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

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
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 – 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	Lythe Hill Hotel grounds
11^th – Weasel	Petworth Road garden

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

MAY 2018

SEEN	WHERE
Early in month - Swifts seem to be settling in	Weycombe Road
Early in month - Two nightingales singing	South east of Hillgrove
1^st - Male blackcap at the bird feeders	Furnace Place
3^rd - Hobby, redkite, 4 sparrowhawk, 20+ buzzard, 1-2 male cuckoo, 2+ green woodpecker, woodlark + 4 singing, 2 singing male tree pipits, 8+ swallow, pair stonechat, 4 singing male whitethroat, about 20 common crossbill	Boarden Door Bottom Valley, Black Down
4^th - Holly blue butterfly	Headley garden
4^th - Redstart, kestrel, curlew flying over, juvenile stonechat, cuckoo and chiffchaff heard, lots of goldfinches, 2 greylag geese, several tufted ducks of both sexes	Thursley Common
6^th - Red kite, about 20 buzzard, kestrel- possibly two pairs, hobby, lapwing, 7 swift, 6+ swallow, 4 woodlark males singing, 3 singing male tree pipits, 5+ singing whitethroat, 2+ singing male garden warblers, singing male Dartford warbler	Black Down
6^th - Curlew, cuckoo calling, hobby doing solo aerobatics, 4 wood lark inc pair with male in full song flight, 2 skylark, tree pipit, 20 whitethroat, 12 Dartford warbler (6 seen, one in display flight), 2 blackcap, probable garden warbler, 10 stonechat, 20+ redstart, 15 linnet	Thursley Common
7^th - Cuckoo - a remarkable 4-5 calling males and a female	Various sites between Haslemere and the west side of Woolbeding
7^th – Pair of hobby	SW of Woolbeding Common
7^th - Pair of hobby	West of Fernhurst
7^th - Nightjar - one churring male and another male calling in flight, 1 -2 woodcock calling in flight	Black Down
7^th and 8^th - Cuckoo calling	Black Down
8^th – 2 red kite, male sparrowhawk carrying prey, hobby perched in pine, kestrel with prey	Black Down
8^th – 2 singing firecrest males	Inval
8^th – Sparrowhawk in flight, blackcap singing, cuckoo calling	Petworth Road
8^th - Several common pipistrelles and a single noctule bat on wing	Petworth Road garden
10^th - Several common pipistrelles and a few serotine bats on wing	Petworth Road garden
mid-month - Amazing amount of yellow archangel in woods. There has always been the odd few, but this year there are loads.	Killinghurst Lane garden
14^th - Pair of hobby	Black Down
15^th - 4 male redstarts singing, Dartford warblers with nesting material, hobbies, whitethroat and stonechat	Thursley
16^th - Hedgehog	Pathfields Close
17^th - Cuckoo	Pathfields Close
18^th - Red campion in flower Click for photo	Serpents Trail, Bexleyhill
20^th –Swifts flying high and swallows	Pathfields Close
25^th – Quail flushed from the ground - must have come down in the rain on Thursday night, and really should have been in an arable field on chalk not on a heath on greensand. A very odd record indeed and surely a first for this site.	Black Down
25^th – 2 churring nightjars and roding woodcock before dawn, singing redstart, woodlarks, a single Dartford warbler, firecrests.	Black Down
25^th – Singing reed warbler	Cook's Pond
25^th – Brown long-eared bat skimming swimming pool to drink in late afternoon, then resting briefly on roof tiles Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane
25^th – 12 Alcathoe bats and a large colony of common pipistrelles emerging at dusk. Also a few soprano pipistrelles flying over.	Buildings at Furnace Place
26^th - Emerging pyramidal orchids Click for photo and many common twayblades Click for photo	Noar Hill
28^th - Male stag beetle lurking in plastic flower pot on top of a warm compost heap Click for photo	Church Rd. garden. Milford
30^th - Pair of spotted flycatcher, nightjar churring in daylight	Witley Common
31^st – Queen hornet investigating open bedroom window	Petworth Road
31^st – Juvenile bullfinch at bird feeder	Petworth Road garden
Late in month - 3 pairs of swifts once again utilising nests at my parents’ house	Peperham Road

APRIL 2018

SEEN	WHERE
Early in month - Skylarks and yellowhammer	Farm near Milland
5^th - Singing male blackcap, 8 singing male chiffchaffs, pair firecrest, 7 lesser redpoll, 6 buzzard	Witley Common
5^th - Broken-barred carpet moth Electrophaes corylata attracted to light at front door Click for photo	Chiddingfold
7^th - Cormorant drying wings on Society’s tern raft Click for photo Also great crested grebes, grey heron, tufted ducks, coot, moorhens, mute swan, blue and long-tailed tits, a coal tit flying into its nest in between the base of the twin forks of a large pine,chaffinches, dunnock, tree creepers, goldcrest, goldfinches, Dartford warbler, skylark, robins, crows, magpie, wood pigeons, buzzard, and heard wrens, wood lark, chiffchaff, Canada geese	Frensham Little Pond and surrounds
7^th - Chiffchaff and willow warbler calling	Marley Common
8^th – Roebuck resting on grass whilst pregnant hind remained hidden in undergrowth Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
10^th - First swallow heard	Farm near Milland
10^th - 2 Egyptian goose, 2 mandarin duck	Witley Common
10^th - Pair of redpoll in breeding plumage	Headley garden
14^th – Cuckoo calling	Farm near Milland
14^th – 2 Small tortoiseshells	Headley allotments
14^th – American skunk-cabbage Lysichiton americanus Click for photo	Hewshott
14^th – Woodcock, male redstart singing, male willow warbler singing	Witley Common
14^th – Slow-worm Click for photo	Witley Common
16^th – Male lesser spotted woodpecker drumming, woodcock, 2 lesser redpoll	Witley Common
16^th – Ashy mining bee Andrena cineraria at nesting burrow Click for photo	Witley Common
16^th - Orange tip butterfly flying across road	by Rodborough school
17^th - Pupa of very rare betony case-bearer moth Cleophora wockeela Click for photo	Oaken Wood Reserve
18^th - Cuckoo	Witley Common
18^th - 4 red kite, 30+ buzzard, some in small groups, 3 sparrowhawk, kestrel, tawny owl calling at midday, 2+ green woodpecker, male cuckoo, 2 woodlark, 2 tree pipit, 4+ swallow, stanechat pair and male, male wheatear, 1-2 raven, 4+ chiffchaff, 5+ willow warbler, blackcap, probable garden warbler heard, 4+ linnet, 3+ siskin, 1-2 lesser redpoll, bullfinch heard, 5-6 common crossbill	Black Down
18^th - Brimstone, peacock butterflies, green tiger beetles out	Black Down
18^th - Small orange tip butterfly on the wing. Also a large fine fox (male?)	Chiddingfold garden
18^th - Blue tit at the bird feeder with abnormal plumage on its head (citrine yellow - possibly flavism (which is reportable).	Chiddingfold garden
19^th – Comma butterfly	Petworth Road garden
19^th – Nightingale	Witley Common
20^th – 2+ cuckoo calling and a nightingale	Roundwyke Copse, Plaistow
20^th - Singing male Dartford warbler, 3 stonechat territories	Black Down
20^th - Adult or near adult female goshawk	High over Temple of the Winds, Black Down
20^th - Male orange tip butterfly	Headley garden
20^th – Several common pipistrelle and a noctule bat on the wing	Petworth Road garden
21^st - Bumble bee queens everywhere in our garden checking out possible nest sites.	Furnace Place
21^st - Wood warbler (rare vistor to this site), 3 garden warbler, whitethroat	Witley Common
21^st - Rather sickly female meally redpoll on bird feeders	Haslemere garden
21^st/22^nd - Sound and sight of cuckoo	Devil’s Bunch Bowl
22^nd - A couple of male orange tip butterflies in the garden today	Furnace Place
22^nd - Crow predating young song thrushes in nest	Furnace Place
23^rd – Orange tip butterfly	Milford garden
23^rd - Peregrine 1 (adult?) male	High over Black Down
24^th - Red kite - multiple sightings but may have all related to one bird, 7 sparrowhawk, 16+ buzzard, kestrel, 2 lesser black-backed gull, herring gull, up to 5 swift, 3 singing male woodlark, singing male tree pipit (but at least three territories now), 7+ swallow, singing male redstart, 1-2 raven, about 20 common crossbill	Black Down
24^th - Firecrest 1 singing male	Weycombe Road Wood
25^th - Red kite being mobbed by single crow over the garden	Furnace Place
27^th - Large patch of early purple orchids in woods Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
30^th - Male brown long-eared bat found roosting in exposed position. (Released 8th May) Click for photo	Fernhurst

