December 2024
Wednesday 4th
Beddington Farmlands: male Bearded Tit at South Lake; also female Shelduck on North Lake, 3 Water Pipits and Green Sandpiper (D Bulling/G Howgate/I Jones).
Capel: Great Egret north-east (W Attridge).
Earlswood Lakes: drake Goosander on lower lake (A Bashford).
Effingham Forest: 4 Hawfinches, female Goshawk and Brambling at Dick Focks Common (P Davies).
Hersham GP: 108 Barnacle Geese (J Snell).
Knight & Bessborough Reservoirs (permit only): Common Sandpiper (A Quinn).
London Wetland Centre: adult Yellow-legged Gull on Main Lake; also Bitterns at Main Lake and Reservoir Lagoon, female Pintail at Wildside and Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh (C Dewhurst/J Reeves/A Salmon/M Wheeler).
Papercourt Water Meadows: 2 Bramblings at Prews Farm (M Bravery/E Sames).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).
Waterloo: 1st-winter Caspian Gull on Thames at Waterloo Bridge (BirdGuides).
Tuesday 3rd
Beddington Farmlands: male and female Bearded Tits at South Lake; also 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull on Wet Grassland, 3 Water Pipits, female Shelduck and Green Sandpiper (A Dutta/G Howgate/R Walker).
London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh (A Salmon).
Papercourt Water Meadows: Brambling (E Sames).
Tate Modern: Great Black-backed Gull (R Braddock).
Tice’s Meadow: Dartford Warbler and Green Sandpiper (P Brown).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).
Monday 2nd
Beddington Farmlands: 3 Water Pipits, female Shelduck and 2 Green Sandpipers (G Howgate/R Walker).
London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh (A Salmon).
Papercourt Water Meadows: Great Egret over; also 4 Bramblings at Prews Farm (E Sames).
Redhill: female Goshawk over army reserve centre (R Seargent).
Richmond Park: Dartford Warbler (E Devlin).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).
Wandsworth Common: 2 Mediterranean Gulls (N Rutter).
Sunday 1st
Beddington Farmlands: 4 Hawfinches over North Lake; also female Shelduck and Green Sandpiper (D Bulling).
Frimley: male Brambling in garden on Old Pasture Road (M Radbourn).
Holmethorpe SP: Water Pipit and 2 Green Sandpipers at Chilmead Farm (T Blake/G Hay/I Kehl).
London Wetland Centre: adult Yellow-legged Gull and Bittern on Main Lake (A Salmon).
Papercourt Water Meadows: Brambling at Prews Farm (A Press).
South Norwood CP: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (K Sproson).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).