RECENT SIGHTINGS

REPORTS OF RECENT SIGHTINGS IN THE AREA

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SEPTEMBER 2021

SEEN	WHERE
1^st – Reeve’s muntjac *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
4^th – Grounded pipistrelle bat taken into care. Released 12 September.	Hollycombe
5^th – An amazing display of bats on a very warm evening – common and soprano pipistrelle, noctule, brown long-eared, Western barbastelle (first record for this site) and Daubenton’s	Frensham Little Pond
6^th – Hoverfly Volucella zonaria *Click for photo* stealthily approaching roof nest entrance of hornets Vespa crabro *Click for photo*	Petworth Road
7^th - Fine array of fungus, thought to be honey fungus, beneath a large oak tree. Possibly the rare bioluminescent Omphalotus illudens. *Click for photo*	Phillips garage, Wormley
10^th – Badger passing through garden	Petworth Road
10^th/11^th – Spectacular displays by common and soprano pipistrelle and Daubenton’s bats during a bat walks. Other species seen or detected were brown long-eared (including a cluster roosting in a barn roof), a rare Alcathoe circling in another barn, a brief pass by a rare Western barbastelle, and a few noctule passes.	Imbhams Farm
12^th - Group of juvenile (1^st year) wheatears	Thursley nature reserve
16^th - Black bryony *Click for photo*	Chiddingfold garden
16^th - Snail, perhaps white-lipped Cepaea hortensis *Click for photo*	Chiddingfold garden
18^th – Red admiral *Click for photo* and comma *Click for photo* butterflies attracted to moth lure rope	Killinghurst Lane garden

AUGUST 2021

SEEN	WHERE
3^rd - Redstart	Frensham Great Pond
3^rd - Many gatekeepers *Click for photo, meadow browns and small white butterflies flitting among the Verbena bonariensis, feverfew and wild marjoram. Bush cricket, possibly Metrioptera brachyptera* *Click for photo* in overgrown chive and mint patch.	Chiddingfold garden
3^rd - Square stemmed St John's wort *Click for photo*	Chiddingfold garden
5^th - Female white admiral butterfly Limenitis camilla *Click for photo*	Hindhead garden
7^th - Young sparrowhawk grooming itself on the summerhouse *Click for photo*	Courts Hill Road garden
9^th – Juvenile blackcaps feasting on bramble berries *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
10^th - Assasin bug Empicoris vagabundus *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
10^th – Juvenile common pipistrelle bat found grounded	Near Midhurst Road
11^th – Juvenile soprano pipistrelle bat found trapped in house	Woolmer Hill
Mid-month – Wood white butterfly Click for photo	Farmland in Haslemere
Mid-month – Poplar hawk moths *Click for photo, peach blossom moth Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden
16^th - Otter spraint, about 3 weeks old, consisting mainly of fish bones *Click for photo*	Hammer Bottom
18^th - Glow-worm	Lawn in Plaistow garden
19^th – Mouse spider Scotophaeus blackwalli on wall inside house Click for photo	Petworth Road
21^st – Underweight juvenile brown long-eared bat found grounded *Click for photo*	Chithurst
23^rd – Comma butterfly caterpillar *Click for photo*	Petworth Road
25^th - Grass snake among slow worms in compost bin *Click for photo*	Camelsdale
25^th - Underweight juvenile brown long-eared bat trapped in function room. Released 15 September.	Lythe Hill Hotel
26^th - At least three greater horseshoe bats emerging from derelict stables at dusk. Other bats passing overhead were brown long-eared, common and soprano pipistrelle, noctule and serotine	Between Petworth and Midhurst
Late in month - Elephant hawk moth caterpillars on a hardy outside fuchsia	Lion Lane garden
27^th – Spider Amaurobius similis in house *Click for photo*	Petworth Road
29^th – Desperately underweight juvenile brown long-eared bat died shortly after being found grounded	Wormley
29^th – Large roebuck relaxing and grooming itself *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
29^th – Gallant-soldier Galinsago parviflora in flower *Click for photo*	Near The Mill pub

