Birds
GC Grebe: 165 minimum (109 on F2) (About twice my previous highest count)
R.N. Grebe: F2 (Between S. & SW.)
Little Grebe: 9 minimum on F2 (All singles, but often with coot/duck groups)
Fieldfare: 4 over NE with 6 Redwing
Common Gull c 25 adults, many large & dark = L.c. heini ? 1 1stW seen
B.H. Gull c8,000 (?) by 16:40
Y-l. Gull:1 adult - first large gull present at 15:30, with no others noted by 16:15
Grey Wag: 1
Pied Wagtail: c30 over west /on causeway
Celsius: 6 counted... NE noted....
- Farmoor Res 3rd October
0830 -1130hrs Red necked Grebe 1 initially by sailing club on F2 but then flushed by yachts and possibly flew to F1 Little Grebe 24 Yellow legged Gull 10 Greater Black backed Gull 1 Common Tern 1 juvenile Dunlin 1 Yellow Wagtail 1 Grey Wagtail...
- 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...
- 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...
- Appleford Gull Loafing Site With Iceland's Plus Interest?
For near 2 hours, Gulls in SW of field viewed from gateway. Distant and half of them out of sight amongst ground undulations. A few exceptionally dark L. B-backs, even when sunlit and temptingly like Baltic Gull (L. f. fuscus), but too far away to confirm...
- Abingdon Sewage Works 3.30 -4.00pm
Chiffchaff 2; Pied Wagtail c250; Grey Wagtail and Meadow Pipit; Redwing c30 and Blackbird 10+; Goldcrest 6 +. Unfrozen Lake opposite: Mallard, Gadwall, Shoveler & Teal; Pochard and Tufted; Coot; GC Grebe 1 & Little Grebe 3; Grey Heron & Cormorant; BH...
Birds
Farmoor Late Afternoon
GC Grebe: 165 minimum (109 on F2) (About twice my previous highest count)
R.N. Grebe: F2 (Between S. & SW.)
Little Grebe: 9 minimum on F2 (All singles, but often with coot/duck groups)
Fieldfare: 4 over NE with 6 Redwing
Common Gull c 25 adults, many large & dark = L.c. heini ? 1 1stW seen
B.H. Gull c8,000 (?) by 16:40
Y-l. Gull:1 adult - first large gull present at 15:30, with no others noted by 16:15
Grey Wag: 1
Pied Wagtail: c30 over west /on causeway
Celsius: 6 counted... NE noted....
- Farmoor Res 3rd October
0830 -1130hrs Red necked Grebe 1 initially by sailing club on F2 but then flushed by yachts and possibly flew to F1 Little Grebe 24 Yellow legged Gull 10 Greater Black backed Gull 1 Common Tern 1 juvenile Dunlin 1 Yellow Wagtail 1 Grey Wagtail...
- 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...
- 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...
- Appleford Gull Loafing Site With Iceland's Plus Interest?
For near 2 hours, Gulls in SW of field viewed from gateway. Distant and half of them out of sight amongst ground undulations. A few exceptionally dark L. B-backs, even when sunlit and temptingly like Baltic Gull (L. f. fuscus), but too far away to confirm...
- Abingdon Sewage Works 3.30 -4.00pm
Chiffchaff 2; Pied Wagtail c250; Grey Wagtail and Meadow Pipit; Redwing c30 and Blackbird 10+; Goldcrest 6 +. Unfrozen Lake opposite: Mallard, Gadwall, Shoveler & Teal; Pochard and Tufted; Coot; GC Grebe 1 & Little Grebe 3; Grey Heron & Cormorant; BH...