Glad to be of assistance, James!
Funny sort of day today. Mammal-wise it was all about Roe Deer, with a bunch at the Willow Tit site in the morning (sorry, non-disclosure on that) and then a minimum of 13 animals in a fairly small bit of countryside South of the village of Martin, where Steve and I were looking for Grey Partridges and Corn Buntings reported on Hampshire Going Birding yesterday.
We stopped first up a dead-end road off a crossroads where although I could hear a very distant Yellowhammer, no other farmland birds were on show at all. However, the kronk of a Raven made us look up, and we saw first one, then two, which flew towards each other and then began displaying together. Jolly Good! Then they were joined by two more, and we joked that this must be the secret breeding colony that Hampshire Going Birding is trying to suppress by removing all mention of Ravens in Hampshire from its on-line reports (Honestly - despite the fact you can't go anywhere in the county, from the New Forest in the South West to Martin in the North West to Farnborough in the North East to Portsmouth in the South East without hearing that same dull kronk!)
Then we took the opposite road at the crossroads, drove up to Tidpit Down - we only found the sign for it on arrival - hopped out to look at a finch flock that turned out to be mostly Linnets but with some Yellowhammers mixed in, and looking up in response to that kronk sound, found about twenty Ravens wheeling and tumbling above us: complemented by the numbers sculling the air above the fields and for that matter the ones surrounding a dead sheep in one of those fields.
So we walked over the top of Tidpit Down to conduct a detailed search for Grey Partridges and Corn Buntings. We found neither, but we did find some pig fields, and we also found - I kid you not - over 150 Ravens sitting up in trees, sitting down on the grass, perching on pigs and pig-sties, floating about and soaring up to display with their mates and/or friends.
If we didn't see over two hundred Ravens I'd be astonished. And somehow I don't think it was the Hampshire Raven Convention, with the rest of the county denuded.... and even if it was, they can't have been at the massive Hampshire Raven breeding cliffs (no cliffs)! But what I'd really like to know is, what on earth do those pilchards at Hampshire Going Birding think they are playing at with this nonsensical suppression?
John