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

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JANUARY 2022

SEEN	WHERE
1^st – Adder Click for photo	Petworth Park
1^st – 6 Goosander - 3 male, 3 female, and a Little Egret	Imbhams Farm pond
9^th – Spirited fight between two Wood Pigeons beneath bird feeder, egged on by two squawking Magpies who then chased and pecked the loser	Petworth Road garden
12^th – Queen wasp emerging prematurely from hibernation	House in Petworth Road
12^th – 3 male Goosander still present on pond	Imbhams Farm
14^th – 4 Goosander (1 male, 3 females)	Frensham Great Pond

DECEMBER 2021

SEEN	WHERE
1^st – Large badger foraging on lawn during a mild night	Petworth Road garden
2^nd - Redwing Click for photo and jay Click for photo	Shottermill garden
3^rd - Leucistic goldfinch at birdfeeder Click for photo	Camelsdale garden
4^th - Mosquito Culex pipiens emerging from hibernation during mild spell Click for photo	Petworth Road
8^th - Several bunches of mistletoe on a leafless tree Click for photo	Woodland near Coxcombe Lane, Chiddingfold
8^th - Various fungi on an old oak stump Click for photo	Chiddingfold, St Mary’s churchyard
11^th – Amazing display of fungi on a tree stump Click for photo	Haslemere

NOVEMBER 2021

SEEN	WHERE
1^st – Large flocks of wood pigeon, 12+ crossbill, 50-ish linnet(?), goshawk toying with a crow, 4 cormorant, small numbers of redwing and fieldfare	Black Down
2^nd - Ring ouzel (1st winter) Click for photo, mistle thrush, fieldfare,redwing, blackbird, 20+ brambling, chaffinch, lesser redpoll, a few stonechat and Dartford warbler, 400-ish wood pigeon heading south	Black Down
2^nd - Cluster of fenugreek stalkball Phleogena faginea , a tiny basidiomycete fungus growing on tree bark *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden
13^th – Ring-necked parakeet Psittacula krameri on birdfeeder *Click for photo*	Chiddingfold garden
15^th – Hibernating brown long-eared bat found beneath ridge tile during repair works. Taken into temporary care. (A second brought in on 17th, then both released) *Click for photo*	Woolmer Hill
21^st - Male common darter	Churt Common
23^rd - Common darter	Thursley Common
26^th – Male blackcap	Headley garden

OCTOBER 2021

SEEN	WHERE
1^st – Juvenile jumping spider Marpissa muscosa *Click for photo*	Petworth Road
2^nd - Clifden Nonpareil moth under eaves by outside light	Garden at Plaistow
6^th - Male hen harrier *Click for photo*	Thursley Common
8^th - Merveille du Jour, and Green-brindled Crescent moths *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden
Mid-month – Unusual harvestman, one of two Dicranopalpus species *Click for photo*	Grayshott
Mid-month – Clifden Nonpareil moth *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden
21^st - Red Admiral butterfly	Plaistow garden
24^th - Red admiral butterfly on the wing	Petworth Road garden
25^th – Box tree moth Cydalima perspectalis *Click for photo*	Stedham
26^th - Large nibbled fungus, possibly a Melanoleuca on lawn beneath a Yew and Holly *Click for photo*	Chiddingfold garden
26^th – Goshawk swooping round oak and down into woodland	Petworth Road garden
27^th – Barred sallow moth Xanthia aurago *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
29^th – Daubenton’s bat Myotis daubentonii brought in by cat – taken into care *Click for photo* (Released 13 November)	Lower Street
End of month - Uncommon cypress carpet moth Thera cupressata *Click for photo* and December moth Poecilocampa populi *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden

