New Yatt: Merryfield Farm
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker: Flying north-east along New Yatt Road. SP364113.
Jeremy Blakey
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Tuesday 31 January 2017
Port Meadow: 31st January
Port Meadow
120 Barnacle Goose
3 Shelduck
7 Goosander
3 Pintail
Adam Hartley
120 Barnacle Goose
3 Shelduck
7 Goosander
3 Pintail
Adam Hartley
Standlake common:am 31st January
pit 38
Great White Egret
pit 60
Great White Egret
2 Goldeneye (m,f)
pit 27
Goosander
Great White Egret
pit 60
Great White Egret
2 Goldeneye (m,f)
pit 27
Goosander
Monday 30 January 2017
Nettlebed/Henley/Sonning area 30/01/17 pm
Lesser spotted woodpecker - one calling in trees and briefly seen.
Waxwing - 1 over calling, briefly in tall popular south of henley before flying high north.
Ring necked parakeet 9 around Henley and Shiplake.
Mandarin 6 - Sonning
Port Meadow: 30th January
Port Meadow
Iceland Gull: juv.
Yellow-legged Gull: 2w.
2 Redshank
Shelduck
4 Goosander
100 Golden Plover
Adam Hartley
Iceland Gull: juv.
Yellow-legged Gull: 2w.
2 Redshank
Shelduck
4 Goosander
100 Golden Plover
Adam Hartley
video footage courtesy of Gnome
Middleton Stoney 30th January
No sign of any Cattle Egrets within the pig fields this afternoon or of any Brambling.
(per Ewan)
(per Ewan)
Port Meadow 30th January
ICELAND GULL (imm) within the gull roost 17:00 (per Adam).
Photos to follow.
Photos to follow.
Otmoor WeBS 30th January
Here are the counts from our unofficial WeBS this morning on the moor!
Black-headed gull
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35
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Canada goose
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684
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Coot
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11
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Cormorant
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7
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Gadwall
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39
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Golden plover
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500
|
Grey heron
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3
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Greylag goose
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22
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Lapwing
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2492
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Lesser-black backed gull
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5
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Little egret
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1
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Mallard
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126
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Moorhen
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9
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Mute swan
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2
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Pintail
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11
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Pochard
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7
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Shoveler
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62
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Snipe
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44
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Teal
|
511
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Tufted duck
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5
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Water rail
|
2
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Wigeon
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1466
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Finally! Golden plover on our WeBS count although still down from last year, and good numbers of lapwing and wigeon.
Peregrine was seen over Ashgrave.
Two marsh harriers over the reedbed.
Dunnocks are starting to sing along the bridleway and in July's meadow, and there has been an explosion of skylarks over Ashgrave with at least a dozen flitting about overhead!
Sunday 29 January 2017
Shorthampton: 22nd January
Belated report of Peregrine: Flew up from behind church carrying prey. SP327202. 14:00.
Anthony Roberts
Anthony Roberts
Otmoor.A.M. 29th January.
Saturday 28 January 2017
Caulcott:pm 28th January
No sign of any Cattle Egrets in the pig fields.
At least 3 Brambling with Chaffinch flock feeding on beech mast and leaf litter next to parking area for Aves Ditch Bridleway (per Jim Hutchins)
At least 3 Brambling with Chaffinch flock feeding on beech mast and leaf litter next to parking area for Aves Ditch Bridleway (per Jim Hutchins)
Bicester Wetlands Reserve 28th January
1 Shelduck
185 Teal
5 Shoveler
2 Gadwall
1 Little Grebe
4 Roe Deer
Alan Peters
185 Teal
5 Shoveler
2 Gadwall
1 Little Grebe
4 Roe Deer
Alan Peters
Over Norton 28th January
West Ginge: West Ginge Down: 28th January
West Ginge: West Ginge Down
2 Stonechat: m&f.
Mark Merritt
2 Stonechat: m&f.
Mark Merritt
Friday 27 January 2017
Over Norton 27th January
Little Bunting courtesy of Paul Wren.
LITTLE BUNTING still present on track near copse and feeding station at 10:08 with
Reed Buntings and Yellowhammers (per Pete Barker, Ralph Watts et al)
Please keep to public rights of way
and do not enter copse or tamper
with any of the feeders.
Caulcott & Northbrook 27th January
Aves Ditch Bridleway
Good flock of brambling (c30 with chaffinch and thrushes), feeding on beech mast and leaf litter in field next to parking area
Northbrook
Lapwing (c200) & Golden Plover (c50) feeding in large field to left of entrance road
Fieldfare (c100) & Redwing (c50) in same field
Corn bunting (2) on overhead wires
Good flock of brambling (c30 with chaffinch and thrushes), feeding on beech mast and leaf litter in field next to parking area
Northbrook
Lapwing (c200) & Golden Plover (c50) feeding in large field to left of entrance road
Fieldfare (c100) & Redwing (c50) in same field
Corn bunting (2) on overhead wires
Thursday 26 January 2017
Otmoor Thursday 26 January a.m.
