Henley Road GPs: 18th August

Common Sandpiper 10:59.
Green Sandpiper 10:59.

Mick Hannington

18 Aug 2026 11:02

Dix Pit 18th August

Ferruginous Duck m still present though distant 09:05 (per Lew)

Rushy Common 17th August

Ferruginous Duck 1f

Cattle Egret 8

Little Egret 4

Hobby 1

Marsh Harrier 1

Green Sandpiper 2

Common Sandpiper 1

N.C.V.W 17th August

Dunlin

Green Sandpiper 4

Common Sandpiper 

Ringed Plover 3

Little-ringed Plover 4

(T.M)

Shellingford: 17th August

Yellow Wagtail: Flew W calling. 15:45.

Jed Cleeter

17 Aug 2026 22:27

Dix Pit : 17th August

 

Record shot of the male Ferruginous Duck 

Dix Pit 17th August

Ferruginous Duck m still 14:51 

(per Ewan Urquhart)

Sonning Eye GPs: 17th August

Yellow-legged Gull: ad. 12:45.

Marek Walford

17 Aug 2026 14:00

Henley Road GPs: 17th August

Mandarin Duck: drk. 13:02.

Marek Walford

17 Aug 2026 13:02

Blenheim: Blenheim Lake: 17th August

Kingfisher
2 Little Grebe
57 Great Crested Grebe: a very good breeding season.
5 Cattle Egret: still young birds on the island stretching their wings.
13 Grey Heron
31 Cormorant
240 Coot
350 Mallard
5 Tufted Duck
10 Sand Martin: still at least 10 around the bridge, at least 3 active nest holes.

Bob Pomfret

17 Aug 2026 12:57

Wytham 17th August

Cattle Egret 5+ in field with sheep west of the A34 ½ south of Peartree 06:30

Rushy Common 17th August

Ferruginous Duck f still 11:32

Castle Egret 2

Hobby

(per Ewan Urquhart)

Dix Pit 16th August

Ferruginous Duck prob male 10:54 (SNT)

Eastleach Downs 16th August

LONG-TAILED SHRIKE again in Oxon 10:48 

Redstart

(per TrevorEllery)

Car parking field

Rushy Common 16th August

Ferruginous Duck f still present 16:08

Green Sandpiper 

Common Sandpiper 

Dunlin

Cattle Egret 7

Hobby

Marsh Harrier 

(per Simon Myers et al)

Farmoor Reservoir: 16th August

Dunlin: F1 along causeway. 11:43.
Yellow-legged Gull 12:37.
3 Little Egret 12:15.

Oliver Hedley

Ringed Plover 09:39 (per Simon Myers)

A329 near Moulsford: 16th August

Raven: Heard, quite distant, prob to N. SU5985. 11:05.

Mike Amphlett

16 Aug 2026 13:56

Pit 60 16th August

Green Sandpiper 5

Common Sandpiper 4

Little-ringed Plover 

Cattle Egret 5

Marsh Harrier 

Mandarin f

(per Andy Last)

Key Holder Reserve 

Letcombe Regis: Blandys Farm & East Challow: 16th August

Letcombe Regis: Blandys Farm
Marsh Harrier
3 Yellow Wagtail
2 Grey Partridge
2 Raven
65 Corn Bunting
7 Mistle Thrush

East Challow
13 Grey Partridge

Mark Merritt

16 Aug 2026 11:21

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 source

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)