Date: 31st March 2025
Time: from 7 a.m.
Weather: dry, sunny, light wind, 4°C to 8°C
During my visit this morning, I added another 2 bird species to my site list for 2025 taking it to 31 species:
Stock Dove: 1 heard calling from the wooded area behind Meadow Pond.
Collared Dove: 1 seen in the wooded area by the right hand turn down from the Spanish Steps at the start of my visit and again when I left
Chiffchaffs are now well-established across all parts of the reserve and this morning I recorded 8 singing males (4 seen).
After seeing my first singing male Blackcap of the year at the reserve on my visit on 9th March 2025 but not since, I recorded 5 birds during this morning’s visit: a singing male in the scrub adjacent to the path to Fox Pond, a female at the end of the boardwalk plus singing but unseen males in the wooded area behind the storage shed, in the hedge near the Eastfield Road entrance and at the end of the boardwalk.
Other highlights during my visit were as follows:
Moorhen: 1 seen on Willow Pond and a presumed pair seen on Meadow Pond
Mallard: male seen flying over Meadow Pond plus another or the same bird seen later
Jackdaw: 1 seen flying over Meadow Pond
Starling: 1 seen by the Eastfield Road entrance
I also saw 2 Grey Squirrels, the first dozing in the sun in the trees behind Meadow Pond and another in the wooded area around the Spanish Steps
Species recorded during this visit were as follows (heard only records in italics):
Blackcap
Grey Squirrel
Here are some photos from my visit ....
Photo: male Blackcap
Photo: male Chiffchaff
Photo: male Chiffchaff
Photo: male Chiffchaff
Photo: male Chiffchaff
Photo: male Chiffchaff
Photo: male Chiffchaff
Photo: Woodpigeon
Photo: Grey Squirrel
Site totals for 2025 to date (2024 totals in brackets):
Birds = 31 (38)
Total species list for the site:
Birds = 49
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