Port Meadow Birding

A day of showers (but thankfully much less wind) which brought a number of interesting passage migrants to nearby Farmoor reservoir. Unfortunately the floods are now in such a sorry state that the best that the Meadow was able to offer was 3 RINGED PLOVER (not little ringed as I previously reported) and a REDSHANK, presumably resting after a hard day's travel, which were noted on an evening run around the patch. There were also a few gadwall and a grey heron on what remains of the flood water.

Interestingly enough, in Burgess Field there were a surprising number of corvids, some of them with a Hitchcockian menace about them as they perched on tree tops in the evening twilight.

There were a few warblers still singing on my evening visit, including a male blackcap close to the Burgess Field gate © Pete Styles