Following my post 12 days ago I can confirm the Starlings are still here - and increasing in numbers. At the weekend we estimated 200,000 birds coming into roost in the reedbeds at dusk. On Saturday night they were even joined by a Swallow! Oh and the Bittern is still here, if very elusive. Our work party of volunteers saw it flying over the reedbed north of the railway line today. As mentioned before, there are some good videos of the Starling murmurations on the local county birding website: www.cbwps.org.uk under their Sightings page.
Site Manager, Cornwall reserves