Events

Field Vole Microtus agrestis  Click for photo

Male Brimstone butterfly

Red Kite swooping over fields       

Thrush singing joyfully       

A single Natterer's bat hibernating in NT bat barn

One Daubenton's bat and a single long-eared bat hibernating in NT Bat barn

Rare British Soldiers lichen Cladonia cristatella Click for photo

2 rare Western Barbastelle bats Barbastella barbastellus, 14 Natterer’s Myotis nattereri, 1 Daubenton's Myotis daubentonii, 1 long-eared Plecotus sp, 1 small woodland Myotis hibernating in underground site

Unusually pale female Blackbird. Click for photo(Subsequently identified as having dilution, in which melanin cells are present (unlike in leucistic birds) but produce less pigment than normal).

3 or more Treecreepers this morning in a shrubby tree by the stream,