Henley Road GPs: 7th May

Henley Road GPs
2 Hobby: Over lake. 16:45.

Lower Shiplake
3 Buzzard: Over. 16:45.

Ralph Watts

Farmoor Reservoir 7th May

Ringed Plover 2

Dunlin

Cuckoo

Grasshopper Warbler 

Lesser Whitethroat 

Wheatear (per Steve Liptrot)

(per Johnny Eclipse)

Courtesy of Steve Liptrot

Sonning Eye GPs: 7th May

Sonning Eye GPs
5 Hobby 12:56.
Yellow-legged Gull: ad. Very late bird! 12:56.

Marek Walford

Bicester Wetland Reserve: 7th May

Bicester Wetland Reserve
Grasshopper Warbler: Seen and heard reeling by small hide with Colin Oram. 08:15.
Marsh Harrier: Flying over reserve. Seen with Colin Oram. 08:15.

Laurie Bryant

Key holder reserve.

Woodstock 6th May

Barn owl - 1 hunting around me this evening.

Whitethroat -1

Corn bunting - 1

Tar Lakes, Rushy Common: 6th May

Tar Lakes, Rushy Common
2 Cuckoo: 1 seen. It was brown. SP382073. 17:00.
2 Red-crested Pochard: male. SP382073. 17:00.

John Pimm

Port Meadow 6th May

Glossy Ibis courtesy of Steve Lavington.

GLOSSY IBIS still present 16:31

Garganey m still present 13:10

Shelduck 4

Great white Egret 

Common Tern
35 Snow Geese
15 Barnacle Geese
Cattle Egret

Drake Garganey courtesy of Steve Sansom.

(per Steve Goddard, Joe Woodman, Steve Lavington, Adam Hartley).

 

Glossy Ibis courtesy of Steve Sansom

 

Newbury Street, Wantage. OX12 8BS: 6th May

Newbury Street, Wantage. OX12 8BS
3 Swift: First screaming birds of 2024; they returned on 5 May in 2023. SU397878. 15:40.

Mike Waring

Appleford GPs

Marsh Harrier - over land to south of gravel pits

Hobby - 3 hunting hirundines over pit

Swift - c40 hawking over pits and surrounding land. 

Cuckoo

Thrupp, nr Radcot

Garganey - 2 (m/f) flushed from private land this morning. 

Sutton Courtenay 6th May

Avocet 2 now on flooded field just west of Sutton Courtenay and north of the B4016 10:45. 

(per Tom Wickens).

Courtesy of Steve Sansom.

Originally on the Tuckwells pit opposite the Shoehill pit off Peep-O-Day Lane 08:12 

Otmoor rspb 6th May

GLOSSY IBIS again flew over the 1st screen at 09:05 and appeared to land on Big Otmoor 

(per Glen Pascoe, Kyle Smith).

Courtesy of Kyle Smith.

Eynsham: Oxford Road: 5th May

Eynsham: Oxford Road
Grasshopper Warbler: male. Heard only. Has been site at least 3-4 days. SP443091. 08:00.

Allen Stevens

Rushy Common: 5th May

Rushy Common
Red-crested Pochard: drk. On Down Valley Way pit. 17:50.
3 Shelduck: On Down Valley Way pit. 17:50.
Oystercatcher: On Down Valley Way pit. 17:50.
Wigeon: drk. On Down Valley Way pit. 17:50.
Red-legged Partridge: At Down Valley Way pit. 17:50.
Negative news Garganey: No further sign of any Garganey on Down Valley Way pit by 17:50. 17:50.

Ian Elkins

Otmoor: RSPB reserve: 5th May

Otmoor: RSPB reserve
Cuckoo 13:30.
14 Hobby 13:30.
Marsh Harrier 13:30.
Oystercatcher 13:30.
3 Little Egret 13:30.
20 Lapwing 13:30.
2 Water Rail: H/O. 13:30.

Steve Akers

Stanton Harcourt 5th May

Garganey 3 on the Down Valley Way pit opposite the Rushy Common car park 13:09 

(per Simon Bradfield, RBA).

Pinkhill, Farmoor; Sunday 5th May

 08:30-11:00

Cuckoo 2

Grasshopper Warbler (heard only)

Garden Warbler 2

Lots common Warblers

Old Caley's Diary

Farmoor Reservoir: Pinkhill Lock: 5th May

Farmoor Reservoir: Pinkhill Lock
2 Common Sandpiper: Flying up and down river. SP439068. 12:00.

Matthew Lloyd

Letcombe Bassett: Gramps Hill: 5th May

Letcombe Bassett: Gramps Hill
2 Yellow Wagtail: In stubble field next to road, south of The Ridgeway. SU368436. 13:06.

Geoff Dymott

Woodstock 5th May

In the area north of Old Woodstock:

Lesser whitethroat - 2 or 3 singing

Willow warbler - 3 singing

Sedge warbler - 2 singing