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

MARCH 2020

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

FEBRUARY 2020

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

JANUARY 2020

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

DECEMBER 2019

SEEN	WHERE
7^th - Four crossbill	Black Down
9^th - Adult female goshawk	Black Down
11^th – Brown long-eared bat found hanging on outside of garden shed, desperately underweight. Sadly died after a day or two.	Hammer Hill
12^th - Kingfisher spent 2+ hours on my small garden .pond	Fernhurst
13^th - Two raven	West of Fernhurst
13^th -12 fieldfares and a small number of redwings plus about 50 goldfinch, a redpoll and 2 siskin	Fernhurst
13^th - 20 little egret in wet field	Elmer's Marsh, near Fernhurst
13^th - Peregrine	Vann Road
13^th - Adult female goshawk and unaged female	West of Fernhurst
13^th - Lesser redpoll - flock of about 80	West of Fernhurst
14^th - Peregrine - 1st winter male, 1st winter female and adult male. Males involved in protracted dog-fight at height.	West of Fernhurst
14^th - Adult female goshawk	West of Fernhurst
15^th - 3rd winter/adult female and 3rd winter/adult male goshawk	West of Fernhurst
15^th - 3 raven	West of Woolbeding
15^th - Four red kite	West of Woolbeding
16^th – Long-eared bat hibernating in NT bat barn	Chase Lane
16^th - 2 Natterer’s bats hibernating in NT bat barn Click for photo	Nutcombe
18^th – Five Natterer’s bats, three long-eared, a Daubenton’s and a small woodland bat found in hibernation	Midhurst
18^th – Underweight brown long-eared bat taken into care after being found grounded. Released 2^nd January.	Hambledon
20^th - Hedgehog, juvenile	Near Haslemere Hospital
21^st – Hibernating dormouse found whilst gardening - tucked back into leaf nest to avoid further disturbance	Swan Barn Road garden
23^rd - Drosophila suzukii, non native fruit fly pest of soft fruit first recorded for UK in 2012	In a Rake kitchen
25^th – Raven	Petworth Park
29^th – Bat on wing at 12:50 pm	South end of Highfield Lane, Thursley

