June 2022

Thursday 30th

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Green Sandpipers (Z Pannifer).

Glebe Lake: 2 Little Ringed Plovers flew south (G Hay).

London Wetland Centre: Common Sandpiper (C Dewhurst/S Englund).

Tadworth: Quail singing in poppy field by Round Wood (BirdGuides).

Thursley Common: Redshank flew east (E Stubbs).

Wednesday 29th

Hog’s Back: Curlew flew south between Seale and Puttenham at 07:25 (J Gates).

London Wetland Centre: 3 Black-tailed Godwits on Main Lake; also Common Sandpiper and 2 Green Sandpipers (W Newnham/M Parker/M Wheeler).

Tadworth: Quail singing in poppy field by Round Wood (C Albanese/E Sames).

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May 2022

Tuesday 31st

London Wetland Centre: 2 Oystercatchers (WWT).

Monday 30th

London Wetland Centre: Little Ringed Plover (WWT).

Sunday 29th

Holmethorpe SP: Little Ringed Plover (N Hadden/G Hay).

Tice’s Meadow: adult Spoonbill in The Workings mid-morning until c.19:06 when flew south-east (R Horton/many observers).

Saturday 28th

Ash Ranges: singing Wood Warbler (J Evans).

London Wetland Centre: Redshank (WWT).

Friday 27th

Frensham Great Pond: Oystercatcher (N Trout).

Netley Heath: 20 Crossbills (M Kettell).

Tice’s Meadow: Oystercatcher (K Duncan).

Thursday 26th

Tice’s Meadow: Dunlin and Ringed Plover (J Hunt).

Wednesday 25th

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April 2022

Saturday 30th

Beddington Farmlands: Great Egret, Wheatear, Common Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover and 2 Green Sandpipers (A Harding/Z Pannifer).

Hedgecourt Lake: Common Sandpiper (D Dack).

Holmethorpe SP: Common Sandpiper (G Hay).

London Wetland Centre: Common Sandpiper (WWT).

Richmond Park: drake Red-crested Pochard (B Young).

Rotherhithe: 6 Shelduck (G Wright).

Thursley Common: Wheatear on Shrike Hill (D & P Boyd).

Friday 29th

Yellow Wagtail, Mercers CP (G Hay).
Yellow Wagtail, Mercers CP (G Hay).

Beddington Farmlands: Stone-curlew flushed from enclosed lagoons then flew towards 100-Acre c.08:50; also Avocet on enclosed lagoons, Wood Sandpiper on Wet Grassland, Little Gull south-east … Read more

March 2022

Thursday 31st

Great Egrets, Enton Lakes (E Stubbs).
Great Egrets, Enton Lakes (E Stubbs).

Beddington Farmlands: 6 Water Pipits, 3 Jack Snipe, 8 Green Sandpipers and 7 Shelduck (A Dutta/A Ramesh).

Enton Lakes: 2 Great Egrets flew north-east (E Stubbs).

Hankley Common: male Brambling (J Snell).

Holmethorpe SP: 2 Little Ringed Plovers flew east through Spyne’s Mere; also Swallow (G Hay).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Redshanks, 2 Oystercatchers, Shelduck and 2 Bramblings (C Dewhurst).

Thursley Common: 2 Crossbills and Brambling (D Brassington).

Wednesday 30th

Mediterranean Gull, Island Barn Reservoir (D Harris).
Mediterranean Gull, Island Barn Reservoir (D Harris).

Beddington Farmlands: Swallow flew over South Lake (D … Read more

February 2022

Monday 28th

Water Pipit, London Wetland Centre (J Klavins).
Water Pipit, London Wetland Centre (J Klavins).

London Wetland Centre: Redshank, 2 Water Pipits and 3 Shelduck (J Klavins).

Reigate: female Ring-necked Duck on Priory Pond (D Harris).

Reigate Heath: 80+ Bramblings to north in crops along Clifton’s Lane (S Brownhill).

Tice’s Meadow: Ringed Plover in flight over Workings (J Hunt).

Sunday 27th

Beddington Farmlands: 1st-winter Caspian Gull, 5 Jack Snipe, Water Pipit, 6 Shelduck and 3 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner).

Crooksbury Common: 5 Crossbills (M Fincham).