JULY 2021

SEEN	WHERE
3^rd – Pair of young carrion crows attentively watching parent anting on lawn before trying it themselves	Petworth Road garden
5^th – Young roe deer left sleeping whilst mother forages elsewhere *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
7^th – Baby pipistrelle bat found grounded – taken into care	Elstead
10^th/11^th – Sawfly caterpillars Neurotoma saltuum *Click for photo*	Stedham
22^nd - Swifts still flying over Haslemere. Also a hen blackbird feeding its chick	Near Haslemere Town meadow on 22 July
23^rd – Devil’s coach-horse Ocypus olens found on living room carpet *Click for photo*	Petworth Road
23^rd - Dagger moth Acronicta sp. (probably grey dagger) *Click for photo*	Hindhead garden
25^th – Roe deer and calf browsing in shrubbery *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
20^th/21^st – Common pipistrelle bat in care gave birth overnight *Click for photo*	Hascombe
24^th/25^th - White parakeet or parrot seen flying high and fast, white belly, coloured wings	Over Hammer
26^th - Painted lady, comma and peacock butterflies on Buddleia	Plaistow garden
27^th - Dark crimson underwing moth Catocala sponsa *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden

JUNE 2021

SEEN	WHERE
3^rd – Several beautiful demoiselle Calopteryx virgo fluttering around shrubs *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
5^th - Male and female wood white butterflies spotted engaging in a courtship display.This is a first for Chiddingfold and proves there is a local colony. *Click for photo*	Chiddingfold St Mary's churchyard
7^th - Several Alcathoe, brown long-eared, common and soprano pipistrelle bats and a single serotine shortly after sunset	Furnace Place
9^th – Copper underwing caterpillars Amphipyra pyramidea on Cotoneaster *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
10^th - Brown long-eared bat found dead on garden path *Click for photo*	Plaistow
12^th – Jumping spider Salticus scenicus – the first seen here this year *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
12^th - 2 bee orchids *Click for photo*	Woodland garden near Plaistow
12^th – Roe deer accompanied by very young fawn *Click for video*	Petworth Road garden
14^th - 2 churring male nightjars and 1 female. Also cuckoo calling	Hindhead common, Gibbet side
14^th - Palmate newts in garden pond *Click for photo*	Hill Road
15^th – Hornet apparently foraging for insects in house *Click for photo*	Petworth Road
15^th - Small tortoiseshell butterfly	Garden at Plaistow
15^th - Meadow brown butterfly	Woodland near Plaistow
16^th - Dormouse, escaped before weighing; Barn Owl flying in daylight; 3 Wood Mice in separate dormouse boxes	Woodland near Haslemere
16^th - 50 common spotted orchids again in flower, plus two more on a new site in the garden beyond a tall hedge. *Click for photo*	Chiddingfold garden
19^th – Silver-studded blue butterfly *Click for photo.* Also a small hoverfly, probably a female Meliscaeva auricollis *Click for photo*	Bramshott Common
22^nd - Female stag beetle on footpath	Behind the Church Centre in Headley Village
23^rd – Hoverfly Eristalis horticola resting between sessions hovering to defend territory *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
23^rd - Marbled white butterflies, 2	Woodland near Plaistow
23^rd – Male and female bullfinch foraging on plants in window box	Chiddingfold garden
26^th – Juvenile soprano pipistrelle bat found grounded with internal injuries – taken into care	Rushmoor
27^th - Toad - a red spot on its 'sticky' looking head, and the left eye was red. Click for photo Also a baby newt in the pond	Pathfields Close garden
27^th - Bee with big pollen baskets and a mint moth Pyrausta aurata *Click for photo*	Pathfields Close garden
28^th – Marbled white butterflies on the wing *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane meadow
29^th - Hummingbird Hawkmoth on Red Valerian	Garden at Plaistow

