Starlings

I have it in mind this winter to go over to Mydroilyn/Dihewyd to check out the large Starling roost in that area. Good numbers of birds have been around for a couple of weeks. Maybe a 1000 flew SW overhead as I zipped back from Llandysul to Horeb at about 8am today and during the week many hundreds flew over Denmark Farm at dusk. Both these groups could have come from the roost. A farmer in Ffostrasol later this morning told me that the Starlings arrived early this year and that there were a lot about. A sure sign of a hard winter apparently. Gawd help us! However, I'm sure I heard them say on Autumnwatch the other day that not many Starlings had been seen yet. Perhaps they sneaked across England under cover of darkness disguised as Blue Tits.