Effingham Forest: Brambling at Dick Focks Common (A Bayly/J Sigrist).

Henley Park Ranges: … Read more

January 2022

Monday 31st

Bramblings, Reigate Heath (C Lodge).
Bramblings, Reigate Heath (C Lodge).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern, Water Pipit, Pintail, Goldeneye and Jack Snipe (WWT).

Reigate: female Ring-necked Duck on Priory Pond (M Fincham).

Reigate Heath: 800 Bramblings to north in crops along Clifton’s Lane (J Cutting/C Lodge/M Fincham/T Smith).

Thorpe Park: drake Ferruginous Duck and female Scaup on Manor Lake (D Bookless/A Self).

Sunday 30th

White-fronted Goose, Westcott (J Snell).
White-fronted Goose, Westcott (J Snell).

Beddington Farmlands: 11 Jack Snipe, 2nd-winter Caspian Gull, 2 Shelduck, 3 Water Pipits and 5 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner/Z Pannifer/D Warren).

Effingham Forest: 2 Hawfinches, 2 Crossbills and 5 … Read more

December 2021

Friday 31st

Smew, Thorpe Park (E Stubbs).
Smew, Thorpe Park (E Stubbs).

Beddington Farmlands: Shelduck (D Warren).

Hurst Green: Brambling at Whitegates Farm (K Puttock).

Leatherhead: 3 drake and 1 female Goosander on River Mole (R Iredale).

London Wetland Centre: Oystercatcher, Bittern, 2 Water Pipits, 3 Jack Snipe, Goldeneye and 2 Pintail (A Salmon).

Pennymead Lake: 3 Goosander (S Chastell).

Richmond Park: Dartford Warbler on slope from car park to Pen Ponds (P Spencer).

Thorpe Park: 1st-winter drake Smew on fishing lake at Abbey Mead; also female Scaup on Abbey and Manor Lakes and 3 drake Goldeneye on … Read more

November 2021

Tuesday 30th

Goldeneye, Longside Lake (J Snell).
Goldeneye, Longside Lake (J Snell).

Beddington Farmlands: Caspian Gull and Shelduck on North Lake (D Warren).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern, Goldeneye, 2 Pintail and 2 Shelduck (WWT).

Longside Lake: drake Goldeneye and redhead Goosander (J Snell).

Netley Heath: 4 Hawfinches, 8+ Bramblings and 2 Crossbills (A Wilson).

Sheepleas: 20+ Bramblings in top corner of Shere Road car park (R Dunne).

Tulse Hill: Brambling (S Patmore).

Monday 29th

Bury Hill Fisheries: 2 Bramblings (M Davis).

Headley Heath: 2 Hawfinches (S Gale).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern, Goldeneye and 2 Shelduck on … Read more

October 2021

Sunday 31st

Tice’s Meadow: 3 Green Sandpipers (S Brownhill).

Saturday 30th

Beddington Farmlands: Snow Bunting briefly in morning; also 4 Green Sandpipers (BirdGuides/A Harding).

Brockwell Park: 3 Bramblings (S Patmore).

Hersham GP: Cattle Egret (T Kennedy).

Leith Hill: 5 Bramblings and 3 Crossbills (A Harding).

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh; also Bittern and Brambling (WWT).

Reigate: female Ring-necked Duck on Priory Pond (BirdGuides).

Friday 29th

London Wetland Centre: Bittern (BirdGuides).

Lords Hill Common: Hawfinch (J Gates).

Reigate: female Ring-necked Duck on Priory Pond (G Hay).

Thursday 28th

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September 2021

Thursday 30th

London Wetland Centre: Greenshank, Pintail and 2 Shelduck (WWT).

Wednesday 29th

Burgh Heath: Whinchat at Canons Farm (I Magness).

Leith Hill: 4 Crossbills (W Attridge).

London Wetland Centre: juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper on Main Lake (P Smallshire).

Tuesday 28th

Beddington Farmlands: Garganey and 2 Green Sandpipers (M Bravery/I Jones).

London Wetland Centre: juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper on Main Lake; also Pintail (J Klavins).

Monday 27th

Chilworth: Osprey flew west along River Tillingbourne early afternoon (R Brewer).

London Wetland Centre: juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper on Main Lake; also Garganey (J Klavins).

Tice’s Meadow: … Read more