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

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
19^th – Week old baby pipistrelle bat found on bedroom floor Click for photo	Hammer
20^th – Muntjac Click for photo	Petworth Road garden

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
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	orth Road
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	indhead 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
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

DECEMBER 2016

SEEN	WHERE
4^th - 30 to 40 pochard, some on the water, some in flight, lots of redwing gobbling up holly berries, plenty of great crested grebes including one passing a fish to another	Frensham Great Pond
4^th - Kingfisher, also two pairs of shoveller along reed edges	Frensham Little Pond
8^th - Large badger foraging over lawn	Petworth Road garden
11^th - At least one Dartford warbler seen	Ludshott Common
14^th - Large fox chasing smaller young interloper off territory after extraordinary game of hide and seek in the lavender bushes	Furnace Place garden
14^th - 2 buzzard, 3+ stonechat, about 4 Dartford warbler, 25+ brambling, 1+ lesser redpoll, 4+ linnet, 1+ common crossbill	Black Down
14^th - Cormorant on HNHS tern raft Click for photo	Frensham Little Pond
14^th - Three long-eared bats and a single Natterer's bat in hibernation	Midhurst hibernacula
20^th - One long-eared bat and two unidentified bats (probably long-eared) hibernating in NT bat barn. Also several hibernating butterflies and herald moths.	Chase Lane
End of month - small groups of goosander appearing infrequently	Imbhams Farm pond

NOVEMBER 2016

SEEN	WHERE
Throughout month - good numbers of starlings and house sparrows	Farm near Milland
4^th - False death cap Amanita citrina Click for photo	Milford Common
5th - Red kite being mobbed by crows	Over Killinghurst Lane garden
5th - 2 firecrest	Witley Common
7^th - Several red legged partridge at bird feeder Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
9^th - 20+ fieldfares flying over , 12+ tufted duck, 2 parties goldcrest 10+ & 4+, cormorants, 2 pairs great crested grebes, grey heron, 2 flocks of starlings, pair mute swans, black headed gulls, & a jay feeding on fallen acorns	Frensham Little Pond
11^th - 3 sparrowhawk, 13 buzzard, kestrel, grey wagtail, stonechat heard, 20+ redwing, 50+ fieldfare, 2+ blackbird, 4 Dartford warbler (inc. 1 singing male), 1+ linnet, 2+ bullfinch, 10+ lesser redpoll, 2+ common crossbill	Black Down
11^th - 3 song thrush	Haslemere
11^th - Firecrest, 2 male Dartford warblers singing, male stonechat, 120 lesser redpoll	Witley Common
13^th - Red kite, sparrowhawk, 5-7 buzzard, kestrel, 20+ redwing, 100+ fieldfare, 2+ mistle thrush, 3 Dartford warbler (inc. 1 singing male), 2 raven, about 15 lesser redpoll, 5+ bullfinch, 1+ common crossbill	Black Down
Mid month - Badger tackled an underground wasp nest and devastated it Click for photo	Furnace Place
22^nd - Red admiral butterfly sunning itself	Killinghurst Lane garden
26^th - A few redwings, a fieldfare and the odd stonechat and Dartford warbler	Black Down
26^th - 2 mute swans and their 6 cygnets Click for photo, 1 pair great crested grebes, grey heron, cormorant , 6 tufted ducks, coots, many mallards & black headed gulls	The Tarn, Cutt Mill
26^th - 2 pairs of shoveler ducks Anas clypeata	Cutt Mill pond
27^th - Male goshawk mobbed by carrion crows and buzzards	Temple of the Winds, Black Down
27^th - Two ravens and a chiffchaff	Black Down
28^th - Three Dartford warblers, buzzard, stonechat and a woodcock (a few seen here most days recently)	Black Down

OCTOBER 2016

SEEN	WHERE
1st - 20+ buzzard, sparrowhawk, 2 raven, , 10+ swallow, about 20 house martins, probable sand martin, very dark, medium/large skua heading south ,probably a pomarine	Black Down
2nd - 2-3 ring ouzel, juvenile marsh harrier, sparrowhawk, 15+ buzzard, kestrel, 8 large gulls, 8 herring gull, adult great black backed gull, 2+ green woodpecker, about 30 meadow pipit, 30+ swallow, pied wagtail, blackcap calling, 20+ chiffchaff, 2+ Dartford warbler, 5+ stonechat, juv wheatear, 1+ mistle thrush, 2 raven, 2+ linnet, 5+ siskin, 1+ redpoll calling, 4+ bullfinch	Black Down
6^th - Kingfisher calling briefly at garden pond	Fernhurst
6^th - Flock of redwing	Black Down
7th - About 30 ring ouzels	Cotchet Valley, Black Down
7th - 15+ meadow pipit, about 20 house martin, 2 stonechat, 6+ chiffchaff, blackcap, Dartford warbler, 12+ song thrush, 5+ blackbird, 350+ redwing, 1+ fieldfare, 2+ brambling, 50+ siskin, 2+ redpoll, 2+ bullfinch	Black Down
7th - 80 redwing, lesser redpoll, 2 swallow, 12 chiffchaff	Witley Common
8^th - At least 40 ring ouzels - 22 in one tree!	Black Down
8^th - 300+ redwing,3 fieldfare, 4 mistle thrush, 12 song thrush, 2 brambling, 50+ siskin, 3 lesser redpoll, woodlark, 20+ meadow pipit, 5 stonechat, 2 Dartford warbler, 25+ chiffchaff	Black Down
8^th - Large flock of crossbills	Tennyson’s lane car park, Black Down
8^th - Ring ouzel on bird bath Click for photo	Liphook garden
8^th - Wood lark flying over	Fernhurst garden
9^th - Great grey shrike reported	Black Down
9^th - 3 ring ouzel, 25 fieldfare, brambling	Devil's Punch Bowl
10th - Tawny owl perched on bird table watching for small mammals in grass	Petworth Road garden
10th - 24 redwing, firecrest, grey wagtail, 10 chiffchaff, Dartford warbler	Witley Common
12^th - 5 bearded tits on rushes	Tices Meadow, Badshot Lea
13^th - Two Egyptian geese	Witley Common
mid month - Woodlark foraging on ground	Devil's Punch Bowl
15^th - 30 fieldfare, 4 chiffchaff, 12 lesser redpoll	Witley Common
15^th - 10+ buzzard, 3+ kestrel, lesser black backed gull, 15+ meadow pipit, 2 stonechat, 160+ redwing, 150+ fieldfare, 12+ ring ouzel, 7+ chiffchaff, 1-2 Dartford warbler incl a singing male, 2 raven, 4 redpoll, 10 common crossbill	Black Down
16^th - 8+ ring ouzel	Cotchet Farm Valley, Black Down
16^th - 5+ buzzard, 1+ kestrel, green woodpecker, 4 hirundine sp, 100+ redwing, 15 fieldfare, 10+ lesser redpoll, 1++ common crossbill	Black Down
18^th - Goldcrest freed after becoming trapped in greenhouse Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
19^th - Two Egyptian geese, firecrest, chiffchaff, Dartford warbler	Witley Common
21^st – Badger foraging in garden	Petworth Road garden
21^st – Large toad	Garden at Plaistow
22^nd - Male yellow-necked mouse found in dormouse box	Imbhams Farm
22^nd - Snipe	Valewood Park
23rd - 2 sparrowhawk, 8+ buzzard, kestrel, 13 black-headed gull, herring gull, 10+ meadow pipit, 3+ skylark, woodlark, 4 stonechat, 2+ song thrush, 5+ blackbird, 120+ redwing, 150+ fieldfare, 7+ mistle thrush, ring ouzel, 4 Dartford warbler, 2+ brambling, linnet, about 100 lesser redpoll, siskin, 2+ bullfinch, hawfinch	Black Down
26^th - Chiffchaff, firecrest, 70 lesser redpoll	Witley Common
29^th - Male dartford warbler, firecrest, 50 lesser redpoll	Witley Common
29^th - Buzzard, kestrel, 5+ meadow pipit, 2+ stonechat, 200+ redwing, 300+fieldfare, 2+ mistle thrush, Dartford warbler, 1+ brambling, about 100 lesser redpoll, 1+ siskin, 5+ bullfinch, 1+ crossbill	Black Down
29^th - 33+ skylark, 5+ meadow pipit, 20+ redwing, 1+ bullfinch,	Witley Farm

