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Natural History of Radley

Birds
Birds of the Radley Lakes >
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)
  • 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)
  • Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)
            

Whitethroat, photographed 26 April 2006 by L Pasquire

Whitethroat (26 April 2006)*
   

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)
  • 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)
 
   

Passage Birds

  • Honey Buzzard (Pernis apivorus)
  • Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
  • Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
  • Little Stint (Calidris minuta) Sept 2006
  • Ruff (Philomachus pugnax) Sept 2005
  • Spotted redshank (Tringa erythropus) Sept 2006
  • Greenshank (Tringa nebularia) Aug 2006
  • Green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
  • Common sandpiper (Tringa hypoleucos)
  • Mediterranean Gull (Larus melanocephalus) Aug 2006
  • Wryneck (Jynx torquilla) Sept 2006
  • Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)
  • White-Rumped Sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis) - Rare vagrant. First Oxon sighting in Oct. 2005.
  • Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) May 2006.
  • Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) Nov 2004.
      

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

White-rumped Sandpiper

(5 November 2005)

Green sandpiper, photographed 2 Oct 2005 by Stephen Burch

Green Sandpiper on Orchard Lake

( 2 October 2005)

 
   

Escapees

  • Eastern Rosella Parakeet (Platycercus eximius) June 2005.
  • Yellow-billed Pintail (Anas Georgica) June 2008.

 

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 and Nicky Jones.
 
If you too have seen any birds in Radley that are not included, please contact us.
 

 
 

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