REPORTS OF RECENT SIGHTINGS IN THE AREA
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All
sightings are posted in good faith, but have not necessarily been formally
authenticated
MARCH 2010
|
SEEN |
WHERE |
| Early in month - Frog with 3" goldfish half swallowed | Hindhead garden pond |
| 2nd - 4 buzzards soaring and calling overhead (around most days now) | Killinghurst Lane |
| 2nd
- Sleepy buff tailed bumble bee, 2 honey bees, one nectaring on purple
crocus - 2 active palmate newts in small garden pond |
Killinghurst Lane garden |
| 2nd - Pair of brimstone butterflies on wing | Godalming |
| 6th - Brown long-eared bat found sleeping on cornice in living room | Woolmer Hill |
FEBRUARY 2010
|
SEEN |
WHERE |
| Early in month - Little egret | Bell Road |
| 2nd - Hedgehog exploring. Now hibernating in a box in a shed. | Plaistow garden |
| 11th - Buzzard on tree, very low down | Killinghurst Lane |
| 14th - Harvest mouse scampering along bank | Kingsley Green |
| 14th - Five long-tailed tits together on peanut feeder. Also blue tits, great tits, coal tits, blackbirds, chaffinches, house sparrows, jay, wood pigeons, greenfinches, goldfinches, great spotted woodpecker, 2 grey squirrels | Plaistow garden |
| 15th - Natterer's bat and two long-eared sp. bats hibernating in NT bat barns | Haslemere |
| 24th - Sparrowhawk catching a wood pigeon, plucking and eating it. | Killinghurst Lane garden |
JANUARY 2010
|
SEEN |
WHERE |
| 11th - Pair of foxes courting. Dancing together on hind legs and serenading one another, but ultimately did not mate. | Petworth Road garden |
| 11th - Female brambling under bird feeding station | Killinghurst Lane garden |
| 13th - Afternoon sighting of a barn owl in flight | Killinghurst Lane |
| Mid-month, after heavy snow fall - Dunnock inhabiting space behind log pile and emerging to eat beneath bird feeders | Killinghurst Lane garden |
| Mid-month, after heavy snow fall - Tits at bird feeder: great, blue, coal, marsh and long-tailed, plus an opportunistic bank vole feeding beneath throughout the day. Bullfinches taking Buddleia seeds. | Petworth Road garden |
| 20th - Natterer's bat and two long-eared sp. bats hibernating in NT bat barns | Haslemere |
| 29th - 12 redwing | Lion Green |
| 31st - Field vole nibbling grass at edge of frosty lawn | Petworth Road garden |
DECEMBER 2009
|
SEEN |
WHERE |
| 17th - One each of Daubenton's, Natterer's and long-eared sp. bats hibernating in National Trust bat barns | Haslemere |
| 23rd - Flock of about 35 lapwing flying rapidly southward | Lion Lane |
| 31st - Red-throated diver (later reported as taken by a fox) | Frensham Little Pond |
NOVEMBER 2009
|
SEEN |
WHERE |
| 12th - Fine stand of trooping funnel-cap (Clitocybe geotropa) | Lynchmere |
| 12th - 50 earthstars (Geastrum triplex) on a roadside bank under pine | Danley Farm, near Lynchmere |
| 12th - Huge cauliflower fungus (Sparassis crispa) 60cm across | Stanley Common, near Lynchmere |
| 13th - Moorhen eating windfall apples | Sussex border, south of Haslemere |
| 13th - Upright coral fungus (Ramaria stricta) | Lynchmere Common |
| 17th - Field vole | Petworth Road garden |
| 21st - Very many fungi species including an unidentified (so possibly rare?) white earth tongue, scarlet caterpillar fungus (Cordyceps militaris), Hygrophorus hypothejus, waxcaps (including Hygrocybe psittacina, the parrot waxcap), yellow brain fungus (Tremella mesenterica), Suillus bovinus. Also an earthstar (Geaster triplex), butter caps Collybia butyracea, decievers (Laccaria laccata and amethystea), the blusher (Amanita rubescens) and many Russula and Lactarius sp. | Hind Head |
| 24th & 25th - Red admiral butterfly nectaring on Mahonia on successive wet and windy days | Petworth Road garden |
OCTOBER 2009
|
SEEN |
WHERE |
| 4th - Raven mobbed and chased off by pair of carrion crows | Petworth Road garden |