SEPTEMBER 2016

SEEN	WHERE
7th - Common and soprano pipistrelles, and single serotine and noctule bats	Swan Barn Farm valley
11^th - Osprey flying south	Over town and Black Down
11^th - About 25 buzzard, 2 sparrowhawk, 3 kestrel, 6 lesser black backed gull, 2+ green woodpecker, 1+ meadowpipit, 2 tree pipit, 12+ swallow, 125+ house martin with a single sand martin, 4 stonechat, redstart, 3 adult and 2 immature wheatear, 75+ chiffchaff flocks with long-tailed tits and goldcrests, Dartford warbler, 6 goldfinch, 6 linnet, blackcap, whitethroat, 4+ willow warbler	Black Down
11^th - Wheatear	Near Lythe Hill
11^th – Roe deer with two slightly dappled young in attendance browsing off bramble shoots Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
12^th – Sub-adult brown long-eared bat found grounded and very underweight Click for photo	Swan Inn
12^th - 6+ buzzard, kestrel, adult hobby, adult lesser black backed gull, probable golden plover, 2+ green woodpecker, pipit sp, 31+ house martin, 15+ swallow, pied wagtail, 4 stonechat, 32+ chiffchaff, 1+ willow warbler, whitethroat, 2 blackcap, 3+ Dartford warbler, 5 spotted flycatcher, 2 song thrush, 1+ blackbird, 10 mistle thrush feeding on rowans, 2 raven, 5+ linnet, 4+ bullfinch	Black Down
12^th - Grey wagtail	Haslemere
12^th - Old lady moth Moro maura on shady window above porch front door in daytime Click for photo	Chiddingfold
Several black darter Click for photo and a few southern hawker dragonflies on wing	Black Down
17^th – 19 soprano pipistrelles found in 8 different bat boxes. Also Bombus hypnorum bumblebee nests in three containing old bird nests	Frensham Little Pond
23^rd – Rare Nathusius’ pipistrelle bats detected amongst common and soprano species overhead. Also several Daubenton’s bats over pond	Imbhams Farm
24^th - Small copper butterfly	Killinghurst Lane garden
28th - Two firecrest, Dartford warbler male singing, about 40 chiffchaff	Witley Common
29th & 30^th - Dormouse seen in hedge	Pine View Close
1 juvenile/1st winter male goshawk. Much corvid and woodpigeon panic. Also 6+ sparrowhawk, 12+ buzzard, green woodpecker, 2 woodlark, 30+ meadow pipit, 10+ swallow, 25+ house martin, 7+ stonechat, 20ish chiffchaff, 5+ Dartford warbler incl 2 singing males, 2 raven, 5+ siskin, 2+ bullfinch, 1+ crossbill	Black Down
30^th - Woodlark, heard but not seen	Older Hill, Redford

AUGUST 2016

SEEN	WHERE
3rd - Juvenile common pipistrelle bat found grounded	Dunsfold
3rd - Juvenile heron fishing in garden pond Click for photo	Durfold Wood, Plaistow
4^th - Badger road casualty	Petworth Road near Haste Hill
5^th - Pair of roe deer browsing Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
6^th - Grass snake swimming by bank edge in River Wey, also a roe deer, a slow worm found under a tin, and marsh woundwort Salvia palustris Click for photo	Thundry Meadow Reserve
7^th – Grounded juvenile common pipistrelle bat rescued. Released 18.8.16	Easebourne
7^th – 15 Natterer's bats and a few soprano pipistrelles found in bat boxes	Thundry Meadows
7^th – Southern hawker dragonfly Click for photo	Tugley Wood
8^th – Very weak juvenile whiskered bat found trapped in house Click for photo	Furnace Place
9^th – Juvenile common pipistrelle fell down chimney into dormant woodburner. Cleaned up and released after a couple of days.	Loxwood
10^th – Two honey buzzards heading north from Haste Hill (possibly the first ever sighting here)	Swan Barn Farm
11^th – Very rare juvenile Bechstein's bat found grounded and underweight. Click for photo (Released 22.8.16)	Rudgewick
13^th – Two foxes fighting viciously until disturbed	Petworth Road garden
18^th – Roe deer and dappled youngster browsing bramble shoots	Petworth Road garden
21^st - Sexton beetle Nicrophorus sp. carrying characteristic phoretic mites. When released, flew off swiftly Click for photo	Milford
21^st - Swift, 2 redstart	Black Down
21^st - 26 bats found in bat box checks, including 20 Natterer's in a single box	Wood near Dunsfold
22^nd - Osprey, 2 honey buzzard, 15+ buzzard, kestrel, hobby (probably juvenile), male peregrine, 2 large black backed gull, about 20 swallow, 3 house martin, 6+ chiffchaff, willow warbler, whitethroat, 2-3 Dartford warblers, 2 redstart, spotted flycatcher, stonechat, 3+ raven, 4+ linnet	Black Down
24^th – Two great tits anting on lawn	Petworth Road garden
24^th – Clouded yellow butterfly Click for photo	Witley Common
25^th - Clouded yellow butterfly	Plaistow garden
25^th – Large numbers of soprano and common pipistrelle bats, and good displays by noctules and Daubenton’s. Also a single serotine pass late in the evening	Frensham Little Pond
26^th - 15+ buzzard,2 kestrel, 2 hobby, 3+ tree pipit, 6+ house martin, 15+ swallow, 10+ hirundine spp, 2 redstart, 7+ spotted flycatcher, 20+ chiffchaff, 2+ willow warbler, 2 Dartford warbler, 2-3-raven, 2+ linnet, 4+ bullfinch	Black Down
27^th - 12+ buzzard, 1-2 kestrel plus a juvenile with jesses(!), lesser black backed gull parties of 3, 7 and 5, at least one whimbrel calling overhead, 2+ green woodpecker, 160+ hirundine spp about 80% house martin, 20% swallow, 2 tree pipit, pied wagtail, 2+ stonechat, redstart, 8+ spotted flycatcher, 21+ chiffchaff, whitethroat, 7+ linnet 3+ bullfinch	Black Down
27^th - Adult dormouse in one of the boxes provided by HNHS	Imbhams Farm
28^th - Two baby pigeons sitting in a fairly exposed nest in wisteria Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
28^th – Large numbers of pipistrelle bats and Daubenton’s bats. Also a noctule and serotine bat detected overhead.	Imbhams Farm
29^th – Red kite, male honey buzzard, 20 buzzard, 4 sparrowhawk, 1+ kestrel, 1-2 hobby, 11 lesser black backed gull, up to 5 tree pipit, grey wagtail, 90+ swallow, house martin, stonechat, redstart, 30+ chiffchaff, 3+ willow warbler, 2+ blackcap, garden warbler, 4+ Dartford warbler, 2 firecrest, 5+ spotted flycatcher, 1+ treecreeper, 2 raven, 3+ linnet, 2 siskin, 6+ bulfinch	Black Down
29^th – Immature female merlin - an early date for a very rare bird around here!	Black Down
30^th – Northern wheatear (female)	Black Down

JULY 2016

SEEN	WHERE
2 weeks to 4^th - Black fox visiting garden regularly Click for photo	Wormley
Four baby soprano pipistrelles found beneath roost. Three returned and one taken into care Click for photo (Householder later reported over 30 more babies returned to roost!)	Whitmore Vale
4th - Very dusty hornet found trapped in house. Flew off strongly when released Click for photo	Petworth Road
6th - Four red kites circling	Over Chiddingfold
7th - Male purple emperor butterfly Click for photo	Tugley Wood
8th - Swallow-tailed moth Ourapteryx sambucaria Click for photo	House in Killinghurst Lane
12^th - Male sparrowhawk roosting overnight in barn and expressing great interest in twitterings from a nearby birds nest	Haslemere farm
mid-month - Several purple hairstreak butterflies seen in oak canopy. Also second brood of holly blues on wing.	Swan Barn Farm
16^th - Whilst sitting, talking, on our patio, a grass snake was attempting to eat a toad, not a yard behind us	Inval
17^th - Juvenile female pipistrelle bat cat victim found in shower tray	Witley
18^th - Badly injured juvenile female pipistrelle bat found grounded	Milland
21^st - Dehydrated juvenile female pipistrelle bat found dead on house wall	Chase Lane
21^st - About 12 swifts flying around	Headley
21^st - Purple hairstreak butterfly Click for photo	Witley Common
23^rd - Juvenile grass snake approx 45 cms long Click for photo	Shottermill garden
25^th - Hummingbird hawk moth Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
28^th - The prince mushroom Agaricus augustus growing beside my drive under a 60ft Macrocarpa conifer Click for photo	Grayshott garden
30^th - Hedgehog	Fernhurst garden
31^st - Juvenile bullfinch being fed by parent - possibly a second brood?	Petworth Road garden

