Also Marsh Harrier ♀ (c) Roger Wyatt

Horley: Horley NR: 25th March

Horley: Horley NR
15 Common Crossbill
Raven

Mark Ribbons

Otmoor WeBS count 25th March

Counts from this morning's WeBS....

Mute Swan	5
European White-fronted Goose	7
Greylag Goose	25
Canada Goose	43
Wigeon	474
Gadwall	9
Teal	859
Mallard	93
Pintail	85
Shoveler	552
Pochard	15
Tufted Duck	20
Ferruginous duck	1
Cormorant	1
Bittern	1
Little Egret	6
Grey Heron	7
Water Rail	2
Moorhen	6
Coot	90
Ringed Plover	2
Golden Plover	670
Grey Plover	1
Lapwing	263
Ruff	1
Dunlin	16
Snipe	7
Redshank	10
Black-tailed godwit	10
Curlew	11

Witney 25th March: Marsh Harrier

Male Marsh Harrier seen from the road between Curbrdige and Brize Norton this morning at 11:10 a.m.

per Jon Prowse

Grimsbury Reservoir: 25th March

No Common Scoters this morning.
2 Teal (drakes)
2 Gadwall (pair)
5 Tufted Ducks (4 drakes)
21 Common Gull
1 Herring Gull
Great Crested Grebes displaying (2 pairs)

Port Meadow: 24th March

Port Meadow
2 Black-tailed Godwit
15 Dunlin
5 Pintail: Most ducks at far end of what is, at the moment, a very big flood!.

Alex Martin

Farmoor, 23rd & 24th March

Black Redstart in the snow, NE corner of F1

Dunlin, causeway

Kestrel on a mast near the Sailing Club

Goldeneye, F1

Little Grebe, NW corner of F2

Photos (c) Nigel Forrow

Culham 24th March

Ring Ouzel (ad male)
Just north of Culham, in the field on the west side of the railway where line crosses the Thames
Eating worms, in a mixed flock of Fieldfare and Redwing (circa 100). SU526968.

Andrew Forster

Grimsbury Reservoir: 24th March

2 Common Scoters!

2 Common Scoters (pair). Patch and county tick! Last record for here I know of is 2 in Oct 1994.
2 Gadwall (pair)
5 Tufted Ducks (4 drakes)
Pochard (duck)
4 Meadow Pipits
15 Siskin
9 Common Gull

Farmoor Roost 24th March

Iceland Gull (2nd winter).
5 Little Gulls (all Ad winter).
2 Mediterranean Gulls (both Ad summer).

Oxford Kidneys NR 24th March

Mealy Redpoll 1 with two Lesser Redpolls 
but Mealy should be reduced to subspecies again as DNA studies in
2002 & 2008 show it isn't a valid species, whatever Alan Knox says.

Anthony Cheke

Oxford Kidneys NR

Otmoor 24th March

 

Black Sheep Fields Noke End

Short-eared Owl
Dunlin 40+
Ruff
Wheatear

Barn Owl
Curlew 6+
Redshank 10+
White-fronted Geese 7 (Ashgrave)
Raven
Chiffchaff 2


(Badger & the Roby's)

23rd
Garganey drake Big Otmoor
Hen Harrier 2 (both Ringtails)
Shelduck

(per Colin W)

 Dunlin

Radcot Lock: 24 March

3 Chiffchaff
2 Curlew
+ Arctic wind!

Cothill: Hitchcopse Pit: 24th March

24th March

Cothill: Hitchcopse Pit
Woodcock: Flushed from gorse.

Venn Mill
2 Curlew
Mandarin Duck: dr. A nice surprise, associating with mallard pair - took to the air with them.

Mark Merritt

Farmoor 24th March

Black Redstart still along causeway near hide 09:47
Wheatear western bank of F2
Little Gull F2
Common Sandpiper
Rock Pipit

(per Clackers)

Henley Road GPs: 23rd March

Henley Road GPs
Smew: rh.
Shelduck: m.

Sonning Eye GPs
3 Goosander: 2m+1rh.

Marek Walford

Scutchamer Knob: 23rd March

Scutchamer Knob
2 Grey Partridge

Mark Merritt

Ardington Down: 23rd March

Ardington Down
Raven

Mark Merritt

Farmoor 23rd March

Black Redstart In N/W corner of F1 then flew towards the causeway 13:45
along the eastern bank of F1 at 11:30
Wheatear (m) still 13:30 near N/W corner of F2
Common Sandpiper

(per The Wickster)

Long Wittenham 23rd March

Waxwing c30 reported still this morning (Bob Edwards)