RSPB Otmoor Thursday 9 July

Reed bed:
Kingfisher 1
Glossy Ibis 1
Great White Egret 1
Little Egret 7
Cattle Egret 1

Snipe 4

Common Tern approx 20

Greenaways:

Cattle Egret 6
Corn Bunting 1

Grasshopper Warbler 1 reeling

 

Otmoor rspb 9th July

Quail calling on Ashgrave 13:37 (per Paul Wilkinson)

Farmoor Reservoir 8th July

CASPIAN TERN

                     Caspian Tern flew over F1 calling at 9:50  heading North and didn't stop.

Bernwood Forest: 8th July

Spotted Flycatcher 11:30.

Nick Suckling

8 Jul 2026 12:04

Farmoor Reservoir 8th July

CASPIAN TERN flew over the reservoir heading north c09:50 (per Roger Wyatt)

3 Lesser Emperor along causeway (per Conor MacKenzie)

Chinnor: Cement Works: 7th July

2 Oystercatcher: By west screen Lake 2b. 10:30.
Common Sandpiper: Lake 2b. 10:30.
2 Egyptian Goose: Lake 2b. 10:30.
Hobby 10:30.

David Stracey

8 Jul 2026 08:26

Cornwell Marsh and Wetland: 7th July

Green Sandpiper: With the Mallards at dusk on the wetland. 21:19.
15 Mallard 21:19.
2 Moorhen: juv. 21:19.
Chiffchaff 21:19.
2 Swift 21:19.
4 Swallow 21:19.
Kestrel: Heard. 21:19.
Barn Owl: Hunting over the marsh as night fell. 21:19.

Steve Akers

7 Jul 2026 23:44

Otmoor rspb 6th July

Black-tailed Godwit 9 at the 1st screen this evening (D.B)

Glossy Ibis (K.N)

Aston Upthorpe: 6th July

Redstart: fem type. Grims ditch area of Juniper Valley. SU542829. 20:31.

Steve Violette

6 Jul 2026 20:34

Dunsden Green: 6th July

Redstart: fem. Very elusive,,between the 2 telegraph poles. 11:37.

Mick Hannington

6 Jul 2026 11:40

Cornwell Marsh and Wetland: 5th July

Green Sandpiper: On the wetland with the mallards. 10:14.
39 Mallard: In the duck roost on the wetland. 10:14.
Pied Wagtail 10:14.
Carrion Crow 10:14.
2 Tawny Owl: At least two active as night fell - possibly more. 10:14.

Steve Akers

5 Jul 2026 23:31

Milcombe: 5th July

8 Swift 15:22.

Mary Clifton

5 Jul 2026 22:23

Farmoor 5th July

 

Dunlin x 1 on the Causeway

Yellow Wagtail Juvenile on F2

Cattle Egret F1  

Little Egret 1 Pinkhill 

Blenheim: Combe Gate: 5th July

2 Spotted Flycatcher 18:30.
Nuthatch 18:30.

Matthew Lloyd

5 Jul 2026 21:04

Standlake Pit 60: 5th July

7 Black-tailed Godwit 17:30.

Dave Murphy

5 Jul 2026 19:10

Hardwick Estate & Whitchurch on Thames: 5th July

10 Swallow: 10-15 flying around former stables/stud farm and paddocks. Stables now permanently closed but still open access for swallows apparently using this historic nesting site. Paddocks to be cultivated for additional organic food farming in due course. SU653779. 11:00.

Andrew Taylor

5 Jul 2026 17:54

Standlake, pit 60: 5th July

Common Sandpiper 1 

LR Plover 1 

Curlew 6 

Common Tern 3 

Cattle Egret 4

GW Egret 1

Oystercatcher 2, pit 27 

Redstart 1m & 1 juv, Thames Fields

Farmoor 4th July

Redshank on the Causeway 

Common Tern x 4 

Portway & south of B4030 junction: 3rd July

Corn Bunting: Singing from a bush to west of road. SP499241. 11:49.

Patrick Keiller

4 Jul 2026 23:31

Middleton Stoney: 4th July

 Yellowhammer on the footpath between Trow Pool and Middleton Stoney.

Ashbury: Waylands Smithy: 4th July

Quail: Singing male heard distantly to South West of Wayland's Smithy. SU278853. 12:57.

Phil Chapman

4 Jul 2026 12:59

Cornwell Marsh and Wetland: 4th July

Kingfisher: Flew through over the Wetland close to the Swale. 08:36.
Green Sandpiper 08:36.
Lapwing: With GS on the wetland. Roe Deer Doe too. 08:36.
2 Moorhen 08:36.
11 Mallard 08:36.
2 Stonechat: ad male; juv. On bullrushes on the marsh. 08:36.
21 Reed Bunting 08:36.
3 Sedge Warbler 08:36.
2 Yellowhammer 08:36.
11 Wren 08:36.
3 Swift 08:36.
10 Swallow 08:36.
Lesser Black-backed Gull 08:36.
2 Kestrel: juvs. 08:36.
2 Buzzard 08:36.
4 Red Kite 08:36.

 Steve Akers

4 Jul 2026 12:25

Otmoor rspb 4th July

Quail 3 

Closes 07:23 (per Pete Barker)

100 Acre

In field north of the Flood field 

Redstart 2 m/f

(per Barry Batchelor)

Cornwell Marsh and Wetland: 3rd July

Green Sandpiper 21:07.
Little Egret 21:07.
Grey Heron 21:07.
14 Mallard 21:07.
200 Jackdaw: Going to roost. 21:07.
Swift 21:07.

Steve Akers

3 Jul 2026 23:09

Farmoor Reservoir 3rd July

Yellow Wagtail 1

Common Tern 4

Warburg - 3rd July 2026

 Following on from the spring and the departure of migrating birds a pair of Siskins remained with us

 here at Warburg. It was hoped that they may breed and indeed it has come to pass.

Siskin - juvenile

Siskin x 4 (m, f, 2 juveniles), Bullfinch x 7 (2m, 2f, 3 juveniles), Marsh Tit x 2, Coal Tit, Chiffchaff x 2

Garden Warbler x 2, Chaffinch x2 (m, f), Great Spotted Woodpecker (Juvenile), Green Woodpecker (f),

Treecreeper, Nuthatch, Blackcap (m,f), Wren (juvenile).

                                          

Siskin - juvenile.

Dunsden Green: 3rd July

2 Stonechat: Near Redstart. 15:30.

Ralph Watts

3 Jul 2026 16:32

Dunsden Green: 3rd July

Redstart: f. Still present from second post in out of bushes going in field . SU730773. 15:30.

Ralph Watts

3 Jul 2026 16:30

Bicester Wetland Reserve 3rd July

 1 Water Rail plus 2 very young chicks
8 Green Sandpiper
4 Little Egret
2 Heron

A Peters
Key Holder Reserve

Stoke Row: 2nd July

Woodcock: Flying over Boroughcourt Woods roding. 22:59.

John Taylor

3 Jul 2026 08:02