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Saturday 7th March. After a few days on patch with little to show for it, I must admit that something did feel a little different as I made my way across the Aristotle Lane bridge. It was cloudy, grey, and damp in the air; but without the biting northerly and clear conditions that had made birding rather unpleasant earlier in the week, and which had apparently halted any start to overhead migration. In fact, just as I was locking my bike up, I was greeted by the familiar sight of a hirundine hawking over the floods - my first Sand Martin of the year. A quick check of the floods revealed two each of Black-tailed Godwit and Dunlin, together with a few Shelduck. Birds were clearly moving. After my standard morning walk on the Meadow I planned to spend the afternoon staking out Farmoor, given that there were plenty of reports of inland Common Scoters and Kittiwakes on Birdguides. I met Steve Lavington in the hide, who had already found an apparently new adult male Common Scoter - nice! The

Thomas Miller's Birding Blog Pages Home Port Meadow Sightings Log Port Meadow List Field Sketches Sunday, May 10, 2026 Otmoor - Black Kite! My favourite from a rather gripping series of photos! Each year I help teach an ornithology field course for undergraduate biologists at the university, and as part of this we typically take the students to Otmoor for a morning. It's an amazing place to show them the dawn chorus, and most non-birders will have heard of Cuckoos , even if they've never seen them before. This trip has produced a few nice birds in the past - Turnstone (good record for Otmoor),

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