With Gareth away at the moment, I'm filling in
6 August 0800
Mike Pollard: A quick morning walk around was rewarded with an oystercatcher and single common sandpiper. And the two common terns.
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| oystercatcher with lesser black-backed gulls |
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| oystercatcher |
7 August 0530-0730
Colin Wilkinson: A
lovely morning, calm, mild, and with the rising sun making the upper
Cherwell landscape glow. With the grasses and docks going to seed it’s
looking distinctly autumnal! Bird highlights were 1 little egret which
flew from the reservoir pontoon over to the river; 2 common sandpipers,
over 80 mallards, 6 great crested grebes and a grey wagtail, also all on
the reservoir. North of the M40 there was a kingfisher perched below
the river bridge on the flood defences, a 2 common terns departing the
EA pool where I think they’d spent the night on the rocks in the pool.
Not a great deal else until I got back close to the sailing club
compound, where 3 juvenile bullfinches feeding on dock seed heads were
nice proof the local bullfinches had had some breeding success.
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| copyright Colin Wilkinson |
Evening update:
John Friendship-Taylor: Hundreds of gulls round the reservoir today, literally hundreds! Down here now, currently 1 adult Yellow Legged Gull
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