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Natural History of Radley

Birds
The following lists the wild birds found in and around Radley.
Non-Resident Birds  
   

Summer visitors               

 

 Winter visitors Passage Birds Escapees

Summer visitors

  • Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna)
  • Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
  • Little ringed plover  (Charadrius dubius)
  • Black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa)
  • Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
  • Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
  • Swift (Apus apus)
  • Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
  • Sand martin (Riparia riparia)
  • House martin (Delichon urbica)
  • Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos)
  • Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava)
  • Garden warbler (Sylvia borin)
  • Chiffchaff  (Phylloscopus collybita)
  • Willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus)
  • Sedge warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)
  • Reed warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus)
  • Grasshopper warbler (Locustella naevia)
  • Spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)
  • Whitethroat (Sylvia communis)
  • Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla)
  • Garganey  (Anas querquedula)
            

Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) in flight over Thrupp Lake, 28 May 2011. Photograph by B Crowley.

Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)

(Thrupp Lake, 28 May 2011)*

 

Whitethroat, photographed 26 April 2006 by L Pasquire

Whitethroat (26 April 2006)*

 

Swallow (Hirundo rustica) photographed 23 August 2009 by S Calvert-Fisher

Swallow (Hirundo rustica)

(23 August 2009)*
   

Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) photographed 30 January 2011 by B Crowley

Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla)

(A winter-visiting summer visitor,

on bird feeder,

30 January 2011)

Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) photographed 11 April 2009 by B Crowley

Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita)

(11 April 2009)
   

Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) photographed 24 April 2010 by M Kosniowski, id by J Coppock

Sedge warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)

(24 April 2010)*

Sand Martin (Riparia riparia) photographed 09 May 2010 by M Kosniowski

Sand Martin (Riparia riparia)

(over Thrupp Lake, 09 May 2010)*

   

Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) photographed 28 May 2011 by B Crowley

Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)

(Thrupp Lake, 28 May 2011)*

House Martin (Delichon urbica) photographed 29 April 2011 by S Calvert-Fisher

House Martin (Delichon urbica)

(Radley College, 29 May 2011)
   

Winter visitors

  • Teal (Anas crecca)
  • Pintail (Anas acuta)
  • Shoveler (Anas clypeata)
  • Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)
  • Smew (Mergus albellus)
  • Common gull (Larus canus)
  • Herring gull (Larus argentatus)
  • Yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis)
  • Great blackbacked gull (Larus marinus)
  • Lesser blackbacked gull  (Larus fuscus)
  • Wigeon (Anas penelope)
  • Redwing (Turdus iliacus)
  • Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris)
  • Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla)
  • Redpoll (Carduelis flammea)
  • Siskin (Carduelis spinus)

fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) photographed 05 February 2009 by B Crowley

Fieldfare (5 February 2009)

 

Redpoll (Carduelis flammea) photographed 9 November 2008 by S Calvert-Fisher

Redpoll (Carduelis flammea)

(9 November 2008)

Siskins (Carduelis spinus) photographed 23 March 2009 by S Calvert-Fisher

Siskin (Carduelis spinus)

(23 March 2009)
   

Teal (Anas crecca) photographed 08 March 2009 by B Crowley

Teal (Anas crecca) on Lake 'H'

(08 March 2009)*

Shoveler (Anas clypeata) on Thrupp Lake, photographed 30 January 2011 by B Crowley

Shoveler (Anas clypeata)

(on Thrupp Lake, 30 January 2011)*
 

Wigeon (Anas penelope) - male, photographed 03 December 2011 by B Crowley

Wigeon (Anas penelope) - male - on Thrupp Lake

(03 December 2011)*

   

Passage Birds

  • Honey Buzzard (Pernis apivorus)
  • Common sandpiper (Tringa hypoleucos)
  • Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
  • Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
  • Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)
  • Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) Nov 2004, Jan 2011.
  • Ruff (Philomachus pugnax) Sept 2005, Sept 2009
  • White-Rumped Sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis) - Rare vagrant. First Oxon sighting in Oct. 2005.
  • Green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) Oct 2005
  • Red-crested pochard (Netta rufina) Nov 2005, Feb 2006, Sept 2009, May 2011.
  • Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) May 2006.
  • Greenshank (Tringa nebularia) Aug 2006
  • Mediterranean Gull (Larus melanocephalus) Aug 2006
  • Little Stint (Calidris minuta) Sept 2006
  • Spotted redshank (Tringa erythropus) Sept 2006
  • Wryneck (Jynx torquilla) Sept 2006
  • Iceland Gull  (Larus glaucoides) April 2009
  • Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos) Sept 2009
  • Grey Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius) Nov 2009
  • Bewick's Swan (Cygnus columbianus) Jan & Dec 2010
  • Spotted Crake (Porzana porzana) Sept 2010
  • Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus) Oct 2010
  • Caspian Gull (Larus cachinnans) Jan 2011
  • Scaup (Aythya marila) Jan 2011
      

Little egret (Egretta garzetta) photographed in flight over Orchard Lake by M Kosniowski

Little egret (Egretta garzetta)

(over Orchard Lake, 08 August 2010)*

Green sandpiper, photographed 2 Oct 2005 by Stephen Burch

Green Sandpiper on Orchard Lake

( 2 October 2005)*

 

Grey Phalarope, photographed on 21 November 2009 by Stephen Burch

Grey Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius)

(21 November 2009)*

 

White-rumped sandpiper, photographed 5 November 2005 by Stephen Burch.

White-rumped Sandpiper

(5 November 2005)*
   

Female red-crested pochard (Netta rufina) on Thrupp Lake, 28 May 2011. Photograph by B Crowley.

Red-crested pochard (Netta rufina) - female

(Thrupp Lake, 28 May 2011)*

Female red-crested pochard (Netta rufina) in company of male Mallard on Thrupp Lake, 28 May 2011. Photograph by B Crowley.

The female red-crested pochard (Netta rufina) shown right in the company of a male mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)

(Thrupp Lake, 28 May 2011)*
 

Escapees

Canary (Serinus cararia) photographed 26 January 2009 by G Cocker

Canary (26 January 2009)

Eastern Rosella Parakeet, photographed 19 June 2005 by L Pasquire

Eastern Rosella Parakeet (19 June 2005)*
 
 
We are grateful to John Hillsdon for his help in compiling the above list. Additional sightings by Steve King, Stephen Burch, Nicky Jones, Jason Coppock and others.
 
If you too have seen any birds in Radley that are not included, please contact us.
 

 
 

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