Most of us enjoy the spectacle of starlings coming into roost at the pier. One colleague says it is now the only reason she comes into Aberystwyth! Yesterday, there was a small flock late afternoon of 12-34 birds feeding on the front "lawn". It's more of an old pasture really - we don't put on any fertilizer or weedkillers - it has built up a thatch and has waxcups and parasols in autumn. The starlings were really like waders probing the turf and indeed they have got dunlin-like bills. I couldn't see what they were eating but it just shows the importance of old pastures rather than the open ryegrass swards that constitute our green deserts.
Saw a gorgeous wheatear down Tanybwlch earlier. Perhaps the one seen by red. Its throat was yellow rather than yellowish-buff.