Birdlife in Oxpens

Several local residents are keen nature observers. Professor Nancy Brown has been systematically recording birds since she came to the area in 1986. Over that time she has recorded 51 different kinds of bird from her house. She explains that the field is a flight path for birds moving between North and South Hinksey, Grandpont and Port Meadow. 

In January flocks of siskins (from Scandinavia) mixed with goldfinch come to eat the seeds of alders on the stream bank - whilst mallards, coots and moorhens nest in the reed beds.