Sarsgrove: 31st March

Sarsgrove
Raven: In full display flight and throat calling over Sarsgrove Wood. 11:30.

Steve Akers

Woodstock 31st March

Hawfinch 4+

Common Buzzard 3 overhead

Little Egret 1 flyover

Day's Lock Area : Mon 31st

Wheatear, 2 males, Dyke Hills.

Cattle Egret, 4 still present, Bishop's Court Farm 

Farmoor Reservoir: 31st March

Farmoor Reservoir
28 Barnacle Goose: shooting on the fields so they flew unto Farmoor II with the snow geese.

Allen Luedtke

Farmoor Reservoir: 31st March

Farmoor Reservoir
Yellow-legged Gull: almost ad.

Allen Luedtke

Eynsham: 31st March

Eynsham
Willow Warbler: Singing in the sunshine in a garden. 1st of the year for me. 11:15.

Richard Parsons

Bicester Wetlands Reserve 31st March

Sedge Warbler singing 08:34 (JFT)

Key holder reserve 

Blenheim: Northern park: 30th March

Blenheim: Northern park
Stonechat: Same place as last year - no sign of a female yet. 18:50.

David Watkinson

Otmoor: RSPB reserve: 30th March

Yellow Wagtail m flew north over the 1st screen 

Bittern 3+

Marsh Harrier: Cream crown. 16:00.
Great White Egret 16:00.
Little Egret 16:00.
2 Chiffchaff 16:00.
Sand Martin 

(Steve Akers, Nick Truby)

Radley GP: Thrupp Lake: 30th March

Radley GP: Thrupp Lake
Little Gull: With Black-headed Gulls, but flew off N at around 18:00. 18:00.

Ian Elkins

Chipping Norton: 30th March

Chipping Norton
Blackcap: ad male. Singing male from small wood in The Leys. 10:05.

Steve Akers

Chipping Norton: 30th March

Chipping Norton
Raven: Over the wetland nr Cornwell calling. SP284265. 09:00.
Chiffchaff: SP284265. 09:00.
5 Teal: SP284265. 09:00.
7 Mute Swan: Family group 3 in ad plumage; 4 in juv. SP284265. 09:00.
2 Pied Wagtail: SP284265. 09:00.
40 Linnet: SP284265. 09:00.

Steve Akers

Widford 29th March

Little Ringed Plover 2

White Wagtail 1

Chipping Norton: 29th March

Chipping Norton
4 Swallow: FOY - hawking for insects over the wetland at Swailsford Bridge nr Cornwell. SP284265. 13:15.
2 Grey Wagtail: SP284265. 13:15.
3 Pied Wagtail: SP284265. 13:15.

Steve Akers

Abingdon: Peep-o-Day Lane: 29th March

Abingdon: Peep-o-Day Lane
6 Little Ringed Plover: Territorial pair at north end, plus four together (presumably migrants) at southern end by Sutton Courtenay village. 16:00.
10 Egyptian Goose: pair with eight juv. In field by Sutton Courtenay village. 16:00.
2 Oystercatcher: pair. 16:00.
Sand Martin 16:00.
House Martin 16:00.

Ian Elkins

Otmoor rspb 29th March

Bittern 4+

Marsh Harriers

Sedge Warbler singing along track to the 1st screen 05:45 (D.C)

Willow Warbler 

Swallow 2

(per Bark)

Hensington Road Cemetery 29th March

 

Grimsbury Reservoir: 29th March

Grimsbury Reservoir
Willow Warbler
2 Egyptian Goose

Gareth Blockley

Balscote Quarry Reserve 29th March

Brambling still present at feeders this morning (per Justin Taylor)

Courtesy of Justin Taylor

Standlake, pit 60: 29th March

Golden Plover 7W
Oystercatcher 2
Curlew 1
Marsh Harrier 1m
GW Egret 1
Willow Warbler 2
Swallow 1
Goosander 1
Goldeneye 1
White-fronted Goose 1

Devil's Punchbowl: 29th March

Devil's Punchbowl
Wheatear: Single bird, seen briefly around the brick base on the north facing slopes. SU352847. 09:50.