JUNE 2016

SEEN	WHERE
Early in month - Three red kites	Over Furnace Place
1st - Two fox cubs playing	Petworth Road garden
4th - Restart pair visiting nest with food, white-legged damselfly, honey bee swarm Click for photo, weevil Curculio venosus Click for photo	Witley Common
5th - Two painted lady butterflies	Plaistow
5th - Painted lady butterfly and two beautiful demoiselles Calopteryx virgo Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
5th - Female broad bodied chaser Click for photo	Tugley Wood
6th - Reed warbler singing in birch scrub on heath (this may sound unusual, being a long way from any reed beds, but there have been several previous records of singing males here in late May/early June, usually only staying one day).	Witley Common
Week of 6th - Coal, blue and great tit young families, also four young nuthatch and three very fluffy and noisy baby wrens. Also a bullfinch feeding a baby, a pair of wagtails busy on the lawn and goldfinches visiting to collect forget-me-not seeds	Furnace Place garden
7th - Banded demoiselle Click for photo	Thundry Meadow
7th - Serotine bat in flight	Petworth Road garden
9th - Nightjars churring. At least two, possibly four	Black Down
10th - Turtle dove heard purring	Wood near Plaistow
10th - Large skipper butterfly	Wood near Plaistow
11th - 3+ red kite, 15+ buzzard, sparrowhawk, kestrel, hobby, tawny owl calling (at 12:30pm!), 3+ tree pipit including one carrying food, 2 singing male woodlark, 2 singing male redstart, 1-2 bullfinch	Black Down
11th - Two firecrest	End of Chase Lane
12th - Adult male peregrine falcon	West of Fernhurst
15th - At least six churring male nightjars and at least three roding woodcock	Black Down
18th - Male silver-studded blue butterfly (first of year) Click for photo	Witley Common
18th - Lesser spotted woodpecker, crossbill	Witley Common
18th - Two Mediterranean gulls flying E to W	South of Black Down
18th - 5 red kite. Also a lapwing.	West of Fernhurst
19^th – 5 to 6 Mediterranean gulls in flight	West of Milland
19^th – Natterer’s bat cat victim found grounded with broken wing	Fernhurst
20^th - At least two chicks on one of our tern rafts. Possibly more on the other.	Frensham Little Pond
21^st - Kestrel perched on top of tall conifer	Headley
21^st - Turtle dove seen	Fernhurst garden
22^nd - Male and female dormice in a box, and a female in another	Imbhams Farm, Haslemere
23^rd - Large grass snake	Garden at Plaistow
25^th - Common pipistrelle found grounded - taken into care	Nightingale Road, Godalming
28^th - Turtle dove heard. Marbled white butterfly	Durfold Wood, Plaistow
29^th - Common pipistrelle cat victim found grounded - taken into care and later released	Grayshott

MAY 2016

SEEN	WHERE
Early in month - Nightingale singing regularly	Swan Barn Farm, close to town centre
1st - Male orange-tip butterfly fluttering around garden	Furnace Place
2nd & 3rd - Speckled wood butterfly sunning itself on a beech hedge, orange tip butterfly	Woodland garden, Chiddingfold
3rd - Pair of garden warblers	Witley Common
3rd - Male sparrow hawk making two fast flights over and through garden hedge full of sparrows,none caught.	Church Rd. Milford
4th - Grass snake swimming in a ditch	Wood near Plaistow
6^th – Holly blue and two brimstone butterflies	Petworth Road garden
6^th – Eumenid wasp exploring holes in house brickwork Click for photo	Petworth Road
7th - Butterflies: peacock Click for photo, orange tips, male and female, red admiral	Above Hascombe village
7th - Pair of Canada geese guarding their 6 goslings Click for photo	Edge of Hascombe pond
7th - Curlew and spotted flycatcher	Witley Common
10^th – Good displays by serotine and common pipistrelle bats along woodland edges. Also, a single Myotis sp. detected – possibly a Natterer’s bat	Grounds of Gilbert White's Museum, Selborne
11th - 3 sexton beetles, Nicrophorus sp. beneath pigeon carcass Click for photo	Field off Chase Lane
11th - Several nightingales heard singing, one seen. Also seen: longtailed tits, a whitethroat and a kestrel perched on a pine Click for photo	Milford Common
11th - 3 hobbies flying feeding on insects, curlew singing on territorial flight, Dartford warbler, male reed bunting, stonechat, whitethroat, cuckoo-male Click for photo	Close to the Thursley Parish Field
11th - Crossbills, many goldfinches . Heard were skylark, woodlark ,linnets, garden and willow warblers	Thursley Common
12th - Several palmate newts courting in pond	Swan Barn Farm
12th - Holly blue, male orange tip and speckled wood butterflies. Also a large red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula Click for photo	Swan Barn Farm
12th - Slow worm Click for photo	Near Frensham
12th - Common cockchafer male found down collar! Click for photo	Church Rd. Milford garden
13th - Small and very active swarm of male green longhorn moths Adela reaumurella Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
14th - Grizzled skipper butterfly Pyrgus malvae Click for photo	Bramshott Common
14th - Snakefly (probably Phaeostigma notata) Click for photo	Hammer Vale
15th - Firecrest	Witley Common
16^th – Common and soprano pipistrelles, and a few long-eared bats emerging beneath roof tiles around sunset	Furnace Place
20th - Common tern, curlew 1, stonechat pair + fledged young	Witley Common
20^th - Nightjars back. Churring at 9pm	Black Down
20^th – Very active group of common pipistrelles feeding around old oak. Also, calls of one or two unidentified Myotis bats.	Wood near Plaistow
21st - Dormouse found sleeping in one of our newly installed boxes Click for photo	Imbhams Farm
24^th – About a dozen Alcathoe bats Myotis alcathoe emerging from beneath roof tiles	Furnace Place
25^th - Stonechats and a tree pipit singing on top of a pine. Also edible dryad's saddle bracket fungus Polyporus squamosus on felled tree Click for photo	Farnham Heath RSPB Reserve, Tilford
25^th - Nightingale singing, possibly two	Woodland off Killinghurst Lane
26^th - Nightjar churring	Cochet Valley, Black Down
26^th - Nightjar churring	Boarden Door Bottom, Black Down
26^th - 1-3 roding woodcock, tawny owl, distant cuckoo, pair stonechat - male in song flight, male woodlark - song flight	Black Down
26^th - Several roe deer, 1 fox, 1 small bat (= pipistrelle sp?) and 2+ slightly larger ones	Top of Chase Lane
27^th - Very large hornet, around 2 inches long	Courts Hill Road garden
27^th - Several broad-bodied chaser dragonflies patrolling ponds Click for photo with females laying eggs	Black Down
28^th - Bullfinch Click for photo	Plaistow garden
28^th - Roebuck Click for photo	Near Chiddingfold
28^th - Male rhinoceros beetle Sinodendron cylindricum Click for photo plus a female a few days later	Hammer Vale garden
30^th - 15 Alcathoe bats Myotis alcathoe emerging from beneath roof tiles Video clip	Furnace Place
31st - Duke of Burgundy and dingy skipper Click for photo butterflies, both male; also fresh common spotted orchid Dactylorhiza fuchsii Click for photo	Noar Hill

APRIL 2016

SEEN	WHERE
1st - Red kite, about 20 buzzard, sparrowhawk, kestrel displaying, 4 woodlark territories (1 pair, 2 males and one other seen), pair of stonechat, chiffchaff singing, 1-2 Dartford warbler males singing,raven, 2+ linnet, 2 lesser redpoll, 25 common crossbill including female carrying nesting material	Black Down
1^st – Bee fly, probably Bombylius major	Petworth Road garden
3rd - Lots of birdsong: 2 tree pipit males, plus another, 2 woodlark males, 2 Dartford warbler males, 4 stonechat territories	Black Down
3rd - 2 singing firecrests	Haste Hill - one at the top, one at the bottom
3rd - 2 ravens, one with something large and black in its bill	Black Down
3rd - Swallow, 3 singing blackcap males	Witley Common
3rd - Brimstone and peacock butterflies on wing	Petworth Road garden
4th - Bank vole foraging in Cotoneaster bush beneath bird feeder	Petworth Road garden
5th - 4 swallows flying high	Over Enton Lakes, Witley
5th - Cuckoo calling	Durfold Wood, Plaistow
7th - Raven, crossbill	Witley Common
8th - Angle shades moth Phlogophora meticulosa at rest Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane greenhouse
8th - Grounded brown long-eared bat found on driveway Click for photo	Inval
10th - Swallow	Near Milland
11^th - Female black redstart on the roof of the houses	South end of Pathfields Close
11^th - Willow warbler and nightingale singing	Durfold Wood, Plaistow
11^th - Common lizard basking in sunshine	Durfold Wood, Plaistow
12^th - Tree pipit male singing, whitethroat male singing, redstart singing	Witley Common
14^th - Cuckoo calling	Grayswood
14^th - Nightingale male singing, 12 lesser redpoll	Witley Common
17^th - Cuckoo calling	Woods off Lickfold Road, Fernhurst
17^th - 5 female linnets (some may have been young) plus 2 males on nyger feeders, and a pair of bullfinches	Chatsworth Avenue garden
17^th - Two grey herons flying along valley together	Swan Barn Farm
17^th - Swallow	Over Ifold garden
17^th - Cuckooo	Wood near
18^th - Male ring ouzel Click for photo	Witley Common
18^th - Juvenile linnet balancing on a tree branch	Chatsworth Avenue garden
18^th - Two adult badgers and a smaller one foraging on lawn at dusk	Petworth Road garden
19^th - Adult slow worm, juvenile slow worm and grass snake under mat of roofing felt	Plaistow garden
20^th - Two male ring ouzels singing and a male cuckoo calling	Witley Common
20^th - 6 lapwings in stubble	Near Lurgashall
21^st - Male blackcap visiting bird feeders, and one or more chiffchaffs in the woods. Plus a lapwing in the fields	Furnace Place
21^st - Pair of wrens fighting viciously, quite oblivious to nearby humans	By River Wey near Farncombe
22^nd - Of 49 dormouse boxes in private woodland 13 had wrens' nests with 3 containing eggs	Imbhams Farm, Haslemere
23^rd - Early-purple orchid Orchis mascula just starting to flower on boundary bank Click for photo, also several orange-tip Butterflies Aanthocaris cardamines alongside canal and woodland path	By Wey & Arun canal, Loxwood
23^rd - Male ring ouzel still present (presumably waiting for the terrible weather to change before moving on).	Witley Common
24^th - Black fox carrying bird back to its den	Railway cutting bank near Witley Station
26th - Male ring ouzel still present. Some migrants overdue - only 2 willow warblers seen so far.	Witley Common
26th - Orange-tip butterfly Click for photo	Durfold Wood, Plaistow
28th - Buzzard seen in aerial display flight carrying a snake (most likely an adder) in its talons	Witley Common
30th - 2+ buzzard, kestrel, male cuckooo, 2+ male tree pipits, woodlark male singing, 2+ swallows, male stonechat, singing male redstart, 2 male Dartford warblers singing Click for photo, willow warblers and chiffchaffs, 2+ whitethroat, male blackcap singing, 1+ siskin, 1+ redpoll, 3 bullfinch, 12 crossbill Click for photo, green woodpecker calling	Black Down

