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

MAY 2020

SEEN	WHERE
Early in month - Increasing amount of roadkill - foxes, badgers and several deer from very small to medium size. Perhaps as a result of quieter roads and faster traffic	A3 between Hindhead and Liphook
1^st - Mason bee nest cells found tucked into window frame Click for photo	Petworth Road
2^nd - Speckled wood butterfly Pararge aegerig *Click for photo* then a speckled yellow day flying moth Pseudopanthera macularia *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane
3^rd - Sparrowhawk consuming a sparrow which it caught in our courtyard *Click for photo*	Church Road. Milford
4^th - Young roebuck frolicking *Click for photo* (photographed by trail camera). Later a badger seen foraging for worms Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
4^th - Little grebe, 2 mandarin in flight, 3 red kite, 3 sparrowhawk, 22+ buzzard, 1-2 hobby, lesser black-backed gull, herring gull, male cuckoo, 45 swift, 3+ male woodlark, 5 male tree pipit, 10 house martin, 4+ swallow, 2 male stonechat and also a pair, 3 male redstart, 6+ whitethroat, garden warbler, 2 Dartford warbler, crossbills calling	Black Down
4^th - Osprey descending to roost about midday	Valewood
5^th – Male and female Reeve’s muntjac browsing in garden	Petworth Road
5^th – Tree pipit displaying	Lynchmere Common
6^th - Green-veined white butterfly nectaring on bugle *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane garden
6^th - 8 swifts	Border Road, Critchmere
6^th - First fledged stonechat	Black Down
6^th - Water vole reported climbing the bank	Fernden Lane, Haslemere
7^th - 6 wood white butterflies	Wood near Plaistow
7^th - Cuckoo seen and heard	Frensham Common
7^th – Female cuckoo heard, at least one male still present	Black Down
7^th – Beautiful demoiselles both males and females	Sandy Lane, Frensham
7^th – Several holly blue butterflies	Old A3 at Punchbow
8^th – 5 woodlark, about 70 common crossbill	Black Down
9^th – Small copper butterfly on dovesfoot cranesbill	Hankley Golf Club bridleway
9^th – 4 swallows on wires	Farmland near Plaistow
9^th – Apparently heavily pregnant roe deer accompanied by large buck	Petworth Road garden
9^th - Nightingale still singing	Lower Roundhurst Farm
10^th - Grey wagtail, very likely feeding young	Bunch Lane
10^th - 7-8 red kite including a party of 4, 8 swift, pair of raven	Gibbet Hill/Inval
10^th - Hobby	High Button
10^th - 10 common crossbill	Hindhead Common
12^th – 12-inch slow worm	Hindhead garden
12^th – Pairs of large red damselflies Pyrrhosoma nymphula mating in sunshine Click for photo	Swan Barn Farm
15^th - Male peregrine soaring	Black Down
15^th - Nightjar churring, cuckoo still calling	Black Down
15^th - Dog rose *Click for photo*	Boundless Road, south of Thursley, alongside A3
17^th - Grounded female serotine bat taken into care	Bordon
17^th - Male cuckoos calling at three locations	Lower North Park Farm, Northpark Copse and Woolbeding Common
17^th - Male woodlark singing	West of Fernhurst
17^th - Family party of 4-5 woodlark	Woolbeding Common
18^th - Lizard and a pair of swans with 2 cygnets	Frensham Little Pond
19^th - 9 red kite	Black Down
19^th - Up to 6 nightjars and 1-2 roding woodcock	Black Down
19^th - Pair of woodlark and a single male, singing tree pipit, adult Mediterranean gull in flight	Trotton Marsh
19^th - Tufted duck pair	Cook's Pond
19^th - 1+ grey wagtail	Combe Pond
19^th - Male and female beautiful demoiselles	Sandy Lane, Frensham Common
20^th - Small heath butterfly	Field east of Chiddingfold
20^th/21^st – Much bat activity detected during overnight acoustic survey: common and soprano pipistrelle, noctule, serotine, Natterer, barbastelle and brown long-eared bats	Petworth Road garden
21^st – Cluster of 5 greater horseshoe bats in barn roof Click for photo	Between Midhurst and Petworth
21^st – Many azure damselflies Click for photo and a single male broad-bodied chaser Click for photo	Swan Barn Farm
21^st – Alder leaf beetle Agelastica alni mating pair. First site record of this formerly rare species Click for photo	Witley Common
21^st – Stonechat male feeding small fledgling. Probably the fist breeding record for 35 - 40 years!	Milford Common
21^st – Duke of Burgundy butterfly Click for photo	Noar Hill
21^st – Pair of nightingales singing	Noar Hill
22^nd - White ermine moth Spilosoma lubricipeda Click for photo Also a bird box taken over by bees – probably Bombus hypnorum	Furnace Place
23^rd - Blue tit fledgling contemplating leaving its nest in dormouse box Click for photo	Killinghurst Lane woods
23^rd - Bullfinch, one of a pair, visiting our garden Click for photo	Church Road, Milford
24^th - Bird's-nest orchids - 14 flower spikes Click for photo	Hammer
25^th - Small tortoiseshell butterfly	Plaistow garden
25^th - Red kite	Over Plaistow garden
27^th - Common blue butterfly	Plaistow garden

