Thursday, 9 January 2025

Visit to St. Nicholas Church and surrounding areas – 9th January 2025

Date: 9th January 2025

Time: from 9:15 a.m.

Weather: dry, sunny, light wind, 1°C to 2°C

It was a beautiful sunny but very cold morning for my second visit of the year to the site. It also proved to be more productive than my first visit on 2nd January 2025

I recorded 17 species including 5 additions to my 2024 site list …. Redwing, Chaffinch, Long-tailed Tit, Great Spotted Woodpecker and Jackdaw

My visit immediately got off to an excellent start with my first Red Fox of the year in the paddock behind Larkins Tyres plus a male Chaffinch in the bushes adjacent to the track in the same area.
















Photo: Red Fox

I saw another Red Fox in the northern section of the site.

Other highlights included Great Spotted Woodpecker (3 excitably calling birds in flight together in the northern section of the site, 2 more in the western section of the cemetery and another heard calling on Church Hill), a single Green Woodpecker in the western section of the cemetery and c.20 Redwings foraging in the leaf litter in the wooded area in the southern section of the site).

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

Blue Tit

Great Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Robin
Wren
Dunnock
Redwing
Blackbird
Chaffinch
Green Woodpecker
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Jay
Jackdaw
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Woodpigeon
Herring Gull

Red Fox

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

Birds = 17 (49)

Mammals = 2 (3)
Butterflies = 0 (17)
Dragonflies and damselflies = 0 (11)
Reptiles = 0 (0)
Amphibians = 0 (0)

Total species list for the site

Birds = 67

Mammals = 7
Butterflies = 25
Dragonflies and damselflies = 14
Reptiles = 1
Amphibians = 0

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