RECENT SIGHTINGS

REPORTS OF RECENT SIGHTINGS IN THE AREA

Do let us know of any interesting sightings in the area. Just e-mail us at info@haslemerenaturalhistorysociety.org.uk

All sightings are posted in good faith, but have not necessarily been formally authenticated

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
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

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

AUGUST 2020

SEEN	WHERE
Early in month - Bateleur reported (with jesses!). Perhaps the one recently escaped from UK Bird of Prey Centre.	Over Black Down
2^nd – Ferret checking out log store for resident rabbits *Click for photo*	Furnace Place
4^th - Two silver-studded blue butterflies	Black Down
4^th – Roe deer accompanied by well grown juvenile *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
4^th - Honey-buzzard, 6 buzzard, 2 kestrel, 1-2 hobby, swift, 2 juvenile wheatear, 7+ mistle thrush, 1+ spotted flycatcher, pair of raven	Black Down
4^th – Bataleur sitting on path, then perching in tree *Click for photo*	Black Down
4^th - Holly blue butterfly	Braeside Close garden
7^th - Sparrowhawk, 10 buzzard, 3 kestrel, 5great spotted woodpecker, 2+ green woodpecker, 12+ swallow, 15+ stonechat, juvenile whinchat, 8+ Dartford warbler, whitethroat, blackcap, 4-5 willow warbler, 3+ chiffchaff, 12+ spotted flycatcher, pair of raven, 4+ linnet, 4+ bullfinch, 2+ crossbill	Black Down
9^th – Two juvenile buzzards calling noisily from high in Douglas fir *Click for photo*	Woodland near Petworth Road
9^th – Juvenile green woodpecker foraging alone for ants *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
15^th – Two juvenile greater horseshoe bats seen roosting in shed *Click for photo*	Between Midhurst and Petworth
16^th - Redstart	Witley Farm
17^th - 4 swift, 5+ house martin, 4+ mistle thrush, whitethroat, 3 spotted flycatcher, 2 redstart	Black Down
17^th/18^th - Male honey-buzzard (in a protracted tussle with one of two raven at one stage)	Black Down
18^th - Hobby hunting hirundines	Over Weycombe Road
18^th - 2 redstart (different birds to those seen yesterday), red kite, juvenile female goshawk,4 tree pipit, 2+ swallow, 5+ crossbill	Black Down
18^th – Parasitic fly Phasia pusilla *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
23^rd – Sawfly Arge pagana laying eggs in rose stem *Click for photo*	Pathfields Close
24^th - Red kite, redstart and wheatear	Black Down
24^th - Heron aggressively chasing young buzzard which eventually escaped uninjured	Furnace Place
26^th - Juvenile goshawks - one mobbing a buzzard, the other turning tables on an unwise male sparrowhawk	Black Down
26^th - 9+ buzzard, 2 kestrel, adult male hobby, 4+ chiffchaff, 2 raven, 10 crossbill	Black Down
30^th - Blackcap	Chase Lane
30^th - Red kite, juvenile male goshawk, sparrowhawk, 14+ buzzard, kestrel, 13 house martin, swallow, juvenile male redstart bathing in puddle, 3+ chiffchaff, 3 raven, 5 crossbill, 5 waders seen in flight - almost certainly golden plover	Black Down
31^st - Young buzzard narrowly missing catching a baby rabbit on lawn	Furnace Place
31^st - Female redstart and 2 Dartford warblers	Black Down

