Birds
3 Grasshopper Warbler (1 in carpark field. 2 near second screen).
Oystercatcher: On first scrape (Big Otmoor).
10 Redshank: Unusual sighting 10 hovering together in a group, just off the ground, on big Otmoor.
Garganey (Male) flying from Big Otmoor onto Ashgrave. flying with three other ducks. Didn't have time to I.d. as they disappeared over hedge. Four Gargany ?.
Turtle Dove
Curlew
Little ringed Plover 1 (Badger)
Hobby 4+
Peter Coombes
Complete weekend round up at
- Otmoor 7th June
Marsh Harrier 2 Hobby 3+ Ringed Plover (Big Otmoor) Curlew 2 Common Tern Cuckoo c3 Turtle Dove 2+ Garden Warbler 3+ Lesser Whitethroat 3 Barnacle Goose (feral) (Big Otmoor) Ross's Goose (feral) Bar-headed Goose 2 (feral) (Otmoor massive) Full weekend...
- Otmoor: 29th April
Otmoor Merlin: male. Seen twice flying from Ashgrave To Big Otmoor then 20mins later flying back to Ashgrave each time being mobbed by Lapwings. Hobby: Noke. Sparrowhawk: male. 10 Wheatear: In field with black sheep (Noke farm). Whinchat: male. In...
- Otmoor: 16th April
5 Chiffchaff Reed Warbler 2 Sedge Warbler 12 Willow Warbler 2 Whitethroat 2 House Martin 25 Swallow 6 Sand Martin 2 Water Rail Dunlin 3 Curlew 15 Redshank 3 Snipe: Drumming over Greenaways (over bridleway). Peter Coombes Willow Warbler Otmoor (c) Bark...
- Otmoor: 30th July
Otmoor Cuckoo: juv. Spectacular views of juvenile being fed by Reed Warblers. Turtle Dove: On wires near carpark. Grasshopper Warbler Raven: Big Otmoor. Peter Coombes See also Peter's great new blog: The Otmoor Blogger Gnome...
- Otmoor 10th April
Marsh Harrier Female seen flying over the reedbed before flying off high S/E at around 10:30 Wayne Bull Lesser Whitethroat singing from near the car park Whitethroat Grasshopper Warbler Sedge Warbler Reed Warbler Cuckoo Yellow Wag (per Pete) 3 Garganey...
Birds
Otmoor 26th May
3 Grasshopper Warbler (1 in carpark field. 2 near second screen).
Oystercatcher: On first scrape (Big Otmoor).
10 Redshank: Unusual sighting 10 hovering together in a group, just off the ground, on big Otmoor.
Garganey (Male) flying from Big Otmoor onto Ashgrave. flying with three other ducks. Didn't have time to I.d. as they disappeared over hedge. Four Gargany ?.
Turtle Dove
Curlew
Little ringed Plover 1 (Badger)
Hobby 4+
Peter Coombes
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Cuckoo 1 of 3 Otmoor (c) Terry Sherlock  |
Complete weekend round up at
Otmoor Birding
- Otmoor 7th June
Marsh Harrier 2 Hobby 3+ Ringed Plover (Big Otmoor) Curlew 2 Common Tern Cuckoo c3 Turtle Dove 2+ Garden Warbler 3+ Lesser Whitethroat 3 Barnacle Goose (feral) (Big Otmoor) Ross's Goose (feral) Bar-headed Goose 2 (feral) (Otmoor massive) Full weekend...
- Otmoor: 29th April
Otmoor Merlin: male. Seen twice flying from Ashgrave To Big Otmoor then 20mins later flying back to Ashgrave each time being mobbed by Lapwings. Hobby: Noke. Sparrowhawk: male. 10 Wheatear: In field with black sheep (Noke farm). Whinchat: male. In...
- Otmoor: 16th April
5 Chiffchaff Reed Warbler 2 Sedge Warbler 12 Willow Warbler 2 Whitethroat 2 House Martin 25 Swallow 6 Sand Martin 2 Water Rail Dunlin 3 Curlew 15 Redshank 3 Snipe: Drumming over Greenaways (over bridleway). Peter Coombes Willow Warbler Otmoor (c) Bark...
- Otmoor: 30th July
Otmoor Cuckoo: juv. Spectacular views of juvenile being fed by Reed Warblers. Turtle Dove: On wires near carpark. Grasshopper Warbler Raven: Big Otmoor. Peter Coombes See also Peter's great new blog: The Otmoor Blogger Gnome...
- Otmoor 10th April
Marsh Harrier Female seen flying over the reedbed before flying off high S/E at around 10:30 Wayne Bull Lesser Whitethroat singing from near the car park Whitethroat Grasshopper Warbler Sedge Warbler Reed Warbler Cuckoo Yellow Wag (per Pete) 3 Garganey...