Croston 28/11/10

[Carol]

I'd hardly shut the car door and 100+ fieldfare scattered to the trees. In fact there were fieldfares in small groups all over the area. Also flocks of jackdaws and crows.

On the Finney there was a flock approaching 100 of either larks or corn bunting (couldn't see their beaks as they flew low and landed deep in the stubble - does that ID them as corn bunting?)

Small flock of about 10 linnets, 10 pink-footed geese flying over, and 4 mute swan (inc one juvenile) also flying over. The yellowhammers had made a small migration to Finney Farm. I flushed a small wader from a ditch, possibly a snipe. Reed bunting, tree sparrows in several locations, b,g& lt tits, house sparrows, robins, wren, collared doves, 1 cormorant, woodpigeon in small parties, 2 kestrel, 1 buzzard, song thrush, dunnock, pied wag, magpies, starlings, 2 lapwings.

[Neil Southworth]

Carol,

I suspect they would be Skylarks. A flock of 100 Corn Buntings would be verging on the sensational these days.

Neil