JULY 2020

SEEN	WHERE
1^st - Group of 9 swifts seen high in the sky	Over Fernhurst
2^nd- Badger and two fox cubs(at separate times) under the bird feeder, when all the nuts fell onto the ground!	Glebe Road, Fernhurst garden
4^th - Red admiral butterfly	Hill Road garden
4^th onwards - Two black swan adults and two semi black young adults *Click for photo*. Other sightings only 1 or two swans - most unusual 4 swan grouping	Benbow Pond
5^th – Silver washed fritillary, gatekeeper, meadow brown, peacock butterflies	Myrtle Farm, Rake
6^th – Purple emperor butterfly with damaged wing found indoors *Click for photo*	Furnace Place
6^th – Clouds of marbled white butterflies	Valewood
6^th – Lots of jackdaws	Haslemere Recreation Ground
11^th – Buzzard swooping unsuccessfully after baby rabbit	Petworth Road garden
11^th – Purple emperor butterfly, in my greenhouse *Click for photo*	Hammer Vale
11^th – Wood white butterfly, summer brood	Chiddingfold Forest
11^th – Gatekeeper butterfly	Plaistow garden
12^th – Silver-washed fritillary, meadow brown, comma, peacock, brimstone and small white butterflies	Petworth Road garden
13^th – Roesel’s bush cricket. A rare long winged form only seen in S England in hot summers *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden patio
13^th – Kestrel parents working hard to keep fledglings well fed	Furnace Place
13^th - Butterflies: Marbled white, 7 small copper and a purple hairstreak	Meadow at Lynchmere
13^th – Pair of willow warblers foraging in shrubs *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
18^th - Yellow bird's-nest Hypopitys monotropa - a rare saprophytic plant Click for photo	Bramshott Common
19^th - Wild bee immobilised by a crab spider on everlasting sweet pea *Click for photo*	Chiddingfold garden
19^th - Frog in improvised pond/ birdbath *Click for photo* A toad also seen near the water source.	Chiddingfold garden
20^th - White-letter hairstreak butterfly *Click for photo*	Tower Road, Hindhead garden
20^th – Nine greater horseshoe bats emerging from roost	Between Midhurst and Petworth
21^st - Common blue and purple hairstreak butterfllies in oak canopy	Plaistow garden
23^rd/24^th - A pair of hobbies hunting high amongst a flock of juvenile swifts	Over Haslemere High Street
24^th - Solitary clouded yellow butterfly	Marchant's Hill
24^th - Ring ousel flying up into yew foliage	Lurgashall.
24^th – Elephant hawk moth caterpillar found crawling along pavement *Click for photo*	Petworth Road
25^th - Two young buzzards practising catching thermals and diving techniques	Over Furnace Place
26^th - Six spot burnet moth on lavender beside feverfew and herb robert *Click for photo*	Chiddingfold garden
26^th - Full size greater burdock in flower visited by honeybees *Click for photo*	Chiddingfold garden
28^th – Holly blue butterfly	Braeside Close garden
29^th – Wood mouse at bird feeder on kitchen window *Click for photo*	Petworth Road
29^th – Dozens of grayling butterflies sunning themselves on the tracks and bridleways	Hankley Common
30^th - Unusual broad-leaved helleborine variant with purple flowers *Click for photo*	Bramshott Common
30^th - Red-banded sand wasp carrying and burying a paralysed caterpillar *Click for photo Click for video*	Bramshott Common

JUNE 2020

SEEN	WHERE
1^st - Meadow brown butterflies	Grayswood Common
1^st - Meadow brown butterflies	Meadow next to Killinghurst Lane
2^nd - Large skipper butterfly	Garden at Plaistow
3^rd – Raven pursued by two angry carrion crows	From Haste Hill to Swan Barn Farm
3^rd – Broad-bordered hawkmoth found dead beneath hedge *Click for photo*
4^th - Meadow brown butterfly *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane field
13^th - Large red damselfly *Click for photo* and common blue damselflies mating *Click for photo*	Ebernoe
13^th - Common spotted orchid *Click for photo*	Ebernoe
15^th – Silver-washed fritillary, marbled whites, ringlets and white admiral butterflies	Wood near Plaistow
17^th - Marbled white butterfly *Click for photo*	Ifold garden
18^th - Turtle dove heard for 2 weeks previously and then seen by bird feeder	Gardens in Durfold Wood, near Plaistow
19^th - Buff-tip moth resting on hose pipe *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden
19^th - Marbled white butterfly	Garden at Plaistow
19^th - Toad, large	Plaistow garden
19^th - Glowworm	Plaistow garden
22^nd – Male bullfinch *Click for photo, mistle thrush Click for photo*	Ifold garden
24^th - Clattering of jackdaws	Over Hill Road garden
26^th - Flock of 20+ long tailed tits	Furnace Place garden
26^th - Fox *Click for photo* and badger *Click for photo*	Ifold garden
26^th - Six species of bats detected overnight. Common pipistrelle, noctule, serotine, western barbastelle, brown long-eared and an unidentified Myotis species.	Over Petworth Road garden
27^th - Comma butterfly freed after being found in living room	Furnace Place
28^th - Southern hawker dragonfly Aeshna cyanea *Click for photo*	Hill Road garden
28^th - Marbled white, meadow brown and ringlet butterflies	Swan Barn Farm
Late in month - Hedgehog	Pathfields Close
Late in month - Garden snail found upstairs on a chair *Click for photo*	Pathfields Close

