Birds
2 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 100 acre
Peter Barker & Nick Truby
- 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: 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 Sunday 19th April
2 Common Cranes left Ashgrave at 8.45 1 Swift over reedbed 15 Golden Plover Noke sides Peregrine Lesser Whitethroat bridle way Bark...
- Otmoor.a.m. 18th March.
1 Marsh Harrier (Reedbeds) 1 Sparrowhawk (Greenaways) 20+ Snipe (Greenaways, one Snipe drumming) 2 Curlew (Greenaways) 10+ Dunlin (Big Otmoor) 10+ Chiffchaff 2 Oystercatchers (Big Otmoor) 1 Peregrine (Greenaways) 19 Redshank (Noke Sides). 1 Cetti's...
- 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...
Birds
Otmoor Sat 25th morning
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| Crane from last Sunday (c) JR |
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 100 acre
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| courtesy of Nick Truby |
Lesser whitethroat (3)
Meadow pipit (5 in greenaways with cattle)
Cetti’s warbler (between screens)
Raven
Red Leg Partridge (2)
Wheatear (2 Noke sides)
Black tailed Godwit (3 sum plum)
Oystercatcher (field west of 2nd screen)
Sand martin (5)
Swift (10+)
House Martin (10+)
Cuckoo (2)Peter Barker & Nick Truby
- 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: 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 Sunday 19th April
2 Common Cranes left Ashgrave at 8.45 1 Swift over reedbed 15 Golden Plover Noke sides Peregrine Lesser Whitethroat bridle way Bark...
- Otmoor.a.m. 18th March.
1 Marsh Harrier (Reedbeds) 1 Sparrowhawk (Greenaways) 20+ Snipe (Greenaways, one Snipe drumming) 2 Curlew (Greenaways) 10+ Dunlin (Big Otmoor) 10+ Chiffchaff 2 Oystercatchers (Big Otmoor) 1 Peregrine (Greenaways) 19 Redshank (Noke Sides). 1 Cetti's...
- 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...