S E Nature Notes w/e 10th April
12 April 2010
Portsmouth & Portsdown
A Dartford warbler was at Fort Cumberland open space on Sunday.
A small white appeared in a Cosham garden on Monday.
By Tuesday sedge warblers and wheatears had arrived at Farlington Marshes. There were also 4 whimbrel on the RSPB Islands and an osprey was fishing in the harbour before flying north high over Purbrook.
Butterflies on Portsdown on Tuesday included peacocks, commas, brimstones, red admirals and single small tortoiseshell and speckled woods.
There were 7 purple sandpipers at Southsea Castle on Wednesday.
At Milton Reclamation a yellow wagtail was seen on Wednesday. Other birds in the area included sand martins, swallows, 4 Cetti's warblers, 4 willow warblers, common whitethroat and a sedge warbler.
Hairy violets are now in flower all over Portsdown.
Havant hayling & Emsworth
A beefly was seen on Sunday 4th
Swallows were seen over the Budds Farm pools and Hayling Island and sand martins over the Sinah gravel pit on Monday.
A firecrest was in the trees at the end of Southmoor Lane on Tuesday.
Little egrets are back in the trees behind Langstone Pond and may be preparing to nest.
There were 160 Mediterranean gulls and an osprey at Mill Rythe on Monday.
On Tuesday rue-leaved saxifrage in the East Pallant at Havant had flowers. Other flowers this week include snake's head fritillary on a grass patch behind the north bound bust stop at Langstone; green alkanet and yellow corydalis in a Havant garden; marsh marigold in a pond close to Brockhampton Road; English scurvy grass by the stream at Maismore Gardens.
Nine wheatears were seen at Gunner Point on Wednesday afternoon.
A white wagtail was seen on the South Moors sea wall on Thursday. A pale-bellied Brent goose has been showing in the harbour off Southmoors this week.
A cuckoo was on Sinah Common on Thursday morning.
Kestrels were seen mating in a Rowlands Castle garden on Friday.
A grass snake was seen in a garden pond on the Main Rd in Emsworth on Friday.
Fareham and Gosport
An osprey flew west over Fareham on Monday.
Green veined white and green hairstreak butterflies were seen at Browndown Gosport on Thursday. The following day 78 butterflies of various species were seen in the area.
On Sunday 11th a marsh harrier was at Titchfield Haven.
Waterlooville and South Downs
On Chalton Down buttercups, cowslips and various coloured violets are in flower.
RED KITES & RAVENS
These have been seen in an number of locations which I will not list in case they are breeding.
