REPORTS OF RECENT SIGHTINGS IN THE AREA
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MAY 2022
SEEN |
WHERE |
4th - Puss Moth Click for photo | Killinghurst Lane garden |
6th - Orange-tip male and Comma butterflies | Plaistow garden |
7th - Green-veined White butterfly | Plaistow garden |
7th - Very large female pipistrelle bat of indeterminate species taken into care with serious cat injuries | Loxhill |
9th - Wood White butterflies, several spring brood | Chiddingfold Forest |
11th – Fox cub (one of three) foraging alone Click for video | Petworth Road garden |
12th – Fine Sulphur Polypore Laetiporus sulphurous Click for photo | Petworth Road |
12th – Poplar Hawk Click for photo and Green Silver-lines Click for photo moths, and some eggs laid in the moth trap (probably from Pale Tussock moth) Click for photo | Killinghurst Lane garden |
14th - Swifts, 7 | Wey Hill, Haslemere |
14th – Much bat activity overnight – Common and Soprano Pipistrelles, Brown long-eared, Noctule, Serotine, Western Barbastelle and unidentified Myotis species | Petworth Road garden |
17th – Scorpionfly Panorpa communis Click for photo | Petworth Road garden |
22nd - Greater Horseshoe bats beginning to return to maternity roost | Between Midhurst and Petworth |
APRIL 2022
SEEN |
WHERE |
9th – Long-eared bat, probably Plecotus auritus, sheltering in National Trust bat barn after a cold night | Chase Fields |
10th - Coltsfoot growing in a large patch on disturbed gravel Click for photo | Headley Down |
13th - Nightingale heard | Tugley Wood, Chiddingfold Forest |
14th – Common and Soprano Pipistrelles and Daubenton’s bats | River Wey, Tilford |
15th – Holly Blue, Speckled Wood, Orange Tip and Peacock butterflies. Also a Goldfinch landing on the ground. | Chiddingfold garden |
15th – Cuckoo | Woolmer Pond |
15th – Common and Soprano Pipistrelles, Daubenton’s, Brown long-eared, Serotine and Western Barbastelle bats | Petworth Road garden |
17th – Cuckoo | Black Down |
20th - Holly Blue and male Orange-tip butterflies | Plaistow garden |
20th - Dead Stoat found in garden Click for photo | Van Common (Fernhurst) |
20th - Natterjack Toads, juvenile and spawn strings | Woolmer MOD |
21st – Emperor moth, male Click for photo | Thursley |
22nd - Comma butterfly fluttering near loganberry leaves | Chiddingfold garden |
23rd - Stitchwort scrambling up a wire fenceand also in adjacent woodland | Chiddingfold garden |
29th – Tiny Red Fox cub playing with mother | Petworth Road garden |
MARCH 2022
SEEN |
WHERE |
10th - Brimstone butterfly, male | Near Haslemere |
11th - Chiffchaff singing | Mare Hill, Witley |
14th - Peacock butterfly | Headley garden |
15th - Male Brimstone butterfly | Headley garden |
16th – Common pipistrelle bat found grounded in pouring rain. Released after a few days of intensive care. | Milford |
17th – Population of Cellar Spiders Pholcus phalangiodes apparently wiped out by entomopathogenic fungus, probably Torrubiella pulvinata Click for photo | Petworth Road woodshed |
23rd - Brimstone and Peacock butterflies active in the sunshine | Chiddingfold garden |
23rd - Greater Horseshoe bat returning to regular roost | Between Petworth and Midhurst |
24th - Peacock butterfly fluttering over grass and briefly basking on paving slabs, then chased off an approaching bumblebee, following it for a good few seconds' distance | Brook Cricket Green |
Late in month - Dog violets, native Primroses, Forget me nots, Mahonia, Lesser Celandine, Wood Anenome in flower | Chiddingfold garden |
FEBRUARY 2022
SEEN |
WHERE |
5th - Roe buck with fine antlers in velvet Click for photo | Camelsdale garden |
6th – Badger seizing worms from grass Click for video | Petworth Road garden |
9th - Extensive carpet of mauve crocuses visited by bumblebees and wild bees Click for photo | Chiddingfold St Mary's churchyard |
21st – 5 Natterer’s bats Myotis nattereri, 2 small woodland Myotis and a single long-eared bat Plecotus sp. hibernating in underground site. Also good numbers of Herald moths. | Midhurst |
22nd - Buff tailed bumblebee Bombus terrestris on a daffodil Click for photo | Killinghurst Lane garden |
