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== <font color=blue>Sightings of Other Wildlife - 2009</font> ==
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== <font color=blue>Sightings of Other Wildlife</font> ==
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Use this page to record sightings of species other than birds that may be of interest to others.
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Use this page to record sightings of species other than birds that may be of interest to others. Please note that records submitted to this website will be shared with the RSPB Croydon Local Group and may also be submittted to the London Natural History Society wildlife recorders. Do not post records on this website unless you are happy for them to be shared with the other organisations mentioned here.
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== <font color=red>December 2009</font> ==
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Because of the great efforts put in once again by all our local recorders, archived sightings for previous years can now be found via the - [[Archive|Link to Archive]]
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* 6th  South Norwood Lake area: 3 Buff-tailed Bumblebee queens feeding at under 10C (Gavin Hawgood)
 
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* 5th. Evidence of mole activity in Sanderstead Plantation. (JB)
 
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== <font color=red>November 2009</font> ==
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==April 2013==
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* 15th - Chapel Bank : Two Red Admirals on the wing. (John Parish)
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* 21st - South Norwood Lake (am): 1 Comma; 1 queen Red-tailed (''B. lapidarius'') & sev Buff-tailed Bumblebees; 2 Bee Flies on leaf litter (GH/JW)
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* 7th - painted lady butterfly in Briton Hill Road then another at Therapia Lane tramstop. (John Birkett)
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* 20th - South Norwood Lake (am): 1 Comma on bramble, 2 queen Tree (Bumble)Bees feeding on willow, c5 queen Buff-tailed bumblebees foraging & 2 Bee Flies on leaf litter (GH/JW)
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* 14th - South Norwood Lake (early pm): 2 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Comma & 1 Peacock b'flies, plus 1st 2013 Bee Fly (''Bombylius major'') sighting (GH)
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* 14th - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (11am): 1 male Brimstone through (GH)
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* 13th - South Norwood Lake (early pm): 2 (prob queen) Tree Bees (''B. hypnorum'') nectaring on goat willow (GH)
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* 8th - Sanderstead: melanic form of 2-spot ladybird in Briton Hill Road. (JB)
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* 8th - South Norwood Lake (pm): 6 Queen Buff-tailed Bumblebees, 2 male Drone (Hover)flies & 1 male Comma, all basking on leaf litter (GH)
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* 7th - Sanderstead: male brimstone butterfly in garden at Briton Hill Road. (JB)
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== <font color=red>October 2009</font> ==
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== March 2013 ==
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* 29th - Selsdon Park.  3 Roe deer. (John Birkett)
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* 26th - Addington Hills: Several clumps of Common Frog spawn in the remnants of an old pond (currently holding water - quite a rare event) within the ancient wood pasture area near Oaks Road (John Parish).
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* 27th - South Norwood Lake: 1 Painted Lady (Gavin Hawgood per John Watson)
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* 5th - Hutchinsons Bank: 6+ Brimstone, 3+ Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Comma, 1 Peacock during workday (John Parish)
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* 27th - Harlequin in Briton Hill Road. (John Birkett)
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* 5th - Sanderstead: at least one (probably two) male Bristone butterfly in Briton Hill Road garden (first of the year). (JB)
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* 25th - Whitehorse Meadow, SE25: Long-winged Conehead bush crickets "singing", plus 2x queen ''Bombus terrestris'' (buff-tailed bumblebees) (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 5th - South Norwood Lake (early pm): first butterflies of the year - 2 Commas basking on bramble (GH)
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* 25th - Selsdon Wood - Speckled Wood (Ted Forsyth)
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* 3rd - South Norwood Lake (10am): 1 prob Wood mouse foraging in dead leaves (JW/GH)
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* 14th - Report in Evening Standard of an albino squirrel in a 'South Croydon park'; one suggestion is that this refers to one known to be in Selsdon Wood. (posted by John Birkett)
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* 10th - Pittville Gardens, SE25: 2pm - very localised "swarm" (<40) of emerging Harlequin Ladybirds (all 4 common varieties represented) (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 4th - South Norwood Lake (1pm): 2 very fresh-looking Speckled Woods (3rd, possibly 4th?, brood) (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 1st - two bats (pipistrelles?) flew direct over Beechwood Road, Sanderstead at 19:05 (John Birkett)
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== <font color=red>September 2009</font> ==
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== February 2013 ==
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* 29th - South Norwood CP.  Two bats feeding over lake near Elmers End Road at dusk.  From size appeared to be pipistrelles, but cannot say if common or soprano. (John Birkett)
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* 28th - Riddlesdown: Roebuck in velvet. (JB)
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* 20th - Hutchinson's Bank - Adult common lizard (Ted Forsyth)
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* 28th - Kings Wood: molehills galore. (JB)
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* 16th - Hutchinson's Bank - Young slow-worm  (Ted Forsyth)
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* 12th - Sanderstead (Briton Hill Road): Fresh holes in the lawn and paw prints in the snow show we had an overnight visit from a badger. (JB)
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* 13th - fresh mole hills in Sanderstead Plantation (John Birkett)
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* 10th - Waddon Ponds: Fox. (JB)
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* 11th - South Norwood Lake: 1 hour evening bat "watch" produced Common & Soprano Pipistrelle, Daubenton's, Noctule, Leisler's & Nathusius' bats. Best bat site in Borough by some way (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 8th - Fryston Ave Common Pipistrelle Bat. (Peter Phillips)
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* 8th - South Norwood CP.  One migrant hawker. (John Birkett)
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* 5th - Painted Lady repeatedly visiting same buddleia in Briton Hill Road during day. (John Birkett)
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== <font color=red>August 2009</font> ==
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== January 2013 ==
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* 30th - South Norwood Lake: male ''Volucella zonaria'' Hoverfly (Hornet mimic) (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 31st - Sanderstead (Briton Hill Road): Buff-tailed Bumblebee. (JB)
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* 27th - Selwood Road, Addiscombe: Red Admiral on buddleia (per local resident Chas Gent) (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 23rd - Pollards Hill South: 2 foxes together foraging among bird food (MJN)
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* 27th - Lloyd Park: a female Wasp Spider 'Argiope bruennichi' in the long grass area near the allotments. (John Parish).
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* 4th & 5th - South Norwood Lake (10.30am): 1 Queen Buff-tailed bumblebee busily feeding on ''Mahonia'' bush (overcast, 9°C)(GH)
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* 23rd - Pittville Gardens, SE25: yet another Jersey Tiger moth ((var ''lutescens'') (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 1st - South Norwood Lake (10am): 1 Buff-tailed Bumblebee worker feeding on ''Mahonia'' bush (4°C), indicating active nest nearby (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 10th - Chepstow Rise, 23:00 hrs. Red-legged Shieldbug 'Pentatoma rufipes' on our front door. (John Parish).
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* 9th - Selwood Road, Addiscombe: Hummingbird Hawk-moth (per local resident Chas Gent) (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 9th - Hutchinson's Bank - Two Clouded Yellows (four reported by Martin Wills) (Ted Forsyth)
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* 9th - Pittville Gardens, SE25: Jersey Tiger (var ''lutescens'') & Red Underwing moth (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 2nd - Pittville Gardens, SE25: Jersey Tiger moth (colour of hindwing not visible) resting on window sill for at least 6 hours this am (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 2nd - Hutchinsons & Chapel Banks : Butterflies:- large white, small white, clouded yellow (one in field behind Three-corner Grove), brimstone, white-letter hairstreak (one nectaring on marjoram by pipeline on Chapel), small copper, common blue, peacock, painted lady, comma, meadow brown, gatekeeper, ringlet, speckled wood, small skipper, large skipper. Moths:- six-spot burnet, lesser treble-bar, latticed heath, silver-Y. (John Parish)
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== <font color=red>July 2009</font> ==
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== December 2012 ==
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* 28th - South Norwood Lake area: Jersey Tiger moth (red hindwing variety) "flushed" from bramble (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 28th - Brickfields Meadow. Painted Lady. (John Birkett)
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* 26th - at least four Southern Hawker exuviae on small garden pond in Briton Hill Road. (John Birkett)
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* 23rd - Addiscombe Road - Jersey Tiger moth seen at close quarters while we waited at a bus stop this am - it landed on my knee! (John Parish)
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* 22nd - Addington Hills - About 4 Purple Hairstreaks seen around one of the oaks this am - a first for me at this site. (John Parish)
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* 19th-Pollards Hill S-1 small Skipper, 1 Gatekeeper, new Peacock
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* 19th - Hutchinsons & Chapel Banks - Butterflies: Large White, Small White, Green-veined White, Brimstone, Small Copper, Brown Argus, Common Blue, Peacock, Painted Lady, Comma, Silver-washed Fritillary, Marbled White, Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Ringlet, Small Heath, Speckled Wood, Small Skipper, Essex Skipper. One moth identified: Shaded Broad Bar. One dragonfly: Brown Hawker. Also two Roebucks and a doe in the set-aside field. (John Parish)