SEPTEMBER 2021

SEEN	WHERE
1^st – Reeve’s muntjac *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
4^th – Grounded pipistrelle bat taken into care. Released 12 September.	Hollycombe
5^th – An amazing display of bats on a very warm evening – common and soprano pipistrelle, noctule, brown long-eared, Western barbastelle (first record for this site) and Daubenton’s	Frensham Little Pond
6^th – Hoverfly Volucella zonaria *Click for photo* stealthily approaching roof nest entrance of hornets Vespa crabro *Click for photo*	Petworth Road
7^th - Fine array of fungus beneath a large oak tree. Identified as the rare bioluminescent Omphalotus illudens. *Click for photo*	Phillips garage, Wormley
10^th – Badger passing through garden	Petworth Road
10^th/11^th – Spectacular displays by common and soprano pipistrelle and Daubenton’s bats during a bat walks. Other species seen or detected were brown long-eared (including a cluster roosting in a barn roof), a rare Alcathoe circling in another barn, a brief pass by a rare Western barbastelle, and a few noctule passes.	Imbhams Farm
12^th - Group of juvenile (1^st year) wheatears	Thursley nature reserve
16^th - Black bryony *Click for photo*	Chiddingfold garden
16^th - Snail, perhaps white-lipped Cepaea hortensis *Click for photo*
18^th – Red admiral *Click for photo* and comma *Click for photo* butterflies attracted to moth lure rope	Killinghurst Lane garden
20^th - Giant Equisetum, quite profuse this year in more areas of the garden *Click for photo*	Chiddingfold garden
30^th - Garden spider web highlighted by sunlight *Click for photo*	Chiddingfold garden

AUGUST 2021

SEEN	WHERE
3^rd - Redstart	Frensham Great Pond
3^rd - Many gatekeepers *Click for photo, meadow browns and small white butterflies flitting among the Verbena bonariensis, feverfew and wild marjoram. Bush cricket, possibly Metrioptera brachyptera* *Click for photo* in overgrown chive and mint patch.	Chiddingfold garden
3^rd - Square stemmed St John's wort *Click for photo*	Chiddingfold garden
5^th - Female white admiral butterfly Limenitis camilla *Click for photo*	Hindhead garden
7^th - Young sparrowhawk grooming itself on the summerhouse *Click for photo*	Courts Hill Road garden
9^th – Juvenile blackcaps feasting on bramble berries *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
10^th - Assasin bug Empicoris vagabundus *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
10^th – Juvenile common pipistrelle bat found grounded	Near Midhurst Road
11^th – Juvenile soprano pipistrelle bat found trapped in house	Woolmer Hill
Mid-month – Wood white butterfly Click for photo	Farmland in Haslemere
Mid-month – Poplar hawk moths *Click for photo, peach blossom moth Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden
16^th - Otter spraint, about 3 weeks old, consisting mainly of fish bones *Click for photo*	Hammer Bottom
18^th - Glow-worm	Lawn in Plaistow garden
19^th – Mouse spider Scotophaeus blackwalli on wall inside house Click for photo	Petworth Road
21^st – Underweight juvenile brown long-eared bat found grounded *Click for photo*	Chithurst
23^rd – Comma butterfly caterpillar *Click for photo*	Petworth Road
25^th - Grass snake among slow worms in compost bin *Click for photo*	Camelsdale
25^th - Underweight juvenile brown long-eared bat trapped in function room. Released 15 September.	Lythe Hill Hotel
26^th - At least three greater horseshoe bats emerging from derelict stables at dusk. Other bats passing overhead were brown long-eared, common and soprano pipistrelle, noctule and serotine	Between Petworth and Midhurst
Late in month - Elephant hawk moth caterpillars on a hardy outside fuchsia	Lion Lane garden
27^th – Spider Amaurobius similis in house *Click for photo*	Petworth Road
29^th – Desperately underweight juvenile brown long-eared bat died shortly after being found grounded	Wormley
29^th – Large roebuck relaxing and grooming itself *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
29^th – Gallant-soldier Galinsago parviflora in flower *Click for photo*	Near The Mill pub

