Farmoor Reservoir 6th July

Scaup (dk) in the middle of F1 this evening (per D.L).

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Port Meadow: 5th July

Port Meadow
Black-tailed Godwit: On the floods this evening.

Adam Hartley

Otmoor: RSPB reserve: 5th July

Otmoor: RSPB reserve
3 Marsh Harrier: male fem and juv. 09:00.
2 Cuckoo: Still calling around the reserve. 09:00.

Steve Roby

Courtesy of Paul Tomlinson.

Blenheim: Queen Elizabeth Island: 5th July

Blenheim: Queen Elizabeth Island
2 Cattle Egret: Wi. 14:48.

Bob Pomfret

Wantage 4th July

Courtesy of Mark Merritt.

ROSE-COLOURED STARLING (ad) on aerial of house by Motorlux garage off Wallingford Street

at 19:01,then in Alder by Ormond Road at 19:09.

(per Leo Bateman)

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Chipping Norton: 4th July

Chipping Norton
Raven: Flew over our back garden cronking away. 15:00.

Steve Akers

Appleford GPs 4th July

Great white Egret on main pit 14:40

Little Egret 4+

Yellow-legged Gull 

Black-tailed Godwit 6

Green Sandpiper 6

(Dave Lowe, Badger)

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Lowbury Hill: 4th July

Lowbury Hill
2 Quail: 1 bird singing from long grass here. Also one nearby at about SU539827. SU539824. 12:00.

Stephen Burch

Otmoor, 4th July

09-12:00, Greenaways from Bridleway

Bittern 

Curlew

Raven 2

Snipe 2 (drumming)

Marsh Harrier 2 (m & f)

Little Egret 2

Cuckoo 2

Old Caley's Diary

Standlake, pit 60: 4th July

Garganey 1m

Curlew 2
Oystercatcher 2
Hobby 2
Grasshopper Warbler 1

Standlake Pit 60: 3rd July

Standlake Pit 60
Great White Egret: SP388017. 11:00.

Stephen Burch

Bicester Wetlands Reserve, 3rd July 2021

09-10:00

Little Egret 2

Teal 5

Swift 10+

Sedge Warbler 5 (incl juvs)

Reed Warbler 10+ (incl juvs) 

Key-holder reserve only

Old Caley's Diary

Appleford GPs 3rd July

Green Sandpiper 6

Little Egret c5

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Otmoor - 3rd July

Cattle Egret - Big Otmoor

Glossy Ibis - 1st screen

2 Great White Egret - Big Otmoor

Grasshopper Warbler

Little-ringed Plover Cholsey recently courtesy of Alan Dawson.

Otmoor rspb 2nd July

Cattle Egret still present this afternoon (per RBA)

Letcombe Bassett: Gramps Hill: 2nd July

Letcombe Bassett: Gramps Hill
Yellow Wagtail: male. flew out of bean field into bush. 12:30.

Anthony Cheke

Appleford GPs 2nd July

Great white Egret

Little Egret 4

No sign of the Baltic Gull.

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Wantage 2nd July

ROSE-COLOURED STARLING ad again in garden.

From a Facebook post and presumably in the same general area.

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Appleford Gravel Pit: 1 July

1s Baltic gull - full set of jet black replaced primaries enables separation of Baltic gull from intermedius at at this time of year, as they follow a different moult strategy. This is the only age class where they are acceptable as vagrants. See Altenburg 2011 paper for other ID features

http://www.gull-research.org/papers/DB_2cyfuscus.pdf

Also 1 Great White Egret

Bottom two pics courtesy of Lew