Tuesday 11 July 2017

Great Tew :: 10 July 2017

Another Outdoor Meeting for the Banbury Ornithological Society. We met in Great Tew at the free car park on the left as you enter the village. Some of the planned route passed by the site of the Cornbury Festival; they were still clearing up from the festival and so it was suggested we take a short route out and return the same way, only in reverse.

About 20 people walked and I talked for some of the way with Jo Morgan, one of Charlotte's work colleagues. Quite a few hirundines in the sky and an odd view of a song thrush on a ledge of a stone built house - I'd have expected it to be spooked by our presence but it presumably thought it was camouflaged (it nearly was).

A dozen or so swallows sat on a fence while we saw red kite and buzzard overhead. We were warned to listen out for marsh tit as we started and fortunately we saw one [141] in an area of brambles. While watching we also saw a treecreeper.

Long-tailed tits fed in numbers along one path while little grebe fished in the waters of a pond.

On the return we caught sight of a jay flying off having listened to it calling from a nearby tree.

I'll try to come back here to see if I can find any of the goldcrest supposedly present, but not seen on this occasion.

Sightings (19) included: blackbird, buzzard, collared dove, dunnock, goldfinch, great tit, grey wagtail, house martin, jay, little grebe, long-tailed tit, mallard, marsh tit, red kite, song thrush, swallow, treecreeper, tufted duck and woodpigeon.

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