Fieldfares, Bats & Deer

Out on the Forest this morning & heard my first Fieldfare of the year fly over my head along with loads of Redwing calls. Also heard loads of Dark Bushcrickets & two Long-winged Coneheads chirping.
About 7.30am when it was just getting light I was at Queens Meadow when I saw a bat flitting about an Oak tree, then I saw another, then another until there was 4 all flying about this tree for about 5 minutes. One by one they disapeared into one of the main branches & as it got lighter I could see an old split in the branch which had partially healed but rotted out inside with enough gap for a bat to get through & obviously space inside for a few to roost in.
A Fallow buck was calling in the wood with his does, 2 prickets (yearling bucks) & a sorrel (2 year old buck) around him. Sat down & watched them for about half an hour but no other bucks about so no fighting.
Still loads of fungi about this morning, there were Porcelain fungi, Oyster mushrooms, an old Chicken of the Woods, Fleecy Milk caps, False Death caps, Sulpher Tufts, Blushers, Fly Agaric, Crepidotus mollis, Hypoxylon fragiforme, Russulas, Beefstake fungus & Lactarius tabidus.

Simon Currie