Birds
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 from second screen
1 Oystercatcher - Big Otmoor
2 Drumming Snipe
5 Curlew
2 Cuckoo
3 Black Tailed Godwit - Closes
PR and O.U. Paul
- 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 8th January
Bearded Tits - Heard calling from the bridleway in the reed bed towards Noke. c100 yds before Noke turn where the hedge ends and you can see the reeds. Peregrine - Big Otmoor Pintail - 9 on Big Otmoor Little Egret - Ashgrave Stonechat...
- Otmoor 14th May
Glossy Ibis still on Closes 18:28 (per Andy Last) 1 Black-tailed Godwit 2 Oystercatcher 2 Curlew (per Peter Coombes) 12 Little Egret 2 Turtle Dove 7 Hobby. Raven (per Peter Coombes) Cuckoo courtesey of Nick Truby Peregrine (John Gough) Quail Heard...
- Otmoor: Rspb Reserve: 18th July
Otmoor: RSPB reserve 2 Greenshank: On pool by cattle pens. 2 Quail: One calling by cattle pens, the other by the first screen. John Edwards...
- Otmoor, 17th May, Silly O'clock To 10:00
We have just completed an early morning survey on the reserve, and have had a few interesting sightings, on a lovely spring morning. A turtle dove was feeding on seed around the Greenaways cattle pen. There were at least two cuckoo's heard one along...
Birds
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 from second screen
1 Oystercatcher - Big Otmoor
2 Drumming Snipe
5 Curlew
2 Cuckoo
3 Black Tailed Godwit - Closes
PR and O.U. Paul
- 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 8th January
Bearded Tits - Heard calling from the bridleway in the reed bed towards Noke. c100 yds before Noke turn where the hedge ends and you can see the reeds. Peregrine - Big Otmoor Pintail - 9 on Big Otmoor Little Egret - Ashgrave Stonechat...
- Otmoor 14th May
Glossy Ibis still on Closes 18:28 (per Andy Last) 1 Black-tailed Godwit 2 Oystercatcher 2 Curlew (per Peter Coombes) 12 Little Egret 2 Turtle Dove 7 Hobby. Raven (per Peter Coombes) Cuckoo courtesey of Nick Truby Peregrine (John Gough) Quail Heard...
- Otmoor: Rspb Reserve: 18th July
Otmoor: RSPB reserve 2 Greenshank: On pool by cattle pens. 2 Quail: One calling by cattle pens, the other by the first screen. John Edwards...
- Otmoor, 17th May, Silly O'clock To 10:00
We have just completed an early morning survey on the reserve, and have had a few interesting sightings, on a lovely spring morning. A turtle dove was feeding on seed around the Greenaways cattle pen. There were at least two cuckoo's heard one along...