Otmoor 18 April am

12.40 Two Common Cranes circling over western end of Big Otmoor (per Gareth Clare and Jackie Newcombe)
also :
15 Sum  plum Golden Plovers
3 Black tailed Godwits
Good passage of all three hirundine species
Many singing Blackcaps, Chiffchaffs, some Willow warblers and a few Sedgies and two Reed warblers.
Common Whitethroat in the car park field
Merlin chasing Linnets on Ashgrave
Bark

Dix Pit, 18th April

Garganey 1m
RC pochard 2
(Snow Goose 18)

Farmoor 18th April

Arctic Tern 8
Little Ringed Plover 1

I shall be away until the 11th of May so please send all of your splendid Oxon bird photographs and Oxfordshire bird news to Adam adamchartley (at) gmail.com for inclusion on Oxon Birding.

Cheers Badger

NB I too shall be away from Saturday 19th until Tuesday 21st so please be patient until I return.

Adam

Port Meadow: 17th April

Port Meadow
8 Black-tailed Godwit
2 Little Ringed Plover
1 Ringed Plover
Oystercatcher
5 Shelduck
Cetti's Warbler

Adam Hartley & Mary MacDougall

Farmoor Reservoir: Farmoor I: 17th April

Farmoor Reservoir: Farmoor I
2 Black Tern
Little Ringed Plover

Standlake Pit 60
2 Ring-necked Duck: m&f.
7 Red-crested Pochard: 6m & 1f.
2 Oystercatcher
Common Sandpiper
Little Ringed Plover

Paul Boult

Henley Road GPs: 17th April

Henley Road GPs
Cuckoo

Marek Walford

Linky Down: 17th April

Linky Down
11 Ring Ouzel: Minimum count, possibly one or two more. 16:00.

D Moden

Otmoor.A.M. 17th April.

1 Curlew (over)
1 Yellow Wagtail (over)
1 Ruff (Big Otmoor)
1 Bar-headed Goose (Big Otmoor)
1 Mistle Thrush (Noke end)
2 Raven (over).

Grove Airfield 17th April

Lesser Whitethroat 08:40 (per Leo Bateman)

Standlake Pit 10 April 17th

Garden Warbler
Sedge Warbler 2
Cetti's Warbler
Red-crested Pochard 6

(per Dave Doherty)

Cholsey: Lollingdon Hill: 17th April

Cholsey: Lollingdon Hill
Ring Ouzel: fem. 1briefly but seen very well in scrub/ash tree at East of hill then appeared to go deep into the thick hedge going to the south. 08:30.

Michael Pocock

Letcombe Bassett: Ridgeway above Letcombe Bassett: 17th April

Letcombe Bassett: Ridgeway above Letcombe Bassett
2 Curlew 07:45.

Colin Vickers

Farmoor Res 17th April

Black Tern 2
Arctic Tern
Common Terns

(per Dai & Dave Daniels) 09:40

16th April Wood Warbler near Harwell

Stephen Collier found a WOOD WARBLER this afternoon near Harwell in an area with no general access.

photos courtesy of Stephen Collier

Port Meadow 16th April

3 Oystercatcher
8 Black-tailed Godwit 19:30
2 Common Tern
1 Whitethroat
2 Yellow Wagtail
2 Little Ringed Plover
1 Ringed Plover

(Adam Hartley, Pete Roby & Dave Doherty)

Grimsbury Reservoir: 16th April

1 Common Tern - through north
2 separate Yellow Wagtails
3 Wheatear
Many hirundines through
(per JFT)

1 Whitethroat
(per JFT and Michael Hewitt)

Farmoor 16th April

Reed Warbler 1
Sedge Warbler 5+
Yellow Wagtail 2
Turnstone
Sanderling
Common Sandpiper 5
Dunlin 3
Curlew 1
Redshank 1
Common Tern 4


Both pictures courtesy of Mark Chivers.

Kingston Bagpuize: 16th April

16th April

Kingston Bagpuize
5 Little Gull: Flew NW. 15:15.
Peregrine: male. Flew east. 08:20.

Jed Cleeter

Linky Down 16th April

Ring Ouzel 8 Ring Ouzel (5 ad males, one 1st year male and 2 females) 14:28
Redstart: fem.

(per Chris Lamsdell)

7 (5m) still at Linky Down at 11:23 (per Wayne Bull & Ralph Watts)



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