| 7th - Female wheatear | Field off Jobson's Lane, Lurgashall |
| 8th - Small tortoiseshell butterfly | Garden near Plaistow |
| 10th - Painted lady butterfly | Lodsworth garden |
| 10th - Many harlequin ladybirds making their way in warm sunshine to a wooden building searching for a hibernation roost | Lodsworth garden |
| 20th - Flock of 30 redwing | Field near Ebernoe |
| 23rd - Ttwo earthballs (Scleroderma citrinum) hosting the rare fungus Boletus parasiticus | Woods adjacent to northern end of Cherry Tree Avenue |
| 24th - Flock of about 20 redwings | Cherry Tree Avenue |
| 25th - A large growth of the tooth fungus Creolophus cirrhatus | Hind Head, nr Hindhead |
| Latter part of month - many harlequin ladybirds | Killinghurst Lane garden |
SEPTEMBER 2009
|
SEEN |
WHERE |
| 8th - Humming bird hawk moth on pink pelargoniums | Church Lane |
| 8th - Chiffchaff heard singing | Plaistow garden |
| 16th - Honey coloured ferret exploring verge by main road | Near Lythe Hill Hotel |
| 17th - Shrew scurrying about in garage | Petworth Road |
| 20th - Xylaria polymorpha (dead man's fingers) fungus on a fallen tree | Bramshott Common |
| 25th - Very large comma butterfly nectaring on heather | Petworth Road garden |
| 26th - Badger road casualty | Petworth Road |
AUGUST 2009
|
SEEN |
WHERE |
| 4th - Female brown long-eared bat rescued from bedroom | Woolmer Hill |
| 5th - Small tortoiseshell nectaring together with many more common species of butterfly | Petworth Road garden |
| 5th - Grass snake, about 2' long | Grounds of Holy Cross Hospital |
| 9th - Small tortoiseshell, small copper, red admiral, comma, meadow brown, gatekeeper, small and large white, peacock and painted lady butterflies | Cherry Tree Avenue garden |
| 9th - Grayling butterfly | Frensham Great Pond |
| 10th - Two small tortoiseshell butterflies and a male holly blue | Sunbrow, Haslemere |
| 10th - Clouded yellow butterfly, probably a male | Camelsdale recreation ground |
| 11th - Roe deer with half grown youngster | Petworth Road garden |
| 17th - Second roadkill, erythristic badger, also report of dead youngster near the sett. (maybe the mother roadkilled) | Jobson's Lane, Lurgashall |
| 18th - Young pygmy shrew in the house, crouching on carpet. Put outside and set free , and at least two more seen around on the the drive, must have been newly shoved out their nest? | Jobson's Lane, Lurgashall |
| 27th - Between 20 and 30 blue tits flying in and out of bushes for 15 minutes before leaving garden | Kingsley Green |
| 29th - Wood white butterfly | Chiddingfold Forest |
JULY 2009
|
SEEN |
WHERE |
| First three weeks of month - Female wood pigeon sitting on nest near back door, but phantom brooding | Kingsley Green |
| 1st - Hornet flying in and out of bedroom just after sunrise | Petworth Road |
| 2nd - Common and soprano pipistrelles, a few Myotis sp. and serotine bats | NT Swan Barn Farm woodland |
| 5th - Broad-leaved helleborine photographed in flower. First spotted at the end of May. | Stedham Common, |
| 8th - Yellow and black longhorn beetle Strangalia maculata resting on a sweet chestnut blossom. | Ludshott Common |
| 9th - White admiral butterfly | Cherry Tree Avenue garden |
| 10th - White admiral butterfly aberration var.nigrina | Wood near Plaistow |
| 12th - Female Montagu's harrier in flight | Over Ebernoe Common cricket ground |
| 14th - Southern hawker dragonfly | Petworth Road garden |
| 14th - Three pristine looking painted lady butterflies, possibly the second brood emerging from a batch that bred on Echinops (globe thistle) this year | Cherry Tree Avenue garden |
| 15th - Silver-washed fritillary butterfly feeding on Sedum bloom | Cherry Tree Avenue garden |
| 16th - Meadow brown, gatekeeper, speckled wood, ringlet, large white, comma, painted lady and silver-washed fritillary butterflies flitting around | Cherry Tree Avenue garden |
