Canons Farm & Banstead Woods Birds

One of five Painted Ladies

Dark Green Fritillary. Only the second record at Canons Farm

Mistle Thrush with caterpillar food

An uncommon Golden Bloomed Grey Longhorn Beetle

Small Tortoiseshell. Sadly now quite scarce in SE England

Swift	50
Herring Gull	4
Common Buzzard	2
Skylark	10+
Chiffchaff	3
Blackcap	3
Whitethroat	6
Nuthatch	2
Starling	100+ feeding around Canons Farmhouse. Many juveniles
Mistle Thrush	1 At Perrots, carrying food which it carried into Banstead Woods
Chaffinch	1
Yellowhammer	2
Essex Skipper	1
Small/Essex Skipper	2
Marbled White	9
Small White	10
Large White	2
Comma	4
Painted Lady	5
Small Tortoiseshell	2 Along path by Broadfield
Dark Green Fritillary	3 Ruffet Meadow
Meadow Brown	60+
Golden Bloomed Grey Longhorn Beetl	1

General comments

Vicinity; Park Downs
3 Dark-green Fritillaries
2 Emperors
1 Hummingbird Moth
1 Marsh Tit

Small Tortoiseshell

CFBW sector:

1 Small Tortoiseshell in the perimeter of the Scouts Car Park

50-60+ Marbled Whites
1 Ringlet

White Admiral

Red Admiral

Silver Washed Fritillary

Common Buzzard	2
Treecreeper	4; 1 near post 8, 3 together (adults feeding a juvenile on a beech at back of Alan Collis bench)
Brimstone	3
Small White	4
Comma	4
Red Admiral	1
Silver-washed Fritillary	1
Speckled Wood	2
White Admiral	1 near post 16 (Narnia wardrobe footpath

Male Common Whitethroat

Moorhen	1
Coal Tit	1
Blackcap	2
Whitethroat	2 Pair near carpark
Comma	1
Azure Damselfly	1
Large Red Damselfly Small Blue Butterfly	1 1

Pheasant	1 Heard Only
Woodpigeon	6
Swift	2
Cormorant	1 seen from owl meadow
Barn Owl	1 Caught a rodent in owl meadow, later seen in Horse Pasture where it caught another rodent. Later seen carrying prey high over Banstead Woods from near Perrots by-wood
Tawny Owl	2 calling near Perrotts farm
Rose-ringed Parakeet	2
Carrion Crow	3
Skylark	2
Blackbird	2
Yellowhammer	2
Roe Deer	2
Fox	1

Chiffchaff at L&G

Clay moth

Swift	50 - 100+. Two flocks of 50+, one feeding around Green Barn then an hour later another (or same) 50+ near Perrots plus 2 at L&G
Green Woodpecker	1
Skylark	10+
Chiffchaff	5
Blackcap	3
Whitethroat	3
Nuthatch	1
Song Thrush	3
Blackbird	6+ Female carrying food at L&G
Robin	4+ Several juveniles at Holly Wood
Red Admiral	1
Speckled Wood	1
Meadow Brown	50+
Small Heath	1

Insects include: 8 Volucella Inanis, 1 Clay moth, 2+ Noon Flies, 1 Garden Chafer and 1 chrysotoxum festivium (hoverfly)

Small Skipper

General comments	Sightings reported in mainly Hillwood field
Swift	30+ over; presumably adults & juveniles
Common Buzzard	1
Great Spotted Woodpecker	Juveniles heard within a tree hole near post 17
Green Woodpecker	2
Coal Tit	1 singing
Skylark	1 singing Hither
Nuthatch	1 singing in Harholt
Mistle Thrush	1 from Scouts Car Park into the woods
Small Skipper	1
Large Skipper	8
Brimstone	1
Marbled White	2
Painted Lady	1
Red Admiral	1
Silver-washed Fritillary	1 possible near Harholt
Speckled Wood	1
Meadow Brown	c50*
Small Heath	3
Holly Blue	1
Emperor	4; 2m 1fem Hillwood field, 1m over the scouts car park

A White-tailed Bumblebee was observed in Hillwood field/Harholt

Collared Dove	1 singing S of Hither field copse 12:28
Swift	C25+
Herring Gull	8
Sparrowhawk	1 fem over Coneyboro
Common Buzzard	2
Jackdaw	Up to 40 over Hither fields
Skylark	2 singing Hither fields
Chiffchaff	3
Blackcap	2
Whitethroat	2
Goldfinch	3 together in the Nuttery ( 1 singing)
Meadow Brown	1
Roe Deer	1

General comments	Cloudy
Swift	30. Mostly over fields south of Outwood Lane, a few over the woods
Red Kite	1
Green Woodpecker	2
Coal Tit	1
Blue Tit	1+ With juveniles
Great Tit	10+ Families with juveniles
Skylark	1 Singing over Hither Field. Probably breeding, either in fields to south of Outwood Lane or possibly in Hither Field
Chiffchaff	15
Long-tailed Tit	6+ with juveniles
Blackcap	9
Whitethroat	3
Goldcrest	3+ family group with juveniles
Nuthatch	7
Song Thrush	3
Meadow Brown	1
Small Heath	5

Pages