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Saturday 20th March
Siskin on feeders at Lottage Road (Emily Best)
Wildlife sightings archive 2022
See the archived sightings from 2022 below. For the most recent sightings go to the wildlife sightings page.
Saturday 24th December
Blackcap and Peregrine Hawkins Road (Matthew Best)
Wednesday 21st December
Blackcap Hawkins Road (Matthew Best)
Wednesday 14th December
2 Lapwing, Reed Bunting and 3 Common Gull High Clear Down Track (Matthew Best)
Monday 12th December
Firecrest Four barrows track (Matthew Best)
Sunday 11th December
23 Lapwing Hawkins Road (Matthew Best)
Sunday 4th December
31 Species of birds (Four Barrows walk)
Thursday 24th November
Merlin, 16 Golden Plover and 4 Stonechats Four Barrows Track (Matthew Best)
Tuesday 22nd November
Firecrest Hawkins Road (Matthew Best)
Wednesday 9th November
Firecrest, 3 Stonechat Four Barrows track (Matthew Best)
Sunday 6th November
41 species including Stonechat and Treecreeper (Four Barrows Bird Walk)
Wednesday 2nd November
Siskin, Bullfinch and Treecreeper Love's Copse (Matt Best)
Sunday 30th October
2 Ravens, 2 Stonechat, 500 Fieldfares High Clear Down Byway (Matt Best)
Saturday 29th October
Firecrest, 2 Stonechats, Treecreeper Four Barrows walk (Matt Best)
Wednesday 26th October
Peregrine on the east face of the church tower this morning/early afternoon Aldbourne (Matt Best)
Peacock butterfly near Ford Farm (Matt Best)
Tuesday 25th October
Swift species, Common Gull, Firecrest and 8 Roe deer Sugar Hill/Four Barrows track - note this is a very late record for swift and this might well have been a Pallid Swift rather than a Common Swift (Matt Best)
Sunday 23rd October
64 Stock Doves and 8 Hares Aldbourne Chase (Matt Best)
Saturday 22nd October
Singing Woodlarks, a confiding Weasel, a siskin and lots of Redwings and Fieldfares around Love's Copse (Matt Best)
Friday 21st October
Peregrine sitting on the South face of the church tower at 5pm - note that the peregrines have been around all summer but have been hard to see as they seem to have been spending most of their time on the tower at night (Emily Best)
Thursday 20th October
Firecrest (2), Redwing (12), Fieldfare (81), Lesser Black-backed Gull (221), Corn Bunting (3) and Roe Deer (3) Four Barrows walk (Matt Best)
Wednesday 19th October
Hummingbird Hawkmoth Hawkins Road (Matt Best)
100 Redwing flying South over Hawkins Road (Matt Best)
Clouded Yellow butterfly High Clear Down (Emily Best)
Sunday 16th October
Small White and Red Admiral Aldbourne Village (Jo Day)
Marsh Tit (2) and 81 Herring Gulls Upper Upham (Matt Best)
Stonechat (2) High Clear Down (Matt Best)
Saturday 15th October
Barn Owl on Castle street 1km towards Marlborough (Matt Best)
Wednesday 12th October
Stonechat near New Barns (Matt Best)
8 Reed Buntings divided between two separate feedstrips on private farmland (Matt Best)
Tuesday 11th October
Raven (1) and Stonechat (2) on track near New Barns (Matt and Emily Best)
Stonechat 2 at High Clear Down (Matt Best)
Hare 1 at High Clear Down (Emily Best)
Clouded Yellow (1), Small White (2) at High Clear Down (Emily Best),
Wednesday 2nd October
Firecrest and Roe Deer (5) were among 37 birds and 2 mammals on the Four Barrows monthly walk (Four Barrows Bird Walk),
Sunday 2nd October
Firecrest and Roe Deer (5) were among 37 birds and 2 mammals on the Four Barrows monthly walk (Four Barrows Bird Walk),
Wednesday 28th September
Raven Hawkins Road (Matt Best),
Thursday 22nd September