APRIL 2020

SEEN	WHERE
2^nd - Flurry of bats on the wing during a mild evening – common pipistrelle, brown long-eared, serotine, noctule and an unidentified Myotis species	Petworth Road garden
3^rd - Dark-edged bee-fly Bombilius major Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
4^th - One of several early purple orchids *Click for photo*	Killinghurst Lane woodland
4^th - Tortoiseshell butterfly	Whitmore Vale Woods
5^th – 5 spot ladybird land on my bare arm	Lion Lane garden
5^th – Peacock butterfly rescued from inside workshop window *Click for photo*	Church Rd. Milford
5^th – Jumping spider Salticus scenicus on window *Click for photo*	Petworth Road
7^th - Orange-tip butterfly	Hindhead garden
7^th – Blackcap singing. Tawny owl calling and 2 pipistrelle bats in flight	Weycombe Road garden
8^th – Sparrowhawk, 7 buzzard, green and greater spotted woodpeckers, 2 swallow, firecrest singing, marsh tit, 5 chaffinch	Weycombe Road garden
8^th - Cormorant, grey heron, 3 red kite, sparrowhawk, 26+ buzzard, kestrel, green woodpecker, meadow pipit1-2 swallow, 3+ redwing,15 fieldfare	Between Haslemere and Witley Farm
8^th - Flock of around 30 crossbills, some linnets, pair stonechat, red kite, male sparrowhawk	Black Down
8^th - 2 mandarin duck in flight. Also linnets.	Valewood
8^th & 9^th - Stock doves Click for photo and a white dove Click for photo coming regularly to enjoy our bird food	Church Rd. Milford
9^th - Two orange-tip butterflies	Killinghurst Lane
9^th - Skylark singing his heart out and flying as high as he could	Killinghurst Lane
9^th - 4 buzzard	Haslemere town centre
9^th - Up to 5 tree pipit, 3 woodlark, 4 stonechat territories, 4 Dartford warbler territories including two males displaying at each other by holding one wing up beside their head and some song flighting, male blackcap, whitethroat, 5+ willow warbler, 30+ crossbill, many crossbills	Black Down
9^th – Orange-tip butterfly	Headley garden
9^th - Two holly blue butterflies dancing along our hedge which contains a good amount of holly	Church Rd. Milford
10^th – Male dormouse found nesting during roof repairs Click for photo	Lodsworth
10^th - Orange-tip Butterfly	Church Rd. Milford
11^th – Jackdaw emerging from tree hole for brief respite from incubation duties to preen in sunshine *Click for photo*	Woodland off Petworth Road
11^th – Wasp Ancistrocerus sp. *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
11^th – Cuckoo calling	Black Down and Petworth Road
11^th – Two cuckoos calling	Weavers Down
11^th - Noctule bat flying high above railway line towards Haslemere. Also three pipistrelle bats seen regularly over the past few nights.	Weycombe Road
12^th - Cuckoo heard	Garden at Plaistow
12^th - Red kite, sparrowhawk, 10+ buzzard, male cuckoo, woodlark, stonechat, 2 redstart, 2 Dartford warbler, 3 firecrest, marsh tit, raven	Devil's Punch Bowl
12^th - Male marsh harrier, woodlark, tree pipit, Dartford warbler	Hindhead Common
12^th - Male firecrest	Stoatley Hollow
12^th – Slow worm attacked, killed and eaten by magpie	Petworth Road garden
12^th – 2 red kite. Also red fox, deer and a grass snake.	Hindhead Golf Course
13^th – Grounded pipistrelle bat taken into care	Hydestile
13^th - Roebuck still moulting winter coat, but now having shed all velvet from antlers Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
13^th - 2 singing male firecrest	Bunch Lane
