Summary July 2025

• New “Year Ticks” in July 2025: 10

• New “Life Ticks” in Jul 2025: 0

• Total Species for Year so far: 119

We started the month wit the last day of the birding group term which took us to Marbury Park on 2st July 2025 where we actually managed to get a couple of year ticks – Common Sandpiper and Garden Warbler – though some of us only heard the Garden warbler. We had a good morning and a good planning session to work out next term’s schedule.

We didn’t really do much birding as a result of some hot weather then some wet weather but towards the end of the month we had a three-day birding trip to North Wales between 24th – 26th July where we managed to get seven year ticks. We were a bit late in the year; I estimate that the latest it is really worth going to South Stack is probably the very start of July. Most of the cliff-nesting birds had gone but we still got some good birds and had a nice break from home life.

In the garden we continue to have a fight with the Parakeets. I bought a new spring loaded feeder which seemed to foil them for about a week oe so but eventually one of them managed to figure out a way to get on it. It is designed for heavier birds or animals and I cant get it to be sensisitive enough to thwart Parakeets. However, it seems to have limited the numbers.

On the 5th of July we had a surprise visit froma Greater-Spotted Woodpecker and we had a Swift fly over the garden at a fair height. We are seeing the odd Collared Dove again but mainly the garden is House Sparrows, Dunnocks, Goldfinch and Pigeons!!

No	Species/Place
1	Common Sandpiper	Marbury Park 1 July 2025
2	Garden Warbler	Marbury Park 1 July 2025
3	Mistle Thrush	Marbury Park 1 July 2025
4	Sandwich Tern	Cemlyn Bay 25 July 2025
5	Common Tern	Cemlyn Bay 25 July 2025
6	Whimbrel	Cemlyn Bay 25 July 2025
7	Chough	RSPB South Stack 25 July 2025
8	Kittiwake	RSPB South Stack 25 July 2025
9	Black Guillemot	Fish Dock, Holyhead 25 July 2025
10	Grey Wagtail	Point of Ayr 26 July 2025