23rd - Early Bumblebee Bombus pratorum Click for photo | Killinghurst Lane garden |
28th - Peacock Butterfly | West Bank of the Forked Pond, Thursley Common |
28th - 2 x Red Admiral butterflies | Thursley Common, east side woods |
JANUARY 2022
SEEN |
WHERE |
Early in month - Several smooth newts returning to pond | Farm near Milland |
1st – Adder Click for photo | Petworth Park |
1st – 6 Goosander - 3 male, 3 female, and a Little Egret | Imbhams Farm pond |
9th – Spirited fight between two Wood Pigeons beneath bird feeder, egged on by two squawking Magpies who then chased and pecked the loser | |
12th – Queen wasp emerging prematurely from hibernation | House in Petworth Road |
12th – 3 male Goosander still present on pond | Imbhams Farm |
14th – 4 Goosander (1 male, 3 females) | Frensham Great Pond |
18th – 3 Natterer's bats, a Daubenton's, a small woodland Myotis, a long-eared and an unidentified Myotis hibernating in underground site | Midhurst |
18th – Brown long-eared bat found grounded. Died in care a few days later. | Tilford |
19th - Fox skull Click for photo | Brook Green |
23rd – Heron perching unconcernedly in treetop whilst being mobbed by nest-building crows Click for photo | Petworth Road garden |
27th – Pair of Reeve’s muntjac Click for photo | Petworth Road garden |
28th - In moth trap: 8 moths, two species, Pale Brindled Beauty and Spring Ushers Click for photo. Also a solitary wasp Ancistrocerus nigricornis Click for photo | Killinghurst Lane garden |
DECEMBER 2021
SEEN |
WHERE |
1st – Large badger foraging on lawn during a mild night | Petworth Road garden |
2nd - Redwing Click for photo and jay Click for photo | Shottermill garden |
3rd - Leucistic goldfinch at birdfeeder Click for photo | Camelsdale garden |
4th - Mosquito Culex pipiens emerging from hibernation during mild spell Click for photo | Petworth Road |
8th - Several bunches of mistletoe on a leafless tree Click for photo | Woodland near Coxcombe Lane, Chiddingfold |
8th - Various fungi on an old oak stump Click for photo | Chiddingfold, St Mary’s churchyard |
11th – Amazing display of fungi on a tree stump Click for photo | Haslemere |
NOVEMBER 2021
SEEN |
WHERE |
1st – Large flocks of wood pigeon, 12+ crossbill, 50-ish linnet(?), goshawk toying with a crow, 4 cormorant, small numbers of redwing and fieldfare | Black Down |
2nd - Ring ouzel (1st winter) Click for photo, mistle thrush, fieldfare,redwing, blackbird, 20+ brambling, chaffinch, lesser redpoll, a few stonechat and Dartford warbler, 400-ish wood pigeon heading south | Black Down |
2nd - Cluster of fenugreek stalkball Phleogena faginea , a tiny basidiomycete fungus growing on tree bark Click for photo | Killinghurst Lane garden |
13th – Ring-necked parakeet Psittacula krameri on birdfeeder Click for photo | Chiddingfold garden |
15th – Hibernating brown long-eared bat found beneath ridge tile during repair works. Taken into temporary care. (A second brought in on 17th, then both released) Click for photo | Woolmer Hill |
21st - Male common darter | Churt Common |
23rd - Common darter | Thursley Common |
26th – Male blackcap | Headley garden |
OCTOBER 2021
SEEN |
WHERE |
1st – Juvenile jumping spider Marpissa muscosa Click for photo | Petworth Road |
2nd - Clifden Nonpareil moth under eaves by outside light | Garden at Plaistow |
6th - Male hen harrier Click for photo | Thursley Common |
8th - Merveille du Jour, and Green-brindled Crescent moths Click for photo | Killinghurst Lane garden |
Mid-month – Unusual harvestman, one of two Dicranopalpus species Click for photo | Grayshott |
Mid-month – Clifden Nonpareil moth Click for photo | Killinghurst Lane garden |
21st - Red Admiral butterfly | Plaistow garden |
24th - Red admiral butterfly on the wing | Petworth Road garden |
25th – Box tree moth Cydalima perspectalis Click for photo | Stedham |
26th - Large nibbled fungus, possibly a Melanoleuca on lawn beneath a Yew and Holly Click for photo | Chiddingfold garden |
26th – Goshawk swooping round oak and down into woodland | Petworth Road garden |
27th – Barred sallow moth Xanthia aurago Click for photo | Petworth Road garden |
