5 May - A morning visit to Otmoor on this forecast record hot / sunny bank holiday......... the reserve very busy with visitors. It really is a very impressive reserve - a Marsh Harrier food pass seen between the breeding pair over the reedbed, a Bittern heard booming briefly, up to 10 Hobbies feeding on insects over the marsh, together with the backdrop of a Warbler chorus including Grasshopper warbler. A sad indictment of the times is that the rarest bird I saw was the returning Turtle Dove, purring in the same tree as last year ...... good news it has escaped the Maltese guns again. Red Kites cruising over the waders and causing disturbance with Lapwings calling and mobbing them, and a backdrop of Redshank and Curlew. Also a smart Grass Snake in one of the ditches near the car park.
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