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* 18th - garden in Sanderstead - Comma chased by a Gatekeeper, also Meadow Brown and Large White. (John Birkett)
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* 16th - Lloyd Park - Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Ringlet, Speckled Wood, Purple Hairstreak and Large Skipper all on the wing by 0815 (John Parish) 
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* 12th - Whitehorse Meadows: 1 Marbled White (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 3rd-Pollards Hill-Purple hairstreak on 2 consecutive days drinking at paddling pool overspill (Mike Netherwood0
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* 3rd - South Norwood CP - Small tortoiseshell (my first for a while) and Comma butterflies.  (John Birkett)
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== <font color=red>June 2009</font> ==
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* 27th - South Norwood Lake (early pm): 1 Buff-tailed Bumblebee worker feeding on ''Mahonia'' bush (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 15th - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (3.45pm): totally unexpected ''Pipistrelle'' bat (probably Common Pip) circling at tree level in back garden (8°C) (should be in hibernation!) (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 11th - South Norwood Lake (am): 2 queen & 1 worker Buff-tailed Bumblebees foraging on lake-side ''Mahonia'' bush at barely above-freezing temperatures (GH/JW)
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* 5th - South Norwood Lake (am): very fresh-looking queen Buff-tailed bumblebee collecting pollen from flowering ''Mahonia'' in spite of snowy conditions (2°C) (GH/JW)
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* 3rd - South Norwood Lake (am): Buff-tailed queen & worker bumblebee on flowering ''Mahonia'' shrub (GH/JW)
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* 29th June - Selsdon Wood.  Total of 381 Pyramidal orchids, approx half in the car park field. Marbled White, Large White, Comma, White Admiral, Large Skippers, Meadow Browns, Ringlets, Speckled Wood.  (Ted Forsyth)
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== November 2012 ==
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* 27th June - South Norwood Lake: Purple Hairstreak (3 males), early for this species (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 27th June - Riddlesdown.  Meadow browns abundant.  At least 6 marbled white butterflies in various fields.  (John Birkett)
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* 24th June - Selsdon Wood. 1 female White admiral feeding on bramble, 1 Small skipper, 1 bright orange comma, 1 Speckled wood, several Meadow browns butterflies. 7 spot ladybirds, 1 possible Southern hawker dragonfly.(Ernie Thomason)
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* 23rd June - Selsdon Wood. 2 female White admiral on bramble near near Bird Pool area. 1 possible Common Blue buterfiles (Ernie Thomason)
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* 23rd June - Heavers Meadow.  1 bright orange Comma butterfly, 2 Large Skippers, 1 Red Admiral. ? Southern Hawker in Enmore Road, SE25. (John Birkett)
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* 22nd June - Lloyd Park: three newly-emerged Comma butterflies of the bright-orange 'hutchinsoni' form were noted, also Painted Lady, Small Tortoiseshell, Meadow Brown, Ringlet and Large Skipper. The single spike of Pyramidal Orchid noted in 2008 has now multiplied into a colony of at least ten spikes. (John Parish)
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* 21st June - South Norwood Lake: single Essex Skipper & small colony of Ringlets, plus male Broad-bodied Chaser (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 21st June - Heathfield: Two male Emperor Dragonflies disputing territory over the pond. (John Parish)
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* 21st June - Addington Hills: numerous Green Oak Tortrix moths were disturbed from the foliage of Oaks; several of the tiny wood-boring beetle 'Fan-bearing Wood-borer' (ptilinus pectinicornis) were emerging from their holes in a barkless patch on an Oak trunk, and a dense community of Peacock butterfly larvae was leaving its web on a nettle-bed. (John Parish)
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* 19th June - Live stag beetle near Park Hill water tower. (John Parish)
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* 16th June - blue tailed damselfly at Sanderstead Pond.  Also a damselfly larva in the pond. (John Birkett)
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* 15th June - Essex Skipper in my Court Hill garden in afternoon. (Piers Hubbard)
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* 15th June.  Dead stag beetle in Sanderstead Hill.  (John Birkett)
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* 14th June - Croydon Crematorium memorial ponds area: single males of Large Red, Blue-tailed & Common Blue Damselflies (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 14th June - Painted Ladies and cinnabar moths at New Addington.  7 Spot Ladybird on a No 64 bus from Addington to Selsdon - one of very few seen this year (ladybirds, not buses) John Birkett
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* 13th June - Painted Ladies in Church Way, Sanderstead. (John Birkett)
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* 13th June - Chapel Bank - Orchids - 50+ Man, Pyramidal, Common Spotted, Common Twayblade, Broad-leaved Helleborine, Violet Helleborine, White Helleborine (Ted Forsyth)
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* 13th June - Bull Pen, Riddlesdown - Bee Orchids (20+) and Pyramidal Orchids (loads). (Gill Flinn)
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* 7th June - Whitehorse Meadow pond - Several Common Blue Damselflies (in cop) & single male Large Red Damselfly (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 7th June - Whitehorse Meadow (SE25) - 1 male "Tree Bee" (Bombus hypnorum) on bramble (european species rapidly colonising Southern England, London in particular, since 2007). Already at SN Lake & could appear almost anywhere in Borough (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 2nd June - Hutchinsons & Chapel Banks - Butterflies: Large White, Small White, Green-veined White, Clouded Yellow, Brimstone, Green Hairstreak, Small Blue, Common Blue, Peacock, Red Admiral, Painted lady, Small Heath, Speckled Wood, Grizzled Skipper, Dingy Skipper, Large Skipper (John Parish).
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* 1st June - Lloyd Park (07:30) - Gathering of the longhorn moth 'Nemophora degeerella' dancing in the shade of a hawthorn clump (John Parish).
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== <font color=red>May 2009</font> ==
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* 29th - South Norwood Lake (am): Queen Carder Bumblebee (''Bombus pascuorum'') feeding on flowering lakeside ''Mahonia'' shrub (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 13th - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (late am): very fresh-looking & active Queen Buff-tailed Bumblebee (GH)
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* 6th - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (4.25pm): very active & visible Common Pipistrelle bat circling/feeding low over the garden for at least 20 mins (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 1st - South Norwood Lake (am): unexpectedly late record of the Hoverfly ''Myathropa florea'' (no vernacular name!) "sunbathing" on bramble leaf (GH/JW)
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* 31st May - Hutchinson's Bank - Female Clouded Yellow laying eggs (Ted Forsyth)
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* 28th May- South Norwood Lake 14 Painted Lady + c25 Painted Lady in front garden of house Kings Road se25(John Watson)
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* 26th May - Thornton Heath - At least 10 Painted Ladies feeding on the Valerian in my mother's back garden this pm. (Terry Osborn)
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* 25th May - Park Hill Park single Painted Lady (Ernie Thomason)
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* 25th May - Selsdon Wood single Painted Lady (Ernie Thomason)
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* 24th May - Chapel Bank - Brimstones, Peacocks, Orange Tips, Small Heaths, Painted Ladies, Common Blues, Small Copper (Ted Forsyth)
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* 24th May - Hutchinson's Bank - Small Blues, Common Blues, Grizzled and Dingy Skippers, Small Heaths, Painted Ladies, Comma, Peacock, Brimstone, Brown Argus, Orange Tip, both Green Hairstreak and Holly Blue laying eggs on Dogwood (Ted Forsyth)
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* 23rd May - Two lizards in a private garden in Beechwood Road, Sanderstead.  (per John Birkett)
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* 23rd May - Two Painted Ladies in my Court Hill garden, one allowed me to collect my camera to record it. (Piers Hubbard)
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* 22nd May - South Norwood Lake - previously very rare but now rapidly increasing "Tree Bee" (''Bombus hypnorum'') male on bramble (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 20th May - Farthing Downs - 8 Fly orchids (Ted Forsyth)
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* 20th May - Hutchinson's Bank - 2 Common Lizards (Ted Forsyth)
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* 17th May - Hutchinson's Bank - Glow-worm larva on path, 2 young Slow-worms under loose bark (Ted Forsyth)
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* 16th May - Selsdon Wood - Roe buck passing through vegetation at East Gorse (Ted Forsyth)
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* 16th May - Whitehorse Meadow pond (12pm) 1m & 1 teneral Blue-tailed Damselfly, plus 3m Large White butterflies (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 15th May - Selsdon Wood - White Helleborines discovered earlier this month now total 70 (Ted Forsyth)
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* 11th May - Hutchinson's Bank - Roe buck on bridleway, slow-worm rescued from path of a digger (Ted Forsyth)
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* 9th May - Roe deer again in Selsdon Park and at the end of Sanderstead Court Avenue.  (John Birkett)
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* 6th May - Hutchinsons & Chapel Banks. Butterfly Conservation guided walk. All 2nd May sightings again (except Red Admiral), plus Holly Blue, Large White, Small White, Small Heath. (John Parish).
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* 5th May - Hutchinson's Bank - adult slow-worm on path (Ted Forsyth)
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* 2nd May - Hutchinsons & Chapel Banks. Butterflies:- Green-veined White, Orange Tip, Brimstone, Green Hairstreak, Peacock, Red Admiral, Comma, Speckled Wood, Dingy Skipper and Grizzled Skipper. Also large numbers of St Mark's Fly. (John Parish).
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* 1st May - Shirley Park Golf Course (0600 hrs) Large numbers of the micromoth 'Cameraria ohridella' on the wing as soon as soon as the sun started to strike the horse chestnut trees (John Parish).
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== <font color=red>April 2009</font> ==
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* 27th - South Norwood Lake (am): 5 "Marmalade" & 4 ''Syrphus ribesii'' male hoverflies, plus 1 male Carder Bumblebee (GH/JW)