29th – Daubenton’s bat Myotis daubentonii brought in by cat – taken into care Click for photo (Released 13 November) | Lower Street |
End of month - Uncommon cypress carpet moth Thera cupressata Click for photo and December moth Poecilocampa populi Click for photo | Killinghurst Lane garden |
SEPTEMBER 2021
SEEN |
WHERE |
1st – Reeve’s muntjac Click for photo | Petworth Road garden |
4th – Grounded pipistrelle bat taken into care. Released 12 September. | Hollycombe |
5th – An amazing display of bats on a very warm evening – common and soprano pipistrelle, noctule, brown long-eared, Western barbastelle (first record for this site) and Daubenton’s | Frensham Little Pond |
6th – Hoverfly Volucella zonaria Click for photo stealthily approaching roof nest entrance of hornets Vespa crabro Click for photo | Petworth Road |
7th - Fine array of fungus beneath a large oak tree. Identified as the rare bioluminescent Omphalotus illudens. Click for photo | Phillips garage, Wormley |
10th – Badger passing through garden | Petworth Road |
10th/11th – Spectacular displays by common and soprano pipistrelle and Daubenton’s bats during a bat walks. Other species seen or detected were brown long-eared (including a cluster roosting in a barn roof), a rare Alcathoe circling in another barn, a brief pass by a rare Western barbastelle, and a few noctule passes. | Imbhams Farm |
12th - Group of juvenile (1st year) wheatears | Thursley nature reserve |
16th - Black bryony Click for photo | Chiddingfold garden |
16th - Snail, perhaps white-lipped Cepaea hortensis Click for photo | |
18th – Red admiral Click for photo and comma Click for photo butterflies attracted to moth lure rope | Killinghurst Lane garden |
20th - Giant Equisetum, quite profuse this year in more areas of the garden Click for photo | Chiddingfold garden |
30th - Garden spider web highlighted by sunlight Click for photo | Chiddingfold garden |
AUGUST 2021
SEEN |
WHERE |
3rd - Redstart | Frensham Great Pond |
3rd - Many gatekeepers Click for photo, meadow browns and small white butterflies flitting among the Verbena bonariensis, feverfew and wild marjoram. Bush cricket, possibly Metrioptera brachyptera Click for photo in overgrown chive and mint patch. | Chiddingfold garden |
3rd - Square stemmed St John's wort Click for photo | Chiddingfold garden |
5th - Female white admiral butterfly Limenitis camilla Click for photo | Hindhead garden |
7th - Young sparrowhawk grooming itself on the summerhouse Click for photo | Courts Hill Road garden |
9th – Juvenile blackcaps feasting on bramble berries Click for photo | Petworth Road garden |
10th - Assasin bug Empicoris vagabundus Click for photo | Petworth Road garden |
10th – Juvenile common pipistrelle bat found grounded | Near Midhurst Road |
11th – Juvenile soprano pipistrelle bat found trapped in house | Woolmer Hill |
Mid-month – Wood white butterfly Click for photo | Farmland in Haslemere |
Mid-month – Poplar hawk moths Click for photo, peach blossom moth Click for photo | Killinghurst Lane garden |
16th - Otter spraint, about 3 weeks old, consisting mainly of fish bones Click for photo | Hammer Bottom |
18th - Glow-worm | Lawn in Plaistow garden |
19th – Mouse spider Scotophaeus blackwalli on wall inside house Click for photo | Petworth Road |
21st – Underweight juvenile brown long-eared bat found grounded Click for photo | Chithurst |
23rd – Comma butterfly caterpillar Click for photo | Petworth Road |
25th - Grass snake among slow worms in compost bin Click for photo | Camelsdale |
25th - Underweight juvenile brown long-eared bat trapped in function room. Released 15 September. | Lythe Hill Hotel |
26th - At least three greater horseshoe bats emerging from derelict stables at dusk. Other bats passing overhead were brown long-eared, common and soprano pipistrelle, noctule and serotine | Between Petworth and Midhurst |
Late in month - Elephant hawk moth caterpillars on a hardy outside fuchsia | Lion Lane garden |
27th – Spider Amaurobius similis in house Click for photo | Petworth Road |
29th – Desperately underweight juvenile brown long-eared bat died shortly after being found grounded | Wormley |
