Woking Peregrines 2025

Two of the Woking Peregrines - an adult and juvenile - taken on 15/06/2019 by James Sellenn

Surrey Bird Club will have a stand in Jubilee Square, in Woking town centre on Saturday 7th June and Saturday 21st June in order to introduce the wonder of the local Peregrines to the general public.

Ever since the Peregrines started successfully nesting in Woking in 2016, the club has had a stand in the town centre on (usually) Saturdays in order to show off the Peregrines (save when we could not due to Covid restrictions).  Using the http://www.wokingperegrines.com website has allowed everyone to watch the Peregrines via the cameras (now sponsored by the club) which are installed both inside … Read more

June 2025

Monday 16th

Tice’s Meadow: colour-ringed Redshank; also Shoveler (P Brown/K Duncan).

Sunday 15th

Greenshank, Tice's Meadow (K Duncan).
Greenshank, Tice’s Meadow (K Duncan).

Leith Hill: 2 Crossbills (P Harper).

Tice’s Meadow: 2 Greenshank in the Meadow; also Green Sandpiper (K Duncan).

Whitmoor Common: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (T Wilson).

Saturday 14th

London Wetland Centre: Teal and 3 Shoveler (A Salmon).

Tice’s Meadow: Ringed Plover, Redshank and Shoveler (P Brown).

Wotton: 2 Crossbills over (A Harding).

Friday 13th

Crooksbury Common: 16 Crossbills over; also 3 Gadwall (second site record) and juvenile Cuckoo (J Gates).

Tice’s Meadow: Curlew (K Duncan).… Read more

May 2025

Saturday 31st

Bagshot Heath: singing male Wood Warbler at Swinley Forest (D Sussex).

Friday 30th

South Norwood CP: singing male Marsh Warbler (J Shaub).

Wandsworth: Oystercatcher (A Westenberger).

Thursday 29th

Newlands Corner: Crossbill over (P Davies).

Wednesday 28th

London Wetland Centre: Shoveler (M Wheeler).

Pirbright Ranges: Curlew (S Harley).

Tice’s Meadow: Ringed Plover (P Brown).

Tuesday 27th

Bolder Mere: Common Sandpiper (B Harding).

Monday 26th

London Wetland Centre: Ringed Plover (A Salmon).

Sunday 25th

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Ringed Plovers (D Bulling).

Saturday 24th

London Wetland Centre: 2 Oystercatchers (A … Read more

April 2025

Wednesday 30th

Papercourt GPs: 3 Common Sandpipers (E Sames).

South Norwood CP: Common Sandpiper (J Shaub).

Tice’s Meadow: Whimbrel, Whinchat and 5 Common Sandpipers (K Duncan/J Snell).

Unstead SF: Yellow Wagtail and Common Sandpiper on South Meadow (J Parr).

West End Common: Nightjar (S Harley).

Winterfold Heath: 2 Nightjars (R Stride).

Tuesday 29th

Tice’s Meadow: Whimbrel and 5 Common Sandpipers (K Duncan).

Unstead SF: Green Sandpiper (J Parr).

Monday 28th

Stoke D’Abernon: Whinchat at Slyfield Farm (J Snell).

Tice’s Meadow: Whimbrel (R Horton).

Wallington: Hawfinch and Common Scoter flocks … Read more

March 2025

Monday 31st

Beddington Farmlands: male and female Marsh Harriers; also 2 Redshank and Little Ringed Plover (D Bulling/G Jones).

Frensham Little Pond: Willow Warbler (P Lewis).

London Wetland Centre: Black Redstart on South Route; also 6 Redshank, 2 Oystercatchers and 20 Sand Martins (A Salmon/P Smallshire).

Richmond Park: Sand Martin (J Wilczur).

Send: Little Bunting at Prews Farm (R Dunne).

Thursley Common: Wheatear (A Bird).

Tice’s Meadow: Wheatear (J Snell).

Unstead SF: Swallow (K Britten).

Unstead Water Meadows: Swallow (N Willis).

Wandsworth Common: Yellow Wagtail north (N Rutter).

Sunday 30th

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Heathland Bird Survey

The BTO is running a Heathland Bird Survey this year concentrating on Woodlarks, Dartford Warblers and Nightjars. However it is not just heathland that needs covering and survey squares include forestry plantation, other woodland/scrub habitat and some farmland.   The BTO has selected a  considerable number of 1 km squares in Surrey and these need to be visited 2 or 3 times between February and June. Please help if you can. What the visit requires is walking through any suitable habitat, in the square, whilst looking and listening for the species (and a few others as mentioned below). Squares need visiting … Read more

February 2025

Friday 28th

Alfold: female Ring-necked Duck on pond at Pallinghurst/Little Wildwood Farm (BirdGuides).

Beddington Farmlands: adult Mediterranean Gull, 4 Green Sandpipers and 2 Shelduck (A Dutta).

Downside: Goosander pair on River Mole (J Snell).

Effingham Forest: Goshawk, 4 Hawfinches and Brambling at Dick Focks Common (P Davies).

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit, Green Sandpiper, 2 Oystercatchers and 2 Shelduck (M Glon/A Salmon).

Mickleham Downs: 5+ Hawfinches (BirdGuides).

Newlands Corner: 20+ Hawfinches by boardwalk (I Williams).

Papercourt Water Meadows: drake Goosander over (E Sames).

Thursday 27th

Mediterranean Gull, Hersham GP (J Snell).
Mediterranean Gull, Hersham GP (J Snell).

Alfold… Read more

January 2025

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).

Stoke … Read more

Seasons Greetings

Robin (Jon Hawkins - Tices Meadow)

Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy New Year to all members and Surrey birders.

Photo: Robin – “Who ate all the mince pies ?” (Jon Hawkins – Tices Meadow )