Thursday 30 June 2011

Recent Cholsey sightings

Recent Cholsey sightings: (per RB).

28/6 Cholsey Hill, late evening - no quail, but 7 Corn Bunting, and also Reed Bunting and Yellow Wagtail breeding in the crop, Kingfisher on Cholsey Brook, and the Moorhens still have at least one half-grown young.

29/6 Bunk Line - still no quail, but 3 Green Woodpecker at the sewage works, fox hunting in a meadow, Brown Hare, Linnets breeding along the line, c.500 Rooks & Jackdaws at Wallingford Rd.

30/6 - dead male Green Woodpecker picked up on Wallingford Rd (will be sent to NHM Tring). Kestrels probably breeding at Manor Farm (as last year).

Male and Female Sparrowhawk bathing several times in Cholsey Brook.

(per TW)
Oystercatcher seen flying down river at Cholsey marsh mid May, also Cuckoo over Lollingdon Hill around the same period.

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