August 2026

Tuesday 18th

Pied Flycatcher, Richmond Park (J Reeves).
Pied Flycatcher, Richmond Park (J Reeves).

Beddington Farmlands: Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers (M Bravery).

Holmethorpe SP: 7 Green Sandpipers and 4 Common Sandpipers (G Hay).

London Wetland Centre: juvenile Ruff; also Bittern, 2 Green Sandpipers and Common Sandpiper (N Anderson/A Salmon).

Richmond Park: Pied Flycatcher and Redstart at Holly Lodge paddocks (H Bradshaw/J Reeves)

Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret, 6 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers (P Brown/R Horton).

Monday 17th

Whinchat, Burgh Heath (J Alexander).
Whinchat, Burgh Heath (J Alexander).

Burgh Heath: 3 Whinchats at Canons Farm (J Alexander).

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July 2026

Friday 31st

London Wetland Centre: Black-tailed Godwit, Bittern and 2 Green Sandpipers (A Salmon).

Stoke Lake: 2 White Storks (G Everson).

Tice’s Meadow: 3 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers (M Elsoffer).

Thursday 30th

London Wetland Centre: 4 Black-tailed Godwits, Bittern and 2 Green Sandpipers (C Dewhurst/A Salmon).

Tice’s Meadow: 4 Green Sandpipers and 3 Common Sandpipers (R Horton).

Waverley Abbey: 2 Common Sandpipers (K Duncan).

Wednesday 29th

Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper (I Kehl).

London Wetland Centre: Yellow Wagtail, Bittern and 2 Green Sandpipers (M Wheeler/A Salmon).

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June 2026

Tuesday 30th

Badshot Lea Pond: Oystercatcher west (J Hunt).

Brookwood Cemetery: Camberwell Beauty (BirdGuides).

Thursley Common: 2 new Teal broods (K Duncan).

Monday 29th

Norfolk Hawker, Holmethorpe SP (G Hay).
Norfolk Hawker, Holmethorpe SP (G Hay).

Holmethorpe SP: Norfolk Hawker (G Hay).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern, 2 Green Sandpipers and Little Ringed Plover (S Fowles/A Salmon).

Stoke Lake: 3 White Storks (R Mist).

Thursley Common: Green Sandpiper (A Bird).

Tice’s Meadow: Redshank, 3 Ringed Plovers, Oystercatcher and Green Sandpiper (P Brown/R Hoton/M Scott).

Sunday 28th

Effingham Forest: Crossbill at Honeysuckle Bottom (P Davies).

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May 2026

Sunday 31st

Salfords: Little Ringed Plover (C Eastwood).

Thursley Common: Wheatear (AJ Collins-Smith).

Tice’s Meadow: Oystercatcher (P Brown).

Saturday 30th

London Wetland Centre: Bittern (A Salmon).

Weybourne: Honey Buzzard north (J Gates).

Friday 29th

Tice’s Meadow: 2 Ringed Plovers and Oystercatcher (P Brown/M Elsoffer/R Smith).

Thursday 28th

London Wetland Centre: female Goosander and Bittern (A Salmon).

Lonsdale Road Reservoir: Shelduck (P Boult).

Tice’s Meadow: Oystercatcher (M Elsoffer).

Wednesday 27th

Ash Vale: Quail sound-recorded at 01:37 (G Clarke).

Burpham Water Meadows: 7 White Storks (J Gates).

Chobham Common: Wheatear … Read more

April 2026

Thursday 30th

Common Sandpiper, Island Barn Reservoir (J Snell).
Common Sandpiper, Island Barn Reservoir (J Snell).

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

March 2026

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

Willow Warbler, Beddington Farmlands (G Jones).
Willow Warbler, Beddington Farmlands (G Jones).

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

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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January 2026

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

Goosander, Cutt Mill Ponds (S Simnett).
Goosander, Cutt Mill Ponds (S Simnett).

Albury: 6 Crossbills (A Nunns).

Beddington Farmlands: 3 Green … Read more

December 2025

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

November 2025

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