MARCH 2018

SEEN	WHERE
1^st - Coal tit eating the seed heads of Rudbeckia	Killinghurst Lane garden
2^nd – Bank vole foraging beneath shrubs in snow	Petworth Road garden
2^nd – Approximately 15 fieldfares eating last of berries. (Quite often see redwings but not fieldfares).	Hindhead garden
2^nd – Fieldfare, one of two, attracted by apples put out in snowy garden Click for photo	Church Road, Milford
2^nd – Starlings, small flock of 10	Plaistow garden
3^rd – Hawfinch on bird feeder (sunflower hearts)	Fernhurst garden
3^rd – Fox foraging in snow Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
4^th - Seven lapwings	Upper Vann Lane
5^th - Two red kite mobbing a buzzard, Two male yellowhammer (the first seen here since 19th August)	Witley Common
6^th - Pair of jackdaws displaying to one another whilst inspecting potential nest hole in oak tree Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
11^th – At least six pairs of jackdaws noisily disputing nest hole in oak tree	Petworth Road garden
13^th - Singing chiffchaff, 25 lesser redpoll, 2 woodcock flushed together, red kite, Reeve's muntjac	Witley Common
14^th - Blackcap in beech hedge near bird feeder	Chiddingfold garden
14^th - Pintail, male Click for photo and female, on the Moat, chiffchaff, buzzard, red kite Click for photo circling over a mallard, long-tailed tit, robin, blackbird, mistle thrush, 4 Canada geese, 2 greylag geese, crow, stonechat - male, Dartford warbler, jackdaws, goldcrest, magpie, goldfinch and heard coal tit, great spotted woodpecker, skylark, several wrens	Thursley Common
14^th - Lizard warming itself on boardwalk Click for photo	Thursley Common
mid-month - Bird feeders busy with the unusual sight of 6 robins gathered in one space waiting for the more messy eaters to drop food from the seeds and fat balls. Needless to say it is not a harmonious spot, with constant fights breaking out between the 6 of them. 3 nuthatches as bad, chasing each other around the peanuts. As for the resident blackbird couple they are positively vicious towards the smaller birds.	Furnace Place
mid-month - large numbers of lethargic or dead bumble bees on lawn, similarly, many dead smooth and palmate newts in garden pond. Perhaps due to severe weather fluctuations this month	Killinghurst Lane garden
15^th - Brimstone butterfly in the sunshine near loganberry bushes	Chiddingfold garden
16^th - 3 chiffchaff singing, about 25 lesser redpoll still present along with about 10 siskin	Witley Common
16^th - Bombus pratorum (the early bumblebee)	Witley Common
20^th - 2 male siskins on niger seeds	Furnace Place
20^th - Goldcrest	Headley garden
20^th - Male brown long-eared bat found grounded and underweight, with injured wing Click for photo	West Lavington
21^st - Male lesser spotted woodpecker, 30 redwing	Witley Common
21^st - Brimstone butterfly, male	Plaistow garden
22^nd - At last - 1 male and 1 female siskin on niger seeds this morning	Furnace Place
23^rd - Peregrine falcon, singing firecrest	Witley Common
26^th - Dormouse, adult male	Private land at Haslemere
26^th - Brimstone butterfly, male	Haslemere woodland
26^th - Red admiral butterfly	Killinghurst Lane
26^th - Small tortoiseshell butterfly basking in the sun high up in hazel clump Click for photo. Also 3 brimstones seen in garden.	Church Road. Milford
27^th - 40 siskin, pair Dartford warbler, pair woodlark	Witley Common
28^th - Brimstone butterfly dancing along the hedge line	Petworth Road
28^th - Sparrowhawk narrowly missing wood pigeon	Furnace Place
29^th – Heavily pregnant roe deer relaxing in pouring rain Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
late in month - Nuthatch, robin, blue tits, coal tits and great tits frequently at bird feeder. Dunnock in beech hedge under feeder. Male and female blackbirds ground feeding. Goldfinch on greengage tree. Brimstone butterfly flying high around trees on a sunny day.	Chiddingfold garden

FEBRUARY 2018

SEEN	WHERE
1^st - Male goldcrest on fatball feeding undisturbed by me on path only two metres away	Church Rd. Milford
2^nd – Greenfinch on seed feeder Click for photo	Church Rd. Milford
3^rd - Green or turquoise elf cup fungus Chlorociboria aeruginascens. Cup rarely seen but leaves a green or blue stain on the wood. Used in Tonbridge ware marquetry Click for photo	Woods near Frensham Great Pond
4^th - Red kite, 3 sparrowhawk, 24+ buzzard, kestrel, 2 peregrine, 6+ herring gull, male Dartford warbler, several small redwing flocks, 1-2+ raven, greenfinch, several bullfinch,woodcock, crossbill heard	Black Down
6^th - Pair of red kites in field being mobbed by several crows	Killinghurst Lane
8^th - First bumblebee of 2018 working her way across a bed of hellebores	Furnace Place
9^th - Redpolls, siskins, brambling and marsh tits on feeders	Inval
14^th – Pair of roe deer keeping very close company, the male now having well formed fresh antlers in velvet	Petworth Road garden
14^th/15^th - two male siskins visiting niger seeds	Furnace Place
15^th - 8 Natterer's bats Click for photo, 6 long-eared, 2 Daubenton's and a single unidentified bat in hibernation	Midhurst
15^th - 5 wrens revealed by bird box camera huddled together, scratching, preening, then settling down to sleep overnight Click for video (courtesy M. Tomsett)	Killinghurst Lane garden
16^th - Large common frog (yellowish)	Plaistow garden
17^th – Red admiral butterfly settled on my car as I reversed into my driveway	Lion Lane
18^th – Hawfinch	Swan Barn Farm
18^th – 2 singing male woodlarks and a presumed female, one Dartford warbler heard calling, 1+ crossbill heard, 2 linnets, 2 green woodpeckers and a buzzard. To the east of the ridge - 12+ buzzards, 2 red kites, 1 raven, 1 sparrowhawk, 17 lapwings flying S	Black Down
19^th - Two Natterer’s bats hibernating in NT bat barn	Chase Lane
19^th - Three Natterer’s bats hibernating in NT bat barn Click for photo. Also, 2 wood mice huddled in a small bat box amongst a cache of acorns.	Nutcombe Valley
19^th/20^th - Frog spawn appearing overnight in garden pond	Lion Lane
20^th - Toads migrating to mating pond	North of Bignor
21^st - Two red kites circling	Over Waitrose car park
24^th - For several days now have had a tree creeper feeding under the bird feeders and sometimes actually on the peanut feeder.	Killinghurst Lane garden
25^th - Pied wagtail-always the last bird to feed before dusk. Other regular visitors, 6 goldfinch, a redpoll, 4+ siskins, 6+ blackbirds, around 8 chaffinches, great & blue tits, several sparrows , 3 starlings, wren, pair dunnock, nuthatch Click for photo, 3 jackdaws, wood pigeon, collared doves, song thrush, and occasionally great spotted woodpecker, magpie and long tailed tits	Centre village garden, Milford
28^th - Brown long-eared bat found grounded in sub-zero temperatures. Released after rehabilitation 14th March. Click for photo	Lion Lane garden

