Results from the latest Surrey Bird Club Records Committee meeting can be viewed on the Records Committee Decisions page, with highlights including Common Rosefinch, Woodchat Shrike and Long-tailed Skua.
Frensham Little Pond: Bittern (S Peters).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern, Yellow-legged Gull and 2 Shelduck (C Dewhurst/D Panchaud).
Send: Little Bunting at Prews Farm (BirdGuides).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake (BirdGuides).
Beddington Farmlands: 4 Shelduck and 2 Green Sandpipers (R Walker).
Effingham Forest: Brambling and 2 Crossbills (M Harrington).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern; also 2 Shelduck (C Aldridge/D Colledge/T Kasoar).
Long Ditton: 2 Great Black-backed Gulls (E & P Hunter).
Send: Little Bunting and 5 Bramblings at Prews Farm (P Davies/M Fincham/T Matthews).
Stoke … Read more
*If you’ve any outstanding 2024 rarity records to submit please do so by the end of the year*
Battersea: 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull on River Thames (A Dutta).
Beddington Farmlands: Bearded Tit, Jack Snipe, 2 Water Pipits, 3 Shelduck and 2 Green Sandpipers (M Bravery/G Howgate/R Walker).
Holmethorpe SP: drake Pintail at Spynes Mere (G Hay).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern on Main Lake; also Yellow-legged Gull (M Auger/A Salmon).
Send: 12 Bramblings and Yellowhammer at Prews Farm (M Fincham).
Tate Modern: Great Black-backed Gull (R Braddock).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous … Read more
Beddington Farmlands: 3 Water Pipits; also female Shelduck and 2 Green Sandpipers (M Bravery/G Howgate/I Jones/J Pettit/A Ramesh).
Bletchingley: 2 Green Sandpipers over golf club (G Hay).
Earlswood Lakes: drake Goosander (A Baldock).
Holmethorpe SP: Water Pipit at Chilmead Farm (G Hay).
London Wetland Centre: Avocet on Main Lake; also Bittern at Reservoir Lagoon and Great Black-backed Gull (S Alley/E Devlin/K Peacock/A Salmon).
Richmond Park: Avocet on Upper Pen Pond (D Brasier).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).
Wandsworth: … Read more
Beddington Farmlands: 2 Water Pipits and 2 Green Sandpipers (M Bravery/N Gardner).
Capel: 2 Hawfinches south-west (W Attridge).
Chipstead Downs: 4 Hawfinches at the Nuttery (BirdGuides).
Effingham Forest: 2 Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (BirdGuides).
Puttenham Common: 5 Hawfinches south (BirdGuides).
Tulse Hill: Hawfinch south-west (S Patmore).
Winterfold Heath: 12 Hawfinches over (R Stride).
Banstead: 7 Hawfinches west (S Gale).
Beddington Farmlands: Yellow-browed Warbler with mixed tit flock; also female-type Black Redstart by South Hide (S Thomas/G Walker).
Haslemere: … Read more
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): Black Tern (D Harris).
Rotherhithe: 2 Great Black-backed Gulls at King’s Stairs (J Cadera).
Westcott: 2 Redwings at The Nower (C York).
Beddington Farmlands: Whinchat, Common Sandpiper, 4 Green Sandpipers and Sand Martin (M Parker).
Charterhouse: Yellow Wagtail (S Allen).
Holmethorpe SP: female-type Marsh Harrier north-west; also c 553 House Martins south (G Hay/I Kehl).
London Wetland Centre: Whinchat at Wader Scrape (M Bowen/L Robinson/L Whittaker-Smith).
Priest Hill: 6 Redwings west (N Batten).
Thorpe Park: Common … Read more
Alfold: 2 Whinchats and 3 Yellow Wagtails at Pallinghurst Farm (R Stride).
Beddington Farmlands: 2 Yellow Wagtails, adult Common Gull and 9 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner).
Holmethorpe SP: Wheatear at Mercers Farm; also 3 Green Sandpipers (G Hay).
London Wetland Centre: 5 Black-tailed Godwits on Main Lake; also Wigeon, 3 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers (A Salmon).
Leg of Mutton LNR: Osprey (BirdGuides).
Richmond Park: Arctic Tern through Upper Pen Ponds; also 2 Whinchats, 13 Yellow Wagtails and 3 Tree Pipits (D Brasier/P Pentek).
South Norwood: 2 Arctic Terns north-east … Read more
Beddington Farmlands: juvenile Marsh Harrier at North Lake (D Warren).
Godalming: Whimbrel over Brighton Road at 23:30 (N Willis).
Holmethorpe SP: 2 Green Sandpipers at The Moors (G Hay).
Kingston upon Thames: juvenile Caspian Gull at recycling centre (T Inns).
Leith Hill: 25 Whimbrels west; also 2 Tree Pipits east (W Attridge).
London Wetland Centre: 3 Green Sandpipers (J Reeves).
Beddington Farmlands: juvenile Marsh Harrier at North Lake (C Owens/J Pettit/P Rogers).
Holmethorpe SP: Green … Read more
The latest records committee meeting took place on 5 June 2024.
The aim was to get through all 2023 records and a single remaining 2022 record. In total, nearly 100 records were assessed – more than 75% of these were accepted.
Among the standout birds were the vice county’s second-ever record of Citrine Wagtail, and the first twitchable Marsh Warbler since 2001.
The full list of records are on the Records Committee Decisions page.
Beddington Farmlands: Common Sandpiper, 4 Green Sandpiper, 24 Lapwings including 5 chicks, Shoveler and 7 Teal (D Bulling).
Frensham Little Pond: drake Common Scoter (S Peters).
London Wetland Centre: 3 Green Sandpipers; also Shoveler and Oystercatcher family (W Newnham/A Salmon).
Richmond Park: Redshank at Upper Pen Pond (D Brasier).
Tice’s Meadow: Redshank and Little Ringed Plover (R Seargent).
Tice’s Meadow: Redshank and Green Sandpiper (R Horton/G Tillin).
Beddington Farmlands: female Shoveler, Green Sandpiper and 4 Teal (N Gardner).
Crooksbury Common… Read more