| 18th - Comma, large white, peacock, silver-washed fritillary, meadow brown, red admiral, painted lady, speckled wood and gatekeeper butterflies all seen in space of half an hour | Petworth Road garden |
| 20th - Hummingbird hawk moth | Killinghurst Lane garden |
| 20th onwards - Family of green woodpeckers, parents feeding young who are almost as big as their parents. Also pied wagtail parents with a single youngster | Killinghurst Lane garden |
| 23rd - Large red,
small red, blue-tailed and azure damselflies. Black darter, emperor,
southern hawker, broad bodied chaser, four-spotted chaser and common darter
dragonflies. Also great diving beetle, green tiger beetle and some crossbills |
Black Down |
| 27th - Young soprano pipistrelle rescued from house and released | Hammer Vale |
| 28th - Buzzard mobbed by crows | Over Cherry Tree Avenue |
| 29th - Emperor dragonfly emerging from garden pond | Sunbrow, Haslemere |
| 31st - Small tortoiseshell butterfly and caterpillars of same species | Shottermill garden |
| 31st - Clouded yellow butterfly | Wood near Plaistow |
| 31st - Flock of 40+ swifts flying high | Over Lion Green |
| late in month - Family of sparrowhawks | Killinghurst Lane garden |
| late in month - Wood white butterfly, encouraging increase in summer brood number | Chiddingfold Woods |
JUNE 2009
|
SEEN |
WHERE |
| early in month - pair of crossbills | Marley Common |
| 1st - About 30 Eucera longicornis bees - mating (or fighting?!) on mown lawn, around several solitary holes. They have very long antennae and yellow face, furry thorax and dull dark abdomen. (later, sadly, all devoured by magpies). | Jobson's Lane, Lurgashall |
| 2nd - Common and soprano pipistrelles, a few Myotis sp., single brown long-eared and serotine bats - all in flight | NT Swan Barn Farm woodland |
| 3rd - Many painted lady butterflies seen over past fortnight | Jobson's Lane, Lurgashall |
| 4th - Meadow brown butterfly | Field at Ebernoe |
| 4th - Swift | Over field at Ebernoe |
| 4th and 5th - Fox cub investigating rabbit activity on garden lawn, without success | Petworth Road |
| 14th - Red kite swooping to about 8 feet above ground then soaring up to altitude | Shottermill |
| 16th - Silver-washed fritillary and several large skipper butterflies | Wood near Plaistow |
| 22nd - Vixen and two cubs | Petworth Road garden |
| 29th - Brightly
coloured beetle Strangalia maculata flying down into beech hedge and
secreting itself away. Also red admiral, comma, meadow brown and large white butterflies on wing |
Petworth Road garden |
| 30th - Male purple emperor butterfly on the ground at 9.30am. Also 15 silver-washed fritillary and 10 white admiral. | Wood near Plaistow |
MAY 2009
|
SEEN |
WHERE |
| 1st - Newly hatched female broad-bodied chaser dragonfly | Plaistow garden pond |
| 4th - Several clumps of summer snowflake (not the wild form) | Bramshott Common |
| 12th - Red kite flying directly along the road at about 50 feet | Brook, near Dog and Pheasant (seen later near A3) |
| 14th - Two cockchafers nestling in long grass | Grayshott garden |
| 16th - High flying peregrine falcon and great spotted woodpecker feeding young at nest hole | Witley Common |
| 17th - Three nightingales singing | Ebernoe Common |
| 17th - Three nightingales singing | River Common, Lurgashall |
| 18th - Yellow-necked mouse feeding on forget-me-not seed heads in the evening | Cherry Tree Avenue |
| 18th onwards - Painted lady butterflies | Cherry Tree Avenue |
| 25th - At least six painted lady butterflies nectaring on Dame's violet | Plaistow garden |
| 25th - Pair of linnets | Jobson's Lane, Lurgashall |
| 27th - Swifts hawking at dusk. Later, common and soprano pipistrelles, noctule and Daubenton's bats all seen clearly. | Winkworth Arboretum |
| 30th - Turtle dove heard purring | Wood near Plaistow |