MAY 2020

SEEN	WHERE
Early in month - Increasing amount of roadkill - foxes, badgers and several deer from very small to medium size. Perhaps as a result of quieter roads and faster traffic	A3 between Hindhead and Liphook
1^st - Mason bee nest cells found tucked into window frame Click for photo	Petworth Road
2^nd - Speckled wood butterfly Pararge aegerig *Click for photo* then a speckled yellow day flying moth Pseudopanthera macularia *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane
3^rd - Sparrowhawk consuming a sparrow which it caught in our courtyard *Click for photo*	Church Road. Milford
4^th - Young roebuck frolicking *Click for photo* (photographed by trail camera). Later a badger seen foraging for worms Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
4^th - Little grebe, 2 mandarin in flight, 3 red kite, 3 sparrowhawk, 22+ buzzard, 1-2 hobby, lesser black-backed gull, herring gull, male cuckoo, 45 swift, 3+ male woodlark, 5 male tree pipit, 10 house martin, 4+ swallow, 2 male stonechat and also a pair, 3 male redstart, 6+ whitethroat, garden warbler, 2 Dartford warbler, crossbills calling	Black Down
4^th - Osprey descending to roost about midday	Valewood
5^th – Male and female Reeve’s muntjac browsing in garden	Petworth Road
5^th – Tree pipit displaying	Lynchmere Common
6^th - Green-veined white butterfly nectaring on bugle *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden
6^th - 8 swifts	Border Road, Critchmere
6^th - First fledged stonechat	Black Down
6^th - Water vole reported climbing the bank	Fernden Lane, Haslemere
7^th - 6 wood white butterflies	Wood near Plaistow
7^th - Cuckoo seen and heard	Frensham Common
7^th – Female cuckoo heard, at least one male still present	Black Down
7^th – Beautiful demoiselles both males and females	Sandy Lane, Frensham
7^th – Several holly blue butterflies	Old A3 at Punchbow
8^th – 5 woodlark, about 70 common crossbill	Black Down
9^th – Small copper butterfly on dovesfoot cranesbill	Hankley Golf Club bridleway
9^th – 4 swallows on wires	Farmland near Plaistow
9^th – Apparently heavily pregnant roe deer accompanied by large buck	Petworth Road garden
9^th - Nightingale still singing	Lower Roundhurst Farm
10^th - Grey wagtail, very likely feeding young	Bunch Lane
10^th - 7-8 red kite including a party of 4, 8 swift, pair of raven	Gibbet Hill/Inval
10^th - Hobby	High Button
10^th - 10 common crossbill	Hindhead Common
10^th - 6 to 8 baby newts and a few frog tadpoles	In Lion Lane garden pond
12^th – 12-inch slow worm	Hindhead garden
12^th – Pairs of large red damselflies Pyrrhosoma nymphula mating in sunshine Click for photo	Swan Barn Farm
