Nature Notes September

Heavy showers of rain dominated the first half of the month followed by dry, warm, sunny days, with cool nights.

SIGHTINGS
Birds:  Carrion Crow, Black-headed Gulls, Heron, Jays, Magpies, Tawny Owls, Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, Siskins, Stonechat, Swallows, Green/Great Spotted Woodpeckers, Wood Pigeons, Stock Doves, Collared Doves, Nuthatches, Treecreepers, Willow Warbler, Blackbirds, Song Thrushes, Wrens, Robins, Dunnocks, Chaffinches, Bullfinches, Goldfinches, Greenfinches, Coal/Blue/Great/Long-tailed Tits.
Mammals:  Fox, Grey Squirrels, Roe Deer, evidence of Mole movement underground, Pipistrelle Bats.
Butterflies/Moths:  Peacock, Red Admiral, Holly Blue, Large/Small Whites, Brimstone, Speckled Wood, species of day flying Moths.
Pond Life:  Pond Skaters, Whirlygig Beetles, Stickleback fish, Frog.
Insects:  Crane Flies, Wasps, Bees, Sheet Web Spiders. Nursery Web Spiders, Funnel Web Spiders, Garden Spiders.
Plants in flower:  Bell Heather, Cross-leaved Heath, Rowan/Holly Tree berries, Montbretia, Large White Water Lily.
Fungi:  Birch Polypore, Fly Agaric, the Blusher.

Late in the month, three separate Tawny Owls were seen and heard in the same area.
A Heron was seen in flight and later landed in the canopy of a Pine Tree.