Chipping Norton: 22nd July

Chipping Norton
3 Green Sandpiper: Resting and preening on edge of small lake on Cornwell Estate. SP283268. 15:30.
Possible Water Rail: SP283268. 15:30.
Grey Heron: SP283268. 15:30.

Steve Akers

Churn 22nd July Evening

1 Quail (h)

2 grey partridge

4 yellow wagtail.

Thrupp nr Kidlington: 22nd July

Thrupp nr Kidlington
7 Cattle Egret: Still present in the field to the east of the canal/Cherwell and to the north of Annie's Cafe  with Longhorn cattle. SP482161. 20:00.

Anthony Roberts

Thrupp 22nd July

Cattle Egret 4

Still with Longhorn Cows in field adjacent to the canal towpath 150yds beyond Annie's Tearoom at 1430hrs

Otmoor Thursday 22 July 2021

Little Egret 21 (1st screen)

Snipe 13 (1st screen)

Curlew 16 (flying early morning over Greenaways)

Bittern 2 (food flights over Greenaways)

Bittern at reedbed

Little Egrets at 1st screen

curlew over Greenaways

Bicester Wetland Reserve 22nd July

 6 Green Sandpipers

Alan Peters

Key Holder Reserve

Farmoor Reservoir 22nd July

Adult Common Tern

Juvenile Common Tern

Common Tern 8 ( 6 adults 2 juveniles)

Yellow legged Gull 12+

Little Egret 2

Oystercatcher 1

Swallow 20+

Grey Wagtail 4

The reservoir is open to the public today and tomorrow but closed until 1400hrs on Saturday

Cassington GPs: 21st July

Cassington GPs
Great White Egret 20:05.

Colin Teal

Otmoor 21st July am

 3 singing male Corn Buntings.

Singing Corn Bunting (c) Bark

Otmoor: 21st July

 

4 Redstarts in Long Meadow today including two juvenile/immature birds. 

: 21st July

Charters field Wood
Raven: SU6882. 08:35.

John Taylor

Water Eaton: 20th July

Water Eaton
Little Owl: In large oak tree at end of track to manor. 09:30.
6 Yellow Wagtail: A mix of adults and juveniles, in area where adults have been present for several months. 09:30.

Simon Myers

: 20th July

Greyhone wood
2 Raven: SU6893. 12:51.

John Taylor

Chipping Norton: 18th July

Chipping Norton
3 Green Sandpiper: Flew up from the lake calling and flew to pools at eastern end of the marsh. SP383268. 11:30.

Steve Akers

Otmoor rspb 19th July

Black-necked Grebe still present.

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Rousham: 18th July

Rousham
Hobby: Chasing House Martins high above the church.

Anthony Roberts

: 18th July

Drayton
8 Green Sandpiper: SU489942. 17:00.

Anthony Roberts

Thrupp 19th July

 

3 Cattle Egret still with Longhorn Cows in field adjacent to the canal at 1600hrs.

Farmoor Reservoir

 

Due to an outbreak of Covid-19 Thames Water have closed the reservoir for much of this week. 

Above are details of when it is open and when it is not.

There is a strict security check on the gate to the main car park with each car registration being noted in and out and you will only be allowed in before 1400hrs on Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday and Saturday if you are a member of the yacht club, attending a sailing class or are otherwise expressly authorised.

All others will be refused entry and turned away. Over a 100 cars have been turned away today, Monday

Please also check the closing times of the reservoir as these will vary depending on the sailing classes

The above times may change as the situation is being reviewed daily but for the moment that is what is being adhered to.

There is currently no news on what may happen from Sunday 25th July onwards.

Chinnor: Cement Works: 19th July

Chinnor: Cement Works
2 Little Ringed Plover: North end of Lake 2b. 07:45.

David Stracey

Thrupp: 19th July

Cattle Egret

CATTLE EGRET 7+ still present in field with longhorn cows 12:10. Park behind Annie's Tea Rooms OX5 1JZ and follow towpath north for c150yds to view field on right.

Kidlington: Thrupp: 18th July

Kidlington: Thrupp
5 Cattle Egret: Group of at least five remaining in field alongside canal, closely associating with the long-horn cattle. 21:00.

Simon Myers

Otmoor rspb 18th July

Wood Sandpiper from the 1st screen a.m

+Garganey 

(per Michael Enticott)

Appleford: Appleford GP: 18th July

5 Redshank 11:00.
2 Oystercatcher 11:00. 

Dunlin 

Little Egret 2

Anthony Cheke

Chipping Norton: 18th July

Chipping Norton
3 Green Sandpiper: Flew up from the lake calling and flew to pools at eastern end of the marsh. SP383268. 11:30.

