Yesterday I went to Otmoor near Oxford with my dad. We arrived at about 09:30. This was my first visit to Otmoor so I was very exited. I headed down the roman road track in search of butterflies and dragon flies. It was incredible I saw loads. We saw Southern Hawker, Ruddy Darter and Black Darter. Then the butterflies I saw were Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Green-veined White, Purple Hairstreak, Speckled Wood, Brown Hairstreak, Painted Lady and I found a Purple Emperor which is a very rare butterfly for Otmoor. This was there third of the year and the next record before them was five years ago.
I then headed along the greenways scanning looking for Common Crane how ever I could not find the pair. Their Chick was sadly predated after about six weeks which is the longest the Otmoor chick has ever lasted. When walking along I had a female Marsh Harrier, male Reed Bunting, Grey Heron, Common Buzzard, Reed Warbler, Blue Tit and Great Tit. I got to the Turtle Dove feeding station and to my delight there was an adult which I accidently flushed it then it flew into the bushes. I then walk back along the roman road to get back to the car park where I saw a family flock of Long-Tailed Tits and a female Bullfinch. I really enjoyed Otmoor and would recommend a visit to any one who has never been before.
Sunday, July 29, 2018
Friday, July 27, 2018
My British Life List
1)Brent Goose
2)Red-Breasted Goose
3)Canada Goose
4)Barnacle Goose
5)Snow Goose
6)Greylag Goose
7)Taiga Bean Goose
8)Pink-Footed Goose
9)Tundra Bean Goose
10)White-Fronted Goose
11)Lesser White Fronted Goose
12)Mute Swan
13)Bewick's Swan
14)Whooper Swan
15)Egyptian Goose
16)Shelduck
17)Mandarin Duck
18)Garganey
19)Shoveler
20)Gadwall
21)Wigeon
22)Mallard
23)Pintail
24)Teal
25)Green-Winged Teal
26)Red-Crested Pochard
27)Pochard
28)Tufted Duck
29)Scaup
30)Eider
31)Velvet Scoter
32)Common Scoter
33)Long-Tailed Duck
34)Goldeneye
35)Corncrake
36)Smew
37)Hooded Merganser
38)Goosander
39)Red-Breasted Merganser
40)Capercaillie
41)Black Grouse
42)Ptarmigan
43)Red Grouse
44)Red-Legged Partridge
45)Grey Partridge
46)Quail
47)Pheasant
48)Red-Throated Diver
49)Black-Throated Diver
50)Great Northern Diver
51)Fulmur
52)Manx Shearwater
53)Balearic Shearwater
54)Little Grebe
55)Red-Necked Grebe
56)Great Crested Grebe
57)Slavonian Grebe
58)Black-Necked Grebe
59)White Stork
60)Spoonbill
61)Bittern
62)American Bittern
63)Green Heron
64)Cattle Egret
65)Grey Heron
66)Purple Heron
67)Great White Egret
68)Little Egret
69)Gannet
70)Shag
71)Cormorant
72)Osprey
73)Honey-Buzzard
74)Golden Eagle
75)Sparrowhawk
76)Goshawk
77)Marsh Harrier
78)Hen Harrier
79)Red Kite
80)Rough-Legged Buzzard
81)Buzzard
82)Water Rail
83)Spotted Crake
84)Moorhen
85)Coot
86)Crane
87)Stone-Curlew
88)Oystercatcher
89)Black-Winged Stilt
90)Avocet
91)Lapwing
92)Golden Plover
93)Grey Plover
94)Ringed Plover
95)Little Ringed Plover
96)Kentish Plover
97)Dotterel
98)Whimbrel
99)Curlew
100)Bar-Tailed Godwit
101)Black-Tailed Godwit
102)Turnstone
103)Knot
104)Ruff
105)Stilt Sandpiper
106)Curlew Sandpiper
107)Temmink's Stint
108)Sanderling
109)Dunlin
110)Purple Sandpiper
111)Little Stint
112)Pectoral Sandpiper
113)Long-Billed Dowitcher
114)Woodcock
115)Jack Snipe
116)Snipe
117)Wilson's Phalarope
118)Red-Necked Phalarope
119)Common Sandpiper
120)Green Sandpiper
121)Lesser Yellowlegs
122)Redshank
123)Marsh Sandpiper
124)Wood Sandpiper
125)Spotted Redshank
126)Greenshank
127)Kittiwake
128)Sabine's Gull