Large White, Peacock, Small White, Small Copper, Green-veined White and Clouded Yellow High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Wednesday 21st September
Stonechat 3 on track near New Barns (Matt Best)
Stonechat 4 at High Clear Down (Matt Best)
Hare 1 at High Clear Down (Matt Best)
Clouded Yellow (3), Brimstone (1), Small White (2), Green-veined White (2), Small Copper (3), Adonis Blue (5), Peacock (1), Comma (1), Speckled Wood (1), Meadow Brown (1), Small Heath (2) at High Clear Down (Matt Best),
Friday 16th September
Muntjac mother and fawn, Garden on Kandahar (Nick Whelan),
Thursday 15th September
Clouded Yellow High Clear Down (Sean Pyman)
Wednesday 14th September
Raven Hawkins Road (Matt Best),
Tuesday 13th September
Hummingbird Hawkmoth Hawkins Road (Matt Best)
Fox Four Barrows track (Matt Best)
Monday 12th September
Adonis Blue, Brown Argus, Chalk Hill Blue, Small Heath and Common Blue High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Wednesday 7th September
Hobby Hawkins Road (Matt Best),
Monday 29th August
Small White, Meadow Brown, Chalkhill Blue, Small Heath, Adonis Blue, Common Blue, Speckled Wood High Clear Down (Jon Beresford),
Hummingbird Hawkmoth the Old Malt House, South Street (Matt Best)
Sunday 28th August
House Martin chicks, The Forge (Jon Beresford)
Hummingbird Hawkmoth Hawkins Road (Matt Best)
Friday 26th August
Brimstone, Large White and Small White Aldbourne (Jo Day)
Saturday 20th August
Meadow Brown, Common Blue, Adonis Blue, Small Heath, Chalk Hill Blue, High Clear Down (Jon Beresford),
Thursday 18th August
Hummingbird Hawk-moth , garden on Whitley road (Alan Phizacklea),
Elephant Hawk-moth caterpillar, garden on The Butts (Sandy Martin)
Small Heath, Common Blue, Meadow Brown, Speckled Wood, Chalk Hill Blue, Brown Argus and Clouded Yellow High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Saturday 13th August
Peacock Butterfly Aldbourne Village (Nick Josephy)
Wednesday 10th August
Clouded Yellow, Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Chalk Hill Blue and Small White High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Monday 8th August
Southern Hawker , garden on Back Lane (Nigel Payne)
Brimstone, Large White, Small White, Common Blue, Gatekeeper and Tortoiseshell Aldbourne Village (Jo Day)
Sunday 7st August
Redstart, Reed Bunting and Firecrest amoungst 40 species on the bird walk (Four Barrows Bird Walk)
Hummingbird Hawk Moth beside St Michael's Church (Matthew Best)
Spotted flycatcher next to the Vicarage (Matthew Best)
Brimstone, Comma, Red Admiral and Small White Aldbourne Village (Jo Day)
Saturday 6th August
Raven and Marbled White butterfly track to High Clear Down (Matthew Best)
Redstart, Common Blue and Chalkhill Blue High Clear Down (Matthew Best)
Monday 1st August
Dark Green Fritillary Whitley Road playng field (Matthew Best)
Little Owl Whitley Road area (calling) (Matthew Best),
Meadow Brown, Common Blue, Gatekeeper, Chalk Hill Blue, Dark Green Fritillary, Marbled White, Large White, Clouded Yellow, Small Copper High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Sunday 31st July
Hobby Lottage Road (Matthew Best)
Thursday 28th July
Meadow Brown, Large White, Dark Green Fritillary, Gatekeeper, Tortoiseshell, Ringlet, Common Blue and Marbled White butterflies and 6-spot Burnet moth High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Thursday 21th July
Meadow Brown, Marbled White, Gatekeeper, Ringlet, Small Skipper butterflies and 6-spot Burnet moth High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Saturday 16th July