JANUARY 2018

SEEN	WHERE
2^nd – Roebuck with half grown horns in velvet and a dog fox. Both at rest on lawn, though eyeing one another warily	Petworth Road garden
4^th - Approx 24 little egrets in field	Elmers Marsh
4^th - Egrets	Bentley
10^th - Red admiral out and about	Furnace Place
10^th - Red admiral	Chiddingfold Forest
10^th - 13 goosanders Click for photo 6 mandarin duck, and 2 grey herons,2 mute swans, coots and several mallard	Cutmill Pond, Puttenham Common
10^th - Two pipistrelle bats hunting for at least 30 mins at 4.30 pm. Accompanied by at least one much bigger and faster flying bat, perhaps a brown long eared,	Pine View Close garden
12^th - 15 redwings just sitting in a tree deciding their next move, 6 long tailed tits on the peanuts, female greater spotted woodpecker on peanuts, goldcrest on rose bushes	Furnace Place
12^th - Grounded male whiskered bat taken into care Click for photo	Graffham Infants School playground
16^th - Red kite dragging pheasant roadkill away from traffic	Near Elsted Marsh
16^th - 8 Natterer's bats, four long-eared and a single small Myotis species in hibernation	Midhurst
19^th - Siskins on sunflower and nigella seed feeders Click for photo	Church Rd. Milford
22^nd – Two Daubenton’s bats and a single long-eared bat hibernating in NT bat barn	Chase Lane
22^nd – Natterer’s bat hibernating in NT bat barn	Nutcombe Valley
27^th - More greenfinches than I have seen for many years and 5 bullfinches. To my amazement 2 hawfinches put in an appearance, one a magnificent male Click for photo, the other less distinctly marked and possibly young. Both have been seen occasionally since then, but not together.	Grayswood
28^th - Bullfinch pair	Headley Down
29^th - Grounded female common pipistrelle taken into care. Released 3rd April	Liphook
30^th - Great spotted woodpecker on peanuts with female woodpecker on branch above - spring must be here! Also six goldfinches on niger seeds.	Furnace Place
31^st - Herald moth Scoliopteryx libatrix in conservatory Click for photo	Church Rd. Milford

DECEMBER 2017

SEEN	WHERE
Early in month - Goldfinch on the loganberry branches, long tail tits on bird feeder, spotted woodpecker and blue tits pecking on dying, peeling branches of a greengage tree	Chiddingfold garden
Early in month - Common crossbill sitting in a low fir tree about six feet from our dining room window	Courts Hill Road garden
1^st – 2 male goosander, kingfisher, grey heron , young mute swan, 6 tufted duck, many mallard, 5 mandarin, 10+ shoveller, coots, moorhen, several Canada & greylag geese, black headed gulls, goldcrest, party of redwings, long tailed & blue tits, and wrens heard.	The Tarn , Cutmill & Long Ponds and Puttenham Common
2^nd - About 75 fieldfare, heading SW	Witley Common
9^th - A very fine, large (dog?) fox with good coat and thick brush on lawn in broad daylight	Chiddingfold garden
10^th - Siskin, on feeder joining a charm of at least 8 goldfinches regularly visiting several times a day	Church Rd. Milford
13^th - 5 long-eared and 5 Natterer's bats in hibernation	Midhurst
16^th - 2 sparrowhawk, 10+ buzzard, 2 kestrel, 6 herring gull, 3 green woodpecker, song thrush, 8+ redwing, pair stonechat, male Dartford warbler, 4-5 raven, about 6 bullfinch, 1+ linnet heard, 1+ lesser redpoll heard, crossbill sp. heard	Black Down
17^th - At least 6 long tailed tits on the bird feeder this morning	Killinghurst Lane garden
17^th - Two great spotted woodpeckers disputing access to a bird feeder	Petworth Road garden
17^th - Long-eared bat circling over floodlit lawn (external temperature 8ºC)	Petworth Road garden
18^th - Three long-eared bats hibernating in NT bat barn	Chase Lane
18^th - One Natterer's bat and one long-eared bat hibernating in NT bat barn	Nutcombe Valley
21^st - Hawfinch, 4 or 5 brambling with good numbers of goldfinch a few siskin and 4 greenfinch (becoming increasingly scarce).	Fernhurst garden
21^st - 9 little egrets in field	Elmers Marsh
22^nd - Hawfinch (female) perched 20ft up Norwegian maple	Fernhurst garden
24^th - Lesser redpoll, new visitor amongst charm of goldfinches Click for photo Also seen regularly in December :8+ blackbirds, blue, great, & coal tits, dunnock, robin, 3 jackdaws, 3 starlings, wood & feral pigeons, collared doves, single magpie, male & female bullfinch, chaffinches 6+ sparrows, thrush. More occasionally long tailed tits, siskin, wagtail, wren, greenfinch and Canada geese overhead.	Centre village garden. Milford
28^th - Blackcap visiting garden feeders	Fernhurst
30^th - Great spotted woodpecker	Centre village garden. Milford
31^st - 2 redpolls on niger seed feeder	Hindhead garden

NOVEMBER 2017

SEEN	WHERE
1^st – 3 firecrest	Witley Common
2^nd - Goldfinch perched on bird feeder hanging on hazel in garden in centre of village Click for photo	Church Road ,Milford
2^nd - Firecrest seen at 1 metre range	Fernhurst garden
3^rd - Little egret, perched high up in birch trees Click for photo	Waggoners Wells
4^th – 2 kestrel, 2 herring gull, 2+ green woodpecker, 5+ meadow pipit, 2 blackbird, 40+ redwing, 2 Dartford warblers heard, 5+ siskin, about 10 lesser redpoll, about 50 linnet, 7+ common crossbill	Black Down
4^th - Huge flock of about 100 meadow pipits	Black Down
4^th – Torpid sub-adult male brown long-eared bat taken into care Click for photo (Released 9th Nov)	On external wall of Amesbury School
6^th - Muntjac. Also a mole 'fortress' found under dead bracken	Witley Common
7^th - Red kite	Crooksbury Common
7^th - Little egret disturbed, presumably after foraging in the small stream	Rear of the former Crown & Cushion pub by Fosters Bridge
9^th – Pair of house sparrows gathering nesting materials	Lion Lane garden
14^th - Female pipistrelle bat with serious cat injuries taken into care	Liphook
17^th - Starling on seed feeder Click for photo	Church Road ,Milford
21^st - The first brambling seen here this winter	Haslemere garden
23^rd- Southern hawker dragonfly flying around swimming pool	Killinghurst Lane garden
23^rd- Pair of roe deer, the male lacking one horn	Petworth Road garden
23^rd- A magpie caught a coal tit that had just flow away from a bird feeder, in mid air, dropped to the ground, plucked and ate it on the lawn, then flew off leaving a small pile of feathers.	Church Road, Milford
24^th - Tree creeper	Killinghurst Lane garden
28^th - Brown long-eared bat found hanging from office corridor ceiling Click for photo (Released 20th Dec)	Fernhurst

