Sunday, 28 December 2025

Visit to St. Nicholas Church and surrounding areas – 27th December 2025

Date: 27th December 2025

Time: from 8:45 a.m.

Weather: dry, sunny, light/moderate wind, 3°C to 5°C

It was again very quiet for what will probably be my last visit of the year this morning but I still managed some notable records:

Redwing: 1 briefly heard calling in the northern section of the site but otherwise surprisingly absent

Chaffinch: male and female seen together in the northern section of the site

Great Spotted Woodpecker: 2 seen together flying high into the northern section of the site and then landing in the top of the tall trees

Goldcrest: 1, possibly 2, heard calling in the wooded area in the southern section of the site

I also saw 3 Grey Squirrels, 1 in the wooded area adjacent to the access track from Larkins Tyres, 1 in the eastern section of the cemetery and 1 in the wooded area in the southern section of the site.

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

Goldcrest
Blue Tit 
Great Tit
Robin
Dunnock
Redwing
Blackbird
Song Thrush
Chaffinch
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Jay
Jackdaw
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Woodpigeon
Herring Gull

Grey Squirrel

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

Birds = 50 (49)
Mammals = 4 (3)
Butterflies = 23 (17)
Dragonflies and damselflies = 11 (11)
Reptiles = 0 (0)
Amphibians = 0 (0)

Total species list for the site 

Birds = 70
Mammals = 8
Butterflies = 26
Dragonflies and damselflies = 14
Reptiles = 1
Amphibians = 0

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