Date: 28th October 2026
Time: from 8:15 a.m.
Weather: dry, sunny, light wind, 8°C to 11°C
The main purpose of my visit this morning was Red Fox photography, having baited a specific location with the remains of a chicken carcass, dog food and dog biscuits. Unfortunately, this was a complete failure with not a single sighting of a Red Fox at this location or indeed anywhere else. For some reason, my “breakfast buffet” was not welcomed but I bet it quickly disappears!
However, it did prove to be a very successfully visit.
During my visit, I added another species to my site list for 2026: Ring-necked Parakeet.
I first heard the distinctive call of Ring-necked Parakeets and quickly located 4 birds flying over the northern section of the site in a northerly direction. This is a species that I first recorded in 2023 and I have seen small numbers of birds at least once in subsequent years.
Other notable records of birds during my visit included the following:
Common Buzzard: 1 seen briefly taking off from a bush in the paddock in the northern section of the site
Skylark: 2 individuals heard calling whilst flying over the northern section of the site but neither seen
Chaffinch: 2 individual birds initially heard calling and then a small flock of c.10 seen, all in the northern section of the site
Green Woodpecker: 2 loudly calling birds seen in the northern section of the site
Great Spotted Woodpecker: 2 heard calling in the northern section of the site but neither seen
Jackdaw: a single bird, 2 birds and 4 birds all seen flying over the northern section of the site
With regard to mammals, I heard but did not see a "barking" Reeves' Muntjac in the northern section of the site. In addition, I saw 3 Grey Squirrels, 2 along the access track from Larkins Tyres and another in the northern section of the site
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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