Birds
A rare opportunity to see a Scaup at such close quarters (though not close enough this afternoon for SLRs, hence rubbish pic). An easily overlooked juvenile - well done to Alan for calling it.
This is not the individual seen in Oxford recently - that was an adult female.
- Unhill Wood 12 February
Two Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers heard from about SU557818, but neither seen, let alone photographed! One calling close to the public footpath, the other calling and drumming briefly in the distance. Close to the spot from where they were reported earlier...
- Tuesday 28th Iffley Lock - Scaup
No sign of ring-necked duck 1 female-type scaup. 1 Goosander (f) Apparently the ring-necked duck that was seen a few days ago was a male and so could not have been the long-standing Port Meadow escapee. Badger and I went to check it out today but there...
- 24 Dec Benson
Juv Scaup on the Thames at Benson found by Alan Brampton. ...
- Scaup In Oxford
There was a female Scaup photographed on the Thames in Oxford yesterday. It was 400m upstream (north) of Donnington Bridge...
- Lesser Scaup
Lesser Scaup: 12th November – 28th December 1994 Back in the 1990s I regularly watched the Edward Richardson Reserve on the northern edge of Lechlade, just over the border in Gloucestershire. It constituted two main pools, one with extensive dead trees...
Birds
Scaup on the Thames at Benson
A rare opportunity to see a Scaup at such close quarters (though not close enough this afternoon for SLRs, hence rubbish pic). An easily overlooked juvenile - well done to Alan for calling it.
This is not the individual seen in Oxford recently - that was an adult female.
- Unhill Wood 12 February
Two Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers heard from about SU557818, but neither seen, let alone photographed! One calling close to the public footpath, the other calling and drumming briefly in the distance. Close to the spot from where they were reported earlier...
- Tuesday 28th Iffley Lock - Scaup
No sign of ring-necked duck 1 female-type scaup. 1 Goosander (f) Apparently the ring-necked duck that was seen a few days ago was a male and so could not have been the long-standing Port Meadow escapee. Badger and I went to check it out today but there...
- 24 Dec Benson
Juv Scaup on the Thames at Benson found by Alan Brampton. ...
- Scaup In Oxford
There was a female Scaup photographed on the Thames in Oxford yesterday. It was 400m upstream (north) of Donnington Bridge...
- Lesser Scaup
Lesser Scaup: 12th November – 28th December 1994 Back in the 1990s I regularly watched the Edward Richardson Reserve on the northern edge of Lechlade, just over the border in Gloucestershire. It constituted two main pools, one with extensive dead trees...