Sunday 10 January 2021

Black Redstart, Oakley Airfield

 



Black Redstart
Golden Plovers 

Nice to find this first-winter/female- type Black Redstart up on the airfield this morning, another nice little find up there. It's a pretty amazing place, only started keeping an eye on it during the first lockdown and I've had Dotterel, Firecrest, Merlin, Greenland Wheatear, Common Terns, Snipes, Bramblings, a probable Lapland Bunting and discovered breeding Yellow Wagtails, Corn Buntings, Yellowhammers and Grey Partridges and wintering/staging of large numbers of Golden Plovers and Skylarks and passerines. 

Ebird list for today HERE. In addition to the Black Redstart a couple of hundred Golden Plovers, 2 Stonechats, 20 Skylark, 11 Grey Partridge and winter thrushes. 

2 comments:

Leo said...

Sounds like a great place. Reminds me of Grove Airfield (SW Oxon), which I used to religiously bird between 2006 and 2014 and turned up loads of good birds - winter raptors, Groppers, Whinchat. Alas, it was lost to housing a couple of years ago. Hope Oakley escapes that particular evil....

Peter Alfrey said...

Hope so too- plans for an automated car test track there which I think have been approved . Hope it doesn't disturb the amazing wildlife there.