Birds
The Cothill Reserves are full of perfect Lesser Pecker habitat, but no luck over past couple of years. So I followed the BBOWT 'new' leafleted 'Cothill Fen Wild Walk' linking route today and found success at this location. Pick up the leaflet at any of the three reserve entrances shown on the map link. The bird was located in area shown on the Leaflet's Stage 5 map at 2.15pm. Now for that Hawfinch Colin Williams saw at Dry Sandford Pit....
- Port Meadow: Burgess Field Nature Park: 5th September
I spent a good couple of hours hunting for the Wryneck without success today. Location details are now on the Port Meadow Birding blog. Port Meadow: Burgess Field Nature Park 2 Lesser Whitethroat Siskin: Heard-only, at least one. Port Meadow Hobby:...
- Cothill Fen 24th Feb (07:30 - 09:30)
Lesser spotted woodpecker - 1 male Green woodpecker - 3 Great spot - 4 Nuthatch - 1 Redwing - 25 Cothill Fen ...
- Dry Sandford Pit: 2nd December
Dry Sandford Pit Hawfinch: Found by Colin Williams on the BBOWT bird race. Jarrod Hadfield...
- Sunday 23rd January: Waxwings
20+ waxwings in Wootton still along the main Abingdon to Cumnor Road approx. 600m north of the Hungry Horse restaurant (per the Wickster) BBOWT Dry Sandford Pit reserve, Cothill: 13 waxwings initially found feasting on the large apple tree at the entrance...
- Waxwings 20th January
There is a flock of 20+ Waxwing at BBOWT's Dry Sandford Pit, Cothill (west of Oxford) this morning. They are feeding on privet berries adjacent to the carpark. They were also seen yesterday.(per Colin Williams)I also had a flock of 20 Waxwings fly...
Birds
Cothill Lesser Spotted Success
The Cothill Reserves are full of perfect Lesser Pecker habitat, but no luck over past couple of years. So I followed the BBOWT 'new' leafleted 'Cothill Fen Wild Walk' linking route today and found success at this location. Pick up the leaflet at any of the three reserve entrances shown on the map link. The bird was located in area shown on the Leaflet's Stage 5 map at 2.15pm. Now for that Hawfinch Colin Williams saw at Dry Sandford Pit....
- Port Meadow: Burgess Field Nature Park: 5th September
I spent a good couple of hours hunting for the Wryneck without success today. Location details are now on the Port Meadow Birding blog. Port Meadow: Burgess Field Nature Park 2 Lesser Whitethroat Siskin: Heard-only, at least one. Port Meadow Hobby:...
- Cothill Fen 24th Feb (07:30 - 09:30)
Lesser spotted woodpecker - 1 male Green woodpecker - 3 Great spot - 4 Nuthatch - 1 Redwing - 25 Cothill Fen ...
- Dry Sandford Pit: 2nd December
Dry Sandford Pit Hawfinch: Found by Colin Williams on the BBOWT bird race. Jarrod Hadfield...
- Sunday 23rd January: Waxwings
20+ waxwings in Wootton still along the main Abingdon to Cumnor Road approx. 600m north of the Hungry Horse restaurant (per the Wickster) BBOWT Dry Sandford Pit reserve, Cothill: 13 waxwings initially found feasting on the large apple tree at the entrance...
- Waxwings 20th January
There is a flock of 20+ Waxwing at BBOWT's Dry Sandford Pit, Cothill (west of Oxford) this morning. They are feeding on privet berries adjacent to the carpark. They were also seen yesterday.(per Colin Williams)I also had a flock of 20 Waxwings fly...