Oldhall still held one Swallow and a couple of House Martins this morning, the latter attending a nest on No. 50, Dunchurch Avenue. Also in the area were good numbers of House Sparrows.
In the park and along the river were up to five Kingfishers, a Grey Heron and four Moorhens (including two on the stretch behind the house). A Raven was patrolling low overhead, cronking repeatedly and somersaulting once. Eventually it settled on the telecommunications mast between Dundee Drive and the railway and proceeded to call loudly, off and on, for at least ten minutes.
The Kingfishers were particularly noisy and may have bee dispersing young birds or perhaps family parties not yet split up. Certainly they were unmissable, a fact entirely in keeping with the Birdtrack reporting rate peak which happens at this time of year.
An afternoon walk in Barshaw Park produced a feeding Blackbird. They have been virtually invisible recently (as confirmed by the Birdtrack graph of reporting rate) - presumably due to the annual moult.
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