Introduction & Background
www.PortMeadowBirding.com
A blog to record sightings on and around Port Meadow in Oxford. Feel free to make comments with additional sightings (click on the comments link at the top of each entry) or alternatively e-mail them to:
info"at"portmeadowbirding.com (replace the "at" with @). Also any Port Meadow bird photos are much appreciated and will be fully accredited.
Where appropriate in the blog, sighting sources are referenced (OOS = www.oos.org.uk, BG = www.birdguides.com, OXB = Oxon Birds yahoo news group WoM = word of mouth/private e-mail).
The Meadow floods on a rainy May afternoon. © Adam Hartley
Overview
For information on access instructions and species that one might expect go to Background Info section.
Photos
All photo's are copyrighted. Contact details for the photographer can be found by clicking on the photo album link on the right-hand side and then selecting the appropriate album where the contact details will appear at the top of the page.
2009 Sightings
Interesting sightings for 2009 so far include (presumed escapees in square brackets):
Waders: ruff, dunlin, redshank, greenshank, common sandpiper, snipe, jack snipe, lapwing, golden plover, ringed plover, little ringed plover, black-tailed godwit, bar-tailed godwit, little egret, oystercatcher, avocet, curlew, whimbrel, SPOONBILL
Water Fowl: pintail, [ring-necked duck], shelduck, ruddy shelduck, red-crested pochard
Gulls/Terns: yellow-legged gull,common tern, Iceland gull, mediterranean gull, little tern
Misc. Others: stonechat, whinchat, raven, white wagtail, grey wagtail, ring-necked parakeet, wheatear, red-legged partridge, cuckoo
Birds of Prey: sparrowhawk, kestrel, tanwy owl, short-eared owl, osprey, barn owl, red kite, peregrine, buzzard, hobby
Warblers: willow, chiffchaff, blackcap, garden, grasshopper, cetti's, sedge, reed, lesser whitethroat, whitethroat
2009 Year List Current Total 124:
Tawny Owl is the latest addition to the Port Meadow 2009 year list .
YouTube Channel
Some simple video clips of birds on Port Meadow can be seen at the Port Meadow Birding YouTube Channel.
NEW Twitter Channel
Want to keep abreast of the latest updates on Port Meadow Birding? Then why not subscribe to our Twitter feed
Adam Hartley
A blog to record sightings on and around Port Meadow in Oxford. Feel free to make comments with additional sightings (click on the comments link at the top of each entry) or alternatively e-mail them to:
info"at"portmeadowbirding.com (replace the "at" with @). Also any Port Meadow bird photos are much appreciated and will be fully accredited.
Where appropriate in the blog, sighting sources are referenced (OOS = www.oos.org.uk, BG = www.birdguides.com, OXB = Oxon Birds yahoo news group WoM = word of mouth/private e-mail).
The Meadow floods on a rainy May afternoon. © Adam Hartley
Overview
For information on access instructions and species that one might expect go to Background Info section.
Photos
All photo's are copyrighted. Contact details for the photographer can be found by clicking on the photo album link on the right-hand side and then selecting the appropriate album where the contact details will appear at the top of the page.
2009 Sightings
Interesting sightings for 2009 so far include (presumed escapees in square brackets):
Waders: ruff, dunlin, redshank, greenshank, common sandpiper, snipe, jack snipe, lapwing, golden plover, ringed plover, little ringed plover, black-tailed godwit, bar-tailed godwit, little egret, oystercatcher, avocet, curlew, whimbrel, SPOONBILL
Water Fowl: pintail, [ring-necked duck], shelduck, ruddy shelduck, red-crested pochard
Gulls/Terns: yellow-legged gull,common tern, Iceland gull, mediterranean gull, little tern
Misc. Others: stonechat, whinchat, raven, white wagtail, grey wagtail, ring-necked parakeet, wheatear, red-legged partridge, cuckoo
Birds of Prey: sparrowhawk, kestrel, tanwy owl, short-eared owl, osprey, barn owl, red kite, peregrine, buzzard, hobby
Warblers: willow, chiffchaff, blackcap, garden, grasshopper, cetti's, sedge, reed, lesser whitethroat, whitethroat
2009 Year List Current Total 124:
Tawny Owl is the latest addition to the Port Meadow 2009 year list .
YouTube Channel
Some simple video clips of birds on Port Meadow can be seen at the Port Meadow Birding YouTube Channel.
NEW Twitter Channel
Want to keep abreast of the latest updates on Port Meadow Birding? Then why not subscribe to our Twitter feed
Adam Hartley
12:54 PM, Sunday, May 25, 2008 . Publisehd by Anonymous
I love your misspelling of next..lol