Date: 30th April 2025
Time: from 8:30 a.m.
Weather: dry, sunny, light wind, 12°C to 18°C
With the much warmer
temperatures, my main target this morning was butterflies.
It was a very slow start with just a single Speckled Wood seen along the access track from Larkins Tyres. However, as the morning progressed it got much better and I was finally able to record 7 species of butterfly:
Wall (at least 4)
Orange Tip (2 males)
Holly Blue (1)
Peacock (1)
Red Admiral (1)
Speckled Wood (1)
Comma (1)
Other than Comma, these were first site records for 2025 of all these species.
The sighting of Wall is especially noteworthy. I had my first record of this species on 15th September 2020 and then another on 24th May 2023 but none since. Therefore, seeing at least 4 individuals in the central section of the cemetery was very unexpected.
Now that the hedges and trees are in full leaf, it is becoming much more difficult to see birds but there were a few highlights during my visit:
Lesser Whitethroat: singing male again heard and eventually seen in the northern section of the site
Chiffchaff: 5 singing males (1 seen)
Blackcap: 5 singing males (none
seen)
Green Woodpecker: 1 seen in the central section of the cemetery
Great Spotted Woodpecker: 1 heard “drumming” in the wooded area adjacent to Hilly Road
Species recorded during this visit were as follows (heard only records in italics):
Lesser Whitethroat
Wall
Here are some photos
from my visit ….
Photo: Wall
Site totals for 2025 to date (2024 totals in brackets):
Birds = 40 (49)
Total species list for the site
Birds = 69
Love nature .... act now
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