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* 28th April - Hutchinson's Bank - While six of us were waiting to begin work on the bridleway a fox walked 40 yards towards us and passed at a distance of 3 feet with just a brief glance (Ted Forsyth)
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* 25th - South Norwood Lake (am): 2 juv Nursery Web (Pisaura mirabilis) spiders (GH)
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* 26th April - Selsdon Wood - 100+ Early Purple orchids on three sites (Ted Forsyth)
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* 17th - Warminster/Avenue Road, South Norwood (am): Red Admiral circling area (GH/JW)
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* 26th April - Briton Hill Road 1 Holly Blue, 1 Large White, Small White, Orange Tip and Speckled Wood butterflies.  (John Birkett)
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* 15th - Warminster Road, South Norwood (am): Red Admiral flying through (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 25th April - South Norwood Lake (9pm onwards): up to 7 species of bat (details available from
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* 10th - South Norwood Lake & Lancaster Road, SE25 (am): single Red Admiral flying through at both sites (GH/JW)
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* 10th - Riddlesdown: 2 Roe deer in open by path at 09:30 - buck and doe.  (JB)
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* 24th April - Addington Hills (9pm): Common Pipistrelle bat (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 6th - Park Hill: 1 Badger feeding on scraps in Park Rangers yard (Ernie Thomason)
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* 24th April - 10 Speckled Wood, 6 Small White, 3 Orange Tip South Norwood Lake,(John Watson)
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* 8th - Millers Pond: smallest bat spp flying around possible Pip (Ernie Thomason)
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* 23rd April - 1 Red Admiral Kings Road SE25 (John Watson)
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* 9th - Park Hill : Pair of Badgers feeding on seeds left for birds in Park Rsngers Yard very approchable (Photos taken) (Ernie Thomason)
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* 22nd April - Brimstone, Small white, Speckled Wood Butterflies at Selsdon Wood (Ernest Thomason)
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* 21st April - 5+ Speckled Wood at Heavers Meadow. (John Birkett)
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* 20th April - Comma Butterfly, 1 fox with fur missing from part of tail at Selsdon Wood (Ernest Thomason)
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* 18th April - Roe deer doe in Ballards Way garden (Steve Irwin)
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* 15th April - Hutchinson's Bank - adult Common Lizard on log pile, 2 Speckled Wood, 4 male & 4 female Brimstone, 4 Peacock, 3 Comma, Red-tailed Bumblebee (Ted Forsyth)
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* 15th April - Chapel Bank - 5 male & 5 female Brimstone, 3 male Orange Tip, 2 speckled Wood, 3 Comma, 3 Peacock, 2 Small White (Ted Forsyth)
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* 13th April - (1pm) 2 Commas, 1 Peacock & 1 Speckled Wood at South Norwood Lake (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 4th April - 6+ brimstone (including at least 2 females) and 2 peacock butterflies at Croham Hurst. (John Birkett)
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* 2nd April -1 Holly Blue -Pollards Hill(Mike Netherwood)
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* 1st April - 6 Brimstone ,4 Peacock, 2 battling Commas, 1 orange tip Selsdon Woods (Mike Netherwood)
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== <font color=red>March 2009</font> ==
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* 29th March - 7 spot ladybird in Briton Hill Road (my first of year). (John Birkett)
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* 30th - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (am): Red Admiral straight through SW, plus 2 Small Whites (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 24th March - Markfield - Roe buck and doe at entrance to Baker Boy Lane 7.00am (Ted Forsyth)
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* 25th - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (pm): Red Admiral flitting around sycamore in my garden (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 22nd March - Markfield - 4 foxes feeding on the roundabout (Ted Forsyth)
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* 25th - South Norwood Lake (10am): 2 Red Admirals speeding SW through the trees; Long-winged Conehead bush crickets still "singing" (GH/JW)
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* 21st March - South Norwood Lake - queen Bombus pratorum (The Early Bumble Bee)(Gavin Hawgood)
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* 20th - Riddlesdown: one red admiral  - only butterfly seen there in an hour and a half. (JB)
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* 21st March - at least 8 roe deer in Selsdon Park.  Two foxes (one carrying a shoe). Also one buff tailed bumblebee. (John Birkett)
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* 9th - South Norwood Lake (am): 6 Small Whites, 1 Green-veined White, 1 Large White, 2 Commas, 3 Red Admirals, <12 Speckled Woods, plus larvae of The Cinnabar moth on Common Ragwort (GH/JW)
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* 20th March - Markfield - First Badger of the spring visiting the garden (Ted Forsyth)
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* 8th - Sanderstead: Holly blue in Briton Hill Road. (JB)
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* 15th March onwards - Common (45kHz) Pipistrelle bat (Pittville Gardens) (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 6th - South Norwood Lake (10am): 2 Small Whites, 1 Purple Hairstreak, 1 Comma, 2 Red Admirals & <12 Speckled Woods (GH/JW)
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* 15th March - 12 Brimstones, 6 Commas and 1 Peacock on Riddlsdown (Gill Flinn)
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* 5th - South Norwood Lake (early pm): good variety (<10 species) of Hoverfly, incl 2 'awesome' female ''Volucella zonaria'' (the 'Hornet' hoverfly) feeding together (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 15th March - Brimstone and buff tailed bumblebee in Sanderstead garden (John Birkett)
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* 5th - Norwood Junction Station, Pittville Gardens & South Norwood Lake (am): single Red Admiral at each location, plus 25 Speckled Woods, 6 Small Whites, 3 Large Whites and 1 Meadow Brown at the Lake (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 15th March - 3 Common frogs in garden pond (Simon Harris)
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* 4th - Sanderstead: Migrant hawker dragonfly in Briton Hill Road. (JB)
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* 15th March - Roe doe in Selsdon Wood near Old Farleigh Road (Ted Forsyth)
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* 2nd - Belvedere Road, SE19 (borough boundary with Bromley)(pm): Jersey Tiger (orange variety) (Gavin Hawgood)
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== <font color=red>February 2009</font> ==
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== August 2012 ==
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* 28th February - Roe deer in Sanderstead Plantation (John Birkett)
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* 31st - South Norwood Lake area (10am): at least 30 Speckled Woods, 1 Red Admiral, 3 Small Whites, 1 Holly Blue & 3 Meadow Browns (GH/JW)
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* 27th February - Roe buck and four does in Puplet Wood (Ted Forsyth)
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* 30th - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (12pm): 2 Jersey Tigers (orange variety) flying around the garden (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 5th February (approx) - Badger running along pavement then disappearing into a garden, Melville Avenue, South Croydon (Alan Pearson)
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* 29th - South Norwood Lake area (10 - 11.30am): 3 Small Whites, 1 Purple Hairstreak, 3 Gatekeepers, <20 Speckled Woods, 5 Meadow Browns, 2 Red Admirals, plus several larva of the Cinnabar moth (GH/JW)
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* 24th - South Norwood Lake area (10am): 1 Jersey Tiger (orange variety), Tree Bumblebee (queen) and ''Volucella inanis'', ''Volucella bombylans'' and ''Myathropa florea'' hoverflies (no english names unfortunately!) (GH/JW)
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* 22nd - Fryston Ave.Bat Poss.Pipistrelle.(P Phillips)
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* 23rd - South Norwood Lake area (10am): 3 Small White, 3 Purple Hairstreak, 1 Holly Blue, 1 Gatekeeper, 20+ Speckled Wood & 1 Red Admiral (22nd) butterflies (GH/JW)
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* 21st - South Norwood Lake area (10.15am): probable male The Vapourer moth flying at speed along woodland edge (GH/JW)
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* 18th - South Norwood Country Park (Pitch & Putt course): Honey Bees nest in Poplar Tree, Large White, Comma, Red Admiral Butterflies.(Ernie Thomason)
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* 17th - Heathfield Car park: Possible Hawker/Emperor Dragonfly Spp (Ernie Thomason)
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* 17th - Park Hill (Park Rangers Yard) Jersey Tiger (orange) again flew past & Possible Hawker/Emperor Dragonfly Spp (Ernie Thomason)
 +
* 16th - South Norwood Country Park: Jersey Moth (orange), Large White, Emperor Dragonfly (JAH)
 +
* 15th - Park Hill (Park Rangers Yard): 1 Jersey Tiger (orange variety) on Virgina creeper on walled garden (Ernie Thomason)
 +
* 15th - South Norwood Lake: (09:40hrs) 2 Jersey Tiger, (orange variety) c20 Gate Keeper 2 Common Darter  (John Watson)
 +
* 15th - Warminster Road SE25,(08:45hrs) 2 Jersey Tiger (orange variety) (John Watson)
 +
* 13th - Goat House Bridge area, South Norwood (early pm): 3 separate Jersey Tigers (orange variety) "flushed" in space of 5 mins' walking (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 12th - Park Hill (Park Rangers Yard): 1 Jersey Tiger flushed (Ernie Thomason)
 +
* 10th - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (10am): Group of 5 Jersey Tigers (all orange variety) flying around/settling in the back garden (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 6th - Warminster Road SE25,(08:50hrs) Jersey Tiger (orange variety) (John Watson)
 +
* 4th - Stambourne Woodland Walk, Upper Norwood (am): 2 male Tree Bees ''B. hypnorum'' (a new-to-Britain species) feeding on bramble, plus Carder & Buff-tailed b/bees (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 3rd - Lloyd Park,Pond,Common Darter,Broad-bodied Chaser,Emperor Dragonfly.(P Phillips)
 +
* 3rd - Whitehorse Meadow, South Norwood (am): masses of Small, Green-veined & Large Whites, Gatekeepers & Meadow Browns, plus a sprinkling of Holly Blues (2), Small Skippers (2), Speckled Woods (1) & 6-spot Burnets (2); still no vanessid b/flies though (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 3rd - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (early am): first 2012 Jersey Tiger (orange variety) for this neck of the woods (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 1st - Addiscombe :Badger crossing Fryston Ave 10pm (Ernie Thomason)
 +
 
