Birds
AM:
2 Common Cranes (per Bark et al)
PM:
8+ Hobby
30+ Swift
3+ Cuckoo
Garganey (drake) - Big Otmoor
2 Ruff - Big Otmoor
Oystercatcher - Big Otmoor
3 Little Ringed Plovers
2 Little Egret
2 Water Rail
Cetti's Warbler - 2nd Screen
2+ Yellow Wagtail
6+ Lesser Whitethroat (males)
5+ Shoveler drakes and 1 Pochard drake, so hopefully females on nests
Chicks of Coot, Lapwing and Greylag Geese out and about
The feral Ross's Goose is still around
Also
Bob Hurst saw 5 Black-tailed Godwits on pool by farm at Noke end
GB and Allan Jones
- Otmoor: 7th July
Turtle dove purring on the north side of Ashgrave. 12 Little Egrets on Big Otmoor and Ashgrave. Marsh Harrier 2 (1 over Ashgrave) 1 Hobby Water Rail (h) Kingfisher on southern reedbed. Grasshopper Warbler (h) Lesser Whitethroat 1 Spotted Flycatcher News...
- Otmoor: 4th May
Cuckoo - Nick TrubyOtmoor 2 Crane: 10:00 and again in flight 10:30. Garganey: drk. On Big Otmoor. 12:25. 2 Little Egret: Over Ashgrave. 12:25. 8 Hobby: At first screen. 11:00. Grasshopper Warbler 10:00. Little Ringed Plover 10:00. Cuckoo 2Lesser...
- Otmoor Sat 25th Morning
Crane from last Sunday (c) JR2 possibly 4 Common Cranes mobile between MOD, Reserve and adjacent farmland. 4 Sum Plum Golden Plover Noke sides 3 Ruff Noke Sides 3 Wheatear Lower farm Noke 4 Whinchat Pill Ground 1 drake Garganey 1st screen poss Tree Pipit...
- Otmoor April 21st Am
2 Common Cranes over reserve - Seen dropping over hedge around the flood field area 1pm 5 Ruff - Noke Sides, 2 on Big Otmoor 5 Little Egret 2 Cettis Warblers - Calling towards second screen and near cattle pens 1 Grasshopper Warbler - heard calling...
- Otmoor.a.m. 7th January.
1 Cetti's Warbler (calling, by the bridleway) 20 Snipe (Greenaways Scrape) 3 White-fronted Geese (Ashgrave,Noke end) 1 Ross's Goose (feral) 1 Peregrine (female, on Big Otmoor) 2 Stonechat (M&F, Greenaways) 1 Sparrowhawk (female, Otmoor Lane)....
Birds
Otmoor: 2nd May
AM:
2 Common Cranes (per Bark et al)
PM:
8+ Hobby
30+ Swift
3+ Cuckoo
Garganey (drake) - Big Otmoor
2 Ruff - Big Otmoor
Oystercatcher - Big Otmoor
3 Little Ringed Plovers
2 Little Egret
2 Water Rail
Cetti's Warbler - 2nd Screen
2+ Yellow Wagtail
6+ Lesser Whitethroat (males)
5+ Shoveler drakes and 1 Pochard drake, so hopefully females on nests
Chicks of Coot, Lapwing and Greylag Geese out and about
The feral Ross's Goose is still around
Also
Bob Hurst saw 5 Black-tailed Godwits on pool by farm at Noke end
GB and Allan Jones
- Otmoor: 7th July
Turtle dove purring on the north side of Ashgrave. 12 Little Egrets on Big Otmoor and Ashgrave. Marsh Harrier 2 (1 over Ashgrave) 1 Hobby Water Rail (h) Kingfisher on southern reedbed. Grasshopper Warbler (h) Lesser Whitethroat 1 Spotted Flycatcher News...
- Otmoor: 4th May
Cuckoo - Nick TrubyOtmoor 2 Crane: 10:00 and again in flight 10:30. Garganey: drk. On Big Otmoor. 12:25. 2 Little Egret: Over Ashgrave. 12:25. 8 Hobby: At first screen. 11:00. Grasshopper Warbler 10:00. Little Ringed Plover 10:00. Cuckoo 2Lesser...
- Otmoor Sat 25th Morning
Crane from last Sunday (c) JR2 possibly 4 Common Cranes mobile between MOD, Reserve and adjacent farmland. 4 Sum Plum Golden Plover Noke sides 3 Ruff Noke Sides 3 Wheatear Lower farm Noke 4 Whinchat Pill Ground 1 drake Garganey 1st screen poss Tree Pipit...
- Otmoor April 21st Am
2 Common Cranes over reserve - Seen dropping over hedge around the flood field area 1pm 5 Ruff - Noke Sides, 2 on Big Otmoor 5 Little Egret 2 Cettis Warblers - Calling towards second screen and near cattle pens 1 Grasshopper Warbler - heard calling...
- Otmoor.a.m. 7th January.
1 Cetti's Warbler (calling, by the bridleway) 20 Snipe (Greenaways Scrape) 3 White-fronted Geese (Ashgrave,Noke end) 1 Ross's Goose (feral) 1 Peregrine (female, on Big Otmoor) 2 Stonechat (M&F, Greenaways) 1 Sparrowhawk (female, Otmoor Lane)....