Comma, Large White, Small White, Meadow Brown Aldbourne Village (Nick Josephy)
Gatekeeper, Small Skipper, Large White Aldbourne Village (Jo Day),
Monday 11th July
Comma The Square (Nick Josephy),
Sunday 10th July
Tortoiseshell, Large White, Small White, Marbled White Aldbourne (Jo Day),
Saturday 9th July
Glow Worm Ewins Hill (Alan Heasman),
Friday 8th July
Green-veined White, Meadow Brown Aldbourne (Jo Day),
Large White, Meadow Brown, Small Tortoiseshell, Ringlet, Marbled White, Small Skipper, Large Skipper, Small Heath, Gatekeeper, Dark Green Fritillary and Red Admiral High Clear Down (Jon Beresford),
Monday 4th July
Marbled White, Tortoiseshell, Ringlet, Meadow Brown, Small Heath, Small Skipper butterflies High Clear Down (Jon Beresford),
Sunday 3rd July
40 species of birds including Firecrest Four Barrows Bird Walk (Four Barrows Bird Walk)
Wednesday 29th June
Ringlet and Marbled White track opposite Ford Farm (Jo Day),
Tuesday 28th June
Violet ground beetle, Four Barrows track (Emily Best),
Monday 27th June
Ringlet, Meadow Brown, Small Heath, Marbled White and Small Skipper High Clear Down (Jon Beresford),
Sunday 26th June
8 Buff Ermine, Brimstone, Pale Mottled Willow, 4 Rustics, Small Magpie, Celypha lacunana, 3 common harvestmen, garden moth trap on Hawkins Road Road (Emily Best),
4 frogs and a slowworm, garden on Kandahar (Ros Oswold)
Roe Deer and a Brown Hare, Poors Gorse (Matt Best)
Friday 24th June
3 Scarlet Tigers, garden on Marlborough Road (Alison Edmonds),
Common Emerald, juvenile Blue Tits garden on Marlborough Road (Jenny Greaves),
Tortoiseshell Aldbourne Village (Jo Day)
Thursday 23rd June
Marbled Whites, Comma, Red Admiral, Tortoiseshells, Painted Lady, Meadow Brown, Speckled Wood, Six-spotted Burnets Upper Upham to High Clear Down (Nick Whelan)
Scarlet Tiger, garden on Kandahar (Nick Whelan) ,
Vapourer moth caterpillar Castle Street (Emily Best)
Wednesday 22nd June
Azure Damselflies The Pond (Emily Best)
Speckled Bush Cricket, Eupeodes luniger hoverfly St Michaels Close (Emily Best)
Tortoiseshell Aldbourne Village (Jo Day)
Tuesday 21st June
Woodlark two at Poors Gorse (Matthew Best)
Green Oak Tortrix moth at Poors Gorse (Matthew Best)
Friday 17th June
Meadow Brown, Small Heath, Tortoiseshell, Marbled White, Ringlet, Common Blue and Small Skipper butterlies and Forester, Cinnabar, Yellow Shell and Mother Shipton moths High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Thursday 16th June
Hedgehogs garden on Kandahar (Sophie Fynn)
Mallard with 8 new ducklings, the pond (Alice and Ben Best)
Tortoishell Aldbourne village (Jo Day)
Wednesday 15th June
White Plume moth, Silver Y, Brimstone butterfly, Speckled Wood track to High Clear Down (Emily Best)
Large Skipper, Marbled White, Green Hairstreak, Tortoiseshell, Red Admiral, Small Heath, Dark Green Fritillary, Painted Lady, Common Blue, butterflies on High Clear Down (Matt and Emily Best)
Pyramidal Orchid and Common Spotted Orchid, High Clear Down (Matt and Emily Best)
Saturday 11th June
Small Heath, Meadow Brown, Common Blue, Tortoiseshell butterflies and Cinnabar, Yellow Shell, 5-spot Burnet, High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Friday 10th June
Hedgehog garden on Lottage Road (Kate Digman)
Tuesday 7th June
Garden Tiger Moth garden on Kandahar (Elliot Fynn)
3 Bank Voles, St Michael's churchyard (Year 1 St MIchael's school)
