8th May

Weather: ESE f2-3, sunny, dry and hot.

(Banstead Woods)
1 Hobby; circling over The Scrub 11:14 (93rd species this year)
4 Common Whitethroats; 1 HLM, 2 Valley Mdws, 1 S Woodpecker Mdw
c23 Blackcaps (all singing)
c19 Chiffchaffs ( all singing)
c12 Stock Doves
4 Common Buzzards
2 Kestrels: 1 HLM, 1 Hither
6 Nuthatch
4 Treecreeper
3 Mallards; all males on Piddly
2 Mistle Thrushes; Orchard area
2 Bullfinch; The Scrub
4 Jay
4 Green Woodpecker
6 Long Tailed Tits
1 GSWoodpecker

c40+ Brimstones
2 Orange Tips
3 Large Whites
3 Small Whites
5 Speckled Woods
3 Peacocks
3 Red Admirals
3 Green Hairstreaks; 1 S Woodpecker Mdw, 2 Sheep Brow

30+ Dingy Sipper (Fames Rough)
c12 Dingy Skippers; Sheep Brow
2 Grizzled Skippers; Sheep Brow
1 Small Copper; Hither
1 Holly Blue; Hither
4 Burnet Companion moths; Sheep Brow


Observers: Darragh Culley, Paul Goodman, Ian Magness, Ian Ward