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

SEPTEMBER 2019

SEEN	WHERE
1^st - 2 wheatear Click for photo, 2 redstart Click for photo, 2 tree pipit, 12+ spotted flycatcher Click for photo, 15+ chiffchaff, 8+ willow warbler, 2 whitethroat, 1 blackcap, 1 grey wagtail, 4 stonechat and 2 Dartford warblers, a few linnet and a kestrel.	Black Down
1^st – Female Reeve’s muntjac with juvenile in close attendance	Petworth Road garden
7^th - Clifden nonpareil moth Catocala fraxini in moth trap Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
8^th - Common green grasshopper (Omocestus viridulis) found in house lobby. Also speckled wood butterfly warming itself in sunshine. Click for photo	Chiddingfold
10^th - An abundance of elephant hawk moth caterpillars.Also a small brimstone moth caterpillar.	Lion Lane gardens
12^th - First-winter female peregrine messing about with a raven for at least 15 minutes. Also male hobby, cormorant, grey heron, little grebe, 2 mandarin, 1-2 sparrowhawk, 12+ buzzard, kestrel, 4 herring gull, 5-6 woodlark, about 15 meadow pipit, 55+ house martin, 15+ swallow, about 70 hirundine spp.,7+ stonechat, 2 immature wheatear, 3 Dartford warbler, 30+ chiffchaff, 2 raven, 10+ spotted flycatcher, about 10 linnet, 40+ siskin, 3+ bullfinch	Black Down
14^th - Wheatear Click for photo	Weycombe Road garden
14^th - A minimum of 1060 hirundines flying south. Approximately 80% house martins, 20% swallows.	Black Down
15^th - About 1000 house martins passing, but very few swallows. Also 2 cormorant, red kite, 4-5 sparrowhawk, about 20 buzzard, 1+ kstrel, coot, 9 moorhen, 1+ green woodpecker, 5-7 woodlark, 2+ meadow pipit, pied wagtail heard, 7+ stonechat, redstart, 3+ Dartford warbler, about 20 chiffchaff, 2 raven, 4+ spotted flycatcher	Black Down

AUGUST 2019

SEEN	WHERE
Early in month - Kingfisher seen and heard	Pond at Imbhams Farm
Early in month - Large mink found beneath shed, which explains crayfish claws found in garden and loss of fish from pond	Petworth Road garden
2^nd - Red kite over garden	Hill Road
2^nd - Large moth trapped in house - probably a large yellow underwing	Hill Road
3^rd - Peacock butterflies seen in the garden	Hill Road
4^th - Very large spider of Tegenaria species found in our house. Click for photo	Hindhead
6^th - Black and yellow longhorn beetle Strangalia maculata Click for photo	Hindhead garden
7^th - Barn owlet flapping and wing stretching on floor beneath nest box	Imbhams Farm
7^th - Rare bats found during survey - a Brandt's and 2 female barbastelles, as well as several other more common species including Alcathoe and whiskered bats. Barbastelles fitted with radio tags to track their movements.	Durfold Wood
9^th - Rather worn old lady moth Mormo maura trapped in house Click for photo	Hill Road
10^th - Two stoats	Furnace Place estate
10^th/11^th - Moths attracted by greenhouse light - 4 lesser swallow prominent Click for photo, 5 black arches Click for photo, 3 brown-tailed tussock Click for photo, 4 buff footman Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
11^th - 4-5 ravens playing around in the wind	Black Down
12^th - 7 buzzard, sparrowhawk chasing hirundines at height, 2 woodlark, tree pipit, 5+ hirundine spp., 2+ stonechat, female immature redstart, 2+ whitethroat, immature Dartford warbler, singing willow warbler, 10+ chiffchaff, 3 spotted flycatcher, 15 siskin	Black Down
12^th - Firecrest	Chase Lane above "car park"
15^th - Pied flycatcher: my 8th site record, but the 1st since 1998. Also other migrants: 2 spotted flycatcher, 5 willow warbler, 3 garden warbler	Witley Common
17^th - Red kite, juvenile male goshawk mobbing a raven, 3 sparrowhawk, 12 buzzard, 3 kestrel, hobby, about 30 black-tailed godwit flying high (presumably a first for the site), 6 swift, about 30 swallow, whitethroat, Dartford warbler, 5+ chiffchaff, willow warbler, 6 raven	Black Down
19^th - Migrant birds heading SW: adult female honey buzzard, 9 lesser black-backed gull, 2 swift, 40+ swallow, 1-2 tree pipit, 2+ whitethroat, 20+ chiffchaff, female immature redstart and adult male. Also 13+ buzzard, 3 kestrel, 11+ stonechat, male Dartford warbler, 2+ marsh tit, 2 raven, 2+ bullfinch.	Black Down
21^st - Possibly 15+ each of tree pipit and spotted flycatcher, 3 redstart, 5 whitethroat, 2 blackcap, 15+ willow warbler, 25+ chiffchaff, 20+ swallow, woodlark, 10+ stonechat, 4 Dartford warbler, 6 siskin, 10+ linnet, 16+ buzzard including a party of 9, 4 redkite, kestrel, 1-2 hobby, 4 cormorant. Also coot, 2 moorhen and little grebe on fishing lakes below.	Black Down
23^rd – Warm, sunny day bringing out many Lepidoptera, though most now rather worn. Red admiral, small white, speckled wood, meadow brown, painted lady, small tortoiseshell and a single hummingbird hawk moth	Petworth Road garden
24^th - About 20 buzzard, kestrel, 1+ swift, 2 tree pipit, 30+ hirundine spp., 10+ swallow, 45+ house martin, 2 sand martin, 7+ stonechat, edstart, immatur wheatear, 3+ Dartford warbler, 14+ chiffchaff, 2 raven, 2 spotted flycatcher, about 20 linnet. Blackcap and willow warbler heard. Also 3 moorhen and a little grebe on lakes below.	Black Down
24^th - Yellow stainer mushrooms. Many in lawn and flowerbed Click for photo	Garden in Church Road, Milford
24^th - Whinchat (7th site record, but 1st since 1997), redstart, 3+ spotted flycatcher, 3 willow warbler	Witley Common
26^th – Frail looking Pholcus phalangoides devouring large Tegenaria sp. house spider Click for photo	House in Petworth Road
26^th – Pied flycatcher Click for photo, lesser spotted woodpecker Click for photo, whinchat, lesser whitethroat Click for photo, 16+ spotted flycatchers Click for photo, 8 tree pipits, 3 redstart, garden warbler, 20+ willow warbler, about 15 chiffchaff, 5 common whitethroat, 2 blackcap, hobby, raven, 4 swallow. Also usual stonechats and Dartford warblers.	Black Down
27^th - Lesser spotted woodpecker (the only record so far this year), 5+ spotted flycatcher (incl. an adult feeding a juv.), 3 willow warbler	Witley Common
27^th - Pale honey-buzzard, 15+ buzzard, female/juvenile lesser spotted woodpecker, redstart, juvenile wheatear, juvenile whinchat, about 30 house martin,2 whitethroat, about 15 chiffchaff, 2 willow warbler, 20+ spotted flycatcher, a pied flycatcher with them, pair raven	Black Down
27^th – Common and soprano pipistrelle bats, barbastelle, Daubenton’s, noctule, Natterer’s and serotine detected on NT bat walk	Woolbeding/Stedham area
28^th – A single soprano pipistrelle found during bat box checks. Traces of others and long-eared bats in a few other boxes, whilst 2 boxes contained wood mouse groups.	NT Winkworth Arboretum
28^th - Cormorant, sparrowhawk, 16+ buzzard, 3 kestrel, juvenile female peregrine, swift, 4 tree pipit, whinchat, 4 redstart, 21+ swallow, 20+ house martin, 2 whitethroat, 3 blackcap, up to 40 chiffchaff, 6+ willow warbler, 2 raven, wheatear, 25+ spotted flycatcher, pied flycatcher, 2 stonechat, 2 greenfinch, 3 Dartford warblers, a few siskin	Black Down
30^th - Raven over garden	Furnace Place
30^th – Common and soprano pipistrelle bats, noctule, brown long-eared and Daubenton’s seen on HNHS bat walk	NT Frensham Little Pond
31^st – 51 soprano pipistrelles found roosting in bat boxes. Up to 8 in each box. Also many bee nests. Many bird boxes cleaned of nesting material.	NT Frensham Little Pond