NOVEMBER 2019

SEEN	WHERE
2^nd – Badger foraging Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
3^rd - 2 redkite, goshawk 1^st winter male, 8+ buzzard, peregrine 1^st winter female, 2 kestrel, herring gull, 2 wood lark, 1+ skylark, pied wagtail, about 50 redwing, about 50 fieldfare, mistle thrush, 2+ blackbird, raven, 5 brambling, 20+ lesser redpoll, siskin, 5+ bullfinch	Black Down
3^rd - Buzzard, grey wagtail	Chase Lane
5^th - Smooth snake juvenile under tin	Hankley Common
6^th - 3 red kite, male goshawk mobbed by 2 carrion crows, 2 sparrowhawk, 9+ buzzard, 1-2 kestrel, 30+ redwing, 20+ fieldfare, 5+ blackbird, mistle thrush, 5 Dartford warbler - including 3 singing males, one of which was song-flighting, 2 raven, 12+ lesser redpoll, common crossbill	Black Down
8^th - 9-10 little egrets in wet field	Elmer's Marsh, near Fernhurst
8^th - A single, late ring ouzel	Black Down
11^th - 4 long tailed tits and 2 godfinches arriving within an hour of feeders being reinstated	Furnace Place
12^th - Flock of redwings on lawn scared off by diving sparrowhawk carrying a small bird in its claws	Grayshott
12^th - Adult male peregrine, grey wagtail	Black Down
13^th - Mute swan 1 adult & 1 first-winter - present from the 11th on the lakes below the west side, A Black Down first - I think!	Black Down
13^th - 1-2 first winter male goshawk, ring ouzel, pair raven, 5 Dartford warbler, about 25 lesser redpoll, 2 "black-backed gulls" that flew south may have been great black-backed, but can't be sure	Black Down
13^th - Crossbill	Witley Common
13^th - Red admiral	Witley Common
13^th - Small bat sp. flying in daylight	Witley Common
13^th - Bat flying at dusk	Plaistow garden
15^th - Sparrowhawk having killed a robin Click for photo	Ifold garden
16^th - Grey wagtail	Black Down
16^th - Great grey shrike	Woolmer Forest
17^th - 7 little egret	Elmers Marsh
17^th - 8 cormorant, coot	Cooks Pond
17^th - Red kite, 1-2 sparrowhawk	Maysleith
17^th - 1st winter male goshawk, stonechat, 4+ yellowhammer, singing male mistle thrush. Also heard woodlark, skylark, raven.	Trotton Marsh
17^th - Grey wagtail heard	S of Combe Pond
17^th - 13 crossbill	Harting Combe
17^th - 9 buzzard	Between Harting Combe and Maysleith
18^th - Dartford warbler and stonechat	Black Down
21^st - 13 little egrets in wet field	Elmer's Marsh
24^th - Woodcock feeding by the side of the road	Killinghurst Lane
27^th - Nuthatch on feeder Click for photo	Church Road, Milford
28^th - Red kite, 10 buzzard, 1st winter male peregrine having a go at ravens and sparrowhawk, 2 kestrel, skylark and wood lark heard overhead (both late records), 200 redwing, fieldfare, 3 stonechat, 2 dartford warbler, 2 raven, 3+ starling, 2+ lesser redpoll. Also a yellowhammer - a major rarity here.	Black Down
29^th - Female goshawk, male peregrine, kingfsiher on lake below	Black Down
30^th - About 17 greylag goose, female goshawk, 2 kestrel, lesser black-backed gull, 70+ redwing, fieldfare, mistle thrush, 2 raven, 15+ lesser redpoll, siskin heard	Black Down