JULY 2021

SEEN	WHERE
3^rd – Pair of young carrion crows attentively watching parent anting on lawn before trying it themselves	Petworth Road garden
5^th – Young roe deer left sleeping whilst mother forages elsewhere *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
7^th – Baby pipistrelle bat found grounded – taken into care	Elstead
10^th/11^th – Sawfly caterpillars Neurotoma saltuum *Click for photo*	Stedham
22^nd - Swifts still flying over Haslemere. Also a hen blackbird feeding its chick	Near Haslemere Town meadow on 22 July
23^rd – Devil’s coach-horse Ocypus olens found on living room carpet *Click for photo*	Petworth Road
23^rd - Dagger moth Acronicta sp. (probably grey dagger) *Click for photo*	Hindhead garden
25^th – Roe deer and calf browsing in shrubbery *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
20^th/21^st – Common pipistrelle bat in care gave birth overnight *Click for photo*	Hascombe
24^th/25^th - White parakeet or parrot seen flying high and fast, white belly, coloured wings	Over Hammer
26^th - Painted lady, comma and peacock butterflies on Buddleia	Plaistow garden
27^th - Dark crimson underwing moth Catocala sponsa *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden

JUNE 2021

SEEN	WHERE
3^rd – Several beautiful demoiselle Calopteryx virgo fluttering around shrubs *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
5^th - Male and female wood white butterflies spotted engaging in a courtship display.This is a first for Chiddingfold and proves there is a local colony. *Click for photo*	Chiddingfold St Mary's churchyard
7^th - Several Alcathoe, brown long-eared, common and soprano pipistrelle bats and a single serotine shortly after sunset	Furnace Place
9^th – Copper underwing caterpillars Amphipyra pyramidea on Cotoneaster *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
10^th - Brown long-eared bat found dead on garden path *Click for photo*	Plaistow
12^th – Jumping spider Salticus scenicus – the first seen here this year *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
12^th - 2 bee orchids *Click for photo*	Woodland garden near Plaistow
12^th – Roe deer accompanied by very young fawn *Click for video*	Petworth Road garden
14^th - 2 churring male nightjars and 1 female. Also cuckoo calling	Hindhead common, Gibbet side
14^th - Palmate newts in garden pond *Click for photo*	Hill Road
15^th – Hornet apparently foraging for insects in house *Click for photo*	Petworth Road
15^th - Small tortoiseshell butterfly	Garden at Plaistow
15^th - Meadow brown butterfly	Woodland near Plaistow
16^th - Dormouse, escaped before weighing; Barn Owl flying in daylight; 3 Wood Mice in separate dormouse boxes	Woodland near Haslemere
16^th - 50 common spotted orchids again in flower, plus two more on a new site in the garden beyond a tall hedge. *Click for photo*	Chiddingfold garden
19^th – Silver-studded blue butterfly *Click for photo.* Also a small hoverfly, probably a female Meliscaeva auricollis *Click for photo*	Bramshott Common
22^nd - Female stag beetle on footpath	Behind the Church Centre in Headley Village
23^rd – Hoverfly Eristalis horticola resting between sessions hovering to defend territory *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
23^rd - Marbled white butterflies, 2	Woodland near Plaistow
23^rd – Male and female bullfinch foraging on plants in window box	Chiddingfold garden
26^th – Juvenile soprano pipistrelle bat found grounded with internal injuries – taken into care	Rushmoor
27^th - Toad - a red spot on its 'sticky' looking head, and the left eye was red. Click for photo Also a baby newt in the pond	Pathfields Close garden
27^th - Bee with big pollen baskets and a mint moth Pyrausta aurata *Click for photo*	Pathfields Close garden
28^th – Marbled white butterflies on the wing *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane meadow
29^th - Hummingbird Hawkmoth on Red Valerian	Garden at Plaistow

