A cycle ride out to Lollingdon hill this evening produced
very little apart from 2 Chiffchaff,
a single Meadow Pipit on th hill, a large
flock of Sheep being driven from Cholsey to Aston Tirrald along the bridleway held us up for a short time but no problem.
A Buzzard, Kestrel, 2 Red Kite and
10 Stock Dove elsewhere in
Lollingdon and still a good number of Gulls present in the area.
Earlier today a visit to Cholsey marsh saw 2 Hobby hawking dragonflies over the
marsh also good numbers of Hirundines (2-300) passing down river, mainly House Martin with a small percentage of
Swallows and 3 Sand Martin amongst them.
A Kingfisher flew
upstream, a Grey Heron flew downstream and an adult and full grown young Great
Crested Grebe on the river, a single Mute
Swan drifted by and a couple of Chiffchaff on the marsh.
Several Brown and
Migrant Hawkers and Common Darters noted and only a few Small White butterflies.
Still a couple of House
Martin visiting a nest site at Marymead and a few Swallow still overhead also a Sparrowhawk
overhead on several occaisions. Both Green
and Great-spotted Woodpeckers still
around the garden and a Coal Tit
visited this week.
Lunch in the Castle gardens in Wallingford today produced, Great, Blue, Coal and Long-tailed Tits, 2 Goldcrest and several Stock Dove.
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