Date: 24th May 2023
Time: from 6:15 a.m.
Weather: dry, sunny, light wind, 9°C to 12°C
After my visits on 11th May 2023, 16th May 2023 and 20th May 2023, I again visited the same location this morning to watch and photograph the Red Fox vixen and her cubs.
As on my previous visits, I scattered some dog food and dog biscuits at the front of the hedge and then settled down to wait off to the side.
I waited for around an hour and a half but there was a complete Red Fox “no show”. No vixen. No cubs. This was very disappointing given that I had got up at 5 a.m. I had put the effort in but this was not reciprocated!
However, during my visit, I still added 2 new records for 2023 for the site: Swift (a single bird heard “screaming” overhead but unseen since I was covered by my bag hide waiting for Red Foxes!) and Wall (seen around the church and only my second site record since my first in 2020).
I managed to get a very poor record shot of the Wall on my mobile phone.
I didn’t walk around the rest of the site and keep a complete record list but whilst waiting for the Red Foxes, I again saw a banded snail species and a Magpie, both of which I was able to photograph from my bag hide.
Photo: Magpie
Photo: Magpie
In addition, I again saw the singing male Common Whitethroat in the bushes next to Larkins Tyres which I was able to photograph.
Photo: male Common Whitethroat
Photo: male Common Whitethroat
I also heard 2 singing male Chiffchaffs and 3 singing male Blackcaps and saw a Great Spotted Woodpecker at the top of a tree adjacent to Church Hill.
The whole site is now very green and there are plenty of wild flowers including Ox-eye Daisies which have recently emerged.
Species recorded during this visit were as follows (heard only records in italics):
Wall
Site totals for 2023 to date (2022 totals in brackets):
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