2026 Members Evening & AGM
The 2026 Members Eveningand AGM will take place on Friday 26th June at 8pm at East Horsley Village Hall, Kingston Avenue, East Horsley, Surrey, KT24 6QT
June 2026
Friday 12th
Jacobs Well: White Stork sitting on nest at Harry’s Meadow (R Beesly).
Tice’s Meadow: 3 Oystercatchers (R Lay).
Thursday 11th
London Wetland Centre: Great Black-backed Gull (A Harrison).
Thursley Common: 2nd brood of Teal ducklings (D Brassington).
Wednesday 10th
Burpham Water Meadows: 10 White Storks (J Chan).
Thursley Common: Turtle Dove (J Chan).
Tice’s Meadow: 2 Oystercatchers (R Wright).
Unstead SF: drake Teal (J Parr).
Tuesday 9th
Burpham Water Meadows: 2 White Storks (V Maiden).
Effingham Forest: Hawfinch and 7 Crossbills at … Read more
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
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
Basingstoke Canal Society’s 60th Anniversary
A date for your diary – Saturday 18th April. The Club will have a stall to support the Basingstoke Canal Society’s 60th Celebration event with the naming of their new electric trip boat, Kitty II. It’s promising to be a fun day out with a brass band before the naming ceremony, a couple of fairground rides, face painter, magician, a few food and craft stalls as well as the canal archive display, boat activity on the canal and the all-important environmental/wildlife stands.
Boundary Road Recreation Ground, Woking GU21 5BX 12:00 to 16:00
29/03/2026
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
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).
London Wetland Centre… Read more
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
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