Steve Akers

Otmoor rspb 18th July

Courtesy of Wayne Paes.

Black-necked Grebe still present at the 2nd screen 09:10, originally found yesterday 

by Wayne Paes.

Long Meadow
2 Redstart: At least 2 in bushes beyond the old shot butt including an adult male. 10:26.

Steve Roby

Courtesy of Wayne Paes.

Courtesy of Wayne Paes.

Waterstock: River Thame: 18th July

2 Kingfisher 07:30.
Hobby 07:30.
6 Chiffchaff 07:30.
8 Whitethroat 07:30.
5 Blackcap 07:30.
3 Grey Wagtail 07:30.
11 Sedge Warbler 07:30.
7 Reed Bunting 07:30.
2 Common Tern 07:30.
3 Gadwall 07:30.
7 Reed Warbler 07:30.
Yellow Wagtail 07:30.
Snipe 07:30.
Barn Owl 07:30.
Raven 07:30.
Spotted Flycatcher 07:30.
21 Linnet 07:30.
3 Garden Warbler 07:30.
3 Lesser Whitethroat 07:30.

Nick Marriner

Segsbury Camp: 18th Jul.

 2+ Common Redstarts

(usual multitude of Corn Buntings, Whitethroats etc)

Devil’s Punchbowl 17th July

2 Quail 

Redstart (f) 

New Marston: New Marston Meadows: 17th July

New Marston: New Marston Meadows
Common Sandpiper: No green sand today.

Tom Evans

Chipping Norton: 17th July

Chipping Norton
3 Green Sandpiper: Wading in the shallows of the small lake near Cornwell. SP283268. 19:00.
32 Lapwing: Large group in field beyond the marsh and small lake. SP283268. 19:00.

Steve Akers

Bicester Wetland Reserve 17th July

 Grass Snake close to shedding it's skin

8 Green Sandpiper

2 Little Egret

3 Heron

Tufted Duck 5 juvs

Alan Peters

Key Holder Reserve

Otmoor: 17th July

Otmoor
6 Corn Bunting: Singing males. 05:00.
4 Grasshopper Warbler 05:00.
4 Yellow Wagtail: 3 juv. 05:00.
Raven 05:00.

Isaac West

Otmoor: RSPB reserve: 16th July

Otmoor: RSPB reserve
Garganey: Eclipse male from 2nd screen this evening. 22:58.

Steve Roby

Otmoor: 16th July

Osprey from first screen. (Ringed near Rutland Water 2019 - Male - Blue 059)

Otmoor: 16th July

Osprey east of first screen. 10:47 

(per Jeremy Dexter)

Quail (per rspb)

New Marston: New Marston Meadows: 16th July

New Marston: New Marston Meadows
Green Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper: On the same pool as today's Green Sand, opposite Parson's Pleasure.

Tom Evans

 

Little Owl courtesy of Kyle Smith Birdwatch Britannia

Appleford: Appleford GP: 15th July

Appleford: Appleford GP
Great White Egret 17:30.
5 Green Sandpiper 17:30.
Common Sandpiper 17:30.
Hobby 17:30.

Isaac West

Abingdon: Peep-o-Day Lane: 15th July

Abingdon: Peep-o-Day Lane
3 Green Sandpiper 19:30.
Common Sandpiper 19:30.

Michael Violette

Longworth: 15th July

Longworth
2 Peregrine: Male & Female circling low near Church. 09:45.

Jed Cleeter

 

Juvenile Swallows near Bicester courtesy of Nick Truby Old Caley's Diary

Cassington GPs: 14th July

Cassington GPs
Great White Egret 19:00.

Colin Teal

 

Green Sandpiper Bicester Wetlands Reserve courtesy of Mike Curnow.

Otmoor: RSPB reserve: 10th July

10th July

Otmoor: RSPB reserve
Pintail: m. Second screen. 16:45.
Wigeon: f. First screen. 16:00.
Common Sandpiper: First screen. 16:00.

Colin Teal

Appleford GPs 14th July

 No sign of the 1sts Baltic Gull but possible 2nds (per Lew).

Letcombe Bassett: Gramps Hill: 14th July

Letcombe Bassett: Gramps Hill
Quail: (h).

Mark Merritt

Appleford GP: 13th July

First summer BALTIC GULL again on the pit 17:15-17:30 before flying to tip

Many Yellow legged gulls including first juvenile of the year

Great white egret 

Cassington GPs: 13th July

Cassington GPs
Great White Egret 19:00.
2 Little Egret 19:00.

