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Monday 31 July 2023

Enslow 31st July

Cattle egret - 1



Port Meadow: 31st July

Port Meadow
2 Curlew: flew over west
3 Egyptian Goose: On the dried up flood area.
2 Common Tern: Fishing along the river.
130 Canada Goose: Grazing on the Meadow.
2 Common Tern: hunting along the river

Adam Hartley

Otmoor rspb 31st July

Cattle Egret 6+ on Greenaways 

(per Luke O'Byrne)

Courtesy of Steve Liptrot.


Sunday 30 July 2023

Carterton: 30th July

Carterton
3 Yellow Wagtail: Minimum 3 on the muckpile between Carterton and alvescote. In rain with c18 pied wag and occasional juv whitethroat. 23:39.

Mick Cunningham

Otmoor: RSPB reserve: 30th July

Otmoor: RSPB reserve
Crane: flew over N end of reedbed / the flood.
Great White Egret: Big otmoor.

Gareth Blockley

Hobby Otmoor rspb courtesy of Malcolm Bowey.

 

Waterstock: River Thame: 30th July

Waterstock: River Thame
2 Reed Bunting 09:30.
2 Treecreeper 09:30.
Lesser Whitethroat 09:30.
Redstart 09:30.
Mandarin Duck: f. 09:30.
2 Reed Warbler 09:30.
2 Kingfisher 09:30.
8 Chiffchaff 09:30.
21 Swallow 09:30.
9 Sedge Warbler 09:30.
3 Raven 09:30.
3 Willow Warbler 09:30.
5 Whitethroat 09:30.
Garden Warbler 09:30.
4 Blackcap 09:30.
2 Linnet 09:30.

Nick Marriner

Aston Upthorpe 30th July

Wheatear 2 (per Alan Dawson).

Courtesy of Alan Dawson.


Saturday 29 July 2023

Standlake Pit 60: 28th July

Standlake Pit 60
2 Common Sandpiper 10:00.
Redshank: juv. 10:00.
2 Great White Egret 10:00.

Stephen Burch

Kingfisher Pinkhill Reserve courtesy of James Ferguson.

 

Friday 28 July 2023

Farmoor Reservoir: 28th July

Farmoor Reservoir
Great White Egret: With Little Egrets across river from pump house. SP439064. 15:49.
Goosander  
No sign of Knot

Brian Walker et al

Courtesy of Brian Walker.


Bicester Wetlands Reserve 28th July

Dunlin
Green Sandpiper c6
Little Egret 4

(JFT).

Key holder reserve.

Wednesday 26 July 2023

On Portway near Caulcott: 26th July

On Portway near Caulcott
Corn Bunting: Singing from hedge to west of road. SP499241. 10:53.

Patrick Keiller

Wantage: 26th July

Wantage
Hobby: SU397890.

Mark Merritt

Farmoor Reservoir 26th July

Turnstone
Knot
Dunlin
Goosander 

(per Bryan Manston).

Knot courtesy of Bryan Manston.

Turnstone & Dunlin courtesy of Bryan Manston



Hempton: 25th July

Hempton
Hobby

Gareth Blockley

Bicester Wetland Reserve 26th July

 1 Little Ringed Plover
12 Green Sandpiper
1 Water Rail juv.
42 Lapwing
1 Grey Wagtail
2 Little Egret

Alan Peters   Colin Oram
Key Holder Reserve

Juvenile Grey Wagtail courtesy of Paul Wyeth.

 

Tuesday 25 July 2023

Fyfield Wick: 25th July

Fyfield Wick
Spotted Flycatcher 17:00.
Hobby 17:00.

Jed Cleeter

Farmoor Reservoir 25th July

Knot
Redshank
Goosander 

(Per Steve Liptrot)

Knot courtesy of Steve Liptrot.

Chinnor: Cement Works: 25th July

Chinnor: Cement Works
3 Oystercatcher: On island Lake 2b. 10:30.
2 Little Ringed Plover: 1 adult + 1 juvenile on island Lake 2b. 10:30.
2 Green Sandpiper: On the eastern side of Lake 2b. 10:30.

