The Starling roost is deceptively big: they come into the roost in small groups, but the numbers build up over an hour or so until patches of the reedbed is black with roosting birds. I can't count this sort of thing remotely accurately, but think that the numbers is well into the tens of thousands, not single digit thousands: fantastic.
Surprisingly few raptors: as with Rich Crossen's report the other day a couple of deeply ineffectual buzzards only. It is almost frustrating wondering where the other raptors think is better feeding.
