Date: 3rd January 2024
Time: from 10 a.m.
Weather: dry, sunny/cloudy, moderate wind, 10°C to 11°C
This was my first visit to the site for 2024 and it was generally very quiet. However, I did have a few notable sightings.
Firstly, I saw a single Fieldfare fly in and perch in a tree in the northern section of the site. This is a species that I record very rarely so to see another bird just a few days after my last visit on 29th December 2023 and on my first visit of the new year was especially pleasing. I did manage to get a distant and heavily cropped record shot of this morning’s bird.
Photo: Fieldfare
Also in the northern section of the site, I saw 3 Greenfinches, a species that I record more frequently in spring and summer, and I heard a calling Green Woodpecker. I saw a Green Woodpecker at the bottom of Hilly Road as it flew across the rough grass area adjacent to St. Nicholas Lane and I heard an excitedly calling Great Spotted Woodpecker in the wooded area bordering the eastern section of the cemetery.
My first mammal record for the site for 2024 was a single Reeves’ Muntjac which I saw briefly in the far northern area.
Finally, there was already a first sign of spring although unfortunately Santa was still hanging around!
Species recorded during this visit were as follows (heard only records in italics):
Blue Tit
Total species list for the site:
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