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Tuesday 30 April 2024
Rushy Common: 30th April
Cuckoo: SP382073. 02:30.
Hobby: male. Flying over gravel works (hunting?). SP382073. 02:30.
John Pimm
Chipping Norton: 30th April
Yellow Wagtail: m. Feeding on margins at far end of wetland at Swailsford Bridge, Cornwell. SP283263. 19:00.
Steve Akers
Widford 30th April
Radley GP: 30th April
Common Sandpiper 07:00.
Lesser Whitethroat: Singing consistently in the same area for three days now. 07:00.
3 Sedge Warbler: At least three singing individuals this morning. 07:00.
Cuckoo 07:00.
Ian Elkins
Chinnor: Cement Works: 30th April
4 Little Ringed Plover: SU750996. 08:15.
Common Sandpiper: SU750996. 08:15.
Raven: SU750996. 08:15.
Jez March
Monday 29 April 2024
Otmoor rspb 29th April
Chipping Norton: 29th April
4 Sand Martin: Over the wetlands at Swailsford Bridge, Cornwell. SP283263. 20:00.
House Martin: SP283263. 20:00.
31 Swallow: SP283263. 20:00.
39 Mallard: One female with seven duckling. SP283263. 20:00.
Pied Wagtail: SP283263. 20:00.
Steve Akers
Widford: 29th April
2 Garganey: m n f. Late post. Seen this pm. Dogs chasing everything. Ony 3 yellow wags. 16:41.
Mick Cunningham
Farmoor Reservoir 29th April
Spring hill farm: 29th April
Hobby: fem. Flying over field between farm and road. It seemed to be a large bird so thought it was a female. It went off to NE. SP370085. 10:26.
John Pimm
Bicester Wetland Reserve 29th April
1 Common Sandpiper
2 Little Ringed Plover
5 Sedge Warbler
Key Holder Reserve
A Peters
Sunday 28 April 2024
Didcot Lydalls Road: 28th April
Swift: FOY here. 8,10 & 8 days earlier than last 3 years. . SU523903. 20:15.
William Lester
Farmoor; 28th April
09:30-12:00
The Spring Quartet
Swift, Swallow, Sand Martin & House Martin all in good numbers.
Not forgetting Yellow Wagtails & Dunlin
A great day to be at the reservoir!
Dorchester: Sailing Club Pit (Dorchester Lagoon): 28th April
250 Swallow: At least 250 feeding over the lake in mixed flock with martins. SU569954. 10:00.
150 Sand Martin: At least 150 feeding over the lake in mixed flock with swallows. SU569954. 10:00.
20 House Martin: A handful of house martins among the masses of sand martins and swallows, feeding over the lake. SU569954. 10:00.
Negative news Kittiwake: SU569954. 10:00.
3 Swift: Flew over up high, not calling. SU569954. 10:00.
Negative news 2 Common Tern: Seen at a distance briefly, initially perched on a buoy, then flying. Pretty certain they were common as looked too small for sandwich and nothing that made me think arctic. SU569954. 10:00.
Heather Wright
Chipping Norton: 28th April
Swift: FOY. SP283263. 13:45.
60 Swallow: 60+ over the wetland at Swailsford Bridge. SP283263. 13:45.
20 House Martin: 20+ feeding over fast flowing brook waters. SP283263. 13:45.
Sand Martin: SP283263. 13:45.
2 Yellow Wagtail: SP283263. 13:45.
3 Pied Wagtail: SP283263. 13:45.
Little Egret: SP283263. 13:45.
Grey Heron: SP283263. 13:45.
4 Reed Bunting: m. SP283263. 13:45.
Steve Akers
Farmoor Reservoir 27/28th April
Common Swift 100+ |
Swallow 100+ |
Standlake Pit 60: 28th April
2 Pintail: m n f. Remain. 16:23.
Widford
15 Yellow Wagtail: Count excludes 2 seen at opposite end of flood in case duplication. SNT advises he had 12 yesterday. 16:23.