129)Bonaparte's Gull
130)Black-Headed Gull
131)Little Gull
132)Mediterranean Gull
133)Common Gull
134)Great Black-Backed Gull
135)Glaucous Gull
136)Herring Gull
137)Caspian Gull
138)Yellow-Legged Gull
139)Lesser Black-Backed Gull
140)Sandwich Tern
141)Elegant Tern
142)Little Tern
143)Roseate Tern
144)Common Tern
145)Arctic Tern
146)White-Winged Black Tern
147)Black Tern
148)Great Skua
149)Pomarine Skua
150)Arctic Skua
151)Little Auk
152)Guillemot
153)Razorbill
154)Black Guillemot
155)Puffin
156)Rock Dove
157)Stock Dove
158)Woodpigeon
159)Turtle Dove
160)Collared Dove
161)Cuckoo
162)Barn Owl
163)Tawny Owl
164)Little Owl
165)Short-Eared Owl
166)Nightjar
167)Swift
168)Kingfisher
169)Bee-Eater
170)Hoopoe
171)Wryneck
172)Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
173)Great Spotted Woodpecker
174)Green Woodpecker
175)Kestrel
176)Merlin
177)Hobby
178)Peregrine
179)Ring-Necked Parakeet
180)Red-Backed Shrike
181)Golden Oriole
182)Jay
183)Magpie
184)Chough
185)Jackdaw
186)Rook
187)Carrion Crow
188)Raven
189)Waxwing
190)Coal Tit
191)Marsh Tit
192)Willow Tit
193)Blue Tit
194)Great Tit
195)Penduline Tit
196)Bearded Tit
197)Woodlark
198)Skylark
199)Sand Martin
200)Swallow
201)House Martin
202)Cetti's Warbler
203)Long-Tailed Tit
204)Willow Warbler
205)Chiffchaff
206)Iberian Chiffchaff
207)Wood Warbler
208)Great Reed Warbler
209)Sedge Warbler
210)Reed Warbler
211)Marsh Warbler
212)Grasshopper Warbler
213)Savi's Warbler
214)Blackcap
215)Garden Warbler
216)Barred Warbler
217)Lesser Whitethroat
218)Whitethroat
219)Dartford Warbler
220)Firecrest
221)Goldcrest
222)Wren
223)Nuthatch
224)Treecreeper
225)Starling
226)Ring Ouzel
227)Blackbird
228)Fieldfare
229)Redwing
230)Song Thrush
231)Mistle Thrush
232)Spotted Flycatcher
233)Robin
234)Nightingale
235)Pied Flycatcher
236)Black Redstart
237)Redstart
238)Whinchat
239)Stonechat
240)Wheatear
241)Dipper
242)House Sparrow
243)Tree Sparrow
244)Dunnock
245)Yellow Wagtail
246)Grey Wagtail
247)Pied Wagtail
248)Meadow Pipit
249)Tree Pipit
250)Water Pipit
251)Rock Pipit
252)Chaffinch
253)Brambling
254)Hawfinch
255)Bullfinch
256)Greenfinch
257)Twite
258)Linnet
259)Mealy Redpoll
260)Lesser Redpoll
261)Parrot Crossbill
262)Scottish Crossbill
263)Common Crossbill
264)Goldfinch
265)Siskin
266)Corn Bunting
267)Yellowhammer
268)Little Bunting
269)Reed Bunting
270)Snow Bunting
271)Rose-coloured Starling
272)Semipalmated Sandpiper
273)Pallid Harrier
274)Grey Phallarope
2)Red-Breasted Goose
3)Canada Goose
4)Barnacle Goose
5)Snow Goose
6)Greylag Goose
7)Taiga Bean Goose
8)Pink-Footed Goose
9)Tundra Bean Goose
10)White-Fronted Goose
11)Lesser White Fronted Goose
12)Mute Swan
13)Bewick's Swan
14)Whooper Swan
15)Egyptian Goose
16)Shelduck
17)Mandarin Duck
18)Garganey
19)Shoveler
20)Gadwall
21)Wigeon
22)Mallard
23)Pintail
24)Teal
25)Green-Winged Teal
26)Red-Crested Pochard
27)Pochard
28)Tufted Duck
29)Scaup
30)Eider
31)Velvet Scoter
32)Common Scoter
33)Long-Tailed Duck
34)Goldeneye
35)Corncrake
36)Smew
37)Hooded Merganser
38)Goosander
39)Red-Breasted Merganser
40)Capercaillie
41)Black Grouse
42)Ptarmigan
43)Red Grouse
44)Red-Legged Partridge
45)Grey Partridge
46)Quail
47)Pheasant
48)Red-Throated Diver
49)Black-Throated Diver
50)Great Northern Diver
51)Fulmur
52)Manx Shearwater
53)Balearic Shearwater
54)Little Grebe
55)Red-Necked Grebe
56)Great Crested Grebe
57)Slavonian Grebe
58)Black-Necked Grebe
59)White Stork
60)Spoonbill
61)Bittern
62)American Bittern
63)Green Heron
64)Cattle Egret
65)Grey Heron
66)Purple Heron
