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