13^th - Pair of Egyptian geese	Polo pitch west of Witley Farm
13^th - Singing male firecrest	Hindhead Common
14^th – Reeve’s muntjac Click for photo	Petworth Road garden
14^th – 1-2 singing male firecrests	Farnham Lane
14^th – 1 singing male marsh tit	Gibbet Hill
14^th – Raven	Over Inval
15^th – Holly blue butterfly	Petworth Road garden
15^th – Singing male firecrest	Top of Haste Hill
15^th – 3 wood lark, 4 singing male tree pipit, 3 singing male stonechat, 1 briefly singing male redstart, 2 singing male Dartford warbler, 3 singing male whitethroat, raven, flock of crossbills	Black Down
15^th – Few-flowered leek Click for photo	Lynchmere Common
16^th - 2 cock goldfinch sharing my bird bath this morning	Lion Lane garden
16^th - Red kite, 7+ buzzard	Inval and Hindhead Common
16^th - Male tree pipit, male woodlark, male stonechat and a pair,	Hindhead Common
16^th - Red kite	Over Weydown Road
16^th - Swallow, crossbill	Gibbet Hill
16^th - Male firecrest	Farnham Lane
16^th - Male firecrest	Stoatley Hollow
16^th - Male firecrest	Bunch Lane
18^th – About 30 crossbills flying over	Black Down
18^th – Reeve’s muntjac and roe deer cautiously introducing themselves *Click for photo*	Petworth Road garden
18^th – Kestrel, male tree pipit, 1+ male wood lark, 4 swallow, pair stonechat	Hindhead Common
18^th – Firecrest	High Button
18^th – 2 firecrest	Stoatley Hollow
19^th – 3 red kite, 3 sparrowhawk, 26+ buzzard, pair kestrel, 5 male tree pipit, meadow pipit, 5 singing male woodlark and a pair collecting food, 20+ swallow, redstart, 2 Dartford warbler, 4+ whitethroat, male firecrest, 5 crossbill	Black Down & Sheetlands
19^th – Pair of kestrel	Valewood
19^th – Swallow	Weycombe Road
19^th – Male firecrest, male greenfinch	Top of Haste Hill
19^th – Male firecrest	Chase Lane
20^th - Green-veined white *Click for photo* and speckled wood butterflies	Woodland along French Lane leading to Bowlhead Green
21^st - Comma butterfly *Click for photo*	Swan Barn Farm
21^st – Many common pipistrelles and a few serotine bats on the wing overnight	Rake
23^rd - Male mandarin, 6 singing woodlark, 4 singing male redstart,	Black Down
23^rd - Singing male redstart	Hindhead Common
24^th - Singing male redstart	Devil's Punch Bowl
24^th - Speckled wood butterfly	Garden at Plaistow
24^th - Two mandarin duck *Click for photo* and a mallard with 9 ducklings following closely Click for photo	New Pond, near Silkmill
25^th - Wood warbler	East side of Devil's Punch Bowl
25^th - 2 female sparrowhawk talon-grappling	Near South Park Farm
25^th - 2 swift	Over Weycombe Road
25^th - Nightingale	East of Gospel Green
25^th - Nightingale	South of Gospel Green
25^th - Nightingale	Lower Roundhurst Farm
26^th - Cuckoo	Witley Farm
26^th - Peregrine mobbed by sparrowhawk	High over Haslemere
26^th - Pair of raven	Devil's Punch Bowl
27^th - Kestrel mobbing red kite	Swan Barn Farm
27^th - Red kite, sparrowhawk, 15+ buzzard, 7 lesser black-backed gull, male cuckoo, 4 singing male woodlark plus 2 individuals, 7 singing male tree pipit, 3 swallow, 2 house martin, 2 singing male redstart, 7+ singing male whitethroat, 2 singing male Dartford warbler, about 60 crossbill	Black Down
27^th - Firecrest	East end of Tennyson’s Lane

MARCH 2020

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

FEBRUARY 2020

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

JANUARY 2020

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