Field Meeting Records

Dibden and Fawley Inclosures plus Beaulieu Heath

Date:- 12 September 2009
Time:- 10:45 to 15:15
Leader:- Phil Budd
Purpose:- Birds, insects and flora
Attendance:- 7
Weather:- Sunny and warm

Bird Highlights
A good one for migrants including a Spotted Flycatcher, a Tree Pipit, a family of Whinchat and a surprise Osprey passed over travelling north.
Botanical Highlights
Nail Fungus Poronia punctata, Coral Necklace, Shoreweed, Pillwort, Allseed, Lesser Water Plantain & Orange-berried Whitebeam (probably planted)
Insect highlights
10 butterfly species including a late Gatekeeper. Small Copper caterpillar being sucked dry by a Spiked Shieldbug & Juniper Shieldbug on Lawson's Cypress.