MARCH 2016

SEEN	WHERE
2nd - Siskins feeding at bird table. Regular visits of 15+ birds Click for photo	Milford garden
3rd - Bumblebee Bombus terrestris found in pot plant roots. Encouraged to take a little sugar water before release. Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane greenhouse
3rd - Pine ladybird Exochomus4 pustulatus	Ifold
3rd - Dartford warbler	Witley Common
3rd - Two Reeves' pheasants still present. (Releases from Birtley Farm) Click for photo	Opposite Prestwick Farm
6th - Male woodlark singing, male Dartford warbler singing	Black Down
6th - 6+ common crossbill	Head of Borden Door Bottom Valley
6th - 2 woodlark	Stubble field at Imbhams Farm
6th - 3 goosanders on pond, later seen heading south,	Imbhams Farm
8th - Firecrest	Witley Common
11th - Wasp beetle Clytus Arietis found on sofa in sitting room Click for photo	Church Road, Milford
13th - Great grey shrike	Elstead Common
13th - Brimstone butterfly	High Lane, Haslemere
13th - Brimstone butterfly	Plaistow garden
15th - Raven & lesser spotted woodpecker	Witley Common
15th - Peregrine falcon	West of Fernhurst
17th - Brimstone butterfly	Headley garden
18th - Peregrine falcon	South of Fernhurst
19th - Up to 10 red kites	Between Black Down and Milland
19th - Pair of peregrine falcons	Bexleyhill
19th - Peregrine falcon	Fernhurst
20th - 3 singing woodlarks, of which at least one was part of a pair, about 30 common crossbills, inc.several singing males, calling chiffchaff, 11 redwings, peregrine falcon flying north	Black Down
20th - Two mandarin ducks	Over Chase Lane
20th - Four red kites	Fernhurst
20th - 7 brambling at home with finch flock (siskin and redpolls) 4 of which males and one of those in full breeding garb. 30+ redwing still at large	Fernhurst
20th - At least four mandarin ducks	Fernhurst furnace pond
21st - Pair of mandarin duck in tree. Also 40+ crossbills	Riddens Corner
21st - Grey wagtail	Killinghurst Lane garden
22nd - Peacock and comma butterflies - both of a very small size	Killinghurst Lane garden
22nd - Chiffchaff (not singing), male lesser spotted woodpecker drumming, brambling, 2 male yellowhammers singing, brimstone and peacock butterflies, frog spawn	Witley Common
25^th – At least 4 redpolls every day, including one which has a gold crown	Headley garden
25^th – Chiffchaff calling, plus two brimstone butterflies and a peacock butterfly	Durfold Wood, Plaistow
25^th – 4 buzzards circling and calling	Over Petworth Road/Swanbarn Farm
25^th – Brimstone and red admiral butterflies on the wing	Petworth Road garden
25^th – Peacock butterfly	Hindhead garden
26^th – 2 woodmice foraging together beneath bird feeder	Petworth Road garden
28th - Muntjac deer	Killinghurst Lane woodland
29th - 3 red kites overhead	Killinghurst Lane
30th - Willow warbler singing quietly, at least 10 singing chiffchaff males	Witley Common
30th - 2 adders and a single common lizard	Witley Common
30th - Large lump of frogspawn	Hindhead garden pond
30th - Brimstone butterfly	Hindhead garden
30th - Fritillary Fritillaria meleagris amongst a large patch of fritillaries with some white amongst them	Roadside verge, Vann Lane , Hambledon

FEBRUARY 2016

SEEN	WHERE
6th - Snipe	Black Down
7th - 5 goosanders (4males, 1 female) still on pond Click for photo. Also 3 mandarin ducks	Imbhams Farm
7th - 20+ siskins and a lesser redpoll on bird feeder	Weycombe Road garden
8th - Brambling attempting to land on garden bird feeder	Headley
9th - Red kite, 7+ buzzard, sparrowhawk, kestrel, 2 jack snipe, 3+ green woodpecker, 1-2 singing male woodlark and 1 female, male stonechat, Dartford warbler heard, raven, flocks of 4 (possibly a family group) and 13 common crossbill	Black Down
9th - Male blackcap at bird feeder. Robins seen to be paired.	Headley garden
10th - Hawfinch	West of Fernhurst
10th - Dartford warbler	Witley Common
11th - Old dormouse nest of leaves and honeysuckle found beneath nettle patch	Woolmer Hill garden
11th - Brambling attempting to land on garden bird feeder	Petworth Road garden
11th - Three ravens chasing and calling loudly over the woods	Grayswood
13th - Tree creeper, very close to the house	Killinghurst Lane garden
mid month - White pheasant, flocks of siskin and redpoll	Inval garden
15th - Dunnock - the first seen here for several years	Killinghurst Lane garden
16th - 2 long-eared bats hibernating in NT bat barn	Chase Lane
16th - 5 Natterer's bats hibernating in NT bat barn	Nutcombe Valley
19th - Great grey shrike	Black Down
23rd - Frogs on the move ready for mating	Swan Barn Farm
23rd/24th - Cormorant and mandarin ducks on pond. Also the 5 goosanders are still present	Imbhams Farm
23rd/24th - Male and female siskins, 2m and 2f bullfinch, 4 goldfinch and 2 marsh tits on bird feeder. Also an opportunistic sparrowhawk perching on feeder.	Furnace Place
24th - Male peregrine falcon	West of Haslemere
24th - Redpolls on niger seed, also a brambling	Haslemere
24th & 26th - Two Reeves's pheasants in field Click for photo	Opposite Prestwick Farm
25th - Female peregrine falcon	West of Fernhurst
29th - Bluebell in flower, and several with buds emerging	Killinghurst Lane woods

JANUARY 2016

SEEN	WHERE
early part of month - Up to 5 goosander on pond	Imbhams Farm
for several weeks - Rare leucistic dunnock Click for photo	Garden near Warnham
1st - Flock of redwings arrived	Garden at Shottermill
6^th - Primroses in flower	Chiddingfold Forest
9^th - Siskins on niger seed	Headley garden
11th - Lesser spotted woodpecker	Witley Common
13th - White deer in field adjacent to house. Mid-sized, no antlers, and large ears.	Milland
13th - Barn owl sitting on post	Killinghurst Lane
14th - Female linnet on niger seed feeder	Chatsworth Avenue garden
16th - Great grey shrike	Witley Common
18th - Jack snipe (only the third recent record at this site). Also 3 raven, stonechat,fieldfare and Dartford warbler	Black Down
19th - 2 long-eared bats hibernating in NT bat barn	Chase Lane
19th - 3 Natterer's bats hibernating in NT bat barn	Nutcombe Valley
20th - Grounded common pipistrelle bat found in porch (released 18th April)	Windfall Wood, Lurgashall
20th - Firecrest foraging in pot plants, ivy and ground vegetation for c. 5 mins	Grayswood garden
21st - Pair of peregrine falcons flying west - identified by unusual swoopy/erratic flight and white chin patch...shape of wings	Over Haslemere
23rd - Dartford warbler	Witley Common
28th - Lesser spotted woodpecker, firecrest, woodlark	Witley Common
30th - About 10 bats in hibernation, including Daubenton's, Natterer's and small Myotis (whiskered)	Busbridge