JULY 2019

SEEN	WHERE
Throughout month - Regular sightings of red kite	Furnace Place
2^nd - Pyramidal orchids Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
5^th - Kestrel perched on pole Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
5^th - Soldier beetles mating on wild carrot flower head Click for photo, vipers bugloss Click for photo and lady’s bedstraw Click for photo.	Small wild flower meadow on Puttenham Common
6^th – Beautiful demoiselle (female) Calopteryx virgo Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
6^th - Grass snake climbing from flower bed into Wasteria but soon abandoning ascent	Furnace Place garden
7^th – Sparrowhawk perched above bird feeder	Petworth Road garden
7^th - At least 15 marbled white butterflies	Field between Muddy Lane, Grayswood, and Imbham’s Farm
9^th – Silver-washed fritillary Click for photo	Furnace Place garden
10^th - An entirely pink grasshopper, possibly a female meadow grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus Click for photo	Bramshott Chase
11^th - Bush cricket nymph Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
12^th – Bee-wolf Philanthus triangulum Click for photo and sand wasp Ammophila sabulosa hunting prey Click for photo	Frensham Little Pond
13^th - Ringlet butterfly settled on my hand today Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
13^th – Comma butterfly basking on a pole, occasionally chasing off other butterflies Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
16^th - Hummingbird hawk moth nectaring on garden flowers Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane
16^th – Roe deer sneaking up on dozing fox and chasing it off Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
17^th – Juvenile slow worm	Swan Barn Road garden
17^th – Drone fly larva out of water, perhaps on its way to pupate Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
17^th – Gatekeeper butterflies Click for photo	Hill Road garden
17^th – Aberrant variant of gatekeeper butterfly with additional forewing spots Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
18^th – Least carpet moth Click for photo	Milford
19^th - Dead white plume moth on carpet Click for photo	Pathfields Close
20^th – Swallow-tailed moth found in bathroom Click for photo	Hill Road
20^th - Two young, rather wet and miserable looking buzzards basking on driveway with wings outstretched to dry off	Furnace Place garden
20^th - Holly blue butterfly Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
21^st - Wood pigeon nesting in tree close to window Click for photo	Church Road . Milford
22^nd - Pair of bullfinches feeding on lawn for about 15 minutes	Furnace Place garden
22^nd - Silver-washed fritillary, gatekeeper, cabbage white, meadow brown and common blue butterflies	Hill Road garden
23^rd - Golden-ringed dragonfly - only my 2nd record at this site. Also about 50 bee wolf Philanthus triangulum visiting burrows Click for photo and butterfly numbers increasing.	Witley Common
25^th - Roesel's bush cricket, the rare long-winged form (f. diluta) that only occurs in hot summers where there are strong populations Click for photo	Bramshott Common
25^th - Bloody cranesbill Geranium sanguineum, growing a long way from its natural range, presumably relict from old army camp gardens Click for photo. Also dodder Cuscuta epithymum, parasitic on heather. Click for photo	Bramshott Common
25^th – Two green sandpipers	Thursley Common
26^th - White tailed bumblebee on Agapanthus. Click for photo Also a white admiral butterfly.	Killinghurst Lane garden
28^th – Six spot burnet moth on marjoram Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
28^th – Western barbastelle bat, common and soprano pipistrelle, brown long-eared, at least two species of Myotis bats, and a single serotine detected during acoustic survey	Frillinghurst Wood
29^th - Female gatekeeper butterfly with several others on flowering marjoram Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
29^th - Glow worms, 3 adult females emitting pale green light	Plaistow garden
30^th – Badger foraging on lawn Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
31^st - Firecrest 1 adult with 2 juveniles. My first confirmed record of successful breeding at this site.	Witley Common

JUNE 2019

SEEN	WHERE
Early in month - Common spotted orchids in abundance	Almshouse Common meadow
1^st - 4 grizzled skipper butterflies	Oaken Wood
1^st - Nightjar on nest with 2 eggs	Thursley Common
1^st/2^nd - Common and soprano pipistrelles, brown long-eared, barbastelle, serotine, noctule and Daubenton's bats detected in overnight survey	Petworth Road garden
2^nd - Female broad-bodied chaser Libellula depressa around garden pond	Courts Hill Road
3^rd - Two ravens	Black Down
4^th - Male redstart	Black Down
5^th - Common spotted orchids Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
5^th – Azure damselfly Coenagrion puella	Pond in Chase Fields
5^th - Fox trotted across garden, around 3.30pm, with a cub in her mouth. Perhaps relocating?	Courts Hill Road
6^th - Queen tree bumble bee Bombus hypnorum foraging on alkanet	Courts Hill Road garden
6^th - Newly fledged crow family. Parents and 3 extremely noisy young demanding to be fed all day,	Furnace Place
6^th - 3 or 4 golden ringed dragonfly swooping around this week	Furnace Place
7^th – Pygmy shrew Sorex minutus foraging amongst tools, nuts and bolts on garage bench, quite oblivious to repair work being undertaken only 18" away	Petworth Road
8^th – Adult slowworm found dead Click for photo	Field between Petworth Road and Swan Barn Farm
9^th – Many bumble bees nectaring on Nectaroscordum siculum flowers, including Bombus hypnorum Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
9^th – Group of common spotted orchids Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
12^th - Bee orchid	Grounds of Holy Cross Hospital, Shottermill
14^th - Grey wagtail parent feeding fledged young	Killinghurst Lane garden
14^th - 10+ buzzard, 2 raven, male hobby	Black Down
14^th - Female Dartford warbler performing a distraction display, running along the ground like a mouse and fluttering bowed wings. Male and one or more (presumably) fledged young heard at same time, hence the display.	Black Down
15^th – Hoverfly Volucella inflata taking refuge in greenhouse Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane
17^th – Common terns seen fishing and present on both tern rafts Click for photo	Frensham Little Pond
17^th – Mottled bee-fly Thyridanthrax fenestratus Click for photo, black-tailed skimmer Orthretrum cancellatum Click for photo	Frensham Little Pond
18^th – Bank vole clambering around on Cotoneaster - the first we've seen for a year or so after cat predation	Petworth Road garden
21^st – Clump of Silene gallica quinquevulnera in flower Click for photo	Haslemere garden
21^st – Common blue and meadow brown butterflies	Swan Barn Farm
21^st - Green hairstreak butterfly on pyramidal orchid Click for photo	Noar Hill
21^st - Broomrape Click for photo	Noar Hill
21^st - Black headed cardinal beetle Pyrochroa coccinea on the raspberries, a mint moth Pyrausta aurata Click for photo, a mating pair of harlequin ladybirds Click for photo, a male flower beetle, a small magpie moth Anania hortulata, small red damselflies around the pond and numerous various bumblebees	Haslemere garden
21^st - Numerous smooth newts, tadpoles (both frog and toad)	Haslemere garden pond
22^nd - Red kite swooping low over fields which had just been cut	Killinghurst Lane
22^nd - Several common spotted orchids Click for photo	Verge near Furnace Place
22^nd - Amazing number of bats skimming freshly mown field for insects after dark	Field off Killinghurst Lane
24^th - Large influx of painted lady butterflies, perhaps using Black Down as a navigational aid	Black Down
24^th – Woodcock: 9 sightings during BTO Survey. Also two species of bat on the wing.	Wood near Chiddingfold
25^th - Grass snake, female sloughed skin 1 metre long	Garden at Plaistow
25^th - Painted lady butterflies	Killinghurst Lane garden
25^th - Wood mouse under felt sheet. Also bat calling at 45kHz.	Garden at Plaistow
25^th - Golden oriole heard calling	Woodland near Reeth
25^th - 4 swifts	Over Village Hall Fernhurst
25^th - About 9 churring male nightjars and a few roding woodcocks	Black Down
26^th - Red admiral butterfly resting in greenhouse Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane
27^th - Red admiral butterfly	Chiddingfold garden
28^th - Very large swallow-tail moth	In Chiddingfold house
29^th - At least two marbled white butterflies, one landing on observer's hand Click for photo. Also many meadow browns, ringlets skippers and small moths.	Killinghurst Lane garden
29^th - Orange underwing moth grounded Click for photo	Opposite the Museum
29^th - Several passes by rare western barbastelle bat Barbastella barbastellus. Also common and soprano pipistrelles, brown long-eared and noctule bats detected.	Swan Barn Farm
30^th - Glow worm	Killinghurst Lane garden