1 SE Owl
3 Marsh Harrier
2 Bullfinch
1 Yellowhammer
1 Jay
1 Green Woodpecker
20 Snipe
3 Marsh Harrier
2 Bullfinch
1 Yellowhammer
1 Jay
1 Green Woodpecker
20 Snipe
Over Norton 26th January
LITTLE BUNTING SITE CONSIDERATIONS
I've been asked by the landowner at Over Norton to pass on a message
for twitchers going for the Little Bunting. He's a bit displeased at the
behaviour of some twitchers, and has asked that birders are
instructed not to leave the public footpath or enter
the copse, and strictly not to touch the feeders present.
Apparently people have been emptying the feeders to scatter seed on the track, to attract the Bunting down for better views. This has annoyed the landowner, who already scatters 5 kg of food on the track daily. The feeders are there to maintain constant food as part of a scientific project. Removing food from the feeders interferes with this project, and is causing annoyance (as is the trespass into the copse to reach the feeders).
Twitchers are also spending a long time at the feeding station, which is causing further disturbance to the project. Although a public footpath, strictly speaking the landowner can ask people to move on if they are causing an obstruction, but would rather that visiting birders simply stuck to the path, moved on quickly after seeing the bird, and didn't interfere with the feeders.
Richard Broughton
Apparently people have been emptying the feeders to scatter seed on the track, to attract the Bunting down for better views. This has annoyed the landowner, who already scatters 5 kg of food on the track daily. The feeders are there to maintain constant food as part of a scientific project. Removing food from the feeders interferes with this project, and is causing annoyance (as is the trespass into the copse to reach the feeders).
Twitchers are also spending a long time at the feeding station, which is causing further disturbance to the project. Although a public footpath, strictly speaking the landowner can ask people to move on if they are causing an obstruction, but would rather that visiting birders simply stuck to the path, moved on quickly after seeing the bird, and didn't interfere with the feeders.
Richard Broughton
Wednesday 25 January 2017
Otmoor.A.M. 25th January.
1+ Marsh Harrier
1 SE Owl
2 Barnacle Goose
5 Pochard (M)
9 Pintail
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Stonechat
4+ Bullfinch
2 Cettis Warbler (H).
1 SE Owl
2 Barnacle Goose
5 Pochard (M)
9 Pintail
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Stonechat
4+ Bullfinch
2 Cettis Warbler (H).
Over Norton 25th Jan
copse & feeding station with Reed Buntings & Yellowhammers.
08:20 (per Andy Last)
Brambling 2 (f)
Park near A3400 roundabout and follow footpath or alternatively park carefully in
Over Norton and follow footpath adjacent to the phone box/bus stop.
Please keep to public rights of way.
Do not enter the copse and do not tamper with any of the feeders.
SP.323283
little bunting in the early morning murk |
Tuesday 24 January 2017
Oxford City 24th January
Black Redstart (1stw/f) on the roof of the Pharmacology Department of Oxford University at 14:00 though mobile. The department is on Mansfield Road at OX1 3QT
(per Tom Pizzari)
(per Tom Pizzari)
Kingston Bagpuize: 24th January
Over Norton 24th January
LITTLE BUNTING still present at 14:00 on track adjacent to the small copse
and feeding station with Reed Buntings and Yellowhammers.
Brambling (f)
(per Graham Coleman et al).
and feeding station with Reed Buntings and Yellowhammers.
Brambling (f)
(per Graham Coleman et al).
Monday 23 January 2017
Over Norton. 23rd. January.
LITTLE BUNTING still present at feeding station 15:30 (per Terry Tossell) though mobile.
Seen on and off from c09:30 feeding along the track adjacent to the small
copse and feeding station.
Little Bunting. Viewed from footpath by feeding station. |
Brambling 2
Chaffinch 30+
Reed Bunting c20
Yellowhammer c20
Raven 2
Chipping Norton: 23rd January
Chipping Norton
120 Lapwing: flock still present over fields W of CN. SP303252. 09:30.
17 Golden Plover: in flight. SP303252. 09:30.
50 Skylark: SP303252. 09:30.
Steve Akers
120 Lapwing: flock still present over fields W of CN. SP303252. 09:30.
17 Golden Plover: in flight. SP303252. 09:30.
50 Skylark: SP303252. 09:30.
Steve Akers
Sunday 22 January 2017
Kingston Bagpuize: 22nd January
Goshawk (fem) Buzzard size & scoped to confirm.
Arrived from the South putting everything up, then circled higher & departed North West. 13:20.
Jed Cleeter
Arrived from the South putting everything up, then circled higher & departed North West. 13:20.
Jed Cleeter
Over Norton - Little Bunting, 22nd January
This LITTLE BUNTING was with a Yellowhammer and Reed Bunting flock at a feeding station in a copse 400m east of Over Norton at SP 323283 - see map below.
There is very limited parking near the A3400 roundabout and a little parking in Over Norton village.
The birds are very skittish although seemed to tolerate passing dog walkers. They were coming down to feed on the public footpath adjacent to the copse.
Please keep to public rights of way (out of the copse), this is a very very bird friendly farm.
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