DECEMBER 2015

SEEN	WHERE
5th - Muntjac deer	Petworth Road garden
12^th - Goldcrest foraging in Cotoneaster bush beneath kitchen window	Petworth Road garden
14^th - 4 redpolls and 2 siskins sharing the bird feeder in my garden	Headley garden
15^th – Sparrowhawk swooping along lane in front of NT Landrover for several hundred yards	Chase Lane
15^th – Single long-eared bat roosting in NT bat barn	Chase Lane
17^th – Hen harrier (ringtail) in flight. Probably the first record for this site. Also 2 red kites, 10+ buzzards, 3 kestrels, 1+ raven, 1 singing (!) stonechat and 20+ redwings.	Black Down
18^th – Wood mouse scavenging seeds beneath bird feeder	Petworth Road garden
18^th – 1st winter female peregrine	Black Down
25th - Male linnet sharing with siskin and goldfinch on bird feeder Click for photo	Chatsworth Avenue garden
25th onwards - Great grey shrike	Frensham Great Pond
26th - Redwings in flock	Hindhead
29th - Slavonian grebe. First report here since 1996!	Frensham Great Pond

NOVEMBER 2015

SEEN	WHERE
1st - Guinea fowl	Chiddingfold
4th - Great grey shrike, snipe, 1+ crossbill, 2 Dartford warbler, redwings and fieldfares	Black Down
5th - Collared earth star fungi Geastrum triplex Click for photo	Grayshott garden
5th - Three hedgehogs feeding Click for photo	Farncombe garden
9th - Firecrest	Witley Common
10th - 4 starlings in oak tree	Ifold garden
11th - Hedgehog seen, two nights running	Shepherds Hill
12th - Flock of linnets flying over grasslands	Imbhams Farm
18th - Great grey shrike Click for photo	Frensham
18th - Hybrid tufted duck/pochard (a male with plumage similar to a scaup)	Frensham Great Pond
21st - Dartford warbler (1-2 birds present since 27th October)	Witley Common
21st - Great grey shrike (first one seen here since 1988!) Click for photo	Witley Common
23rd - 3 buzzard, 2 sparrowhawk, 2 kestrel, 1+ meadow pipit, stonechat, 55+ redwing, 3 Dartford warbler, brambling, 2 lesser redpoll heard, 21+ common crossbill	Black Down
25th - Two goldcrests and a group of mixed fieldfare and redwings	Grayswood garden
28th - About 5 cormorant, male goshawk, 2 sparrowhawk, 4+ buzzard, 2+ kestrel, 3 meadow pipit, pied wagtail, 20+ redwing, 7+ fieldfare, mistle thrush, 2 raven, 1+ brambling, about 8 greenfinch, 2+ lesser redpoll, 2 common crossbill	Black Down

OCTOBER 2015

SEEN	WHERE
1st - At least 7 ring ouzels (flocks of 2 and 5), redstart, peregrine stooping to east of ridge	Black Down
1st - Elephant hawk moth caterpillar on rosebay willow herb	Grayswood garden
2nd - 13 buzzard, kestrel, 10 meadow pipit, 1-2 woodlark, 6+ swallow/house martin, 8+ stonechat, 2 redstart, 2+ redwing, 2+ ring ouzel, 3+ blackbird, 6+ mistle thrush, 10+ chiffchaff, 2 Dartford warbler, 3+siskin	Black Down
2nd - 10 or so Harlequin ladybirds on the move	Garden at Plaistow
3rd - Lesser spotted woodpecker	Black Down, near Temple of the Winds
3rd - 7 buzzard, 1-2 kestrel, 3+ green woodpecker, 10+ meadow pipit, woodlark, about 100 swallow/house martin (mostly latter), 7+ stonechat, 5+ redwing, 3+ ring ouzel, 13+ blackbird, 7+ mistle thrush, 10+ chiffchaff, Dartford warbler (heard), raven, about 10 bullfinch, 1+ siskin, 28 redwing, 8 song thrush, 2 lesser redpoll, crossbills heard	Black Down
3rd - Male firecrest	Petworth Road
3rd - Female soprano pipistrelle quickly retrieved after being caught by cat whilst emerging from roost. Unhurt, so later released. Two or three serotine bats seen flying low over farm buildings as pipistrelles began to emerge.	Peasmarsh, Godalming
4th - Goshawk	Riddens Corner, Black Down
4th - Sparrowhawk, 7+ buzzard, kestrel, 8 herring gull, about 30 meadow pipit, 4+ swallow/house martin, 10+ stonechat, 2 song thrush, 6+ redwing, 3 ring ouzel, 3 fieldfare, 11+ mistle thrush, 6+ blackbird, about 15 chiffchaff, 2 Darford warbler together, greenfinch, 2+ siskin, 3 redpoll, 10+ bullfinch	Black Down
6th - 2 raven, kestrel, 2+meadow pipit, about 10 swallow/house martin, song thrush, 3+ redwing, 2-4 ring ouzel, 12+ mistle thrush, 10+ chiffchaff, lots of goldcrest, 3 firecrest, 16+ bullfinch	Black Down
7th - Stoat running across house drive	Killinghurst Lane, near Petworth Road
8th - Cormorant, 20+ buzzard, 6+ sparrowhawk (one a displaying female), 2 kestrel, about 25 meadow pipit, skylark heard, about 40 swallow/house martin, about 15 stonechat, juvenile wheatear, 4+ redwing, 2+ blackbird, about 16 ring ouzel (flocks of 12,1,3), mistle thrush, about 10 chiffchaff, 2 singing Dartford warblers (one in flight), 2 raven, 6+ lesser redpoll, 10+ bullfinch	Black Down
8th - At least 2 common crossbill coming down to drink	Pond north of Sussex Border Path, Black Down
9th - Sparrowhawk, 7+ buzzard, 2 kestrel, 25+ meadow pipit, woodlark heard overhead, 10+ stonechat, 3-4 ring ouzel, 3+ mistle thrush, 5+ blackbird, about 10 chiffchaff, 3 Dartford warbler including a singing male, 11 linnet, 3 greenfinch, 10 goldfinch, 3+ lesser redpoll, 2+ bullfinch	Black Down
10th - About 20 meadow pipit, woodlark heard overhead, 6+ stonechat, about 40 redwing, 4 ring ouzel, 10+ mistle thrush, 5+ blackbird, 5+ chiffchaff, 3-4 Dartford warbler, 2 firecrest, 2 raven, 10+ bullfinch, 4+ lesser redpoll, 16 common crossbill	Black Down
11th - Tussock moth caterpillar	Killinghurst Lane
11th - Sparrowhawk, 11 buzzard, kestrel, 5 common gull to NE, skylark overhead, 10+ hirundines spp., pied wagtail, 6+ stonechat, about 5 chiffchaff, 3 Dartford warbler, song thrush, about 30 redwing, 3 ring ouzel, 10+ mistle thrush, 7+ blackbird, raven heard, brambling, 3 linnet, 15+ redpoll, 10+ siskin, about 15 bullfinch, 10 crossbill including 3 males, 2 yellowhammer (very unusual for this site)	Black Down
11th - Tawny owl heard	Cotchet Farm Valley, Black Down
12th - 5 buzzard, male kestrel, 4 herring gull, about 5 meadow pipit, pied wagtail, 2+ skylark heard, 3+ stonechat, about 30 redwing, 2 song thrush, 3-6 ring ouzel, 10+ mistle thrush, fieldfare, 8+ blackbird, 2 chiffchaff, 1 f/imm blackcap, 2 Dartford warbler, firecrest heard, raven, 1+ linnet, 1+ redpoll, about 20 siskin, 1+ common crossbill heard	Black Down
13th - 1st winter goshawk (probably a male) soaring with 2 red kites	Black Down
13th - 3+ ring ouzel, about 6 fieldfare, 10+ redwing, 10+ mistle thrush, 2 Dartford warbler, 3 raven, 1+ lesser redpoll, 1+ common crosbill,	Black Down
14th - Fielfares flying north	Over Collards Lane
14th - Red kite, sparrowhawk, 5 buzzard, kestrel, 6+ meadow pipit, 1+ skylark, stonechat, about 145 redwing, 2+ song thrush, 2 ring ouzel, 5+ mistle thrush, about 40 fireldfare, about 10 blackbird, Dartford warbler heard, 4 goldfinch, 1+ siskin, 3+ lesser redpoll, 10+ bullfinch, yellowhammer	Black Down
15th - 3 buzzard, male kestrel, 2+ meadow pipit, woodlark heard, 5 swallow, 4+ stonechat, 80+ redwing, 2+ fieldfare, 2 ring ouzel, 7+ mistle thrush, 9+ blackbird, 2 Dartford warbler, 5+ brambling, 12+ siskin, 5+ lesser redpoll, 12+ bullfinch	Black Down
15th - About 200 redwings heading north	Witley Common
16th - 1-2 sparrowhawk, kestrel, 3+ stonechat, 60+ redwing, 70-100+ fieldfare, 5+ misttle thrush, 2 ring ouzel, 5+ blackbird, 2 chiffchaff, 2+ redpoll, 5+ bullfinch, crossbill	Black Down
17th - 3 buzzard, male kestrel, 2+ meadowpipit, 5 swallow, 3+ stonechat, 2+ Dartford warbler, 50+ redwing/fieldfare, 2 ring ouzel, 2+ mistle thrush, 2+ blackbird, 7 brambling, about 10 bullfinch, crossbill heard	Black Down
18th - 2 ring ouzel, 75+ fieldfare, 20+ redwing, 3 mistle thrush, 7+ brambling, 4 lesser redpoll flying over, 2 linnet, 19 meadow pipit, woodlark heard, raven, 2 pied wagtail, plenty of goldcrest, chiffchaff, Dartford warbler, 4 stonechat	Black Down
19th - About 250 fieldfares, 7 bramblings (5 in flight), crossbills heard, a few stonechats and Dartford warblers	Black Down
19th - Around 25 - 40 fieldfares and redwings together in one flock	Cotchet Valley, Black Down
19th - Raven	Over Ridden Corner, Black Down
20th - Great grey shrike	Boarden Door Bottom Valley, Black Down
20th - 2 ring ouzel, yellowhammer, 2-3 cormorant, 4-5 sparrowhawk, 6 buzzard, 2 kestrel, about 20 meadow pipit, 7 skylark, 2 swallow, about 80 redwing, about 145 fieldfare, 2+ mistle thrush, 2+ blackbird, 2 Dartford warbler, 2-3 raven, great grey shrike, 4 brambling heard, 2 redpoll, linnet, goldfinch, 2+ bullfinch, crossbill heard	Black Down
22nd - Great grey shrike	Boarden Door Bottom Valley, Black Down
23rd - Long-eared bat found hanging from fire alarm in nursing home corridor. Released that night.	Marley Lane
23rd - Great grey shrike chased by great spotted woodpecker, 11+ meadow pipit, 3 swallow, stonechat, 50+ redwing, ring ouzel, about 70 fieldfare, mistle thrush, 5+ blackbird, 3 Dartford warbler, 2 raven, 13+ brambling, 15+ siskin, 3+ lesser redpoll, 2 linnet, 5+ bullfinch	Black Down
26th - About 14 bramblings	Black Down
27th - Pipistrelle bat feeding above house	Braeside Close
27th - Ring ouzel, red kite, 2 sparrowhawk, about 4 buzzard, 2 kestrel, herring gull, 1+ skylark, 2+ meadow pipit, 2 stonechat, about 30 redwing, 30+ fieldfare, 3+ blackbird, 1+ mistle thrush, chiffchaff singing (!), 4 Dartford warbler, firecrest, 2 raven, 2+ redpoll, 2+ bullfinch	Black Down
27th - Small white crab spider found on staircase in house	Chiddingfold
30th - 2 kestrel, common snipe, 8+ meadow pipit, 10+ redwing, about 11 fieldfare, 1+ blackbird, 3 Dartford warbler, 1+ lesser redpoll, 1+ bullfinch	Black Down
31st - About 8 very flighty common crossbills	Black Down
31st - Yellow-browed warbler reported calling	Kemnal Park Road
31st - 2 firecrest	Witley Common

