Birds
Presumed 1st winter male Merlin (aged on the basis of the brown barred juvenile tail and flight feathers, but adult type blue-grey uppertail coverts, mantle, scapulars and upper wing coverts). A local first!
Birdless Cuddesdon Blog.
- Cuddesdon: 18th April
Male Mandarin Duck on the River Thame with 2 Mallard this morning. Birdless Cuddesdon Blog...
- Cuddesdon: 1st January
Cuddesdon: 1,500 Fieldfares 1 Little Owl The Birdless Cuddesdon Blog...
- Cuddesdon 27th September
Redstart Cuddesdon (per Tom Bedford) The Birdless Cuddesdon Blog...
- Siberian Chiffchaff?, Abingdon Sf 12th Feb
The tristis/abietinus bird was still present the sewage works today. I didn't hear it call but the pics below give an impression of how it variously appeared in the field. Generally grey-brown lacking any green/yellow except for yellow underwing covs/axillaries...
- Gulls At Appleford 30/11/11
This is the Iceland Gull found by Tom Wickens this morning. These poor video grabs were obtained mid afternoon. The general blotchy look to the scapulars, the sharply defined dark on the bill with a fine pale tip (inset middle pic), the pale iris...
Birds
Cuddesdon: 1st March
Presumed 1st winter male Merlin (aged on the basis of the brown barred juvenile tail and flight feathers, but adult type blue-grey uppertail coverts, mantle, scapulars and upper wing coverts). A local first!
Birdless Cuddesdon Blog.
- Cuddesdon: 18th April
Male Mandarin Duck on the River Thame with 2 Mallard this morning. Birdless Cuddesdon Blog...
- Cuddesdon: 1st January
Cuddesdon: 1,500 Fieldfares 1 Little Owl The Birdless Cuddesdon Blog...
- Cuddesdon 27th September
Redstart Cuddesdon (per Tom Bedford) The Birdless Cuddesdon Blog...
- Siberian Chiffchaff?, Abingdon Sf 12th Feb
The tristis/abietinus bird was still present the sewage works today. I didn't hear it call but the pics below give an impression of how it variously appeared in the field. Generally grey-brown lacking any green/yellow except for yellow underwing covs/axillaries...
- Gulls At Appleford 30/11/11
This is the Iceland Gull found by Tom Wickens this morning. These poor video grabs were obtained mid afternoon. The general blotchy look to the scapulars, the sharply defined dark on the bill with a fine pale tip (inset middle pic), the pale iris...