Bicester 25th August

Turtle Dove on wires with Collard Doves at grain store along Bucknell Road between Bicester and Bucknell
07:30 (per Nick Truby).

Snipe & Mallards 1st screen Otmoor courtesy of Neil Long

Grimsbury Res 25th Aug

Osprey flew south over the reservoir this morning
Greenshank through
Spotted Flycatcher 3
Ring-necked Parakeet

(per John Friendship-Taylor)

Grimsbury Birds

Otmoor RSPB 24th August

1st Screen a.m

Marsh Harrier
Green Sandpiper 3
Common Sandpiper
Ringed Plover

Whinchat (near Wetlands Watch Hide)

(per John Reynolds)

Photo courtesy of John Reynolds

Rushey Common Lake 24th August

Common Sandpiper minimum of 5
Egyptian Geese 3
Sand Martins 2

Clackers

Farmoor 24 August

Ruff

Ruff

Arctic Tern F1 16:40
Black Tern (ad) 16:40

3 Turnstones on the
causeway at 12:15

Hobby
Little Egret
Mixed hirundines 150+

Dunlin

Little Gull (juv) F1
Ruff
Ringed Plover
Little-ringed Plover
Dunlin 2
Common Sands

(per Dai John & Badger)

Black Tern in the gloom this evening.

Standlake Pit 60 AM 24th August

3 Green Sandpipers
4 Common Sandpipers
1 Kingfisher
1 Greenshank (pit 26)

Otmoor RSPB 23rd August

Greenshank 2 from the 1st screen (per Neil Long)

Didcot 23rd August

Raven 4 over cycle track through Ladygrove estate

(per Bob Edwards)

Farmoor 23rd Aug

Black Tern

Upper Wardington: 23rd Aug 2015

Mediterranean Gull, adult
2 Yellow-legged Gulls

With c.500 Lesser Black-backed Gulls in ploughed field off the A361

(per Mike Pollard)

Bicester Wetlands Reserve 23rd August

Wood Sandpiper courtesy of JT

Wood Sandpiper (juv) still on far pool at 17:00 (per Justin Taylor)
Common Sandpiper

Green Sandpiper 13
Snipe 3
Little Egret

(per Mike Pollard)
Nature in the Heart of England

Access to the reserve requires a key.

Sutton Courtenay Old Pits 23rd August

Green Sandpiper 5
Common Sandpiper 3
Gadwall 5
Little Egret
Sparrowhawk 2+

Whinchat Lower Farm Otmoor courtesy of Nick Truby

Great Milton: 23rd August

Great Milton
12 Swift 09:30.

Mike Youngman

Buzzard Glympton courtesy of John Reynolds

Farmoor 23rd Aug

1 Black Tern
9 Greenshank ( groups of 5, 2, 1, 1 moving through heading South)
1 Whimbrel
1 Ringed Plover
9 Dunlin
3 Common Sandpiper
1 Redshank
7+ Yellow Wagtail
2 Peregrine

(per Dai, Ian Smith and Andy last)

dodgy iPhone scoped Black Tern

The Insomniac Birders Farmoor Blog

Clattercote Reservoir: 23rd August

2 Greenshank, south west end

(per Clive Payne)

Clattercote Reservoir

Wantage: Lark Hill: 23rd August

Wantage: Lark Hill
2 Green Sandpiper: Over, calling. 19:00.
5 Corn Bunting 19:00.

Leo Bateman

Standlake, pit 60: 23 Aug

Black Tern 1
Ruff 1
Green Sand 11
Common Sand 3
Greenshank 3
Redstart 1m
Little Egret 1

Pit 26 a.m

Peregrine

(per Jim Hutchins)