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== July 2012 ==
 +
 
 +
* 30th - Addington Hills (0745): Pair (or at any rate a couple) of Roe Deer disturbed "in cop". Having read recently in John Wyatt's classic "The Shining Levels" about the damage the stilletto-sharp antlers of a roebuck can inflict, I didn't linger when this little fellow, angry at being interrupted (who wouldn't be?!), spotted me standing 30m away and gave a few warning barks in my direction! (John Parish)  
 +
* 30th - South Norwood Lake (am): Small White (2), Holly Blue (1), Small Copper (1), Speckled Wood (1), Gatekeeper (<20) & Meadow Brown (6) (GH/JW)
 +
* 29th - Selsdon Wood: Male Roe Deer crossed grass Car park before disappering along path towards 2nd field. (Ernie Thomason)
 +
* 29th - South Norwood Lake (am): Large Skipper (1m), Large White (1), Small White (3), Green-veined White (1), Purple Hairstreak (1), Comma (1), Red Admiral (1), Speckled Wood (8), Gatekeeper (<20) & Meadow Brown (5) (GH/JW)
 +
* 26th - Fryston Ave. Jersey Tiger Moth.Purple Hairstreak.(P Phillips)
 +
* 26th - The Ridgeway, Waddon: Holly Blue. (JB)
 +
* 26th - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (3pm): single '''White-letter Hairstreak''' landed on a leaf of mature sycamore in back garden (excellent views through binoculars); also impressive nos. of Holly Blues, Common Blues and the 3 regular Whites. Marked absence of any of the vanessids, Skippers, Gatekeepers, Meadow Browns & Speckled Woods (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 25th - South Norwood Lake (9pm - 11pm): Noctule, Daubenton's, Common & Soprano pipistrelle bats recorded during this month's London Bat Group's Monthly Transect Survey (Meike Weiser, John Watson & Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 22nd - South Norwood Lake:(am) 2 Purple Hairstreak 1 Gatekeeper,(John Watson)
 +
* 21st - Sanderstead (Briton Hill Road): 2-spot ladybird and broad bodied chaser. (JB)
 +
* 19th - Riddlesdown: 3+  Marbled Whites, good numbers of Ringlet and Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, 1 Red admiral, 1 Speckled wood, 1 Small/Essex skipper. (JB)
 +
* 17th - Shirley Hills.new site for Marbled White (P Phillips)
 +
* 12th - South Norwood Country Park: 2 Ringlet (JAH)
 +
* 12th - South Norwood Lake (am): 2 Red Admiral, <10 Ringlet, 2 Large Skipper, 4 Meadow Brown, 1 Speckled Wood & 1 Small White butterflies (GH/JW)
 +
* 11th - Croydon Crematorium, Thornton Heath (early pm): the tiny "memorial pond" produced at least 5 Common, Azure (1pr ovipositing) & Blue-tailed damselflies in a 5-minute survey (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 11th - Croydon Crematorium area, Thornton Heath (late am/early pm): my 1st (of 2) annual WCBS butterfly count produced surprisingly good results (given the current ridiculous weather conditions!), incl 17 Ringlets, 2 Commas & 20+ Large/Small/Essex Skippers (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 10th - Whitehorse Meadow (late am): c30 Meadow Browns (mostly fem), 1 m Large Skipper & 1 Speckled Wood, plus pair of Common Blue damselflies in tandem/ovipositing and a cracking female ''Volucella zonaria'', the largest UK hoverfly (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 8th - Millers Pond: Stag Beetle flying around main gate (Ernie Thomason)
 +
* 5th - Sanderstead Pond: Male emperor dragonfly (JB)
 +
* 5th - South Norwood Lake (am): 12 Ringlet, 1 Comma, 2 Large Skipper, 1 Meadow Brown butterflies, 1 Silver Y moth, 1 f Common Blue damselfly & lots of Meadow Grasshoppers (GH)
 +
* 1st - South Norwood Lake (am): 4 Ringlet, 1 m Large Skipper, 1 f Meadow Brown & 4 Speckled Wood butterflies (Gavin Hawgood / John Watson)
 +
 
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== <font color=red>June 2012</font> ==
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* 30th - Sanderstead (Briton Hill Road): 'blue' damselfly and large red damselfly in garden. Also an unidentified small bush cricket. (JB)
 +
* 28th - South Norwood Lake (am): 1 Ringlet, 3 Speckled Wood, 1 Large Skipper & 1 Small White butterfly, plus 1 male Common Blue damselfly (Gavin Hawgood / John Watson)
 +
* 27th - South Norwood CP: At least six terrapins basking in the sun.  Several 'blue' damselflies. (JB)
 +
* 23rd - Addington Hills: Painted Lady (on dog faeces). (John Parish)
 +
* 23rd - Lloyd Park : Roe Deer (doe); Common Blue, Meadow Brown, Large Skipper; Pyramidal Orchid (at least 12 spikes in usual patch). (John Parish)
 +
* 22nd - Park Hill: One Badger walking along driveway up to Coombe Cliff House. (Ernie Thomason).
 +
* 21st - Park Hill: Poss Pipestelle Bat around Park rangers office. (Ernie Thomason).
 +
* 19th - South Norwood Lake (10am): 2 newly-emerged male Common Blue Damselflies (away from water), 1 male Large Skipper & 3 Speckled Wood butterflies and 1 male ("singing") Field Grasshopper (Gavin Hawgood / John Watson)
 +
* 19th - Sanderstead: 22-spot ladybird on teasel in garden, in company with a Harlequin ladybird and at least two Harlequin larvae. (JB)
 +
* 13th - Lloyd Park (am): one Roebuck flushed. In spite of the morning sunshine, a single Speckled Wood was the only butterfly seen. (John Parish)
 +
* 6th - Croydon Crematorium, Thornton Heath (11.30am): 3 Large Red and 10 Azure Damselflies (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 4th - Whitehorse Meadow, South Norwood (12pm): 2 Silver Y & 2 Burnet Companion moths and 1 Speckled Wood, 1 Large White & 3 Small White butterflies (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 1st - South Norwood Lake (early pm): 1 Lesser Stag Beetle & male Tree, Early, Buff-tailed & Carder bumblebees now appearing in reasonable numbers on flowering bramble (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
 
