2002 saw a team of bird enthusiasts conduct a bird survey of South Combe Farm (the land around the Frogstone). As well as the obvious expected favourites a few more unusual birds were seen. The moist notable in some senses was a single Cirl Bunting. Several others reports of the species have been made in the last few years and it looks as if this species is slowly working its way up the coast from the South Hams where is has hung on in low numbers for some years.
The Cirl Bunting is one our lost wildlife of the Sid Valley that has returned and could increase in number in the coming years.
Updated Dec 8th 2022
Highest number of each species in a single count
Number of counts: 22. Number of species: 51
| Species | No. | Area of Farm | Species | No. | Area of Farm |
| Barn Owl | 1 | Linnet | 14 | ||
| Blackbird | 11 | Long Tailed Tit | 8 | ||
| Black Cap | 5 | Magpie | 7 | ||
| Black Headed Gull | 1 | Meadow Pipit | |||
| Blue Tit | 5 | Mistle Thrush | 7 | ||
| Bullfinch | 3 | Nuthatch | 2 | ||
| Buzzard | 4 | Peregrine | 2 | ||
| Carrion Crow | 18 | Pheasant | 3 | ||
| Chaffinch | 5 | Pied Wagtail | 1 | ||
| Chiff Chaff | 10 | Raven | 4 | ||
| Cirl Bunting | 1 | Redwing | 2 | ||
| Coal Tit | 3 | Robin | 9 | ||
| Collared Dove | Rook | ||||
| Common Gull | Siskin | 1 | |||
| Corn Bunting | Skylark | 1 | |||
| Dunnock | 3 | Snipe | |||
| Fieldfare | Song Thrush | 7 | |||
| Goldcrest | 4 | Sparrow Hawk | |||
| Goldfinch | 11 | Starling | 2 | ||
| Great Black Backed Gull | Stock Dove | 1 | |||
| Greater Spotted Woodpecker | 2 | Stone Chat | 2 | ||
| Great Tit | 5 | Swallow | 11 | ||
| Green Woodpecker | 1 | Swift | |||
| Greenfinch | 2 | Tawny Owl | 1 | ||
| Grey Wagtail | Tree Creeper | 1 | |||
| Herring Gull | 6 | Tree Sparrow | |||
| House Martin | 5 | Wheatear | 1 | ||
| House Sparrow | Whitethroat | 2 | |||
| Jackdaw | 28 | Willow Warbler | 3 | ||
| Jay | 5 | Woodpigeon | 12 | ||
| Kestrel | 4 | Wren | 3 | ||
| Lapwing | Yellow Hammer | 1 | |||
| Lesser Black Backed Gull | 1 |
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