Lazy Sunday

Sunny spells, 13°, light NNW.

A single Swallow over at 16:40, a Chiffchaff still present in the garden, a Nuthatch visiting and a flyover Grey Plover heard calling heading east at 20:15.

Moreton Floods

Overcast with light rain, 8°, light SE.

Moreton floods: Grey Plover still present, c500 Golden Plover, c300 Lapwing, 1 Dunlin, plus Fieldfare and Redwing.

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Grey Plover with Golden Plover, courtesy Alan

Bunk & Moreton Floods

Cloudy with a few sunny spells later, 9°, light SSW.

Bunk area: 10+ Yellowhammer, c50 Fieldfare, 20+ Redwing, 2 Treecreeper, a Goldcrest, Chiffchaff, 50+ Chaffinch, Little Owl, 500+ Starling, c200 Lesser Blackback Gull, 50+ Black-headed Gull and 5 Herring Gull.

Moreton Floods: Grey Plover, c500 Golden Plover, Dunlin, Common Snipe and Stonechat.

Dragonflies: a single Common Darter.

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Grey Plover courtesy Alan

Yellowhammer ↕

Fieldfare, Redwing & Starling

Fieldfare

Grey Plover, with Golden Plover & Lapwing courtesy Alan

Grey Plover still around

Mainly cloudy with a few sunny periods, 12°, breezy NE.

South Morton Floods: Grey Plover still present with c300 Golden Plover, c200 Lapwing and 2 Dunlin.

Lollingdon Floods: Usual Teal present, c50 Gulls, mainly Lesser Blackback, a Single Common Gull and several Black-headed Gull, a few Mistle Thrush over and a Raven over.

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Teal courtesy Alan

Quiet start to November

Overcast, 13°, light N.

Grey Plover still present on the Moreton floods and a Common Snipe, Cholsey Hill. Per Alan.

Bunk, rather quiet. Plenty of Redwing and a handful of Fieldfare.

Approx., 300 Gulls loafing in a field, mainly Lesser Blackback Gull, c20 Black-headed Gull, 6 Herring Gull and a single Common Gull.

Nearby, 500+ Starling, a Grey Heron, 2 Yellowhammer and a Chiffchaff of note.

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Grey Plover(s) still in area

Cloudy with occasional sunny spells, 12°, light NNE.

A disappointing day overall considering over 4 hours in the field.

A flock of 26 Fieldfare seen plus several more heard but not seen. Plenty of Redwing around, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Raven, 4 Jay, a Kingfisher, Chiffchaff, Yellowhammer etc.

Alan and Tony W were over at the Moreton floods (just outside the border): c200 Lesser Blackback Gull, a few Black-headed Gull, c30 Teal, c250 Golden Plover, 1, pos 2 Grey Plover and numbers of Meadow Pipit.

Lots of activity on garden feeders, with Blue, Great, Long-tailed and Coal Tit, Nuthatch, Great-spotted Woodpecker and Goldfinch.

Butterflies: a single Red Admiral.

Grey Plover

Redwing

Another plant has rooted in this dead Teazel head, not seen this before.

A brief walk

Cloudy with some light rain, 15°, light SSW.

A short walk out to the Lees and back this afternoon with Loren.

The pair of Stonechat still present, plus a Raven, several Meadow Pipit and Pied Wagtail, 2 Yellowhammer, Jay etc.

Yesterday: Firecrest and Nuthatch. Cholsey Meadows. Per Alan.

The Grey Plover still in the area, just outside the parish on the Moreton floods. Courtesy Alan

Bunk & Cholsey Hill

Sunny intervals, 15°, light WSW.

A little quieter today: the Grey Plover with c100 Golden Plover still on Cholsey Hill.

Bunk: c20 Shoveler, 4 Tufted Duck, 3 Goose species, a Chiffchaff, c30 Redwing, several Meadow Pipit and Skylark and a Ring-necked Parakeet.

Dragonflies: several Common Darter.

Butterflies: 2 Red Admiral and a Speckled Wood.

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A few of  the Shoveler this afternoon

A basking Common Darter in the late sunshine

Kestrel on the look out

Starlings preparing to fly to roost

Grey Plover relocated.

Overcast, 14°, light SSW.

Grey Plover still present on Cholsey Hill with 78 Golden Plover, plus 1 Swallow over.

Bunk: 4 (3&1) Swallow, 6 Grey Wagtail, c20 Pied Wagtail, c50 Meadow Pipit, c20 Skylark, a Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Jay, Reed Bunting, plenty of Redwing and a Grey Heron.

Lollingdon: very quiet. Just 4 Lapwing and a Chiffchaff worth a mention.

Dragonflies: Common Darter.

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Grey Plover courtesy Alan ↕

Lapwing

Swallow

Grey Plover

Overcast, 18°, light SSE.

A pretty good day all round. Alan covered Bunk this morning and Cholsey Hill this afternoon and I covered Bunk this afternoon.

A Grey Plover (3rd Cholsey record) with c60 Golden Plover on Cholsey Hill was the highlight and a single Swallow over.

Bunk: c300 Redwing, 10 Fieldfare over, 4-500 Starling, and increase in both Song Thrush and Blackbird numbers, 5 Siskin, 7 Swallow, 6 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, several Meadow Pipit, Skylark and Pied Wagtail, a single Grey Wagtail and a Common Snipe.

2 Wigeon on flood near Wallingford Road this morning. Per Michael Pocock.

Dragonflies: several Common Darter.

Butterflies: 2 Small White.

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Grey Plover with Golden Plover. bottom right in above pic and bottom left in pic below. Courtesy Alan.

One of several Swallow

A distant Redwing

A swarm of insects near CSW.

A Chiffchaff day

Cloudy, 12°, light SW.

Chiffchaff take the day with well over 12 singing from Cholsey Marsh, Bulls Hole/Whitehead Meadow and Lollingdon today. With quite a few more spread around and Alan even had 6 in one tree at Cholsey Marsh.

No other summer migrants noted yet!

Other than that relatively quiet around as we have covered the Bunk Line, Cholsey Marsh and Lollingdon in the last couple of days.

A few small flocks of Fieldfare and Redwing scattered around and the usual Bunting and Finch flock out at Little Lollingdon and a couple of Jay heard.

2 Sparrowhawk (m & f together) flew south over Lollingdon Hill this morning but not a lot else present on the hill. A Raven and Little Owl nearby

2 Lapwing overhead Bunk line plus Little Owl, Yellowhammer, Treecreeper, Fieldfare, Redwing, Grey Wagtail and Meadow Pipit noted.

Another Sparrowhawk over Cholsey Marsh and Skylark in song all over and quite a few Greenfinch in song.

A Grey Heron heard flying overhead last night whilst listening for nocturnal migrants at approx. 20:45 last night but nothing else.

Tonight a Grey Plover heard passing overhead at 22:25 flying south, 2nd record for Cholsey.  

And a Hedgehog in the garden.

Mammals: Brown Hare and Roe Deer.

Thank you to Alan for his input.

Chiffchaff

Chiffchaff in full song courtesy Alan

Meadow Pipit courtesy Alan

Short-eared Owl on the Downs courtesy Alan

Greenfinch in song courtesy Alan

Female Mallard came to check me out in the garden

Female Blackbird collecting nesting material