Dead fish mystery still unsolved
BBC News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Tests fail to discover what caused the death of 10,000 fish in the Thames Farmoor Reservoir intake in Oxfordshire.
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Dead Fish Haul Farmoor Reservoir water intake on the River Thames
Bruno's Carp Tackle (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Thousands of dead fish discovered Thousands of small fish have been found dead in Oxfordshire. Up to 10,000 dead fish, mainly perch, were found in the Farmoor Reservoir water intake on the River Thames, the Environment Agency (EA) said. Thames Water, which operates the reservoir, said the incident posed “no risk to the drinking water supply”. An agency spokesman [...]
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Dead fish discovered in reservoir
BBC News (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The death of 10,000 dead fish in the Thames Farmoor Reservoir in Oxfordshire is being investigated by the Environment Agency.
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Remarkable sight at Ivinghoe
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE BIRDING (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
During a vigmigging episode this morning, along with large numbers of REDWINGS (3,000+), Mike Wallen watched a flock of at least 15 COMMON SCOTERS fly SW over the escarpment - a most incredible sight and record. They were almost certainly the 19 COMMON SCOTERS that later dropped into Farmoor Reservoir in Oxfordshire. This is the first record of Common Scoter this year in the county.
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Amazing sight at Ivinghoe
Birding Tring Reservoirs (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
During a vigmigging episode this morning, along with large numbers of REDWINGS (3,000+), Mike Wallen watched a flock of at least 15 COMMON SCOTERS fly SW over the escarpment - a most incredible sight and record. They were almost certainly the 19 COMMON SCOTERS that later dropped into Farmoor Reservoir in Oxfordshire.
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American Black Tern (Chlidonias niger surinamensis) & White-winged Black Tern (Chlidonias leucopterus) - Farmoor Reservoir, Oxon. 29/08/09
Ash's Bird Blog (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
I headed off to Farmoor today in hope of catching up with both juvenile White-winged Black Tern & the much rarer juvenile American Black Tern that had been found and identified by Oxfordshire county recorder Ian Lewington whilst watching the White-winged black Tern. The news of the White-winged broke Friday early afternoon and being unable to get to Farmoor I decided to head over on Saturday, later...
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Galleria of Recent Sightings
UK400ClubRareBirdAlert (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
Plate 1) Snowy Owl at Mangersta, Lewis, Outer Hebrides (Martin Scott) Plate 2) Juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper at Fowlmere RSPB, Cambs (Dave Hatton) Plates 3-4) First-winter Arctic Warbler at Landguard NR, Suffolk (Bill Baston) Plate 5) Spotted Crake at Greylake RSPB, Somerset (Rob Laughton) Plates 6-7) Juvenile Baird's Sandpiper at Davidstow Airfield, Cornwall (Rob Laughton) Plates 8-9) Juvenile Baird's...
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ARCTIC WARBLER trapped and ringed on Suffolk coast whilst AMERICAN BLACK TERN continues to attract large crowds to Oxfordshire reservoir
UK400ClubRareBirdAlert (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
Ian Lewington certainly proved his worth on Friday afternoon (28 August) by impressively pulling out of the bag Britain's third-ever AMERICAN BLACK TERN. Tasked with twitching Dave John's juvenile WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN, Ian utilised his years of experience and remarkable insight gleaned from studying museum specimens and realised the importance of a dark-sided juvenile Black Tern that arrived at...
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Farmoor Reservoir. Oxfordshire.1st September 2009.
Back In Birdland (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
White winged Black tern and American Black tern. After my shifts had finished this morning I could not resist going for the WWBT amd ABT at Farmoor. I knew it would take me just under a couple of hours and I had not slept since sunday night, but it needed to be done. So I battled the traffic and on reaching the causeway was greeted with distant views of both the terns accompanied by a juv Black tern....
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August 29th 2009
One man and his Pond (Free subscription) | 29/08/2009
Although not as windy as yesterday there was still a brisk cool westerly at Draycote Water this morning and accounted for the dark phase Artic Skua arriving at 7:40am which came in over the over the golf course when I was counting the Swifts but continued south. There were 2 Common Sandpiper, adult Ringed Plover, juv Little Ringed Plover and 6 Shoveler in toft bay and shallows. Massive numbers of hirundines...
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Hidden Oxfordshire
Nerds Central (Free subscription) | 21/07/2009
I am no photographer, but I love trying to capture to beauty of the countryside around me. Here are some pictures I have taken recently showing how attractive Oxfordshire can be. Here is Farmoor reservoir viewed coming over the hill to the south. The Thames near Farmoor. Wild flowers on the banks of the Thames. A military jet coming in to land in the distance viewed from the bank of the reservoir.
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