MAY 2019

SEEN	WHERE
1^st - Male goldfinch. First one for more years than I care to remember. Also a third robins' nest this year.	Lion Lane
1^st - Cuckoo calling	Jobsons Lane
1^st – Large,pale raptor gliding – possibly an osprey	Over Cutmill Pond
2^nd - Nightingale	Swan Barn Farm
3^rd - Early purple orchid Click for photo and emerging twayblade Click for photo in woodland	Ebernoe
4^th - Knopper gall, newly formed on oak twig by wasp Click for photo	Upper Barn Hanger , Hillgrove
5^th – Nightingale	Black Down
6^th - Female whinchat	Weavers Down, Liss Forest
6^th - Young adder	Between Longmoor Inclosure and Warren Hill
7^th – Badger foraging late at night Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
9^th - Hobby	Black Down
9^th - Wood white butterfly - first of spring brood	Wood in Chiddingfold Forest
10^th - 2 cuckoos, some crossbills, 2 woodlarks on a path. Nightingale still singing	Black Down
10^th - Up to 3 red kite, 3-4 sparrowhawk, 23+ buzzard, male kestrel, 2+ swift, 15+ house martin, 3 singing male tree pipits, 2 male stonechat + possible fledglings, male redstart heard, 3 garden warbler, 6+ whitethroat, 2 male dartford warbler, 15+ crossbill	Black Down
10^th - Cuckoo	Over Weycombe Road garden
10^th - “ Giant” house spider, found amongst bubble wrap in greenhouse Click for photo	Church Rd. Milford
10^th - Swifts, at least 6	Critchmere
11^th - Male & female cuckoo seen together, curlew, pair of stonechat with fledged young Click for photo	Witley Common
11^th - Blackthorn mining bee Andrena varians (nationally scarce)	Witley Common
11^th - Pignut Conopodium majus Click for photo and yellow archangel Lamium galebdolon Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane woods
11^th - Green shield bug Palomena prasina Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane greenhouse
12^th - 4 wood white butterflies	Wood near Plaistow
13^th - Young grass snake basking in sunshine	Furnace Place
13^th – Female beautiful demoiselle Calopteryx virgo Click for photo	Loxwood canal
13^th – Hundreds of tadpoles basking in sunshine Click for photo	Loxwood canal
13^th – 3 swifts	Fernhurst
13^th – Tern dive bombing a cormorant on the tern raft without success	Frensham Little Pond
13^th – Warm weather bringing out bats. Common and soprano pipistrelles, serotine, noctule and unidentified Myotis species in flight.	Petworth Road garden
14^th - Pheasant's nest with 5 eggs beneath living room window (later abandoned)	Furnace Place
15^th – Holly blue butterfly Click for photo	Alice Holt Forest
15^th - 2 small copper butterflies	Killinghurst Lane garden
15^th - Cormorant, up to 5 red kite, 21+ buzzard, male kestrel, lesser black-backed gull, woodcock heard, tawny owl seen and heard, some nightjar churring and seen briefly, male cuckoo, 20+ swift, 2 woodlark, 3 singing male tree pipits, stonechat males and 2 fledged young, nightingale singing, singing male Dartford warbler, 2 singing male firecrest, 1+ raven, 10+ crossbill and 3 fledged young.	Black Down
16^th - Blue tit nesting in stove pipe from old greenhouse boiler Click for photo and juvenile song thrushes feeding on fat balls at window Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
16^th - Dock bugs Coreus marginatus on dock leaves Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
19^th - Puss moth Click for photo	Hammer Vale
20^th - Osprey flying over, red kite, 30 buzzard, female hobby, 3 tree pipit, 2 woodlark singing on the ground, male cuckoo, 2+ crossbill, Dartford warbler, 2 stonechat, green woodpecker, male garden warbler, firecrest	Black Down
20^th - 2 firecrest	Bunch Lane
20^th - Firecrest	Weycombe Road Wood
20^th/21^st – Rare barbastelle bat in flight	Petworth Road garden
21^st - Birdsnest orchid Click for photo (subsequenty eaten, perhaps by a deer)	Witley Common
21^st - Nestling blue tits in nest box Click for photo	Witley Common
21^st - Large red damselflies mating Click for photo	Loxwood canal
22^nd - A flurry and chattering of long tailed tits flitting between the trees	Chiddingfold garden
22^nd - Starlings in a flock in trees making alarm calls with red kite overhead	Wood near Plaistow
22^nd - Cuckoo in fine song early morning	Black Down
23^rd – About a dozen Alcathoe bats Myotis alcathoe emerging from roof at dusk. Also over 40 common pipistrelles emerging from beneath other roof tiles.	Furnace Place
24^th - Pair of grey wagtails	Furnace Place
25^th – Broad-bordered bee hawkmoth & aspen beetle	Oaken Wood, near Plaistow
25^th – Common and soprano pipistrelles, Daubenton’s and noctule bats on the wing	Alice Holt Forest
27^th White blackbird with just a little black	Churt Recreation ground
28^th – Yellow-necked mouse nibbling buds off Cotoneaster	Petworth Road garden
28^th – Large jumping spider Marpissa muscosa found inside house Click for photo	Petworth Road
31^st - Numerous hairy shield bugs Dolycoris baccarum and several Corizus hyoscyami on redcurrant bushes	Courts Hill Road garden
31^st - Evidence of a visiting hedgehog (for the first time in 20 years!)	Courts Hill Road garden
31^st - Juvenile being fed by parent great spotted woodpecker	Hill Road garden

APRIL 2019

SEEN	WHERE
Throughout month - Field of primroses	Bramshott
1^st - 2 orange tip butterflies	Furnace Place
1^st - Large number of sand martins (c.30)	Frensham Little Pond
1^st - Common plume moth Emmelina monodactyla inside kitchen window frame	Chiddingfold
4^th - Early purple orchid almost in flower Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
4^th - Siskin on bird feeder Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
5^th - Mallard with many young (12 or 13 seen) Click for photo	Pond by Hankley Common Golf Course
5^th - Egyptian geese and goslings Click for photo	River Wey, Tilford
5^th - Lady's smock in flower Click for photo	Banks of River Wey, Tilford
6^th - 20+ crossbill, singing blackcap, raven	Black Down
6^th - 5 brambling, 4 lesser redpoll, female reed bunting, 2 sparrowhawk	Witley Common
7^th - Singing male Dartford warbler, stonechats, woodlarks, mixed flock of chaffinch, siskin and crossbill with at least 10 brambling. Also 2 swallow, 2 lesser black-backed gull and a herring gull	Black Down
8^th - Five bramblings	Fernhurst garden
8^th - 14+ bramblings. Often 5 are seen here, as well as bullfinches, siskins, goldfinches, nuthatches, great spotted woodpeckers, tits. Occasionally wren, goldcrest, and tree creeper.	Braeside Close garden
10^th - 2 singing male willow warblers, singing male redstart, male reed bunting, lesser redpoll	Witley Common
11^th - Swallow	Inval
14^th - 6 skylarks in a small flock	Imbhams Farm fields
14^th - Chiffchaff calling	Frillinghurst woods
15^th – Cuckoo calling	Black Down
15^th - Snipe, peacock butterfly and pair of field voles under a piece of corregated tin	Killinghurst Lane garden
15^th - Orange tip butterfly	West of Fernhurst
15^th - Garden warbler	Elmer's Marsh
16^th – Wood mouse on bird feeder Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
18^th - Two holly blue butterflies	Furnace Place garden
18^th - Cuckoo seen and heard	Devil's Punchbowl
18^th – Barkfly Chilenocaecilius ornatipennis Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
18^th - Cormorant, red kite, 21+ buzzard, 3 kestrel, male cuckoo, male woodlark and some others, 2 male tree pipit, 23 swallow, 5 house martin, 2 male and a pair stonechat, 5 male Dartford warblers, male whitethroat, 2 male blackcap, 4+ chiffchaff, 5+ willow warbler, 5+ linnet, 6+ crossbill	Black Down
18^th - Kestrel and cuckoo	Valewood
18^th - Blackcap	Near lake at Imbhams Farm
18^th - Singing male nightingale	Witley Common
19^th – Nightingale singing from this date onwards	Navant Hill Farm, Lurgashall
19^th - Feather-footed flower bee Anthophora plumipes seen on lungwort	Fernhurst garden
19^th - Song thrush feeding Click for photo	Tilford Cricket Green
19^th - Singing male garden warbler, singing male tree pipit	Witley Common
19^th - Nightingale	Oaken Wood
20^th - Skylarks singing	Navant Hill Farm, Lurgashall
20^th - Linnets in field	Hillgrove Lane Lurgashall
20^th - Speckled wood butterfly Click for photo, one of many flying along shady road with banks covered with wild garlic Click for photo	Hawkley
21^st – Bee-fly Bombylius major Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
21^st – Cuckoo calling	Blind Lane, Lurgashall
22^nd - A pair of terns on each of the rafts funded by HNHS	Frensham Little Pond
22^nd - 3 singing male whitethroats	Witley Common
23^rd - Frog, disturbed after resting amongst potted plants in a crate Click for photo	Church Rd. Milford
23^rd - Ground nesting bee nests, dog's mercury, brimstone, speckled wood and holly blue butterflies, common dog violets, borage, newly growing wild in a patch of ground partially cleared of creeping buttercup. At least 20 mounds made by miner bees Click for photo in a dry sheltered border, where dog's mercury grows perennially by the house wall.	Chiddingfold garden
24^th - Common dog violets Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
24^th - A second robins' nest built this spring in garden shed after first birds flown	Lion Lane
24^th - Cuckoo heard	Inval
24^thto 27^th - Nightingale singing in birch and gorse scrub. Only the first or second for this site in the past 15 years at least.	Black Down
25^th - Nightingales heard	Chiddingfold
26^th - Raven chased by a crow, at least 2 pairs stonechats, cuckoo, kestrel	Black Down
26^th - Male cuckoo, 7 singing male garden warblers and a single female	Witley Common
26^th - Mallard and 7 ducklings pottering about in garden for about an hour Click for photo	Pathfields Close
26^th - Male blackcap cared for and released after stunning itself against window	Pathfields Close
30^th - Turtle dove heard "purring"	Wood near Plaistow
30^th - Lesser bloody-nosed beetle Timarcha goettingensis Click for photo	Black Down
30^th - Possible hobby (poor view), 2 lapwing, 1+ curlew, 1 cuckoo, 4+ woodlark, 3 skylark, 2 tree pipit, 25+ common whitethroat, 2 garden warbler, 25+ blackcap, 2 Dartford warbler, 20 willow warbler, 5 chiffchaff, 10 stonechat, 20+ male redstarts, 6 crossbill	Thursley

