July delivered dry, hot sunny days, with the occasional thunder storm toward the end of the month.
SIGHTINGS
Birds: Carrion Crows, Wood Pigeons, Stock Doves, Magpies, Jays, Jackdaws, Buzzards, Tawny Owl, Green/Great Spotted Woodpeckers, Sparrowhawk, Black-headed/Common Gulls, Nuthatches, Treecreeper, Dunnocks, Blackbirds, Song Thrushes, Robins, Wrens, Goldcrest, Coal/Blue/Great/Long-tailed Tits, Chaffinches, Greenfinches, Bullfinches, Siskins, Chiffchaffs, Blackcaps, Willow Warblers, Stonechats, Tree Pipits.
Mammals: Grey Squirrels, Pipistrelle Bats, Wood Mouse, Fox, Roe Deer.
Reptiles: Common Lizard, Grass Snake, Adder, Slow Worm.
Butterflies/Moths: Large White, Small White, Holly Blue, Peacock, Brimstone, Silver-studded Blue, Comma, Speckled Wood, Red Admiral, Meadow Brown, Grayling, Ringlet.
Dragonfly/Damselfly: Four Spot Chaser, Broad Bodied, Small Red
Insects: Common Green Grasshopper, Bees, Wasps, Flies, Ants, Wasp Spider.
Pond Life: Pond Skaters, Water Boatman, Smooth Newt.
Plants in flower: Low growing Gorse, Cut-leaved Geranium, Heather/Ling - Cross leaved and Bell.
A Tawny Owl was heard along the Hazel Drive fenceline.
