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Oxon Birding Blog
13.03.2025
Bittern 1st screen Otmoor rspb Courtesy of Neil Richards
Wootton nr Woodstock: Stratford Bridge 1000 Golden Plover: At least 1000 flying over, fairly high. 16:00. 2 Snipe 16:00. 6 Teal 16:00. 2...
Cattle Egret Redshank Shelduck - 3 Green Sandpiper
Little Egret 4 Egyptian Goose Shoveler c6 Gadwall c4 No sign of the reported Lesser Scaup
Hatford: Sandpit 2 Shelduck 16:20. Jed Cleeter
Little-ringed Plover Courtesy of Alan Dawson
Port Meadow 2 Little Ringed Plover 4 Sand Martin 5 Redshank 4 Shelduck 3 Yellow-legged Gulls (ad, 2 x 2w) Thomas Miller, Adam Hartley, Stev...
Little Ringed Plover Redshank Shelduck - 2 Cattle Egret - 4 Great White Egret Little Egret - 2 White Wagtail - 2 Pied Wagtail - c30 Meadow P...
12.03.2025
11th March Abingdon: Thrupp Lesser Scaup: fem. 19:58. Letcombe Bassett Great Bustard: male. Located in field surrounded by deer. 10:15. Ro...
Kingston Bagpuize 20 Cattle Egret: At Kingston Hill Farm again. 12:30. Jed Cleeter
Little Ringed Plover Cattle Egret Great White Egret (yesterday) Yellow-legged Gull
Siberian Chiffchaff 3 Chiffchaffs close by helped with id, thanks to Thomas Miller for showing me what to look for. 3 Chiffchaff 2 Sheldu...
Chipping Norton Little Egret: On Swailsford Bridge wetland nr Cornwell. SP284265. 10:30. 2 Grey Wagtail: SP284265. 10:30. 10 Pied Wagtail...
Tar Lakes, Rushy Common 2 Oystercatcher 13:00. 3 Great White Egret 13:00. 2 Snipe 13:00. Jed Cleeter
Otmoor: RSPB reserve Black-tailed Godwit: Big otmoor, in summer plumage. 08:30. 5 Dunlin 08:30. 2 Crane 08:30. 10 Pintail 08:30. Simon M...
Unringed Siberian Chiffchaff calling and showing well in the ditch by Burgess Field gate this morning.
11.03.2025
Chipping Norton Little Egret: On the Swailsford Bridge wetland in watercress bed. SP284265. 11:30. Grey Wagtail: SP284265. 11:30. 13 Pied...
East Hanney: A338 2 Shelduck: Again on flood. 16:00. Jed Cleeter
Otmoor Water Rail: calling. SP562129. 3 Great White Egret: minimum count. 2 Redshank: one fairly stationary, the other one flying about o...
Caspian Gull ad Shelduck No sign of the drake Green-winged Teal (per Justin Taylor)
Port Meadow Little Ringed Plover probable Rock Pipit (or Water Pipit) over calling Mediterranean Gull: ad. Caspian Gull: 1w. 2 Yellow-le...
10.03.2025
Common Crane 2 over Wychwood forest 10:50 (per RBA)
No sign of the drake Garganey by 12:55 (per Jackie Newcombe et al).
Woodstock Hawfinch: Kensington Cemetery. SP448168. 10:03. Colm O Caomhanaigh
13:45-14:45 Brambling (at least 5, 3m & 2f) Lesser Redpoll (c10) Chaffinch (c40) Goldfinch (c25)
Lesser Redpoll Brambling female Part of 50+ flock of Chaffinch/Goldfinch/Lesser Redpoll/Brambling
9th March Appleford: Appleford GP Great White Egret 14:00. 2 Pintail: pair. 14:00. 2 Oystercatcher 14:00. Abingdon: Peep-o-Day Lane Litt...
Abingdon: Peep-o-Day Lane Little Ringed Plover: On floods E of the southern end of the lane, by main road. 16:10. Ian Elkins
Greenfinch in the trees near the tennis courts in Letcombe Regis recreation ground today.
Black Redstart male still present (per Brian Walker) . Courtesy of Brian Walker
09.03.2025
Mistle thrush like the recreation ground in Letcombe Regis, this one in the line of trees that run alongside the adjacent road.
Hawfinch - 3, possibly more in Hensington Road cemetery. Very mobile so difficult to be sure of numbers.
Otmoor Garganey: drk. Still present on Big Otmoor at 16:15. 16:13. 7 Dunlin: On Big Otmoor. 16:13. Ian Elkins
Merlin Oxon Downs courtesy of Jamie Mayall
Great White Egret: 10 in to roost after sunset Garganey: drake still present Big Otmoor 1805
Hawfinch Hensington Cemetery 07:19 (per Ewan Urquhart).
Green-winged Teal drake still present Great white Egret Curlew Oystercatcher Barn Owl (per Wayne Bull)
Standlake Pit 60 2 Oystercatcher 11:00. 3 Goosander: 1m & 2f. And a Chiffchaff singing briefly. Also 2 GWE. 11:00. Stephen Burch
0700-0930 Hensington Road Cemetery Hawfinch 5+ although elusive Blackcap 1 singing male
Plenty of long tailed tit around and about The Ridgeway today.