SWALLOWS AND SWIFTS AT FARMOOR

With a cold north wind blowing over  Farmoor Reservoir, the swallows and swifts may have felt like returning to Africa, but there were hundreds of them, plus sand martins and house martins swooping low over the water and causeway, only a few feet away from where I stood. 

Several common sandpipers were huddled together on one of the rafts, whilst a mallard family attempted to shelter alongside one of the moored boats. 

Three yellow  wagtails and some pied wagtails, put in an appearance together with an a wheatear whilst a few common tern  ( or could have been arctic as  both were present today) were also feeding over the water. 

Birds of note today:

wheatear
yellow wagtail
pied wagtail 
swift
swallow
house martin
sand martin
grey heron
greylag goose
cettis warbler
tufted duck
mallard
coot
common tern
kestrel
red kite
common sandpiper
cormorant
great crested grebe

house martins etc flying low over the causeway

common sandpipers

greylags

wheatear

mallard family

swallow

yellow wagtails

swallows and sandmartin