OCTOBER 2017

SEEN	WHERE
Throughout month - Polytrichum commune moss and much sphagnum	Witley Common
5^th – Young whiskered bat Myotis mystacinus found grounded with broken wing	Killinghurst Lane garden
7th - 2 buzzard, 3-4 kestrel, green woodpecker calling, 7+ meadow pipit, pied wagtail calling, stonechat, redwing, 2 mistle thrush, blackbird, 2 juvenile ring ouzels, goldfinch, 17+ linnet, about 20 lesser redpoll, 3 bullfinch	Black Down
8th - Sparrowhawk, about 12 buzzard, kestrel, 2-3 green woodpecker, 2+ great spotted woodpecker, pied wagtail, 5 swallow, woodlark, 20+ meadow pipit, 6+ stonechat. 3+ redwing, 10 mistle thrush, ring ouzel, 2+ chiffchaff, 2+ Dartford warbler, linnet heard, 100+ lesser redpoll, 6+ bullfinch	Black Down
8th - 2+ red admiral butterflies, hornet, hawker dragonfly species	Black Down
11^th - Hare’s foot inkcap Coprinopsis lagopus growing in woodchip amongst reeds Click for photo	Frensham Great Pond
11^th - 10+ shoveler duck in eclipse plumage, cormorant, mandarin (male & female ), mallard, tufted duck, grey heron, great crested grebes, pair mute swans with 5 cygnets	Cutmill
12^th - Frosty funnel fungi Clitocybe phyllophila Click for photo	By Wey & Arun Canal, near Loxwood
12^th – A few dragonflies still on the wing, three red admiral butterflies and a single small white, several hornets patrolling water’s edge	By Wey & Arun Canal, near Loxwood
12^th – Red kite and buzzard circling one another warily	Over Loxwood
14^th - Grey heron, goshawk (1^st winter), 2 sparrowhawk, 2 buzzard calling, 2 kestrel, 2+ green woodpecker, 20+ meadow pipit, woodlark calling, 6+ stonechat, 2+ blackbird, mistle thrush, 20+ redwing, 2 1^st winter ring ouzel + 1 female, raven, 5+ Dartford warbler, about 200 lesser redpoll, 6 siskin, 9+ linnet, 6+ bulfinch, 4 hawfinch	Black Down
14^th - Female minotaur beetle Typhaeus typhoeus Click for photo, fox moth caterpillar, pale tussock moth caterpillar Click for photo	Black Down
15^th - Cormorant, adult goshawk, 8+ buzzard, 2 kestrel, 1^st winter herring gull, woodcock, 25+ meadow pipit, about 135 redwing, 2 blackbird, 16 mistle thrush, 2+ ring ouzel, 10 stonechat, 2+ chiffchaff, 4+ Dartford warbler, brambling, 20 linnet, about 100 lesser redpoll, hawfinch calling	Black Down
17^th – Hornet queen at rest in recently installed bat box (Box No 31) Click for photo	Frensham Little Pond
17^th – 3 common pipistrelles now in residence in recently installed bat box (Box No 30)	Frensham Little Pond
22^nd - 2 cormorant, 8+ buzzard, 3 kestrel, 11 herring gull, green woodpecker calling, 6+ meadow pipit, 4+ stonechat, 1-2 blackbird, 4+ redwing, mistle thrush, 2 1st winter ring ouzel, Dartford warbler, raven, about 20 linnet, 5+ siskin, 8+ lesser redpoll, 3 hawfinch	Black Down
27^th – Pair of Dartford warblers	Frensham Common, near Devil's Jumps
27^th – About 20 noctule bats roosting singly or in pairs in bat boxes Click for photo. Also, a single pipistrelle bat in a separate box	Thursley National Nature Reserve
28^th - Southward migration: c. 700 woodpigeon, 30 redwing, 15 fieldfare. Also 3 firecrest seen.	Witley Common
30^th - The most perfect specimen of a slowworm, basking in the sun	Chiddingfold Church Yard
31^st – Hornet nest Click for photo and (separately) tits nest with 2 eggs Click for photo found during bat box checks	Frensham Little Pond

SEPTEMBER 2017

SEEN	WHERE
Throughout month - 1 to 2 deer grazing around garden and peering in through patio doors.	Pinebank, Hindhead
1^st - Goshawk - 1 juvenile female over the ridge ca.1130 with two buzzards, left to east; but also a distant male up high further east mobbed by a kestrel or hobby. Also 2 sparrowhawk, 8+ buzzard, 1-2 kestrel, 3 hobby together heading south, steady southward trickle of swallows and house martins, at least 7 wheatear (easily the most of these I've ever seen here on one day), 2+ stonechat, 2+ Dartford warbler, 4_ willow warbler, 4+ chiffchaff, 3+ spotted flycatcher, 3+ redstart, raven, 6+ linnet	Black Down
4^th - Found on the grass in garden; elephant hawk moth caterpillar Deilephila elpenor Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane
4^th - Male common pipistrelle bat (cat victim) taken into care. (Released 18.9.17)	Grayshott
6^th – Female scorpion fly attempting to fly off with dried mealworm Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane greenhouse
6^th – Clifden nonpareil moth atttracted by house lights Click for photo	Tennysons Lane
9^th - 5 sparrowhawk, 18 buzzard, 2 kestrel, 4 hobby, juvenile female peregrine, 2+ woodpecker, 9+ swallow, meadow pipit, tree pipit, 6+ stonechat, wheatear, 3 mistle thrush, 25+ chiffchaff, 3+ Dartford warbler, 2 spotted flycatcher, 2 raven, 6+ linnet, 2+ bullfinch	Black Down
9^th - Speckled wood butterfly	Chiddingfold garden
9^th - Red admiral butterfly	Grayswood
9^th - Hobby	Witley Common
10^th - Cormorant, 2 sparrowhawk, 6 buzzard, kestrel, 1+ green woodpecker, 7+ meadow pipit, 2 tree pipit, 1-2 grey wagtail, 2 swallow, 13+ stonechat, female immature redstart, ring ouzel 1^st winter male, 35+ chiffchaff, willow warbler, 3+ Dartford warbler, 4+ spotted flycatcher, 6+ siskin, raven	Black Down
14^th – Several soprano pipistrelle and a single Daubenton’s bat feeding over water	Shottermill Ponds
16^th – Pectoral sandpiper Calidris melanotos (American vagrant visitor) Click for photo	Thursley
16^th – Cormorant, 2 red kite, osprey (perhaps looking at fish ponds to west), 3 sparrowhawk, 12+ buzzard, kestrel, hobby, 10+ lessr black-backed gull, 2+ green woodpecker, 10+ meadow pipit, about 15 swallow, 11+ house martin, wheatear, 3+ stonechat, about 10 chiffchaff, 5 Dartford warbler, 2 spotted flycatcher, raven, 2+ linnet, 2+ bullfinch	Black Down
17^th - Pond skater Gerris sp. Click for photo	Cutmill Tarn
22^nd - Red kite, 4+ sparrowhawk, 20+ buzzard, 2 kestrel, female peregrine, 1+ green woodpecker, grey wagtail, 10+ meadow pipit, 2+ swallow, 30+ house martin, 60+ hirundine spp.- mostly house martins, 12 stonechat, 1-2 song thrush, 4+ blackbird, 20+ chiffchaff, 6 Dartford warbler, 2 raven, 5+ linnet, 5 goldfinch, 3+ bullfinch	Black Down
22^nd - 3+ red admiral butterflies	Black Down
23^rd - Similar species and numbers of birds as on 22nd plus hobby, male peregrine, 3 mistle thrush, redstart. Tawny owl heard.	Black Down
23^rd - Brown long-eared bats seen emerging from garage after droppings found on car roof	Killinghurst Lane
24^th – Frog found sheltering beneath door Click for photo	Furnace Place
24^th – Grey wagtail	Haslemere garden
24^th – Sparrowhawk, 10+ buzzard, 2 kestrel, hobby, 2+ green woodpecker, lesser spotted woodpecker, 10+ meadow pipit, 430+ house martin, 20+ swallow, woodlark, 6+ stonechat, 3 blackbird, 16+ chiffchaff, 3 willow warbler, 4+ Dartford warbler, 2 raven, 12+ linnet, 2+ bullfinch	Black Down
25^th – Male common pipistrelle bat cat victim taken into care. (Released 4.10.17)	Grayshott
26^th – Several mating groups of soprano pipistrelles found in bat boxes	Frensham Little Pond
26^th – Large ichneumon Rhyssa persuasoria seen laying eggs into hidden sawfly larvae Click for photo	Frensham Little Pond
27^th – Lesser redpoll (first this autumn)	Witley Common
27^th – Clifden nonpareil moth in moth trap Click for photo	Witley Common
29^th – Several common and soprano pipistrelles, a single noctule pass and one Daubenton’s bat hunting over pond	Imbhams Farm
30^th - Sparrowhawk, 12 buzzard, 1-2 kestrel, juv female peregrine, 2+ green woodpecker, about 20 meadow pipit, 15+ swallow, about 16 house martin, sand martin, 1-2 singing male woodlark, pied wagtail, 9+ stonechat, 2 male redstart, redwing, blackbird, 6+ chiffchaff, 4+ Dartford warbler, 2 raven, 1+ siskin, 4+ lesser redpoll, about 6 linnet, 5+ bullfinch	Black Down
30^th - Red admiral butterfly, hornet	Black Down