MAY 2021

SEEN	WHERE
2^nd – Two juvenile siskins having bird feeder demonstrated by parent	Petworth Road garden
4^th - Speckled wood butterfly in dappled sunshine and natural short grass edge of woodland	Chiddingfold garden
7^th - Pair of male and female orange tip butterflies fluttering together in dappled sunlight	Chiddingfold St Mary's churchyard
7^th - Stitchwort, violets and bugle in flower. Wood anemone going over now.	Chiddingfold St Mary's churchyard
9^th - Blackcap in a tall mixed hedge	Woodside Road, Chiddingfold
11^th - Painted lady butterfly, 2, part of invasion seen in Sussex from 8^th May	Woodland near Plaistow
12^th - A pair of chaffinches	Frensham Little Pond cafe
12^th - Wood white butterfly, 2, first of the spring brood; 1 painted lady and 1 small copper	Wood near Plaistow
13^th - Roe deer buck confronting a fox in our garden *Click for photo*	Camelsdale
13^th - St George's mushroom Calocybe gambosa *Click for photo*	Tower Road Hindhead
13^th - Privet hawkmoth on the outside of our wooden porch *Click for photo*	Milland
18^th - 2 nightingales and several garden warblers and blackcaps	Milford Common
20^th - Redstart, male	Plaistow garden
28^th – Two great tits anting vigorously for several minutes at edge of lawn	Petworth Road garden
28^th – Bank vole nibbling off tiny nectar filled buds from Cotoneaster growing up house wall	Petworth Road garden
29^th – Six species of bat active overnight – common and soprano pipistrelle, brown long-eared, serotine, noctule and barbastelle calls detected over garden	Petworth Road
30^th - Poplar hawkmoth *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden
30^th - Unidentified jewel wasp, of family Chrysididae, searching surface of brick wall in sunshine *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
31^st - Turtle dove heard "purring"	Woodland near Plaistow

APRIL 2021

SEEN	WHERE
1^st - Blackcap, male seen and heard singing, also chiffchaff singing	Woodland near Plaistow
2^nd - Spider Pisaura mirabilis on our paving *Click for photo*	Pathfields Close
2^nd - House sparrows plentiful, and a heron perched on roof *Click for photo*	Pathfields Close
3^rd - Orange tip butterfly nectaring on purple violets	Killinghurst Lane garden
4^th - Lady's smock *Click for photo, bluebells, forget-me-nots, wood anemones Click for photo, lesser celandine, many native primroses Click for photo, ?dog violet, Viinca minor* and major all in flower.	Chiddingfold garden
4^th - Holly blue and orange tip butterflies	Chiddingfold garden
4^th - Orange-tip butterfly, male	Plaistow garden
5^th – Female Reeves’ muntjac foraging for fallen leaves *Click for video*	Petworth Road garden
5^th - Impressive gorse Click for photo and stand of blackthorn Click for photo in blossom	Behind Chiddingfold churchyard
8^th – Streamer moth Anticlea derivate Click for photo and purple thorn moth Selenia tetralunaria Click for photo attracted to moth trap	Killinghurst Lane garden
11^th - Jay, bouncing and searching around in flower border	Chiddingfold garden
12^th - Several long-tailed tits in camellia bush, landing on hardy fuchsia bush and attracted to and bumping against nearby window pane	Chiddingfold garden
12^th - Peacock butterfly alternately flitting about and sunning itself	Swan Barn Farm
13^th - Pair of grey wagtails	A couple of miles outside Haslemere
14^th - First cuckoo heard along with sightings of tree pipit, willow warbler, linnet as well as male and female stonechats	Woolbeding Common
14^th - 5 redpolls visiting bird feeders	Headley garden
mid-month - Pair of buzzards and pair of carrion crows disputing crown of Douglas fir for several days	Woodland near Swan Barn Farm
18^th - A single swallow	Farm near Milland
19^th - Speckled wood, peacock, orange tip and brimstone butterflies	Woodland near Plaistow
19^th - Swallows, two	Over pastureland near Plaistow
21^st - Nightingale and firecrest heard	Prestwick Lane, Grayswood
23^rd - Robins, two young fledglings, one pecking up ants	Garden at Plaistow
24^th - A pair of snipe in grass fields	Farm near Milland
25^th First skylarks of the season	Farm near Milland
27^th - Holly blue butterfly unusually fluttering about in the sunshine on the bare ground (possibly finding salts on the ground?) and briefly basking *Click for photo*	Chiddingfold garden
28^th - Orange tip butterfly	Lion Lane garden
29^th - Angle shades moth in porch *Click for photo*	Tower Road, Hindhead

