Birds
12.40 Two Common Cranes circling over western end of Big Otmoor (per Gareth Clare and Jackie Newcombe)
also :
15 Sum plum Golden Plovers
3 Black tailed Godwits
Good passage of all three hirundine species
Many singing Blackcaps, Chiffchaffs, some Willow warblers and a few Sedgies and two Reed warblers.
Common Whitethroat in the car park field
Merlin chasing Linnets on Ashgrave
Bark
- 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...
- 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...
- Port Meadow 25th April
Adult Little Gull on floods this morning 5 Little Egrets this morning 14 Black-tailed Godwits this evening 1 Shelduck Whimbrel Little Ringed Plover 3 Swifts Burgess Field 11 singing Whitethroat 1 or 2 Lesser Whitethroat 2 Reed Warblers 1 Sedge Warbler...
- Grimsbury Reservoir: 12th April
Common Sandpiper, mixed flock of 25 Swallow, House Martin and Sand Martin, 4 Chiffchaff. (per Alan Peters and Bill Foley) 2 Willow Warblers (singing), 2 Common Sandpipers, Wheatear (f), White Wagtail, a fall of 20 + Willow Warblers and Chiffchaffs during...
- Rspb Otmoor 24th April
The BBS and breeding wader surveys this morning picked up some good birds on Otmoor including: Bar-tailed godwit (Big Otmoor) Whimbrel (Greenaways) Hobby (flew overhead on track between carpark and bird feeders) Whitethroat 3 grasshopper warblers Short-eared...
Birds
Otmoor 18 April am
12.40 Two Common Cranes circling over western end of Big Otmoor (per Gareth Clare and Jackie Newcombe)
also :
15 Sum plum Golden Plovers
3 Black tailed Godwits
Good passage of all three hirundine species
Many singing Blackcaps, Chiffchaffs, some Willow warblers and a few Sedgies and two Reed warblers.
Common Whitethroat in the car park field
Merlin chasing Linnets on Ashgrave
Bark
- 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...
- 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...
- Port Meadow 25th April
Adult Little Gull on floods this morning 5 Little Egrets this morning 14 Black-tailed Godwits this evening 1 Shelduck Whimbrel Little Ringed Plover 3 Swifts Burgess Field 11 singing Whitethroat 1 or 2 Lesser Whitethroat 2 Reed Warblers 1 Sedge Warbler...
- Grimsbury Reservoir: 12th April
Common Sandpiper, mixed flock of 25 Swallow, House Martin and Sand Martin, 4 Chiffchaff. (per Alan Peters and Bill Foley) 2 Willow Warblers (singing), 2 Common Sandpipers, Wheatear (f), White Wagtail, a fall of 20 + Willow Warblers and Chiffchaffs during...
- Rspb Otmoor 24th April
The BBS and breeding wader surveys this morning picked up some good birds on Otmoor including: Bar-tailed godwit (Big Otmoor) Whimbrel (Greenaways) Hobby (flew overhead on track between carpark and bird feeders) Whitethroat 3 grasshopper warblers Short-eared...