 +
== <font color=red>May 2012</font> ==
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 +
* 30th - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (5pm): totally unexpected mature male '''Beautiful Demoiselle''' (''Calopteryx virgo'') damselfly giving extended binocular views on my garden sycamore (Gavin Hawgood) (duly reported to British Dragonfly Society (BDS) & LNHS Recorder Neil Anderson)
 +
* 28th - South Norwood Lake (10am): 1 Red Admiral, c10 Speckled Wood & 2 Small White butterflies (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 28th - Addington Hills: Small Heath (c10). (John Parish)
 +
* 27th - Lloyd Park: a small colony of Dock Bug (''Coreus marginatus'')[a leatherbug sp]; also 16-spot Ladybird (''Tytthaspis 16-punctata''). (John Parish)
 +
* 27th - South Norwood Lake (1pm): 2 queen Southern Cuckoo (''B. vestalis'') & sev Tree (''B. hypnorum'') bumblebees, plus 2 teneral female Azure damselflies on blossoming bramble (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 27th - South Norwood Lake (10am): very fresh female Broad-bodied Chaser d'fly away from water on bramble (JW photo) (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 26th - South Norwood Lake (am): 1 Peacock, 1m 1f Orange Tip, 1 Sm White, 1 Holly Blue & 6 Speckled Wood butterflies (Gavin Hawgood / John Watson)
 +
* 25th - South Norwood Lake (10.30am): 1 Large White, 1 Red Admiral (both 2012 SNL firsts), plus 3 Holly Blue, 1m Orange Tip & 3 Speckled Woods (Gavin Hawgood / John Watson)
 +
* 24th - South Norwood Lake (12pm): my 1st sighting (anywhere) of '''2-spot ladybird''' this year. Has anyone else seen examples of this increasingly rare ladybird? (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 24th - South Norwood Lake (12-1.30pm): 3 Sm White, 2 Holly Blue, 2m 1f Orange Tip & 1 f Brimstone, but NO Speckled Wood butterflies (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 24th - South Norwood Lake (12-1.30pm): monthly BCCT Bee Walk produced unexpectedly few queen/worker specimens of Buff-tailed, Large Red-tailed, White-tailed, Tree, Carder & Early Bumblebees (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 23rd - Millers Pond: Male Stag Beetle flying around Wochester Close entrance (Ernie Thomason)
 +
* 12th - Hutchinsons & Chapel Bank reserves (Ted's bird walk) : Common Lizard & 2 Slow Worms; Orange Tip, Brimstone, Green Hairstreak, Small Copper, Holly Blue, Common Blue, Peacock, Small Heath, Speckled Wood, Grizzled and Dingy Skippers. (John Parish)
 +
* 11th - South Norwood Lake (11am): 2 Speckled Wood & 1 m Orange Tip (JW photo); Tree (first this year) & Buff-tailed bumblebee workers feeding on Ceanothus (Gavin Hawgood & John Watson)
 +
* 10th - South Norwood Lake (am): Early & Buff-tailed Bumblebee workers on Ceanothus (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 8th - Lloyd Park (in pm sunshine): Small White, Orange Tip, Holly Blue, Peacock, Comma, Speckled Wood. (John Parish)
 +
* 3rd - Melville Avenue, South Croydon: Badger crossed road in front of our car and disappeared into a garden; the first I've seen here for a year or two. 9.45pm. (Alan Pearson)
 +
* 1st - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (4pm): Red Fox vixen with 3 cubs basking in the late afternoon sunshine (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 1st - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (pm): 4 Holly Blue & 1 Small White butterflies (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 1st - Queen's Road Cemetery, North Croydon (12.30pm): 1 Holly Blue, 2 Small White, 1 m Brimstone & 1 m Orange Tip butterflies (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
 
 +
== <font color=red>April 2012</font> ==
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* 30th - South Norwood Lake (10.30am): 2 fem Orange Tip, 3 Small White butterflies; several Large Red-tailed (worker), Carder & Buff-tailed (queen) Bumblebees (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 27th - South Norwood Lake (8 - 9.30pm): the annual public bat walk produced at least 7 species of bat, some in unbelievable numbers - definitely '''the''' place for bats in the Borough, if not south London itself (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 22nd - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (am): 2 m Brimstone, 1 m Orange Tip, 5 Speckled Wood & 5 Small White butterflies in 15 mins viewing (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 20th - Whitehorse Meadow, South Norwood (10am): 7 Small White, 2m Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue & 1 Speckled Wood butterflies (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 16th - Pittville Gardens, SE25 (8.30pm): Common (45kHz) Pipistrelle feeding in garden & rly embankment area (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 16th - South Norwood Lake (10am): 1m Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue, plus Carder, Buff-tailed & Large Red-tailed Bumblebees (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 12th - Heavers Meadow, SE25 (4pm): 4 Speckled Wood (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 11th - Pittville Gardens, SE25 (pm): 1m/1f Orange Tip, 1 m Brimstone, 1 Holly Blue, 1 Small White (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 10th - South Norwood Lake (12pm): 2 m Orange Tips & 1 Speckled Wood (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 6th - South Norwood Lake (1pm): 4 Speckled Wood and 2 Small White butterflies, plus queen Large Red-tailed Bumblebee (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 3rd - South Norwood Lake (early pm): queen Carder, Large Red-tailed & Buff-tailed Bumblebees about, but no butterflies seen at all (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 2nd - Millers Ponds; Small bat flying around possible Pipstelle Spp (Ernest Thomason)
 +
* 2nd - Pittville Gardens, SE25 (am): 1 Holly Blue, 1 Green-veined White (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 2nd - Sanderstead (Briton Hill Road): Orange Tip, Holly Blue, Bee fly (JB)
 +
* 1st - Pittville Gardens, SE25 (pm): 1 Small White, 1 Comma & 1 Speckled Wood (Gavin Hawgood)
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== <font color=red>March 2012</font> ==
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* 29th - South Norwood Country Park: Orange Tip, Small Tortoiseshell, Green-veined White, 2 Speckled Wood (JAH)
 +
* 29th - Sanderstead: Bee fly, plus various bee species in garden. (JB)
 +
* 29th - South Norwood Lake (late am): 3 Speckled Wood, 4 Peacock & 1 Small White butterflies, plus first sighting this year of Harlequin ladybirds (2) amongst many 7-spots (mostly on nettle) (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 28th - South Norwood CP - small white amd a 7-spot ladybird. (JB)
 +
* 28th - Brickfields Meadow: 2 speckled woods and a small white. (JB)
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* 28th - Pittville Gardens, SE25 (pm): Brimstone, Small White & Comma (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 28th - South Norwood Lake (10am): Speckled Wood (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 27th - Lloyd Park. Small Tortoiseshell Brimstone.(P Phillips)
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* 27th - Fryston Ave.Small White.Peacock.(P Phillips)
 +
* 26th - Fryston Ave. Brimstone,Holly Blue.Orange Tip.Speckled Wood.(P Phillips)
 +
* 23rd - South Norwood Lake: Brimstone,Peacock. (Ernie Thomason)
 +
* 23rd - South Norwood Country Park: Brimstone, Small White (JAH)
 +
* 22nd - Sanderstead: first Brimstone in the garden this year. (JB)
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* 21st - South Norwood Lake (11.30): stunning male Brimstone, so-called Marmalade (Hover)Fly, and ''Bombus sylvestris'' (Forest Cuckoo bumblebee) (unusually early for a cuckoo species) (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 21st - South Norwood Country Park: Holly Blue (JAH)
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* 20th - South Norwood Country Park: Speckled Wood (really early!) (JAH)
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* 20th - Pittville Gardens, SE25 (5.30pm): First Holly Blue of the year (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 20th - South Norwood Lake (12pm): Comma, first for year Large Red-tailed Bumblebee and Early Mining Bee ''Andrena haemorrhoa'' (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 19th - Whitehorse Meadows (12.15): Red Admiral, Bee Fly & queen Large Red-tailed Bumblebee (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 19th - South Norwood Lake (11am): 2 Commas, 1 Small White, Bee Fly ''Bombilius major'' and Carder Bee ''Bombus pascuorum'' (all 1st sighting for year) (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 18th - South Norwood Lake (late am): first for year fem Hairy-footed Flower bee ''Anthophora plumipes'' basking on leaf litter, and several queen Tree Bees ''Bombus hypnorum'' feeding on Goat Willow (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 15th - Sanderstead Plantation: Brimstone (JB)
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* 15th - South Norwood Country Park: Comma, Red Admiral (JAH)
 +
* 15th - South Norwood Lake (am): <10 queen Buff-tailed Bumblebees feeding on Goat Willow catkins (Gavin Hawgood)
 +
* 14th - Pittville Gardens, SE25 (2pm): Pine Ladybird in open porch area of house (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 12th - South Norwood Country Park: 2 Red Admirals (JAH)
 +
* 11th - Fryston Ave. Brimstone (P Phillips)
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* 11th - Lloyd Park Comma (P Phillips)
 +
* 11th - Lloyd Park: two weasels active among the beech trees at 07:30 (John Parish).
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== <font color=red>February 2012</font> ==
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* awaits records
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== <font color=red>January 2012</font> ==
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* 29th - Lloyd Park. Red Admiral (P Phillips)
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* 11th - Addington Hills: Wood Mouse scuttling around in leaf litter, Red Admiral on the wing at 10:30 (John Parish)
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* 9th - South Norwood Lake: Single small bat species posible Pip flying around near Bowling Green above path from 16:25 - 16:30hrs (Ernie Thomason)
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* 7th - Sanderstead Plantation: frsh molehills. (JB)
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* 7th - Kings Wood, Sanderstead: fresh molehills. (JB)
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* 2nd - South Norwood Lake (10.30am): extremely late/early? female Drone (Hover)Fly (''Eristalis tenax'') basking on dead leaf (5C max)  (Gavin Hawgood)
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* 1st - South Norwood Lake (11am): several Buff-tailed Bumblebees feeding on lake-side mahonia (Gavin Hawgood)

Current revision as of 10:33, 21 April 2013

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Sightings of Other Wildlife

Use this page to record sightings of species other than birds that may be of interest to others. Please note that records submitted to this website will be shared with the RSPB Croydon Local Group and may also be submittted to the London Natural History Society wildlife recorders. Do not post records on this website unless you are happy for them to be shared with the other organisations mentioned here.

