Forgot to mention that yesterday morning I noticed a Fox out in the middle of a pasture, looking for morsels, then during the afternoon it (or another) was lying in the next field - relaxing?
A lovely sunny morning meant that Buzzards were up displaying and challenging its neighbours for territory, there were 4 over the village at one time giving a great show.
Early afternoon a Mistle Thrush pair was spending a lot of time exploring in a church yard yew tree. At the feed station the the usual birds were still coming to feed, several Yellowhammers and Tree Sparrow were noted. I'll keep feeding for a while yet until natural food is more abundant.
About 1530h there was ~250 Fieldfare, ~100 Starling and ~20 Redwing in the tops of the Ash trees to the east of the village, they were making a lot of chatter, clearly excited - typical of migratory behavior. they were prob ably birds heading north and had stopped, of for a rest and a feed.
In he evening for dusk I popped to Stanford reservoir to see if the Barn Owl was around, at 1830h it did fly by, but this evening carried on to another area and so only a short view was possible, unfortunately it did not re-appear whilst enough light remained - next time!
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