After a busy day decided to go to Cholsey marsh to check the
roost and was rewarded with some good birds!
One hundred and twenty plus Corn Bunting this evening, visibility was good and they were coming
in from all angles, flocks of between five and fifty. Some behaviour noted, whether
this is an anti predator strategy or not the buntings would fly over the roost
site and settle in trees up to five hundred metres away and wait until the
light was waning before going to roost!
Approximately twenty Reed
Bunting, five Meadow Pipit all
roosting in the reeds and surprisingly six Starling
seen to go in also. A small number of thrushes, less than one hundred roosting
in some of the trees on the marsh, Blackbird,
Fieldfare, Redwing and Song Thrush.
At least three Water
Rail heard and a Cetti’s Warbler
seen and heard and a Barn Owl
hunting over the marsh briefly, the first for a long time, unfortunately by the
time I got to my car to get the camera out (I had only just put it away) it had
gone.
Two Cormorant flew
upriver and again large numbers of corvids (500+
Rook and Jackdaw) roosting a few kilometres away.
As the weather has become milder recently fewer birds have
been visiting the garden, however a Treecreeper
still daily along with the Great-spotted
Woodpecker, Stock Dove and
variable numbers of Long-tailed Tit
to name but a few.
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