A little quieter

Overcast and light rain, 19°, light NW.

A quiet day out there today, 5 Chiffchaff, 6 Yellowhammer and a flock of 18 Mistle Thrush on the hill and little going on elsewhere.

A Great Blackback Gull flew over the hill, part of a large numbers of Gulls flying towards a field that was being ploughed near the pig fields. Approx. 700 Gulls present in the area.

A flock of around 30 Yellowhammer and Reed Bunting near Little Lollingdon and 5 Kestrel seen between the village and Lollingdon and a few more Meadow Pipit around.

Mammals: Brown Hare & Short-tailed Vole.

Dragonflies: Common Darter.

Butterflies: just a few Large White & 1 Speckled Wood.

A report passed on to me by Alan from and observer who saw a Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary on Cholsey Marsh in June. It was roughly around the time of the Marsh Fritillary sighting. As it is a very unlikely sighting in these parts we wonder if someone locally is breeding Fritillaries and releasing them?

 Yellowhammer


 Chiffchaff ↕



 Buzzard, Red Kite & Carrion Crow


from Cholsey Wildlife https://cholseywildlife.blogspot.com/2019/09/a-little-quieter.html

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