Port Meadow Sightings Log

March

25/03/2026

Swallow (year tick), Redshank, Oystercatcher, 4 Shelduck, Peregrine, hybrid Emperor x Barnacle Goose (same as on Marston Meadows recently)

24/03/2026

4 Oystercatcher, 4 Shelduck

23/03/2026

3 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Oystercatcher, 12 Golden Plover, 2 Shelduck, 5 Goosander, Great White Egret

22/03/2026

Little Ringed Plover, 2 Oystercatcher, 19 Golden Plover, Snipe, 2 Shelduck, 5 Sand Martin, 2 Great White Egret

21/03/2026

Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Oystercatchers, 6 Lapwing, Coal Tit (year tick), 3 Great White Egret

20/03/2026

Little Ringed Plover, 3 Oystercatcher, 42 Golden Plover, 2 Snipe, 2 Shelduck, Goosander, Tufted Duck, Great White Egret

19/03/2026

Oystercatcher, Lapwing, Shelduck, 3 Great White Egret

18/03/2026

Wheatear (year tick), Little Ringed Plover, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Great White Egret

17/03/2026

White Wagtail, 4 Oystercatcher, 3 Shelduck, Great White Egret

16/03/2026

White Wagtail (year tick), 2 Sand Martin, 3 Golden Plover, 3 Oystercatcher, 3 Shelduck, 53 Gadwall (high count)

15/03/2026

22 Golden Plover, Oystercatcher, 2 Shelduck, Great White Egret, 140+ Pied Wagtail

14/03/2026

Male Goshawk (year tick), Little Ringed Plover (year tick), 2 Redshank, 5 Oystercatcher, 4 Golden Plover, 2w Yellow-legged Gull, 4 Shelduck, 2 Great White Egret, several Redpoll and Siskin on Aristotle Lane

13/03/2026

Black-tailed Godwit, Oystercatcher, 3 Shelduck, Great White Egret

12/03/2026

3 Redshank, 2 Oystercatcher, 4 Shelduck

11/03/2026

Male + female Garganey, 2 Crossbill over west (year tick), 3 Oystercatcher, Great White Egret, 100+ Pied Wagtail

10/03/2026

1w Little Gull, Mediterranean Gull, 1w Caspian Gull, Redshank, Dunlin, Oystercatcher, 4 Great White Egret

09/03/2026

1w Little Gull, 2w Mediterranean Gull, 3 Golden Plover, 2 Redshank, 5 Shelduck, 107 Pintail (high count), 3 Great White Egret

08/03/2026

1w RING-BILLED GULL still present at dawn and sporadically throughout day, 1w Little Gull, adult + 2w Mediterranean Gull, adult + 1w Caspian Gull, Sand Martin, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Dunlin, Woodcock (year tick), 10 Shelduck, 2 Great White Egret

07/03/2026

1w RING-BILLED GULL (first patch record), 1w Little Gull, 2w Caspian Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, Sand Martin (year tick), 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Dunlin, 6 Shelduck, 2 Great White Egret

06/03/2026

2 Oystercatcher, 6 Shelduck, 2 Great White Egret

05/03/2026

1w Little Gull, Black-tailed Godwit, 8 Golden Plover, 2 Oystercatcher, 7 Shelduck

04/03/2026

1w Little Gull, 4 Oystercatcher, 2 Redshank, Lapwing, Yellowhammer over (year tick), 5 Shelduck

02/03/2026

Peregrine, 7 Shelduck

01/03/2026

1w Little Gull, 1w Caspian Gull, Oystercatcher, Lapwing, Redshank, 6 Shelduck, 2 Redpoll

February

27/02/2026

Yellow-legged Gull, Shelduck

25/02/2026

2 Oystercatcher, 4 Shelduck

24/02/2026

Redshank

23/02/2026

Redshank, 2 Ring-necked Parakeet

18/02/2026

1w Little Gull, Caspian Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Peregrine, Shelduck

12/02/2026

Adult Kittiwake (year tick), 1w Little Gull, 2w Caspian Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, 6 Oystercatcher, 7 Lapwing, Shelduck, 10 Goosander, Redpoll

06/02/2026

Adult Little Gull (year tick), adult Mediterranean Gull

02/02/2026

Water Rail along Castle Mill Stream, 16 Lapwing, Great White Egret

January

28/01/2026

Lapwing, Great Crested Grebe, 2 Blackcap, Redpoll

24/01/2026

3 Russian White-fronted Goose, 3w Caspian Gull, 6 Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Peregrine, 5 Lapwing, 22 Goosander (high count), Great White Egret

23/01/2026

3w + 2w Caspian Gull, adult Mediterranean Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 20 Lapwing, 8 Goosander, murmuration of approx. 10000 Starling over Wolvercote

14/01/2026

27 Lapwing, 3 Dunlin, Blackcap

05/01/2026

Russian White-fronted Goose, 106 Lapwing over west, 7 Goosander, Great White Egret

01/01/2026

Possible Siberian Chiffchaff although not heard to call, Nuthatch (year tick), Black-tailed Godwit