Because of the great efforts put in once again by all our local recorders, archived sightings for previous years can now be found via the - Link to Archive


April 2013

  • 21st - South Norwood Lake (am): 1 Comma; 1 queen Red-tailed (B. lapidarius) & sev Buff-tailed Bumblebees; 2 Bee Flies on leaf litter (GH/JW)
  • 20th - South Norwood Lake (am): 1 Comma on bramble, 2 queen Tree (Bumble)Bees feeding on willow, c5 queen Buff-tailed bumblebees foraging & 2 Bee Flies on leaf litter (GH/JW)
  • 14th - South Norwood Lake (early pm): 2 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Comma & 1 Peacock b'flies, plus 1st 2013 Bee Fly (Bombylius major) sighting (GH)
  • 14th - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (11am): 1 male Brimstone through (GH)
  • 13th - South Norwood Lake (early pm): 2 (prob queen) Tree Bees (B. hypnorum) nectaring on goat willow (GH)
  • 8th - Sanderstead: melanic form of 2-spot ladybird in Briton Hill Road. (JB)
  • 8th - South Norwood Lake (pm): 6 Queen Buff-tailed Bumblebees, 2 male Drone (Hover)flies & 1 male Comma, all basking on leaf litter (GH)
  • 7th - Sanderstead: male brimstone butterfly in garden at Briton Hill Road. (JB)

March 2013

  • 26th - Addington Hills: Several clumps of Common Frog spawn in the remnants of an old pond (currently holding water - quite a rare event) within the ancient wood pasture area near Oaks Road (John Parish).
  • 5th - Hutchinsons Bank: 6+ Brimstone, 3+ Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Comma, 1 Peacock during workday (John Parish)
  • 5th - Sanderstead: at least one (probably two) male Bristone butterfly in Briton Hill Road garden (first of the year). (JB)
  • 5th - South Norwood Lake (early pm): first butterflies of the year - 2 Commas basking on bramble (GH)
  • 3rd - South Norwood Lake (10am): 1 prob Wood mouse foraging in dead leaves (JW/GH)

February 2013

  • 28th - Riddlesdown: Roebuck in velvet. (JB)
  • 28th - Kings Wood: molehills galore. (JB)
  • 12th - Sanderstead (Briton Hill Road): Fresh holes in the lawn and paw prints in the snow show we had an overnight visit from a badger. (JB)
  • 10th - Waddon Ponds: Fox. (JB)

January 2013

  • 31st - Sanderstead (Briton Hill Road): Buff-tailed Bumblebee. (JB)
  • 23rd - Pollards Hill South: 2 foxes together foraging among bird food (MJN)
  • 4th & 5th - South Norwood Lake (10.30am): 1 Queen Buff-tailed bumblebee busily feeding on Mahonia bush (overcast, 9°C)(GH)
  • 1st - South Norwood Lake (10am): 1 Buff-tailed Bumblebee worker feeding on Mahonia bush (4°C), indicating active nest nearby (Gavin Hawgood)

December 2012

  • 27th - South Norwood Lake (early pm): 1 Buff-tailed Bumblebee worker feeding on Mahonia bush (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 15th - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (3.45pm): totally unexpected Pipistrelle bat (probably Common Pip) circling at tree level in back garden (8°C) (should be in hibernation!) (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 11th - South Norwood Lake (am): 2 queen & 1 worker Buff-tailed Bumblebees foraging on lake-side Mahonia bush at barely above-freezing temperatures (GH/JW)
  • 5th - South Norwood Lake (am): very fresh-looking queen Buff-tailed bumblebee collecting pollen from flowering Mahonia in spite of snowy conditions (2°C) (GH/JW)
  • 3rd - South Norwood Lake (am): Buff-tailed queen & worker bumblebee on flowering Mahonia shrub (GH/JW)

November 2012

  • 29th - South Norwood Lake (am): Queen Carder Bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum) feeding on flowering lakeside Mahonia shrub (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 13th - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (late am): very fresh-looking & active Queen Buff-tailed Bumblebee (GH)
  • 6th - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (4.25pm): very active & visible Common Pipistrelle bat circling/feeding low over the garden for at least 20 mins (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 1st - South Norwood Lake (am): unexpectedly late record of the Hoverfly Myathropa florea (no vernacular name!) "sunbathing" on bramble leaf (GH/JW)

October 2012

  • 27th - South Norwood Lake (am): 5 "Marmalade" & 4 Syrphus ribesii male hoverflies, plus 1 male Carder Bumblebee (GH/JW)
  • 25th - South Norwood Lake (am): 2 juv Nursery Web (Pisaura mirabilis) spiders (GH)
  • 17th - Warminster/Avenue Road, South Norwood (am): Red Admiral circling area (GH/JW)
  • 15th - Warminster Road, South Norwood (am): Red Admiral flying through (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 10th - South Norwood Lake & Lancaster Road, SE25 (am): single Red Admiral flying through at both sites (GH/JW)
  • 10th - Riddlesdown: 2 Roe deer in open by path at 09:30 - buck and doe. (JB)
  • 6th - Park Hill: 1 Badger feeding on scraps in Park Rangers yard (Ernie Thomason)
  • 8th - Millers Pond: smallest bat spp flying around possible Pip (Ernie Thomason)
  • 9th - Park Hill : Pair of Badgers feeding on seeds left for birds in Park Rsngers Yard very approchable (Photos taken) (Ernie Thomason)

September 2012

  • 30th - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (am): Red Admiral straight through SW, plus 2 Small Whites (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 25th - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (pm): Red Admiral flitting around sycamore in my garden (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 25th - South Norwood Lake (10am): 2 Red Admirals speeding SW through the trees; Long-winged Conehead bush crickets still "singing" (GH/JW)
  • 20th - Riddlesdown: one red admiral - only butterfly seen there in an hour and a half. (JB)
  • 9th - South Norwood Lake (am): 6 Small Whites, 1 Green-veined White, 1 Large White, 2 Commas, 3 Red Admirals, <12 Speckled Woods, plus larvae of The Cinnabar moth on Common Ragwort (GH/JW)
  • 8th - Sanderstead: Holly blue in Briton Hill Road. (JB)
  • 6th - South Norwood Lake (10am): 2 Small Whites, 1 Purple Hairstreak, 1 Comma, 2 Red Admirals & <12 Speckled Woods (GH/JW)
  • 5th - South Norwood Lake (early pm): good variety (<10 species) of Hoverfly, incl 2 'awesome' female Volucella zonaria (the 'Hornet' hoverfly) feeding together (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 5th - Norwood Junction Station, Pittville Gardens & South Norwood Lake (am): single Red Admiral at each location, plus 25 Speckled Woods, 6 Small Whites, 3 Large Whites and 1 Meadow Brown at the Lake (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 4th - Sanderstead: Migrant hawker dragonfly in Briton Hill Road. (JB)
  • 2nd - Belvedere Road, SE19 (borough boundary with Bromley)(pm): Jersey Tiger (orange variety) (Gavin Hawgood)

