We're pretty much heading towards the end of the Odonata season now that we're into September. There have been a few Odo trips that I've bee...

The Highlights Welcome back to the monthly Oxon birding review. The summer months usually consist of dedicated county birders flitting ...

I'm sure all birders with any kind of knowledge of national birding news are all aware of the recent discovery of a Western Reef Heron in No...

I've seen four Subalpine Warblers over the years, all of them down in Cornwall. Two were males and two were female types. Back in the day th...

Back in the day, Black-winged Stilt was a real rarity. I remember twitching my first ones back in May 2011 down at St Gothian Sands NR in C...

There had been a very showy (or "confiding" as birders often like to say) Red-spotted Bluethroat down in Dorset. It had been around for a wh...

Last Saturday news "broke" of an American Golden Plover at Otmoor. I say "broke" because it was initially a very confused affair. Somone on ...

On Sunday, news dropped on the bird news services of a Great-tailed Grackle down in Hampshire. Now I consider Hants to be sufficiently close...

In my last blog post I wondered whether there might be yet another rarity in Oxfordshire before the year was out. That thought has turned ou...

What a vintage year this is turning out to be for Oxon. Usually as a land-locked county about as far as one can get from the sea we have to ...

Most birders with their finger anywhere remotely near the pulse of national birding news will be aware of the discovery last Sunday of a Zit...

My two older daughters have now passed through the Uni system so no longer provide me with excuses for birding excursions further afield. Ho...

In the customary style of this blog, the end of year review is only being posted once we are a couple of weeks into the New Year. Still, it'...