SEPTEMBER 2015

SEEN	WHERE
3rd - Pied flycatcher. First record at this site.	Black Down
5th - 17 soprano pipistrelles, including a harem group of six, found using bat boxes	Frensham Little Pond
8th - Female/immature ring ouzel. Also what was almost certainly an ortolan bunting flying over	Black Down
10th - 250++ house martins passing over	Black Down
11th - Hawfinch flying west positively identified. Suggests that two 'possibles' reported on 22nd August were actually commuting hawfinches too.	Black Down
11th - Woodlark, 3 redstarts, 10+ spotted flycatchers, 30+ chiffchaffs, tawny owl in a Scots pine, a few buzzards, sparrowhawks, kestrel and hobby. Also steady stream of swallows and house martins	Black Down
10th - Very rare Clifden nonpareil moth Catocala fraxini found near moth trap Click for photo	Royal Common
12th - Very rare Clifden nonpareil moth Catocala fraxini found near moth trap Click for photo	Thursley village
13th - Hummingbird hawk moth feeding on Buddleia	Haslemere garden
13th - Yellow-browed warbler reported	Linchmere Common
13th - Two spotted flycatchers, redstart, two Dartford warblers and 25+ chiffchaffs	Black Down
15th - Hummingbird hawk moth nectaring	Woolmer Hill
15th - Female common pipistrelle found during bat box checks	Hunter Base Camp, Swan Barn Farm
16th - Redpoll and firecrest	Black Down
17th - Sparrowhawk, about 15 buzzard, 2+ kestrel, 200+ swallow/house martin, about 15 meadow pipit, 9 stonechat, 4 redstart, about 30 chiffchaff, 2 Dartford warbler, 2+ spotted flycatcher, raven, 8 linnet, about 10 bullfinch	Black Down
17th - Ring ouzel heard	Black Down/Cotchet Farm valley
19th - Solitary wasp Mellinus arvensis on fungus Coprinus plicantilis (pleated inkcap or little Jap umbrella Click for photo	Garden at Ifold
20th - Large female raft spider guarding nursery cocoon full of tiny spiderlings Click for photo	Thursley Common
21st - Large serotine bat skimming low over lawn to catch emerging craneflies	Petworth Road garden
23rd - Male serotine bat cat victim found grounded with broken ankle. Click for photo	Gilbert White's House, Selborne
24th - Adult and juvenile hedgehog foraging together. Also two bats seen emerging from bat box in tree.	Woolmer Hill
25^th – Several common and soprano pipistrelle bats, and three Daubenton’s hunting over lake	Imbhams Farm
29th - Red kite, 6+ buzzard, 2 kestrel (one with small snake or slowworm), 4+ green woodpecker, 15+ meadow pipit, 20+ swallow/house martin, 10+ chiffchaff, 4+ stonechat, wheatear, male redstart, 2 ring ouzel (one a 1st winter male), 3+ mistle thrush, 2 raven, 10+ siskin, redpoll, greenfinch, 4+ bullfinch	Black Down
30th - About 5 buzzard, kestrel, 2 herring gull, 2+ green woodpecker, 5+ meadow pipit, 6+ swallow, house martin, 6+ stonechat, 2 redstart, immature female wheatear, 3 ring ouzel (2 male + immature female), 3 blackbird, 3 mistle thrush, 6+ chiffchaff, raven, about 5 each of linnet and siskin, 6+ bullfinch, 2 male crossbill	Black Down

AUGUST 2015

SEEN	WHERE
1st - Up to 6 red kite, sparrowhawk carrying prey, about 20 buzzard (quite a few young), up to 6 kestrel feeding high with at least 3 adult hobby, 2 raven, up to 5 stonechat. Also, a meadow pipit heard.	Black Down
1st - Red kite overhead. No reaction from buzzards also around.	Near Killinghurst Lane
1st - Female stag beetle Click for photo	Plaistow garden
2nd - Red kite, 3 sparrowhawk, about 20 buzzard, 6 kestrel, 3 hobby, raven, crossbill	Inval, Punchbowl and Hindhead area
2nd - Male firecrest	Weycombe Road Wood
2nd - Adult osprey	Over Black Down/Fernden Ponds
8th - Large numbers of Natterer's bats found roosting in trees	Thundry Meadows
8th - Male black arches moth Click for photo Lymantria monacha and several night flying hornets	Woodland near Killinghurst Lane
8th - Very rare juvenile Bechstein’s bat Click for photo, sub-adult Natterer’s bat Click for photo, female Click for photo and juvenile Alcathoe bats and a single soprano pipistrelle captured and quickly released during survey	Woodland near Killinghurst Lane
12th - Large skipper, small tortoiseshell, silver washed fritillary and several gatekeeper butterflies sunning themselves	Petworth Road garden
16th - 14 Natterer's bats found during bat box checks (8 in one box). Also a rare male Bechstein's bat and a single male soprano pipistrelle. Remains of several blue tit and nuthatch nests also found in boxes, as well as a number of copper underwing moths Amphipyra pyramidea or Svensson's copper underwing Amphipyra berbera and chrysalis of black arches moth Lymantria monacha.	Fir Tree Copse, Dunsfold
21st - Juvenile goshawk, 3 sparrowhawk, 20 buzzard, 3+kestrel, 2+ hobby, peregrine, 3+ green woodpecker, 6+ stonechat including 2 first year, 12+ chiffchaff, willow warbler, 4+ whitethroat, 8+ spotted flycatcher, 3 redstart, 2 raven	Black Down
22nd - Red kite, 5 sparrowhawk, 16+ buzzard, 4-6 kestrel, 1-2 hobby, adult large black-backed gull, 3 herring gull, 8 green woodpecker, 180+ swallow, 9+ stonechat, redstart, 22+ chiffchaff, whitethroat,, blackcap, Dartford warbler, 3 spotted flycatcher, raven, 5 linnet, 10+ bullfinch including 4 juveniles, possibly 2 hawfinch (but see 11th September)	Black Down
23rd - 2 sparrowhawk, 18+ buzzard, 2 kestrel,adult large black-backed gull, 3+ green woodpecker, 22 (late) swifts, tree pipit,grey wagtail,about 6 swallow, 11 stonechat including 5+ first year, 26+ chiffchaff, whitethroat, 2 blackcap,Dartford warbler, 8+ spotted flycatcher, 1-2 raven, siskin, 3 linnet, 10+bullfinch including 4+ first year, crossbill	Black Down
23rd - Red underwing moth. Also a swallow prominent moth (possibly lesser) and a black arches moth rescued from swimming pool	Killinghurst Lane garden
24th - 4+ stonechat, 12+ chiffchaff, blackcap, whitethroat, 6+spotted flycatcher, crossbill	Black Down
Cormorant, 4 buzzard, 2 kestrel, 4 tree pipit, 4+ stonechat, 30+ chiffchaff, blackcap, whitethroat, Dartford warbler, raven	Black Down
25th - A fox family - 3 cubs and vixen playing in sunshine this morning	Imbhams Farm field behind Holdfast Lane
25th - Barn owl	Fields to west of Bunch Lane
28th - Small bat flying in broad daylight and drinking on the wing from swimming pool	Killinghurst Lane garden
28th - Honey buzzard circling, about 15 buzzards, 2+ kestrel, hobby, tree pipit, 15+ chiffchaff, whitethroat, blackcap, about 35 swallow, about 9 spotted flycatcher, 2 raven	Black Down
28th - Painted lady and red admiral butterflies	Plaistow garden
29th - Very large red admiral butterfly nectaring on Buddleia	Petworth Road garden
29th - Cormorant, red kite, sparrowhawk, 18+ buzzard, kestrel, 2+ green woodpecker, 2-3 swift, 4 tree pipit, 25+ swallow, 7+ stonechat, about 20 mistle thrush, 15+ chiffchaff, willow warbler,1+ whitethroat, 10+ spotted flycatcher, 2 raven, 3 bullfinch	Black Down
30^th – 5 buzzard, 2 kestrel, 2+ green woodpecker, tree pipit, 18+ swallow, 4+ stonechat, 2 redstart (one a male), immature female wheatear, 40+ chiffchaff, willow warbler, 2+ whitethroat,male firecrest, 15+ spotted flycatcher, 4+ linnet, 4+ bullfinch	Black Down
30^th – Skull of young badger, picked clean of flesh, found on garden lawn Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
30^th – About 90 Natterer's bats emerging from roost	Near Thundry Meadows
30^th – About 30+ mistle thrush	Past Valewood, near horse paddocks
31st - Roe buck, doe and juvenile, resting together on lawn	Petworth Road garden

