April 2026

Friday 17th

Cranleigh: Wheatear and 2 Common Terns (R Stride).

Farthing Downs: Lesser Whitethroat (S Frost).

London Wetland Centre: Grasshopper Warbler at Main Lake (A Salmon).

Norbury Park: Goosander on River Mole (J Snell).

Pewley Down: male and female Grey Partridges (A Barrett).

Putney Heath: Grasshopper Warbler (L Evans-Hill).

Shalford Water Meadows: Garden Warbler (K Britten).

Thursday 16th

Frensham Great Pond: Common Sandpiper (S Woolfries).

Island Barn Reservoir: 2 Shelduck (J Snell).

Kingston upon Thames: adult Caspian Gull at recycling centre (T Inns).

London Wetland Centre: Grasshopper Warbler, Nightingale … 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.Β  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

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

October 2025

Friday 31st

Dorking: male Black Redstart at Myrtle Road (S Dorman).

Thursday 30th

Beddington Farmlands: 3 Water Pipits, Crossbill south-west, Jack Snipe, drake Shelduck and 3 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner).

Brook: Crossbill over Witley Farm (D Brassington).

Holmethorpe SP: 3 Red-crested Pochard at Spynes Mere (T Ledger).

Island Barn Reservoir: Wheatear (P Welling).

Leith Hill: 46 Bramblings south-west; also 18 Crossbills (W Attridge/P Evans).

Pewley Down: Crossbill and Dartford Warbler (M Kettell).

Tice’s Meadow: Dunlin and 3 Green Sandpipers (K Cobbett/M Elsoffer/B Hagan/D MacLeod).

Wednesday 29th

London Wetland Centre: Bittern on … Read more

September 2025

Thursday 25th

Glossy Ibises, Beddington Farmlands (I Jones).
Glossy Ibises, Beddington Farmlands (I Jones).

Beddington Farmlands: adult and juvenile Glossy Ibises on Phase 3; also Great Egret, 4 Green Sandpipers and Common Sandpiper (A Dutta/I Jones).

Chobham Common: 4 Crossbills north-west (E Sames).

Colley Hill: female-type Marsh Harrier; also 2 Redwings, 805 Swallows and 562 House Martins (S Gale).

Epsom Common: Redwing over Stew Pond (T Inns).

Guillemot, Herne Hill (Z Pannifer).
Guillemot, Herne Hill (Z Pannifer).

Herne Hill: Guillemot taken into care (Z Pannifer).

Holmethorpe SP: 2 Green Sandpipers (T Smith).

Leith Hill: 4 Redwings and 3 Redpolls (W Attridge).

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Surrey Bird Report 2022

Surrey Bird Report 2022 cover

The 2022 Surrey Bird Report (SBR) is out and will be arriving with members.

This, the 70th edition of the SBR, features a review of the year and the full systematic list of birds seen in the vice-county in 2022, as well as the annual ringing report, early and late dates of migrants, nest record totals, and a range of colour photos. Also included are papers on β€œLesser Yellowlegs at Queen Elizabeth Reservoir” by Chris Turner and β€œIcterine Warbler at Leith Hill,” by Wes Attridge.

Non-members may purchase a copy at a price of Β£15.00 by contacting but why … Read more