Geoff Dymott

Port Meadow 29th March

 

Black-tailed Godwit 2 (left to south 0901)
Ringed Plover 1
Little Ringed Plover 2
Redshank 11
Dunlin 2

Woodstock 29th March

Hawfinch - 3 (2 males) in Hensington Road cemetery this morning.

Sonning Eye GPs: 29th March

Sonning Eye GPs
2 Oystercatcher: Over, calling. 09:32.

Marek Walford

Farmoor Reservoir 29th March

Little Gull briefly over F1

No sign of the Slavonian Grebes

(per Ben Sheldon)

Farmoor Reservoir: Farmoor II: 28th March

Farmoor Reservoir: Farmoor II
2 Slavonian Grebe: Still present. 18:18.
Common Sandpiper 18:18.

Matthew Lloyd

Farmoor Reservoir 28th March

Courtesy of Mark Chivers

SLAVONIAN GREBE 2 summer plumaged 

Still on F2 17:02

White Wagtail 

Snow Goose 77

Barnacle Goose 26

(per Johnny Eclipse et al).

Courtesy of Brian Walker

Farmoor Reservoir 28th March

Slavonian Grebe 2

Little Grebe 1

House Martin 10+

Ardley Quarry 28th March

Ringed Plover

Little-ringed Plover 2

Curlew 2

White Wagtail 

(JFT)

Henley Road GPs: 28th March

Henley Road GPs
Great White Egret: Back of the garden centre pit with 3 Little Egret. SU740754. 12:31.

Marek Walford

Port Meadow: 28th March

Port Meadow
5 Ringed Plover
Little Ringed Plover
2 Redshank
2 Oystercatcher
2 Shelduck
Willow Warbler: m. singing.

Adam Hartley

Port Meadow: 27th March

Port Meadow
2 Dunlin
2 Oystercatcher
3 Shelduck
4 Swallow
2 House Martin
3 Pintail
Ringed Plover
Little Ringed Plover
6 Redshank
Siberian Chiffchaff: Calling by Burgess Field gate.

Thomas Miller, Adam Hartley, Dave Doherty

Ardley ERF Lagoon 27th March

Ringed Plover

Shelduck 2

(per Colin Oram)

Port Meadow 27th March

Ringed Plover

Dunlin 2

Oystercatcher 2

Redshank 6

Shelduck 3

Pintail 3

Swallow

House Martin 

Siberian Chiffchaff 

(per Thomas Miller et al)

Sarsgrove: 27th March

Sarsgrove
Wheatear: fem. FOY here - a traditional site for seeing Wheatear on migration nr Chipping Norton the highest town in Oxfordshire. SP298243. 12:00.
Grey Wagtail: Heard down at Sars Brook. SP298243. 12:00.
2 Chiffchaff: SP298243. 12:00.

Steve Akers

Standlake 27th March

Whitethroat SSE of Standlake at Newbridge (per RBA)

Bicester Wetland Reserve 27th March

 Pair Garganey  still on Cattle Bridge Pool, can be elusive
1 Green Sandpiper
6 Shoveler
6 Gadwall
48 Teal
2 Cetti's Warbler

A Peters
Key Holder Reserve

Sarsgrove: 26th March

Sarsgrove
3 Chiffchaff: Calling from Sarsgrove Wood nr Sars Brook plus Comma and Peacock. SP298243. 12:00.
Green Woodpecker: SP298243. 12:00.
Jay: SP298243. 12:00.
6 Linnet: SP298243. 12:00.
8 Skylark: SP298243. 12:00.

Steve Akers

Northern Cross Valley Way 27th March

Little Gull 10:21 

Shelduck 3

Common Sandpiper 

Sand Martin 12

(per Jon Prowse)

Radley village: 27th March

Radley village
Willow Warbler: In song. FOY here. 09:16.

