2nd August 2025: Banstead Woods - Ian Ward


Male Chalkhill Blue

Hornet paralysing a wasp

Raven

Ravens and crows mobbing a common buzzard

Shaded Broad-bar (scotopteryx-chenopodiata)

Wheatear

 2 Shaded broad-bar moths in the Nuttery

Collared Dove1 singing in Outwood Lane residential, south of Hither field
Herring Gull1
Common Buzzard2 over Hither field - one being mobbed by Ravens & Crows
Great Spotted Woodpecker3
Green Woodpecker3
Raven2+ over Hither field mobbing a buzzard with crows
Chiffchaff1
Long-tailed Tit5
Blackcap3
Whitethroat3
Wheatear1 on a hedgerow by Hither field
Bullfinch1 m in the Nuttery
Goldfinch2
Marbled White1 in Hither field
Small WhiteP
Large WhiteP
Comma7
Meadow BrownP
GatekeeperAt least 500+ in lower Hither field
Small Heath4
Small Blue( the Kidney vetch with small blue eggs by Outwood Lane Pond has been totally cleared)
Common BlueP
Holly Blue1
Chalkhill Bluec12 Stagbury
Migrant Hawker2 over Outwood Lane Pond