Reed Warbler: In full song. My first here. See sedge. 16:23.
Sedge Warbler: Singing and seen. From opposite end of flood to Reed Warbler. 16:23.
Mick Cunningham
Grimsbury Reservoir: 28th April
Chipping Norton: 27th April
Yellow Wagtail: m. On the wetland at Swailsford Bridge nr Cornwell. SP283263. 13:30.
Grey Wagtail: m. SP283263. 13:30.
4 Pied Wagtail: SP283263. 13:30.
60 Swallow: Feeding over the fast flowing brook and the wetland - much activity. SP283263. 13:30.
20 House Martin: With the Swallow - small group resting and preening perched on tree which lies across the brook. SP283263. 13:30.
Willow Warbler: SP283263. 13:30.
Steve Akers
Rushy Common: 27th April
Marsh Harrier: Hunting over reed beds opposite the hide. SP380075. 15:00.
JB Woodford
Saturday 27 April 2024
Port Meadow: 27th April
2 Dunlin
2 Great White Egret
2 Shelduck
22 Yellow Wagtail
Swift
8 Oystercatcher
Oxford: Oxford Canal
Grasshopper Warbler: Reeling in scrub just west of boat moorings on the canals opposite St Edward's playing fields.
Adam Hartley, Claire Robinson
Farmoor Reservoir 27th April
On and off 0830-1530
Farmoor Reservoir; 27th April
08:30-12:00
Swift 50+
Sand Martin 250+
Swallow 200+
House Martin 20+
Yellow Wagtail 6
Dunlin 1
Common Sandpiper 2
Kingfisher 2 (Pinkhill)
Little Gull 2
Arctic Tern 6
Common Tern 3
Grimsbury Reservoir: 27th April
Whinchat: found by Kirsty Brannan.
2 Little Ringed Plover
2 Yellow Wagtail
Gareth Blockley
Farmoor: 27th April
Arctic Tern 3
Common Tern 4
Ringed Plover 1
Common Sand 4
Swift 20+
Gropper 2
Lesser Whitethroat 2
Standlake Pit 60: 27th April
5 C.Sandpiper 10:16.
Pintail: m n f. These have replaced the long staying females. This M n F seem to be paired. They have reappeared after an absence of. The female is warner, darker brown than greyer females, so distinctive. 10:16.
6 Great White Egret: 4 in east field 2 on site. 10:16.
Mick Cunningham
Friday 26 April 2024
Moulsford, Greenlands Farm: 26th April
Raven: Heard, then seen. Flapping a lot, but circling and soaring, gaining great height, then several closed-wing dives, gradually moving W. SU5883. 11:20.
Mike Amphlett
Chipping Norton: 26th April
Wheatear: m. On newly harrowed field next to the fast flowing waters to E of Swailsford Bridge nr Cornwell. First record in this location. SP283263. 13:30.
3 Yellow Wagtail: 2m, 1f. Feeding on margins and small islands in the fast flowing waters of the diverted Brook. Much Wagtail activity here now. Ideal habitat for them. SP283263. 13:30.
2 Grey Wagtail: m, f. M and F seen at separate intervals and leaving with beaks full of insects. SP283263. 13:30.
3 Pied Wagtail: SP283263. 13:30.
White Wagtail: SP283263. 13:30.
Green Sandpiper: Single bird feeding in margins of new wetland close to Swailsford Bridge. SP283263. 13:30.
11 Mallard: ducklings. Two ducks with with 6 and 5 new ducklings each. SP283263. 13:30.
3 Grey Heron: On the marsh. SP283263. 13:30.
4 Reed Bunting: On the marsh. SP283263. 13:30.
Lesser Whitethroat: First of Year here. SP283263. 13:30.