15^th - Male peregrine soaring	Black Down
15^th - Nightjar churring, cuckoo still calling	Black Down
15^th - Dog rose *Click for photo*	Boundless Road, south of Thursley, alongside A3
17^th - Grounded female serotine bat taken into care	Bordon
17^th - Male cuckoos calling at three locations	Lower North Park Farm, Northpark Copse and Woolbeding Common
17^th - Male woodlark singing	West of Fernhurst
17^th - Family party of 4-5 woodlark	Woolbeding Common
18^th - Lizard and a pair of swans with 2 cygnets	Frensham Little Pond
19^th - 9 red kite	Black Down
19^th - Up to 6 nightjars and 1-2 roding woodcock	Black Down
19^th - Pair of woodlark and a single male, singing tree pipit, adult Mediterranean gull in flight	Trotton Marsh
19^th - Tufted duck pair	Cook's Pond
19^th - 1+ grey wagtail	Combe Pond
19^th - Male and female beautiful demoiselles	Sandy Lane, Frensham Common
20^th - Small heath butterfly	Field east of Chiddingfold
20^th/21^st – Much bat activity detected during overnight acoustic survey: common and soprano pipistrelle, noctule, serotine, Natterer, barbastelle and brown long-eared bats	Petworth Road garden
21^st – Cluster of 5 greater horseshoe bats in barn roof Click for photo	Between Midhurst and Petworth
21^st – Many azure damselflies Click for photo and a single male broad-bodied chaser Click for photo	Swan Barn Farm
21^st – Alder leaf beetle Agelastica alni mating pair. First site record of this formerly rare species Click for photo	Witley Common
21^st – Stonechat male feeding small fledgling. Probably the fist breeding record for 35 - 40 years!	Milford Common
21^st – Duke of Burgundy butterfly Click for photo	Noar Hill
21^st – Pair of nightingales singing	Noar Hill
22^nd - White ermine moth Spilosoma lubricipeda Click for photo Also a bird box taken over by bees – probably Bombus hypnorum	Furnace Place
23^rd - Blue tit fledgling contemplating leaving its nest in dormouse box Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane woods
23^rd - Bullfinch, one of a pair, visiting our garden Click for photo	Church Road, Milford
24^th - Bird's-nest orchids - 14 flower spikes Click for photo	Hammer
25^th - Small tortoiseshell butterfly	Plaistow garden
25^th - Red kite	Over Plaistow garden
27^th - Common blue butterfly	Wood near Plaistow
27^th - Nightingale heard and seen	Old Lands woods
27^th - Common spotted orchids coming into flower alongside the tracks	Old Lands woods
27^th - Small heath butterfly	Dunsfold Ryse
28^th - Green hairstreak butterfly on heather	Hindhead Golf Course
31^st - Meadow brown butterfly	Plaistow garden

