Recent Sighting

Blackcap, male, probably a winter visitor 

6 Natterer’s bats hibernating in NT bat barn. One or two Cave Spiders also present. 

Rare Western Barbastelle bat hibernating in bat barn, plus a single long-eared and one Daubenton’s

Bats in hibernation – 17 Natterer’s, 1 long-eared and a single dead Western Barbastelle, having apparently died in hibernation last year

Treecreeper, Grey Heron flying by, pair of Blackbirds and a tame Robin   

Greater Horseshoe bat in hibernation  

Waxwing seen in garden Click for photo

Song Thrush singing loudly   

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

Winter cranefly Trichocera sp.  Click for photo