MAY 2021

SEEN	WHERE
2^nd – Two juvenile siskins having bird feeder demonstrated by parent	Petworth Road garden
4^th - Speckled wood butterfly in dappled sunshine and natural short grass edge of woodland	Chiddingfold garden
7^th - Pair of male and female orange tip butterflies fluttering together in dappled sunlight	Chiddingfold St Mary's churchyard
7^th - Stitchwort, violets and bugle in flower. Wood anemone going over now.	Chiddingfold St Mary's churchyard
9^th - Blackcap in a tall mixed hedge	Woodside Road, Chiddingfold
11^th - Painted lady butterfly, 2, part of invasion seen in Sussex from 8^th May	Woodland near Plaistow
12^th - A pair of chaffinches	Frensham Little Pond cafe
12^th - Wood white butterfly, 2, first of the spring brood; 1 painted lady and 1 small copper	Wood near Plaistow
13^th - Roe deer buck confronting a fox in our garden *Click for photo*	Camelsdale
13^th - St George's mushroom Calocybe gambosa *Click for photo*	Tower Road Hindhead
13^th - Privet hawkmoth on the outside of our wooden porch *Click for photo*	Milland
18^th - 2 nightingales and several garden warblers and blackcaps	Milford Common
20^th - Redstart, male	Plaistow garden
28^th – Two great tits anting vigorously for several minutes at edge of lawn	Petworth Road garden
28^th – Bank vole nibbling off tiny nectar filled buds from Cotoneaster growing up house wall	Petworth Road garden
29^th – Six species of bat active overnight – common and soprano pipistrelle, brown long-eared, serotine, noctule and barbastelle calls detected over garden	Petworth Road
30^th - Poplar hawkmoth *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden
30^th - Unidentified jewel wasp, of family Chrysididae, searching surface of brick wall in sunshine *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
31^st - Turtle dove heard "purring"	Woodland near Plaistow

APRIL 2021

SEEN	WHERE
1^st - Blackcap, male seen and heard singing, also chiffchaff singing	Woodland near Plaistow
2^nd - Spider Pisaura mirabilis on our paving *Click for photo*	Pathfields Close
2^nd - House sparrows plentiful, and a heron perched on roof *Click for photo*	Pathfields Close
3^rd - Orange tip butterfly nectaring on purple violets	Killinghurst Lane garden
4^th - Lady's smock *Click for photo, bluebells, forget-me-nots, wood anemones Click for photo, lesser celandine, many native primroses Click for photo, ?dog violet, Viinca minor* and major all in flower.	Chiddingfold garden
4^th - Holly blue and orange tip butterflies	Chiddingfold garden
4^th - Orange-tip butterfly, male	Plaistow garden
5^th – Female Reeves’ muntjac foraging for fallen leaves *Click for video*	Petworth Road garden
5^th - Impressive gorse Click for photo and stand of blackthorn Click for photo in blossom	Behind Chiddingfold churchyard
8^th – Streamer moth Anticlea derivate Click for photo and purple thorn moth Selenia tetralunaria Click for photo attracted to moth trap	Killinghurst Lane garden
11^th - Jay, bouncing and searching around in flower border	Chiddingfold garden
12^th - Several long-tailed tits in camellia bush, landing on hardy fuchsia bush and attracted to and bumping against nearby window pane	Chiddingfold garden
12^th - Peacock butterfly alternately flitting about and sunning itself	Swan Barn Farm
13^th - Pair of grey wagtails	A couple of miles outside Haslemere
14^th - First cuckoo heard along with sightings of tree pipit, willow warbler, linnet as well as male and female stonechats	Woolbeding Common
14^th - 5 redpolls visiting bird feeders	Headley garden
mid-month - Pair of buzzards and pair of carrion crows disputing crown of Douglas fir for several days	Woodland near Swan Barn Farm
18^th - A single swallow	Farm near Milland
19^th - Speckled wood, peacock, orange tip and brimstone butterflies	Woodland near Plaistow
19^th - Swallows, two	Over pastureland near Plaistow
21^st - Nightingale and firecrest heard	Prestwick Lane, Grayswood
23^rd - Robins, two young fledglings, one pecking up ants	Garden at Plaistow
24^th - A pair of snipe in grass fields	Farm near Milland
25^th First skylarks of the season	Farm near Milland
27^th - Holly blue butterfly unusually fluttering about in the sunshine on the bare ground (possibly finding salts on the ground?) and briefly basking *Click for photo*	Chiddingfold garden
28^th - Orange tip butterfly	Lion Lane garden
29^th - Angle shades moth in porch *Click for photo*	Tower Road, Hindhead