Ian Elkins

Sutton Courtenay Flood 26th March

Little-ringed Plover 4

Egyptian Goose c7

Great white Egret 

Peregrine 

Sand Martin 7

Woodstock 26th March

Black redstart - I happened to glance out of the window of my house as it hopped up onto a neighbour's roof in Vanbrugh Close. It then flitted about for a few minutes and I managed some fairly desperate shots of it out of the window. The bird that spent a few weeks nearby last September also visited these roofs on one occasion. Both are female types so presumably the same bird. If not, quite a coincidence!

Hawfinch - 2 on a brief visit to Hensington Road cemetery.

Otmoor rspb 26th March

Cattle Egret 7 at the 1st screen 15:20 (per Luke O'Byrne)

White-fronted Goose 2nd screen yesterday.

Shipton on Cherwell: 26th March

Shipton on Cherwell
4 Cattle Egret: In field near path to Hampton Gay. SP481164. 15:00.

David Watkinson

Bicester Wetlands Reserve 26th March

Garganey m&f still present on Cattle Bridge Pool 16:03 (per Mark Ribbons)

Key holder reserve 

Hensington Cemetery 26th March

 

Farmoor Reservoir: Pinkhill: 26th March

Farmoor Reservoir: Pinkhill
Little Egret: Seen from Pinkhill hide. 13:46.
2 Treecreeper 13:46.
3 Blackcap: At least 3 singing. 13:46.
6 Chiffchaff: At least 6 maybe more singing. 13:46.

Richard Parsons

Ardley ERF Lagoon: 26th March

Ardley ERF Lagoon
2 Blackcap: Singing Males. Please note that the new footpath is now open at the Trow Pool . 10:30.

Laurie Bryant

Ardley: Ardley Field Quarry: 26th March

Ardley: Ardley Field Quarry
3 Little Ringed Plover: At left hand end of the quarry but very mobile. 10:00.
2 Shelduck 10:00.

Laurie Bryant

Radley Lakes 26th March

Sedge Warbler c09:32 (per Wayne Bull)

Henley-on-Thames: 25th March

25th March

Henley-on-Thames
Common Scoter 19:24.

2 flocks of Common Scoter flying over Northfield End, obviously difficult to ascertain direction but picked up on peeping flight calls. 1st flock at 19:24 seemed quite low, numerous very clear peeping calls and then another flock at 19:38 with fewer birds calling.

 
Middle Assendon
Raven: Back and forth between Bix common and Fawley. 15:00.

Ashley Stow

Chipping Norton: 25th March

Chipping Norton
7 Mute Swan: 3 adult; 4 juv. Highest number recorded here and a first record at this location - wetland at Swailsford Bridge nr Cornwell. SP284265. 13:30.
Grey Wagtail: ad fem. SP284265. 13:30.
2 Pied Wagtail: SP284265. 13:30.
Meadow Pipit: SP284265. 13:30.

Steve Akers

Chinnor: Cement Works: 25th March

Chinnor: Cement Works
Little Ringed Plover: North end of Lake 2b. 11:00.

David Stracey

Woodstock 25th March

Hawfinch 6 (2m/4f}

Blackcap 2 m/f

Goldcrest 1

flyovers

Sparrowhawk1

Common Buzzard 3

Little Egret 1

Stone pits SSSI, Weston on the Green: 25th March

Stone pits SSSI, Weston on the Green
100 Fieldfare: At 2.30pm, large vocal flock most heading east. SP524195. 15:55.

David Williams

Chipping Norton: 25th March

Chipping Norton
12 Teal: 9 drake; 3 duck. On the small lake nr Cornwell. SP283268. 11:30.
Little Egret: SP283268. 11:30.
100 Fieldfare: Estimate 100 in large mixed flock of approx 200 Fieldfare, Redwing and Starling. Very vocal feeding in trees and pasture the other side of Salford brook. SP283268. 11:30.
70 Redwing: SP283268. 11:30.
30 Starling: SP283268. 11:30.
Great Spotted Woodpecker: SP283268. 11:30.
Tawny Owl: Daytime hooting briefly. SP283268. 11:30.
2 Kestrel: Hunting over the marsh. SP283268. 11:30.

Steve Akers

Tackley: 22nd March

Tackley
3 Egyptian Goose: SP484215. 10:00.