David Stracey

Otmoor: 25th July

5 Great White Egret 1st screen early a.m
2 Cattle Egret 
2 Little Egrets second screen

(Per William Lester, Anna Marlow)

4 of the 5 GWE courtesy of Anna Marlow. 


Peep-o-day Lane

Ruddy Shelduck - female on Tuckwells pit 
Redshank 
Common Sand - 2
Little Ringed Plover 

Monday 24 July 2023

Standlake Pit 60: 24th July

Standlake Pit 60
Marsh Harrier: juv. Juv in pretty fresh juvenile plumage. Not seen this individual here before. 22:10.
3 Great White Egret 22:10.

Mick Cunningham

Tayton 22nd July

Belated report of a Quail on Saturday (per RBA).


Farmoor Reservoir 24th July



Turnstone 1
Dunlin 2
Curlew 1 
Common Tern 2
Little Egret 4
Sand Martin 10+
Sparrowhawk 1


Sunday 23 July 2023

Ardley ERF Lagoon: 23rd July

Ardley ERF Lagoon
9 Grey Partridge: Family party with 1 adult, and 8 young seen. Possibly more young and another adult but obscured by vegetation. 16:30.

Gareth Casburn

Standlake pit 60: 23rd July

Med Gull 1ad
Great Egret 3

Otmoor rspb 23rd July

Cattle Egret 4+ at 1st screen
Great Egret

(L.D).

Abingdon: Peep-o-Day Lane: 23rd July

Abingdon: Peep-o-Day Lane
Kingfisher 11:52.
2 Common Sandpiper: Stonehill Lane GP. 11:52.
Common Tern 11:52.
6 Green Woodpecker 11:52.
Great White Egret: SU487945. 11:52.
5 Little Egret: SU487945. 11:52.

J Blunt

Saturday 22 July 2023

Bicester Wetland Reserve 22nd July

Wet and Windy

8 Green Sandpiper
53 Lapwing
5 Little Egret
60 House Martin
1 Sand Martin

6 plus Reed Warbler

Alan Peters
Key Holder Reserve

Friday 21 July 2023

Chilton: Chilton Downs: 21st July

21st July

Chilton: Chilton Downs
Redstart: juv. Probable juvenile/possible adult female. Actually seen just on West Berks side of county boundary - Sheep Down. 20:30.
10 Yellowhammer: Loads singing. 20:30.
10 Linnet 20:30.
10 Corn Bunting 20:30.
2 Tawny Owl: 2 heard and seen flying low in plantation adj Rutherford Lab. 21:40.

J Blunt

Blenheim 21st July

Gadwall - 8 (2 females, each with 3 young)

Tufted duck - 15 approx including a female with 4 duckings

Cattle egret - at least 8 including 2 juveniles

Common tern - 7 including the breeding pair and 2 young

Hobby - 2 birds, present on and off for about 3 weeks now.






Bicester Wetlands Reserve 21st July

Green Sandpiper 16 (per JFT).

Key holder reserve.

Ashdown House: 21st July

Ashdown House
3 Marsh Tit: SU282821. 11:30.
3 Nuthatch: SU282821. 11:30.
2 Grasshopper Warbler: Reeling in the long grass on the way down Weathercock Hill to the house, quite a surprise. SU288819. 11:30.

Geoff Dymott

Sparrowhawk

All photos courtesy of Andy Pullen.


 

Thursday 20 July 2023

Otmoor: RSPB reserve: 20th July

20th July

Otmoor: RSPB reserve
2 Quail: Heard only - One somewhere beyond cattle pen near gate onto Greenaways. The other from Moorleys. 21:50.
2 Grasshopper Warbler: Heard only reeling from Greenaways and Moorleys. 21:50.
Cattle Egret: Roosting in tree from Screen 1. 20:30.

J Blunt

Cattle Egret catching frogs courtesy of Steve Liptrot.


Lollingdon Hill Cholsey 20th July

Redstart (per Paul Chandler).

Oxford University Press, Walton Street: 20th July

Oxford University Press, Walton Street
Hobby: SP507069. 13:30.