AUGUST 2017

SEEN	WHERE
5^th - Large raft spider Click for photo	Witley Common
5^th - Little owls, parent and one of two young on fence posts Click for photo	Portsmouth Rd. Milford adjacent to the Refectory car park
6^th - Lots of bat activity shortly after dusk - mostly common pipistrelles, with a few serotine and brown long-eared passes. Also a single Myotis pass, sounding very like a rare Bechstein's bat	Petworth Road garden
8^th & 15^th – Calls of rare barbastelle bats recorded	Petworth Road garden
11^th – Badger looking for worms on wet grass	Petworth Road garden
12^th – Horntail sawfly Urocerus gigas found in greenhouse Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane
13^th - 3 sparrowhawk, about 13 buzzard, kestrel, green woodpecker, wheatear, 3-5 spotted flycatcher, 4+ Dartford warbler, 2 raven, assorted willow warblers and chiffchaffs, small numbers of swallows and house martins beginning to move south/south east. Amazing humming from all the bees on the heather!	Black Down
13^th - Silver-washed fritillary butterfly, female, valezina form	Frillinghurst Wood
13^th - Lesser skullcap Scutellaria minor	Frillinghurst Wood
16^th - Elephant hawkmoth caterpillar hiding up in willow herb Click for photo	Haslemere garden
18^th – Deadly nightshade Atropa belladonna in berry Click for photo	Heyshott Down
18^th – Male soprano pipistrelle with three females in bat box. Single bats found in three other boxes. Later,	Frensham Little Pond
18^th – Female brown long-eared bat cat victim taken into care. (Released 29th) Click for photo	Witley
19^th – Roebuck resting in sunshine Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
20^th – Two bat boxes found with clusters of female and juvenile Natterer’s bats (17+ and 15 animals respectively). Click for photo Single male soprano pipistrelle bats found in two other boxes	Wood near Dunsfold
20^th – Several sexton beetles of at least two species found on dead juvenile long-eared bats in bat box. One identified as Nicrophorus humator Click for photo Also large numbers of copper underwing and Svensson's copper underwing moths in deserted bat boxes.	Wood near Dunsfold
20^th – Fine group of parasol mushrooms Macrolepiota procera Click for photo	Wood near Dunsfold
21^st - Old lady moth Mormo maura found in house	Braeside Close
22^nd - Hoverfly Volucella zonaria (3rd record for this year) Click for photo	Witley Common
23^rd - Noctule and serotine bat calls detected shortly after dusk	Petworth Road garden
24^th – Redstart, chiffchaff adult with recently fledged young (a very late breeding record)	Witley Common
24^th – Hornet nest in rotten pine tree Click for photo	Witley Common
25^th – Daubenton's bat taken into care after being found exhausted on external wall Click for photo	Oakhanger
26^th - Privet hawkmoth caterpillar Sphinx ligustri Click for photo	Hammer Vale
28^th - Soprano and common pipistrelles, serotine and Daubenton’s bats feeding around woodland and over River Wey	Herons Way, Tilford

JULY 2017

SEEN	WHERE
1^st - Red soldier beetles (Rhagonycha falva) on Erynigium flowers Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane Garden
2^nd - Female kestrel perched in tree Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
3^rd – Hummingbird hawk moth hovering at flowers	Furnace Place
4^th – Purple emperor butterfly fluttering at head height	Temple of the Winds
4^th - Female silver-washed fritillary butterfly	Headley garden
7^th – Many butterflies seen including - white admiral , silver-washed fritillary Click for photo, small skipper, speckled wood, ringlet Click for photo, large and small whites, brimstone, gatekeeper Click for photo, red admiral, comma, meadow brown, and also large red damselfly Click for photo	Holmens Grove
7^th – Reed warbler singing in hawthorn scrub	Witley Common
7^th& 8^th – Male 'dark giant horsefly' Tabanus sudeticus - rarely seen in Surrey - found in swimming pool Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane Garden
11^th - Rosemary beetle (Chrysolina americana) on lavender Click for photo	Hammer Vale
12^th - 400-500 swifts flying over	Haslemere garden
12^th - Common toad basking in the sun above garden water tank Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
13^th - Hobby	Witley Common
13^th - Gatekeeper butterfly on strawberry patch	Chiddingfold garden
15^th – Broad-leaved helleborine Click for photo	Holmens Grove
16^th - Small copper butterfly	Headley Allotment
19^th – About a dozen large Boletus mushrooms appearing suddenly beneath beech tree Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
22^nd - Little owl perched on post in paddock	Portsmouth Rd. Milford adjacent to the Refectory car park
23^rd - Female pheasant in garden with one very young chick	Killinghurst Lane garden
24^th - Female blackcap in apple tree eating an apple	Killinghurst Lane garden
24^th - Copper underwing moth found trapped in house Click for photo	Petworth Road
26^th - Black arches moth on outside wall Click for photo	Furnace Place
26^th - Broad-leaved helleborines in flower Click for photo	Oaken Wood, Chiddingfold Forest

