Birds
21:40 25 common Terns roosting on eastern most floating perch line on F1. Minimum of 3 Yellow-legged Gulls; 10 plus L B-b 's; 1 adult Common Gull and c1000 B H Gull's. Redshank and Oystercatcher both heard only. Pied wagtails numbers building now.. c 40 plus? in SE of f1 around 8pm Only <10 Swift. All in all very quiet although the mobile red van Bird observatory may have seen more.....
- 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...
- Farmoor: 20th April
1 Little Gull - adult 11 'commic' terns - mostly Common but at least 2 Arctic 9 Yellow Wagtails - causeway 2+ White Wagtails Oystercatcher - heard but not seen (maybe flew over?) GB and Tom Coyne Yellow Wagtails. Both pictures (c) Tom Coyne...
- Farmoor, 22nd July
The colour-ringed second summer Mediterranean Gull again in the roost as well as an adult. Yellow-legged Gulls at their peak at the moment with 30+ (mostly adults) at 21.00, and probably a lot more by dusk. A juvenile Common Gull ...
- Farmoor Med Gulls In Late Afternoon
Arrived 16:40, so far too late for any hope of raptor watching. 1 Rockit, 2 Mipit and perhaps 20 Pied Wags plus 1 Ringed Plover in the SE of F1. Enormous gull roost this evening and gusting gale force WSW, so concentrated on F1 only. Common Gull totalled...
- Farmoor 20th July
2 Sanderling 1 Redshank 1 Oystercatcher 1 Dunlin 1 Ringed Plover 2 Common Sandpiper 1 Redstart 1 Egyptian Goose Also this evening (Adam Hartley): 2 juv. yellow wagtails 12 adult yellow-legged gulls...
Birds
Farmoor Roost
21:40 25 common Terns roosting on eastern most floating perch line on F1. Minimum of 3 Yellow-legged Gulls; 10 plus L B-b 's; 1 adult Common Gull and c1000 B H Gull's. Redshank and Oystercatcher both heard only. Pied wagtails numbers building now.. c 40 plus? in SE of f1 around 8pm Only <10 Swift. All in all very quiet although the mobile red van Bird observatory may have seen more.....
- 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...
- Farmoor: 20th April
1 Little Gull - adult 11 'commic' terns - mostly Common but at least 2 Arctic 9 Yellow Wagtails - causeway 2+ White Wagtails Oystercatcher - heard but not seen (maybe flew over?) GB and Tom Coyne Yellow Wagtails. Both pictures (c) Tom Coyne...
- Farmoor, 22nd July
The colour-ringed second summer Mediterranean Gull again in the roost as well as an adult. Yellow-legged Gulls at their peak at the moment with 30+ (mostly adults) at 21.00, and probably a lot more by dusk. A juvenile Common Gull ...
- Farmoor Med Gulls In Late Afternoon
Arrived 16:40, so far too late for any hope of raptor watching. 1 Rockit, 2 Mipit and perhaps 20 Pied Wags plus 1 Ringed Plover in the SE of F1. Enormous gull roost this evening and gusting gale force WSW, so concentrated on F1 only. Common Gull totalled...
- Farmoor 20th July
2 Sanderling 1 Redshank 1 Oystercatcher 1 Dunlin 1 Ringed Plover 2 Common Sandpiper 1 Redstart 1 Egyptian Goose Also this evening (Adam Hartley): 2 juv. yellow wagtails 12 adult yellow-legged gulls...