Sue Brown

Bicester Wetlands Reserve 25th March

Garganey 2 m&f on the Cattle Bridge Pool 08:23

(A.T)

Key holder reserve

Charney Bassett: E: 25th March

Charney Bassett: E
2 Shelduck: On shallow pools. 07:38.

Jed Cleeter

Farmoor Reservoir 24th March

Little Gull 3 ad over F1 c18:05 

(per Dave Lowe,Ben Sheldon)

Woodstock 24th March 2025

Hawfinch 5 (4f 1m)

Farmoor Reservoir 24th March 2025

Willow Warbler 

Willow Warbler 1 singing intermittently from path by Pinkhill Hide

Tawny Owl 1 heard only

Water Rail 1

Eurasian Teal 6

Farmoor Reservoir: 24th March

Farmoor Reservoir
4 Blackcap: 4 singing in separate locations around Farmoor in the spring sunshine. 15:55.

Richard Parsons

Chipping Norton: 24th March

Chipping Norton
6 Teal: 3 drake; 3 duck. On Cornwell Manor lake - first sighting here. SP275270. 12:00.
2 Little Grebe: SP275270. 12:00.
2 Mute Swan: SP275270. 12:00.
2 Coot: SP275270. 12:00.
5 Moorhen: SP275270. 12:00.
Grey Wagtail: male. SP275270. 12:00.
Grey Heron: SP275270. 12:00.
Green Woodpecker: SP275270. 12:00.
Great Spotted Woodpecker: SP275270. 12:00.

Steve Akers

Bicester Wetlands Reserve 24th March

Garganey 2 m&f 12:10 on Cattle Bridge Pool (per Birdguides)

Key holder reserve

Otmoor rspb 24th March

Willow Warbler

Bittern 2

(S.C)

Farmoor Reservoir 24th March

Willow Warbler at Pinkhill

Marsh Harrier through 07:45 Shrike Meadow 

Red-legged Partridge 

(per Ewan Urquhart, Johnny Eclipse)

Balscote Quarry Reserve 24th March

Brambling f again at feeders (SB)

Grimsbury Reservoir 24th March

Little-ringed Plover 

Swallow 2

Cetti's Warbler 

Grey Wagtail 

(SB)

Port Meadow: 24th March

Port Meadow
Siberian Chiffchaff: m. Still singing by BF gate.
2 Swallow: Flew north.
Little Ringed Plover
4 Redshank
Dunlin
2 Shelduck
Great White Egret

Thomas Miller

Port Meadow: 23rd March

Port Meadow
Siberian Chiffchaff: male. Singing by Burgess Field gate.
2 Redshank
2 Shelduck
Great White Egret

Thomas Miller, Adam Hartley

Oxfordshire Golf Course Thame 23rd March

Black Redstart this evening (per Luke Marriner)

Woodstock 23rd March

Hawfinch 3+ in Hensington Road Cemetery 14:00-17:00 although predominantly elusive
Greenfinch 2
Chaffinch 2
Starling c20
Blackcap 2m&f
Chiffchaff

Farmoor Reservoir 23rd March

Little Gull 5 ad on F1 (2 until late morning 3 at 17:32)

Little-ringed Plover 2

Shelduck 2

Blackcap singing

No sign of the Brent Geese

No sign of the Black Redstart

(per Dave Lowe, Ben Sheldon et al)

Courtesy of Nick Truby

Grimsbury Reservoir: 23rd March

AM

Curlew - over NE

Blackcap - singing

Singles of Sand and House Martin through

PM (JFT)

4 Swallows

Little Ringed Plover

Ardley ERF and Quarry 23rd March

Shelduck - 2

Peregrine - 2

Little Ringed Plover - 4

Dorchester: Days Lock: 23rd March

Dorchester: Days Lock
Red-crested Pochard: Male seen on Allen Pit, amongst the Tufted Ducks and Coots. 11:15.
Shoveler 11:15.

