There have to date only been two Whiskered Terns recorded in the county. The first was a five day stayer at Standlake in 1970 though back t...

Lesser Scaup: 12th November – 28th December 1994 Back in the 1990s I regularly watched the Edward Richardson Reserve on the northern edge of...

A minor influx of Red-rumped Swallows was under way in early May with several birds recorded around the UK. The closest being near Guildfor...

“Every Friday afternoon since the early nineties, I have been making a routine walk around F1. On 27th. March 1998 I was walking towards the...

Baikal Teal: 22nd – 24th December 2002 I visited Dix Pit near Stanton Harcourt at lunchtime on 22nd December 2002 to count the w...

Buff-bellied pipit (c) Mike Flemming More photos on Farmoor Birding July-December 2007 All Records of Buff-bellied Pipit in Oxon 2007 8th-10...

May 2000 Bonaparte's Gull (c) George Reszetter April 2009 (c) Nic Hallam All Sightings of Bonaparte's Gull in Oxon 2009 Farmoor Rese...

A montage of the 2007 bird, found in the roost. Fortunately it turned up again the next night, allowing many birders to see it The 2002 Fran...

The Port Meadow Lesser Yellowlegs, October 2010 (c) Nigel Forrow All Records of Lesser Yellowlegs in Oxon 2010 Port Meadow, juvenil...

Write-ups of Past County Rarities: click on the link below for details. More to follow soon! Lesser Yellowlegs Franklin's Gull Bonaparte...

Most of the blogging should be fairly straight-forward so below are some useful pointers to help with blogging. Posting via "Going Bird...

I'm still working on the formatting for this Category A Species which have been recorded in an apparently natural state a...

Tree/Meadow Pipit The owner of the excellent Manchester Birding website has very kindly allowed me to use a link to an article he wrote: Tre...

Location The site is easy to find by taking Hill Road out of Chinnor up towards Bledlow. Old Kiln Lakes is signposted from the new round...

This is a complex of gravel excavation pits located to the west of Oxford along the Windrush Valley. The most well known pits are Dix Pit an...

Blogs: Otmoor Birding , The Otmoor Blogger Introduction The Otmoor basin forms the floodplain of the River Ray. It is a natural wetland ...

Radley Lakes The "Ash Pit" is the water on the right-hand side above "Thrupp Green" Thrupp Lake is good for winterin...

Map (c) Dave Dunford Access Farmoor reservoir is located just south of Farmoor village which is due west of Oxford city. The B404...

Blogs: Port Meadow Birding   General       Port Meadow is a large area of common grassland to the west of Oxford which is border...