Steve Goddard

Otmoor 20 July 2023

Grasshopper Warbler 1
Spotted Flycatcher 1
Great White Egret 2
Little Egret 4
Green Woodpecker 1




 

Grimsbury Reservoir 20th July

Spotted Flycatcher 
Common Sandpiper juv

(et al).

Wednesday 19 July 2023

Chinnor: Cement Works: 19th July

Chinnor: Cement Works
Common Sandpiper: Hard to see in east corner. 20:50.

Mark Mckeown

Juvenile Swallow Letcombe Regis courtesy of Geoff Dymott.

 

Wainhill: 19th July

Wainhill
Hobby: 1 chasing Swallows over Wainhill Farm. SP766013. 20:15.

David Stracey

Bald Hill: 19th July

Bald Hill
Peregrine: SU718962. 21:12.
20 Raven: 20 plus including juveniles. SU718962. 21:12.

Jez March

Bicester Wetland Reserve 19th July

1 Grasshopper Warbler:  was a surprise, reeling from usual area

4 Little Egret
2 Heron
2 Cormorant
44 Lapwing
9 Green Sandpiper
1 Cetti's Warbler

1 good record from yesterday: 2 Water Rail downy young chicks, distant view from car park hide

Alan Peters
Key holder reserve

Tuesday 18 July 2023

Monday 17 July 2023

Drayton Flood 17th July

Great white Egret 19:49 (per Ben Carpenter).

Spotted Flycatcher family.

Courtesy of Alan Dawson.




 

Blenheim: Blenheim Lake: 17th July

Blenheim: Blenheim Lake
3 Common Sandpiper: on the lakeside between the 7 Arches and The Fisheries.
2 Oystercatcher: On the island.
5 Cattle Egret
7 Little Egret
7 Common Tern: 2 adults with 2 juv on the island jetty and 3 more over the lake.
12 Tufted Duck: 8 adults inc 1 female with 4 very young chicks.
30 Sand Martin: Busy round the nesting holes in the bridge.
Egyptian Goose
32 Great Crested Grebe

Bob Pomfret

Grimsbury Reservoir 17th July

Dunlin
Common Sandpiper 
Redstart juv still in s/w corner of cattle field

(M.P, Edwin Barson)

Courtesy of Bruce Hendrie.


Venn Mill: 17th July

Venn Mill
Dunlin: Summer plumage. 10:43.

J Blunt

Sunday 16 July 2023

Stoke Row: 16th July

Stoke Row
4 Woodcock

John Taylor

Great Egret Pinkhill Nature Reserve.
Courtesy of Steve Liptrot.

 

Chinnor: Cement Works: 16th July

Chinnor: Cement Works
3 Oystercatcher: Appeared from nowhere, presumably the local birds. 21:15.
Hobby: Chased hirundines then a bat. 21:15.

Mark Mckeown

Port Meadow: 16th July

10 Egyptian Goose: In 3 groups along river Bank. At least 3 seemed to be juveniles. 17:52.

(Per Andrew Siantonas)

Goosander (per John Workman)

Courtesy of John Workman.


Saturday 15 July 2023

Standlake Pit 60: 15th July

Standlake Pit 60
Cattle Egret: juv. Very quiet. No shorelines so no passage waders or loafing wildfowl. 18:59.

Mick Cunningham

Venn Mill: 15th July

Venn Mill
2 Little Ringed Plover: juvs.

Mark Merritt

Abingdon/Sutton Courtenay 15th July

Adult NIGHT HERON again at southern end of Peep-o-Day Lane at 05:33, but no sign between 10:20-10:50 just north of Drayton Road junction. Park near Abingdon Rugby Club OX14 5TJ and walk south along Peep-O-Day Lane to view the Willows adjacent to the flooded fields. 
Little Egret 33

(Per Ben Carpenter, Tom Wickens).
























Friday 14 July 2023

Blenheim 14th July

Cattle egret - 4

Common sandpiper - 2

Common tern - 4 (2 ad, 2 juv)

Lesser black-backed gull - 2 adults, one of which predated two mallard ducklings in quick succession.

Reed warbler - 1





Chinnor: Cement Works: 14th July

Chinnor: Cement Works
Common Sandpiper: 1 along the northern edge of Lake 2b. 10:00.