Dingy Skipper, Meadow Brown, Small Heath, Common Blue, Tortoiseshell, Small Blue, Adonis Blue butterflies and Wood Tiger, 5-spot Burnet, Common Carpet moths High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Friday 3th June
Amaurobius ferox under woodpile Hawkins Road (Matt Best)
Thursday 2nd June
Robber fly garden on Back lane (Nigel Payne)
Tuesday 31st May
Small White, Large White, Red Admiral, Speckled Wood, Small Heath, Orange Tip and Common Blue butterflies High Clear Down (David Perring)
Monday 30th May
Blue tit nest garden wall on Back lane (Nigel Payne)
Saturday 28th May
Peacock, Green Hairstreak, Red Admiral, Orange Tip, Green-veined White, Speckled Wood, Common Blue, Small Blue, Adonis Blue, Marsh Fritillary, Small Heath, Painted Lady, Dingy Skipper and Brimstone butterflies High Clear Down (Aldbourne Wildlife picnic - William and Anne Brown, James Wallace, Jon Beresford, Matt/Emily/Sophie/Alice/Ben Best + others)
Burnett Companion, 5-spot Burnett, Yellow Shell, Pyraustra purpuralis and Forester moths High Clear Down (Aldbourne Wildlife picnic - William and Anne Brown, James Wallace, Jon Beresford, Matt/Emily/Sophie/Alice/Ben Best + others)
Friday 27th May
Small Heath, Dingy Skipper, Common Blue, Small Blue butterflies, Mother Shipton, 5-spot Burnet, Silver Y, Burnet Companion, Forester and Yellow Shell moths, Brown Hare and a Red Kite High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Wednesday 25th May
Drinker moth track to Four Barrows (Matt Best)
5 Firecrest fledgelings noisy and being fed by parents, track to Four Barrows (Matt Best)
Wednesday 22nd May
Small Heath, Orange Tip, Green Hairstreak, Painted Lady, Brimstone, Dingy Skipper, Common Blue, Small Blue and Brown Argus butterflies, 5-spot Burnet, 6-spot Burnet, Silver Y, Wood Tiger and Yellow Shell moths and Brown Hare High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Monday 19th May
Eary gentian, Yellow rattle High Clear Down (Jenny Greaves)
Yellow wagtail New Barn track (Jenny Greaves)
Saturday 17th May
Small White, Brimstone Aldbourne Village (Jo Day)
Roe Deer Sugar Hill (Wayne Ford)
Saturday 14th May
Dingy Skipper, Brimstone, Common Blue, Tortoiseshell, Small Heath, Brown Argus, Small Copper, Small Blue and Orange Tip butterflies High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Wood Tiger, Wavy-barred Sable and Common Carpet moths High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Thursday 12th May
Red Admiral, Small White, Brimstone, Tortoiseshell, Orange Tip and Speckled Wood Aldbourne Village (Jo Day)
Monday 9th May
Smooth newts, Garden pond on Lottage Road (Jodie Smitten)
Common Blue, Brown Argus, Small Copper High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Sunday 8th May
Dingy Skipper, Gizzled Skipper, Brown Argus, Peacock, Green-veined White, Small Heath, Green Hairstreak, Brimstone, Small Copper, Common Blue and Tortoiseshell Butterflies, Pyraustra purpuralis, Silver Y and Straw-barred Pearl moths High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Saturday 7th May
Muntjac, Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly Poors Gorse (Matt Best)
Garden Warbler Southward Triangle (Matt Best)
Peacock, Holly Blue and Orange Tip Aldbourne village (Jo Day)
Thursday 5th May
Green Carpet, Pyrausta aurata, Pyraustra purpuralis moths High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Brimstone, Orange Tip, Grizzled Skipper, Green Hairstreak, Peacock, Dingy Skipper, Small Heath, Green-veined White and Tortoiseshell Butterflies High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Orange Tip Aldbourne village (Jo Day)