| End of month - Steady stream of painted lady butterflies tumbling out of the sky from the south nectaring in the garden and flying on northward | Haslemere |
APRIL 2009
|
SEEN |
WHERE |
| 1st - Peacock and male brimstone butterflies. Chiffchaff calling. | Petworth Road garden |
| 2nd - Male sparrowhawk sitting on low hedge close to house allowing observers to approach very closely | Killinghurst Lane garden |
| 2nd - Several bee flies Bombylius major | Wood near Plaistow |
| 2nd - Blackcap singing | Wood near Plaistow |
| 3rd - Swallows back | Gospel Green |
| 4th - Cuckoo heard | Shulbrede |
| 5th - Two peacock butterflies emerged from hibernation in garden shed | Grayshott |
| 6th - Male orange tip butterfly | Wood near Plaistow |
| 6th - Swallows | Near Plaistow |
| 11th - Orange tip and comma butterflies | Shulbrede Priory garden |
| 11th - Long tailed tits and goldfinches | Shulbrede |
| 12th - Cuckoo calling | Frillinghurst Woods |
| 12th - Speckled wood butterfly | Sunbrow, Haslemere |
| 13th - Two male orange tip butterflies, comma, peacock, male brimstone and two small tortoiseshells | Sunbrow, Haslemere |
| 13th - Whitethroat. And some tadpoles still thriving | Jobson's Lane, Lurgashall |
| 13th - Pair of grey wagtail | By Crown and Cusion car park |
| 13th - Willow warblers singing | Hindhead and Ludshott Commons |
| 14th - Flock of about 20 crossbills | Marley Common |
| 14th - Large white butterfly | Grayshott garden |
| 14th - Male adder and single peacock butterfly | Witley Common |
| 15th - Nightingale singing by day | Wood near Plaistow |
| 15th - Cuckoo calling | Wood near Plaistow |
| 16th - Small white butterfly | Plaistow garden |
| 16th - Tadpoles in garden pond - one month later than usual | Grayshott garden |
| 16th onwards - influx of red lily beetles | Grayshott garden |
| 19th - Two buzzards being mobbed by both a crow and a sparrowhawk | Over Hammer |
| 20th - Slow worms in compost heap | Grayshott garden |
| 21st - Chiffchaff | Ludshott Common |
| 21st - Pair of sand lizards, the male showing his green breeding colour | Witley Common |
| 21st - Stonechat seen and heard | Witley Common |
| 21st - Speckled wood butterfly | Witley Common |
| 23rd - Early purple orchids | Killinghurst Woods |
| 23rd - St George's mushroom (Calocybe gambosa) | Near Furnace Place |
| 23rd - Six lapwings in a territorial dispute | Imbhams Farm |
| 23rd - Great horsetail Equisetum telmateia with fertile stems | Killinghurst |
| 26th - Early sightings of wood white, grizzled skipper and dingy skipper butterflies | Wood near Plaistow |
MARCH 2009
|
SEEN |
WHERE |
| 1st - Opposite-leaved golden-saxifrage and first wild daffodil in flower | Henley |
| 1st - Mediterranean spurge (a naturalised escape) flowering on a wall | Near Fernhurst church |
| 1st - Hairy wood-rush in flower | Fernhurst woods |
| 2nd - Red admiral butterfly | Petworth Road garden |
| 2nd - Male siskin | Stedham garden |
| 4th - Frogspawn and frogs | Jobson's Lane, Lurgashall |
| 7th - Lesser spotted woodpecker | Near Frensham Great Pond |
| 9th - 2 redpoll on feeder, 2 bullfinches on bird table (male and female), 2 siskins on feeder (male and female) | Fernhurst garden |
| 11th - Skeleton of roe deer (?) picked down | Plaistow Green |
| 12th - Four bumblebees on one clump of heather | Bell Road garden |
| 12th - Five toads, including a mating pair in pond | Grayshott garden |
| 12th - Two siskins on Niger seed feeder | Plaistow garden |
| 14th -Pair of long-tailed tits resting in gorse bush | College Hill Terrace |
| 14th - 4 siskins (2 male, 2 female) | Fernhurst garden |
| 16th - 4 bitterns calling in flight, plus several sand martins | Frensham Little Pond |
| 17th - Moths trapped: 246 small quakers as well as (much!) smaller numbers of common quaker, Hebrew character, clouded drab, early grey, oak beauty, pale pinion and brindled beauty | Fernhurst |
| 18th - Red kite flying south | Fernhurst |
