Canons Farm & Banstead Woods Birds: March 2026

General comments	35 species including Firecrest, Blackcap, Cormorant and Fieldfare
Canada Goose	2
Pheasant	3
Herring Gull	4
Cormorant	1 - 2 One over heading North, the another or the same South, 20 minutes later
Tawny Owl Red Kite	1 Calling from Ruffet Wood 1
Common Buzzard	6
Jackdaw	150+
Rook	2
Carrion Crow	200
Skylark	12+
Chiffchaff	2
Long-tailed Tit	1
Blackcap	1 Singing L&G
Firecrest	1 singing Holly Wood
Nuthatch	1
Fieldfare	10
Linnet	30+ Including one flock of about 20 passage migrants
Goldfinch	8
Yellowhammer	3

General comments	Two Red Legged People in Green Belt Field. First since 2018
Stock Dove	2 Big flock has gone
Herring Gull	1
Sparrowhawk	1
Chiffchaff	2
Goldcrest	1
Mistle Thrush	2 Pair
Chaffinch	3
Yellowhammer	3
Red Legged Partridge	2

Red Kite at Canons Farm

Moorhen	2 in Outwood Lane Pond
Red Admiral	2
Holly Blue	1 fluttering near Holly Lane Car Park
Rabbit	8 Holly Lane Meadows

Tawny Mining Bee

Grey Gastored Mining Bee

Probably Gwynes Mining Bee

General comments	Active wasp nest in Walnut tree by Canons Farmhouse
Pheasant	1 m in Broadfield East
feral Rock Dove	c20
Red Kite	1
Common Buzzard	2
Skylark	7
Long-tailed Tit	1
Chaffinch	1 fem by Reads Rest Cottages
Linnet	40
Yellowhammer	2
Brimstone	10
Red Admiral	3

Red tailed Bumblebee by Outwood Lane Pond

Red Kite

Stock Dove	2 singing; 1 between Harholt/Hillwood field, 1 by Parsons Land
Woodpigeon	c60+ flock over Banstead Woods
Moorhen	1 Outwood Lane Pond
Red Kite	2 together over Holly Lane Car Park 13:37, probably the same two over Chipstead Valley 16:35
Common Buzzard	3
Green Woodpecker	2 singing in Harholt
Kestrel	1 over lower Hither field
Chiffchaff	1 singing in Harholt
Blackcap	1 singing in copse between Outwood Lane Pond/ Holly Lane Car Park
Song Thrush	1 singing in Lower Hither field near the mobile tower
Greenfinch	1 calling by Outwood Lane Pond
Rabbit	c14

Mistle Thrush	1 by the Scouts Car Park
Goldfinch	c10 by the Scouts Car Park

"Twigs"

General comments	Chiffchaff and Siskins have arrived
Tawny Owl	1 Male
Chiffchaff	3 Two singing
Long-tailed Tit	2
Nuthatch	2
Treecreeper	1

Siskin 3

Lesser black backed Gulls

Comma

General comments	Holly Wood now has locked gates erected east & west ends.
Canada Goose	Geese heard from Holly Wood 13:23
Mallard	2;,high over Burgh Heath Pond/ Heathside field
Black-headed Gull	3
Herring Gull	1
Lesser Black-backed Gull	2 together in Doric field 16:00
Red Kite	3
Common Buzzard	2
Great Spotted Woodpecker	1 in Holly Wood
Green Woodpecker	3; 1 drumming in Holly Wood, 1 calling in Canons Wood, 1 in Stoney Nob
Coal Tit	1 Holly Wood
Long-tailed Tit	4
Goldcrest	1
Nuthatch	1 singing in Holly Wood
Starling	2 Heathside field
Mistle Thrush	1 in Round Meadow
Song Thrush	3 singing
Meadow Pipit	3 over Perrotts by Wood
Chaffinch	1
Greenfinch	2 in Heathside field
Linnet	1 singing by Watchpoint
Brimstone	c12-all males
Comma	4
Peacock	2

Red Kite	2; 1 flew E over Banstead Woods 10:47am, 1 flew W 16:22
Brimstone	c17 - all males
Comma	1
Peacock	4

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