F1 Tuffed Duck

After reading about the Tufted Duck which Ewan photographed on F2  took me back a few year to the the time when more birds were seen with nasal saddle's fitted to their bills. The last one present here was found on F1 with the nasal saddle code F1. This bird spent the week distressed with trying  to remove the saddle. I feel this practice should be terminated immediately along with most bird ringing. Birds are not a commodity and I feel that this approach does not serve any purpose.

 

 

 

 

 

 

WADERS THAT HAVE BEEN SEEN AT FARMOOR RESERVOIR SINCE 1965 WHEN F1 WAS  FILLED.

 

 

 

LESSER YLLOWLEGS  Rare vagrant one record 15th September 2020.

 

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OYSTERCATCHER

 

 

AVOCET   
Very scarce visitor with only  eighteen records, the highest count being ten on the 28th April 1978. Latest record is a single bird seen on the14th April 2022. 

 

 

                                                                                                 

LITTLE RINGED PLOVER

Common visitor bred in past years.

 

 

RINGED PLOVER
Passage migrant. 

KENTISH  PLOVER   
Rare vagrant one record 15th May 1970.


GREY PLOVER 
Scarce passage migrant. 
 

 

 

GOLDEN PLOVER
Common passage migrant.

LAPWING
Common passage migrant.



KNOT Calidris canutus
Scarce passage migrant.

  

SANDERLING 
Common passage migrant.
                                                       

                                                                                

PURPLE SANDPIPER 
Very scarce visitor with Twenty two records, latest seen was on the 8th December 2024. First record 2nd September 1976.   

TURNSTONE 

Regular passage migrant

DUNLIN 

Common passage migrant

CURLEW SANDPIPER 

Scarce visitor : Maximum count 7 on the 10th September 2023

 

TEMMINCK'S  STINT 

Rare passage migrant with twelve records, single bird seen on 23rd May 2023  being the latest record.





Temminck's Stint (c) Noah Gins





LITTLE STINT 

Infrequent passage migrant, with an amazing 84 birds present on the 24th September 1996.

 


 



 

 

 

WOOD SANDPIPER 

Very scarce passage migrant with fifteen records, latest 7th August 2021 

 

 

GREEN SANDPIPER

Scarce passage migrant

COMMON SANDPIPER 

Common passage migrant
 

REDSHANK 

Resident

 

 

 

SPOTTED REDSHANK

Scarce passage migrant



Spotted Redshank (c) Tezzer

 

GREENSHANK

Passage migrant

MARSH SANDPIPER

Rare Vagrant one record 5th August 2007

 

                               

 

                                            

                                                                                            

 

BLACK-TAILED GODWIT

Passage migrant

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BAR-TAILED GODWIT  

Scarce passage migrant

 

 

 CURLEW

 Passage migrant.

 

 

WHIMBREL 

Passage migrant  





Whimbrel

WOODCOCK 
Scarce visitor


SNIPE    

                                                                                 

 

 

JACK SNIPE

Regular winter visitor in small numbers.

 

GREY PHALAROPE
Very scarce migrant with  twenty one records, latest 1 23rd September 2023



Grey Phalarope (c) Tezzer

RED-NECKED PHALAROPE  

Rare migrant with three records of single birds,17 May 1974, 8th June 1974 and the 21st-25th September 2017

 

 

 

RUFF
Passage migrant

 

PECTORAL SANDPIPER

Rare vagrant with six records.  
 

 Pectoral Sandpiper (c) Bryan Manston

 

SPOTTED SANDPIPER

Rare vagrant with three records : 1st May 1989 first Oxfordshire record.




 Spotted Sandpiper (c) Roger Wyatt