Colin Teal

Cassington GPs: 7th July

Cassington GPs
Great White Egret 19:00.

Colin Teal

Otmoor: RSPB reserve: 12th July

Otmoor: RSPB reserve
Black-tailed Godwit: ad. One feeding on Big Otmoor. 23:19.
Cuckoo: Flying alongside the bridleway. 23:19.

Steve Roby

Dorchester: Days Lock: 12th July

Dorchester: Days Lock
2 Oystercatcher: On the grass by the sluice gates with the pigeons! SU569936. 21:32.

Jason Brockbank-Gash

Henley-on-Thames: 12th July

Henley-on-Thames
2 Raven: At lock area. SU771817. 12:30.
Egyptian Goose: At lock area. SU771817. 12:30.

Ralph Watts

Chipping Norton: 12th July

Chipping Norton
25 Swallow: ad and juv. At least 25 adults and juveniles hunting above the tree tops and over the marsh and small lake near Cornwell. SP283268. 12:00.

Steve Akers

Stonesfield: Stonesfield Common: 11th July

Stonesfield: Stonesfield Common
2 Raven: 2 flew over the top field looking towards the railway. 1st Raven flew quickly out of sight 2nd flew. Over near the railwa. 17:13.

Yacky Morris

New Marston: New Marston Meadows: 11th July

New Marston: New Marston Meadows
Green Sandpiper: Pool opposite Parson's Pleasure.

Tom Evans

Chipping Norton: 11th July

Chipping Norton
Green Sandpiper: Seen by reeds at far end of the small lake near Cornwell. 11:15.

Steve Akers

Appleford GPs 11th July

Whimbrel (DL)

Green Sandpiper 9

Common Sandpiper 

Oystercatcher 2

Great white Egret still 14:26

Little Egret c7

(per Dave Lowe, Badger)

Churn 11th July

Quail (h) 

(per Dave Lowe)

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Otmoor: RSPB reserve: 10th July

Otmoor: RSPB reserve
Green Sandpiper: Dropped in front of the first screen very briefly at sunset. 22:31.

Steve Roby

East Oxford 9th Oxford

Peregrine soaring over East Oxford Community Centre, Cowley Rd. 10am

Tom Pizzari

Appleford GP: 10th July

Great White Egret 1
Greenshank 1 heard

Otmoor - 9th July

Glossy Ibis - 1st screen

8 Garganey - ad + 7 juv

Great White Egret

2 Little Ringed Plover - ad + juv

Pintail (eclipse male) - 2nd screen

10 Oystercatcher - 3 pairs + 4 juv

Blewbury 8th July

Quail 3 at Churn (per RBA)

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Longworth: 8th July

Longworth
Spotted Flycatcher: male. Flycatching and singing plus I heard a lot of calls so probably more birds. 12:05.
2 Hobby: Flying side by side and causing havoc amongst 40+ Swallow. 12:05.

Jed Cleeter

Grimsbury Reservoir 9th July

Common Sandpiper 11 (per Gareth Blockley).

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Farmoor Reservoir 9th July

Common Sandpiper 2 

Common Tern 

Yellow-legged Gull 

Snow Goose 80

(per Ewan Urquhart).

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Otmoor rspb 9th July

GLOSSY IBIS 1st screen

CATTLE EGRET 3 flew over 1st screen towards Big Otmoor 07:03

Garganey 3 juv

(per Johnny Eclipse)

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: 8th July

Neal's Shaw
4 Spotted Flycatcher: family of four juv. One on classic farm fence post perch then joined by remainder in flight. SU6893. 18:38.

John Taylor

Kennington: River Thames: 7th July

Kennington: River Thames
Oystercatcher: flying over heading north west.

Bob Pomfret

River Thames: 7th July

River Thames
16 Common Sandpiper: Several on the river in groups of 1-2, with one larger group of 8 near Shifford Lock. 08:46.

Mitchell Fraser-Jones

Chinnor: Cement Works: 8th July

Chinnor: Cement Works
3 Little Ringed Plover: Lake 2b. 09:30.
Common Sandpiper: Lake2b. 09:30.
Raven: Flew over heading North. 09:30.

David Stracey

Otmoor: 7th July

 

Glossy Ibis and Black-tailed Godwits - from the first screen

(The water levels in the southern reed-bed are being lowered which will be good news for any passage waders).

Otmoor: 7th July

6 Black-tailed Godwit: First screen. 14:36.

Jeremy Dexter

GLOSSY IBIS 13:53 at the first screen 

Garganey f

(per RBA).