29th – Large roebuck relaxing and grooming itself Click for photo | Petworth Road garden |
29th – Gallant-soldier Galinsago parviflora in flower Click for photo | Near The Mill pub |
JULY 2021
SEEN |
WHERE |
3rd – Pair of young carrion crows attentively watching parent anting on lawn before trying it themselves | Petworth Road garden |
5th – Young roe deer left sleeping whilst mother forages elsewhere Click for photo | Petworth Road garden |
7th – Baby pipistrelle bat found grounded – taken into care | Elstead |
10th/11th – Sawfly caterpillars Neurotoma saltuum Click for photo | Stedham |
22nd - Swifts still flying over Haslemere. Also a hen blackbird feeding its chick | Near Haslemere Town meadow on 22 July |
23rd – Devil’s coach-horse Ocypus olens found on living room carpet Click for photo | Petworth Road |
23rd - Dagger moth Acronicta sp. (probably grey dagger) Click for photo | Hindhead garden |
25th – Roe deer and calf browsing in shrubbery Click for photo | Petworth Road garden |
20th/21st – Common pipistrelle bat in care gave birth overnight Click for photo | Hascombe |
24th/25th - White parakeet or parrot seen flying high and fast, white belly, coloured wings | Over Hammer |
26th - Painted lady, comma and peacock butterflies on Buddleia | Plaistow garden |
27th - Dark crimson underwing moth Catocala sponsa Click for photo | Killinghurst Lane garden |
JUNE 2021
SEEN |
WHERE |
3rd – Several beautiful demoiselle Calopteryx virgo fluttering around shrubs Click for photo | Petworth Road garden |
5th - Male and female wood white butterflies spotted engaging in a courtship display.This is a first for Chiddingfold and proves there is a local colony. Click for photo | Chiddingfold St Mary's churchyard |
7th - Several Alcathoe, brown long-eared, common and soprano pipistrelle bats and a single serotine shortly after sunset | Furnace Place |
9th – Copper underwing caterpillars Amphipyra pyramidea on Cotoneaster Click for photo | Petworth Road garden |
10th - Brown long-eared bat found dead on garden path Click for photo | Plaistow |
12th – Jumping spider Salticus scenicus – the first seen here this year Click for photo | Petworth Road garden |
12th - 2 bee orchids Click for photo | Woodland garden near Plaistow |
12th – Roe deer accompanied by very young fawn Click for video | Petworth Road garden |
14th - 2 churring male nightjars and 1 female. Also cuckoo calling | Hindhead common, Gibbet side |
14th - Palmate newts in garden pond Click for photo | Hill Road |
15th – Hornet apparently foraging for insects in house Click for photo | Petworth Road |
15th - Small tortoiseshell butterfly | Garden at Plaistow |
15th - Meadow brown butterfly | Woodland near Plaistow |
16th - Dormouse, escaped before weighing; Barn Owl flying in daylight; 3 Wood Mice in separate dormouse boxes | Woodland near Haslemere |
16th - 50 common spotted orchids again in flower, plus two more on a new site in the garden beyond a tall hedge. Click for photo | Chiddingfold garden |
19th – Silver-studded blue butterfly Click for photo. Also a small hoverfly, probably a female Meliscaeva auricollis Click for photo | Bramshott Common |
22nd - Female stag beetle on footpath | Behind the Church Centre in Headley Village |
23rd – Hoverfly Eristalis horticola resting between sessions hovering to defend territory Click for photo | Petworth Road garden |
23rd - Marbled white butterflies, 2 | Woodland near Plaistow |
23rd – Male and female bullfinch foraging on plants in window box | Chiddingfold garden |
26th – Juvenile soprano pipistrelle bat found grounded with internal injuries – taken into care | Rushmoor |
27th - Toad - a red spot on its 'sticky' looking head, and the left eye was red. Click for photo Also a baby newt in the pond | Pathfields Close garden |
27th - Bee with big pollen baskets and a mint moth Pyrausta aurata Click for photo | Pathfields Close garden |
28th – Marbled white butterflies on the wing Click for photo | Killinghurst Lane meadow |
29th - Hummingbird Hawkmoth on Red Valerian | Garden at Plaistow |
MAY 2021
SEEN |
WHERE |
2nd – Two juvenile siskins having bird feeder demonstrated by parent | Petworth Road garden |
