Tuesday, 7 January 2025

Visit to Noak Bridge Nature Reserve – 7th January 2024

Date: 7th January 2024

Time: from 10 a.m.

Weather: dry, sunny/cloudy, light wind, 2°C to 4°C

This was my first visit to the site for 2025. It was exceptionally quiet with only 8 bird species recorded. That is not particularly surprising during the winter months but who knows what else I may have recorded if I had remembered to take my binoculars with me!

The most notable sighting was that of a Reeves’ Muntjac in the extreme south east corner of the site although I only had a brief view before it disappeared into the scrub. This was my first site record for this deer species.

Species recorded during this visit were as follows (heard only records in italics):

Blue Tit

Great Tit
Robin
Dunnock
Blackbird
Woodpigeon
Magpie
Carrion Crow

Reeves' Muntjac

Site totals for 2025 to date (2024 totals in brackets):

Birds = 8 (38)

Mammals = 1 (3)
Butterflies = 0 (12)
Dragonflies and damselflies = 0 (11)
Reptiles = 0 (0)
Amphibians = 0 (1)

Total species list for the site:

Birds = 49

Mammals = 5
Butterflies = 22
Dragonflies and damselflies = 15
Reptiles = 2
Amphibians = 3

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