Geoff Birdy

Kudos to you Tom 👍

Nice one Connor 👍

A wonderful account Tom.
A great read 👍

Hi Ben & Tom, really enjoyed following your trip, you saved the cherry on top for the end, fabulous.

That's joyful, thanks for posting 👍

Wonderful Jamie 🤘

Outrageous 🤘

What a great day 👍

A juv Greenshank dropped into the John Allen Pit, Oxon late p.m.
Yellow flag on right tibia, code ATJ.
Red ring on left tibia.
Apparently a Norwegian scheme, email sent, hopefully will hear back from them.
3 Lesser Emperors and a Clouded Yellow the other highlights.
#UKBirding

A juvenile Spotted Flycatcher sat in a Hawthorn bush.

A juv Spot Fly, at the John Allen Pit, Oxon, ended a barren couple of months of patch birding, being the 1st year tick since May 14th.
3 Lesser Emperors, inc a male and female in tandem, in addition to last years sighting, suggests a liklehood they are breeding here.
#UKBirding #PWC2025

Give G a good send off 🚴
Personally, I like arty "reflections in lake" photos 😉
All the best 👍

Chris Kamara as manager!?!

Wow! That's brilliant...don't know why I was feeling anxious when not getting on it!!

Blimey, that's a long walk from Polgiga!

Brilliant Graham, congratulations 👍

That's brilliant Steve. Congratulations 👍

Excellent Tom 👍

Female Broad-bodied Chaser

Male Beautiful Demoiselle

Downy Emerald

However the highlight was a female Marsh Harrier over Church Farm, a patch year tick #PWC2025

Male Club-tailed Dragonfly

Male Club-tailed Dragonfly

Male Club-tailed Dragonfly

Male Club-tailed Dragonfly

A good selection of Odonata in Wittenham Wood today.
Including
4 Clubtails, 2 more along the river,
Several Broad-bodied Chasers,
20+ Beautiful Demoiselles,
2 Downy Emeralds.

A "mixed singer" Willow Warbler in Wittenham Wood, Oxon.
Sings typical Willow Warbler song, typical Chiffchaff or a combination of the 2.
Structure, primary projection, face pattern all good for Willow Warbler but a relatively dull plumaged bird with dark legs and feet. #UKbirding

MP3 Synchronicity...fun, fun, fun on the Autobahn!

Aha, looks great..."Added to my to do list!
Thank you 🙂

Actually, I think the Kite had it's fill and gave up the carcass to a couple of Crows pretty soon after the pic was taken.
The lighthouse in your avatar looks very familiar but I guess they all share similarities...where is yours please? 🙂

A male Wheatear perched on a fence post.

A Red Kite protects a Trout carcass from a Carrion Crow.

The 1st Wheatears of the year on the Day's Lock patch.
A Red Kite & a Crow in a "1st one to blink, loses the the Trout carcass" competition.
#UKBirding #PWC2025

Wow!

Merlin with prey in the fields west of Church Farm Backwaters, Day's Lock.
Pushing levels of acceptability for video quality maybe but a great record for an Oxon patch. #PWC2025 #UKBirding

2 Little Gulls on the sailing club lake, a patch tick.
A male Merlin also a highlight in recent weeks.
A welcome return of the male Oystercatcher (on the right, BTO ring, slightly shorter bill) back on the patch for it's 5th consecutive year.
Bishops Court Farm/Day's Lock Oxon #PWC2025 #UKBirding

Excellent.
Good to see you Steve, hopefully bump into you again soon.

April Ludgate's favourite band in Parks and Recreation!