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Otmoor Birding: Background Info & Access
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Background Info and Access. Background Info and Access. Map of the Otmoor Field Names. From the Headington roundabout on the ring road on the east side of Oxford ( SP555074. For more background information see the OOS site guide. Click on the maps to view them full size. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). OTMOOR YEAR LIST 2016. 142 Species. Latest: Yellow Legged Gull, Mandarin Duck and Purple Heron. Saturday and Sunday 13th and 14th August. August 6th and 7th and Purple Heron. Otmoor.am 31st August.
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Grimsbury Birds: Access Information
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Birding and wildlife blog for Grimsbury Reservoir, Grimsbury Woodland Nature Reserve and the Upper Cherwell Valley, north Oxfordshire. Blast from the Past. This is no Farmoor, Otmoor or Port Meadow. This is Grimsbury. It's Grim up north! There is a running total year list in the link above. To access the Upper Cherwell Valley, follow the public footpath along the canal to the north. Alternatively there is an access point from the A361 to the flood alleviation scheme embankment, where an established c...
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Grimsbury Birds: 07th Aug 2015
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Birding and wildlife blog for Grimsbury Reservoir, Grimsbury Woodland Nature Reserve and the Upper Cherwell Valley, north Oxfordshire. Blast from the Past. This is no Farmoor, Otmoor or Port Meadow. This is Grimsbury. It's Grim up north! There is a running total year list in the link above. Friday, 7 August 2015. More of interest at the EA pool, with a family of two adult and two juvenile common terns, the adults dive-bombing a couple of crows, a single heron, then yours truly! On Monday 10th August, the...
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Otmoor Birding: March 2015
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Background Info and Access. Monday, 30 March 2015. Saturday and Sunday 28th and 29th March. Winter seems reluctant to release its grip on the season and spring migration appears to have stalled. Equinoctial gales were very much the order of the weekend and heavy frequent showers meant I only managed a couple of hours on the moor on Sunday. There was still a lot to see and enjoy despite there not having being a flood of incoming migrants. Goldies among the tussocks (c) Bark Phonescoped. The Grey Herons th...
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Otmoor Birding: December 2014
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Background Info and Access. Monday, 29 December 2014. Saturday and Sunday 27th and 28th December. White fronted Goose (c) Mark Chivers. Into the sun (c) Bark. Three Bewicks (c) Bark. People often say that good things come in threes. This weekend we had two comings of three! Low Golden light on Wigeon (c) John Reynolds. White front (c) John Reynolds. I hope that the cold snap doesn’t last too long this time, if the water bodies freeze hard the wildfowl may abandon the moor for deeper waters. Add...A Barn ...
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Grimsbury Birds: 30th Jul 2015
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Birding and wildlife blog for Grimsbury Reservoir, Grimsbury Woodland Nature Reserve and the Upper Cherwell Valley, north Oxfordshire. Blast from the Past. This is no Farmoor, Otmoor or Port Meadow. This is Grimsbury. It's Grim up north! There is a running total year list in the link above. Thursday, 30 July 2015. Thanks to everyone who is keeping me up to date with sightings. If anyone has any pictures they'd like to share, they would be most welcome! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 28th Jul 2015: W...
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Otmoor Birding: October 2014
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Background Info and Access. Monday, 27 October 2014. Saturday and Sunday 25th and 26th October. Dartford Warbler (c) Roger Wyatt. Wren and Dartford Warbler (c) Roger Wyatt. Hovering Stonechat (c) John Reynolds. One of many Wrens (c) Bark. Marsh Harrier over the reeds (c) John Reynolds. The same Marsh Harrier as last week was still present and spending much more time hunting over the reedbed, but of course always at the other end to me. There were at least four Kestrels around and a Sparrowhawk put in...
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Grimsbury Birds: 03rd Aug 2015
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Birding and wildlife blog for Grimsbury Reservoir, Grimsbury Woodland Nature Reserve and the Upper Cherwell Valley, north Oxfordshire. Blast from the Past. This is no Farmoor, Otmoor or Port Meadow. This is Grimsbury. It's Grim up north! There is a running total year list in the link above. Monday, 3 August 2015. A quick morning visit today and the gull spectacle of yesterday was long gone. There were only around 15 Black-headed Gulls and a single (2cy) Lesser Black-backed Gull loafing on the pontoon.
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Grimsbury Birds: 01st Aug 2015
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Birding and wildlife blog for Grimsbury Reservoir, Grimsbury Woodland Nature Reserve and the Upper Cherwell Valley, north Oxfordshire. Blast from the Past. This is no Farmoor, Otmoor or Port Meadow. This is Grimsbury. It's Grim up north! There is a running total year list in the link above. Saturday, 1 August 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Current year list: 127. 2015 (B.O.S. Big Bird Year) - 126. Send in your sightings. A Welsh Wagtail 2nd December 2016. Otmoor. Area. 30th November. The Birdl...
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Otmoor Birding: January 2015
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Background Info and Access. Monday, 26 January 2015. Saturday and Sunday 24 th and 25 th January. Male Bullfinch (c) Tom Nicholson-Lailey. Dawn (c) Tom Nicholson Lailey. Female Bullfinch (c) Andy Last. It was a very “birdy” weekend with some additions to the year-list and some good views of some of our scarcer residents. New for the year was a Marsh Harrier on Sunday. Female Beardy (c) Bark. Bearded Tits featured well on Saturday. But had disappeared again by Sunday. The Marsh Harrier on Sunday. A vast n...