4th - Speckled wood butterfly in dappled sunshine and natural short grass edge of woodland | Chiddingfold garden |
7th - Pair of male and female orange tip butterflies fluttering together in dappled sunlight | Chiddingfold St Mary's churchyard |
7th - Stitchwort, violets and bugle in flower. Wood anemone going over now. | Chiddingfold St Mary's churchyard |
9th - Blackcap in a tall mixed hedge | Woodside Road, Chiddingfold |
11th - Painted lady butterfly, 2, part of invasion seen in Sussex from 8th May | Woodland near Plaistow |
12th - A pair of chaffinches | Frensham Little Pond cafe |
12th - Wood white butterfly, 2, first of the spring brood; 1 painted lady and 1 small copper | Wood near Plaistow |
13th - Roe deer buck confronting a fox in our garden Click for photo | Camelsdale |
13th - St George's mushroom Calocybe gambosa Click for photo | Tower Road Hindhead |
13th - Privet hawkmoth on the outside of our wooden porch Click for photo | Milland |
18th - 2 nightingales and several garden warblers and blackcaps | Milford Common |
20th - Redstart, male | Plaistow garden |
28th – Two great tits anting vigorously for several minutes at edge of lawn | Petworth Road garden |
28th – Bank vole nibbling off tiny nectar filled buds from Cotoneaster growing up house wall | Petworth Road garden |
29th – Six species of bat active overnight – common and soprano pipistrelle, brown long-eared, serotine, noctule and barbastelle calls detected over garden | Petworth Road |
30th - Poplar hawkmoth Click for photo | Killinghurst Lane garden |
30th - Unidentified jewel wasp, of family Chrysididae, searching surface of brick wall in sunshine Click for photo | Petworth Road garden |
31st - Turtle dove heard "purring" | Woodland near Plaistow |
APRIL 2021
SEEN |
WHERE |
1st - Blackcap, male seen and heard singing, also chiffchaff singing | Woodland near Plaistow |
2nd - Spider Pisaura mirabilis on our paving Click for photo | Pathfields Close |
2nd - House sparrows plentiful, and a heron perched on roof Click for photo | Pathfields Close |
3rd - Orange tip butterfly nectaring on purple violets | Killinghurst Lane garden |
4th - Lady's smock Click for photo, bluebells, forget-me-nots, wood anemones Click for photo, lesser celandine, many native primroses Click for photo, ?dog violet, Viinca minor and major all in flower. | Chiddingfold garden |
4th - Holly blue and orange tip butterflies | Chiddingfold garden |
4th - Orange-tip butterfly, male | Plaistow garden |
5th – Female Reeves’ muntjac foraging for fallen leaves Click for video | Petworth Road garden |
5th - Impressive gorse Click for photo and stand of blackthorn Click for photo in blossom | Behind Chiddingfold churchyard |
8th – Streamer moth Anticlea derivate Click for photo and purple thorn moth Selenia tetralunaria Click for photo attracted to moth trap | Killinghurst Lane garden |
11th - Jay, bouncing and searching around in flower border | Chiddingfold garden |
12th - Several long-tailed tits in camellia bush, landing on hardy fuchsia bush and attracted to and bumping against nearby window pane | Chiddingfold garden |
12th - Peacock butterfly alternately flitting about and sunning itself | Swan Barn Farm |
13th - Pair of grey wagtails | A couple of miles outside Haslemere |
14th - First cuckoo heard along with sightings of tree pipit, willow warbler, linnet as well as male and female stonechats | Woolbeding Common |
14th - 5 redpolls visiting bird feeders | Headley garden |
mid-month - Pair of buzzards and pair of carrion crows disputing crown of Douglas fir for several days | Woodland near Swan Barn Farm |
18th - A single swallow | Farm near Milland |
19th - Speckled wood, peacock, orange tip and brimstone butterflies | Woodland near Plaistow |
19th - Swallows, two | Over pastureland near Plaistow |
21st - Nightingale and firecrest heard | Prestwick Lane, Grayswood |
23rd - Robins, two young fledglings, one pecking up ants | Garden at Plaistow |
24th - A pair of snipe in grass fields | Farm near Milland |
25th First skylarks of the season | Farm near Milland |
27th - Holly blue butterfly unusually fluttering about in the sunshine on the bare ground (possibly finding salts on the ground?) and briefly basking Click for photo | Chiddingfold garden |
