SE Nature Notes w/e 5th Nov

Portsmouth & Portsdown

Albino squirrels were seen in Kingston Cemetery and Sandy Dell Purbrook on 31st.  There are reported to be 3 at the latter site!
A queen hornet was in a Portsdown bedroom on 1st and another was disturbed at Milton Locks NR on 5th.
Birds at Farlington Marshes this week included a greenshank, Dartford warbler, 5 avocets, a marsh harrier and 4 wheatears.
Over 200 turnstones were roosting on boats at Eastney on 1st.
Filed mushrooms and an old twig covered in cobalt crust fungus were found on Portsdown on 2nd.
A goldcrest was an unexpected find on Milton Common on 3rd.  Other birds present or off shore included 15 red-breasted mergansers, 41 black-tailed godwits, 2 Mediterranean gulls  and 27 lapwings.
Ten red-breasted mergansers were seen in Portsmouth Harbour on 4th.

Havant hayling & Emsworth

A ‘red-head’ goosander was on the Thorney Island Great Deeps on 29th and Nov 1st.
A flock of around 300 golden plovers was in the Emsworth Channel off the Great Deeps and around 180 black-tailed godwits in the Emsworth area on 30th.
Sandwich terns have been seen this week off Mill Rythe and Eastney (1st); Portsmouth Harbour and Milton shore (3rd); and Northney on 6th.
A female long-tailed duck was still on the lagoons at Budds Farm on 6th in spite of having been seen to fly into the harbour on 5th.
Birds at Northney on 4th included single chiffchaff,  whimbrel, greenshank and bullfinch. A Mediterranean gull, whimbrel and 25 bar-tailed godwits  were there on 6th.
An adult male black-brant (the American version of Brent Goose) was at Mill Rythe with a female dark-bellied and 4 juveniles on 5th.  On the same day a female common scoter seen near Gutner Point moved off in the Mill Rythe direction.
At Sinah Warren lesser redpolls, chiffchaffs and 3 bullfinches were seen on 5th.
A firecrest was photographed in Nore Barn Woods on 5th.
Four black redstarts were on the Hayling Island sea front on 5th and a wryneck  was on the public slipway at the north end of Nutbourne Road on 5th and 6th.
Shaggy parasols and field mushrooms were found at Broadmarsh on 4th while a Havant garden had parrot and snowy waxcaps, apricot club, pink domecap fungi.

Fareham and Gosport

A black redstart  was seen in Northwood car-park at Fareham on 2nd.
A shag was on rocks by HMS DOLPHIN on 5th when the ring-billed gull was at its usual site on nearby Walpole Lake.

Waterlooville and South Downs

A tawny owl was heard in Denmead on Saturday morning.