Other Wildlife

From Croydon Birders

Contents 1 Sightings of Other Wildlife - 2010 & 2011 2 May 2011 3 April 2011 4 March 2011 5 February 2011 6 January 2011 7 December 2010

Sightings of Other Wildlife - 2010 & 2011

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 2009 can now be found here - Other Wildlife 2009

May 2011

• 2nd - Sanderstead Plantation: muntjac heard. (JB)
• 2nd - Selsdon Park: four roe deer. (JB)
• 2nd - Kings Wood: 1 Roe Deer. (JB)
• 1st- Pollards Hill S.-Large Red Damselfly sunning on garden Hostas _No pond! (MJN)

April 2011

• 25th - South Norwood Lake (11am): unusual collection of coccinellids on one small alder shoot at edge of lake - 3x 2-spot; 1x 7-spot; 2x 14-spot; 1x 22-spot (plus the inevitable hoard of Haxys!) (Gavin Hawgood)
• 22nd - Addington Hills : Many swarms of Green Longhorn moths dancing in the morning sunshine particularly around newly-opened leaves of birch and mountain ash (John Parish)
• 18th - Whitehorse Meadows, SE25 (2pm): 1 teneral Large Red Damselfly near pond (Gavin Hawgood)
• 17th-Old Farleigh Road-Comma,Brimstone,Peacock,Sml.Tort. Holly Blue -1 Fox
• 11th-Pollards Hill S.-1 Speckled wood.1 Green veined white.2 Holly Blue (MJN)
• 10th - Biggin Wood: orange tip, speckled wood (London Birders - R Bell)
• 10th - South Norwood Lake (11am): 5 Speckled Wood & 1 Comma butterflies (Gavin Hawgood)
• 7th-Pollards Hill South-2 Holly Blue, 3 Orange tip (males),1 Comma (MJN)
• 7th - South Norwood Country Park: 15:00-16:10hrs, c10 Orange Tip, 4 Peacock, 1 Holly Blue, 2 Small White Butterflies, (John Watson)
• 7th- South Norwood Lake 2 Peacock Butterfly,(John Watson)
• 6th - Park Hill Park & Chepstow Rise : Holly Blues on the wing (John Parish)
• 6th - South Norwood Lake (10am): first male Orange Tip this year, plus Small White & first Large Red-tailed bumblebee (queen)(Gavin Hawgood)
• 6th - Brimstone Butterfly in back garden 13.00hrs (Terry Osborn)
• 5th - Hutchinson's Bank: Small Quaker moth (John Parish)
• 3rd - South Norwood Lake: first Small T'shell & Small White this year (Gavin Hawgood)
• 2nd - Addington Hills: 1 m Brimstone Butterfly (Ernie Thomason)

March 2011

• 29th - Waddon Ponds: Around 40 Frogs & toads ready to sprawing (Ernie Thomason)
• 29th - Hutchinsons Bank: Slow-worm (moribund). (John Parish)
• 29th - South Norwood CP at dusk: 3+ pipistrelle sp by lake with 2 slightly larger bats hawking over the open water about 15 feet above surface (too high up for Daubentons, too small for Noctule, which are the other bat species I have seen here in the past). (JB)
• 26th - Selsdon Park: 3 Roe deer (2m & 1f). (JB)
• 26th - Sanderstead Plantation: fresh molehills. (JB)
• 26th - Addington (beside Kent Gate Way): fresh molehills. (JB)
• 24th - Hutchinsons Bank: Brimstones, Commas, Peacocks and Small Tortoiseshells, all am (John Parish)
• 23rd - Kingswood: 1 pair m&f Roe deer browsing on vegetation close to Kingswood Lane (Ernie Thomason)
• 22nd - Waddon Ponds: (6:30pm-7:00pm) 2-3 pipistrelle 45htz bats feeding above main lake and grass area.(Ernie Thomason)
• 22nd - South Norwood Lake (11am): 2 Comma butterflies feeding on willow catkins (Gavin Hawgood)
• 21nd - Waddon Ponds: (6:30pm-7:00pm) 2-3 pipistrelle 45htz bats feeding above main lake and grass area.(Ernie Thomason)
• 21st- Pollards Hill S.-1 small Tortoishell sunning on garden daffs (MJN)
• 21st - Pittville Gardens, SE25 (7pm): 1 Common Pipistrelle flying along railway embankment (Gavin Hawgood)
• 19th - Sanderstead (Briton Hill Road): male Brimstone along laurel hedge opposite (my usual location for a first of the year) and a 7spot ladybird and bumblebee (presumed buff-tailed) in the garden. (JB)
• 19th - Riddlesdown: Extremely close encounter with a badger. While retying bootlaces and watching a pair of foxes chasing each other, a badger dashed out of the undergrowth and ran about six inches behind me having presumably taken a slight detour to avoid hitting me. (JB)
• 15th - Whitehorse Meadow, SE25 (11am): <50 spawning Common Frogs in small pond (Gavin Hawgood)
• 12th - South Norwood Lake area (10.30am): 1 male Brimstone butterfly (Gavin Hawgood)
• 9th - South Norwood Lake (9am): queen Tree Bee (Bombus hypnorum) nectaring on Willow (Salix caprea) - an early-emerging, new to UK species that has been colonising the south-east, particularly London, in only the last 4 years (Gavin Hawgood)
• 6th - Shirley Park Golf Course : Frog spawn in the pond - probably about enough to fill 2-3 buckets! (John Parish)

February 2011

• 27th - South Norwood Lake: Queen Bombus pratorum (the Early Bumblebee) nectaring on flowering exotic near main entrance (Gavin Hawgood)
• 24th-Old Farleigh Road (14.30)Brimstone (MJN)
• 24th - Ashburton Park: 1 Red Admiral Butterfly (Ernie Thomason)
• 24th - South Norwood CP: Bumblebee (not specifically identified) (JB)
• 24th - Near New Addington: 2 Roe Deer (JB)
• 21st-Old Farleigh Road-2 Roe deer feeding on umbifels in garden.One smaller with budding 2" antlers the larger With c.6" antlers (MJN)
• 16th - Old Farleigh Road (between Selsdon Wood & Golf Club)-3 dead Badgers at various points (MJN)
• 16th - South Norwood Lake (10am) (9degC): Buff-tailed Bumblebee queen nectaring on flowering mahonia sp. (Gavin Hawgood)
• 14th - South Norwood Lake (11am): First for year queen Buff-tailed Bumblebee (B. terrestris)in flight (Gavin Hawgood)

January 2011

• 9th - Coulsdon Common, small moth flying over frosty field (no idea of species); Happy Valley - molehills. (JB)
• 2nd -Old Farleigh Road-Fox at bird table (MJN)

December 2010

NB only selected records from Old Farleigh Road added - Roe deer also present on other dates during month.

• 30th - molehills in Sanderstead Plantation and alongside Kent Gate Way (Addington). (JB)
• 29th-Old Farleigh Road-1f.Roe deer in garden eating blackberry leaves (MJN)
• 27th - Selsdon Park GC. 'Foot'prints in the snow of Badger, Roe Deer, Fox and Grey Squirrel (Only mammals actually seen were Grey Squirrels). (JB)
• 22nd - Old Farleigh Road: 3F Roe deer eating yew near house (MN)
• 22nd - Old Farleigh Road: 2F Roe deer eating blackberry leaves. (MN)
• 21st - Old Farleigh Road: 3F Roe deer in garden - yew tree browsed to a height of three feet. (MN)
• 20th - Old Farleigh Road: 1F and 1juv Roe deer eating yew. (MN)