Birds
The Port Meadow Lesser Yellowlegs, October 2010 (c) Nigel Forrow
All Records of Lesser Yellowlegs in Oxon
Finder's Description Oct 2010: Port Meadow (Adam Hartley)
Some video taken on the last day that it was seen.
- January 2014 Review
Great Grey Shrike by Andy Last Firstly, it's worth noting that we've now done a whole year of monthly reviews with this one kicking off a second year. Since they've been well received (at least no one has complained too bitterly about them!)...
- Port Meadow: 11th March
This evening Glaucous Gull: ad. The adult bird again in the roost this evening. 6 Avocet: Back on the floods again this evening. 3 Redshank Dunlin Adam Hartley This morning 06:30-07:45 Ruff 2 Ringed Plover 4 Dunlin 2 No sign of any Avocet ...
- Well Done Adam!!
cracking find Adam, and thanks for getting the news out. cheers. Bird still showing well at 08:10 at least along with Little Stint, Ruff, Dunlin(2) and Redshank, can be mobile around the flood though. The lesser yellowlegs this morning. More photos on...
- Buff-bellied Pipit
Buff-bellied pipit (c) Mike Flemming More photos on Farmoor Birding July-December 2007 All Records of Buff-bellied Pipit in Oxon 2007 8th-10th October, Farmoor Reservoir. Bird was also reported on 12th at Port Meadow briefly (Birding World 20 (10): 407,...
- Past County Rarities
Write-ups of Past County Rarities: click on the link below for details. More to follow soon! Lesser YellowlegsFranklin's GullBonaparte's GullBuff-bellied PipitSurf ScoterRed-rumped SwallowBaikal TealLesser Scaup Port Meadow Lesser Yellowlegs (c)...
Birds
Lesser Yellowlegs
The Port Meadow Lesser Yellowlegs, October 2010 (c) Nigel Forrow
All Records of Lesser Yellowlegs in Oxon
- 2010 Port Meadow, juvenile 14th Oct to 8th Nov. Adam Hartley
- 1999 Otmoor, 25th May. Jason Gosler
- 1998 Otmoor, adult, 29th Aug to 5th Sep. (British Birds 92: 577)
- 1983 Banbury Sewage-farm, 1st winter, 2nd to 18th Dec. (British Birds 78: 551, plate 258)
- 1970 Stanton Harcourt Gravel-pits, 1st to 17th Oct. (British Birds 64: 351)
Finder's Description Oct 2010: Port Meadow (Adam Hartley)
"I'd been down to visit a client in Surrey that morning and had intended to some birding down there. However the meeting had dragged on too long so in the end I came straight back feeling rather frustrated so to clear my head I went down to Port Meadow to check out the patch. It was very overcast and gloomy though with little wind down by the floods. I had just started my scan when I came across a couple of waders: one was the ruff which had been there for a few days now but the other bird I couldn't immediately recognise. It superficially looked like a wood sandpiper with a brown speckled back but the jizz and proportions were all wrong. After I while I was able to make out the bright yellow-orange legs and I realised that it was a lesser yellowlegs that I had in front of me. I gave Nic Hallam and Jason Coppock a call and they came down to confirm the ID but it was getting too dark by this time for anyone else to connect that evening. There were a few anxious county birders that night, hoping that it would stay and quite a few people were there at dawn to look for it. Fortunately the bird seemed to like the floods and stayed for almost a month in the end and lots of visitors from far and wide were able to come and admire this cracking bird."
Adam Hartley
Adam Hartley
Some video taken on the last day that it was seen.
- January 2014 Review
Great Grey Shrike by Andy Last Firstly, it's worth noting that we've now done a whole year of monthly reviews with this one kicking off a second year. Since they've been well received (at least no one has complained too bitterly about them!)...
- Port Meadow: 11th March
This evening Glaucous Gull: ad. The adult bird again in the roost this evening. 6 Avocet: Back on the floods again this evening. 3 Redshank Dunlin Adam Hartley This morning 06:30-07:45 Ruff 2 Ringed Plover 4 Dunlin 2 No sign of any Avocet ...
- Well Done Adam!!
cracking find Adam, and thanks for getting the news out. cheers. Bird still showing well at 08:10 at least along with Little Stint, Ruff, Dunlin(2) and Redshank, can be mobile around the flood though. The lesser yellowlegs this morning. More photos on...
- Buff-bellied Pipit
Buff-bellied pipit (c) Mike Flemming More photos on Farmoor Birding July-December 2007 All Records of Buff-bellied Pipit in Oxon 2007 8th-10th October, Farmoor Reservoir. Bird was also reported on 12th at Port Meadow briefly (Birding World 20 (10): 407,...
- Past County Rarities
Write-ups of Past County Rarities: click on the link below for details. More to follow soon! Lesser YellowlegsFranklin's GullBonaparte's GullBuff-bellied PipitSurf ScoterRed-rumped SwallowBaikal TealLesser Scaup Port Meadow Lesser Yellowlegs (c)...