MARCH 2019

SEEN	WHERE
Early in month - Up to five singing male woodlarks	Black Down
1^st – Three pairs of teal	Imbhams Farm pond
1^st – 6 goldfinches on niger seeds and a single red kite over nearby fields	Furnace Place
2^nd - Singing male chiffchaff (earliest site record), 20 siskin	Witley Common
4^th - Muntjac deer	Killinghurst Lane woodland
4^th - Little egret	Elmer's Marsh
4^th - Satellite moth Eupsillia transversa in a sheltered doorway Click for photo	Chiddingfold
5^th - Dartford warbler alighting on a bush just 6 feet from observer. Also a male stonechat and a few crossbills.	Black Down
5^th - 5 or 6 red kite	East of Fernhurst
5^th - Firecrest singing	Bunch Lane
5^th - 30+ buzzards	Between Black Down, Bexleyhill Common and Woolbeding
7^th – Roe buck with fine new antlers still in velvet Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
8^th - Brambling	Hill Road garden
9^th/10^th - Redpolls	Hill Road garden
10^th – Pair of goosanders Click for photo	Imbhams Farm pond
mid month - Barn owl observed in broad daylight gliding past over our garden and landing in adjacent tall deciduous woodland	Chiddingfold garden
15^th – Pair of stock dove	Petworth Road garden
16^th – Adult male Dartford warbler singing on gorse	Mare Hill Common
17^th – Wood lark heard	Imbhams Farm towards Grayswood
17^th – 4+ red kite, distant views of 2 female goshawk and a male, pair of sparrowhawk displaying, 30+ buzzard, female peregrine falcon, singing male woodlark, 2+ crossbill	Black Down
19^th – Goldfinches, at least 10 in a charm	Lynchmere garden
20^th - Cormorant, yellowhammer and skylark	Imbhams Farm
20^th – Many common toads spawning together in pond Click for photo	Imbhams Farm
20^th – Yellow-necked mouse nesting in dormouse box Click for photo	Imbhams Farm
20^th – Big flock of 100+ bramblings/chaffinch. Also chiffchaff.	Lynchmere
20^th – Pair of goldcrest investigating conifer trees, perhaps to nest	Furnace Place
20^th – Red kite being closely monitored by a pair of buzzards	Petworth Road near Ramster
20^th – About 100 lesser redpoll (mostly), a few siskin, goldfinch and brambling	Lynchmere Common
20^th – At least 3 firecrest and a couple of chiffchaff	Between Stanley and Lynchmere commons
20^th – Chiffchaff	Fernhurst
20^th – Large numbers of meadow pipits moving northwards	West of Fernhurst
21^st - Several raptors plus kestrel, and strong NNW movement of dozens of meadow pipits. Also 3 sand martins and a single lapwing.	Sussex Border Path N of Shillinglee
21^st - 2 bramblings, 1 firecrest, 5 marsh tits, 1 lesser spotted woodpecker, 2 yellowhammers, 12 chiffchaffs and 2 blackcaps	Thorncombe Street
22^nd - Blue tit attacking its reflection in windows	Tanners Lane
22^nd - Grey partridge, 10 red-legged partridges, 5 fieldfare and 1 meadow pipit	Thorncombe Street
22^nd - Female goldeneye Click for photo	Snowdenham Mill Pond, Bramley
22^nd - Pair of brambling and 4 brimstone butterflies	Weycombe Road garden
22^nd - A very healthy looking hedgehog	Fernden Heights garden
22^nd – Much social calling by brown long-eared bats after dark	Petworth Road garden
23^rd - Female ring-necked duck	Frensham Great Pond
24^th – Wheatear	Valewood
24^th - Chiffchaff	Hindhead Common
24^th – 4 red kite, 2 pairs and 2 individual sparrowhawk, 31+ buzzard, kestrel, adult lesser black-backed gull, male woodlark singing, 4+ chiffchaff, 2 singing male firecrest, lesser redpoll heard	West of Fernhurst/Woolbeding Common
24^th – Firecrest singing	Weycombe Road garden
24^th - Peacock butterfly on the wing	Central Milford garden
24^th - After months of hibernation on a sandstone lintel, comma butterfly took flight today. Also brimstone butterfly nectaring on primroses Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
24^th - First forget-me-not and lady's smock Cardamine pratensis in flower	Chiddingfold garden
24^th - Great spotted woodpecker on coconut suet feeders	Fernden Heights garden
25^th - Red legged partridge Click for photo	Fernden Heights garden
25^th - 17 singing male chiffchaff, female blackcap, raven, male mandarin duck Click for photo, 3 lesser redpoll, pair of stonechat	Witley Common
25^th - 4 comma butterfly	Witley Common
27^th onwards - Wonderful melodious nightingale singing away	West end of Stedham (near the pub).
28^th - Common ladybird on vegetation	Polecat Valley field
29^th - Osprey flying high	Woolbeding trig point
30^th - Red kite, 1-2 female sparrowhawk, 20+ buzzard (some just passing through), kestrel, 3 lesser black-backed gull, 1-2 woodlark, lots of chiffchaff, singing male Dartford warbler, raven, linnets (many singing), 1-2 lesser redpoll, 2 crossbill	Black Down
30^th - Singing male firecrests	Along Petworth Road and Haste Hill junction
30^th - Orange tip butterfly on lady's smock. First of the season in this garden.	Chiddingfold garden
31^st - 2 holly blue butterflies occasionally settling on laurel leaves Click for photo. Also wood anenome in flower Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
31^st - 3 house martins. Surely very early arrivals?	Petworth Park

FEBRUARY 2019

SEEN	WHERE
1^st – Solitary fieldfare	Headley garden
1^st – 2 or 3 male brambling	Weycombe Road garden
2^nd/3^rd - Male and female teal	Imbhams Farm pond
3^rd - 8 goldfinch, female siskin and marsh tit on feeders. Woodpecker drumming occasionally and loud singing from robin and song thrush	Furnace Place
3^rd - Two female roe deer browsing in snow suddenly chasing off a fox when it appeared	Petworth Road garden
3^rd - Adult male peregrine, pair of stonechat + 1 on conifer restocks	West of Fernhurst
3^rd - Greenfinch and male bullfinch on bird feeder	Headley Down garden
4^th - 2 male brambling	Weycombe Road garden
4^th - 8 siskins on the niger seeds - 5 females & 3 males	Furnace Place
5^th - Barn owl over field	Upper Valewood
6^th - Snowdrop flowers being visited by 4 or 5 small bee species	Plaistow garden
7^th – Yellow primroses in flower, also greater periwinkle Vinca major. Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
8^th - Woodcock sitting at side of sandy lane	Bramshott
9^th - 30+ yellowhammers Click for photo, 2 crossbills and 1 ring-necked parakeet	Thorncombe Street
10^th - Pair of greenfinches, the first ones seen this winter in our mid village garden Click for photo	Church Rd. Milford
10^th - 4 pochard Click for photo, 1 firecrest, 11 gadwall Click for photo, 2 shoveler and 1 teal	Bramley Park Lake and Mill Pond
10^th - 68 redwings (one Icelandic redwing candidate, subspecies coburni), 92 fieldfare Click for photo and 37 linnets	Bonhurst Farm, Birtley Green
11^th - Frogspawn appeared overnight after croaking activity the previous evening	Lion Lane garden pond
11^th - Siskin with niger seed in its beak Click for photo	Church Rd. Milford
11^th – Female peregrine in flight	SE of Fernhurst
12^th - Robin collecting nesting material	Headley garden
12^th - Little egret	Elmer's Marsh
12^th - Female brambling	Weycombe Road garden
12^th - Up to 5 male and 1+ female woodlark, 4+ fieldfare, lesser redpoll, 1+ crossbill, pair yellowhammer, 4+ sparrowhawk, about 15 buzzard, male peregrine low overhead, later a pair high to NW	Woolbeding
12^th - 2 common gull	North of Woolbeding
12^th - Raven displaying	West of Woolbeding
Up to 3 red kite	NW of Woolbeding
12^th - Unidentified bumblebee nectaring on snowdrops Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
13^th - Goosanders – 4 male , 3 female, also grey heron, mandarin, mallard and tufted ducks Click for photo	Cuttmill Pond
13^th - Witches broom, on a birch tree, likely to be caused by fungus Taphrina betulina Click for photo	Bacon Lane .Frensham
13^th - Pair of bullfinch on seed feeder	Headley Down garden
14^th - Female greater spotted woodpecker on peanuts at the same time as a male was on the fat balls nearby. We presume these two have paired up for spring. Also male sparrowhawk watching feeders without being able to capture anything.	Furnace Place
14^th – Extremely rare greater horseshoe bat found in hibernation *Click for photo*	Between Petworth and Midhurst
14^th - Brimstone butterfly	Headley
14^th - 3 Dartford warbler including 1 song-flighting male	Black Down
mid-month - pair of raven and two pairs of red kite reported at regular nest sites	HNHS area
15^th – Long-eared bat hibernating in NT bat barn	Chase Lane
15^th – 5 Natterer’s bats hibernating in NT bat barn Click for photo	Nutcombe
16^th - Marsh tit, brambling and lesser redpoll	Weycombe Road garden
17^th - Assortment of bees on the Christmas box Sarcococca and Mahonia. 2 queen bumblebees of differing sizes. Also a red admiral butterfly.	Furnace Place
17^th - 15+ buzzard, 2 kestrel, 3+ singing male woodlark, 2 stonechat, 2 raven, 1+ brambling, 6+ crossbill	Black Down
17^th - Pair of woodlark on ground and another pair heard nearby	Black Down
17^th - Pair of stonechat	Top ridge above Cotchet valley, Black Down
17^th - Kestrel and 2 buzzards flying low	By Chase Lane
17^th - 2 peregrines Click for photo, crossbill, skylark, 3 ravens, 2 marsh tits and 5 yellowhammers	Thorncombe Street
18^{th -} Small white butterfly in utility room in evening	Haslemere
18^{th -} Brambling	Weycombe Road garden
18^{th -} A few bramblings mixed in with good size groups of chaffinch	Chase Lane and Black Down
18^{th -} 2 chiffchaffs, 3 marsh tits and 1 brambling	Winkworth Arboretum
18^th - Brimstone butterflies, several on three consecutive days	Garden in central Haslemere
18^th - Brimstone butterflies, several for 4 days and 2 red admirals	Garden on Hindhead/Grayshott border
19^th – 2 Natterer’s bats, 2 long-eared, a Daubenton’s and a small woodland Myotis bat still apparently in hibernation	Midhurst
19^th – Male adder spotted basking in the sun	Mare Hill Common, Witley
21^st - Red kite hovering quite low for 5 minutes. Seen again 24th.	Holdfast Lane
22^nd - Tawny owl heard at 4am	Headley Down
22^nd - Peacock butterfly	Hammer Vale garden
22^nd - Pair of raven	Devil's Punchbowl
22^nd - Red kite circling fairly low	Above petrol station, Sainsbury's Liphook
22^nd - Female red-crested pochard and firecrest	Bramley Park Lake
22^nd - Female hazel flowers which must be pollinated by male pollen from other hazel trees Click for photo	Loxwood
23^rd – Brimstone butterfly	Chiddingfold garden
23^rd – Brimstone butterfly	Stedham
23^rd – Tawny owl calling	Dunelm car park, Ludshott Common
24^th - Several queen bumblebees nectaring in sunshine Click for photo	Furnace Place
24^th - Adult female goshawk	Between Hollycombe and Elmers Marsh
24^th - Two woodlarks Click for photo	Brookwell
25^th - Celandine, mahonia and rosemary in flower	Chiddingfold garden
26^th - Pair of firecrest, male stonechat, 2 singing male Dartford warblers, crossbill	Witley Common
26^th - Pompilid wasp Anoplius viaticus (an early record)	Witley Common
27^th - 2 comma and 2 peacock butterflies	Chiddingfold Forest (Hogwood and Tugley Wood)
28^th - Juvenile rock dove accompanying parents	Camelsdale patio