JUNE 2017

SEEN	WHERE
Early in month – Red-footed falcon	Frensham Common
1^st - Meadow brown and large skipper butterflies	Wood near Plaistow
2^nd - Lesser spotted woodpecker	Witley Common
2^nd - Painted lady butterfly	Witley Common
3^rd – Common spotted orchids flowering - in the same spot for the last 30 odd years! Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
3^rd – Snout moth Hypena proboscidalis found indoors Click for photo	Chiddingfold
3^rd – Early pair of mating silver-studded blue butterflies Click for photo	Witley Common
6^th – Very early magpie moth Abraxus grossulariata trapped inside garage window Click for photo	Petworth Road
9^th - Black-tailed skimmer dragonfly (1st of year)	Witley Common
11^th - Goshawk - stunning views of an adult male flushing and hunting woodpigeons. Also red kite, sparrowhawk, 18+ buzzard, grey wagtail, 2 mm tree pipit, pair woodlark + 2 mm + 1-2 individuals (though no definitively fledged young seen), pair stone chat + 2 mm, Dartford warbler 1 + heard (suggesting fledged young), crossbill	Black Down
11^th - Golden-ringed dragonfly	Black Down
11^th - Hobby and raven. Also group of jackdaw, rook, carrion crow and magpie mobbing someting unseen in an alder canopy, presumably a large predator	Haslemere garden
11^th - About 60 silver-studded blue butterflies (all males)	Witley Common
13^th - 5+ nightjar (4 churring males) 2 roding woodcock	Witley Common
13^th - 2 female glowworms Lampyris noctiluca Click for photo	Witley Common
14^th – Several nightjars churring and tawny owls calling	Black Down
14^th – 5 crossbill	Witley Common
Mid-month - At least one red kite seen almost every day	Chiddingfold just to the North and East of the cricket green
15^th – Roe deer with youngster Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
15^th – Lots of common pipistrelle activity, plus a few unidentified Myotis bat passes	Sparrwood Hanger woodland, Plaistow
17^th – 7 dormice found during licensed checking of HNHS boxes Click for photo	Imbhams Farm
17^th – Common spotted orchids Click for photo, pyramidal orchids Click for photo, and broomrape Click for photo	Noar Hill. Selborne
17^th – Cinnabar moth on ragwort Click for photo	Noar Hill. Selborne
17^th - Plume moth Click for photo	Killingurst Lane
18^th - Very early purple emperor butterfly seen in garden, then flew indoors Click for photo	Plaistow
18^th – Badger passing through garden	Petworth Road
18^th – Silver-washed fritillary (2 males) and ringlet butterflies (firsts for year)	Witley Common
19^th – Week old baby pipistrelle bat found on bedroom floor Click for photo	Hammer
20^th – Muntjac Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
20^th – Purple emperor butterfly Click for photo	Witley Common
20^th – Fresh purple hairstreak butterfly	Roundwick Copse, Plaistow
20^th – Purple hairstreak butterfly	Hindhead garden
23^rd – Purple emperor butterfly trapped in house Click for photo	Furnace Place
23^rd – Tormentil mining bee Andrena tarsata (rare in Surrey)	Witley Common
25^th - Red kite flying low over garden	Hindhead
26^th – Hoverfly Volucella zonaria (first for Witley Common) Click for photo	Witley Common
29^th – Badger passing through garden	Petworth Road

MAY 2017

SEEN	WHERE
First few weeks - Bumble bees nesting in a former blue tits’ nest box Click for photo	Burnt Hill Road, Bourne Valley
1^st - Pair of mistle thrushes have managed to fledge a single offspring despite constant battles with a pair of magpies who also have young, but not out of the nest yet	Killinghurst Lane garden
1^st - 3+ buzzard, hobby, 6 firecrest	Inval, Gibbet Hill and Hindhead Common
1^st - 2-3 tree pipit, male redstart, Dartford warbler 1 m + food + f heard - so nest with young close by	Hindhead Common
1^st - Willow warbler, small flock of 6 crossbill	Black Down
2^nd - Singing male lesser whitethroat (first record since 1999!) Also male cuckoo singing	Witley Common
5^th – Cuckoo calling	Hedgehog Lane
6^th – Cuckoo calling	Foot of Haste Hill
7^th - Brimstone moth sleeping by doorbell Click for photo	Furnace Place
8^th - Turtle dove seen and heard	Holdfast Lane
9^th – Speckled wood butterfly on a creeping buttercup	Chiddingfold garden
10^th - Reed bunting, goldfinches, grey heron, 4+ whitethroats, house martin, swallow, crows, jay, mallard, robin, 3 Dartford warblers, 4 stonechats, 3 tree pipit, willow warbler Click for photo, redstart, great tit, Canada geese, tufted ducks, blackbird, linnet, 3 hobbies including 2 displaying/competing, cuckoo, goldcrest, green woodpecker. skylark, wren, kestrel, sparrowhawk, 6+ buzzard, woodlark	Thursley Common
10^th - Bog cotton Eriophorum angustifolium Click for photo	Thursley Common
10^th - Sand lizard	Witley Common
10^th - Green hairstreak & small heath butterflies (firsts for year)	Witley Common
11^th - Small tortoiseshell butterfly on a loganberry leaf in the sun	Chiddingfold garden
13^th - Raven	Witley Common
13^th - Good views of some of a flock of 18 crossbills	Thursley
14^th - Nightingale	Black Down
14^th - Grizzled skipper butterfly	Witley Common
15^th - A field full of speedwell and buttercups Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane
15^th - Wasp beetle Clytus arietis found in sitting room Click for photo	Chiddingfold
16^th - Star of Bethlehem flowers opening in sunshine for a week or so Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
16^th - Vixen suckling three cubs simultaneously at dusk	Petworth Road garden
16^th - A single hobby	Parkland above Woolbeding Lake
19^th - Green carpet moth Click for photo and least carpet moth Click for photo	Chiddingfold
20^th - Allium flowers full of sleepy bumble bees this evening, counted about two dozen. Experienced foragers stay out at night if they have found a good nectar source, they use up precious energy flying back to the nest. Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
21^st - A single lapwing in flight	Above Furnace Place garden
22^nd - Five playful fox cubs joined by both parents Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
22^nd - 3 woodcock and plenty of nightjar churring but only saw two in the air	Black Down
Red admiral butterfly	Chiddingfold garden
24^th - Holly blue butterfly	Headley garden
25^th – Poplar hawk moth resting indoors Click for photo	Milford
26^th - Adder	Black Down, above Cotchet Farm valley
26^th - 2 red kite, about 15 buzzard, male hobby, 2 woodcock, tawny owl m&f, 5 churring male nightjar+ 3 (1 definite female), 3 male tree pipit, pair woodlark, 2 male restart, male Dartford warbler,	Black Down
26^th - Male firecrest	Haste Hill
28^th - Nightjar churring between 7am and 9am! Also 3 garden warbler, 3/4 whitethroat, 3 willow warbler, 4+ chiffchaff, 2 male woodlark, 2 tree pipit, redstart, cuckoo, 10+ crossbill incl. youngsters, about 8 siskin, 10+ linnet, 3 male & 2 female stonechat, swallow, 2 buzzard, 4 great black backed gull to south	Black Down
28^th - 2 raven, red kite, 3 sparrowhawk, repergrine, 2 hobby, skylark, firecrest, turtle dove	Fernhurst
28^th - 5+ red kite, about 20 buzzard, 2 sparrowhawk, kestrel, cuckoo, 3 grey wagtail, garden warbler, lots of whitethroat, 5+ firecrest, 2+ bullfinch, 3+ yellowhammer	Between White's Lane and the west side of Woolbeding
28^th – 2+ hobbies chasing dragonflies over Pudmore Ponds, 4 Drtford warbler, inc 1 in display flight west side, 3 tree pipit, cuckoo, 8 stonechat, 8 redstart	Thursley
28^th – Roe buck relaxing in quiet corner of garden then browsing ferns Click for photo	Petworth Road
30^th - Very dark grass snake, approximately 2.5 ft in length	Garden near Midhurst
31^st - Rare Brandt's bat found during woodland survey	Wood near Dunsfold

