Date: 30th June 2025
Time: from 8 a.m.
Weather: dry, sunny, light wind, 19°C to 22°C
Prompted by the success of recent visits and the very warm early morning weather again, I had another visit to the site with butterflies in the grassland area of southern section of the site adjacent to St. Nicholas Lane plus the church car park and cemetery being my main target.
It proved to be another very successful visit and I recorded 2 new species for the site for 2025, both in the southern section of the site adjacent to St. Nicholas Lane:
– Small Copper (1)
–
Gatekeeper (1)
During my visit, I recorded 11 butterfly species. The number of butterfly species that I have recorded in 2025 (21) is already well in excess of that recorded in 2024 (17).
For the second successive visit, I saw a female darter species (either Common Darter or Ruddy Darter) but I have still not managed to successfully record an identification.
The other highlights during my visit were as follows:
Chiffchaff: 3 unseen singing males
Blackcap: 3 unseen singing males
Great Spotted Woodpecker: calling birds heard in the southern section of the site and in the eastern section of the cemetery
Butterflies (in addition to the above):
– Marbled White (at least 15)
– Essex Skipper (at least 1)
– Unidentified “golden skipper” species (at least 10)
– Peacock (2)
– Ringlet (1)
– Meadow Brown (at least 5)
– Speckled Wood (4)
– Large White (at least 3)
– Unidentified “white” species (at least 10)
Dragonflies and damselflies:
– unidentified female darter species (2)
Reeves’ Muntjac: 1 seen crossing Hilly Road and presumably the same animal seen late crossing Church Hill and “barking” in the south west corner of the site
Finally, I came across a large cluster of the fungus Chicken of the Woods in a tree cavity.
Species recorded during this visit were as follows (heard only records in italics):
Blackcap
Reeves’ Muntjac
Small Copper
Unidentified darter species
Here are some photos
from my visit:
Photo: Gatekeeper
Photo: Marbled White
Photo: Marbled White
Photo: Marbled White
Photo: Marbled White
Photo: Large Skipper
Photo: Small Skipper
Photo: Small Skipper
Photo: Small Skipper
Photo: Essex Skipper
Site totals for 2025 to date (2024 totals in brackets):
Birds = 43 (49)
Total species list for the site
Birds = 69
Love nature .... act now
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