JULY 2015

SEEN	WHERE
1st - Grass snake in swimming pool Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
1st - Singing male wood warbler (2nd record for year)	Witley Common
1st - Two marbled white butterflies	Witley Common
4th - Crossbill	Witley Common
9th - Brilliant emerald dragonfly (first confirmed report for site) Click for photo	Witley Common
9th - Juvenile common pipistrelle found trapped in bathroom. Nursed back to health and released, when over 50 bats were seen to emerge from its roost	Holt Pound
11th - Male purple emperor butterfly on the ground	Bramshott Common
11th - Very large grass snake - looked 4 feet long	Garden patio in Fernden Heights
11th - A dozen or more bats circling at dusk - appearing to emerge from a house high on the Hill	Frensham, near Marindin Hall
11th - Female stag beetle	Witley Common
15th - White-legged damselfly. Possibly first record for this site. Click for photo	Witley Common
17th - Tree pipit	Near Ridden Corner, Black Down
17th - A few common and soprano pipistrelle bats and one or two Daubenton’s bats detected in flight	Woods near White Beech Lane, Chiddingfold
18th - Holly blue butterfly	Killinghurst Lane garden
18th - Kestrel mobbing a buzzard, two more probable juveniles flying squawking, and another on a cow trough.	Near Ridden Corner, Black Down
18th - Two stonechats and a few buzzards	Gibbet Hill
18th - Many common and soprano pipistrelle bats in flight. Many Daubenton’s bats and a single noctule bat detected above lake	Winkworth Arboretum
19th - Demoiselle and golden banded dragonfly	Killinghurst Lane garden
19th - Eyed hawk moth Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane
19th - Chicken of the woods fungus	Killinghurst Lane garden
19th - Two or three red kites	Over Haslemere
19th - Red kite. Also a hobby.	North of Gibbet Hill
21st - Adult and juvenile Mediterranean gulls soaring high and heading west	Over Fernhurst
21st - Roesel's Bush-cricket (macropterous form). Possibly first record for this site. Click for photo	Witley Common
25th - Rare colour form of female silver-washed fritillary f. valezina. Only seen a few times before at this site Click for photo	Witley Common
26th - Roe buck separating juvenile from mother - presumably in an attempt at mating	Petworth Road garden
27th - Sparrowhawk with prey, 15+ buzzards including two noisy juveniles, one or more kestrels, 2 hobbies along west side, 2 ravens flying east over ridge, 10 crossbills	Black Down
27th - Two juvenile stonechats	Top of Cotchet Farm valley, Black Down
27th - Common newt 1 in big puddle	On main path just north of Temple of the Winds, Black Down
29th - Pair of red kites flying quite high and heading WSW	Over centre of Chiddingfold
31st - Female stag beetle	Headley Down garden

JUNE 2015

SEEN	WHERE
1st - Common blue butterfly	Killinghurst Lane garden
6th - Pair of Dartford warblers	Black Down
7th - Family of wrens, young with no tails yet. Also a nest of white tailed bumble bees	Domestic garage in Killinghurst Lane
7th - Painted lady butterfly Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane garden
7th - Turtle dove heard singing (purring) in woodland	Off Grailands Close, Fernhurst
9th - Bank vole eating fallen flower heads beneath honeysuckle	Petworth Road garden
10th - Very rare Bechstein’s and three barbastelle bats found during specialist survey	Quellwood Common
15th - 4 or 5 crossbills, 4+ tree pipits, 2 woodlarks, sprinkling of stonechats, raven, 2 kestrels, sparrowhawkand about 15 buzzards	Black Down
16th - Painted lady butterfly	Henley garden
20th - Siskin on bird feeder. Also silver-ground carpet moth fluttering about	Petworth Road garden
22nd - Painted lady butterfly	Hurstfold Farm
22nd - Two hobbies	Woolbeding Parkland
23rd - Two redstart fledglings/juveniles, three curlews in flight, one curlew doing some sort of display flight, two hobbies variously hunting and perched on dead tree, twelve or so swifts	Thursley NNR
24th - Nest of fledgling wrens in dormouse box	Imbhams Farm
24th - Whitethroat, up to four hobbies hunting and perching, swifts	Thursley NNR
25th - Female stag beetle rescued from garage	Headley
26th - Cuckoo wasp Chrysis ignita	Petworth Road garden
27th - Three common tern flying over	Witley Common
27th - Golden-ringed dragonfly	Witley Common
28th - 118 soprano pipistrelles emerging from beneath hanging tiles and several grounded babies. Also a few long-eared bats emerging from loft.	Whitmore Vale

MAY 2015

SEEN	WHERE
Calls of very rare lesser horseshoe bats recorded during overnight survey	Alder Road, Headley Down
4th - Nationally scarce large red-belted clearwing moth (Synanthedon culiciformis). A species associated with birch on heathland. Click for photo	Bramshott Common
8th - Two Canada geese by garden swimming pool Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane
9th onwards - Several skylarks, two nightingales singing	Jobsons Lane, Lurgashall
12th - Hobby in flight	Meadow Farm, Headley
13th - Large and noisy swarm of bees, too high to be collected. Moved on after about 3 hours.	Killinghurst Lane garden
13th - 6 red kites flying south high over the ridge, followed by up to another 5 around and about afterwards	Black Down
14th - Nightjar churring briefly, three roding woodcock and two tawny owls calling	Boarden Door Bottom, Black Down
15th - Red kite over ridge, 9 buzzards, kestrel, 3 singing tree pipits, singing redstart, pair stonechats feeding young, singing firecrest	Black Down
15th - Alchymist moth, Catephia alchymista , a very rare migrant	Moth trap in Thursley garden
16th - Red kite	North of Gibbet Hill
16th - Male firecrest singing	East of Gibbet Hill
16th - Pair of hobbies and male redstart singing	Hindhead Common
17th - 5 red kites, 25 buzzards, sparrowhawk, kestrel, pair of hobbies, male cuckoo, male redstart, male woodlar and three male firecrests singing	Black Down
17th - Male firecrest singing	Haste Hill
17th - Dead brown long-eared bat brought in by cat Click for photo	Catteshall Lane, Godalming
19th - Cockchafer found in lavender bed Click for photo	Furnace Place
19th - Several soprano pipistrelle bats feeding voraciously	Shillinglee Lake
20th - Large number of tawny owls calling, and woodcock seen in flight	Black Down
23rd - Two hobby falcons seen in flight	Over Woolbeding Lake
23rd - Newly hatched broad bodied chaser dragonfly Click for photo	By garden pond in Hill Road
23rd - Spotted flycatcher	Black Down
24th - - Hobby falcon	Over Benbow Pond
24th - Cuckoos calling, pair of firecrests, pair of busy redstarts	Black Down
24th - Wood warbler singing, though not in full song	Black Down
24th - Carpets of common speedwell and several tiny moths Micropterix calthella Click for photo	Field in Killinghurst Lane garden
24th - Large numbers of buzzards, including a group of 14! 2 sparrowhawks, 3 kestrels including male with slow worm or adder. Pair of hobbies, male cuckoo, male woodlark	Black Down
24th - Male firecrests	Chase Farm and Chase Lane
24th - Two soprano pipistrelles, two whiskered bats and two Alcathoe bats caught during survey. The pregnant female Alcathoe radio tracked Click for photo to maternity roost of about 18 bats in nearby house	Imbhams Farm
25th - Red kite - up to 5, inc one being mobbed by lapwing. Male woodlark, 3 tree pipit (one taking food to nest),	Black Down
25th - Four firecrests in different places	Chase Farm, Chase Lane, Tennysons Lane car park, copse S of High Barn Farm
25th - Cockchafer	Church Road, Milford garden
27th - At least three nightjar. Two seen in flight together - perhaps a pair.	Chase Lane area
28th - Many bog beans in flower Click for photo	Thundry Meadows
28th - Large flock of long tailed tits, plus many swifts and swallows	Thundry Meadows