APRIL 2017

SEEN	WHERE
Early in month - Black adder	Black Down
Early in month - Red-legged partridges having an almighty fight on Killinghurst Lane. Chased off after car had to be stopped to avoid squashing them.	Killinghurst Lane
Early in month - Purple toothwort Lathraea clandestina - an uncommon non-native leafless plant that parasitizes roots of willows. Click for photo (taken 17th April)	Hammer Vale
2^nd – Orange tip butterfly	Chiddingfold garden
2^nd – Tree pipit	Witley Common
2^nd – Speckled wood and holly blue butterflies	Witley Common
2^nd – Three adders	Witley Common
2^nd – 2 Swallows	Garden near Plaistow
2^nd – Grass snake (very small) under felt cover	Plaistow garden
3^rd - House martin	Near Plaistow
3^rd and 4^th - Swallows returning, seen and heard. Also skylarks.	Farm near Milland
5^th – Raven	Witley Common
6^th – Three badgers foraging together on grass in the dark	Petworth Road garden
7^th – Mistle thrush, willow warblers, blue & great tits, robins, chiffchaffs, wren, jackdaws. dunnock, chaffinches, crows, green woodpecker, woodlarks, Dartford warblers (4), long tailed tit, jay, stonechats, buzzard, redstarts, and heard great spotted woodpecker, redpolls, goldfinches, nuthatch and curlew.	Thursley Common
7^th – Speckled wood butterflies.	Thursley Common
8^th - 5 red kite, 5+ sparrowhawk, about 20 buzzard, 1+ male kestrel, 2+ green woodpecker, 5 tree pipit territories, 5 woodlark territories, swallow, male stonechat, male wheatear, 1+ blackcap, willow warbler, several chiffchaff, 2 male Dartford warblers, 6+ linnet, 2 greenfinch	Black Down
8^th - Firecrest and blackcap	Haslemere garden
9^th - Swallow. Also yellowhammer.	Over Lower Farm, Black Down
9^th - Skylark	Black Down
10^th – Cuckoo seen and heard	Thursley Common
11^th - Female orange tip butterfly resting on bubble wrap by greenhouse window Click for photo	Church Road, Milford
11^th - One swallow flying north	Over Enton Allotments, Witley
11^th - Two raven	Witley Common
12^th - Cuckoo	Near Plaistow
12^th - Cuckoo heard calling and seen in flight. 5 lapwings, sparrow hawk, tree creeper, stonechat Click for photo, Dartford warblers, redstart ( m ), many chiffchaffs, reed bunting, blackcap, willow warblers and curlew heard	Thursley Common
13^th - Cuckoo moving south to north, and later calling near the reservoir area	Black Down
13^th - 5 nightingales singing (one seen) and cuckoo calling	Chiddingfold Forest
13^th - Pair of bullfinch eating buds on copper beech. Cuckoo calling.	Furnace Place
13^th - Stunning display of bluebells	Imbhams Farm
13^th - Skylark displaying and calling, then plummeting to earth as a buzzard flew past. Two Canada geese on pond. Also heron, two coots and a moorhen. Later a squabble involving three goldcrests.	Imbhams Farm
15^th - Female lesser spotted woodpecker, male nightingale singing	Witley Common
15^th - 5+ red kite, 4 sparrowhawk, about 40 buzzard, 2 kestrel, cuckoo, 4 wood lark - 2 singing, 3 singing tree pipit, 10+ swallow, 2 stonechat, 4 firecrest, 1-2 raven18+ crossbill including at least 1 juvenile. male brambling, 6 linnet, plenty of chiffchaff and willow warblers, skylark singing, Dartford warbler	Black Down
15^th - Cuckoo, swallow, yellowhammer	Valewood
16^th - 2 red kite, 4 sparrowhawk, 25+ buzzard, kestrel pair displaying, cuckoo, woodlark, lots of swallow, 4 house martin, 7 singing male firecrest, 2 singing males and a pair of yellowhammer, 2 skylark, 2 mandarin, 4 mallard, grey wagtail, 2 crossbill, about 5 blackcap, about 8 chiffchaff, willow warbler	Between Fernhurst and Woolbeding
16^th - Kestrel	Valewood
17^th - Male and female goldcrests photographed through a window in which they were displaying in response to their own reflections! Click for photo	Hammer Vale
18^th - Singing male garden warbler, raven	Witley Common
20^th - St Mark's Fly Bibio marci (1st of year) Click for photo	Witley Common
20^th - Two male redstart singing	Witley Common
22^nd - Singing male yellowhammer, about 10 buzzard, sparrowhawk, perched male cuckoo, 2 singing male woodlark, at least 5 tree pipit, singing Dartford warbler, singing male whitethroat, wheatear, singing male redstart, 2 singing male stonechat, raven, about 20 common crossbill	Black Down
23^rd - Pair of hobbies soaring at the south end, plus another towards the north. Also garden warbler and yellowhammer singing to the west	Black Down
23^rd - 1 singing male whitethroat	Witley Common
23^rd - Wood white butterfly	Tugley Wood
25^th - Male bullfinch eating dandelion clock	Hindhead garden
26^th - Nightingale singing Click for photo	Chiddingfold Forest
26^th - Early purple orchid (Orchis mascula) Click for photo, Midland hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata) Click for photo, yellow pimpernel (Lysmachia nemorum) Click for photo	Tugley Wood
27^th - 3 singing male nightingales	Witley Common
27^th - Oak apple gall (approx. 4 cms. diameter ). Caused by gall wasp (Biorhiza pallida) laying eggs in oak leaf bud.Click for photo	Wey- Arun canal footpath
29^th - Redstarts, tree pippit, willow warblers, Dartford warbler, reed buntings (3), curlew, coal tit, great tit, wren, goldfinch, swallow, Canada and greylag geese and more! Heard cuckoo, woodlark, woodcock and chiff chaff!	Thursley Common
29^th – Female ring ouzel, 5 crossbill, tawny owl (in broad daylight on the heath), 7 singing male garden warblers, 4 singing male whitethroat	Witley Common
2 red kite, 2 sparrowhawk, 25+ buzzard, hobby, female peregrine, wood lark pair + 1-2 - both probably feeding young; + 1 singing male, 5 tree pipit, male stonechat, 2 garden warbler, raven, 15+ common crossbill, male yellowhammer	Black Down
29^th – Firecrest	Haste Hill
29^th – Firecrest	Pine View Lane
29^th – Firecrest	Haslemere
29^th – Four tiny fox cubs playing together in darkness with their mother Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
30^th – Red kite, 2 sparrowhawk, 12+ buzzard, tree pipit, garden warbler, 1+ whitethroat, 5-6 firecrest	Between Fernhurst and Woolbeding
30^th – Kestrel	Fernhurst car park
30^th – 3 yellowhammer	E of Lower North Park Farm
30^th – Cuckoo heard	Hedgehog Lane
Late in month - Blue tit badly affected by avian pox Click for photo	Garden near Plaistow

MARCH 2017

SEEN	WHERE
Early in month - Great crested newt found dead on path Click for photo	Reeth, near Fernden Lane
Early in month - Pair of crossbills drinking from tree hole Click for photo	Black Down
Early in month - Palmate and smooth newts of both sexes returned to two different sites as well as overwintered efts seen. Frogspawn have now hatched so tadpoles abound.	Farm near Milland
4^th - A pair of kestrels	Over Black Down
5^th - Blue tit stunned after flying into window. Flew off apparently unharmed. Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
6^th - Pair of hawfiches - possibly more, but seen only fleetingly	Bottom of Devil's Punchbowl
6^th - Muntjac	Between Lickfold and Lodsworth Common
7^th - Lesser spotted woodpecker (1 male)	Witley Common
7^th - Male and female roe deer resting together on grass	Petworth Road garden
7^th - Red admiral butterfly nectaring on Mahonia	Petworth Road garden
8^th – Brimstone and peacock butterflies	Chiddingfold
8^th – Long-tailed tits	Chiddingfold
8^th – Red kite	Over Frith Wood outside Northchapel
9^th – Peacock butterfly	Plaistow garden
9^th - Numerous brimstone butterflies	Devil’s Punchbowl
9^th – Brimstone butterfly	Haslemere garden
9^th - First butterflies of the season today including this comma Click for photo	Bramshott Chase
9^th - Large badger foraging at night	Petworth Road garden
11^th - 3 male chiffchaff, 3 firecrest (present all winter), crossbill (present since 2/1, singing 7th March), raven, woodcock, pair of stonechat (present since 21/2), pair of Dartford warbler, pair of woodlark	Witley Common
11^th - Red admiral, brimstone and comma butterflies	Witley Common
11^th - Pipistrelle bat on the wing	Petworth Road garden
13^th - Comma butterfly landed on my arm this morning and almost in my tea!	Chiddingfold garden
14^th - 5 buzzards and 1 red kite soaring above the garden together in a sort of group.	Killinghurst Lane garden
19^th - A male and female siskin on the niger seeds together	Furnace Place garden
20^th - Stoat on woodland edge and a skylark singing high over a field	Killinghurst Lane
21^st - Lesser spotted woodpecker - male drumming. Also heard on 25th, 27th.	Witley Common
25^th - Sparrowhawk eating a red-legged partridge	Killinghurst Lane garden
25^th - One male and seven female pheasants on the lawn. Also two lapwings flying over the garden calling.	Furnace Place garden
25^th - 14 singing male chiffchaffs	Witley Common
26^th - Male and female greater spotted woodpeckers on the peanuts - together	Furnace Place garden
26^th - Chiffchaff calling	Bramshott
27^th – Woodcock. Also singing male blackcap (earliest record for Witley: previous earliest 29-3-14)	Witley Common
27^th – Small tortoiseshell butterfly	Witley Common
27^th – Holly blue butterfly Very bright blue. Flying high around very tall laurel and holly.	Chiddingfold garden
27^th - Lesser spotted woodpecker calling and drumming on a dead oak branch stub	Witley Common
29^th - Chiffchaff	Headley Down Nature Reserve
29^th - Dead vixen, possibly pregnant	Field off Chase Lane
29^th - Holly blue butterfly	Garden near Plaistow
30th - Willow warbler 1 singing male, 40 lesser redpoll	Witley Common
30th - Male and female bullfinch on feeder Click for photo	Garden in Church Road, Milford