MARCH 2021

SEEN	WHERE
Early in month - On roadside verge scarlet elf cap Sarcoscypha austriaca *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane
2^nd - Heavily pregnant Reeves muntjac scuttling across lawn into cover	Petworth Road garden
5^th - Blackcap female and 4 siskins on bird feeder	Garden at Fernhurst
5^th onwards - Three redpolls (1 male, 2 female) visiting – a first for this garden	Braeside Close
9^th – Buff-tailed bumblebee queen searching bank for nesting place	Petworth Road garden
16^th – At least six species of bat on the wing on an unusually mild evening. Common and soprano pipistrelles, brown long-eared (social calls), serotine, Daubenton’s, a single Western barbastelle, and a few unidentified Myotis passes.	Petworth Road garden
mid-month - Two goldfinches regularly sighted on rose bushes and elder branches	Chiddingfold garden
mid-month - Bumble bees flying low and entering daffodil heads; also an unidentified brown butterfly	Chiddingfold garden
19^th - Lesser spotted woodpecker singing, drumming and eventually also seen	Holdfast Lane, Grayswood
20^th – Brown long-eared bat investigating loft space *Click for video*	Petworth Road
20^th - Tawny owl landing on trail camera *Click for video*	Petworth Road garden
21^st - Brimstone butterfly, male *Click for photo*	Near Oaken Wood, near Plaistow
22^nd - Brimstone butterflies 3 males, peacock butterfly and bee-fly Bombylius major	Farmland near Haslemere
22^nd - Rustic bunting and little bunting	Thursley Common
23^rd - Brimstone butterfly	Chiddingfold garden
23^rd - Crossbills, 50 or so, stonechat pair and a red kite	Black Down
29^th - Comma, peacock, male brimstone butterflies	Chiddingfold field
29^th - Barren strawberry in flower, violets, wood anemones in flower	Chiddingfold field
29^th - Female brimstone butterfly on primroses	Chiddingfold Forest
30^th - Holly blue butterflies, 2	Garden at Plaistow
30^th - Pair of swallows	Hankley Common power lines
31^st -: Wood sorrel in flower	Beacon Hill woodlands

FEBRUARY 2021

SEEN	WHERE
1^st/2^nd - Pied blackbird - nowhere near an albino, just white feathers intermingled with the black	Lion Lane garden
6^th - Blue tits frequenting a nest box in bright sunshine	Lion Lane garden
12^th - Red kite being mobbed by a crow	Beacon Hill
13^th – Drowsy fox awakening after a nap on a snowy lawn *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
mid-month - Pair of small brindled beauty moths Apocheima hispidaria *Click for photo* and a pale brindled beauty moth Phigalia pilosaria in moth trap *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden
20^th - Peregrine falcon	Hascombe
20^th - About 50 jackdaws circling noisily as a flock, many flying in pairs. No mobbing target visible.	Over Swan Barn Farm
24^th - Red admiral butterfly	Garden at Plaistow
26^th - Male brimstone butterfly	Highcombe Edge, Hindhead
26^th – Bank vole scavenging seeds beneath bird feeder *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden

JANUARY 2021

SEEN	WHERE
3^rd - First redwing of the winter *Click for photo*	Wood in Ifold
5^th - Fox at bird table in daylight	Lion Lane garden
9^th - Hair ice. The fungus Exidiopsis effusa creates this ice on rotten wood; it is rarely seen. *Click for photo*	Waggoners Wells
10^th – Roe buck in velvet and two does together with a Reeve’s muntjac	Petworth Road garden
13^th - Frog moving around garden	Lion Lane
17^th - Shrew scampering around on garage floor beneath parked cars	Petworth Road
24^th – Fox bemused by deep snow. Later, two young roe gambolling in snow before joining mother to browse on yew *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
25^th – Goldcrest visiting Abutilon megapotamicum regularly for insects over a few days	Pathfields Close
26^th – Redwings feasting on ivy berries *Click for photo* and 21 other species spotted including a fine jay Click for photo, song thrush Click for photo, and long-tailed tit Click for photo	Ifold garden

DECEMBER 2020

SEEN	WHERE
Throughout month - Reeve's muntjac seen several times	Tower Road garden, Hindhead
1^st - 2 red kite, 1+ sparrowhawk, 40+ crossbills	Black Down
1^st - Little egret *Click for photo*	Waggoners Wells
2^nd – Two rose-ringed parakeets Psittacula krameri at bird feeders. Probably a first sighting in this area. *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden
4^th - First winter male siskin at bird feeder *Click for photo*	Garden at Ifold
10^th - Goldcrest	Hill Road garden
11^th - Siskin on bird feeder	Hill Road garden
12^th – Roe deer with two well grown juveniles in attendance	Petworth Road garden
13^th – Unidentified bumblebee at Mahonia flowers	Petworth Road garden
20^th - Female crossbill at garden pond	Tower Road, Hindhead
21^st - Tiny snail (less than 1/2 inch long) on outside of window *Click for photo*	Pathfields Close
23^rd – Redwing	Petworth Road garden
Late in month - Red kite *Click for photo*	Thursley
Late in month - Fungus - probably Pleurotus dryinus *Click for photo*	Thursley

