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)

Otmoor: RSPB reserve: 8th August

50 Cattle Egret: At least into roost. 21:09.
Little Ringed Plover: Screen 1. 21:09.
Common Sandpiper: Screen 1. 21:09.
Marsh Harrier 21:09.
2 Hobby 21:09.

Kosmo Dossett

8 Aug 2026 21:11

Grimsbury Reservoir 8th August

Spotted Flycatcher along hedge in cattle field 12:06 (per Gareth Blockley)

Redstart 

Yellow Wagtail 

Common Sandpiper 

(per JFT et al)

New Marston: New Marston Meadows: 8th August

Redstart: male. Marston Hamms. 07:40.

Steve Jennings

8 Aug 2026 10:04

Redstart Letcombe courtesy of Geoff Dymott 

 

Churn 8th August

Quail calling

Redstart

Whunchat

Wheatear

(per Conor MacKenzie)

Henley Road GPs: 8th August

Green Sandpiper 09:06.
Mandarin Duck 09:06.

Marek Walford

8 Aug 2026 09:07