Pit 60 Standlake 29th August

MARSH SANDPIPER still from Langley Lane hide 17:15 - present for second day after being identified from photographs late yesterday evening. 

Key holder reserve. Access arrangements are being discussed with the landowners for non key holders. 

Also,

Black-tailed Godwit 2

Common Sandpiper 3

Snipe 10+

Firecrest (DD)

Pintail

Wigeon 

Great White Egret 2 

Marsh Harrier 3 m/f

Water Rail

 

Courtesy of Thomas Miller

Courtesy of Roger Wyatt

 

Access 

Park in village on High Street (OX29 7RR) and walk down Shifford Lane then at the crossroads take the left hand track. At the end of the track turn right and follow path to hide on the right.

 

 

Follow the yellow arrows to the Langley Hide on the east shore of Pit 60 

Farmoor Reservoir 29th August

Little Stint juv along causeway 11:20 (per RBA)

Otmoor: 28th August

Otmoor
2 Crane: SP563134. 19:30.
70 Yellow Wagtail: 70+. SP563134. 19:30.
22 Cattle Egret: SP563134. 19:30.
Hobby: SP563134. 19:30.
Woodcock: On Otmoor Lane. SP563134. 19:30.

Steven Portugal

Wether Down: 28th Aug.

 

2 Whinchat

3 Stonechat

Redstarts

7 Raven 

Chinnor: Cement Works: 28th August

Chinnor: Cement Works
Green Sandpiper: North end of Lake 2b. 12:00.

David Stracey

Buckland Warren : 28th August

 

Wood Warbler this morning in an assorted flock of crests, tits, chiffchaffs, x2 spotted flycatchers.

RSPB Otmoor Thursday 28 August

Crane 1 on Big Otmoor

Greenshank 1 at 2nd screen

Green Sandpiper 1 at 2nd screen

Common Sandpiper 1 at 2nd screen

Bittern 1 at 1st screen

Glossy Ibis 1 at 1st screen

Raven 1 over reedbed

Hobby 1 over reedbed

Waterstock: 28th August

Waterstock
Spotted Flycatcher: Fly catching from trees on the 4th fairway of the golf course. 14:12.

John Barnes

Port Meadow: 28th August

Port Meadow
Redstart: m. In Burgess Field 
Cattle Egret: with cattle this morning.
30 Yellow Wagtail: with the cattle.

Thomas Miller, Adam Hartley

Farmoor Reservoir 28th August

Little Stint 1+ juv along causeway 15:55

Caspian 2s (per RBA)

Greenshank 2 

Little-ringed Plover 

Common Sandpiper 3

(per Dave Lowe et al)

 Green Sandpipers at Bicester Wetland Reserve:  A Peters

Buckland Warren: 27th August

Buckland Warren
12 Common Crossbill: min.
3 Siskin
2 Raven

Hatford: Sandpit
2 Common Sandpiper
3 Egyptian Goose
Raven

Mark Merritt

Stratfield Brake 26th August

Great white Egret 

Little Egret 2

Common Sandpiper 

Snipe 5

Otmoor rspb 27th August

Greenshank 2nd screen

Green Sandpiper 

Snipe

Crane 2 on Big Otmoor 

(per Luke O'Byrne et al)

Blenheim Park 27th August

Crossbill 8 in trees by Fisheries Cottage 08:01 (DD)

Farmoor Reservoir 27th August

Little Stint 2 both juv still present F1 (BS)

Caspian Gull (per RBA)

Warburg Reserve - PM Tuesday 26th August 2025

Warburg Reserve keeps on giving. Wonderful. Pied Flycatcher (F), Hawfinch (m +juv), 

Spotted Flycatcher (x 3 adult + juv's) Blackcap x 2 (m + f), Chiffchaff x 2, Willow Warbler,

Great Spotted Woodpecker (juv), Goldcrest, Nuthatch, Chaffinch (m +f), Marsh Tit x 3, Coal Tit.

