OW2012

From Croydon Birders

Contents 1 June 2012 2 May 2012 3 April 2012 4 March 2012 5 February 2012 6 January 2012

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)