| 18th - Hundreds of toads, many in mating 'tangles', and fewer frogs and palmate newts seen in a large private pond | Kingsley Green |
| 19th - Yellow corydalis in flower - it failed to survive the winter in flower this year | Haslemere |
| 19th - Wood sorrel in flower | Fernhurst |
| 19th - Muntjac crossing main road in darkness | Milford |
| 20th - Female sparrowhawk perched a few inches above ground watching great tit foraging in shrubs above. Did not attack. | Petworth Road garden |
| 20th - Pair of treecreepers spiralling, one behind the other all the way down a Douglas fir. They were not actually touching the bark of the tree but flying down as close to the tree as they could possibly get without actually being on it | Killinghurst Lane garden |
| 21st - Chiff chaff calling | Killinghurst Lane garden |
| 22nd - Bluebell in flower | Killinghurst Lane |
| 22nd - Bee fly (A Bombyliidae species) | Killinghurst Lane garden |
|
22nd - Comma butterfly |
Garden at Plaistow |
| 23rd - Red admiral butterfly | Petworth Road garden |
| 28th - Swallows and martins | Frensham Little Pond |
| 29th - Ring-necked duck (drake) | Frensham Great Pond |
| 31st - Chiffchaffs | Jobson's Lane, Lurgashall |
| Mid-month - Pair of long-tailed tits collecting cobwebs from under the eaves of house and sitting on a post in the garden outside the kitchen window | Killinghurst Lane |
| Mid-month - Several sightings of redpoll. One male, five female. | Haslemere garden |
| Mid-month - Buzzard activity over the garden all day, sometimes as many as four. Flying very low, or soaring up and flying into each other in what looks like a 'playful manner' | Killinghurst Lane |
| Mid-month - A fabulous year for coltsfoot, with much more than usual in flower | Around Fernhurst |
| Mid-month - Siskins feeding on birch catkins and pine cones | Lower Polecat Valley |
| Mid-month - Male redpoll in breeding plumage pecking under a bird table at fragments left by siskins | Haslemere garden |
| Mid-month - Two mandarin duck leaving an owl box | Garden near Plaistow |
| End of month - Muntjac | Swan Barn Farm |
| End of month - Lilac coloured wood-sorrel flowering on shady bank at roadside | Killinghurst Lane |
FEBRUARY 2009
|
SEEN |
WHERE |
| 2nd - Great spotted woodpecker heard drumming | Fernhurst |
| 3rd - Brambling | Fernhurst garden |
| 7th - Rare spongy mazegill fungus - Spongipellis delectans | Henley woods |
| 14th - Pair skylarks 'mating' and singing over meadow (residents). Barn owl flying across field and into barn at 9.50am. | Jobson's Lane, Lurgashall |
| 16th - Wood mouse at garden bird feeder | Petworth Road garden |
| 17th - Three long-eared bats, a few peacock and comma butterflies hibernating in National Trust bat barns | Haslemere |
| 17th - Yellowhammers singing | Jobson's Lane, Lurgashall |
| 21st - Brimstone butterfly | Bell Road garden |
| 24th - Great crested, palmate and common newts in garden pond | Plaistow |
| 27th - Male brimstone and comma butterfly chasing one another in the sunshine | Petworth Road garden |
| 27th - Male brimstone butterfly | Plaistow garden |
| 27th - Comma butterfly | Wood near Plaistow |
JANUARY 2009
|
SEEN |
WHERE |
| 3rd - Dartford warbler, pair of crossbills, 6 redpoll and more than 100 redwing | Black Down |
| 5th - 70 or so redwings in field | Jobson's Lane, Lurgashall |
| 8th to 11th - Moorhen visiting bird table and eating from underneath | Killinghurst Lane |
| 9th - Tawny owl mobbed by group of jays and magpies | Petworth Road garden |
| 10th - First jay seen in 39 years in this garden | Fernhurst |
| 13th -Three long-eared bats found hibernating in National Trust bat barns | Haslemere |
| 13th - Single long-eared bat hanging freely in farmhouse loft | Bowlhead Green |
| 27th - Treecreeper in ash tree, pair of marsh tits, and coal tit pecking moss off oak tree branch | Jobson's Lane, Lurgashall |