A couple of hours at Cholsey marsh this evening was rather
quiet; a Barn Owl hunting the north
end of the marsh was a highlight.
The flooding has subsided a great deal now but with rain on
and off over the next week who knows! The marsh is still quite flooded and is
draining in to the Thames at a few places and will probably take several weeks
of dry weather to get back to normal, the footpath is navigable but very muddy.
I noted today that the floods at South Moreton are around 40% of what they had
been.
A ♂
Sparrowhawk flew through but prior
to the buntings arriving and continued down river.
Approximately sixty Corn
Bunting at the roost and twenty odd Reed
Bunting and a pair of Yellowhammer.
Two Egyptian Geese
flew over and a Grey Heron a little while
later, there was a Chiffchaff
calling on the marsh and several Water
Rail squealing away at dusk.
Small numbers of Fieldfare
and Redwing still roosting nearby
also. A single Great Crested Grebe
and a Little Grebe on the river and
that was about it!
A bit of gardening done today, the ♂ Blackcap
still visiting along with a single Stock
Dove, two Robins a permanent
feature now so probably a pair and still quite a few Blackbird around but the Song
Thrush less frequent now.
A distant pic of the Barn Owl
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