August 2012

  • 31st - South Norwood Lake area (10am): at least 30 Speckled Woods, 1 Red Admiral, 3 Small Whites, 1 Holly Blue & 3 Meadow Browns (GH/JW)
  • 30th - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (12pm): 2 Jersey Tigers (orange variety) flying around the garden (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 29th - South Norwood Lake area (10 - 11.30am): 3 Small Whites, 1 Purple Hairstreak, 3 Gatekeepers, <20 Speckled Woods, 5 Meadow Browns, 2 Red Admirals, plus several larva of the Cinnabar moth (GH/JW)
  • 24th - South Norwood Lake area (10am): 1 Jersey Tiger (orange variety), Tree Bumblebee (queen) and Volucella inanis, Volucella bombylans and Myathropa florea hoverflies (no english names unfortunately!) (GH/JW)
  • 22nd - Fryston Ave.Bat Poss.Pipistrelle.(P Phillips)
  • 23rd - South Norwood Lake area (10am): 3 Small White, 3 Purple Hairstreak, 1 Holly Blue, 1 Gatekeeper, 20+ Speckled Wood & 1 Red Admiral (22nd) butterflies (GH/JW)
  • 21st - South Norwood Lake area (10.15am): probable male The Vapourer moth flying at speed along woodland edge (GH/JW)
  • 18th - South Norwood Country Park (Pitch & Putt course): Honey Bees nest in Poplar Tree, Large White, Comma, Red Admiral Butterflies.(Ernie Thomason)
  • 17th - Heathfield Car park: Possible Hawker/Emperor Dragonfly Spp (Ernie Thomason)
  • 17th - Park Hill (Park Rangers Yard) Jersey Tiger (orange) again flew past & Possible Hawker/Emperor Dragonfly Spp (Ernie Thomason)
  • 16th - South Norwood Country Park: Jersey Moth (orange), Large White, Emperor Dragonfly (JAH)
  • 15th - Park Hill (Park Rangers Yard): 1 Jersey Tiger (orange variety) on Virgina creeper on walled garden (Ernie Thomason)
  • 15th - South Norwood Lake: (09:40hrs) 2 Jersey Tiger, (orange variety) c20 Gate Keeper 2 Common Darter (John Watson)
  • 15th - Warminster Road SE25,(08:45hrs) 2 Jersey Tiger (orange variety) (John Watson)
  • 13th - Goat House Bridge area, South Norwood (early pm): 3 separate Jersey Tigers (orange variety) "flushed" in space of 5 mins' walking (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 12th - Park Hill (Park Rangers Yard): 1 Jersey Tiger flushed (Ernie Thomason)
  • 10th - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (10am): Group of 5 Jersey Tigers (all orange variety) flying around/settling in the back garden (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 6th - Warminster Road SE25,(08:50hrs) Jersey Tiger (orange variety) (John Watson)
  • 4th - Stambourne Woodland Walk, Upper Norwood (am): 2 male Tree Bees B. hypnorum (a new-to-Britain species) feeding on bramble, plus Carder & Buff-tailed b/bees (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 3rd - Lloyd Park,Pond,Common Darter,Broad-bodied Chaser,Emperor Dragonfly.(P Phillips)
  • 3rd - Whitehorse Meadow, South Norwood (am): masses of Small, Green-veined & Large Whites, Gatekeepers & Meadow Browns, plus a sprinkling of Holly Blues (2), Small Skippers (2), Speckled Woods (1) & 6-spot Burnets (2); still no vanessid b/flies though (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 3rd - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (early am): first 2012 Jersey Tiger (orange variety) for this neck of the woods (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 1st - Addiscombe :Badger crossing Fryston Ave 10pm (Ernie Thomason)

July 2012

  • 30th - Addington Hills (0745): Pair (or at any rate a couple) of Roe Deer disturbed "in cop". Having read recently in John Wyatt's classic "The Shining Levels" about the damage the stilletto-sharp antlers of a roebuck can inflict, I didn't linger when this little fellow, angry at being interrupted (who wouldn't be?!), spotted me standing 30m away and gave a few warning barks in my direction! (John Parish)
  • 30th - South Norwood Lake (am): Small White (2), Holly Blue (1), Small Copper (1), Speckled Wood (1), Gatekeeper (<20) & Meadow Brown (6) (GH/JW)
  • 29th - Selsdon Wood: Male Roe Deer crossed grass Car park before disappering along path towards 2nd field. (Ernie Thomason)
  • 29th - South Norwood Lake (am): Large Skipper (1m), Large White (1), Small White (3), Green-veined White (1), Purple Hairstreak (1), Comma (1), Red Admiral (1), Speckled Wood (8), Gatekeeper (<20) & Meadow Brown (5) (GH/JW)
  • 26th - Fryston Ave. Jersey Tiger Moth.Purple Hairstreak.(P Phillips)
  • 26th - The Ridgeway, Waddon: Holly Blue. (JB)
  • 26th - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (3pm): single White-letter Hairstreak landed on a leaf of mature sycamore in back garden (excellent views through binoculars); also impressive nos. of Holly Blues, Common Blues and the 3 regular Whites. Marked absence of any of the vanessids, Skippers, Gatekeepers, Meadow Browns & Speckled Woods (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 25th - South Norwood Lake (9pm - 11pm): Noctule, Daubenton's, Common & Soprano pipistrelle bats recorded during this month's London Bat Group's Monthly Transect Survey (Meike Weiser, John Watson & Gavin Hawgood)
  • 22nd - South Norwood Lake:(am) 2 Purple Hairstreak 1 Gatekeeper,(John Watson)
  • 21st - Sanderstead (Briton Hill Road): 2-spot ladybird and broad bodied chaser. (JB)
  • 19th - Riddlesdown: 3+ Marbled Whites, good numbers of Ringlet and Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, 1 Red admiral, 1 Speckled wood, 1 Small/Essex skipper. (JB)
  • 17th - Shirley Hills.new site for Marbled White (P Phillips)
  • 12th - South Norwood Country Park: 2 Ringlet (JAH)
  • 12th - South Norwood Lake (am): 2 Red Admiral, <10 Ringlet, 2 Large Skipper, 4 Meadow Brown, 1 Speckled Wood & 1 Small White butterflies (GH/JW)
  • 11th - Croydon Crematorium, Thornton Heath (early pm): the tiny "memorial pond" produced at least 5 Common, Azure (1pr ovipositing) & Blue-tailed damselflies in a 5-minute survey (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 11th - Croydon Crematorium area, Thornton Heath (late am/early pm): my 1st (of 2) annual WCBS butterfly count produced surprisingly good results (given the current ridiculous weather conditions!), incl 17 Ringlets, 2 Commas & 20+ Large/Small/Essex Skippers (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 10th - Whitehorse Meadow (late am): c30 Meadow Browns (mostly fem), 1 m Large Skipper & 1 Speckled Wood, plus pair of Common Blue damselflies in tandem/ovipositing and a cracking female Volucella zonaria, the largest UK hoverfly (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 8th - Millers Pond: Stag Beetle flying around main gate (Ernie Thomason)
  • 5th - Sanderstead Pond: Male emperor dragonfly (JB)
  • 5th - South Norwood Lake (am): 12 Ringlet, 1 Comma, 2 Large Skipper, 1 Meadow Brown butterflies, 1 Silver Y moth, 1 f Common Blue damselfly & lots of Meadow Grasshoppers (GH)
  • 1st - South Norwood Lake (am): 4 Ringlet, 1 m Large Skipper, 1 f Meadow Brown & 4 Speckled Wood butterflies (Gavin Hawgood / John Watson)

June 2012

  • 30th - Sanderstead (Briton Hill Road): 'blue' damselfly and large red damselfly in garden. Also an unidentified small bush cricket. (JB)
  • 28th - South Norwood Lake (am): 1 Ringlet, 3 Speckled Wood, 1 Large Skipper & 1 Small White butterfly, plus 1 male Common Blue damselfly (Gavin Hawgood / John Watson)
  • 27th - South Norwood CP: At least six terrapins basking in the sun. Several 'blue' damselflies. (JB)
  • 23rd - Addington Hills: Painted Lady (on dog faeces). (John Parish)
  • 23rd - Lloyd Park : Roe Deer (doe); Common Blue, Meadow Brown, Large Skipper; Pyramidal Orchid (at least 12 spikes in usual patch). (John Parish)
  • 22nd - Park Hill: One Badger walking along driveway up to Coombe Cliff House. (Ernie Thomason).
  • 21st - Park Hill: Poss Pipestelle Bat around Park rangers office. (Ernie Thomason).
  • 19th - South Norwood Lake (10am): 2 newly-emerged male Common Blue Damselflies (away from water), 1 male Large Skipper & 3 Speckled Wood butterflies and 1 male ("singing") Field Grasshopper (Gavin Hawgood / John Watson)
  • 19th - Sanderstead: 22-spot ladybird on teasel in garden, in company with a Harlequin ladybird and at least two Harlequin larvae. (JB)
  • 13th - Lloyd Park (am): one Roebuck flushed. In spite of the morning sunshine, a single Speckled Wood was the only butterfly seen. (John Parish)
  • 6th - Croydon Crematorium, Thornton Heath (11.30am): 3 Large Red and 10 Azure Damselflies (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 4th - Whitehorse Meadow, South Norwood (12pm): 2 Silver Y & 2 Burnet Companion moths and 1 Speckled Wood, 1 Large White & 3 Small White butterflies (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 1st - South Norwood Lake (early pm): 1 Lesser Stag Beetle & male Tree, Early, Buff-tailed & Carder bumblebees now appearing in reasonable numbers on flowering bramble (Gavin Hawgood)

