026 12:25

Otmoor rspb 4th July

Quail 3 

Closes 07:23 (per Pete Barker)

100 Acre

In field north of the Flood field 

Redstart 2 m/f

(per Barry Batchelor)

Cornwell Marsh and Wetland: 3rd July

Green Sandpiper 21:07.
Little Egret 21:07.
Grey Heron 21:07.
14 Mallard 21:07.
200 Jackdaw: Going to roost. 21:07.
Swift 21:07.

Steve Akers

3 Jul 2026 23:09

Farmoor Reservoir 3rd July

Yellow Wagtail 1

Common Tern 4

Warburg - 3rd July 2026

 Following on from the spring and the departure of migrating birds a pair of Siskins remained with us

 here at Warburg. It was hoped that they may breed and indeed it has come to pass.

Siskin - juvenile

Siskin x 4 (m, f, 2 juveniles), Bullfinch x 7 (2m, 2f, 3 juveniles), Marsh Tit x 2, Coal Tit, Chiffchaff x 2

Garden Warbler x 2, Chaffinch x2 (m, f), Great Spotted Woodpecker (Juvenile), Green Woodpecker (f),

Treecreeper, Nuthatch, Blackcap (m,f), Wren (juvenile).

                                          

Siskin - juvenile.

Dunsden Green: 3rd July

2 Stonechat: Near Redstart. 15:30.

Ralph Watts

3 Jul 2026 16:32

Dunsden Green: 3rd July

Redstart: f. Still present from second post in out of bushes going in field . SU730773. 15:30.

Ralph Watts

3 Jul 2026 16:30

Bicester Wetland Reserve 3rd July

 1 Water Rail plus 2 very young chicks
8 Green Sandpiper
4 Little Egret
2 Heron

A Peters
Key Holder Reserve

Stoke Row: 2nd July

Woodcock: Flying over Boroughcourt Woods roding. 22:59.

John Taylor

3 Jul 2026 08:02

Cornwell Marsh and Wetland: 2nd July

Green Sandpiper: In the watercress beds on the wetland. 12:35.
2 Grey Heron 12:35.
Little Egret 12:35.
7 Mallard 12:35.
2 Blackcap 12:35.
Whitethroat 12:35.
Yellowhammer 12:35.
2 Red Kite 12:35.

Steve Akers

2 Jul 2026 23:01

Chastleton Woods: 2nd July

Spotted Flycatcher: SP254288. 12:02.

Steve Akers

2 Jul 2026 20:59

Otmoor rspb 2nd July

Glossy Ibis 1st screen

Quail calling on Ashgrave 

Spotted Flycatcher 

(Per Paul Tomlinson, Paul Wilkinson)

Courtesy of Paul Wilkinson 

Dunsden Green: 2nd July

Redstart: f. Bird still in same vicinity near hedge at one point down to 12ft /15 feet away then moved further down the field past the second post and lost to view. 1:55 till 15 00 when I left still not seen. SU731774. 13:55.

Ralph Watts

2 Jul 2026 15:32

Port Meadow: 2nd July

Kestrel: Hunting over long grass at southern end of meadow. 12:42.

Ian Young

2 Jul 2026 12:43

Dunsden Green: 2nd July

Redstart: fem. Still showing. SU731774. 10:11.

Mick Hannington

2 Jul 2026 10:14

Cornwell Marsh and Wetland: 1st July

Green Sandpiper: On the Wetland. 14:32.
Grey Heron 14:32.
Treecreeper: Calling from the wood adjacent to the Wetland. 14:32.
Water Rail 14:32.
3 Stonechat: juv. 14:32.
2 Sedge Warbler 14:32.
11 Reed Bunting 14:32.
3 Swallow 14:32.
4 Linnet 14:32.
2 Buzzard 14:32.

Steve Akers

1 Jul 2026 23:55

Aston Upthorpe Downs - 1st July

 

Quail 1 - calling distantly and intermittently from  large field of barley

Corn Bunting 6 (family group)

Yellowhammer 3

Common Whitethroat 2+

Common Raven 1

Otmoor rspb 1st July

Quail calling 16:39 (per Birdguides)

Farmoor Reservoir 1st July

Black tailed Godwit 1 adult summer - on F2 side of causeway at western end

Common Sandpiper 1

Common Tern 3

Egyptian Goose 4

Little Egret 5

Dunsden Green: 1st July

Redstart: SU730774. 14:45.

Ralph Watts

1 Jul 2026 15:06

Bicester Wetlands Reserve 1st July

Green Sandpiper 9 this morning (C.O, S.G)

Key holder reserve.

Drayton Flood adjacent to B4016 1st July

Little-ringed Plover 5

Green Sandpiper 2

Lapwing 16

(per Steve Violette)

Blewbury 1st July

Quail calling distantly in barley field Woodway/Ridgeway 11:25 (per Ewan Urquhart)

Farmoor Reservoir 1st July

Black-tailed Godwit still present at western end of the causeway 12:34 

Common Tern 3

Little Egret 5

(per Ewan Urquhart)

Courtesy of Brian Walker 

New Marston: New Marston Meadows: 1st July

Cuckoo: Marston Hamms. 07:30.

Steve Jennings

1 Jul 2026 09:07