APRIL 2020

SEEN	WHERE
2^nd - Flurry of bats on the wing during a mild evening – common pipistrelle, brown long-eared, serotine, noctule and an unidentified Myotis species	Petworth Road garden
3^rd - Dark-edged bee-fly Bombilius major Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
4^th - One of several early purple orchids *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane woodland
4^th - Tortoiseshell butterfly	Whitmore Vale Woods
5^th – 5 spot ladybird land on my bare arm	Lion Lane garden
5^th – Peacock butterfly rescued from inside workshop window *Click for photo*	Church Rd. Milford
5^th – Jumping spider Salticus scenicus on window *Click for photo*	Petworth Road
7^th - Orange-tip butterfly	Hindhead garden
7^th – Blackcap singing. Tawny owl calling and 2 pipistrelle bats in flight	Weycombe Road garden
8^th – Sparrowhawk, 7 buzzard, green and greater spotted woodpeckers, 2 swallow, firecrest singing, marsh tit, 5 chaffinch	Weycombe Road garden
8^th - Cormorant, grey heron, 3 red kite, sparrowhawk, 26+ buzzard, kestrel, green woodpecker, meadow pipit1-2 swallow, 3+ redwing,15 fieldfare	Between Haslemere and Witley Farm
8^th - Flock of around 30 crossbills, some linnets, pair stonechat, red kite, male sparrowhawk	Black Down
8^th - 2 mandarin duck in flight. Also linnets.	Valewood
8^th & 9^th - Stock doves Click for photo and a white dove Click for photo coming regularly to enjoy our bird food	Church Rd. Milford
9^th - Two orange-tip butterflies	Killinghurst Lane
9^th - Skylark singing his heart out and flying as high as he could	Killinghurst Lane
9^th - 4 buzzard	Haslemere town centre
9^th - Up to 5 tree pipit, 3 woodlark, 4 stonechat territories, 4 Dartford warbler territories including two males displaying at each other by holding one wing up beside their head and some song flighting, male blackcap, whitethroat, 5+ willow warbler, 30+ crossbill, many crossbills	Black Down
9^th – Orange-tip butterfly	Headley garden
9^th - Two holly blue butterflies dancing along our hedge which contains a good amount of holly	Church Rd. Milford
10^th – Male dormouse found nesting during roof repairs Click for photo	Lodsworth
10^th - Orange-tip Butterfly	Church Rd. Milford
11^th – Jackdaw emerging from tree hole for brief respite from incubation duties to preen in sunshine *Click for photo*	Woodland off Petworth Road
11^th – Wasp Ancistrocerus sp. *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
11^th – Cuckoo calling	Black Down and Petworth Road
11^th – Two cuckoos calling	Weavers Down
11^th - Noctule bat flying high above railway line towards Haslemere. Also three pipistrelle bats seen regularly over the past few nights.	Weycombe Road
12^th - Cuckoo heard	Garden at Plaistow
12^th - Red kite, sparrowhawk, 10+ buzzard, male cuckoo, woodlark, stonechat, 2 redstart, 2 Dartford warbler, 3 firecrest, marsh tit, raven	Devil's Punch Bowl
12^th - Male marsh harrier, woodlark, tree pipit, Dartford warbler	Hindhead Common
12^th - Male firecrest	Stoatley Hollow
12^th – Slow worm attacked, killed and eaten by magpie	Petworth Road garden
12^th – 2 red kite. Also red fox, deer and a grass snake.	Hindhead Golf Course
13^th – Grounded pipistrelle bat taken into care	Hydestile
13^th - Roebuck still moulting winter coat, but now having shed all velvet from antlers Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
