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| Adult Moorhen with chick |
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| Small Blue |
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| Broad bodied Chaser |
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| Moorhen chicks |
| Moorhen | 2 adults with 3 chicks ; Outwood Lane Lagoon |
| Long-tailed Tit | Juveniles in Banstead Woods |
| Whitethroat | now a ‘pair’ by the Lagoon |
| Small Blue | 5 by the Lagoon |
| Azure Damselfly | 3;lagoon |
| Large Red Damselfly | 1; almost taken by a Moorhen |
| Broad-bodied Chaser | 1 by the lagoon |
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| Male Pheasant |
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| Red Admiral |
| Pheasant | 4 Green Belt field (3m 1 fem) |
| Swift | 7 |
| Moorhen | 1 |
| Herring Gull | 3 |
| Common Buzzard | 2 |
| Kestrel | 1 over Holly Lane Meadows |
| Jackdaw | 60+ roosting in Banstead Woods |
| House Martin | 3 flew S |
| Blackcap | still singing by Outwood Lane Lagoon |
| Whitethroat | still singing by Outwood Lane Lagoon |
| Mistle Thrush | 1 flew across Holly Lane Meadows |
| Chaffinch | 1 singing by the Orchard |
| Brimstone | 3 |
| Green-veined White | 1 |
| Painted Lady | 1 |
| Red Admiral | 1 |
| Speckled Wood | 3 |
| Small Heath | 2 |
| Common Blue | 10+ |
| Swift | 2 over Hillwood field |
| Red Kite | 1 |
| Common Buzzard | 2 |
| Green Woodpecker | 2 |
| Jay | 5 |
| Coal Tit | 1 singing in the Scouts Car Park |
| Marsh Tit | 1 calling near post 17 (back of Narnia wardrobe) |
| House Martin | 1 flew w |
| Whitethroat | 1 in north Hillwood field |
| Mistle Thrush | 2 together on ground near post 17 |
| Song Thrush | 2 (1 singing in Harholt) |
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| Nuthatch feeding at Piddly Pond |
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| Nuthatch feeding at Piddly Pond |
| Chiffchaff | 6 |
| Blackcap | 7 |
| Nuthatch | 1 feeding at Piddly pond |
| Dingy Skipper | 6 |
| Brimstone | 4 |
| Small White | 1 |
| Comma | 1 |
| Speckled Wood | 2 |
| Small Heath | 1 |
| Common Blue | 1 |
| Holly Blue | 2 |
| Green Hairstreak | 3 |
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| White Helleborine (orchid) |
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| Malachite Beetle |
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| Dark winged blood Bee |
| Red Kite | 2 |
| Common Buzzard | 4 |
| Little Owl | 1 Near Perrots |
| Chiffchaff | 4 |
| Long-tailed Tit | 2 |
| Blackcap | 6 |
| Whitethroat | 5 |
| Yellowhammer | 1 |
| Small Heath | 2 |
White Helleborine 4+ Holly Wood
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| Red Kite at the Nuttery |
| Red Kite | 1 landed in the Nuttery |
| Common Buzzard | 1 |
| Green Woodpecker | 2 |
| Chiffchaff | 2 |
| Long-tailed Tit | 1 |
| Blackcap | 4 |
| Whitethroat | 2 singing in the Nuttery |
| Song Thrush | 2 singing in the Nuttery |
Today was the annual Banstead Arts Festival guided bird walk. It was cool and breezy so not ideal for birding. An obliging Little Own showed well and reasonable numbers of Swallows, Swifts and a few House Martins passed through.
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| Little Owl at Canons Farmhouse |
Canons Farm
Herring Gull 1
Little Owl 1
Swift 12
House Martins 3
Swallows 14
Whitethroat 5
Blackcap 1
Kestrel 1 - 2 Probably a male and a female hunting, one seen carrying food as it flew over
Red Kite 1
Buzzard 2
Linnet 6
Skylark 10+
Yellowhammer 2 One carrying nest material
Goldfinch 5
Chaffinch 1
Greenfinch 1 Singing at Burgh Heath
House Sparrow 4
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
Song Thrush 1
Banstead Woods
Nuthatch 1
Skylark 1 Singing over Hither Field
Chiffchaff 2
Blackcap 2
Green Woodpecker 2
Song Thrush 1
Photographs below are by Barry Griffin
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| Roe Deer |
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| Goldfinch |
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| Female Yellowhammer collecting nest material |
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| Goldfinches |
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| Song Thrush at Canons Farm |
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| Swallow |
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| Little Owl |
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| Male Kestrel |
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| Skylark |
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| House Sparrow |
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| Song Thrush in Banstead Woods |