Steve Akers
Bladon 26th April
Port Meadow: 26th April
2 Greenshank
Caspian Gull, flew through briefly
Dunlin
2 Oystercatcher
4 Yellow Wagtail
White Wagtail
2 Common Tern
6 Shelduck
Great White Egret (now in breeding plumage)
Adam Hartley, Thomas Miller, Joe Dixon
Shennington Airfield: 26th April
Whinchat: SP365434. 18:46.
4 Wheatear: SP365434. 18:46.
2 Grey Partridge: SP361435. 18:46.
Mark Ribbons
Standlake Pit 60 26th April
Widford 26th April
Thursday 25 April 2024
Bladon 25th April
Widford: 25th April
2 Garganey: m n f. F looks like recent p60 bird on head pattern. 17:48.
Mick Cunningham
Otmoor Thursday 25 April
Chipping Norton: 25th April
40 Swallow: In two large groups of Hirundine feeding over the new wetlands at Swailsford Bridge nr Cornwell. SP283263. 10:30.
20 House Martin: SP283263. 10:30.
Sand Martin: At least one. SP283263. 10:30.
3 Chiffchaff: SP283263. 10:30.
Grey Heron: SP283263. 10:30.
Steve Akers
Chipping Norton: 24th April
2 Yellow Wagtail: Feeding on the new wetland at Swailsford Bridge nr Cornwell. SP283263. 18:00.
Steve Akers
Rushy Common: 24th April
2 Black-tailed Godwit: SP328073. 02:30.
Oystercatcher: SP328073. 02:30.
John Pimm
Wednesday 24 April 2024
Otmoor: 24th April
White Stork: Circled reed bed and then drifted west. 17:48.
Grasshopper Warbler 19:20.
2 Grey Wagtail 17:15.
20 Swift 17:15.
Nick Suckling
Sonning Eye GPs: 24th April
2 Raven 15:30.
Garden Warbler: Near sailing club. 15:30.
Mandarin Duck: On flooded field. 15:30.
Ralph Watts
Standlake Pit 60: 24th April
2 Pintail: f. 15:30.
2 Goosander: 2 rh. 15:30.
Lesser Whitethroat: m. 15:30.
3 Garden Warbler 15:30.
4 Great White Egret: all yellow bills.2cy? 15:30.
Marsh Harrier: cc. 15:30.
2 Goosander 15:30.
Mick Cunningham
Rushy Common: 23rd April
Marsh Harrier: fem. Hunting for a 1-2 minutes over reedbed under electric wires then dropped down. It is possible there was a male bird also, a little later on fence post (difficult to see). SP382073. 14:30.
2 Black-tailed Godwit: Flew in noisily. SP382073. 14:30.
2 Shelduck: Flying about. SP382073. 14:30.
John Pimm
Chimney/Tadpole Bridge - 23rd April
Tuesday 23 April 2024
Farmoor Reservoir 23rd April
Fyfield Wick: 23rd April
Great White Egret: Flew West. 121st tick for patch ?. 10:08.
Jed Cleeter
Monday 22 April 2024
Standlake Pit 60: 22nd April
2 Pintail: f. Hanging on. 22:53.
Goldeneye: f. 22:53.
Mick Cunningham
Bladon 22nd April
Grimsbury Reservoir: 22nd April
2 Swift
3 Yellow Wagtail
White Wagtail
Peregrine: over.
Gareth Blockley
Balscote: Balscote Quarry: 22nd April
Tar Lakes, Rushy Common: 22nd April
4 Black-tailed Godwit 10:48.
Mick Cunningham
Sunday 21 April 2024
Standlake Pit 60, 21st April
Goosander © David Hastings |
Widford: 21st April
White Wagtail 17:35.
20 House Martin: At least 20 in a flock of c70+ hirundines. Mostly sand Martins, swallows next most numerous. 17:35.
Yellow Wagtail: Yesterday's still present. 17:35.
