Have not been birding for a while, partly due to lack of anything interesting around Oxfordshire and saving for a new bathroom. One notable exception was dipping the white tailed plover at Slimbridge. Got to the Holden hide at 6.45am, waited for 2 hours then had to leave, only to find out that it had turned up 15 minutes after I had left. This weekend, Jenx was visiting and 2 things are certain. He will want to go birding and have an Indian meal. On Saturday, we went local spending a few hours at Farmoor. This time of year can be quiet at Farmoor before migration proper begins but we found 3 common tern (2 Juveniles and 1 adult), single Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpipers, Peregrine Falcon.
Crounching Dunlin at Farmoor 
Obliging juvenile Common TernOn sunday, we drove down to Titchfield Haven near Southampton. Highlights included a large number of Common Terns, a single avocet, lots of Common Sandpipers, 2 Green Sandpipers, 2 Snipe, a Water Rail and a Med Gull.
Distant photo of a Green Sandpiper, taken using the unorthodox combination of my Scope and FZ18 panasonic.
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