Summer Events

Juniper Hall Festival of Nature 2025 Poster

Juniper Hall, near Mickleham, is organising a charity event on Saturday 19 July supporting their ‘Grants for Schools’ fund, with a variety of activities organised by nature-inspired groups, including Surrey Bird Club. Juniper Hall itself is a superb country house dating from the 17th century set in a peaceful wooded valley. It is situated in an unspoilt area of the chalk North Downs and at the edge of Box Hill. Being in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, many amazing rivers, deciduous woodlands and grasslands can be found on the doorstep. The Hall is run by the Field Studies Council, … Read more

Club Merchandise

Club Clothing

We are delighted to confirm that the Club’s merchandise is now available directly via the SBC website. There is a new tab “Merchandise” with a “Clothing” option which will take you to the PB Leisurewear page where the full range of SBC clothing is displayed.

Clothing

The new polo shirt, performance T-shirt and caps were worn by some members at the AGM and at the recent Woking Peregrine Project event, and everyone has been hugely complimentary as to the quality and the colours. We even got some nice comments from the Woking shoppers at the weekend!

Ordering couldn’t be easier … Read more

July 2025

Sunday 13th

Redshank, Holmethorpe SP (G Hay).
Redshank, Holmethorpe SP (G Hay).

Holmethorpe SP: Redshank at Water Colour Lagoons; also 2 Green Sandpipers and 4 Common Sandpipers (N Hadden/G Hay/I Kehl).

London Wetland Centre: Wood Sandpiper and Green Sandpiper (N Stapley/M Wheeler).

Tice’s Meadow: 4 Common Sandpipers and 2 Green Sandpipers (K Duncan).

Saturday 12th

Kew: 3 Great Black-backed Gulls on Thames (F Matthews).

Friday 11th

London Wetland Centre: Green Sandpiper (A Salmon).

Thursday 10th

Cuckoo, Bookham Common (C Kemp).
Cuckoo, Bookham Common (C Kemp).

Bookham Common: juvenile Cuckoo (C Kemp).

Tice’s Meadow: Black-tailed Godwit (K Duncan).

Wednesday 9th

Thursley Common: juvenile … Read more

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 30th

Tice’s Meadow: Redshank and 2 Green Sandpipers (K Duncan/R Horton).

Sunday 29th

Beddington Farmlands: Redshank and 4 Green Sandpipers (Z Pannifer).

Effingham Forest: 2 Hawfinches and Crossbill at Dick Focks Common (T Gibson).

Enton Lakes: Common Sandpiper (D Brassington).

London Wetland Centre: Redshank (M Peak/M Wheeler).

South Norwood CP: Common Sandpiper (K Sproson).

Thursley Common: male Serin east over tumulus; 5th Surrey record pending acceptance (B Henricot).

Saturday 28th

Farley Green: 10 Crossbills south (D Brodie).

Friday 27th

Beddington Farmlands: 4 Green Sandpipers and 2 Teal (N Gardner).

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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