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This is no Farmoor, Otmoor or Port Meadow. This is Grimsbury. It's Grim up north!

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Monday 30 September 2019

September sightings

I have to say, it was rather quiet throughout September with only a few notable highlights.

2nd - Mike had Common Sandpiper and 8 Swift in the morning.

3rd  - Mike had 4 Yellow Wagtail, 5 Swift and Common Sandpiper in the morning. In the evening I had 2 possibly 3 Yellow-legged Gulls and 1 Herring Gull with c. 380 Lesser Black-backed Gulls. I also had 2 Swift over.

4th - John had 2 Common Sandpipers, 1-2 Yellow-legged Gulls, a Common Gull, 3+ Swift.

6th - Dylan saw a fair movement of hirundines through Grimsbury Res - at least 80 House and 15 Sand Martin with 19 Swift through and then off South. Also 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Skylark, 3 Yellow Wagtail and female Kestrel on sailing club building.

7th - Colin and John had Common Sandpiper, 1 Hobby, 2 Swift, 6+ Meadow Pipits, 3+ Yellow Wagtails, c50 hirundines of all 3 species, and perhaps 10-15 Chiffchaffs and a Blackcap. In the evening Mark had a Wheatear, Common Sandpiper.

9th - Dylan had 2 Kingfishers

21st - I had a Yellow Wagtail over

22nd - Sandra and Adrian B had 2 Whinchat in the U.C.V. along the river fence line. Also, 17 Tufted Duck and 8 Little Grebe on the Borrow Pit.

27th - Mike had Common Sandpiper and Cockatiel (there's been one along the canal area for a while).

28th - I had a single Wigeon in the U.C.V. at the Borrow pit with 20 Tufted Ducks and 1 Whinchat  was still between the river and A361. At the reservoir a single Common Sandpiper and steady passage of Meadow Pipits and a few Skylarks.

Whinchat and Wigeon from the U.C.V.