Wednesday 4th May
Tree Pipit two singing at High Clear Down (Matthew Best)
Green Hairstreak, Grizzled Skipper and Dingy Skipper butterflies, Red Twin-spot Carpet moth and Early Gentian High Clear Down (Matthew Best)
Monday 2nd May
Heron on the pond (Nigel Payne)
Woodlark 2 at Poors Gorse (Matthew Best)
Sunday 1st May
2 Whimbrel, yellow wagtail and 6 wheatear on the four barrows bird walk (Matthew Best)
30 moths of 14 species in the churchyard moth trap- see insect page for details. (Emily Best)
Saturday 30th April
2 Green hairstreaks, peacocks, brimstones, tortoiseshell, holly blues, dusky skipper, green-veined white butterflies, dotted bee-fly and a fox, cowslips, and chalk milkwort at High Clear Down (Emily and Matthew Best)
Yellow wagtail and lots of whitethroats and a Long tailed tit nest on the track to High Clear Down (Emily and Matthew Best)
Newt , garden pond on Kandahar (Ros Oswald)
Fox family and hedgehogs, horse field at end of Lottage road (Vicky Davies)
Holly Blue, Brimstone and Orange Tip Butterflies Aldbourne village (Jo Day)
Tuesday 26th April
Brimbstones 16, Small Tortoiseshell 9, Orange tip 9, Green Veined White 13, Large White 2, Holly Blue 1, Peacock 1, track to High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Grizzled Skipper 5, Dingy Skipper and Hare, High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Thursday 21st April 2022
Arianella cucurbitina garden on Marlborough Road (Jenny Greaves)
Saturday 16th April
Peacock Butterfly Aldbourne (Jo Day)
Friday 15th April
Brimstone Butterfly Aldbourne (Jo Day)
Brimstone, Orange Tip and Peacock Butterflies High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Sunday 10th April
Tortoiseshell butterfly High Clear Down (Jon Beresford)
Sunday 3rd April
Fox Four Barrows track (Matt Best)
Wednesday 30th March
1 Roe Buck, 1 Juvenile Muntjac and 2 SIKA DEER stags at High Clear Down (Matthew Best)
Sunday 27th March
3 Common Quakers, 11 Hebrew Characters, 4 Early Greys, 20 Small Quakers, 1 Pale Pinion, 4 Clouded Drabs, 1 Twin-spotted Quaker, 1 Early Thorn and 1 Brindled Pug moth catch on Lottage Road (Emily Best)
Friday 25th March
7 Hares chasing each other around just out of parish next to the old railway near Ogbourne St George (Carolyn Davis)
Thursday 24th March
Stoat The Downs (Dyson Wilkes)
Hibernating hedgehog The Downs (Dyson Wilkes)
3 Slow worm Churchyard (Emily Best)
4 Small Quaker, 2 Common Quaker and 1 Hebrew Character moths Lottage Road (Emily Best)
Wednesday 23rd March
Brambling (Male) Giant's Grave (Matthew Best)
Singing Meadow Pipits and Stonechat Sugar Hill (Matthew Best)
Several large groups of fieldfare on the Aldbourne Circuit also 49 Linnets beyond Four Barrows and Brimstones, Tortoiseshells and Peacock Butterflies all flying (Matthew Best)
4 Roe Deer Giant's Grave (Matthew Best)
3 Roe Deer Just beyond North Farm (Matthew Best)
Tuesday 22nd March
Polecat x Ferret Hybrid sadly killed on the road just beyond North Farm (Tim Marriot)
Peacock Butterfly Aldbourne Village (Jo Day)
Monday 21st March
Tortoiseshell Aldbourne Village (Jo Day)
3 Brambling, lots of Siskins, singing treecreeper and 3 or 4 Marsh Tits Love's Copse (Emily Best)
1 Woodlark Singing near Love's Lane (Emily Best)
Sunday 20th March
Tortoiseshell Aldbourne Village (Jo Day)
Firecrest singing in the pine spinney before Love's Copse (also many goldcrests in the same location (Matthew Best)
