Date: 4th April 2021
Time: from 7:30 p.m.
Weather: dry, sunny, dark, 15°C
This evening’s visit was another where there was a beautiful sunset to the west.
It was also another visit where I
failed to see any Badgers and they remain an elusive species still waiting
to be added to my site list for the year.
As on my last evening visit, I did
hear the bark of a Red Fox behind me whilst sitting and watching
the Badger sett and I also caught sight of 2 Red Foxes in
my torchlight in the area of grassland between St. Nicholas Church and St.
Nicholas Lane.
The most notable bird record was a Chiffchaff
which called several times from somewhere west of the church car park
followed by a double “chiff-chaff”.
There were several other
birds singing before it went dark including Robin, Blackbird, Song
Thrush and Wren. There seemed to be several Robins
singing around the site but the last species to cease singing was a single Song
Thrush close to where I sat which sang continuously for around 10 minutes.
Species recorded
during this visit were as follows (heard only records in italics):
Site totals to date (2021 totals in brackets):
Mammals = 6 (4)
Butterflies = 21 (2)
Dragonflies and damselflies = 7 (0)
Reptiles = 1 (0)
Amphibians = 0 (0)
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