JANUARY 2019

SEEN	WHERE
1^st - Making the most of the glorious sunshine were about a dozen (hive) bees eagerly exploring the flowers on my Viburnum bush	Lion Lane garden
1^st - Red admiral	Inval
1^st - 4+ crossbill	Black Down
1^st - Roe deer browsing on shrubbery	Petworth Road garden
1^st - Water rail Click for photo, reed bunting, 3 tufted ducks, 1 mandarin and 10+ siskins.	Winkworth Arboretum
1^st - 2 red kite	Black Down
1^st - Golden plover - only my second ever record here I think	Black Down
2^nd – Wood mouse humanely trapped in house and released outside Click for photo	Petworth Road
2^nd – 6+ brambling, 30 linnet, 1+ lesser redpoll, Dartford warbler calling	Black Down
2^nd – Snipe zig zagging in morning half light	Black Down
3^rd - About 6 crossbill	Furnace Pond
3^rd - 2 red kite	Cook's Pond (Milland)
3^rd - Woodcock, six crossbills and several buzzards	Black Down
4^th - Brambling, 6 yellowhammers, 4 marsh tits and 2 ravens	Thorncombe Street
5^th - 3 crossbills, brambling and firecrest	Thorncombe Street
5^th - Up to 16 crossbills	Black Down
6^th - 3+ marsh tits, 5+ siskins, cormorant, tufted duck, herring gull, 15 mandarin and 7 redwings	Winkworth Arboretum
8^th - 2 little egret, kestrel	Elmer’s Marsh
8^th - Red kite and up to 5 sparrowhawk	West of Fernhurst
8^th - 16+ buzzard	From West of Fernhurst to West of Woolbeding
8^th - 2 peregrine falcon	West of Woolbeding
10^th – Polecat traffic victim Click for photo	Midhurst Road between Scotland Lane and Coomers
10^th – Redwings on Cotoneaster	Hindhead garden
11^th - Greater spotted woodpecker, nuthatch, chaffinch, goldfinch, great tit, blue tit, marsh tit, coal tit, dunnocks, robins and numerous blackbirds at feeders. Male sparrowhawk unable to catch any. Wren and goldcrest frequently spotted in yew hedges.	Furnace Place
11^th - 55 bird species spotted during New Year’s Bird Race including rook, starling, black-headed gull, song thrushes, mistle thrush singing, redwings, stock dove, greenfinch, red kites, mandarins, moorhen, coot, Canada goose, peregrine, cormorant, sparrowhawks, buzzards, female goshawk	Between Black Down and Sussex/Hants border
11^th - Barn owl, also a tawny owl calling	Fernhurst
11^th - Pied and grey wagtails	Fernhurst sewage farm
11^th - Dartford warbler, crossbills, bramblings, linnets, meadow pipits, male goshawk	Black Down
11^th/12^th - Red kite	Headley Down
12^th - Pair of siskin on bird feeder	Garden in Church Rd. Milford
12^th - 7 ravens and a kestrel	Black Down
13^th - White stork (apparently an escapee) Click for photo	Near Frensham Great Pond
14^th - A rather bewildered female pheasant wandering around	Lion Green
mid-month - Male stonechat	Hindhead
18^th – A single long-eared bat hibernating in NT bat barn	Chase Lane
18^th – Four Natterer’s bats hibernating in NT bat barn, two of them together Click for photo	Nutcombe Valley
18^th – Fieldfare enjoying apple on frosty lawn Click for photo	Church Rd. garden, Milford
18^th – Red kite	Above green between Midhurst Road and Canada Way
19^th - 3 pairs of siskin on niger seeds and 2 long-tailed tits back after a long absence	Furnace Place
19^th - Colony of very large cave spiders, probably Meta menardi Click for photo	Underground site near Rudgwick
20^th – Female goshawk, 2 red kite, male sparrowhawk, 6+ buzzard, 3 Dartford warbler including a singing male, 4+ crossbill	Black Down
20^th – Kestrel, 2 raven (possibly a further two over Black Down)	Chase Lane
20^th – Pair of jackdaws taking possession of tree hole as a nest	Woodland close to Swan Barn Farm
20^th – Lesser redpoll	Weycombe Road garden
22^nd - Hibernating bats - 6 Natterer's, 5 long-eared and a single Daubenton's Click for photo	Midhurst
22^nd – Cluster of harlequin ladybirds hibernating on window frame beneath curtain Click for photo	Petworth Road
22^nd – Bittern	Frensham Little Pond
23^rd - Green woodpecker on lawn	Furnace Place
24^th - Male siskin feeding at niger seed. Also long-tailed, great, blue and marsh tits at feeders with wood pigeon, male pheasant, dunnock and magpie scavenging beneath.	Killinghurst Lane garden
26^th - 2 male and a female goosander on pond	Imbhams Farm
26^th - Comma butterfly hibernating on sandstone lintel. Has been there for nearly three months. Click for photo	Chiddingfold
29^th - Pair of long-tailed tits. Never seen here before.	Hindhead garden
30^th - Little egret flying west	South of Fernhurst
30^th - 10+ lesser redpoll	South east of Fernhurst
31^st - 5+ crossbill	Near Black Down
31^st - 2 lesser redpoll	Weycombe Road garden

DECEMBER 2018

SEEN	WHERE
1^st - Rare cauilflower fungus Sparassis spathulata in poor condition at base of oak tree Click for photo	Chiddingfold churchyard
1^st - Nursery web spider Pisaura mirabalis amongst lichens on old tomb Click for photo	Chiddingfold churchyard
2^nd - Sparrowhawk swooped in on particularly busy bird feeders	Furnace Place
2^nd - Great northern diver (around for a few days) Click for photo	Frensham Great Pond
4^th - 32 fieldfare flying west, crossbill and, remarkably, a single chiffchaff - only the second ever seen here in December	Witley Common
8^th - Many white saddle fungi Helvella crispa around garden Click for photo	Furnace Place
11^th - Chiffchaff 2 (latest site record)	Witley Common
13^th - Many birds on feeders, with grey wagtail beneath cleaning up anything dropped.	Killinghurst Lane garden
14^th - Long-eared bat hibernating in NT bat barn	Chase Lane
14^th - Wood mouse enjoying a house sparrow’s meal Click for photo	Garden in Church Rd. Milford
15^th - Song thrush on feeder Click for photo	Garden in Church Rd. Milford
17^th - Male common pipistrelle bat found grounded on driveway (cat victim). Released 18.3.19.	Headley Down
18^th - Five long-eared bats, two Natterer’s, two small Myotis woodland bats and a single Daubenton’s in hibernation	Midhurst
20^th - A single redwing	Lion Green
20^th - Badger feasting on roadkill in darkness beside A286	Grayswood
21^st - First long-tailed tit on the bird feeder this season	Chiddingfold garden
23^rd - Seven-spot ladybird on a Camellia bush Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
24^th - Goldfinch on niger seed feeder; seen at same time the first sighting of a siskin this winter Click for photo	Garden in Church Rd. Milford
31^st - Brimstone butterfly - female resting on heather	Witley Common
31^st - Firecrest	Witley Common

