Corn Bunting

Two years ago I heard a Corn Bunting singing up on the Down for the first time for probably nearly 30 years.
This represented an almost instant - it was the first year - for the new small piece of downland restoration that I had started that year. The local photographers loved it - the poppies that came up that year could be seen for miles around. Unfortunately this ground that year needed to be kept under control to be seeded with brush collected seed that autumn. So the Corn Bunts didnt really get a chane that year.
Last year they didnt reappear.
But this, things are different - on 19th of March I spotted a small flock of eight. This was exciting enough. On 23rd March there was just a pair on the fence - just sitting, not singing.
Corn Buntings nest late in the season, which is why they have suffered from earler harvests - ie pre September, and therefore a late start to singing for a resident bird is not perhaps unexpected.
Then today the male is singing from the fence with the other bird in close proximity. So fingers crossed they stay the course.
So they join the Skylarks and Lapwings - all at risk from the Carrion Crows.