13^th - 2 singing male firecrest	Bunch Lane
13^th - Pair of Egyptian geese	Polo pitch west of Witley Farm
13^th - Singing male firecrest	Hindhead Common
14^th – Reeve’s muntjac Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
14^th – 1-2 singing male firecrests	Farnham Lane
14^th – 1 singing male marsh tit	Gibbet Hill
14^th – Raven	Over Inval
15^th – Holly blue butterfly	Petworth Road garden
15^th – Singing male firecrest	Top of Haste Hill
15^th – 3 wood lark, 4 singing male tree pipit, 3 singing male stonechat, 1 briefly singing male redstart, 2 singing male Dartford warbler, 3 singing male whitethroat, raven, flock of crossbills	Black Down
15^th – Few-flowered leek Click for photo	Lynchmere Common
16^th - 2 cock goldfinch sharing my bird bath this morning	Lion Lane garden
16^th - Red kite, 7+ buzzard	Inval and Hindhead Common
16^th - Male tree pipit, male woodlark, male stonechat and a pair,	Hindhead Common
16^th - Red kite	Over Weydown Road
16^th - Swallow, crossbill	Gibbet Hill
16^th - Male firecrest	Farnham Lane
16^th - Male firecrest	Stoatley Hollow
16^th - Male firecrest	Bunch Lane
18^th – About 30 crossbills flying over	Black Down
18^th – Reeve’s muntjac and roe deer cautiously introducing themselves *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
18^th – Kestrel, male tree pipit, 1+ male wood lark, 4 swallow, pair stonechat	Hindhead Common
18^th – Firecrest	High Button
18^th – 2 firecrest	Stoatley Hollow
19^th – 3 red kite, 3 sparrowhawk, 26+ buzzard, pair kestrel, 5 male tree pipit, meadow pipit, 5 singing male woodlark and a pair collecting food, 20+ swallow, redstart, 2 Dartford warbler, 4+ whitethroat, male firecrest, 5 crossbill	Black Down & Sheetlands
19^th – Pair of kestrel	Valewood
19^th – Swallow	Weycombe Road
19^th – Male firecrest, male greenfinch	Top of Haste Hill
19^th – Male firecrest	Chase Lane
20^th - Green-veined white *Click for photo* and speckled wood butterflies	Woodland along French Lane leading to Bowlhead Green
21^st - Comma butterfly *Click for photo*	Swan Barn Farm
21^st – Many common pipistrelles and a few serotine bats on the wing overnight	Rake
23^rd - Male mandarin, 6 singing woodlark, 4 singing male redstart,	Black Down
23^rd - Singing male redstart	Hindhead Common
24^th - Singing male redstart	Devil's Punch Bowl
24^th - Speckled wood butterfly	Garden at Plaistow
24^th - Two mandarin duck *Click for photo* and a mallard with 9 ducklings following closely Click for photo	New Pond, near Silkmill
25^th - Wood warbler	East side of Devil's Punch Bowl
25^th - 2 female sparrowhawk talon-grappling	Near South Park Farm
25^th - 2 swift	Over Weycombe Road
25^th - Nightingale	East of Gospel Green
25^th - Nightingale	South of Gospel Green
25^th - Nightingale	Lower Roundhurst Farm
26^th - Cuckoo	Witley Farm
26^th - Peregrine mobbed by sparrowhawk	High over Haslemere
26^th - Pair of raven	Devil's Punch Bowl
27^th - Kestrel mobbing red kite	Swan Barn Farm
27^th - Red kite, sparrowhawk, 15+ buzzard, 7 lesser black-backed gull, male cuckoo, 4 singing male woodlark plus 2 individuals, 7 singing male tree pipit, 3 swallow, 2 house martin, 2 singing male redstart, 7+ singing male whitethroat, 2 singing male Dartford warbler, about 60 crossbill	Black Down
27^th - Firecrest	East end of Tennyson’s Lane