Oliver Hedley

Waterstock: River Thame: 23rd March

Waterstock: River Thame
45 Lapwing 09:00.
5 Linnet 09:00.
2 Golden Plover 09:00.
Sparrowhawk 09:00.
Raven 09:00.
Great White Egret 09:00.
11 Reed Bunting 09:00.
105 Snipe 09:00.
165 Wigeon 09:00.
4 Shoveler 09:00.
4 Jack Snipe 09:00.
3 Oystercatcher 09:00.
19 Chiffchaff 09:00.
110 Redwing 09:00.
3 Egyptian Goose 09:00.
25 Fieldfare 09:00.
Grey Wagtail 09:00.
105 Teal 09:00.
Blackcap: Singing. 09:00.

Goldcrest 09:00.
24 Meadow Pipit 09:00.

Nick Marriner

Standlake, pit 60: 23rd March

White-fronted Goose 1
Oystercatcher 2
GW Egret 1
Green Sandpiper 1, east fields
White Wagtail 1
Goosander 3
Goldeneye 2
Blackcap 1m singing (new in)

Bicester Wetlands Reserve, 23rd March

08:15-09:30

Garganey (m & f)

Green Sandpiper 2

Common Snipe 2

Venn Mill: 23rd March

Venn Mill
2 Egyptian Goose 11:15.
Peregrine: fem. Flew over. 11:15.

Jed Cleeter

Letcombe Bassett: 23rd March

Letcombe Bassett
2 Wheatear: Female. 10:35.

Jed Cleeter

Courtesy of Jed Cleeter 

Port Meadow: 23rd March

Port Meadow
Great White Egret 10:17.
2 Shelduck: pair. 10:17.
4 Redshank 10:17.
7 Pintail: 3 drk and 4 fem. 10:17.
White Wagtail: At least one present with Pied Wagtails. 10:17.

Ian Elkins

Farmoor - 23 March 2025

 Two adult Little Gulls dropped in at 0655 on F1

Bicester Wetland Reserve: 23rd March

23rd March

Bicester Wetland Reserve
Garganey: Initially on small pool before Cow Pool hide but then relocated to main pool. 11:12
2 Green Sandpiper: On pool along entrance road. 07:40.

Laurie Bryant

Courtesy of Sandra Bletchly 

Balscote Quarry Reserve 23rd March

Brambling f at feeders

Swallow

Sand Martin 

(per Steve Holliday)

Chipping Norton: 23rd March

Chipping Norton
Blackcap: ad male. Male in full song at small wood in The Leys. 07:20.

Steve Akers

Farmoor Reservoir 22nd March

Black Redstart still present c18:24 on buildings at western end of the causeway.

Little Gull 7 over F1 early evening 

Brent Goose 2 18:24

Barn Owl 2

Sand Martin 5

(per Dave Lowe,Jed Cleeter, Paul Butler, Bryan Manston et al).

Courtesy of Jed Cleeter 

Courtesy of Jed Cleeter 

Woodstock 22nd March

Hawfinch 3 Hensington Road Cemetery (per RBA)

Dorchester on Thames : Sat 22nd

Sailing Club Lake, Abingdon Rd.

Little Gull 2 ad/w, flew north at 4.30pm (found by Alan Brampton)

Day's Lock Area.

Cattle Egret 4.

Little Egret.

Oystercatcher 3.

Goosander 2 (m&f)

Little Ringed Plover, flew over calling.

Merlin, male with prey on fields west of Church Farm Backwaters yesterday morning.

Sutton Courtenay Floods/Peep-O-Day Lane 22nd March

Little-ringed Plover 5 on flooded field west of Sutton Courtenay 
Great white Egret
Little Egret 2
Wigeon c80
Shoveler c20
Teal c30
White Wagtail 4 on flooded field west of Sutton Courtenay
Pied Wagtail c10
Grey Wagtail 
Meadow Pipit c15

Appleford GPs
Egyptian Goose 9
Cetti's Warbler
Chiffchaff 

 

Otmoor 22nd March

Black Redstart reported along Otmoor Lane 13:49 (per RBA).

Bicester Wetland Reserve 22nd March

A box of delights!