FEBRUARY 2017

SEEN	WHERE
1^st – Red kite	Over Church Road, Fernhurst
3^rd - Flock of siskins, redwings, bullfinches male & female, blue tit, long tailed tits, robins, wren, buzzard, red kite, grey heron, cormorant, tufted & mallard ducks, two Egyptian geese,great crested grebes, Two female goosanders.	Puttenham Common, Tarn and Long Ponds
3^rd - Yellow brain fungus Tremella mesenterica Click for photo, witches butter fungus Exidia glandulosa Click for photo,and jelly ear fungus Auricularia judae Click for photo	Puttenham Common
3^rd - One male & five female goosanders Click for photo, Two pochard, several mandarin, tufted & mallard ducks	Cutmill Pond
5^th - 123 noctule bats in hibernation – a new record! Also a single long-eared bat	Thursley NNR
7^th - Buzzard circling above gardens	Critchmere Vale, Haslemere
Early in month - 2 kestrels	Valewood
8^th - Male and female bullfinch checking for buds on an ornamental cherry tree	Furnace Place garden
8^th - Goldcrests, Dartford warbler, goldfinches, meadow pipits, song thrush, blackbird, chaffinch, crows, blue tit, magpie, coal tits, long tailed tits, reed bunting ( m. & f. ) , dunnock, jackdaws, mallards and a tufted duck. Heard – robin, wren, woodlarks. Also seen a pair roe deer ( m. & f. )	Thursley Common
11^th - Carrion crow sliding along on its tummy in the snow, perhaps trying to groom off parasites	Petworth Road garden
11^th - Red kite flying quite low over fields	Near Fisherstreet crossroads, south of Chiddingfold
12^th - Brambling, a few crossbills and a couple of stonechats	Cotchet Valley, Black down
13^th - Two very smart male goosanders (also reported on 11th)	Imbhams Farm pond
13^th - One or two red kites	South of Fernhurst
14^th - Three long-eared and three Natterer's bats Click for photo in hibernation	Midhurst hibernaculum
17^th - Male and female teal	Pond at Imbhams Farm
17^th - Red admiral butterfly	Plaistow garden
18^th - Raven over fields (had a no.of missing wing feathers)	Off Chase Lane
18^th - 5 teal, male goosander, 1-2 red kite, 5+ sparrowhawk, 20+ buzzard, kestrel, grey wagtail, wood lark pair in stubble field, raven, female yellowhammer, skylark, tawny owl heard	Imbhams Farm
18^th - 13+ buzzard, 3 male stonechat, pair Dartford warbler, 4-5 crossbill, 1-2 singing wood lark,	Black Down
20^th – Hibernating dormouse found during hedge laying work Click for photo	Collards Lane
20^th – Badly injured common pipistrelle bat brought in by cat - taken into care	Hindhead
21^st – One long-eared and one Myotis sp. bat hibernating in NT bat barn	Chase Lane
25^th – Red kite apparently squabbling with vociferous guineafowl. Flew off - both unharmed.	Killinghurst Lane garden
Late February - Badgers carrying young from sett Click for video	Imbhams Farm
28^th – First lovely plump bumble bee queen of 2017 on Hellebores	Furnace Place garden

JANUARY 2017

SEEN	WHERE
Mid Dec to mid Jan - Fieldfares and redwings on cotoneaster	Hindhead garden
January - Two separate visits by blackcap	Whitehill garden
January - 2 goldcrests in hedge	Conford, Liphook
2^nd - Little egret	Stream near Imbhams Farm
2^nd - Pair of Dartford warbler, 2 firecrest (present since 28/9/16), crossbill	Witley Common
6^{th -}Several coal tits, Dartford warbler, reed bunting, mistle thrush, goldcrest, blue tits, wren, redwings goldfinches,carrion crow	Hankley Common
6^{th -}Lichen (Cladonia impexa) Click for photo Oak moss lichen (Evernia prunastri ) Click for photo	Hankley Common
6^{th -} Hibernating bats: 6 Natterer's, 2 Daubenton's and one unidentified	Busbridge
7^th - Tree creeper, insect hunting on Douglas fir	Killinghurst Lane garden
7^th - Woodcock	Witley Common
11^th - 3 firecrest, 55 lesser redpoll	Witley Common
11^th - 2 little egrets Click for photo	Radford Park, Liphook
12^th - Blackcap feeding at bird table	Bourne valley, Farnham
13^{th -}Fox and vixen foraging in snow in between a few desultory attempts at mating Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
14^{th -}Flock of 6 goldfinch regularly feeding on sunflower seeds	Garden in Church Road, Milford
14^{th -}6 to 8 raven, up to 20 crossbill	Black Down
Mid-month - Several redpoll gathering daily	Swan Barn Farm
16^{th -}Male brambling	Haslemere garden
16^{th -} Small numbers of brambling	Black Down
17^{th -}2 long-eared bats, 2 Natterer's, 2 Daubenton's and a single small Myotis bat	Midhurst hibernaculum
17^{th -}2 adult great black-backed gulls in flight	SW of Woolbeding Common
17^{th -}Brown long-eared bat found on outside wall in sub-zero temperatures Click for photo (Released 27th March)	Winkworth Arboretum
18th - Goosander	Imbhams Farm pond
18th - One or two peregrine falcons	SE of Fernhurst
18th - Little egret in flight	South of Fernhurst
18th & 19th - Red kite	SE of Fernhurst
19th - Dartford warbler. Also raven heard.	Boarden Door, Black Down
19th - Woodlark singing over stubble field	SE of Fernhurst
19th - Fieldfare in frosty garden Click for photo	Church Rd. Milford
24^th – Long-eared, small Myotis, and a single unidentified bat hibernating in NT bat barn	Chase Lane
24^th – 2 Natterer’s bats hibernating in NT bat barn	Nutcombe Valley
24^th – Little egret sitting in tree looking down into pool	Critchmere Lane
24^th – 3 brown hairstreak butterfly eggs on blackthorn	Haslemere
26^th – Mistle thrush, the first seen here for some years	Petworth Road garden
26^th – Lapwing in field. The first seen here for a few years	Prestwick Manor Farm, Chiddingfold
28^th – Siskin and goldfinch on niger seeds	Furnace Place garden
28^th – Rabbit, fox and badger Click for photo	Furnace Place garden
30^th – Thrush singing loudly (temp 8 degrees C)	Plaistow garden