Port Meadow 11th December

Ruff: fem. Female ruff on south pool of Port Meadow floods
Redshank: Redshank on southern pool of Port Meadow floods

(per Will Long)

2 Egyptian Goose: Flew onto tree branch. SP491082. 08:23.

(per Matthew Southwell)

No sign of the 1w Dotterel with the Golden Plover flock by 12:14 (per Colm O Caomhanaigh).

Warburg Reserve: 11th December

Warburg Reserve
Hawfinch: From hide off the lane. Came in from left side of the pond. Quick drink then took off again. 13:37.

Pishill
10 Brambling: With large flock of finches - greenfinch, chaffinch and goldfinch - on track next to an old farm building. 13:37.

Lee Ellams

Kingfisher courtesy of Lisa Dobson

 

Standlake, pit 60: 11th December

Bittern 1
GW Egret 1 (plus another at 38)

Farmoor Reservoir 11th December

Scaup 1wf still on F1 (per RBA)

Upper Cherwell Valley: 10th December

Upper Cherwell Valley
2 Caspian Gull: 1W on the Borrow Pit and 3W in field to east of the river.
3 Yellow-legged Gull: 3+.

Gareth Blockley

Warburg Reserve: 10th December

Hawfinch 09:24.

John Kearns

Both photos courtesy of John Kearns.

Childrey: Childrey Field: 10th December

Childrey: Childrey Field
Merlin: ad male.
10 Corn Bunting

Mark Merritt

Otmoor: 10th December

Otmoor
4 Peregrine: 3 Adults and 1 Juvenile bird. 10:00.
Hen Harrier 10:00.
Probable Garganey: Juvenile - bit distant from first screen. 10:00.

Jeremy Dexter

Blenheim: 10th December

Blenheim
Pintail: Male on Queen Pool. 13:45.
Great White Egret 13:45.
Little Egret 13:45.
Great Black-backed Gull 13:45.

Gareth Casburn

Farmoor Reservoir 10th December

Scaup f

Common Sandpiper 

Yellow-legged Gull 

Great Black-backed Gull 

Redwing 100+

Treecreeper 

Stonechat 

(per Ewan Urquhart)

Balscote Quarry Reserve 10th December

Merlin

Brambling m yesterday

(M.P)

Sonning Eye GPs: 10th December

Sonning Eye GPs
Scaup: 1w drk. Still at the Bittern reedbed end. 12:41.

Marek Walford

Bicester Wetland Reserve 10th December

2 Jack Snipe

50 Snipe

2  Stonechat

2 Green Sandpiper

15+ Meadow Pipit

150 Teal

3 Heron

Alan Peters and Mike Pollard 

Key Holder Reserve

Port Meadow 10th December

No sign of the 1w Dotterel or any Golden Plover 

10-11:00 (per Nick Truby).

Port Meadow 9th December

DOTTEREL 1w till 11:20 then flushed by photographer (per Birdguides).

No sign late afternoon (per Gnome).

Longworth: 9th December

9th December

Longworth
Chiffchaff: Feeding & Calling near Church. 10:00.
220 Golden Plover: Flew high SE. 11:25.
2 Grey Wagtail: On Church Roof. 11:25.
Blackcap: fem. In Bushes near Church. 14:00.
2 Raven: Over calling near Church. 14:00.

Jed Cleeter

Wytham 9th December

Cattle Egret c15 - in field with cattle by A34. 

At least two seen to catch and eat what I believe were Short tailed Field Voles

Wytham: 9th December

Wytham
10 Cattle Egret: At least 9 but probably more as difficult to count amongst tall vegetation with cattle. Even a Grey Heron present with them was hard to pick out at times. SP479092. 14:45.

Peter Pool

Stanton St. John: 9th December

Stanton St. John
2 Little Egret: Two on the stream next to Stanton Great Wood for the second day. 14:19.

David Brown