January at Farmoor

I had a very grey walk around Farmoor reservoir to catch up with some of the site's classic winter species, as well as a few unusual visitors. The female greater scaup was showing well, a species that has been wintering at this site for a number of years now, but always as a single individual or in very low numbers. Additionally, a lovely pair of red knot were found along the causeway. Large numbers of this species winters in the UK away from their Arctic breeding grounds, but its an unusual species to see in central Oxfordshire seeing as they mostly congregate along our coastlines.