APRIL 2015

SEEN	WHERE
Early in month - Pair of buzzards disputing ownership of very tall fir tree with carrion crows Click for photo (Took possession for a few days, but now seem to have departed).	Woods between Swan Barn Farm and Petworth Road
Early in month - Frog spawn eaten by mallards	Garden pond at Ifold
6^th - First swallow seen. Then three more on 7th	Farm near Milland
6^th - A pair (at least) of peacock butterflies	Headley
6^th - Chiffchaff calling	Longmoor Ranges
7th - Pair of red kites	Over the Wey Navigation above the Godalming packet boat company shed
7th - Swallow	Ifold garden
9^th - Two, then three, then four male brimstone butterflies chasing a female	Haslemere garden
9^th - Cuckoo 1 male (seen flying over, calling), willow warbler 1 male (singing)	Frensham Great Pond/Common
10^th – Goldcrest foraging amongst flower bed heathers	Petworth Road garden
10^th – Pair of dunnocks mating beneath Mahonia bush	Petworth Road garden
10^th – Tree pipit. Also the first willow warblers seen here this year.	Witley Common
11th - Chiffchaffs calling	Frillinghurst Wood
11th - First nightingale heard	Chiddingfold Forest
12th - Dartford warbler, swallow, woodlark. Also a chiffchaff seen, and cuckoo calling.	Thursley Common NNR
12th - Male pied flycatcher (thought to be on passage)	Near Loxwood
13th - Rather poorly female common pipistrelle bat found in house	Loxwood
14th - Single house martin	Over field near Plaistow
14th - Speckled wood butterfly	Plaistow garden
14th - First 2015 record of redstart at this site	Witley Common
14th - Cuckoo heard	Farnham Lane
15th - 9 Nightingales singing	Chiddingfold Forest
15th - Cuckoo heard	Chiddingfold Forest
15th - Nightingale singing by day	Wood near Plaistow
15th - Cuckoo calling	Wood near Plaistow
16th -Swallows	Gospel Green
16th and 20th - Cuckoo. And yellowhammers still around	Jobsons Lane, Lurgashall
18th - Curlew, cuckoo, stonechat and chiffchaff calling. Also an unusual goose seen - probably a hybrid of Canada and greylag	Thursley
20^th - 2 male redstart and a woodlark (heard only)	Lynchmere & Stanley Commons
21st - First 2015 records of garden warbler and cuckoo at this site	Witley Common
22nd - Holly blue butterfly. Also an unidentified tiny dark butterfly in flight - possibly small copper	Petworth Road garden
22nd - Two red kites, initially quite low, but soaring much higher. (Also reported a few days earlier over Mill Farm, near Ramster)	Killinghurst Lane garden
23rd - Woodlarks heard	Marley Common
23rd - Orange tip butterfly (male), small tortoiseshell and holly blue butterflies	Killinghurst Lane garden
24th - Hedgehog	Pine View Close
24th - First 2015 record of nightingale at this site	Witley Common
24th - Common pipistrelle bat found dead after being trapped inside house for some days	Longmoor Road, Liphook
25th - Six large male slow worms under cover of compost bin	Pine View Close
28th - Wood warbler, singing male (1st record here since 2005). Also a red kite	Witley Common

MARCH 2015

SEEN	WHERE
First week - Four very placid wasp beetles Clytus arietis Click for photo	Furnace Place
1st - First bumble bee of the year seen on South facing wall warming herself in the sunshine. Later spotted flying around the garden	Furnace Place
4th - Two red kites overhead	Top of Haste Hill
7th - Brimstone butterflies	Oldlands Wood, Chiddingfold Forest
7th - Newly hatched male brimstone butterfly in centre of village garden hedge in the warm sun.	Milford
8th - Red kite (possibly two) high overhead	Junction of Tennysons Lane and Chase Lane
8th - Three brimstone butterflies	Tugley Wood, Chiddingfold
10th - Adder	Witley Common
11th - Grey shrike flying, feeding and perching on Shrike Hill, a curlew, several stonechats, woodlarks and a common lizard sunning itself on the board walks Click for photo	Thursley Common
11th - Sparrow hawk speeding through garden bird feeders	Milford
12th - Red admiral butterfly	Plaistow garden
13th - First sighting of last year's efts and the return of the adult palmate newts in the pond amongst the dozen or more frogs and a large amount of spawn. Toads too.
15th - Splendid roe buck with antlers in velvet	Petworth Road garden
21st - Pair of brambling in full breeding plumage. They've been in and out all winter but today's sighting was splendid	Braeside Close garden
26th - Roe deer Click for photo	Just off the Greensand Way footpath between More Park and the river Wey
27th - Brimstone butterfly	Petworth Road garden
27th - Male blackcap on bird feeder	Petworth Road garden
30th - 9 male palmate newts and 1 male smooth newt	Plaistow garden pond
30th - Female slowworm under metal sheet	Plaistow garden

FEBRUARY 2015

SEEN	WHERE
1st - Red kite	Catteshall, Godalming
6th - Flock of about 12 bramblings picking at lawn	Pine View Close
8th - Red admiral	Tugley Wood, Chiddingfold
13th - Bats on wing	Collards Lane
13th - Pair of long tailed tits on bird table, Pair of bullfinches nipping at Azalea buds. Pair of wrens. Tawny owl heard at night	Pine View Close
16th - Three long-eared bats hibernating in NT bat barn	Chase Lane
16th - Many peacock butterflies and at least one comma hibernating in NT bat barn	Chase Lane
16th - Several herald moths hibernating in NT bat barn Click for photo	Nutcombe Valley
16th - A single Natterer's bat hibernating in NT bat barn	Nutcombe Valley
20th - Jack snipe (First ever recorded at this site!)	Witley Common
23rd - Pipistrelle and serotine bats in flight	Petworth Road garden
24^th - Red kite soaring	N of Easebourne, on slopes of Bexley Hill
27th - Brown long-eared bat found roosting on sitting room wall Click for photo (Released from care 5th March)	Milland
27th - Sparrowhawk eating wood pigeon	Haste Hill
28th - Barn owl still quartering the fields at dusk (or before dusk), yellowhammer singing, song thrushes singing, 9 magpies in field, wrens, redwings, willow/marsh tit, coal tit etc	Jobsons Lane, Lurgashall
Highlights of February`s garden visitors ; Buzzard,very dark plumage - perching on trellis early mornings; Sparrowhawk regular - woodpigeon taken; Grey heron - pond frogging daily; Canada geese - pair, evening circuits; Treecreeper ; bullfinches; goldcrest; marsh tits; long-tailed tits and pheasants ( welcome shooting season survivors !) Species total 28 ( very high numbers of common bird feeder visitors ).	Furnace Place

JANUARY 2015

SEEN	WHERE
3rd - Male brambling	Haslemere garden
9th - Yellow necked mouse collecting crumbs beneath bird feeder Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
10th - Red kite searching for food	Over Pine View Close, then Bunch Lane
18th - Kingfisher perched briefly, then flying low across pond	Imbhams Farm
20th - Two grey herons in flight	Over Holdfast Lane
20th - Treecreeper	Woodland adjoining Swan Barn Farm
20th - Red kite flying over garden	Junction of Lower Road/The Mount, Grayswood
21st - Four long-eared bats hibernating in NT bat barn	Chase Lane
21st - Three Natterer's bats hibernating in NT bat barn	Nutcombe Valley
21st - Song thrushes singing, bullfinch, kestrel (have been scarce here due buzzards). Several goldcrests, marsh tit and tree creeper all in old ash tree	Jobsons Lane, Lurgashall
21st - Pygmy shrew caught in mousetrap	Jobsons Lane, Lurgashall
Highlights of January`s garden visitors ( most at any one time ) : goldfinches ( 4 ), marsh tits ( 2 ), long tailed tits ( 6 ), gold crest, bullfinches (m & f), redwings ( 10+) , greater spotted woodpeckers (m & f), solitary male sparrow, dunnock singing .Total species 25.	Furnace Place