28th - Orange tip butterfly | Lion Lane garden |
29th - Angle shades moth in porch Click for photo | Tower Road, Hindhead |
MARCH 2021
SEEN |
WHERE |
Early in month - On roadside verge scarlet elf cap Sarcoscypha austriaca Click for photo | Killinghurst Lane |
2nd - Heavily pregnant Reeves muntjac scuttling across lawn into cover | Petworth Road garden |
5th - Blackcap female and 4 siskins on bird feeder | Garden at Fernhurst |
5th onwards - Three redpolls (1 male, 2 female) visiting – a first for this garden | Braeside Close |
9th – Buff-tailed bumblebee queen searching bank for nesting place | Petworth Road garden |
16th – At least six species of bat on the wing on an unusually mild evening. Common and soprano pipistrelles, brown long-eared (social calls), serotine, Daubenton’s, a single Western barbastelle, and a few unidentified Myotis passes. | Petworth Road garden |
mid-month - Two goldfinches regularly sighted on rose bushes and elder branches | Chiddingfold garden |
mid-month - Bumble bees flying low and entering daffodil heads; also an unidentified brown butterfly | Chiddingfold garden |
19th - Lesser spotted woodpecker singing, drumming and eventually also seen | Holdfast Lane, Grayswood |
20th – Brown long-eared bat investigating loft space Click for video | Petworth Road |
20th - Tawny owl landing on trail camera Click for video | Petworth Road garden |
21st - Brimstone butterfly, male Click for photo | Near Oaken Wood, near Plaistow |
22nd - Brimstone butterflies 3 males, peacock butterfly and bee-fly Bombylius major | Farmland near Haslemere |
22nd - Rustic bunting and little bunting | Thursley Common |
23rd - Brimstone butterfly | Chiddingfold garden |
23rd - Crossbills, 50 or so, stonechat pair and a red kite | Black Down |
29th - Comma, peacock, male brimstone butterflies | Chiddingfold field |
29th - Barren strawberry in flower, violets, wood anemones in flower | Chiddingfold field |
29th - Female brimstone butterfly on primroses | Chiddingfold Forest |
30th - Holly blue butterflies, 2 | Garden at Plaistow |
30th - Pair of swallows | Hankley Common power lines |
31st -: Wood sorrel in flower | Beacon Hill woodlands |
FEBRUARY 2021
SEEN |
WHERE |
1st/2nd - Pied blackbird - nowhere near an albino, just white feathers intermingled with the black | Lion Lane garden |
6th - Blue tits frequenting a nest box in bright sunshine | Lion Lane garden |
12th - Red kite being mobbed by a crow | Beacon Hill |
13th – Drowsy fox awakening after a nap on a snowy lawn Click for photo | Petworth Road garden |
mid-month - Pair of small brindled beauty moths Apocheima hispidaria Click for photo and a pale brindled beauty moth Phigalia pilosaria in moth trap Click for photo | Killinghurst Lane garden |
20th - Peregrine falcon | Hascombe |
20th - About 50 jackdaws circling noisily as a flock, many flying in pairs. No mobbing target visible. | Over Swan Barn Farm |
24th - Red admiral butterfly | Garden at Plaistow |
26th - Male brimstone butterfly | Highcombe Edge, Hindhead |
26th – Bank vole scavenging seeds beneath bird feeder Click for photo | Petworth Road garden |
JANUARY 2021
SEEN |
WHERE |
3rd - First redwing of the winter Click for photo | Wood in Ifold |
5th - Fox at bird table in daylight | Lion Lane garden |
9th - Hair ice. The fungus Exidiopsis effusa creates this ice on rotten wood; it is rarely seen. Click for photo | Waggoners Wells |
10th – Roe buck in velvet and two does together with a Reeve’s muntjac | Petworth Road garden |
13th - Frog moving around garden | Lion Lane |
17th - Shrew scampering around on garage floor beneath parked cars | Petworth Road |
24th – Fox bemused by deep snow. Later, two young roe gambolling in snow before joining mother to browse on yew Click for photo | Petworth Road garden |
25th – Goldcrest visiting Abutilon megapotamicum regularly for insects over a few days | Pathfields Close |
26th – Redwings feasting on ivy berries Click for photo and 21 other species spotted including a fine jay Click for photo, song thrush Click for photo, and long-tailed tit Click for photo | Ifold garden |