White winged Black Tern 1 juv

I have never seen pink colouring on the neck and breast before and also faintly on underwing coverts

Surely this is not natural and has been acquired from some outside influence

Farmoor White-winged Black Tern

Farmoor 15th Aug

White-winged black tern

2 Dunlin

Farmoor Reservoir 15th August

WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN juv over F1 & F2 from 17:14-18:46 then flew off high to the SE (per Andy Last) et al)

Rushy Common: 15th August

2 Green Sandpiper 17:45.
Cattle Egret 17:45.

Matthew Lloyd

15 Aug 2026 17:51

Letcombe Regis: 15th August

Spotted flycatcher at the deer enclosure in Letcombe Regis

 

Farmoor; 15th August

10-12:00

Dunlin 2 (1 on each side of causeway)

Common Sandpiper 1 (F1 causeway)

Yellow-legged Gull 2ad (valve tower F1)

Great Black-backed Gull ad

Standlake, pit 60: 15th August

Green Sandpiper 7, Common Sandpiper 4, Snipe 5, Hobby 2, Cattle Egret 31, Spotted Flycatcher 1, Redstart 1m (Thames fields)

Rushy Common: 14th August

Female Ferruginous duck (some questions raised over hybrid potential/provenance)

Farmoor: 14th August

Merlin attacked Wagtails on causeway before flying west

Otmoor RSPB 14th August

0930-1230 hrs

Bittern 1

Great Egret 1

Cattle Egret 22

Little Egret 6

Marsh Harrier 3

Hobby 1

Common Buzzard 5

Water Rail 7  all heard only

Sonning Eye GPs & Henley Road GPs: 14th August

Sonning Eye GPs
Common Sandpiper 14:00.

Henley Road GPs
Common Sandpiper 14:20.

Marek Walford

14 Aug 2026 14:38

Eastleach Downs 14th August

LONG-TAILED SHRIKE 07:33

Redstart

(per Steve Roby)

Eastleach Downs 13th August

1800-2000 hrs

Long tailed Shrike 1m

Whinchat 1

Northern Wheatear 3

Common Whitethroat 6

Sparrowhawk 1f

RSPB Otmoor Thursday 13 August

At the reedbed:

Great White Egret 1
Little Egret 9
Snipe 10

Over Greenaways and along the bridleway:

Cattle Egret 18

Kestrel 1

Marsh Harrier 2

Treecreeper 1

Whitethroat 1

Cetti 1

Churn 13th August

Marsh Harrier 

Hobby

Redstart

(A.L)

Sonning Eye GPs & Henley Road GPs: 13th August

Sonning Eye GPs
Yellow-legged Gull: ad. 12:30.

Henley Road GPs
Common Sandpiper 12:55.

Marek Walford

13 Aug 2026 12:59

Eastleach Downs 13th August

LONG-TAILED SHRIKE still along the Oxon/Glos border 17:15  (per Birdguides)

Car parking field

Courtesy of Jason Hornblow 

Weston on the green: 13th August

Probable Quail: SP535178. 08:25.

David Williams

13 Aug 2026 08:27

Wytham 13th August

Cattle Egret 10+ in field with sheep west of the A34 ½ south of Peartree 06:18

Eastleach Downs 12th August

 

Long-tailed Shrike © David Hastings

Chinnor: Cement Works: 12th August

Common Sandpiper: Lake 2b. 11:00.
2 Egyptian Goose: Lake 2b. 11:00.

David Stracey

12 Aug 2026 20:51

Woodstock 12th August

Cattle Egret - 5 

Wheatear - 1

Eastleach Downs 12th August

LONG-TAILED SHRIKE still along the Oxon/Glos border 12:20  Car parking field

Spotted Flycatcher 

Whinchat

(per Steve Akers)

Farmoor 11th August

Turnstone 13 flew through F1

Greenshank flew high over F2 before departing west

Sanderling

Eastleach 11th August

LONG-TAILED SHRIKE still along the Oxon/Glos border 15:06 (per Birdguides)

Car parking field

Farmoor Reservoir 11th August

Sanderling in N/W corner of F1 17:22 (per Trevor Ellery)

2 Turnstone still near the causeway hide. 16:57.
(per Peter Driver et al)

Swift F1 this morning (per Paul Butler)

Courtesy of Steve Liptrot 

Fyfield Wick: 11th August

Peregrine: male. Adult circled east. 17:10.

Jed Cleeter

11 Aug 2026 17:17

Farmoor Reservoir 11th August

Black-tailed Godwit, flushed frequently by joggers before leaving high to the North.

Sonning Eye GPs: 11th August

Yellow-legged Gull: ad. 13:42.

Marek Walford

11 Aug 2026 13:42

Henley Road GPs: 11th August

Green Sandpiper 09:56.
Common Sandpiper 09:56.

Mick Hannington

11 Aug 2026 09:58

Whinchat Oxon Downs courtesy of Geoff Dymott 

 

New Marston: New Marston Meadows: 11th August

Redstart: male. Marston Hamms, still. 07:20.
Peregrine: Marston Hamms, over. 07:15.

Steve Jennings

11 Aug 2026 09:06

Wytham 11th August

Cattle Egret 10+ with sheep west of the A34 ½ south of Peartree 05:56

Eastleach Downs Oxfordshire -10th August

1800-2015hrs

Long tailed Shrike 1 male - until 2015hrs at least although elusive

Whinchat 4 (incl 1 ad male)

European Stonechat 1 juv male

Northern Wheatear 1

Spotted Flycatcher 2

Common Redstart 2 (imm male/ad male)

Lesser Whitethroat 1

Common Whitethroat 5

Willow Warbler 1

Goldfimch 50+

Common Raven 1

Sonning Eye GPs: 10th August

Yellow-legged Gull: ad. 13:01.

Marek Walford

10 Aug 2026 13:02

Otmoor RSPB 10th August

Black-tailed Godwit 1st screen

Common Sandpiper 

Snipe 7

(K.N)

Henley Road GPs: 10th August

Common Sandpiper 10:46.
Green Sandpiper 10:46.

Mick Hannington

10 Aug 2026 10:48

Otmoor RSPB 9th August

Black-tailed Godwit 3

Little-ringed Plover 

Redshank 

Snipe 

Cattle Egret 35+

Little Egret 3

Great white Egret 

Grey Heron 3

Marsh Harrier 2

Hobby 3

(per Russell Allen)

Courtesy of Russell Allen 

Farmoor Reservoir 9th August

Ringed Plover on farmoor causeway 17:46 

(per Andy Last)

Standlake Common Pit 60 9th August

Common Sandpiper 2
Lapwing 70+
Great White Egret 1
Cattle Egret 27 
Water Rail 1

David Hastings

Common Sandpiper © David Hastings

Eastleach Downs 9th August

LONG-TAILED SHRIKE still along the Oxon/Glos border 06:30 (per Birdguides)

Car parking field

Courtesy of Peter Milligan 

New Marston: New Marston Meadows: 9th August

Redstart: male. Marston Hamms, still. 07:35.
2 Spotted Flycatcher: Marston Hamms. OTHER SPECIES: clouded yellow. 07:35.

Steve Jennings

9 Aug 2026 10:04

Grimsbury Reservoir 9th August

Female Redstart in big block of scrub & possibly 2nd bird calling briefly along W path scrub. Yellow Wag & Common Sand also 09:17 

(per John Friendship-Taylor)