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I welcome your news  and if you send me a short e mail including species seen, where and when I will add it to the Wildlife News page which is updated more or less daily.  Depending on the space available I may or may not include references to common species in the weekly Nature Notes.

 

To see news for the week ending        Mar 3rd    Mar 10th    Mar 24th

 

Birds    Butterflies & Insects    Wild flowers      Other Wildlife

 

Birds

 

A mandarin duck was on the pond on Pigeon House Lane Purbrook on 25th.

 

There were 7 eider in the regular Sandy Point group on 26th.

 

A female goosander on the river at Titchfield Haven on 26th.

 

An Arctic skua flew east past Hill Head and Hayling bay on 26th.

 

There were 3 great northern divers in Hayling Bay on 26th. 

 

 

 

 

Nine sand martins were seen over Titchfield village on 25th.

 

Fire and gold crests were seen together at Warblington cemetery on 26th.

 

 

 

Wild flowers

Green alkanet is in flower on Portsdown and on the Billy Trail at Langstone.

 

 

 

Butterflies and other insects

 

 

Butterflies seen in the woodland around Titchfield Haven included 7 Peacocks, 4 Brimstones (all male), 2 Commas and a small unidentified white one that flitted by very quickly.

 

 

 

 

Other Wildlife

 

A badger continued to visit a Portsdown garden this week appearing as early as 1930 on 26th.

 

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

  

 

 

 


 



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