(A special mention to Ashley - a local birder who helped with the ID of Pied Flycatcher)
 

Pied Flycatcher (f)

Pied Flycatcher (f)

Otmoor RSPB 26th August

1400-1600hrs

Common Greenshank 3

Green Sandpiper 2

Common Sandpiper 1

Common Snipe 11

Lapwing 100+

Hobby 1

Marsh Harrier 1f

Common Crane 2

Cattle Egret 17

Little Egret 1

Otmoor: 26th August

Otmoor
Peregrine 20:23.
2 Marsh Harrier 20:23.
2 Green Sandpiper 20:23.
110 Lapwing 20:23.
200 Yellow Wagtail: A very conservative estimate of numbers. 20:23.
Swift 20:23.

Matthew Lloyd

Farmoor Reservoir: 26th August

Farmoor Reservoir
Little Stint: At least one still west side of F1. 19:31.
Ringed Plover: On causeway. 19:31.

Yacky Morris

Farmoor Reservoir 26th August

Little Stint 2 both juv along causeway 15:34

Ringed Plover 

Little-ringed Plover 

Greenshank over

Caspian Gull

Spotted Flycatcher west side of F1

(Conor MacKenzie, Ewan Urquhart, Roger Wyatt)

Radcot Lock: 26th August

2 Whinchat 14:53.

25th August
2 Whinchat: SU282991. 11:30.

Joanna Harding

Leucistic Pied Wagtail Farmoor Reservoir 
Courtesy of Nick Truby.

 

Brize Norton: 23rd August

Brize Norton
Wheatear: male. SP294076. 09:00.

Joanna Harding

Lower Heyford 26th August

2 Cattle Egrets in field next to road near Lower Heyford, Steeple Aston crossroads from the single carriageway section by river at 2.20pm

(JT)

Standlake Pit 60: 26th August

Standlake Pit 60
Ruff 11:00.
Black-tailed Godwit 11:00.
2 Common Sandpiper 11:00.
Great White Egret 11:00.

Anthony Roberts

Sonning Eye GPs: 26th August

Sonning Eye GPs
Yellow-legged Gull: ad. Regular bird on its favourite post. 13:25.

Marek Walford

Otmoor rspb 26th August

Greenshank 3 1st screen 10:48 

Crane 2 Big Otmoor 

(PW et al)

Courtesy of Paul Willis 

Bicester Wetland Reserve 26th August

10 Green Sandpiper (5 at the newly dug out Cattle Bridge Pool)
2 Lapwing
1 Snipe
30 Teal
2 Little Egret
1 Water Rail

A Peters C Oram
Key Holder Reserve

Stratfield Brake 26th August

Greenshank 2 

Little Egret 

Cetti's Warbler 

Farmoor Reservoir 25th August

1600-1800hrs

Little Ringed Plover 1 juvenile

Ringed Plover 1 adult

Common Sandpiper 3

Yellow Wagtail 1

Pied Wagtail 1 leucistic individual

Common Tern 2

Great Black backed Gull 1

Egyptian Geese 7

Barnacle Geese 37

Snow Geese 80+

Port Meadow: Burgess Field Nature Park: 24th August

24th August 
Tree Pipit: Trapped & ringed 

25th August 
2 Tree Pipit: one over Walton St & one over Burgess Field gate

No sign of any of the reported White-tailed Eagles this morning

Thomas Miller, Adam Hartley

Burgess Field Tree Pipit in the hand courtesy of Thomas Miller

 

Fyfield Wick: 25th August

Fyfield Wick
2 Yellow Wagtail: Flew up from 2nd lake calling. 11:05.

Jed Cleeter

North Cross Valley Way 25th August

Green Sandpiper 

Common Sandpiper 

Great white Egret

Whinchat

Stonechat 

(DD)

Otmoor rspb 25th August

Greenshank 2nd screen

Wood Sandpiper reported 2nd screen 13:30 (RBA)

Green Sandpiper 2nd screen

Common Sandpiper 2nd screen

Snipe 7+

Cattle Egret 17+

Hobby 2

Peregrine 

Lesser Whitethroat 

Bullfinch 4

No sign of reported Wryneck in Morleys (et al)

Lye Valley, Oxford: 25th August

Spotted Flycatcher (the third this month), plus a Yellow Wagtail over. 

