Farmoor Reservoir 8th November

Common Scoter still present on F2 11:41 (AL)

Dix Pit: 8th November

Common Scoter 12 (until 11.15 when flew W) Goldeneye 4 Pintail 5 Great White Egret 1

Churn Hill

Grey Plover - over calling. 

Otmoor: RSPB reserve: 7th November

Shelduck: 10+ wigeon, 20+ wigeon, 30+ teal, 4 reed bunting, 1 common snipe, many lapwing, 1 mute swan, 1 grey heron, 4 shoveler, 1 buzzard, 1 kestrel, 3 carrion crows, many blue tits, many chaffinch, 2 goldcrest, 2 pheasant, 1 sparrow hawk, rat under feeders, muntjac showing nicely at 1st screen. 09:53.

Ben Gray

Cornwell Marsh and Wetland: 7th November

Green Sandpiper 16:06.
2 Snipe 16:06.
Water Rail: Heard. 16:06.
Stonechat: fem. 16:06.
200 Starling: At least 200 into roost in reedbed next to pools in drainage field. 16:06.
Sparrowhawk: Hunting Starling in the reedbed. 16:06.
Kestrel 16:06.
29 Redwing 16:06.
Great Spotted Woodpecker 16:06.
2 Mute Swan 16:06.

Steve Akers

LWV Pit 4: 7th November

91 Red-crested Pochard 16:00.

Ian Elkins

Blenheim 7th November

9 Great White Egrets this morning including a colour-ringed bird. This bird "AHF" is the same individual that visited Blenheim and some other local sites in the autumn and winter last year. It was ringed as a nestling at RSPB Ham Wall in May 2025. 

Standlake, pit 60: 7th November

Woodcock 1, Marsh Harrier 1m, Peregrine 1, Snipe 1, Water Rail 1, Stonechat 2, Goosander 2, pit 27

Farmoor Reservoir 7th November

Common Scoter f/imm F2 12:38 (ALBen Gray et al)

Goldeneye 2 f F2

Rock Pipit on causeway 

(LH)

Farmoor Reservoir 6th November

Common Scoter f/imm F2 11:02

Shelduck F2

(EU)

Courtesy of Steve Liptrot 

Dix Pit Stanton Harcourt 6th November

18 probable White-fronted Geese flew over Dix Pit heading east 08:20 (DD)

Sonning Eye GPs: 5th November

Yellow-legged Gull: ad. 12:43.

Marek Walford

Farmoor Reservoir 4th November

Common Scoter 2 F2 09:48 

Goldeneye F2

(MP, EU)

Courtesy of Steve Liptrot

Kidmore End: 3rd November

2 Tawny Owl: male. Coldnorton Wood. 19:45.

Ian Young

Blenheim 3rd November

Great White Egret - 12 this afternoon. My highest count here.

Farmoor Reservoir 3rd November

Common Scoter 2 still on F2 16:03 (PB)

Merlin f (PW)

No sign of reported Sanderling along the southern bank of F2 this afternoon  

Common Sandpiper (DL)

Dunlin (AC)

Courtesy of Paul Willis 

Farmoor Reservoir 2nd November

Common Scoter 2 F2 15:06 (JD)

Lye Valley, Oxford: 2nd November

07:00-08:30

4,312 Woodpigeons, all SW

259 Fieldfare

73 Redwing

3 Siskin

1 Redpoll 

1 Reed Bunting

1 Yellowhammer

Otmoor rspb 2nd November

Mandarin Duck 1st screen 11:24 (KN)