Sorry for the complete lack of posts, I am slowly catching up! This months highlights are below:
1st (John): 3 Common Terns – two juveniles and a
few Yellow Wagtails (and the Mandarin)
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4th (Colin): 1600-1730. 1 adult and 2 juvenile Common Terns,
1 Common Sandpiper, and a couple of groups of Swifts passing through
6th (John and Mark): juvenile Willow Warbler,
Common Sandpiper and the Mandarin
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7th (Mike): 3 pairs of Little Grebe with
juveniles at the Borrow Pit (UCV)
8th (John): 4 Willow Warblers
9th (John): Yellow-legged Gull, Common Sandpiper,
Mandarin and Willow Warbler
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10th (John): Yellow-legged Gull that was looking
very sickly and was found dead the following Monday
14th (Steve): Common Sandpiper
19th (Colin): 0830-1000. Grimsbury Res: 1 Common Sandpiper,
c20 Mallard, c10 Pied Wagtail, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Heron, 6 Greenfinch, 2 Linnet,
1 Green Woodpecker
Upper Cherwell/Borrow Pit: 1 Willow Warbler singing, 10 Little
Grebe, 6 Tufted Duck, 3 Mute Swan. Corpse of mute swan with BTO ring no W44423 –
it was ringed as a juvenile in Goring on 25th July 2017.
19th (Colin): 1800-1850. 1 ad Yellow-legged Gull, 1 sub-ad Common
Gull, 16 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, c200 Black-headed Gulls. All departed
when the sea-cadets got busy! Many pied wagtails - min of 18, probably more,
mostly juveniles much more than 1 brood from local breeding pair so probably
birds on passage. Great spot and green woodpeckers heard.
20th (John): Spotted Flycatcher, 5 Tufted Ducks,
Yellow Wagtail over and a Willow Warbler
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22nd (John): Juvenile Shelduck
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23rd (John, Colin, Dan and myself): Teal, 2 Wheatear,
Redstart (possibly present on 23rd
too), a Green Sandpiper over and a few hirundines moving
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24th (John): Whinchat,
Redstart still, 3 Yellow Wagtails over
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25th (Kirsty): Redstart still
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th (John, Colin and Steve): 2 Wheatear, 7 Yellow
Wagtails down and c.18 over earlier, a juv
Black
Tern in the afternoon. More photos on Mike's blog
here
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Black Tern pics courtesy and copyright of Colin Wilkinson |
27th (John and Mike): a Greenshank over east
28th (John): a Redstart still (assumed to be the same bird), Common Sand, Raven
and 7 Grey Wagtails
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29th (John): Spotted Flycatcher, Swift, Common
Sandpiper and Yellow Wagtail
30th (John): Spotted Flycatcher, Swift (our last
one?), Lesser Whitethroat and 4 Yellow Wagtails over
31st (John): Spotted Flycatcher, Coot
and 3 Yellow Wagtails over