67)Great White Egret
68)Little Egret
69)Gannet
70)Shag
71)Cormorant
72)Osprey
73)Honey-Buzzard
74)Golden Eagle
75)Sparrowhawk
76)Goshawk
77)Marsh Harrier
78)Hen Harrier
79)Red Kite
80)Rough-Legged Buzzard
81)Buzzard
82)Water Rail
83)Spotted Crake
84)Moorhen
85)Coot
86)Crane
87)Stone-Curlew
88)Oystercatcher
89)Black-Winged Stilt
90)Avocet
91)Lapwing
92)Golden Plover
93)Grey Plover
94)Ringed Plover
95)Little Ringed Plover
96)Kentish Plover
97)Dotterel
98)Whimbrel
99)Curlew
100)Bar-Tailed Godwit
101)Black-Tailed Godwit
102)Turnstone
103)Knot
104)Ruff
105)Stilt Sandpiper
106)Curlew Sandpiper
107)Temmink's Stint
108)Sanderling
109)Dunlin
110)Purple Sandpiper
111)Little Stint
112)Pectoral Sandpiper
113)Long-Billed Dowitcher
114)Woodcock
115)Jack Snipe
116)Snipe
117)Wilson's Phalarope
118)Red-Necked Phalarope
119)Common Sandpiper
120)Green Sandpiper
121)Lesser Yellowlegs
122)Redshank
123)Marsh Sandpiper
124)Wood Sandpiper
125)Spotted Redshank
126)Greenshank
127)Kittiwake
128)Sabine's Gull
129)Bonaparte's Gull
130)Black-Headed Gull
131)Little Gull
132)Mediterranean Gull
133)Common Gull
134)Great Black-Backed Gull
135)Glaucous Gull
136)Herring Gull
137)Caspian Gull
138)Yellow-Legged Gull
139)Lesser Black-Backed Gull
140)Sandwich Tern
141)Elegant Tern
142)Little Tern
143)Roseate Tern
144)Common Tern
145)Arctic Tern
146)White-Winged Black Tern
147)Black Tern
148)Great Skua
149)Pomarine Skua
150)Arctic Skua
151)Little Auk
152)Guillemot
153)Razorbill
154)Black Guillemot
155)Puffin
156)Rock Dove
157)Stock Dove
158)Woodpigeon
159)Turtle Dove
160)Collared Dove
161)Cuckoo
162)Barn Owl
163)Tawny Owl
164)Little Owl
165)Short-Eared Owl
166)Nightjar
167)Swift
168)Kingfisher
169)Bee-Eater
170)Hoopoe
171)Wryneck
172)Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
173)Great Spotted Woodpecker
174)Green Woodpecker
175)Kestrel
176)Merlin
177)Hobby
178)Peregrine
179)Ring-Necked Parakeet
180)Red-Backed Shrike
181)Golden Oriole
182)Jay
183)Magpie
184)Chough
185)Jackdaw
186)Rook
187)Carrion Crow
188)Raven
189)Waxwing
190)Coal Tit
191)Marsh Tit
192)Willow Tit
193)Blue Tit
194)Great Tit
195)Penduline Tit
196)Bearded Tit
197)Woodlark
198)Skylark
199)Sand Martin
200)Swallow
201)House Martin
202)Cetti's Warbler
203)Long-Tailed Tit
204)Willow Warbler
205)Chiffchaff
206)Iberian Chiffchaff
207)Wood Warbler
208)Great Reed Warbler
209)Sedge Warbler
210)Reed Warbler
211)Marsh Warbler
212)Grasshopper Warbler
213)Savi's Warbler
214)Blackcap
215)Garden Warbler
216)Barred Warbler
217)Lesser Whitethroat
218)Whitethroat
219)Dartford Warbler
220)Firecrest
221)Goldcrest
222)Wren
223)Nuthatch
224)Treecreeper
225)Starling
226)Ring Ouzel
227)Blackbird
228)Fieldfare
229)Redwing
230)Song Thrush
231)Mistle Thrush
232)Spotted Flycatcher
233)Robin
234)Nightingale
235)Pied Flycatcher
236)Black Redstart
237)Redstart
238)Whinchat
239)Stonechat
240)Wheatear
241)Dipper
242)House Sparrow
243)Tree Sparrow
244)Dunnock
245)Yellow Wagtail
246)Grey Wagtail
247)Pied Wagtail
248)Meadow Pipit
249)Tree Pipit
250)Water Pipit
251)Rock Pipit
252)Chaffinch
253)Brambling
254)Hawfinch
255)Bullfinch
256)Greenfinch
257)Twite
258)Linnet
259)Mealy Redpoll
260)Lesser Redpoll
261)Parrot Crossbill
262)Scottish Crossbill
263)Common Crossbill
264)Goldfinch
265)Siskin
266)Corn Bunting
267)Yellowhammer
268)Little Bunting
269)Reed Bunting
270)Snow Bunting
271)Rose-coloured Starling
272)Semipalmated Sandpiper
273)Pallid Harrier
274)Grey Phallarope
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