Birds
Thursday 3oth Dec
4pm Benson Lock: 1 adult and a 1stW GC Grebe
Friday 31st Dec
Abingdon Sewage Works
12.30: c140 Pied wags lifted off filter beds; 12.45: c60 Siskin feeding on Alders by barrier gate as Ewan and Tom went-a-counting 6 Chiffs. I heard just one "hweet"! 1adult and a 1stW Common Gull on the one partly unfrozen and 'Smew-less' pit still holding good selection of waterfowl.
2.30-3.20pm: Windrush Valley Pit 60: Ice mist making accurate counts near impossible, but 29 Mute Swan, c200Wigeon, c10Pochard, c50 Tufted, c100Mallard, c3-400 Teal, Goldeneye 1f, 150-200 Coot, 13f & 2m Goosander, 5 Cormorant, 3 GC Grebe and with Great, Blue Tits and Reed Buntings on the seed feeder by the north (west) hide.
Dix Pit: Ice mist with shadowy walking Coots and LB-b's lifting off and heading eastward.
- Dorchester Gravel Pits Webs Count 10th March
Little Grebe 2 Gt Crested Grebe 24 Mute Swan 8 Canada Goose 14 Wigeon 256 Gadwall 11 Teal 8 Mallard 60 Shoveller 67 Pochard 29 Tufted Duck 216 Goldeneye 1 Cormorant 14 Coot 215 Moorhen 8 Black-headed Gull 41 Greylag 1 Shelduck 1 Common Gull 5 L.B.B. Gull...
- Great Grey Shrike At Little Stoke
I've just received a photo of a Great Grey Shrike taken on Thursday 9th Feb at Little Stoke, near Goring South Oxon. It was near an area where hedge laying was taking place. Also, yesterday, at least 10 Chichaffs at Abingdon sewage works including...
- Sunday 2nd Jan 2011
Drayton birder reported 30 plus Waxwings at Peachcroft this morning. Not in the car park Rowans (now minus berries) but on nearby roof aerials (to south?). SU 507 985/6 Early PM - Abingdon Sewage Works / Wilsham Gravel Pits / South Abingdon (SU4995 &...
- North Of Goring, Around Midday Thursday 16th
A very quick scan of the open fields near South Stoke showed around 1200 Common Gulls present, mainly in one massive flock in flight and hundreds more feeding across or loafing in the fields. These birds are heading South along the Thames Valley towards...
- Farmoor Res Sun 5th Dec 2010
SOUTH BASIN (F2) ONLY 1.15-4.30pm GN Diver: mid east side at 2.30 making way to NE corner by around 3.30pm Kingfisher: 1 landed on railings by octagonal tower at 2.43GC Grebe: 52 counted at 2.45 Little Grebe: 4 east; 2 south; 4 SW Goldeneye: 14f, 4m...
Birds
Catch Up
Thursday 3oth Dec
2.35pm Single Egyptian Goose flying south, before descending clockwise to the Thames between South Stoke and Goring.
3pm White-fronted Geese flock in field north of South Stoke village, between B4009 and Railway line.4pm Benson Lock: 1 adult and a 1stW GC Grebe
Friday 31st Dec
Abingdon Sewage Works
12.30: c140 Pied wags lifted off filter beds; 12.45: c60 Siskin feeding on Alders by barrier gate as Ewan and Tom went-a-counting 6 Chiffs. I heard just one "hweet"! 1adult and a 1stW Common Gull on the one partly unfrozen and 'Smew-less' pit still holding good selection of waterfowl.
2.30-3.20pm: Windrush Valley Pit 60: Ice mist making accurate counts near impossible, but 29 Mute Swan, c200Wigeon, c10Pochard, c50 Tufted, c100Mallard, c3-400 Teal, Goldeneye 1f, 150-200 Coot, 13f & 2m Goosander, 5 Cormorant, 3 GC Grebe and with Great, Blue Tits and Reed Buntings on the seed feeder by the north (west) hide.
Dix Pit: Ice mist with shadowy walking Coots and LB-b's lifting off and heading eastward.
- Dorchester Gravel Pits Webs Count 10th March
Little Grebe 2 Gt Crested Grebe 24 Mute Swan 8 Canada Goose 14 Wigeon 256 Gadwall 11 Teal 8 Mallard 60 Shoveller 67 Pochard 29 Tufted Duck 216 Goldeneye 1 Cormorant 14 Coot 215 Moorhen 8 Black-headed Gull 41 Greylag 1 Shelduck 1 Common Gull 5 L.B.B. Gull...
- Great Grey Shrike At Little Stoke
I've just received a photo of a Great Grey Shrike taken on Thursday 9th Feb at Little Stoke, near Goring South Oxon. It was near an area where hedge laying was taking place. Also, yesterday, at least 10 Chichaffs at Abingdon sewage works including...
- Sunday 2nd Jan 2011
Drayton birder reported 30 plus Waxwings at Peachcroft this morning. Not in the car park Rowans (now minus berries) but on nearby roof aerials (to south?). SU 507 985/6 Early PM - Abingdon Sewage Works / Wilsham Gravel Pits / South Abingdon (SU4995 &...
- North Of Goring, Around Midday Thursday 16th
A very quick scan of the open fields near South Stoke showed around 1200 Common Gulls present, mainly in one massive flock in flight and hundreds more feeding across or loafing in the fields. These birds are heading South along the Thames Valley towards...
- Farmoor Res Sun 5th Dec 2010
SOUTH BASIN (F2) ONLY 1.15-4.30pm GN Diver: mid east side at 2.30 making way to NE corner by around 3.30pm Kingfisher: 1 landed on railings by octagonal tower at 2.43GC Grebe: 52 counted at 2.45 Little Grebe: 4 east; 2 south; 4 SW Goldeneye: 14f, 4m...