SE Nature Notes for w/e 13th March
15 March 2010
HAVANT HAYLING & EMSWORTH
A male Dartford warbler was seen 100m south of the entrance to Sinah Warren on Monday.
Common storksbill was in flower on Broadmarsh on Wednesday and an escaped canary was flying around here on Thursday.
There were 7 lapwings on the Gypsy Plain site on Friday where they have bred in the last couple of years.
Mediterranean gulls have been very obvious on the oyster beds lagoon all this week with at least 114 there on Friday.
Three great northern divers, 2 other unidentified divers and 2 common scoters were in Hayling Bay on Saturday.
FAREHAM AND GOSPORT
A kingfisher was fishing for around 10 minutes on Workhouse Lake Gosport on Wednesday.
A marsh harrier was seen from the Titchfield Haven Canal Path on Thursday. Along the path firecrests and chiffchaffs have been seen.
A bittern has been showing well at the Meadow Hide at Titchfield Haven for those with the patience to wait for it to appear.
Saturday's birds at Titchfield Haven included 14 avocets, 176 golden plovers, a ring-tailed hen harrier which was also seen from the Meadow Hide. Offshore there were the usual velvet scoters plus common scoters, a Slavonian grebe and great northern divers. The hen harrier was showing well for observers on the Canal Path on Sunday.
PORTSMOUTH & PORTSDOWN
Coltsfoot is flowering on Portsdown and on the IBM site at North harbour.
At the IBM site a gadwall was un unusual sighting on 9th & 11th March.
Brimstone butterflies have appeared in a Cosham and a Portsdown garden this week.
The Cosham garden also had a small tortoiseshell early in the week. Frog activity in the latter garden has produced around 78 clumps of frogspawn and has attracted a grey heron to the Portsdown garden.
Blackcaps on Portsdown have just learnt how to get meal worms out of a feeding cage.
WATERLOOVILLE AND SOUTH DOWNS
A black redstart was seen at Butser Hill Radio Station on Monday. Skylarks and meadow pipits were also about.
A walk north from Denmead on Saturday produced plenty of buzzards and skylarks and at least 6 yellowhammers.
A Wildlife Trust Meeting in Portsmouth
The new Forest & the new National
Parks - Wildlife & People.
Wednesday 24th March at 7.30 p.m.
Speaker: Clive Chatters Chairman of the
New Forest Park Authority
Portsmouth University, New St Michaels
Building Lecture Theatre SM1.01
Admission £2.50
Details available from Andrew Powling 023 9225 8457 .
