Birds
5 Rock Pipit groups of 3 & 2 causeway 5 Meadow Pipit east grass bank 1 Dunlin causeway 1 Ringed Plover heard over F1 "Peep" call heard trice flying around F1 (not seen) 1 Common Sandpiper around area of F2 vegetation filter - east side. No passerines detected overhead or in bushes. Rain then stopped play on a dire day !
- Farmoor 4th October After The Rain Cleared
2 Rock Pipit west bank F2 near causeway 1 Common Sandpiper No sign of the Red-necked Grebe...
- Farmoor Reservoir: Causeway: 6th August
Ringed Plover: Took off from Causeway - flew over Farmoor 2. 2 Common Sandpiper Turnstone: On Farmoor 1 side of Causeway before angler huts. Carol Monger...
- Farmoor Quiet Evening 18.30 - 20.30
Massive fly hatch in hot calm weather Common Tern - 2 appeared at 19.15 on F1, then 4, then back to 2 as 2 left SW B H Gull - Building up to c 16 at sundown Yellow-legged Gull - 2 immatures but possibly more (Heat shimmer across F2) Great Black-backed...
- Farmoor Sept 19th (8-10am)
Lapland Bunting - the confiding bird still present halfway along the causeway on F2 side. Ringed Plover - 1 juv Common Sand - 1 Egyptian Goose - 10 (!) Yellow Wagtail - 2 light passage overhead of Swallow and Meadow Pipit....
- Farmoor 27th October
5 Little Gull all 1st w flew through heading north at 14:35. Water Pipit still on south side of causeway but mobile. Rock Pipit Jack Snipe on Shrike Meadow. (per R.B.A) More Info http://www.farmoor-birding.com/ The water pipit (c) David Fearn ...
Birds
Farmoor F1 circuit c13:20 - 15:40
5 Rock Pipit groups of 3 & 2 causeway 5 Meadow Pipit east grass bank 1 Dunlin causeway 1 Ringed Plover heard over F1 "Peep" call heard trice flying around F1 (not seen) 1 Common Sandpiper around area of F2 vegetation filter - east side. No passerines detected overhead or in bushes. Rain then stopped play on a dire day !
- Farmoor 4th October After The Rain Cleared
2 Rock Pipit west bank F2 near causeway 1 Common Sandpiper No sign of the Red-necked Grebe...
- Farmoor Reservoir: Causeway: 6th August
Ringed Plover: Took off from Causeway - flew over Farmoor 2. 2 Common Sandpiper Turnstone: On Farmoor 1 side of Causeway before angler huts. Carol Monger...
- Farmoor Quiet Evening 18.30 - 20.30
Massive fly hatch in hot calm weather Common Tern - 2 appeared at 19.15 on F1, then 4, then back to 2 as 2 left SW B H Gull - Building up to c 16 at sundown Yellow-legged Gull - 2 immatures but possibly more (Heat shimmer across F2) Great Black-backed...
- Farmoor Sept 19th (8-10am)
Lapland Bunting - the confiding bird still present halfway along the causeway on F2 side. Ringed Plover - 1 juv Common Sand - 1 Egyptian Goose - 10 (!) Yellow Wagtail - 2 light passage overhead of Swallow and Meadow Pipit....
- Farmoor 27th October
5 Little Gull all 1st w flew through heading north at 14:35. Water Pipit still on south side of causeway but mobile. Rock Pipit Jack Snipe on Shrike Meadow. (per R.B.A) More Info http://www.farmoor-birding.com/ The water pipit (c) David Fearn ...