NOVEMBER 2018

SEEN	WHERE
Early in month - Sparrowhawk on bird feeder Click for photo	Ifold garden
Early in month - Marsh tits feeding on sunflower heads Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
1^st - Two firecrests	Hammer Vale garden
2^nd - 1+ skylark, 1+ woodlark	Black Down
2^nd - Large house spider, waiting expectantly outside the house Click for photo	Chiddingfold
3^rd - Red kite, female sparrowhawk, about 10 buzzard, 2+ kestrel, female peregrine hunting wood pigeons, 200+ fieldfare, 200+ redwing, about 50 starling, pair of raven + another, 10+ lesser redpoll, 18 crossbill	Black Down
4^th - 7+ lesser redpoll, 14+ crossbill, hundreds of fieldfares and redwings, many bramblings (they are widely scattered and flighty) and 1500 to 2000 woodpigeons. No wonder there are goshawks and peregrines about, even some of the buzzards are trying their luck too.	Black Down
5^th - Red kite, goshawk (probably adult male), 4+ buzzard, kestrel, 2 swallow(!), 60+ redwing, 40+ fieldfare, 3 blackbird, mistle thrush, 2 Dartford warbler, raven, 7+ brambling, 30+ lesser redpoll, 7+ linnet, 7+ crossbill	Black Down
6^th - Pair of raven flying over	Killinghurst Lane garden
12^th - Dead female badger. No appearance of injury or poisoning.	Chiddingfold garden
13^th - Peregrine - 1 first winter female, and what may have been a second bird (and probably a male), chasing a raven. Also crossbill, 4 sparrowhawk, regular raven pair plus flock of 9 flying south.	Black Down
13^th - Tawny owl mobbed by jays, blackbirds and chaffinches	End of Chase Lane
13^th – Two long-eared bats roosting in underground site	Midhurst
14^th – Male sparrowhawk	Swan Barn Farm
14^th – Queen wasp hibernating in dormouse box	Imbhams Farm woodland
14^th - Male Dartford warbler in full song in the sunshine, plus crossbills and bramblings calling	Black Down
15^th - Barn owl sitting in a tree at 8 pm	Killinghurst Lane
17^th - Male goshawk	Black Down
18^th - 10+ buzzard,kestrel, female peregrine, about 10 herring gull, up to 1000 wood pigeon, 4+ meadow pipit, fieldfare, 4+ redwing, 2-4 raven, brambling, lesser redpoll, pair bullfinch, 8+ crossbill	Black Down
24^th - Clouded funnel Clitocybe nebularis fungi Click for photo	Petworth Road garden

OCTOBER 2018

SEEN	WHERE
Early in month - Harlequin lady bird invasion - 47 counted on one bay window	Furnace Place
1^st - Male soprano pipistrelle bat found in classroom wastepaper basket Click for photo Released 4th October.	Easebourne Primary School
3^rd - 1-2 red kite, 2 sparrowhawk, 17+ buzzard, kestrel, male peregrine falcon, grey wagtail, pied wagtail, 20+ meadow pipit, 3 woodlark, 4 house martin, 12+ stonechat, immature redstart, 3 blackbird, song thrush/redwing, 4+ Dartford warbler, 5+ chiffchaff, 2-4 raven, about 6 linnet, lesser redpoll, 10+ siskin, 3+ bullfinch, pair of crossbill	Black Down
3^rd - Harlequin ladybirds trying to enter in order to hibernate	Garden at Plaistow
4^th - Flock of about 50 siskin settled noisily in a large conifer tree	Furnace Place
4^th - 3 mistle thrush, 5 redwing and a redstart	Black Down
4^th - Orange peel fungus Click for photo	Woodland track off High St Green Rd. Chiddingfold
5^th - 7+ red kite, about 20 buzzard, sparrowhawk, 3 kestrel, 5+ meadow pipit, woodlark, skylark, about 50 house martin, 4+ stonechat, 2+ blackbird, song thrush, blackcap, 3+ Dartford warbler, 12+ chiffchaff, 8 raven, linnet, siskin, bullfinch, lesser redpoll, crossbill pair - male singing	Black Down
5^th - False death cap Amanita citrina Click for photo, many false chanterelles, a cauliflower fungus, brown roll-rim, tawny grisette, and conifer cone fungus	Farnham Heath RSPB Nature Reserve
7^th - 1-2 female goshawk, 12+ buzzard, male kestrel, female peregrine falcon, house martin, pied wagtail calling, 6+ stonechat, 7+ redwing, 2+ song thrush, 9 fieldfare, 4 ring ouzel, 5+ Dartford warbler, 4+ chiffchaff, 2-4 marsh tit, 6 crossbill, raven calling	Black Down
7^th - Male common pipistrelle cat victim taken into care	Sand Rock
8^th - Male merlin - a very good record, probably only 4th or 5th for the site	Black Down
8^th - 3 herring gull, 10+ meadow pipit, 4+ song thrush, 4+ blackbird, about 30 redwing, 8+ mistle thrush, fieldfare calling, 4 ring ouzel, 2+ chiffchaff, 1-2 raven, 5+ brambling, lots of chaffinch, 2+ lesser redpoll, 3 greenfinch, 13 crossbill	Black Down
8^th - Grounded male brown long-eared bat taken into care. Released 12.10.18. Click for photo	The Royal School, Farnham Lane
9^th - Grounded male brown long-eared bat taken into care. Released 22.10.18.	Headley Down
9^th - 12 cormorant, 3 sparrowhawk, 15 buzzard, about 20 meadow pipit, skylark calling, 1-2 woodlark, 28 house martin, 2+ song thrush, 3 blackbird, 15+ redwing, 13 fieldfare, 1+ mistle thrush, 3 ring ouzel, 1+ chiffchaff, 4+ Dartford warbler, about 15 jackdaw, 2 pairs raven, 1+ brambling, 11+ crossbill	Black Down
9^th - Hornet, brimstone butterfly	Black Down
10^th - Red kite circling	Chiddingfold Green
10^th - Lesser spotted woodpecker, firecrest, 2 brambling, lesser redpoll	Witley Common
10^th - Grounded male brown long-eared bat taken into care. Released 23.10.18.	Liphook Station forecourt
10^th - Small copper butterfly on a very warm day Click for photo	Parish Field, Thursley Common
10^th - Common darter dragonfly and a fox moth caterpillar, full grown, on board walk Click for photo	Thursley Common
10^th - Stonechats, reed warbler, Dartford warbler, kestrel perched on dead pine, skylark, goldfinches, crows, tits, great & blue & heard green woodpecker, wrens, jackdaws	Thursley Common
10^th - Several fly agarics, false chanterelles, a brown roll-rim, tawny grisette, and a large bolete thought to be a brown birch bolete Click for photo	Thursley Common
11^th – Female brown long-eared bat found trapped in conservatory. Released 16.10.18.	Grayshott
16^th – Two magpies unsuccessfully trying to take nuts from squirrel as they were being buried	Petworth Road garden
18^th - Up to a dozen fly agaric Amanita muscaria. First seen several years ago, and not another sighting until this year. Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
20^th - Ring ouzel. Also many house sparrows about now.	Pathfields Close
21^st – Spectacular autumn colours Click for photo	Winkworth Arboretum
23^rd - Red kite	West End Lane/Killinghurst Lane
23^rd - 10-spot ladybird Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane
23^rd - Single Daubenton’s and long-eared bats roosting separately in underground site	Midhurst
28^th - 5 male bullfinches	Weycombe Road garden
28^th - 10 goldfinches and nuthatch on niger seed feeder. Also ground feeders, including pheasant scavenging scraps below. Red kite overhead.	Furnace Place
29^th - Goshawk - 1 first winter male hunting woodpigeons, 3 buzzard, kestrel, Dartford warbler calling, 50+ fieldfare, a few redwing, 2+ brambling, lesser redpoll and several crossbill calling	Black Down
29^th - Grey heron in silver birch	Overlooking Chiddingfold fishpond
31^st - Male goshawk stooping at pigeons, sparrowhawk,4+ buzzard, kestrel, swift sp., about 10 redwing, about 200 fieldfare, Dartford warbler calling, pair of raven, 10+ brambling, about 15 lesser redpoll, about 20 crossbill	Black Down
31^st - Flock of starlings circling and then landing on Magnolia to peck at seed spires	Fernhurst garden

