Canons Farm & Banstead Woods Birds

Red Kite 'thermalling' with a Common Buzzard

King Alfreds Cake (Daldinia concentrica)

Fragile Dapperling (Leucocoprinus fragillssimus)

Red Kite	1 circled with Common Buzzards
Common Buzzard	2
Raven	1 flew S

Good close view of male Firecrest and Treecreaper in Tawny Wood

Purple Jellydisc

Mica Caps

Turkey Tail Mushrooms

General comments

Weather very mild - still 2 Buff-tailed Bumblebees observed on the wing

Woodpigeon	2 flocks of c60+ from N 10:25, large no.s headed back N from noon after gamekeeper shootings
Black-headed Gull	c11
Herring Gull	3
Sparrowhawk	1 fem
Common Buzzard	2
Chiffchaff	1 flew into Outwood Lane Pond reeds
Long-tailed Tit	2
Goldcrest	6
Firecrest	1
Wren	1 flew into Outwood Lane Pond reeds
Redwing	5
Pied Wagtail	1 landed by the Clock tower near the Scouts huts 14:20
Goldfinch	c21 over the scouts complex
Common Darter	c5 m & 1 fem “very tiny specimens” may have recently emerged. Also fully grown pair mating over Outwood Lane Pond

Jelly Ear

Turkey Tail

Unidentified

Candlesnuff Fungus

Sparrowhawk	1
Great Spotted Woodpecker	3
Green Woodpecker	1
Raven	1
Skylark	150 Approximately, several flocks
Starling	20+
Stonechat	1 Perrots
Meadow Pipit	1
Chaffinch	25 Approximately in IFGF
Greenfinch	2 Reeds Cottages
Linnet	200+
Goldfinch	12

Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporous Sulphureus)

Common Dog Violet (Viola Riviniana)

Stinking Iris (Iris Foetidissima)

Hoof Fungus (Fomes fomentarius) & Common Brittlestem (Candolleomyces candolleomyces)

Sparrowhawk	1 in the Nuttery
Common Buzzard	1
Jackdaw	40+ Hither fields
Raven	1
Chiffchaff	1 in Hither field
Long-tailed Tit	2
Goldcrest	4
Redwing	40+ over The Nuttery/ Outwood Lane
Meadow Pipit	1
Chaffinch	1
Goldfinch	3

Mid-afternoon, a spell of mild, wet weather.

Pheasant	2 (Cocks fighting, Perrotts barn)
Kestrel	1 (Male, flew from Broadfield East into Field Maple tree on Reads Rest Lane near Lunch Wood)
Great Tit	3
Long-tailed Tit	5

Wood Ear Fungus (Auricularia auricula-judae)

Herring Gull	3
Red Kite	3; two flew NE at 10:24 & 12:04, 1 circled Lunch Wood 13:10
Common Buzzard	1
Peregrine	1 flew from Buzzard field west towards Can Hatch field 12:47
Long-tailed Tit	4
Goldcrest	2; Pages Acre
Nuthatch	1; Pages Acre
Fieldfare	4 in Broadfields
Chaffinch	3 by Read Rest Cottages
Linnet	100+ Doric
Goldfinch	1

Red Kite	1
Common Buzzard	1
Peregrine	1 Hunting, flew fast and low over IFGF
Goldcrest	1

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