Monday 25th

Chobham Common: Spotted Flycatcher and Crossbill (N Smith).

Effingham Forest: Crossbill (P Davies).

Farnham Heath RSPB: Spotted Flycatcher (P Jenkins).

London Wetland Centre: booming Bittern; also Great Egret on Main Lake (P Smallshire).

Norbury Park: female Goosander with nine ducklings (D James).

Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir: *Broad-billed Sandpiper* on north side then flew off and perhaps taken by Peregrine; first for Surrey and London recording area (D Harris/C Turner).

Redlands Wood: Hawfinch and 2 Crossbills (P Davies).

Richmond … Read more

Thursday 30th

Ash Ranges: Nightjar (C Jones).

Bankside: Marsh Harrier north; also 3 Common Sandpipers (R Braddock).

Holmethorpe SP: Common Sandpiper (T Ledger).

Island Barn Reservoir: 3 Common Sandpipers (J Snell).

Langley Vale Wood: Wheatear (S Timms).

London Wetland Centre: 4 Wood Sandpipers, White Wagtail, Yellow-legged Gull, Oystercatcher family, Yellow Wagtail, Green Sandpiper and 4 Common Sandpipers (M Andrews/E Barlow/C Moore/G O’Sullivan/D Panchaud/T Richardson/H Rutherford).

Pewley Down: Grey Partridge pair (A Lobb).

Tice’s Meadow: Greenshank, 3 Oystercatchers, Green Sandpiper and 5 Common Sandpipers (R Horton).… Read more

Tuesday 31st

Beddington Farmlands: Wheatear, Green Sandpiper and Shelduck (S Bray/G Jones/M Parker).

Frensham Great Pond: 2 Oystercatchers (S Peters).

Hoe Valley: 5 Mediterranean Gulls north (J Taylor).

Holmethorpe SP: immature White-tailed Eagle (T Ledger).

Thursley Common: 3 Curlews and Crossbill (S Buckingham/T Gibson/R Wright).

Tice’s Meadow: Common Sandpiper and 3 Oystercatchers (R Horton).

Monday 30th

Ash Ranges: Tree Pipit (J Clark).

Ash Vale: Swallow (G Clarke).

Beddington Farmlands: Willow Warbler, 4 Shelduck and 2 Green Sandpipers (G Jones/M Parker).

Hedgecourt Lake: Willow Warbler … Read more

Saturday 28th

Beddington Farmlands: male Wheatear (one of few February records of the species in Surrey); also 3 Shelduck and 2 Green Sandpipers (D Bulling).

Box Hill: 12 Hawfinches (T Gibson).

Effingham Forest: 4 Goshawks (adult and three immatures), 5 Hawfinches and 12 Crossbills at Dick Focks Common (A Emerson/A Frost/J Pettit).

Frensham Common: 5 Crossbills (R Douglas).

Holmethorpe SP: Siberian Chiffchaff and 2 Green Sandpipers (J James/T Ledger).

Island Barn Reservoir: juvenile Great Northern Diver; also Mediterranean Gull (D Harris/C Turner).

Kew Gardens: 2 Mediterranean Gulls (L Phillips).

London Wetland Centre… Read more

Saturday 31st

Beddington Farmlands: 1+ Water Pipits (BirdGuides).

Effingham Forest: 9 Hawfinches, 2 Goshawks and 50 Crossbills at Dick Focks Common (D Evans/R Seargent).

Pennymead Lake: 6 Goosander (J Snell).

Friday 30th

Effingham Forest: 2 Goshawks at Dick Focks Common (BirdGuides).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Bitterns (BirdGuides).

Thursley Common: 4 Goosander and Crossbills (G Osbourne).

Thursday 29th

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Water Pipits (BirdGuides).

Island Barn Reservoir: 2 juvenile Great Northern Divers (J Snell).

Wednesday 28th

Albury: 6 Crossbills (A Nunns).

Beddington Farmlands: 3 Green … Read more

Monday 22nd-Wednesday 31st

The influx of Russian White-fronted and Tundra Bean Geese to southern England reached the vice-county, with an extraordinary count of c 90 White-fronts and at least seven Tundra Beans at Beddington Farmlands on 24th (A Dutta et al). Other White-fronted Geese were found at Newark Priory (four on 24th per E Sames) and one at Downside on 25th (J Snell).

At least four of the Beddington White-fronts lingered until 26th. Also at Beddington was a flyover Whooper Swan on 28th, a drake Goldeneye on 26th and a first-winter Caspian Gull on multiple dates (A Dutta, G Jones … Read more

Sunday 30th

Beddington Farmlands: Water Pipit, Green Sandpiper and Shelduck (C Strudwick).

Chelsea & Lambeth Reservoirs: female-type Garganey (F Maroevic).

Churt Common: 8+ Crossbills (R Douglas).

Farnham Heath RSPB: 15 Crossbills (M Short).

Hankley Common: female-type Black Redstart (BirdGuides).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Bitterns (M Wheeler/F Wright).

Tice’s Meadow: 3 Crossbills; also Great Egret, Dunlin and 3 Green Sandpipers (P Brown/M Elsoffer/P Scorey/M Scott).

Saturday 29th

Leatherhead: Goshawk over leisure centre; also 5 Goosander on River Mole (S Gale/T Gibson).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern (A Salmon).

Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret … Read more

Friday 31st

Dorking: male Black Redstart at Myrtle Road (S Dorman).

Thursday 30th

Beddington Farmlands: 3 Water Pipits, Crossbill south-west, Jack Snipe, drake Shelduck and 3 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner).

Brook: Crossbill over Witley Farm (D Brassington).

Holmethorpe SP: 3 Red-crested Pochard at Spynes Mere (T Ledger).

Island Barn Reservoir: Wheatear (P Welling).

Leith Hill: 46 Bramblings south-west; also 18 Crossbills (W Attridge/P Evans).

Pewley Down: Crossbill and Dartford Warbler (M Kettell).

Tice’s Meadow: Dunlin and 3 Green Sandpipers (K Cobbett/M Elsoffer/B Hagan/D MacLeod).

Wednesday 29th

London Wetland Centre: Bittern on … Read more

Thursday 25th

Beddington Farmlands: adult and juvenile Glossy Ibises on Phase 3; also Great Egret, 4 Green Sandpipers and Common Sandpiper (A Dutta/I Jones).

Chobham Common: 4 Crossbills north-west (E Sames).

Colley Hill: female-type Marsh Harrier; also 2 Redwings, 805 Swallows and 562 House Martins (S Gale).

Epsom Common: Redwing over Stew Pond (T Inns).

Herne Hill: Guillemot taken into care (Z Pannifer).

Holmethorpe SP: 2 Green Sandpipers (T Smith).

Leith Hill: 4 Redwings and 3 Redpolls (W Attridge).

London Wetland Centre… Read more