OCTOBER 2019

SEEN	WHERE
1^st – Brown long-eared bats found in partly drained water tank. One sadly drowned, the other taken into care. Released 15.10.19.	Marley Combe Road
2^nd – 2 ring ouzels passing through	Black Down
3^rd - Kestrel, coot, black-headed gull, green woodpecker, wood lark, 80+ meadow pipit, pied wagtail heard, 150 house martin, swallow, 5+ stonechat, song thrush, 20 redwing, 3 blackbird, ring ouzel 1 female/1st winter male and possibly up to 5 others seen distantly/briefly,3 Dartford warbler, 3+ chiffchaff, pair raven, 13 linnet, siskin heard, 2 lesser redpoll, 7+ bullfinch	Black Down
4^th - Little grebe, sparrowhawk, 5 buzzard, coot, 5 moorhen, meadow pipit, 4+ stonechat, 5 redwing, mistle thrush, ring ouzel 1^st winter male/female, 2 Dartford warbler, chiffchaff heard, raven, 4+ bullfinch	Black Down
5^th - Many orb spider webs in garden Click for photo	Pathfields Close
6^th – Cluster of collared earthstars Geastrum triplex Click for photo	Woodland near Lodsworth
8^th - 16+ ring ouzel including a flock of 12, 79 redwing, 8 song thrush, 2 woodlark, 6 pied wagtail, 16 meadow pipit, firecrest, 20+ goldcrest, chiffchaff, 3 stonechat, 2 Dartford warbler, sparrowhawk, kestrel, buzzard, brambling	Black Down
9^th - Four, possibly five, dormice found in boxes funded by HNHS	Imbhams Farm
9^th - 20 house martin flying south	Over Fernhurst
9^th - Two species of fungi found on damp rotting pine cones Click for photo	Frensham Little Pond
9^th - Field digger wasp Mellinus arvensis settled on my trousers close to its burrow in sand under pine roots Click for photo	Frensham Little Pond
10^th - Painted lady butterfly Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
10^th - Very poorly brown long-eared bat found grounded, but died almost immediately	Rushmoor
13^th - Several species of fungi found on lawn - Mycenae Click for photo, waxcaps Click for photo , valerians Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
15^th - 5 cormorant, red kite, 1^st winter female goshawk, 8 buzzard, kestrel, herring gull, 10+ meadow pipit, 7 skylark, 2 woodlark, 4 house martin, 8+ stonechat, 3+ song thrush, 70+ redwing, mistle thrush, 7+ blackbird, 8-10 ring ouzel, 3+ dartford warbler, 2+ chiffchaff, hundreds of chaffinch to SW, 12+ bullfinch, siskin heard on wing	Black Down
16^th - 70+ redwing, 1-2 fieldfare, flock of 11+ ring ouzel, lesser redpoll calling overhead, stonechats, Dartford warblers, ravens, kestrels as usual	Black Down
17^th - 14+ ring ouzel, 400 redwing, 2+ song thrushes, at least one female brambling	Black Down
18^th – Turkeytail Click for photo and coral fungi Click for photo	Furnace Place
18^th - At least 7 ring ouzel, 100+ redwing, mistle thrush, wood lark, 9 lesser redpoll	Black Down
20^th - 4 ring ouzel, 65 redwing, 2 brambling, lesser redpoll	Devil's Punchbowl
20^th - About 6 ring ouzel, about 20 lesser redpoll, 1st-winter female goshawk	Black Down
21^st - Western conifer seed bug Leptoglossus occidentalis brought in on dog's coat Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane
22^nd - Short-eared owl mobbed by two carrion crows, 5 red kite, 15+ buzzard, 2+ sparrowhawk, 2 goshawk, one of them displaying, skylark, wood lark, 33+ house martin, 160+ redwing, 7+ song thrush, mistle thrush, 6 ring ouzel, 5 brambling, 6+ lesser redpoll, woodcock	Black Down
24^th - Unidentified fungus on a rotted piece of bark on a standing but rotted tree. It had a very large number of tiny black spores, like coal dust Click for photo	Jobsons Lane, Lurgashall
27^th – Southern hawker dragonfly catching and devouring insects before landing Click for photo	Field near Killinghurst Lane
27^th – Cowslip in flower Click for photo	Field near Killinghurst Lane
28^th - Goshawk 1^st winter female, sparrowhawk, 6+ buzzard, 2 kestrel, 17 lesser black-backed gull, 2 herring gull, 2 grey wagtail, 1-2 skylark, 5+ blackbird, 3-4 mistle thrush, 4+ redwing, 300+ fieldfare, ring ouzel, 6+ starling, 2+ siskin, 9+ lesser redpoll	Black Down
30^th - Hen harrier, goshawk	Black Down
30^th - 2 sparrowhawk, 15+ buzzard, 2 kestrel, 6 common gull, herring gull, skylark heard, 35+ redwing, 80+ fieldfare, 3+ blackbird, 3+ mistle thrush, ring ouzel, 2 brambling, 4+ lesser redpoll	Black Down
31^st - 30+ meadow pipit, song thrush, 100+ fieldfare, 15+ redwing, 3+ brambling, 3+ lesser redpoll	Black Down