5 Lesser Redpoll, lots of Siskins, singing treecreeper and nuthatches Love's Copse (Matthew Best)
3 Woodlark Singing near Love's Lane (Matthew Best)
Female Brambling under and on the feeders on Lottage Road (Matthew Best)
Peacock Butterfly in St Michael's Church (Matthew Best)
Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly Aldbourne (Jo Day)
Saturday 19th March
2 Firecrests at the bottom of the four barrows track (Matthew Best)
Friday 18th March
Brimstones and tortoiseshell butterflies lots around but many on Palmers Field (Jo Day and Emily Best)
Wednesday 16th March
2 Bramblings on a Manor Farm feed strip (Henry Brown and Matthew Best)
Barn Owl North Field Barn (Ben and Matthew Best)
Tuesday 15th March
Grey Wagtail, West Street (Rob Warren)
Brimstone Butterfly Aldbourne (Jo Day)
Monday 14th March
Muntjac next to B4192 below Four Barrows (Matthew Best)
Sunday 13th March
Chiffchaff (singing) and Firecrests at the bottom of the four barrows track (James Wallace)
Saturday 12th March
Black Oil Beetles 14 on the edge of the green including several mating pairs (Ben Best)
Sunday 6th March
2 Cormorants on the four barrows track (Four Barrows Monthly walk)
3 Peregrines around the church tower in the morning (NickWhelan and Matthew Best)
Woodlark (2) Love's Lane (Matthew Best)
Saturday 5th March
Female Brambling still around the feeders on Lottage Road (Matthew Best)
Friday 4th March
Female Brambling around the feeders on Lottage Road (Matthew Best)
Thursday 3rd March
Female Brambling around the feeders on Lottage Road (Matthew Best)
Friday 25th February
Roe Deer Loves Copse (Nick Whelan)
Sunday 20th February
Muntjac Deer, Loves Coplse (Emily Best)
Thursday 17th February
3 woodlark performing song flight, Loves Lane (Emily Best)
Hare, Loves Lane (Emily Best)
3 Roe Dear, Loves Copse (Emily Best)
Wednesday 16th February
3 Hares and a Roe Deer, Track to High Clear Down (Matt Best)
Stoat, crossing road beyond West Leaze (Matt Best)
Sunday 12th February
Brambling, East Lease Farm (Matt Best)
Saturday 11th February
Lesser Redpoll, 100+ Siskins, Goldfinches, Loves Copse (Matt Best)
3 woodlarks, Loves Lane (Matt Best)
Wednesday 9th February
Brimstone Butterfly track to four barrows (Matt Best)
Tuesday 8th February
Black Oil Beetle in the churchyard (Emily Best)
Monday 7th February
Barn Owl beside b4192 next to Shipley Bottom (Matt Best)
Sunday 6th February
27 species Two of us braved the wind to walk to Four Barrows this morning. It was a slow start but then the sun came our, we were treated to a rainbow singing skylarks - 27 species seen (Four Barrows Bird Walk) - next walk 6th March
Friday 4th February
Weasel Southward Lane(Emily Best)
Thursday 3rd February
Pygmy Shrew, St Michael's Churchyard (Ben Best)
15 Siskins, Loves Copse (Emily Best)
Wednesday 2nd February
Robin, Singing on the Back Track (Ros Oswald)
Tuesday 1st February
5 Ravens, The Dean (Matt Best)
Monday 31st January
Sparrowhawk, Flying over field at bottom of Four Barrows track (Emily Best)
Sunday 30 January
2 Long tailed tits and a herron, garden on The Downs (Christopher Ainsworth)
Friday 28th January
3 Netted Field Slugs and Dingy Skipper caterpillar, Highclear Down (Alice Best)
Thursday 27th January
10 Golden Plover, Flying over North Field Barn (Emily Best)
Wednesday 26th January
2 Marsh tits, Loves Copse (Emily and Matthew Best)
2 Goldcrests Southward Lane(Emily Best)
Tuesday 25th January
1o Woodlark Near Poors Gorse (Emily Best)
Linnets (large flock) and a couple of Bramblings, 6 Woodlark Poors Gorse (Mike Hellier)