May 2012

  • 30th - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (5pm): totally unexpected mature male Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) damselfly giving extended binocular views on my garden sycamore (Gavin Hawgood) (duly reported to British Dragonfly Society (BDS) & LNHS Recorder Neil Anderson)
  • 28th - South Norwood Lake (10am): 1 Red Admiral, c10 Speckled Wood & 2 Small White butterflies (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 28th - Addington Hills: Small Heath (c10). (John Parish)
  • 27th - Lloyd Park: a small colony of Dock Bug (Coreus marginatus)[a leatherbug sp]; also 16-spot Ladybird (Tytthaspis 16-punctata). (John Parish)
  • 27th - South Norwood Lake (1pm): 2 queen Southern Cuckoo (B. vestalis) & sev Tree (B. hypnorum) bumblebees, plus 2 teneral female Azure damselflies on blossoming bramble (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 27th - South Norwood Lake (10am): very fresh female Broad-bodied Chaser d'fly away from water on bramble (JW photo) (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 26th - South Norwood Lake (am): 1 Peacock, 1m 1f Orange Tip, 1 Sm White, 1 Holly Blue & 6 Speckled Wood butterflies (Gavin Hawgood / John Watson)
  • 25th - South Norwood Lake (10.30am): 1 Large White, 1 Red Admiral (both 2012 SNL firsts), plus 3 Holly Blue, 1m Orange Tip & 3 Speckled Woods (Gavin Hawgood / John Watson)
  • 24th - South Norwood Lake (12pm): my 1st sighting (anywhere) of 2-spot ladybird this year. Has anyone else seen examples of this increasingly rare ladybird? (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 24th - South Norwood Lake (12-1.30pm): 3 Sm White, 2 Holly Blue, 2m 1f Orange Tip & 1 f Brimstone, but NO Speckled Wood butterflies (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 24th - South Norwood Lake (12-1.30pm): monthly BCCT Bee Walk produced unexpectedly few queen/worker specimens of Buff-tailed, Large Red-tailed, White-tailed, Tree, Carder & Early Bumblebees (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 23rd - Millers Pond: Male Stag Beetle flying around Wochester Close entrance (Ernie Thomason)
  • 12th - Hutchinsons & Chapel Bank reserves (Ted's bird walk) : Common Lizard & 2 Slow Worms; Orange Tip, Brimstone, Green Hairstreak, Small Copper, Holly Blue, Common Blue, Peacock, Small Heath, Speckled Wood, Grizzled and Dingy Skippers. (John Parish)
  • 11th - South Norwood Lake (11am): 2 Speckled Wood & 1 m Orange Tip (JW photo); Tree (first this year) & Buff-tailed bumblebee workers feeding on Ceanothus (Gavin Hawgood & John Watson)
  • 10th - South Norwood Lake (am): Early & Buff-tailed Bumblebee workers on Ceanothus (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 8th - Lloyd Park (in pm sunshine): Small White, Orange Tip, Holly Blue, Peacock, Comma, Speckled Wood. (John Parish)
  • 3rd - Melville Avenue, South Croydon: Badger crossed road in front of our car and disappeared into a garden; the first I've seen here for a year or two. 9.45pm. (Alan Pearson)
  • 1st - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (4pm): Red Fox vixen with 3 cubs basking in the late afternoon sunshine (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 1st - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (pm): 4 Holly Blue & 1 Small White butterflies (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 1st - Queen's Road Cemetery, North Croydon (12.30pm): 1 Holly Blue, 2 Small White, 1 m Brimstone & 1 m Orange Tip butterflies (Gavin Hawgood)

April 2012

  • 30th - South Norwood Lake (10.30am): 2 fem Orange Tip, 3 Small White butterflies; several Large Red-tailed (worker), Carder & Buff-tailed (queen) Bumblebees (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 27th - South Norwood Lake (8 - 9.30pm): the annual public bat walk produced at least 7 species of bat, some in unbelievable numbers - definitely the place for bats in the Borough, if not south London itself (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 22nd - Pittville Gardens, South Norwood (am): 2 m Brimstone, 1 m Orange Tip, 5 Speckled Wood & 5 Small White butterflies in 15 mins viewing (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 20th - Whitehorse Meadow, South Norwood (10am): 7 Small White, 2m Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue & 1 Speckled Wood butterflies (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 16th - Pittville Gardens, SE25 (8.30pm): Common (45kHz) Pipistrelle feeding in garden & rly embankment area (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 16th - South Norwood Lake (10am): 1m Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue, plus Carder, Buff-tailed & Large Red-tailed Bumblebees (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 12th - Heavers Meadow, SE25 (4pm): 4 Speckled Wood (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 11th - Pittville Gardens, SE25 (pm): 1m/1f Orange Tip, 1 m Brimstone, 1 Holly Blue, 1 Small White (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 10th - South Norwood Lake (12pm): 2 m Orange Tips & 1 Speckled Wood (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 6th - South Norwood Lake (1pm): 4 Speckled Wood and 2 Small White butterflies, plus queen Large Red-tailed Bumblebee (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 3rd - South Norwood Lake (early pm): queen Carder, Large Red-tailed & Buff-tailed Bumblebees about, but no butterflies seen at all (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 2nd - Millers Ponds; Small bat flying around possible Pipstelle Spp (Ernest Thomason)
  • 2nd - Pittville Gardens, SE25 (am): 1 Holly Blue, 1 Green-veined White (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 2nd - Sanderstead (Briton Hill Road): Orange Tip, Holly Blue, Bee fly (JB)
  • 1st - Pittville Gardens, SE25 (pm): 1 Small White, 1 Comma & 1 Speckled Wood (Gavin Hawgood)

March 2012

  • 29th - South Norwood Country Park: Orange Tip, Small Tortoiseshell, Green-veined White, 2 Speckled Wood (JAH)
  • 29th - Sanderstead: Bee fly, plus various bee species in garden. (JB)
  • 29th - South Norwood Lake (late am): 3 Speckled Wood, 4 Peacock & 1 Small White butterflies, plus first sighting this year of Harlequin ladybirds (2) amongst many 7-spots (mostly on nettle) (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 28th - South Norwood CP - small white amd a 7-spot ladybird. (JB)
  • 28th - Brickfields Meadow: 2 speckled woods and a small white. (JB)
  • 28th - Pittville Gardens, SE25 (pm): Brimstone, Small White & Comma (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 28th - South Norwood Lake (10am): Speckled Wood (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 27th - Lloyd Park. Small Tortoiseshell Brimstone.(P Phillips)
  • 27th - Fryston Ave.Small White.Peacock.(P Phillips)
  • 26th - Fryston Ave. Brimstone,Holly Blue.Orange Tip.Speckled Wood.(P Phillips)
  • 23rd - South Norwood Lake: Brimstone,Peacock. (Ernie Thomason)
  • 23rd - South Norwood Country Park: Brimstone, Small White (JAH)
  • 22nd - Sanderstead: first Brimstone in the garden this year. (JB)
  • 21st - South Norwood Lake (11.30): stunning male Brimstone, so-called Marmalade (Hover)Fly, and Bombus sylvestris (Forest Cuckoo bumblebee) (unusually early for a cuckoo species) (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 21st - South Norwood Country Park: Holly Blue (JAH)
  • 20th - South Norwood Country Park: Speckled Wood (really early!) (JAH)
  • 20th - Pittville Gardens, SE25 (5.30pm): First Holly Blue of the year (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 20th - South Norwood Lake (12pm): Comma, first for year Large Red-tailed Bumblebee and Early Mining Bee Andrena haemorrhoa (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 19th - Whitehorse Meadows (12.15): Red Admiral, Bee Fly & queen Large Red-tailed Bumblebee (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 19th - South Norwood Lake (11am): 2 Commas, 1 Small White, Bee Fly Bombilius major and Carder Bee Bombus pascuorum (all 1st sighting for year) (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 18th - South Norwood Lake (late am): first for year fem Hairy-footed Flower bee Anthophora plumipes basking on leaf litter, and several queen Tree Bees Bombus hypnorum feeding on Goat Willow (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 15th - Sanderstead Plantation: Brimstone (JB)
  • 15th - South Norwood Country Park: Comma, Red Admiral (JAH)
  • 15th - South Norwood Lake (am): <10 queen Buff-tailed Bumblebees feeding on Goat Willow catkins (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 14th - Pittville Gardens, SE25 (2pm): Pine Ladybird in open porch area of house (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 12th - South Norwood Country Park: 2 Red Admirals (JAH)
  • 11th - Fryston Ave. Brimstone (P Phillips)
  • 11th - Lloyd Park Comma (P Phillips)
  • 11th - Lloyd Park: two weasels active among the beech trees at 07:30 (John Parish).

February 2012

  • awaits records

January 2012

  • 29th - Lloyd Park. Red Admiral (P Phillips)
  • 11th - Addington Hills: Wood Mouse scuttling around in leaf litter, Red Admiral on the wing at 10:30 (John Parish)
  • 9th - South Norwood Lake: Single small bat species posible Pip flying around near Bowling Green above path from 16:25 - 16:30hrs (Ernie Thomason)
  • 7th - Sanderstead Plantation: frsh molehills. (JB)
  • 7th - Kings Wood, Sanderstead: fresh molehills. (JB)
  • 2nd - South Norwood Lake (10.30am): extremely late/early? female Drone (Hover)Fly (Eristalis tenax) basking on dead leaf (5C max) (Gavin Hawgood)
  • 1st - South Norwood Lake (11am): several Buff-tailed Bumblebees feeding on lake-side mahonia (Gavin Hawgood)
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