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Birds

There was a female mandarin duck on the Staunton CP lake on 26th.

Fifty avocets, 3 adult and 4 juvenile little ringed plovers, 2 green sandpipers, 3 snipe and 50 black-tailed godwits were at Titchfield Haven on 26th.

 Two green sandpipers were at the back of the horse field north of Langstone pond at midday on 27th. 

Three sanderlings were seen in summer plumage at Hill Head on 26th.

A juvenile black tern was still in the Titchfield Haven and Hill Head area on 26th.

A hobby flew west over Titchfield Haven on 28th.

There was a grasshopper warbler at Sandy Point Hayling a.m. on 28th.

Wheatears returning south were seen at Sandy point Hayling and Farlington Marshes on 29th.

Butterflies

Plants

A clustered bellflower is in flower on the path along the bottom of Compartment 1 (the furthest west compartment before Portchester Common).  There were about 60 close to the base of a pylon at the west end of the compartment.

By the Skew Lane bridge over the motorway field cow-wheat is still flowering by the fence on the waste ground north of the bridge, the yellow form of ivy broomrape is doing well by the footpath south of the bridge and strawberry clover on the Nelson Lane verge.

Insects

Other Wildlife