Grimsbury Reservoir: 9th December

2 Waxwing Flew over south.
5 Lesser Redpoll: At least. 5 seen together, but the odd one/twos also seen heard. Back of the woodland.
Snipe: One in the wet field north of the wood.

Gareth Blockley

Benson: 8th December

Benson
5 Waxwing

Thomas Stevenson

Cothill Lesser Spotted Success

The Cothill Reserves are full of perfect Lesser Pecker habitat, but no luck over past couple of years. So I followed the BBOWT 'new' leafleted 'Cothill Fen Wild Walk' linking route today and found success at this location. Pick up the leaflet at any of the three reserve entrances shown on the map link. The bird was located in area shown on the Leaflet's Stage 5 map at 2.15pm. Now for that Hawfinch Colin Williams saw at Dry Sandford Pit....

Otmoor 8th December

Water Rail in front of the first screen early morning (c) Gareth Blockley

                          
Bearded Tit 2 nr the 2nd screen c9:30 (per Gareth and Tom)
Bittern (per Tom Coyne)
Golden Plover c50
Dunlin
Wigeon c1000
Teal c1000
Pintail 50+
Water Rail 4
Stonechat 2

Waxwings reported in the week in the car park field.

Foxholes BBOWT 8th December

Raven 2
Sparrowhawk 1f
Common Buzzard 2
Marsh Tit 7
Tree Creeper 2
Goldcrest 8
Nuthatch 6

Berinsfield 8th December

Waxwing 4 Berinsfield at Pearces Coaches OX10 7LN (per RBA) No sign at 15:30 Small group of Waxwings in Benson today. Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

Port Meadow: 8th December

Port Meadow
Dunlin
5 Black-tailed Godwit
2 Redshank
7 Ruff
Yellow-legged Gull
20 Snipe

Sydney Penner

+Brent Goose still (Badger)

Bicester: 8th December

 



17 Waxwing On other side of road from Lidl car park (Launton Rd) at 12:40.
Not present at 13:30.

Tom Coyne




Both photos (c) Tom Coyne

Chimney Meadows 8th December

Tree Sparrow 15+
Stonechat 1m, 1f
Redshank heard but lower fields inaccessible.

Farmoor 8th December

Whooper Swan possibly up to 6 this morning then flew west. Slavonian Grebe 2 F1 Scaup 3 F1 (per Dai and the Wickster) Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

Bicester 8th December

Waxwing 5 on Launton Road in Lidl car park c10:30 (per Paul Wren) Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

Waxwings 7th December

16 Waxwing Piddington (Michael Hunt)
20 Waxwing  Bicester Langford Village (see comments)

Port Meadow: 7th December

Port Meadow
Brent Goose: dark-bellied.
5 Ruff: At least.
5 Redshank
4 Black-tailed Godwit
2 Yellow-legged Gull: ad.

Adam Hartley

Sonning Eye GPs: 7th December

Sonning Eye GPs
Goosander: rh.

Marek Walford

Oxford 7th December

St Giles churchyard
16 Waxwing: SP511070.

David Hastings

Present on and off at around midday, feeding in the berry tree next to the memorial  (Gnome)

 (c) Gnome

Port Meadow 6th December

Grab of 1st Winter Cass Full video here

Caspian Gull 1w.
Brent Goose (dark-bellied)
7 Ruff
5 Redshank
4 Black-tailed Godwit
Dunlin

Adam Hartley

More at Port Meadow Birding

Chipping Norton 6th December

A Short eared Owl just flew past my second floor office window at 1545!

Coal Tit Cowlease Wood 6th Dec (c) Terry Sherlock

Banbury 06th December

Six Waxwings on Highlands at 10:10, near to junction for Harlequin Way. Only there for 5 minutes and they flew south. Stayed for an hour to see if they came back but they didn't. Whilst there I was entertained watching 2 Fieldfares very strongly trying to defend the berry trees from 3 Redwings, 10+ Blackbirds and 30+ Starlings. There are good numbers of House sparrows in the area and I estimated 50+. Was surprised to see 2 Great Spotted Woodpeckers there (2 males). There was also a Jay foraging on the roadside verge and a Buzzard went over.

Searching the nearby roads there was no sign of the Waxwings.

Gareth

Kidlington 6th December

No sign of any Waxwings in Yarnton Road or from Treeground Place at 10a.m