Yesterday (27th June) was a really good day for wildfowl on the reserve. A red-crested pochard was reported from the reedbed in the morning and in the afternoon I saw a group of three garganey from the first viewing screen. Six wigeon were also present, as they are a duck normally associated with winter on Otmoor it made a change seeing them on a hot summers day. Lots of little grebes were uttering their laughing calls and two families of pochard and one family of tufted ducks were out on Ashgrave.
Hobbies were out hunting for dragonflies, turtle doves were seen flying along the bridleway, a whinchat was on a fence post on greenaways and there was a report of the corncrake being heard again.