SEPTEMBER 2018

SEEN	WHERE
5^th - Bedraggled speckled wood butterfly killed by spider on bramble bush	Swan Barn Farm
10^th - Skin and spines of an apparently large hedgehog	Chiddingfold garden
10^th - Parasol mushrooms beneath large conifer Click for photo	Fintry Trust, Wormley
10^th - Small copper butterfly	Fintry Trust, Wormley
10^th - Remains of brimstone moth found - the rest presumably eaten by a bat Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
10^th - Square spot rustic moth Inside house Click for photo	Chiddingfold
10^th - Small hoverfly, possibly Syrphus sp. and spider, possibly Araniella cucurbita on rose flower Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
13^th - Red kite, 3 sparrowhawk, 26+ buzzard, 3 kestrel inc one juvenile eating a lizard sp., 60+ house martin, 10+ swallow, 7+ stonechat, 30+ perhaps many more meadow pipit, 20+ chiffchaff, 4+ Dartford warbler, 2+ spotted flycatcher, 2+ raven	Black Down
14^th - 2 firecrests, spotted flycatcher, grey wagtail, 2 crossbills and a hobby	Black Down
Mid-month - Badger attacked wasp nest in the ground leaving half the nest behind. Click for photo Treecreeper on big cedar tree, and red kite flying low over garden.	Furnace Place
15^th – At least 20 Natterer’s bats clustered together in a bat box. Also two small mating groups of soprano pipistrelles in separate boxes	Fir Tree Copse, Dunsfold
15^th - Probable honey buzzard, red kite, juvenile female goshawk, 15+ buzzard, 2+ kestrel, 6+ meadow pipit, tree pipit, 120+ house martin, 12+ swallow, 6+ stonechat, 3+ Dartford warbler, 6+ chiffchaff, blackcap, redstart, 16 raven soaring, 15 linnet, crossbill heard	Black Down
16^{th -} Stonechats, Dartford warblers, goldcrests, 200+ house martin, pied wagtail, grey wagtail, immature ring ouzel, 2 raven, male goshawk mobbed by female sparrowhawk	Black Down
16^{th -}100+ house martin, a few swallow and 2 hobby	South of Fernhurst
18^th - Speckled wood butterfly on conservatory window Click for photo	Church Rd. Milford
20^th - Small snout moth Click for photo	Chiddingfold
21^st - 200 to 300 house martins and some meadow pipits. Also a wood lark.	Black Down
24^th - Soprano pipistrelle bats in dusk mating flight around bat boxes. One seen to enter a box. Also common pipistrelles, noctule and Daubenton's bats on the wing.	Frensham Little Pond
25^th - 2-3 ring ouzels, 13+ buzzard, 2 kestrel, 2+ green woodpecker, 20+meadow pipit, 2-3 woodlark, 60+ swallow, 120+ house martin, about 10 stonechat, 2 redwing, 4+ blackbird, 12+ chiffchaff, 2+ Dartford warbler, 2 raven, 6+ linnet, 30+ siskin	Black Down
26^th – Three very active male dormice found during box checks Click for photo Also a single yellow-necked mouse.	Woodland at Imbhams Farm
26^th – Deer fly Lipoptena cervi crawling on box checker's ear Click for photo	Woodland at Imbhams Farm
26^th – Male brimstone butterfly and a speckled wood	Woodland at Imbhams Farm
26^th - Hummingbird hawk moth feeding off phlox	Beacon Hill garden
27^th - 3 Dartford warbler	Witley Common
27^th - Reeve's muntjac	Witley Common
27^th - Caddisfly Stenophylax vibex (from moth trap) Click for photo Devil's coach horse (beetle) Ocypus olens Click for photo	Witley Common
27^th - Male brimstone and two speckled wood butterflies	Plaistow wood
28^th - Hummingbird hawkmoth at 8.20am in drizzle!	Hammer Vale garden
28^th/29^th - Common and soprano pipistrelles, noctule and Daubenton's bats	Imbhams Farm bat walks
29^th - Red kite flying low and being harrassed by buzzard. Also a female roe deer with two young.	Furnace Place
29^th - Sparrowhawk, about 20 buzzard, 3 kestrel, 7+ meadow pipit, 5+ swallow, about 70 house martin, 7+ chiffchaff, 2 Dartford warbler, woodlark, wheatear, 8+ stonechat, ring ouzel, 2-4 raven	Black Down
29^th - Hen harrier - probable male	High over Weycombe Road
29^th - Small copper and speckled wood butterflies	Wood near Plaistow
30^th – Ring ouzel, 2 woodlark, 30+ siskin, about 10 meadow pipit, pied wagtail, firecrest, 3/4 chiffchaff, 4 stonechat	Black Down
Late in month - 2 grey wagtails hopping along. Also a tawny owl sitting in the road before flying off.	Chase Lane

AUGUST 2018

SEEN	WHERE
1^st - Marsh harrier 1 juvenile	N of Woolbeding Common
2^nd – Two woodlark, Dartford warbler 1 male & 1 female/juvenile, 4-6 raven	Black Down
2^nd – Three swifts	Over Weycombe Road
2^nd/3^rd - Goshawk - juvenile males	Black Down
3^rd - Red kite perched on a tall conifer tree Click for photo	Headley
3^rd - Juvenile peregrine falcon (first of the autumn), swift, 2+ sand martin as part of larger hirundine movement, spotted flycatcher	Black Down
3^rd - Two kestrels perched on telegraph wire	Valewood
4^th - 3 swift	Black Down
4^th - 3 swift	Weycombe Road
5^th - 6 Mediterranean gull	South from Gibbet Hill
6^th - 3+ spotted flycatcher	Black Down
6^th - Several brown long-eared bats emerging from garage roost just after dusk. Also an emergence of flying ants attracting more bats,	Killinghurst Lane garden
7^th – Family of roe deer – buck, doe and juvenile together	Petworth Road garden
7^th – Common and soprano pipistrelle bats, plus Daubenton’s, serotine and noctule all detected on survey	NT Valewood Park
8^th - Wasp spider Argiope bruennichi Click for photo	Bramshott Common
8^th - Juvenile marsh harrier (diferent bird to that seen on 1^st)	N of Woolbeding Common
8^th – Large badger foraging at dusk Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
10^th – Female brown long-eared bat found grounded and bedraggled after rain Click for photo Released 22nd August.	Lythe Hill Hotel grounds
11^th – Weasel	Petworth Road garden
13^th - Redstart	Black Down
14^th - Tree pipit, crossbill, juvenile whinchat (probably only 2nd record in 10 years)	Black Down
14^th - Bat found struggling in water butt. Dried and warmed before being released at dusk.	Windfall Common, Lurgashall
Mid-month - 2 to 3 raven seen regularly	Black Down
Mid-month - 3 to 10 mistle thrush	Valewood
Mid-month - Flock of 23 mistle thrush, also about 30 house martins	Fernhurst village on SW side
15^th - Juvenile female goshawk, 2 hobby, swift, spotted flycatcher, 3 redkite	Black Down
16^th - Redstart	Black Down
17^th - Juvenile female goshawk, hobby, 2 sand martin, tree pipit, juvenile wheatear, up to 6 Dartford warbler	Black Down
20^th - Woodcock, 2 kestrel	Valewood
20^th - 3 spotted flycatcher	Black Down
20^th - Swift	Weycombe Road
20^th - Large wasp spider tending her 'nest.'	Hindhead Common
21^st - 45 common buzzards seen, including 22 together at one point. Also about 75 house martin, 1+ tree pipit, wheatear	Black Down
22^nd - 2 whimbrel to SW, probably a first for this site, 1-2 redstart, spotted flycatcher	Black Down
23^rd - Several rare barbastelle bat calls detected in overnight survey, also many from common and soprano pipistrelles, brown long-eared, serotine, noctule and Daubenton's bats	Petworth Road garden
25^th - Six bat species detected on NT bat walk: common and soprano pipistrelle, noctule, serotine, Daubenton's and brown long-eared	Winkworth Arboretum
25^th - Osprey	Over Marley Common
25^th - 2 red kite, juvenile female goshawk, wheatear, 2 blackcap, 4 crossbill	Black Down
26^th - Whitethroat, willow warbler	Black Down
27^th - 3 lesser black-backed gull, juvenile herring gull, tree pipit, white buzzard	Black Down
27^th - Wheatear	Valewood
30^th - Clifden nonpareil moth captured accidentally in mist net during bat survey Click for photo	Alice Holt Forest
30^th - Rare Bechstein's bat amongst several more common species captured during survey Click for photo	Alice Holt Forest
31^st - Family of four barn owls	Imbhams Farm
31^st - Rare barbastelle bat detected during HNHS bat walk. Also 5 other more common species.	Imbhams Farm
Late in month - Small nos of chiffchaffs, swallows, willow warblers, whitethroats, marsh tits and blackcaps. Regular ravens (usually the pair) and often 4+ Dartford warblers	Black Down