MARCH 2021

SEEN	WHERE
Early in month - On roadside verge scarlet elf cap Sarcoscypha austriaca *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane
2^nd - Heavily pregnant Reeves muntjac scuttling across lawn into cover	Petworth Road garden
5^th - Blackcap female and 4 siskins on bird feeder	Garden at Fernhurst
5^th onwards - Three redpolls (1 male, 2 female) visiting – a first for this garden	Braeside Close
9^th – Buff-tailed bumblebee queen searching bank for nesting place	Petworth Road garden
16^th – At least six species of bat on the wing on an unusually mild evening. Common and soprano pipistrelles, brown long-eared (social calls), serotine, Daubenton’s, a single Western barbastelle, and a few unidentified Myotis passes.	Petworth Road garden
mid-month - Two goldfinches regularly sighted on rose bushes and elder branches	Chiddingfold garden
mid-month - Bumble bees flying low and entering daffodil heads; also an unidentified brown butterfly	Chiddingfold garden
19^th - Lesser spotted woodpecker singing, drumming and eventually also seen	Holdfast Lane, Grayswood
20^th – Brown long-eared bat investigating loft space *Click for video*	Petworth Road
20^th - Tawny owl landing on trail camera *Click for video*	Petworth Road garden
21^st - Brimstone butterfly, male *Click for photo*	Near Oaken Wood, near Plaistow
22^nd - Brimstone butterflies 3 males, peacock butterfly and bee-fly Bombylius major	Farmland near Haslemere
22^nd - Rustic bunting and little bunting	Thursley Common
23^rd - Brimstone butterfly	Chiddingfold garden
23^rd - Crossbills, 50 or so, stonechat pair and a red kite	Black Down
29^th - Comma, peacock, male brimstone butterflies	Chiddingfold field
29^th - Barren strawberry in flower, violets, wood anemones in flower	Chiddingfold field
29^th - Female brimstone butterfly on primroses	Chiddingfold Forest
30^th - Holly blue butterflies, 2	Garden at Plaistow
30^th - Pair of swallows	Hankley Common power lines
31^st -: Wood sorrel in flower	Beacon Hill woodlands

FEBRUARY 2021

SEEN	WHERE
1^st/2^nd - Pied blackbird - nowhere near an albino, just white feathers intermingled with the black	Lion Lane garden
6^th - Blue tits frequenting a nest box in bright sunshine	Lion Lane garden
12^th - Red kite being mobbed by a crow	Beacon Hill
13^th – Drowsy fox awakening after a nap on a snowy lawn *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
mid-month - Pair of small brindled beauty moths Apocheima hispidaria *Click for photo* and a pale brindled beauty moth Phigalia pilosaria in moth trap *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden
20^th - Peregrine falcon	Hascombe
20^th - About 50 jackdaws circling noisily as a flock, many flying in pairs. No mobbing target visible.	Over Swan Barn Farm
24^th - Red admiral butterfly	Garden at Plaistow
26^th - Male brimstone butterfly	Highcombe Edge, Hindhead
26^th – Bank vole scavenging seeds beneath bird feeder *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden

JANUARY 2021

SEEN	WHERE
3^rd - First redwing of the winter *Click for photo*	Wood in Ifold
5^th - Fox at bird table in daylight	Lion Lane garden
9^th - Hair ice. The fungus Exidiopsis effusa creates this ice on rotten wood; it is rarely seen. *Click for photo*	Waggoners Wells
10^th – Roe buck in velvet and two does together with a Reeve’s muntjac	Petworth Road garden
13^th - Frog moving around garden	Lion Lane
17^th - Shrew scampering around on garage floor beneath parked cars	Petworth Road
24^th – Fox bemused by deep snow. Later, two young roe gambolling in snow before joining mother to browse on yew *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
25^th – Goldcrest visiting Abutilon megapotamicum regularly for insects over a few days	Pathfields Close
26^th – Redwings feasting on ivy berries *Click for photo* and 21 other species spotted including a fine jay Click for photo, song thrush Click for photo, and long-tailed tit Click for photo	Ifold garden