Birds
A white stork dropped in to Port Meadow briefly at around midday today. Found by Richard Foster it was seen by perhaps half a dozen people who happened to be there. With so many walkers out and about it was never going to stay long and after a couple of minutes it flew off low to the east. My guess is that Otmoor may well be worth checking out.
For the record there were a couple of ringed plover, the grey plover still and a flock of 20 odd bar-tailed godwits whilst I was there. Apparently about 60 barwits have already gone through this morning.
A couple of point and shoot record shots. I'm hoping to get hold
of some video footage that was taken by someone there in due course.
- Port Meadow: 25th June
Port Meadow 2 Green Sandpiper: Calling pair made a couple of circuits over the floods before flying off east. 2 Oystercatcher Little Ringed Plover 6 Little Egret 6 Grey Heron 40 Lapwing Adam Hartley Evening update, Now a total of 7+ Ringed/Little Ringed...
- May Highlights
Spotted Sandpiper by Andy Last So we’ve come to the end of May and the start of the summer doldrums. Whilst statistically this month should be the best one for the first half of the year in terms of rarities it had to do pretty well to beat what had...
- Port Meadow: 4th July
Port Meadow Black-tailed Godwit 2 Common Sandpiper 7 Little Ringed Plover: a mix of ad & juv. birds. Curlew: flew over calling. 6 Little Egret Adam Hartley Some rather grainy video footage of the bird, filmed in gloomy conditions More at Port Meadow...
- Port Meadow 1st May
17 bar-tailed godwits: only stayed a few minutes 1 Grey Plover: travelling with the bar-tailed godwits. 1 Redshank 4 Common Sandpiper 3 Green Sandpiper 1 Wood Sandpiper: (James Grundy et al.) flew off at 11:20 2 Ringed Plover 1 Little Ringed Plover 2...
- Northern Long-tailed Tit Otmoor
We had a possible sighting of northern long-tailed tit on Otmoor yesterday afternoon, it was only a quick view at the feeders so it would be great if this could be confirmed. The sighting was from our Assistant Warden and the description of the event...
Birds
White Stork Port Meadow
A white stork dropped in to Port Meadow briefly at around midday today. Found by Richard Foster it was seen by perhaps half a dozen people who happened to be there. With so many walkers out and about it was never going to stay long and after a couple of minutes it flew off low to the east. My guess is that Otmoor may well be worth checking out.
For the record there were a couple of ringed plover, the grey plover still and a flock of 20 odd bar-tailed godwits whilst I was there. Apparently about 60 barwits have already gone through this morning.
A couple of point and shoot record shots. I'm hoping to get holdof some video footage that was taken by someone there in due course.
- Port Meadow: 25th June
Port Meadow 2 Green Sandpiper: Calling pair made a couple of circuits over the floods before flying off east. 2 Oystercatcher Little Ringed Plover 6 Little Egret 6 Grey Heron 40 Lapwing Adam Hartley Evening update, Now a total of 7+ Ringed/Little Ringed...
- May Highlights
Spotted Sandpiper by Andy Last So we’ve come to the end of May and the start of the summer doldrums. Whilst statistically this month should be the best one for the first half of the year in terms of rarities it had to do pretty well to beat what had...
- Port Meadow: 4th July
Port Meadow Black-tailed Godwit 2 Common Sandpiper 7 Little Ringed Plover: a mix of ad & juv. birds. Curlew: flew over calling. 6 Little Egret Adam Hartley Some rather grainy video footage of the bird, filmed in gloomy conditions More at Port Meadow...
- Port Meadow 1st May
17 bar-tailed godwits: only stayed a few minutes 1 Grey Plover: travelling with the bar-tailed godwits. 1 Redshank 4 Common Sandpiper 3 Green Sandpiper 1 Wood Sandpiper: (James Grundy et al.) flew off at 11:20 2 Ringed Plover 1 Little Ringed Plover 2...
- Northern Long-tailed Tit Otmoor
We had a possible sighting of northern long-tailed tit on Otmoor yesterday afternoon, it was only a quick view at the feeders so it would be great if this could be confirmed. The sighting was from our Assistant Warden and the description of the event...