Mick Cunningham
Farmoor Reservoir 21st April
Stanton Harcourt area 21st April
Woodstock 21st April
Waxwing 3 still present 11:36 SE of Woodstock and just west of Bladon by river Glyme viewed from path just east of Lince Bridge
(per Glen Pascoe)
Wendlebury: 21st April
2 Wheatear: 1 male. On separate manure heaps off Landford lane. 10:05.
Laurie Bryant
Iffley 21st April
Otmoor rspb 21st April
Grasshopper Warbler courtesy of Paul Tomlinson. |
Day's Lock/Bishop's Court Farm, Dorchester on Thames
Swift, c20 over John Allen Pit and Sailing Club Lagoon. 10 a.m.
Cattle Egret,
Shelduck,
Oystercatcher 2,
Saturday 20 April 2024
Port Meadow: 20th April
Whimbrel: over (heard only).
2 Greenshank
2 Great White Egret
2 Yellow Wagtail
6 Shelduck
2 Egyptian Goose
2 Oystercatcher
Port Meadow: Burgess Field Nature Park
Garden Warbler
Adam Hartley, Hugh Petter, Colm O'Caomhánaigh, Joe Woodman
Standlake Pit 60: 20th April
2 Garden Warbler: 1 between north hide and LL. other just south of Shifford lane foot bridge FOY. 19:19.
Marsh Harrier: cc. Very bleached cream crown chest and forearm. 19:19.
Pochard: m. 19:19.
Cattle Egret: 6. East of SSSI fields. 19:19.
4 Willow Warbler 19:19.
Mick Cunningham
Otmoor: 20th April
Peregrine: High over Greenaways. 15:09.
Cuckoo: Calling from the MOD land first thing. 15:09.
7 Reed Warbler 15:09.
John Edwards
Chinnor: Cement Works: 20th April
5 Little Ringed Plover: SU751996. 07:00.
2 Oystercatcher: SU751996. 07:00.
Jez March
Standlake Pit 60: 20th April
2 Redshank 10:11.
5 Pintail: 1m 4f. 10:11.
9 Sedge Warbler 10:11.
5 Reed Warbler 10:11.
Cuckoo: m. Foy. 10:11.
Hobby: Foy. 10:11.
Mick Cunningham
Garford: 20th April
Corn Bunting: male. Singing from wires on A338 adjacent to Field Barn Farm. 1st time noted here. SU434958. 09:30.
Jed Cleeter
Fyfield Wick: 20th April
Garden Warbler: male. Singing adjacent to my garden. 07:35.
Jed Cleeter
Friday 19 April 2024
Farmoor Reservoir 19th April
Port Meadow: 19th April
Dunlin
4 White Wagtail
12 Yellow Wagtail
6 Shelduck
3 Oystercatcher
2 Great White Egret
Adam Hartley, Steve Lavington
Standlake Pit 60: 19th April
2 Pintail: fem. 17:52.
8 Great White Egret: 6 in field to east of LL hide 2 north shore. 17:52.
Mick Cunningham
Rushy Common 19th April
Seventeen Black-tailed Godwit still present on the island this morning.
Viewable from the car park.
David Hastings
Black-tailed Godwit © David Hastings |
Bicester Wetlands Reserve 19th April
Rushy Common: 19th April
Black-tailed Godwit: Seen from car park on island. SP382073. 03:30.
John Pimm
Thursday 18 April 2024
Port Meadow: 18th April
Port Meadow
2 Grasshopper Warbler: In Burgess Field this morning.
2 Snow Goose
Thomas Miller
Woodstock 18th April
Otmoor rspb 18th April
Farmoor Reservoir 18th April 2024
Blenheim 18th April
Egyptian goose - 2 pairs, and a lone male possibly with a mate on a nest somewhere. 1 pair has three young having started with 6.
Goosander - 1
Oystercatcher - 2
Sand martin - c50
Lesser black-backed gull - 4 (2 pairs)
Willow warbler - 1
Sedge warbler - 1