David Stracey

Thursday 13 July 2023

Harwell Campus Perimeter: 13th July

Harwell Campus Perimeter
3 Tawny Owl: At least 3 Calling - probable family group. SU464856. 22:00.
Spotted Flycatcher: SU464856. 22:00.

J Blunt

Otmoor: RSPB reserve: 13th July

13th July

Otmoor: RSPB reserve
3 Redshank flew over Screen 1, southern lagoon, then over Greenaways and Big Otmoor. 06:00.
5 Black-tailed Godwit: Flew N over screen 1, southern lagoon, then back over Big Otmoor. 07:30.

Rob Cadd

Black-tailed Godwits above & below courtesy 
of Malcolm Bowey.
















King's Lock: 13th July

King's Lock
7 Common Sandpiper: SP478102. 12:15.

(Steve Goddard, Mathew Lloyd).

Standlake Pit 60: 13th July

Standlake Pit 60
2 Crane: Flew high south c5pm. 17:19.
3 Great White Egret 17:19.
Marsh Harrier: cream crown. In heavy tail and wing moult. 17:19.
Shoveler: F or juv ... mostly hidden in vegetation. 17:19.

Mick Cunningham

RSPB Otmoor 13 July 2023

Common Crane 2
Great White Egret 2
Cattle Egret 2
Green Woodpecker 4

 

Bicester Wetlands Reserve 13th July

Green Sandpiper 15+
Common Sandpiper 2

Key holder reserve.

Yellowhammer Oxon Downs courtesy of Geoff Dymott.

 

Farmoor Reservoir 13th July

Sand Martin 200+  a mixture of adults and juveniles settling on the causeway early morning
Common Sandpiper 6
Common Redshank 1
Yellow legged Gull 6
Common Tern 1
Little Egret 2

Wednesday 12 July 2023

Standlake Pit 60: 12th July

Standlake Pit 60
5 Common Sandpiper 10:00.
2 Great White Egret 10:00.

Stephen Burch

Grimsbury Reservoir 12th July

Courtesy of Mike Pollard.
















Redstart juv in S/W corner of cattle field
Common Sandpiper 3

(Per Mike Pollard)
Bittern Otmoor rspb courtesy of Paul Mallarini.

Tuesday 11 July 2023

Ardley ERF Lagoon: 11th July

Ardley ERF Lagoon
5 Green Sandpiper: On lagoon. 11:00.
6 Little Grebe: 2 adults and 4 young on Trow Pool. 11:00.
Spotted Flycatcher: Heard only near Trow Pool. 11:00.

Gareth Casburn

Monday 10 July 2023

Blenheim 10th July

Cattle egret - 7 (4 adults, 3 juvs)

Oystercatcher - 2

Common sandpiper - 3

Common tern - 5 (3 adults, 2 juvs)

Hobby - 2





Farmoor Reservoir: 10th July

Farmoor Reservoir
Greenshank: Flying south, calling. 09:20.
Cuckoo calling at Pinkhill 08:30

Jeremy Blakey

Abingdon/Sutton Courtenay 10th July

No sign of the adult Night Heron at the southern end of Peep-o-Day Lane by 08:30.

Kingfisher courtesy of Brian Walker. 

 

Otmoor rspb 10th July

Black-tailed Godwit from The Wetlands Watch hide
(per Luke O'Byrne).

Sunday 9 July 2023

Chipping Norton: 9th July

Chipping Norton
Peregrine 16:00.

Steve Akers

Adult Greenshank Pit 60 -

Best bird on the  WeBS count. Crumbs from the birding table.



Greenshank: Asleep on North shore. Distant. 18:13.

Mick Cunningham




Night Heron & Fox Peep-O-Day Lane.

A close encounter! Courtesy of Terry Sherlock.

 Still present and safe 21:18.

Otmoor rspb 9th July

Courtesy of Debbie Cowee.






Cattle Egret 10+
Great Egret
Common Sandpiper 3

(per Mathew O'Byrne)

Courtesy of Malcolm Bowey.



Peep-o-day lane

Black-crowned Night Heron