Date: 26th September 2024
Time: from 8:30 a.m.
Weather: dry, sunny, light/moderate wind, 13°C to 16°C
The main purpose of my visit this morning was Red Fox photography in the northern section of the site.
I accessed the site via the track from Larkins Tyres and a quick scan of the adjacent horse paddock provided sightings of 2 Red Foxes and a Reeves’ Muntjac. The Red Foxes were moving slowly in the direction of where I hoped to be able to photograph them.
After arriving at my chosen location in the northern section of the site, I scattered the remains of a chicken carcass plus some other food and settled down to wait.
It only took around 5 minutes for the first Red Fox to appear on the far side of the field before it worked its way slowly around the boundary hedgerow. Given that it frequently stopped and sniffed the air, I think it had almost certainly caught the scent of the food that I had laid out.
Whilst it slowly moved closer, enabling me to get some photos, this Red Fox did not actually reach the baited food before it turned round, walked back for a short distance in the direction it had come from and then disappeared from view in to the hedge. The baited food was eagerly accepted by Magpies and Grey Squirrels.
I did have a brief sighting of another Red Fox which emerged from the hedge bordering the far side of the field and I think that both animals were those that I had initially seen in the horse paddock by Larkins Tyres.
I did not walk the whole site so sightings of birds were limited but I did have an excellent view of a Common Buzzard soaring over the northern section of the site (for the second successive visit) plus I saw a male Blackcap and heard 2 other alarm calling birds, heard a single calling Chiffchaff and heard a single calling Green Woodpecker.
Around the pond in the northern section of the site, I saw a single Migrant Hawker and an unidentified single butterfly.
Grey Squirrels and Jays were very conspicuous during this visit, as they always are at this time of the year as they forage for acorns.
Species recorded during this visit were as follows (heard only records in italics):
Blackcap
Red Fox
Migrant Hawker
Here are some photos from my visit ….
Site totals for 2024 to
date (2023 totals in brackets):
Birds = 40 (47)
Total species list for the site
Birds = 65
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