Wednesday, 28 May 2025

Visit to St. Nicholas Church and surrounding areas – 28th May 2025

Date: 28th May 2025

Time: from 6:15 a.m.

Weather: dry, sunny, moderate/strong wind, 14°C to 15°C

There have been strong winds for the last few days and again this morning and this is not conducive to finding and photographing butterflies, dragonflies and damselflies.

Therefore, I had another early visit this morning in the hope of seeing Red Fox cubs. Yet again, I was unsuccessful and it seems like it will be a blank year for at least seeing very young cubs recently emerged from the den. Adult Red Foxes are also proving to be elusive during my daytime visits although I am seeing them on my evening visits.

The highlights during my visit were as follows: 

Common Whitethroat: after recording my first singing male of the year during my last visit on 23rd May 2025, I again heard presumably the same bird singing distantly in the paddock in the northern section of the site

Chiffchaff: 3 singing males (1 seen)

Blackcap: 4 singing males (none seen) 

Great Spotted Woodpecker: 1 heard calling in the woodland in the southern section of the site

Green Woodpecker: 1 heard calling in the woodland in the southern section of the site

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

Common Whitethroat

Blackcap
Chiffchaff
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Robin
Wren
Dunnock
Song Thrush
Green Woodpecker
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Woodpigeon
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Herring Gull

For several weeks now, the dense bush and tree leaf cover has made seeing, let alone photographing, some birds somewhat challenging. However, this morning I did get to see and photograph a singing male Chiffchaff ....





























Photo: male Chiffchaff





























Photo: male Chiffchaff





























Photo: male Chiffchaff





























Photo: male Chiffchaff

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

Birds = 42 (49)

Mammals = 3 (3)
Butterflies = 11 (17)
Dragonflies and damselflies = 6 (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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