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Message: <blockquote data-quote="halftwo" data-source="post: 1642774" data-attributes="member: 45720">After a very quiet few days the patch perked up this morning (quick look on the way to work). First about 300 Fieldfares passed over the corn stubble where several Chaffinches, a hundred corvids and three or four hundred starling were feeding. More importantly four buntings on the telephone wires looked good for Corn buntings - but I couldn't get close enough to confirm.  Another flock of about 50 Fieldfares and Redwings came past, too close for the resident Mistle thrush which rose with a rattle to see them off the berries, as everything got up for an unseen (by me) raptor (judging from the panic it must have been a Peregrine.)  Yellowhammers and Meadow pipits joined the melee, and generally there was a buzz despite the dreer.</blockquote>