Date: 3rd April 2025
Time: from 7:15
a.m.
Weather: dry, sunny, light
wind, 8°C to 10°C
It was another lovely sunny spring morning for my visit.
After recording my
first 2 Blackcaps of the year at the site on my last visit on 29th March 2025, I recorded 4 birds this morning: a singing male seen in the
same area of the southern section of the site as on my last visit and 3 further
singing but unseen males heard along the access track from Larkins Tyres, in
the northern section of the site and in the church car park.
Other highlights during
my visit were as follows:
Chiffchaffs: at least 11 singing
males across the site (5 seen)
Pipit species: unidentified
non-calling bird seen flying high over the northern section of the site
Green Woodpecker: birds
heard calling in the wooded area at the end of the access track from Larkins
Tyres, in the paddock in the northern section of the site and in the Church
Hill/Hilly Road area
Great Spotted
Woodpecker: 1
seen in the northern section of the site and another heard calling in the
woodland in the southern section of the site
With regard to mammals,
I had a brief view of a Reeves’ Muntjac in the paddock in the northern
section of the site.
Species recorded during
this visit were as follows (heard only records in italics):
Blackcap
Chiffchaff
Pipit sp.
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Robin
Wren
Dunnock
Blackbird
Song Thrush
Green Woodpecker
Great Spotted
Woodpecker
Jay
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Woodpigeon
Herring Gull
Lesser Black-backed
Gull
Reeves’ Muntjac
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: Blue Tit
Site totals for 2025 to
date (2024 totals in brackets):
Birds = 36 (49)
Mammals = 3 (3)
Butterflies = 0 (17)
Dragonflies and
damselflies = 0 (11)
Reptiles = 0 (0)
Amphibians = 0 (0)
Total species list for
the site
Birds = 69
Mammals = 7
Butterflies = 25
Dragonflies and
damselflies = 14
Reptiles = 1
Amphibians = 0
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