Pair Garganey- still present on main pool 13:30
1 Marsh Harrier
1 Peregrine
1 Redshank
3 Green Sandpiper
2 Cetti's Warblers

A Peters C Oram
Key Holder Reserve

Blenheim 21st March

Mandarin duck - 3 

Wigeon - 2

Pochard - 1

Little egret - 4

Oystercatcher - 2

Sand Martin - 10

Port Meadow: 21st March

Port Meadow
This evening
Swallow through north
Yellow-legged Gull ad.

This morning
Siberian Chiffchaff: Singing quietly by the allotments.
5 Little Ringed Plover
4 Redshank
10 Sand Martin
2 Great White Egret
2 Shelduck

Thomas Miller, Adam Hartley

Grimsbury Reservoir: 21st March

Grimsbury Reservoir
House Martin
2 Sand Martin

Gareth Blockley

Farmoor Reservoir 21st March

Black Redstart on buildings west of the causeway 17:05 (DJ et al)

Caspian Gull 2cy on F2 08:53 (per Johnny Eclipse).

Bicester Wetlands Reserve 21st March

Garganey 2 m&f still present 11:30

(per John Friendship-Taylor et al)

Key holder reserve.

Garganey with Teal
Courtesy of John Friendship-Taylor 

Chinnor: Cement Works: 21st March

Chinnor: Cement Works
2 Oystercatcher: Lake 2B. 14:16.

Jez March

Tar Lakes, Rushy Common: 21st March

Tar Lakes, Rushy Common
6 Shelduck 09:00.
2 Oystercatcher 09:00.
Great White Egret 09:00.
4 Red-crested Pochard 09:00.
6 Pochard 09:00.
Snipe 09:00.
4 Chiffchaff: Singing males. 09:00.

Jed Cleeter

Little Owl
Courtesy of Jason Hornblow

 

Standlake: 21st March

Standlake
Barn Owl: Flew over main road in centre of village. 08:00.

Jed Cleeter

Sarsgrove: 20th March

Sarsgrove
2 Raven: pair. SP299245. 13:00.
40 Fieldfare: Flying NNE - probably last sighting as they migrate home. SP299245. 13:00.
2 Chiffchaff: SP299245. 13:00.
6 Linnet: SP299245. 13:00.
Kestrel: ad fem. SP299245. 13:00.

Steve Akers

Woodstock 20th March

Hawfinch 5

Blackcap 1f

Chinnor: Cement Works: 20th March

Chinnor: Cement Works
2 Little Ringed Plover: By the west screen Lake 2b. 11:00.

David Stracey

Woodcote: 20th March

Woodcote
Brambling: m. Stunning male sitting on fence post beside main road! I've never seen one in Woodcote in 12 years - really excited! 04:05.

Heather Wright

Blenheim: Queen Pool: 20th March

Blenheim: Queen Pool
11 Egyptian Goose: pair with 9 very young juvs.
2 Oystercatcher
Sand Martin
Little Grebe

Woodstock: Shipton Slade Farm
Barn Owl
Snipe
15 Greenfinch

Bob Pomfret

Sonning Eye GPs: 20th March

Sonning Eye GPs
2 Egyptian Goose 15:00.

Ralph Watts

Standlake Pit 60: 20th March

Standlake Pit 60
2 Oystercatcher 11:00.
2 Great White Egret 11:00.
Marsh Harrier 11:00.

Stephen Burch

Letcombe Bassett: 20th March

Male gadwall from the old cressbeds in Letcombe Bassett

 

Farmoor Reservoir 20th March

Little Gull ad briefly on F1

Great white Egret on Pinkhill

Goosander 2 Pinkhill

(per Paul Butler)

Port Meadow 19th March

Little-ringed Plover 4

Redshank 10

Shelduck 2

Mediterranean Gull ad

White Wagtail c10

Siberian Chiffchaff 

(per Thomas Miller)

White Wagtail 18/3 courtesy of Thomas Miller 

Woodstock 19th March

4 Hawfinches this morning in Hensington Road cemetery. 1 male, 3 females.