April 2011 Wildlife Sightings

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Sunday 10th	Water Pipit, Oystercatcher & Red Kite.	Seen at Tice’s Meadow (Farnham Quarry). Sightings via Surrey Bird Club. Location map
Saturday 9th	Several Speckled Woods, Orange Tips male & Brimstone.	All seen in Rowhill Nature Reserve at Copse Avenue entrance between 13;00 and 15:00 by Christine Reeves. Location map
Saturday 9th	Numerous Orange Tips, male & female. Holly Blue. Large White. Green-veined White.	All seen between 10:00 and 12:00 in Rowhill Nature Reserve at the Parkland Grove entrance by Christine Reeves. Location map
Friday 8th	2 Yellow Wagtails	Seen at Tice’s Meadow (Farham Quarry). Sighting via Surrey Bird Club. Location map
Thursday 7th	Cuckoo	Seen at Ash Ranges. Sighting via Surrey Bird Club.
Wednesday 6th	Male Pied Flycatcher	Seen in the evening at Tice’s Meadow (Farnham Quarry. Sighting via Surrey Bird Club. Location map
Wednesday 6th	Avocet (apparently only the fourth occasion that sightings of this distinctive bird have been made in this location ever!). Pair of Mandarin (breeding pair?). Pair of Gadwall (breeding pair?). 2 Redshank. 2 Little Ringed Plover. 2 Lapwing. Single female Teal. Lots of Tufted Duck. Reed Bunting. Also the first Orange Tips.	All seen mid/late morning at Moor Green Lakes by Chris & Angela Kay. Location map
Monday 4th	Pair of Buzzards circling low over the park (now seen frequently about this location - poss breeding pair?)	Seen late morning at Hollybush Park by Chris & Angela Kay. Location map
Saturday 2nd	7 Black-tailed Godwits but flushed by Peregrine	Seen mid-afternoon. Sightings at Tice's Meadow (Farnham Quarry) via Surrey Bird Club. Location map

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