SEPTEMBER 2019

SEEN	WHERE
1^st - 2 wheatear Click for photo, 2 redstart Click for photo, 2 tree pipit, 12+ spotted flycatcher Click for photo, 15+ chiffchaff, 8+ willow warbler, 2 whitethroat, 1 blackcap, 1 grey wagtail, 4 stonechat and 2 Dartford warblers, a few linnet and a kestrel.	Black Down
1^st – Female Reeve’s muntjac with juvenile in close attendance	Petworth Road garden
7^th - Clifden nonpareil moth Catocala fraxini in moth trap Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
8^th - Common green grasshopper (Omocestus viridulis) found in house lobby. Also speckled wood butterfly warming itself in sunshine. Click for photo	Chiddingfold
10^th - An abundance of elephant hawk moth caterpillars.Also a small brimstone moth caterpillar.	Lion Lane gardens
12^th - First-winter female peregrine messing about with a raven for at least 15 minutes. Also male hobby, cormorant, grey heron, little grebe, 2 mandarin, 1-2 sparrowhawk, 12+ buzzard, kestrel, 4 herring gull, 5-6 woodlark, about 15 meadow pipit, 55+ house martin, 15+ swallow, about 70 hirundine spp.,7+ stonechat, 2 immature wheatear, 3 Dartford warbler, 30+ chiffchaff, 2 raven, 10+ spotted flycatcher, about 10 linnet, 40+ siskin, 3+ bullfinch	Black Down
14^th - Wheatear Click for photo	Weycombe Road garden
14^th - A minimum of 1060 hirundines flying south. Approximately 80% house martins, 20% swallows.	Black Down
15^th - About 1000 house martins passing, but very few swallows. Also 2 cormorant, red kite, 4-5 sparrowhawk, about 20 buzzard, 1+ kstrel, coot, 9 moorhen, 1+ green woodpecker, 5-7 woodlark, 2+ meadow pipit, pied wagtail heard, 7+ stonechat, redstart, 3+ Dartford warbler, about 20 chiffchaff, 2 raven, 4+ spotted flycatcher	Black Down
18^th - Little grebe, 2 cormorant, grey heron, red kite, 2 juvenile/1st winter male goshawk, one chasing a jackdaw...which got away, 12+ buzzard, male kestrel, 5 moorhen, 2+ green woodpecker, wood lark, bout 10 meadow pipit, 80+ house martin, 3+ swallow, 15+ hirundine spp., 12+ stonechat, immature wheatear, immature redstart, blackbird, 23 mistle thrush, Dartford warbler, blackcap heard, 20+ chiffchaff, 2 raven, 2-3 spotted flycatcher, 5+ linnet, siskin heard, 6+ bullfinch	Black Down
19^th – Badger repeatedly chasing two rabbits, without success. Perhaps very hungry after long dry spell.	Petworth Road garden
19^th - Old lady moth, sighted in broad daylight on a sunny gable wall. Click for photo	Chiddingfold garden
19^th - Red kite mobbed by a goshawk, 2 male goshawk (one juvenile/1st winter mobbing the kite, the other an adult or near adult), 6 sparrowhawk, 13+ buzzard, kestrel, coot, 3 moorhen, herring gull, 3-4 woodlark, at least three birds singing, 15+ meadow pipit, 90+ house martin, 25+ swallow, 6+ stonechat, 4+ mistle thrush, blackbird heard, 2 Dartford warbler, about 30 chiffchaff, 2 raven, 6+ spotted flycatcher, siskin heard, 8+ linnet	Black Down
20^th - Red kite, male wood lark, 10+ meadow pipit, 2+ house martin, 8+ stonechat, Darford warbler, 8+ chiffchaff, 6+ spotted flycatcher, 3+ linnet, 6+ bullfinch	Black Down
21^st/22^nd - Goshawk	Headley
20^th - Reeves' muntjac Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
24^th - Toad hurrying over threshold as door was opened	Furnace Place
27^th/28^th - Many common and soprano pipistrelles and a few Daubenton's bats seen on bat walks	Imbhams Farm
30^th - 3 cormorant, grey heron, sparrowhawk, 10 buzzard, male kestrel, 7 golden plover (rare sight here), 3 moorhen, coot, 2+ green woodpecker, wood lark, 160+ meadow pipit, 20+ swallow, 4+ stonechat, blackbird, fieldfare, 2 Dartford warbler, 4+ chiffchaff, 5+ marsh tit, 10 linnet, 7+ bullfinch	Black Down
30^th – Brown long-eared bat found grounded and very weak. Died of starvation a few minutes after rescue.	Haslemere Railway Station
Late in month - Toad found in a corner and rescued	West Street Post Office

AUGUST 2019

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

JULY 2019

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

JUNE 2019

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

MAY 2019

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

APRIL 2019

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

MARCH 2019

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

FEBRUARY 2019

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

JANUARY 2019

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