Friday 31st

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).

Thursday 30th

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).

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Tuesday 31st

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

Saturday 30th

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

Thursday 31st

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).

Wednesday 30th

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

Monday 30th

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).

Sunday 29th

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

Saturday 31st

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

Wednesday 31st

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).

Tuesday 30th

Beddington Farmlands: juvenile Marsh Harrier at North Lake (C Owens/J Pettit/P Rogers).

Holmethorpe SP: Green … Read more

Sunday 30th

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).

Saturday 29th

Tice’s Meadow: Redshank and Green Sandpiper (R Horton/G Tillin).

Friday 28th

Beddington Farmlands: female Shoveler, Green Sandpiper and 4 Teal (N Gardner).

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Friday 31st

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): Short-eared Owl east (D Harris).

Wey Manor Meadows: 3 pairs of Lapwings with chicks (J Snell).

Thursday 30th

Bankside: 9 Kittiwakes over Blackfriars Bridge (R Braddock).

Wednesday 29th

London Wetland Centre: 2 Oystercatchers (C Moore).

Unstead SF: 2 Shoveler (J Parr).

Tuesday 28th

London Wetland Centre: female Pochard with ducklings (A Salmon).

Monday 27th

Burpham: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker along River Wey (W Justice).

Leigh: Spotted Flycatcher at Deanoak Lane (I Kehl).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern booming from Reservoir Lagoon (A … Read more

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Tuesday 30th

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Wood Sandpipers on Wet Grassland; also 4 Wheatears and Common Sandpiper (D Bulling/G Howgate/I Jones/A Ramesh).

Bookham: male Yellow Wagtail and 3 Wheatears at Goldstone Farm (D Cox).

London Wetland Centre: Yellow Wagtail on Grazing Marsh (A Salmon).

Pewley Down: Whinchat (M Kettell).

Richmond Park: Wheatear (H Bradshaw).

Tadworth: Osprey over (J Darter).

Westcott: female Wheatear at Milton Court Farm (M Davis).

West End … Read more