Birds
Goldeneye 1m & 2f
Teal 1f
Herring gulls included one dark-eyed, pure white headed adult bird; smaller than any LB-bG and as pale mantled as BHG... tiny argenteus???
Thrushes c150 mixed Redwing & Fieldfare in heavily berried Cotoneaster by F1 car park
Starling c4000 Otmoor bound?
Cormorant 1 with near full white thigh patch
- The White Morning To Be At Farmoor F1
White-winged Gull ! L.B-backed adult with all black in primaries replaced with pure white. Also Mallard with body plumage white; remaining feathering as normal. Two unique sights. Probable Sanderling flew over. (The Wickster). Feeding Common Terns departing...
- Farmoor - Sunday Roost
4.50-6.30pm. Light not good for distinguishing gulls (sharp light plus some initial air shimmer over water). Very noticeable increase in large gull numbers, since last few visits and large gulls still arriving at 6.25. Med Gull 1 adult seen when it flew...
- Standlake Pit 60 9th September
11.30am Sandwich tern x 3 flew off S as soon as rain stopped. Sorry about the quality but on x200 zoom. Yellow tip to rh bird's beak was visible in scope 1x Marsh harrier Adam Bassett writes: Hi - are you sure that your Sandwich...
- Farmoor F2 Basin 5.15 - 7.00pm
Med Gull 1 adult (Nick Hallam & Dai) Little Gull 2 adult keeping to south and 2 adult keeping to west (all non-hooded) Sand Martin 1 Wheatear 1 male SW corner Rock Pipit 2 (Dai). The 1 bird I checked was littoralis; again at south end Herring Gull(?)...
- Adult Med Gull In Farmoor Roost
No Twite; No GG Shrike but an Adult Med Gull in the roost instead, photographed here at ISO 3200 setting near dusk i.e. more noise than sharpness but interestingly arty nevertheless. Roost also had plenty of G B-backs, Lesser Black-backs - varied intermedius...
Birds
Farmoor 1 - 14:15 - 16:15. 28th
Goldeneye 1m & 2f
Teal 1f
Herring gulls included one dark-eyed, pure white headed adult bird; smaller than any LB-bG and as pale mantled as BHG... tiny argenteus???
Thrushes c150 mixed Redwing & Fieldfare in heavily berried Cotoneaster by F1 car park
Starling c4000 Otmoor bound?
Cormorant 1 with near full white thigh patch
- The White Morning To Be At Farmoor F1
White-winged Gull ! L.B-backed adult with all black in primaries replaced with pure white. Also Mallard with body plumage white; remaining feathering as normal. Two unique sights. Probable Sanderling flew over. (The Wickster). Feeding Common Terns departing...
- Farmoor - Sunday Roost
4.50-6.30pm. Light not good for distinguishing gulls (sharp light plus some initial air shimmer over water). Very noticeable increase in large gull numbers, since last few visits and large gulls still arriving at 6.25. Med Gull 1 adult seen when it flew...
- Standlake Pit 60 9th September
11.30am Sandwich tern x 3 flew off S as soon as rain stopped. Sorry about the quality but on x200 zoom. Yellow tip to rh bird's beak was visible in scope 1x Marsh harrier Adam Bassett writes: Hi - are you sure that your Sandwich...
- Farmoor F2 Basin 5.15 - 7.00pm
Med Gull 1 adult (Nick Hallam & Dai) Little Gull 2 adult keeping to south and 2 adult keeping to west (all non-hooded) Sand Martin 1 Wheatear 1 male SW corner Rock Pipit 2 (Dai). The 1 bird I checked was littoralis; again at south end Herring Gull(?)...
- Adult Med Gull In Farmoor Roost
No Twite; No GG Shrike but an Adult Med Gull in the roost instead, photographed here at ISO 3200 setting near dusk i.e. more noise than sharpness but interestingly arty nevertheless. Roost also had plenty of G B-backs, Lesser Black-backs - varied intermedius...