NOVEMBER 2020

SEEN	WHERE
3^rd – Reeve’s muntjac youngster seeking reassurance from mother whilst foraging *Click for video*	Petworth Road garden
4^th - 2 mute swan (only 2^nd record for this site), red kite, 3 buzzard, male and female peregrine, 12 lesser black backed gull, very large numbers of wood pigeon, 3+ green woodpecker, woodlark, skylark, 1+ meadow pipit, 6+ stonechat, 1+ redwing, 5 blackbird, mistle thrush, 9+ Dartford warbler (3 singing males), 2 raven, 4+ linnet, 15+ lesser redpoll, 1+ siskin, 20+ crossbill,	Black Down
4^th - Red admiral butterfly	Black Down
4^th - Brambling	Top of Chase Lane
5^th - Red admiral butterfly	Black Down
6^th - Swallow, brambling	Black Down
6^th - Peacock butterfly	Black Down
7^th - Noctule bat hawking high over trees at midday	Black Down
7^th - Red admiral butterfly	Black Down
7^th - 30+ crossbill	Black Down
8^th - Adult female goshawk, 30+ meadow pipit	Witley Farm
10^th - 3 red kite, sub-adult male, adult female and 1^st winter female goshawk, 6 sparrowhawk, grey wagtail, 70 redwing, 2+ brambling	Black Down
10^th – Much bat activity just after dusk – common pipistrelle, serotine, Daubenton’s and barbastelle	Petworth Road garden
13^th - 2-3 red kite	Witley Farm
20^th – Badger foraging for seeds beneath bird feeder *Click for video*	Petworth Road garden
21^st - Packet of house sparrows in a hedge	Haslemere garden
21^st - Pair of goldfinch near stream	By Town Meadow
21^st – Deer ked Lipoptena cervi	Black Down
24^th - Red kite overhead	Pathfields Close
26^th - First winter grey wagtail *Click for photo*	Garden at Ifold
30^th – Large juvenile raptor, later identified as a buzzard *Click for photo*	Lindford

OCTOBER 2020

SEEN	WHERE
5^th - 2 raven flying over	Plaistow garden
5^th - Crossbill	Over Haslemere
5^th - 3-4 cormorant, red kite, 3-4 sparrowhawk, 10+ buzzard, 2 kestrel, 2 woodlark, skylark heard, 6+ meadow pipit, pied wagtail heard, 100+ house martin, 10+ swallow, 13+ stonechat, immature female redstart, redwing/song thrush, 2 blackbird, 2 ring ouzel, 3 mistle thrush, 6+ Dartford warbler, 5+ chiffchaff, 2 raven, brambling, 30+ goldfinch, 8+ lesser redpoll1+ crossbill	Black Down
7^th - Young common toad Bufo bufo sheltering in dormouse box in company with large yellow slug Limax flavus *Click for photo*	Imbhams Farm
7^th - 2 woodlark, 70+ house martin, 5 redwing, 2 ring ouzel, peregrine falcon	Black Down
7^th/9^th – 2 Ravens calling (and seen)	Over Inval, Haslemere
9^th - 1st winter female goshawk, 2 brambling, 8 ring ouzel	Black Down
10^th - 8 ring ouzel	Black Down
10^th - Ring ouzel	Devil's Punchbowl
11^th - 2-3 red kite, 4 swallow, 5 stonechat, 70 starling, 30 linnet, 2 yellowhammer	Witley Farm
11^th - 1st winter female peregrine, common gull	Over Hurthill Copse
12^th - Snipe, woodlark, 50 redwing, fieldfare, 5 ring ouzel	lack Down
14^th – Bees nest found during dormouse box checks *Click for photo*	Imbhams Farm
14^th – Clifden non-pareil moth Catocala fraxini *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane
Mid-month - Family of wild black swans Cygnus atratus well settled at this site. A rare chance to see these birds in the wild in UK.	Benbow Pond
17^th - 11 Merveille du jour moths Dichonia aprilina found in moth trap	Killinghurst Lane
19^th - Minotaur beetle Typhaeus typhoeus *Click for photo*	Frensham Little Pond
22^nd - A few crossbills	Hindhead Common
23^rd - Yellow-browed warbler, goshawk	Black Down
24^th – Sparrowhawk with prey – possibly a greater spotted woodpecker *Click for photo*	Hillgarth Estate, Hindhead
27^th - December moth Poecilocampa populi attracted to moth trap *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane

