Forest Wagtail roosting, Red Collared Dove staying
On the way home from work I found a pre-roost gathering of about 50 Grey Wagtails and 20 Eastern Yellow Wagtails, and while checking for anything mixed in I spotted one Forest Wagtail. They normally live along forest tracks, so finding a Forest Wagtail in a sugarcane field was a real surprise.
The following day it was again mixed in with the Grey Wagtail flock at the same spot, so it is presumably spending its days somewhere on a nearby forest track. One White Wagtail was in the same flock. It would be nice if it overwintered together with the Grey Wagtails.
Two Red Collared Doves are staying, but they look unsettled — a Black-winged Kite, Hen Harrier, and Eurasian Sparrowhawk come by every day. For some reason a Brown Shrike was moving around with the Red Collared Doves and Oriental Turtle Doves — perhaps because it too is wary of the raptors.
A rare experience — encountering a White-browed Wagtail in a sugarcane field. It appears to roost together with other wagtails.
It roosted in the same spot two days running, so I'm hopeful it will overwinter.
The two male Cream-coloured Doves have joined a flock of Oriental Turtle Doves.
A Bull-headed Shrike associating with Cream-coloured Doves and Oriental Turtle Doves. The other small birds are on edge too, with so many raptors around.
In the end, the snipe have come down to Common Snipe only.
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