Category Archives: JMNR Sightings

These are sightings for the Jim Mart NR. Please record your sightings in the hide logbook or send them to the Site Records Co-ordinator, Paul Beard.

JMNR Sightings March 25th 2016

A lovely sunny day, 1pm 1m Mandarin, 2 Mallards, Blackbird, Blue tit, Great tit, Goldfinch, Pheasant, Moorhen, Carrion Crow, Woodpigeon, Tree Creeper, 3 Nuthatch, Buzzard, Robin. 7-spot Ladybird, 2-spot Ladybird, Small Tortoiseshell, Bumblebees, a hoverfly (Eristalis pertinax). Dead frog Bottom … Continue reading

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20/3/2016 JMNR sightings

Chaffinch, Blackbird, Blue Tit, Moorhen, 2m Mandarin Duck, 4 Crow, Buzzard, Pheasant, Wood Pigeon, Wren, 2 LT Tit, Great Tit, Nuthatch. A lot of small fish fry in the hide pond. Paul Beard

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JMNR 19th March 2016

Sightings from today’s work party: Blue Tit, Chaffinch, Common Buzzard (3), Great Tit, Mandarin Duck (2 flew out of the big trees on the north boundary and landed in the brook in the Jolly Cobbler’s field), Moorhen, Nuthatch, Pheasant, Woodpigeon, … Continue reading

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JMNR 11th March 2016

Blue Tit, Carrion Crow, Common Buzzard, Goldfinch, Great Tit, Nuthatch, Robin. Two mating Frogs and a lot of fresh frogspawn in the shallows of the Bottom Pond.

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JMNR 7th March 2016

Blue Tit, Carrion Crow, Chaffinch (singing), Great Tit, Mallard (pair), Pheasant, Wren. Blackthorn beginning to flower, Spring Crocus (or it might be Early Crocus) in C4a, and a few Lesser Celandine and Dandelions. Bluebells leaves are coming up, but not … Continue reading

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JMNR 20th February 2016

Blue Tit, Carrion Crow, Chaffinch, Nuthatch, Song Thrush, Wren. Field Vole, Rabbit. A few Lesser Celandine in flower between the Bottom Pond and the Brook (C6a), and in front of the Hide. Another patch of Snowdrops has emerged from the … Continue reading

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JMNR sightings February 15th 2016

Chaffinch, Blackbird, wren, Bullfinch (heard), Woodpigeon, Great tit, Blue tit. Hazel flowers, Snowdrops. Bug in reed mace Liocoris tripustulatus – http://www.ispotnature.org/node/775868

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JMNR 11th February 2016

A very Spring-like afternoon at the reserve, sunny, largely windless, and 7 degrees C. Blackbird, Blue Tit, Bullfinch (2 males), Carrion Crow, Goldfinch, Great Tit, Kestrel, Nuthatch, Robin, Wren.

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JMNR 10th February 2016

Blue Tit, Bullfinch, Goldfinch, Great Tit, Nuthatch, Robin, Treecreeper, Wren. Snowdrops (C4c, H4) and Spring Crocus (C4c) in flower. (Reported by Peter Faulkner and Jeff Davies)

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JMNR Sightings February 9th 2016

2 Bullfinch, Buzzard, Great tit, Blue tit, Woodpigeon, Long-tailed tit, Woodpigeon, wren.

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