On a beautiful September afternoon, with temperature in the high twenties, I spent nearly 3 hours at Farmoor Reservoir, enjoying the sunshine and gentle breeze across the water. During the afternoon I circled both parts of the reservoir, looking out for familiar and unfamiliar species of birds. Coots were too numerous to count, also a very large number of greylag geese, with a couple of canada geese amongst them, Ducks included tufted and mallard, and I saw all three species of wagtails and four species of grebe. Waders included ringed plover, oyster catcher, common sandpiper and dunlin.
List of species seen:
black headed gull, herring gull, cormorant, grey heron, little egret, greylag goose, canada goose, pied wagtail, grey wagtail, yellow wagtail, little grebe, great crested grebe, black necked grebe, red necked grebe, tufted duck, mallard, mute swan, ringed plover, common sandpiper, dunlin, swallow, oyster catcher.
a beautiful afternoon at Farmoor Reservoir
canada goose
dunlin
greylag goose
cormorant
ringed plover
grey heron
yellow wagtail
red necked grebe
sailing at Farmoor
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