JULY 2018

SEEN	WHERE
2^nd – Female common pipistrelle bat taken into care with serious cat inflicted injuries	Liphook
4^th - Flock of about 30 swifts around for more than 2 hours	Over the Old Post Office, Milland
5^th - Dartford warbler	Witley Common
5^th - About 10 swifts screaming	Over Chiddingfold Church
5^th - Bat flying around the downstairs of the house at about 7.30pm, so windows and doors opened to allow escape	Furnace Place
6^th - Large silver washed fritillary flitting around	Chiddingfold garden
6^th - Female common pipistrelle bat taken into care with serious cat inflicted injuries. Released 25th July.	Borden
7^th - Several small bats skimming lawn for insects just after midnight	Furnace Place
8^th – Green woodpecker and juvenile searching for ant nests Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
8^th – Roe deer accompanied by two youngsters. Also two foxes feigning sleep to successfully catch young rabbits.	Petworth Road garden
8^th - Pygmy shrew Sorex minutus found dead Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
8^th - White admiral butterfly	Fernden Heights garden
8^th - A handful of rosemary beetles Chrysolina americana on rosemary bushes Click for photo	Furnace Place
10^th/11^th - A pair of kites flying very low but not calling. Also pair of very noisy sparrowhawks, probably parent and young, and about three buzzards daily.	Killinghurst Lane garden
12^th – Holly blue butterfly Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
12th - Buzzard flying low over garden being closely chased by an agitated and noisy kestrel	Furnace Place
13^th/14^th - Turtle dove purring on television aerial	Fernhurst
14th - Red kite flying low over garden	Furnace Place
14^th - Wood white butterfly second brood have appeared	Chiddingfold Forest
15^th – Eight bat species detected on NT bat walk: common and soprano pips, noctule, serotine (just one), Daubenton's, whiskered, one brown long-eared and a single barbastelle.	Winkworth Arboretum
16^th – Wood mouse on bird feeder	Petworth Road garden
16^th - Lilac-breasted roller (South African resident, almost certainly an escaped bird from a private collection)	Frensham Little Pond
18^th - Little owl; early evening sitting on gate	Near The Refectory car park, Milford
19^th - Mint moth Pyrausta aurata on flowers in herb bed Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
21^st – Magpie caught and ate juvenile chaffinch beneath bird feeder	Petworth Road garden
22^nd – Two purple hairstreak butterflies released from surface of swimming pool. Also a leaf hopper spotted Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
26^th - Turtle dove	Woolbeding Common
27^th - Large deer walked down our side of house path past our living room windows and down our back garden	Farnham Lane
27^th - 25+ house martins as part of larger hirundine migration	Black Down
28^th – Female stag beetle	Petworth Road garden
28^th – 17 soprano pipistrelles in various bat boxes funded by HNHS. Also signs of bat occupancy in six of the new bird boxes. 18 bird boxes contained nesting material and several others signs of bird occupancy. Two bat boxes with active hornets nests and three with solitary bee/wasp nests. A single tree bumblebee nest in a bat box.	Frensham Little Pond
29^th – Male pipistrelle bat cat victim taken into care. (Released 6th August)	Midhurst
29^th – Large badger crossing grass after rain - perhaps hoping to find earthworms	Petworth Road garden
31^st - Large dragonfly catching butterfly on the wing. Also a migrant hawker dragonfly laying eggs at water's edge.	Frensham Little Pond
31^st - Grass snake swimming across small bay by cafe Click for photo	Frensham Little Pond
31^st - Family of great crested grebes: three 'humbug' babies on parent's back whilst other parent brought back small fish for them. Also moorhen catching large dragonfly	Frensham Little Pond

JUNE 2018

SEEN	WHERE
Early in month - 5 slow-worms and 2 grass snakes in a compost bin. One snake sloughing a skin measuring 39 inches.	Inval
Lesser spotted woodpecker. Also marsh tit pair with 2+ fledged young (thought to have left the nest today, and this is the first breeding record here since 1979!)	Witley Common
1^st - Figwort sawfly Tenthredo scrophulariae Click for photo	Witley Common
1^st - Seen or heard, a song thrush, blackcaps, goldfinch, redstart, yellowhammer, skylark, willow and garden warblers, wren, bullfinch, whitethroat, blue and great tits, goldcrest , chaffinch, sparrowhawk, buzzard, and one nightingale singing very loudly	Holmens Grove Forestry Commission
1^st - Sawfly Abia sp. on bracken leaf Click for photo	Holmens Grove
1^st - Magpies baiting a resting fox Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
2^nd - 2 roding woodcock, 4 male nightjars churring, male & female cuckoos calling	Witley Common
2^nd – Sand martin	South of Black Down
2^nd – Golden-ringed dragonfly	Black Down
3^rd - Lizard running over leaves and up and down a tree trunk	Polecat Valley
4^th - Pair of ravens flying over	Killinghurst Lane garden
4^th - Pair of cuckoos, female with large dark, hairy caterpillar	Black Down
4^th – Brown long-eared bat found grounded in bell tower	Charterhouse School
5^th - Poplar hawk moth found indoors Click for photo	Haslemere
5^th - Party of 6 ravens - presumably parents and 4 fledged young	Black Down
6^th - Pair of elephant hawkmoths Deilephila elpenor at moth trap Click for photo	Hammer Vale
6^th - Flying stag beetle pursued by inquisitive pipistrelle bat	Milford
7^th - Roe deer with two young Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
7^th - Speckled wood butterflies on recent sunny days	Chiddingfold garden
7^th - Common spotted orchids Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
7^th - Young great tit being fed by parent at bird feeder	Chiddingfold garden
8^th - Turtle dove purring	Fernhurst
8^th - Queen wasp flew into bathroom	Fernhurst
8^th - Treehopper Centrotus cornutus Click for photo	Witley Common
8th – Common and soprano pipistrelles, serotine, noctule, brown long-eared and Daubenton’s bats	Petworth Road garden
10^th - Small magpie moth Eurrhypara hortulata Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane
11^th - Meadow brown butterfly (earlier than usual)	Witley Common
13^th - Silver-studded blue butterflies - c.90 males (total from two colonies) Click for photo	Witley Common
13^th - Male common pipistrelle bat with fingers of one wing stuck together taken into care.	Hill Brow, Liss
13^th - Echolocation and social calls of rare barbastelle bats detected in overnight survey. Subsequently detected most nights in month.	Petworth Road garden
14^th - Between 8 and 10 churring male nightjars heard during survey. The best total at this site for a very long time.	Black Down
mid-month - pair of wood warblers making two failed nesting attempts (last nested here in 1996)	Witley Common
mid-month - Eight baby common pipistrelles taken into care after straying from roost	Kingsley farm house
15^th - Female greater spotted woodpecker feeding male chick, 2 demanding newly fledged and slightly clumsy goldfinch chicks with parent, 4 plump fluffy coal tit chicks being fed by thin, dishevelled, and exhausted looking parent	Furnace Place
15^th - Female roe deer with twin fawns	Furnace Place
15^th - Nightingale pair with fledged young	Witley Common
15^th - Dune chafer Anomala dubia Click for photo	Witley Common
15^th - Adder Click for photo	Witley Common
15^th - 2 red kites, 5+ crossbills, 2 singing woodlarks, 3 distant ravens, one male Dartford warbler, and intruigingly, a single hawfinch in flight	Black Down
15^th - Golden-ringed dragonfly	Black Down
15^th – Common and soprano pipistrelles, brown long-eared and Daubenton’s bat calls detected	Plaistow village and surrounding woodland
16^th - Female stag beetle found on drive	Headley
16^th - Turtle dove seen in garden	Fernhurst
17^th - Great spotted woodpecker on garden feeder along with great tit fledglings which it chases off Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
17^th - Female giant dark horsefly Tabanus sudeticus Click for photo	Thursley Common
19^th – Several baby pipistrelle bats found stranded in farmhouse - taken into care	Kingsley
20^th - Lime hawk moth resting on tarmac road - removed to safety of verge. Click for photo	Chase Lane
20^th - Lots of buzzard, 2 kestrel, red kite, 2 sparrowhawk, hobby, 4 woodlark, 1+ crossbill, spotted flycatcher	Black Down
20^th - Male stag beetle	Headley garden
21^st - Swarm of bees on outside of house after a couple of days of visits by 'scouting parties'. Subsequently moved on. Click for photo	Furnace Place
22^nd - Swallow-tail moth Ourapteryx sambucaria at window Click for photo	Chiddingfold
23^rd – Badger foraging after dark	Petworth Road garden
24^th – Partly eaten dormouse found in nest box with wood mouse Click for photo	Imbhams Farm woodland
24^th – White-legged damselfly Platycnemis pennipes on path in centre of wheat field.Click for photo Large cluster of pond skater nymphs on surface of stream.Click for photo	Imbhams Farm
25^th - Purple emperor Click for photo , purple hairstreak, small skipper butterflies (firsts for year)	Witley Common
25^th - Mole found dead Click for photo	Witley Common
25^th – Female common lizard found in sink Click for photo	Rushmoor, Farnham
28^th - Red Kite wheeling low over the garden	Furnace Place
29^th - Purple hairstreak butterfly in long grass	Inval
29^th - Six jackdaws persistently landing on a nearby bare branch, swooping and competing with other birds and a squirrel visiting the fat balls on the bird feeder. There seem to be more jackdaws in evidence this year around the village and certainly in this garden, as indeed is the number of fledgling great tits, blue tits, sparrows and woodpeckers at the feeder.	Chiddingfold
30^th - Pair of grey wagtails on lawn	Furnace Place
30^th - Female common pipistrelle bat taken into care with serious cat inflicted injuries	Petworth
30^th - Purple emperor butterfly	Shulbrede Priory
late June - Nuthatch successfully rescued from two cats Click for photo	Garden at Bramshott