Date: 1st January 2026
Time: from 8:45 a.m.
Weather: dry, sunny, light wind, 2°C to 4°C
It was very cold for my New Years Day visit to the site. There was a ground frost and the pond in the northern section of the site was frozen.
I recorded 19 species of birds to start off my 2026 site list and UK year list.
The notable bird records during my visit were as follows ….
Redwing: 1 seen and several heard calling in the northern section of the site
Goldcrest: 2 seen in the wooded area along the track down to the A127 and another heard in the wooded area in the southern section of the site
Chaffinch: male seen on the Larkins Tyres access track
Great Spotted Woodpecker: 1 heard weakly “drumming” in the northern section of the site and 1 seen in the wooded area in the southern section of the site
Jackdaw: 2 seen flying over the northern section of the site
Black-headed Gull: 4 seen flying over the northern section of the site
With
regard to mammals, I saw a single Reeves’ Muntjac in the northern
section of the site and 3 Grey Squirrels, 1 in the wooded area along the access
track from Larkins Tyres, 1 in the northern section of the site and 1 in the
wooded area along the track down to the A127.
Species recorded during this visit were as follows (heard only records in italics):
Site totals for 2026 to date (2025 and 2024 totals in brackets):
Total species list for the site
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