Port Meadow: 7th July

Port Meadow
6 Common Sandpiper: numbers up from 3 earlier in the day

9 Egyptian Goose: 2 adults/7 goslings. Egyptian goose family continues to thrive! First saw same family group at this site on 17 June. 10:00.

Andrew Siantonas & Colm O'Caomhanaigh

River Thames: 7th July

River Thames
Cuckoo: Seen in flight heading upstream between Newbridge and Shifford Lock. SP382016. 11:02.

Mitchell Fraser-Jones

Cassington GPs: 5th July

Cassington GPs
Great White Egret 19:00.

Colin Teal

Blenheim: Queen Elizabeth Island: 6th July

Blenheim: Queen Elizabeth Island
3 Cattle Egret: Confirming cattle egrets still visible. At least 3. Other egrets also visible. SP441163. 15:00.

JB Woodford

Farmoor Reservoir 6th July

Scaup (dk) in the middle of F1 this evening (per D.L).

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Port Meadow: 5th July

Port Meadow
Black-tailed Godwit: On the floods this evening.

Adam Hartley

Otmoor: RSPB reserve: 5th July

Otmoor: RSPB reserve
3 Marsh Harrier: male fem and juv. 09:00.
2 Cuckoo: Still calling around the reserve. 09:00.

Steve Roby

Courtesy of Paul Tomlinson.

Blenheim: Queen Elizabeth Island: 5th July

Blenheim: Queen Elizabeth Island
2 Cattle Egret: Wi. 14:48.

Bob Pomfret

Wantage 4th July

Courtesy of Mark Merritt.

ROSE-COLOURED STARLING (ad) on aerial of house by Motorlux garage off Wallingford Street

at 19:01,then in Alder by Ormond Road at 19:09.

(per Leo Bateman)

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Chipping Norton: 4th July

Chipping Norton
Raven: Flew over our back garden cronking away. 15:00.

Steve Akers

Appleford GPs 4th July

Great white Egret on main pit 14:40

Little Egret 4+

Yellow-legged Gull 

Black-tailed Godwit 6

Green Sandpiper 6

(Dave Lowe, Badger)

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Lowbury Hill: 4th July

Lowbury Hill
2 Quail: 1 bird singing from long grass here. Also one nearby at about SU539827. SU539824. 12:00.

Stephen Burch

Otmoor, 4th July

09-12:00, Greenaways from Bridleway

Bittern 

Curlew

Raven 2

Snipe 2 (drumming)

Marsh Harrier 2 (m & f)

Little Egret 2

Cuckoo 2

Old Caley's Diary

Standlake, pit 60: 4th July

Garganey 1m

Curlew 2
Oystercatcher 2
Hobby 2
Grasshopper Warbler 1

Standlake Pit 60: 3rd July

Standlake Pit 60
Great White Egret: SP388017. 11:00.

Stephen Burch

Bicester Wetlands Reserve, 3rd July 2021

09-10:00

Little Egret 2

Teal 5

Swift 10+

Sedge Warbler 5 (incl juvs)

Reed Warbler 10+ (incl juvs) 

Key-holder reserve only

Old Caley's Diary

Appleford GPs 3rd July

Green Sandpiper 6

Little Egret c5

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Otmoor - 3rd July

Cattle Egret - Big Otmoor

Glossy Ibis - 1st screen

2 Great White Egret - Big Otmoor

Grasshopper Warbler

Little-ringed Plover Cholsey recently courtesy of Alan Dawson.

Otmoor rspb 2nd July

Cattle Egret still present this afternoon (per RBA)

Letcombe Bassett: Gramps Hill: 2nd July

Letcombe Bassett: Gramps Hill
Yellow Wagtail: male. flew out of bean field into bush. 12:30.

Anthony Cheke

Appleford GPs 2nd July

Great white Egret

Little Egret 4

No sign of the Baltic Gull.

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Wantage 2nd July

ROSE-COLOURED STARLING ad again in garden.

From a Facebook post and presumably in the same general area.

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Appleford Gravel Pit: 1 July

1s Baltic gull - full set of jet black replaced primaries enables separation of Baltic gull from intermedius at at this time of year, as they follow a different moult strategy. This is the only age class where they are acceptable as vagrants. See Altenburg 2011 paper for other ID features

http://www.gull-research.org/papers/DB_2cyfuscus.pdf

Also 1 Great White Egret

Bottom two pics courtesy of Lew

Carterton: 1st July

Carterton
Ring-necked Parakeet: First I've seen in carterton, Flew over my garden. SP277064. 18:13.

Trevor Warne

Faringdon: 1st July

Faringdon
Peregrine: male. Flying West over southern end of Faringdon in hunting mode. 11:45.

Jed Cleeter