SEPTEMBER 2020

SEEN	WHERE
1^st - Red kite, 2-3 sparrowhawk,25+ buzzard, kestrel, 13+ swallow, 7 house martin, juvenile whinchat, 4 redstart, 8+ chiffchaff, 2 raven, about 9 spotted flycatcher, juvenile pied flycatcher, 20+ siskin. Also several stonechats, mostly juvenile, Dartford warbler and barn owl.	Black Down
6^th - Caterpillars of vapourer moth *Click for photo* and sawfly *Click for photo* on roses. Also a millipede nearby *Click for photo*	Pathfields Close
7^th – Three badgers foraging on lawn	Petworth Road garden
7^th – 8 -12 raven	Black Down
7^th/8^th - 2 juvenile male goshawk, 2-3 redstart, 2+ spotted flycatcher	Black Down
8^th - 8+ crossbill, lesser redpoll, grey wagtail, adult male peregrine, blackcap	Black Down
9^th - Adult hobby	Black Down
10^th - 4 lesser black-backed gull, 15+ meadow pipit, 35 swallow, 19 stonechat (possibly a site record), whinchat, 7+ Dartford warbler, tree pipit	Black Down
10^th - Osprey	Over Black Down, then over Fernhurst
11^th - Male Reeve’s muntjac passing through garden. (Has been heard barking repeatedly in nearby woodland for several days now).	Petworth Road
11^th - 20+ Siskin feeding and chattering in conifer trees	Furnace Place
11^th - 2 tree pipit, 2 hobby mobbing a buzzard, 50 house martin, male peregrine, juvenile/1st winter male ring ouzel, 50+ siskin	Black Down
13^th – Brimstone moth *Click for photo*	Furnace Place
13^th - Painted lady butterfly on Verbena bonariensis *Click for photo*	Headley garden
13^th - Moth trap captures: sexton beetle with mites visible *Click for photo, dusky thorn moth and August thorn moth Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden
14^th - 2 Southern hawker dragonflies *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden
14^th - Saffron bolete Leccinellum crocipodium *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden
14^th - Juvenile female hobby, swift, spotted flycatcher, 400 house martin, 30 siskin, woodlark	Black Down
15^th - Clouded yellow butterfly	Black Down
15^th - Woodlark, 1+ skylark, 13 crossbill, 17+ stonechat, ring ouzel, 7+ Dartford warbler	Black Down
15^th - A few bats on the wing - common and soprano pipistrelles, brown long-eared and serotine. Surprisingly few bats and insects seen despite warm evening.	Midhurst Common
16^th - Green woodpecker pecking on a bank	Chiddingfold garden
17^th - Wheatear, 2 woodlark	Black Down
17^th - Red-legged shield bug Pentatorma rufipes *Click for photo*	Ifold
18^th - 8+ lesser redpoll, probable redwing, spotted flycatcher, 6-9 woodlark (possibly a record autumn count for this site)	Black Down
20^th - Hummingbird hawkmoth - the first for a couple of years	Stedham garden
20^th - Merveille du jour moth Dichonia aprilina *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden
21^st - Speckled wood butterfly in pristine condition	Petworth Road garden
22^nd - Female dark bush cricket Pholidoptera Griseoaptera *Click for photo*	Ifold
25^th – Nine adult and juvenile goldfinches at bird feeder as well as usual great, blue, coal and marsh tits, bullfinches, nuthatches, robins and dunnocks	Petworth Road garden
28^th – Nursery web spider Pisaura mirabilis found perched on haversack *Click for photo*	Chase Fields
28^th – 3 red kite, 30+ crossbill, 100 house martin	Black Down
29^th – Red kite, sparrowhawk, 6+ buzzard, male kestrel, 2-3 woodlark, 1+ skylark, 17+ meadow pipit, 15 house martin, 4+ stonechat, 2 blackbird, 2 song thrush, ring ouzel, 7+ Dartford warbler, 7+ chiffchaff, 3 raven, 3 linnet, 5+ lesser redpoll (and possibly flock of ca.40 seen poorly and distantly), 8+ siskin,14+ crossbill	Black Down
30^th – Southern hawker dragonfly (female) Aeshna cyanea *Click for photo*	Ifold