MARCH 2020

SEEN	WHERE
2^nd - 5+ crossbill	Near Black Down
3^rd - 2+ yellowhammer	Woolbeding Common
3^rd - Pair of song thrushes	Headley garden
4^th - Pair of bullfinches	Headley garden
4^th - Great grey shrike and a Dartford warbler	Frensham Little Pond
6^th - Bullfinch: 2 pairs feeding on wild plum tree	Garden at Plaistow
6^th - Roe deer skull, found amongst leaf litter Click for photo	Britty Wood, Hampton Estate near Seale
6^th - 2 grey wagtail	Upper Lodge
6^th - 5 goosander in flight	Flying N towards Black Down
6^th - Sparrowhawk taking down wood pigeon, Then plucked it and ripped it apart.	Polecat Valley
7^th - Cow parsley ( rather early ? ) *Click for photo*	In front of Squires Garden Centre, Milford
8^th - Pair of peregrine falcons in flight	Witley Common
9^th - Song thrush *Click for photo*	Scotlands Close garden
9^th - Some of the early frogspawn pond has now hatched	Lion Lane garden
9^th - Pipistrelle bat feeding this afternoon	Over the pond on Chapel Common
10^th – Plume moth Amblyptilia acanthadactyla at rest on back door *Click for photo*	Petworth Road
11^th - Two new fresh lots of frogspawn have just appeared in pond	Lion Lane garden
12^th – Skull of female roe deer found beside track Click for photo	Furnace Place Estate
13^th - Pair of song thrush sunbathing on lawn with wings spread	Furnace Place
13^th - Several queen bumblebees (white or buff-tailed) accessing porch via doorway gap to nectar at flowering Hyacynths	Lion Lane
13^th - Two Egyptian goose - one bird clearly sitting on eggs/brooding young chicks	Milland pond
13^th - Three tufted duck	Cooke's Pond
13^th - Two red kite, 4+ woodlark, 3+ fieldfare, 10+ yellowhammer	Trotton Marsh
13^th - Male peregrine	East of Trotton Marsh
14^th - Male woodlark singing	Black Down
14^th - Noctule bat flying above tree-top height at 4.30pm	Hammer Vale
15^th - Chiffchaff singing. Also woodcock.	Bramshott Common
15^th - 5 newts all laying on top of the weed in darkness	Lion Lane garden pond
15^th – Woodpecker drumming	Furnace Place
16^th - Primroses and wood anemones out and 2 brimstone butterflies seen	Fir Tree Copse
16^th - 17 Natterer's bats found in a single batbox	Fir Tree Copse
16^th - 2 red kite	E & W of Fernhurst
16^th - 2 stock dove	Weycombe Road garden
16^th - 3 chiffchaff, 1-2 crossbill	Verdley Wood
16^th - Chiffchaff	Upper Lodge
16^th - 1-2 brimstone butterfly	Verdley Wood
16^th - Butterflies - 3 brimstone and a peacock	Upper Lodge
17^th - Muntjac	Black Down
17^th - Red kite	Over Haslemere near Waitrose
17^th - Red kite, sparrowhawk, female goshawk, 23 buzzard, 2nd year male peregrine, 2 male and a female stonechat, male Dartford warbler, 2-3 raven, 2 crossbill	Black Down
19^th – Roebuck in velvet and beginning to moult dozing on grass	Petworth Road garden
20^th - 2 adders basking, one with a seven-spot ladybird moving across it Click for photo	Thursley Common
21^st – Brimstone butterfly on the wing	Petworth Road garden
21^st - Grey heron perched on railings *Click for photo*	Cutmill Pond
21^st - Comma butterfly	Devil's Punch Bowl
22^nd - Nuthatch in the green house; escaped soon after Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane
22^nd - Stoat ran right up the middle of the lawn then headed for the shed where I think the rabbits are.	Killinghurst Lane garden
22^nd - Pipistrelle bat foraging amongst trees in bright sunshine	Witley
23^rd - Roebuck in velvet, again resting in garden sunshine *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
23^rd - Red admiral butterfly	Hindhead garden
23^rd - Lesser celandine, wood anemone, first bluebell this year, and early dog violet *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane
23^rd - Brimstone butterfly on the wing	Furnace Place
25^th - Long tailed-tit came to visit my greenhouse. It was catching all the little flies on the glass *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane
25^th - Cock pheasant introducing and apparently mating with up to six females	Grayswood
25^th - Great crested newt (female) by torchlight	Pond in Plaistow garden
26^th – Tubic moth Endrosis sarcitrella Click for photo	Petworth Road
28^th - Lesser celandine, wood anemone, lady's smock, forget me not, violets	Chiddingfold garden
28^th - Peacock butterfly, holly blue and two male brimstone butterflies; wild and honey bees, bumblebees on primroses	Chiddingfold garden
29^th - Pair of grey wagtail feasting on insects on sunny sloping roof	Killinghurst Lane
30^th – Carpet beetle Anthrenus verbasci *Click for photo*	Petworth Road

