February 2026

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).

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