29 May 2026: Canons Farm - Justin Bendig

 

General comments

Dusk watch up to 21:50. A slightly cooler evening after a week of record May temperatures. A near full moon providing some helpful light. My first sighting of a Barn Owl hunting this year.

Also, an unusually late Spring record of Meadow Pipit 

Pheasant 1 (Cock Pheasant crowing)
Barn Owl 1 (21:38, hunting along east edge of Horse Pasture, continued due south over Reads Rest Lane towards Stoney Nob)
Little Owl 1 (Reads Rest Lane telegraph poles)
Jay 1
Skylark 2
Whitethroat 2
Dunnock 2
Meadow Pipit 2 (chasing each other, low over the ground, Infront George East)
Yellowhammer 2 (Male & female, Reads Rest Cottages)
Rabbit 1
Roe Deer doe 1
Fox 1