Cold and foggy, temperature did not get above freezing all
day, Cholsey marsh still draining out in to the Thames in places. Forecast for -6º tonight and then a lot milder with high winds and rain for the week end, balmy British weather!
A check on Cholsey marsh at dusk to count species roosting
there, just over sixty Corn Bunting
counted coming in to the roost but unable to see any coming in from the south
due to the poor visibility so may well have been more, twenty plus Reed Bunting and a couple of Meadow Pipit there as well.
Two Common Snipe
flew from the marsh and at least three Water
Rail heard, quite a few Redwing
several Blackbird and Song Thrush feeding on the icy surface
of the marsh, have not noted this feeding behaviour before!
A couple of Pied
Wagtail heard flying over but did not see if they landed nearby, several Black-headed Gull flew downriver, a Grey Heron flew upriver and a Little Grebe on the river. A Great-spotted Woodpecker in the trees
near the marsh and a lot of Corvid calls heard overhead and in the distance, Rook and Jackdaw, probably going to a
nearby roost.A single Siskin flying overhead.
News from Tony Rayner - Twenty Lapwing in field above Ilges lane today, ten Siskin and a Lesser Redpoll in the Italian Alders in Caps lane recently and five Yellowhammer in garden along Wallingford road.
A couple of Corn Bunting pics from the summer.
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