FEBRUARY 2020

SEEN	WHERE
2^nd - Frog spawn has appeared in my pond this morning. Last year first sighting was Feb 11th	Lion Lane garden
3^rd - Bees busy in wild plum blossom	Garden at Plaistow
7^th – Bank vole foraging in garden rockery Click for photo	Petworth Road
10^th – Red kite mobbed by two carrion crows	Over Milford Sports Ground
15^th – Long-eared bat hibernating in NT bat barn	Chase Lane
15^th - Natterer’s bat hibernating in NT bat barn	Nutcombe
16^th - First frogspawn of the year. (It was 1st March in 2019 and 22nd February in 2018) *Click for photo*	Hill Road garden pond
17^th - Firecrest seen on Cornus stems	Pathfields Close
18^th - Bats in hibernation: 4 Natterer's, 2 Daubenton's, 3 small woodland Myotis and 2 long-eared	Midhurst
19^th - Green woodpecker calling	Furnace Place
21^st - Pair of Egyptian geese - arrived in December and seem very much at home	Village pond in Milland
22^nd - Male brimstone butterfly	Chiddingfold garden
23^rd - During the sunny spells between showers; a solitary bee on a snowdrop and a queen bumblebee passing through	Furnace Place
23^rd - Male brimstone butterfly. Also a queen bumble bee, probably Bombus hypnorum. *Click for photo*	Whitmore Vale
25^th - Roe buck with two does browsing amongst shrubbery	Petworth Road garden
25^th - Lesser redpoll	Near High Barn Farm
26^th - Tufted duck	Cooke's Pond (Milland)
26^th - Little egret - approx.10 in flight	Over Elmer's Marsh
29^th - Two pairs of bullfinches on ornamental cherry tree	Furnace Place

JANUARY 2020

SEEN	WHERE
1^st - Goosanders, 3 male *Click for photo*, 2 female, several mallard, 2 grey herons, one perched high up in some alders	Cutmill Pond
3^rd - Velvet shank fungi Flammulina veluptipes on oak stump Click for photo	Frensham Common between the Great and Little Pond
3^rd - Extremely rare greater horseshoe bat in hibernation Click for photo	Between Midhurst and Petworth
5^th – Male and female roe deer resting on lawn	Petworth Road garden
8^th - Just after 4pm, two bats on the wing	Furnace Place
8^th - Mandarin ducks, 10 plus Click for photo, goosanders 12, grey heron, mallards, & 2 kingfishers	Cuttmill Pond
8^th - 57 Canada geese Click for photo	The Moat, Elstead
8^th - 2 adult lesser black-backed gull, 25+ meadow pipit, 15+ linnet, 2 raven	Black Down
9^th - A rather handsome, male sparrowhawk causing panic by arriving at bird feeder, Unsuccessful hunt on this occasion.	Furnace Place
9^th - Small tortoiseshell butterfly, on the wing	Hammer Vale garden
9^th - Crossbill	E of Verdley Wood
10^th - Grey wagtail	Lurgashall Mill Pond
10^th - Male woodlark singing, male crossbill	E of Verdley Wood
10^th - Adult female goshawk	S of Fernhurst
10^th - 4 red kite, male peregrine falcon	SE of Fernhurst
11^th - House sparrows, many	Haslemere garden
13^th - 8 little egret	Elmer's Marsh
13^th - Adult female goshawk, 10+ lesser redpoll, crossbills calling, raven	SW of Fernhurst
13^th - 4 raven	W of Black Down
13^th - Red kite, 2 raven, 40+ meadow pipit, 2 stonechat	Trotton Marsh
13^th - Red kite	E of Milland
13^th - Grey wagtail	E side of Milland village
13^th/14^th - Red kite flying low and calling	Killinghurst Lane
14^th – Several Natterer’s bats, Daubenton’s Click for photo, long-eared and small woodland bats in hibernation	Midhurst
14^th – Parasola or Coprinopsis sp. fungus found in underground site	Midhurst
20^th - Faded, moth-eaten red admiral butterfly on drive.Click for photo Recovered after being given sugar water.	Killinghurst Lane
20^th – 2 long-eared bats hibernating in NT bat barn	Chase Lane
20^th - Natterer’s bat hibernating in NT bat barn	Nutcombe
20^th – Cave spider Meta sp. male and female *Click for photo* with cocoon of spiderlings *Click for photo* in NT bat barn	Nutcombe
25^th - Grey squirrel feasting on rose hips despite savage thorns. Also bullfinches stripping ornamental cherry buds and 6 long-tailed tits on fat balls.	Furnace Place
25^th - Wood mouse glimpsed in kitchen	Furnace Place