November 2024

Tuesday 5th

Beddington Farmlands: Hawfinch north; also 2 Water Pipits, Shelduck and 2 Green Sandpipers (R Browne/N Gardner/I Jones).

Bolder Mere: 4 Great Egrets (D Harris).

Little Woodcote: Black Redstart (A Dutta).

Richmond Park: Ring Ouzel and Shelduck (P Pentek).

Shalford Water Meadows: female Bearded Tit at St Catherine’s Lock (D Brassington).

Tooting Common: juvenile female Ferruginous Duck on lake (BirdGuides).

Monday 4th

Ferruginous Duck, Tooting Common (M Bravery).
Ferruginous Duck, Tooting Common (M Bravery).

Albury: 3 Hawfinches west of St Peter’s and St Paul’s Church (BirdGuides).

Chessington: 9 Hawfinches; 2 south over Winey Hill, 3 in adjacent woodland and 4 over Garrison Lane (I Rowe).

Hydon’s Ball: Brambling (R Cowley).

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 204 Barnacle Geese (D Harris).

Leith Hill: 2 Hawfinches and 17 Bramblings (W Attridge).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern at Reservoir Lagoon; also 2 Bramblings north-west (A Salmon).

Pewley Down: Dartford Warbler (M Kettell).

Richmond Park: Shelduck (P Pentek).

Shalford Water Meadows: female Bearded Tit at St Catherine’s Lock (M Fincham).

Tice’s Meadow: 3 Hawfinches flew over (R Horton).

Tooting Common: juvenile female Ferruginous Duck on lake (BirdGuides).

Sunday 3rd

Red-throated Diver, New Malden (T Inns).
Red-throated Diver, New Malden (T Inns).

Ashtead: Brambling (R Guy).

Beddington Farmlands: Golden Plover by mound; also adult Mediterranean Gull, 3 Water Pipits and 3 Green Sandpipers (R Browne/D Bulling/B Carter/A Dutta/N Gardner/I Jones/C Strudwick).

Brook: 11 Yellowhammers at Witley Farm (D Brassington).

Dormansland: Brambling (A Moore).

Effingham Forest: 10+ Hawfinches, 4+ Crossbills and Brambling at Dick Focks Common (A Westenberger).

Ewell: Dunlin sound recorded at night (S Thomas).

Bearded Tit, Shalford Water Meadows (E Stubbs).
Bearded Tit, Shalford Water Meadows (E Stubbs).

Fetcham: Great Egret south-east (D Cox).

Leith Hill: 2 Hawfinches, Brambling, 1160 Redwings and 370 Fieldfares south-west (W Attridge).

London Wetland Centre: Short-eared Owl over Main Lake and Bittern on Main Lake (A Salmon).

Mercers CP: Green Sandpiper (G Hay/I Kehl).

Morden Hall Park: 2 Hawfinches (N Rutter).

New Malden: Red-throated Diver north-east over garden (T Inns).

Ferruginous Duck, Tooting Common (R Gray).
Ferruginous Duck, Tooting Common (R Gray).

Richmond Park: 4 Hawfinches over (BirdGuides).

Shalford Water Meadows: female Bearded Tit at St Catherine’s Lock; also 2 Hawfinches over (D Brassington).

Tooting Common: juvenile female Ferruginous Duck on lake; also 5 Hawfinches over (BirdGuides).

Tulse Hill: 2 Hawfinches south (S Patmore).

Wallington: Brent Goose flock sound recorded at 19:29 (A Dutta).

Saturday 2nd

Short-eared Owl, South Norwood CP (D Rouse).
Short-eared Owl, South Norwood CP (D Rouse).

Barn Elms: Red-throated Diver west over playing fields; also 2 Hawfinches and Brambling over (C & O Dewhurst).

Beddington Farmlands: Green Sandpiper (I Jones).

Brockwell Park: Hawfinch north-east; also Brambling (S Patmore).

Busbridge: 2 Hawfinches east (BirdGuides).

Capel: Brambling (W Attridge).

Effingham Forest: 20+ Hawfinches and 2 Goshawks at Dick Focks Common (A Bolton/S Kirby).

Hindhead Common: 2 Crossbills (S Newton).

Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper (N Hadden).

Ferruginous Duck, Tooting Common (A Wilkinson).
Ferruginous Duck, Tooting Common (A Wilkinson).

Leith Hill: 2+ Bramblings (W Attridge).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern and 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull on Main Lake (O Dewhurst).

Papercourt Water Meadows: Dartford Warbler (R Clark).

Richmond Park: Ring Ouzel and Hawfinch over (BirdGuides).

South Norwood CP: Short-eared Owl (D Rouse).

Tooting Common: juvenile female Ferruginous Duck (unringed) on lake (N Batten/M Keenan/M Murphy).

Wallington: Golden Plover, Ring Ouzel and multiple Dunlin sound recorded at night (A Dutta).

Friday 1st

Water Pipit, Beddington Farmlands (I Jones).
Water Pipit, Beddington Farmlands (I Jones).

Ashtead: Hawfinch over Overdale (E Drewitt).

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Bearded Tits at North Lake; also Water Pipit and Green Sandpiper (A Harding/I Jones).

Cranleigh: 2 Hawfinches south-west over Thistley Lane (N Willis).

Effingham Forest: 4 Hawfinches, 7 Crossbills and 2+ Goshawks at Dick Focks Common (J Snell).

Godstone: Hawfinch west (G Hay).

Ferruginous Duck, Tooting Common (D Bulling).
Ferruginous Duck, Tooting Common (D Bulling).

Headley Heath: 10+ Hawfinches (BirdGuides).

Lammas Lands: Jack Snipe (E Stubbs).

Papercourt Water Meadows: Brambling at Prews Farm (A Goddard).

Richmond Park: 28 Hawfinches over; also Golden Plover north and 15 Ring Ouzels, 1280 Redwings and 1045 Starlings over (D Brasier/R Kaye/F Matthews/J Wilczur/S Woolfenden).

Tooting Common: female Ferruginous Duck of unknown origin on lake (D Bulling).

Tulse Hill: 7 Hawfinches south-west (S Patmore).