21 June 2026: Canons Farm - Ian Ward

 

General comments Sunset 21:21 (longest day of year)
Dusk Watch with a Bat detector:
considered Common Pipistrelle (45kHz) over Reads Rest Cottages (22:30)
& Canons farm barns although a (50kHz) stronger reading picked up over Canons farmhouse (23:00) could have been a Brown Long-eared bat but not seen. Fewer bats compared to a few weeks ago.
No owls seen/heard although probably about.
Stock Dove 1 singing in Lunch Wood prior to sunset
Herring Gull 2
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 flew SE over Poultry field (21:03)
Skylark 2 singing
Song Thrush 2 singing
Chaffinch 1 calling in North Horse Pasture
Roe Deer 1