Farmoor Reservoir 25th August

Little Stint still present along the causeway 07:38

Ringed Plover 

Common Sandpiper 

Snipe

Cattle Egret 

Great whie Egret

Spotted Flycatcher western side of F1

(per Dave Lowe)

 

Video (from yesterday) courtesy of Gnome

Elsfield 24th August

Avocet flew over at approx 05:10 calling (TM)

Warburg Reserve: 24th August

Warburg Reserve
Hawfinch 15:15.
2 Spotted Flycatcher 15:15.

Matthew Lloyd

Watlington Hill: 24th August

Watlington Hill
2 Spotted Flycatcher 17:30.
Redstart 17:30.

Matthew Lloyd

Otmoor rspb 24th August

Wryneck reported 11:00 Morleys (car park field) 

from seasonal path (F.F)

Bittern (PB)

Greenshank 2nd screen 

Hobby

(PM)

Courtesy of Paul Mallarini

Farmoor Reservoir 24th August

Above & below courtesy of Nick Truby 

Little Stint along the causeway of F1 14:52

Little-ringed Plover 

Caspian Gull juv

(per Dave Lowe et al)

Belated news of an Osprey over F1 17:00 caught a fish then flew towards Stanton Harcourt (IS)

Courtesy of Lew

Letcombe Bassett: 24th August

Flying visit from a kingfisher at the old watercress beds in Letcombe Bassett this afternoon

 

Devil’s Punchbowl: 24th August

Male and female wheatear up and around The Ridgeway as they head back south

 

Pit 60 Standlake 24th August

Black-tailed Godwit 

Common Sandpiper 2

Snipe 4

Marsh Harrier 2

Peregrine 

(AL)

Radley GPs 24th August

Green Sandpiper 2

Little Egret 3

Farmoor Reservoir 23rd August

Little Stint juv F1 19:11 

Little Gull juv F2 19:36

(per Dave Lowe)

No sign of the Black-necked Grebe by 09:48 

Caspian Gull juv

Little Ringed Plover 1 juvenile

Dunlin

Common Sandpiper 4 (3 on Pinkhill)

Common Redshank 1

Courtesy of Carolyn Walker 

Courtesy of Carolyn Walker 

Shoveler 3

Gadwall

Grey Partridge

Common Swift 1

Sand Martin 10+

Swallow 2

Little Egret 8

Snow Geese 80+

Lesser Whitethroat 7

Common Whitethroat 4

Garden Warbler 2

Blackcap 3

Willow Warbler 1

Common Chiffchaff 30+

Yellow Wagtail 5

(per Ewan Urquhart, Dave Lowe, Nick Truby et al) 

Courtesy of Nick Truby

Standlake, pit 60: 23rd August

Ruff 1 juv
Black-tailed Godwit 1
Green Sandpiper 1
Common Sandpiper 2
Marsh Harrier 1
Hobby 1
Yellow Wagtail 1

Otmoor rspb 23rd August

Wood Sandpiper still present from screen 15:42 (per RBA)

Greenshank (per Jackie Newcombe)

Courtesy of Malcolm Bowey 

Cholsey: 23rd August

Cholsey
Greenshank: 1 calling and flying south over Cholsey village. Surprise garden tick! 17:10.

Michael Pocock

Sonning Eye GPs: 23rd August

Sonning Eye GPs
Yellow-legged Gull: On normal post on rowing lake. 14:10.
2 Egyptian Goose 14:10.
Raven: Over. 14:10.

Ralph Watts

Appleford GPs 23rd August

Black-tailed Godwit 2 juv

Lapwing c100

Great white Egret 

Little Egret 3

Egyptian Goose 4 

Hobby

Kingfisher 

Cetti's Warbler 

Song Thrush

New Marston: New Marston Meadows: 23rd August

New Marston: New Marston Meadows
Whinchat: juv. Marston Hamms. 08:30.
Spotted Flycatcher: Marston Hamms. Also an passage willow warbler. 08:30.

Steve Jennings

Childrey: Childrey Field: 23rd August

Childrey: Childrey Field
5 Wheatear

Mark Merritt

Port Meadow

Greenshank - flew up river calling, landed briefly but flushed. 

Yellow Wagtail - 10+ in with cattle 

Cattle Egret - 2 on other side of Thames with cattle 

Chinnor: Cement Works: 23rd August

Chinnor: Cement Works
2 Green Sandpiper 08:05.
3 Snipe 08:05.

Jez March