Copley Woods Sunday a.m.

A similar area to Muxy, but up in the woods. These are called Spring Wood on the map, with no spring, and Long Wood, confusingly with a spring at the western end.

Great Spotted Woodpecker
Nuthatch, getting regular here.
Cormorant, full adult, flying east down the river
There is always a pair or two of Carrion Crows, living within the wood.

Hollys are colonising, as they are under many of our oak woods. Or maybe they are recolonising?
More worrying are alien Cherry Laurels. Foxes swallow the laurel fruit in gardens and then crap in the woods, depositing the stones. I counted 24 medium to big bushes.

I had a fox in my garden Saturday night. It ate a female pheasant and left the wings left and right, in their proper positions, but upside down.
I think pheasants are released by a guy down Dudwell Lane, as they have been in the garden several times. A Red-legged Partridge on one occasion got flushed out, which looked odd in a tarmac, suburban environment.