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Oxon Birding Blog
08.05.2025
Garganey drake 1st screen 14:22 (per Jackie Newcombe)
Cholsey: Cholsey Marsh Nature Reserve Grasshopper Warbler: reeling at end of Ferry Lane h/o. 10:06. Peter Law
Common Tern at dawn. Otmoor rspb courtesy of Ian Birch
Cholsey: Cholsey Marsh Nature Reserve Grasshopper Warbler: Seen and heard. 08:15. Mick Hannington
07.05.2025
Ringed Plover Little-ringed Plover 2 (JT)
Henley Road GPs Hobby: Water ski lake. 13:50. Marek Walford
Caspian Gull (per RBA)
06.05.2025
Ringed Plover per JFT
Arctic Tern 7 through N/E by 09:15 (per Ben Sheldon)
Ringed Plover, present less than 10 mins and flew west
Highlights I think we can all agree that the early part of spring had not exactly got the gears going. Inland birding can often be bleak a...
Kirtlington Cuckoo: Heard calling from the direction of Kirtlingon golf course. SP497199. 12:30. Sue Brown
05.05.2025
Cokethorpe Cuckoo: male. Heard over towards Windrush near school. SP370065. 01:30. Graeme Coates
Woodstock: Perdiswell Farm 2 Yellow Wagtail 20 Linnet 3 Lesser Whitethroat Bob Pomfret
Oxford: Iffley Road Swift: High up, first seen here this year. SP452205. 08:40. Patrick Keiller
Oxford: Iffley Road 4 Swift: SP452205. 09:30. Patrick Keiller
Ringed Plover 7 Little-ringed Plover 5 Dunlin No sign of the Temminck's Stint (per Thomas Miller)
Dunlin Whimbrel over east Common Sandpiper 3 Common Tern 2 (per Thomas Miller)
Great white Egret 2 Marsh Harrier Hobby 3 Common Sandpiper Common Tern 2 ( per Hannah) Key holder reserve
3 Cuckoo: 2 singing males and 1 female near to Screen 1. 07:00. 8 Swift: An influx of Swifts over Greenways and Big Otmoor this morning. SP...
04.05.2025
Temminck's Stint still present 08:44 Ringed Plover 9 Little-ringed Plover 2 ( per Thomas Miller) Park in the Rushy Common carpark, (Tar Rd, ...
Goosander - 2 females Oystercatcher - 2 Cattle egret - 3 Peregrine - 1 Sedge Warbler - 1 Reed Warbler - 1
Osprey over F1 then circled over Wytham Wood before heading east 10:13 (per Peerawat Chiaranunt)
Otmoor: RSPB reserve Garganey: male. Showing well from second screen. 11:00. Little Ringed Plover: Big otmoor. 11:00. 20 Hobby: Masses of...
03.05.2025
Didcot Lesser Whitethroat: Singing in the hedgerow next to the brildeway. SU535886. 06:34. W Holden
Radley GP 2 Common Tern: FOY. 07:38. Ian Elkins
Spoonbill flew over screen one, heading towards Ashgrave c11:20 but no further sign by late afternoon. Garganey drake at screen one 08:57 (...
Hoopoe in an undisclosed west Oxon garden courtesy of PJS Wildlife Photography
Stanton St John Cuckoo: One calling from Polecat End, Waterperry Wood. SP600089. 17:33. David Brown
02.05.2025
Grimsbury Reservoir 11 Common Sandpiper: 10 flew north together just before 7am, 1 lingered. 2 Mandarin Duck: pair on the river. Gareth Bl...
Common Sandpiper 14 (D.J)
Farmoor Reservoir: Pinkhill Cuckoo 12:33. James Pettipher
Grasshopper Warbler 4 Great White Egret 3 Cuckoo 2 Common Tern 10 Bittern 2 booming Snipe 1 drumming Oystercatcher 2 Treecreeper 2 Cuckoo c...
1st May Otmoor 5 Bittern: 2 booming from reedbed 3 in flight over Greenaways. 05:00. 4 Hobby: Over first screen. 05:30. Nick Suckling
A329 near Moulsford Cuckoo: Heard only, coming from area alongside river, prob S of the Cholsey Marsh reserve... heard again at 19:00, soun...
Osprey reported over Trinity College gardens 09:30 (per Birdguides).
01.05.2025
Whimbrel on Noke Sides viewable from the bench between screen 1 and 2 (per Steve Sansom) .
Venn Mill Great White Egret Mark Merritt
Common Sandpiper - at least 7 this morning.
30.04.2025
Osprey over F1 then over Wytham Woods c16:38 Has a blue ring with with letters and presumably one of the Rutland Water birds. (per Jeremy De...