The Surrey Bird Club Records Committee held their annual meeting in March, when many excellent records were considered, including two county firsts. You can find full details here.
Great Egret photo supplied by D Muthalib
Burgh Heath: Tree Pipit at Canons Farm (D Culley).
Croham Hurst: Osprey flew south at 16:40 (G Collins).
Crooksbury Common: Pied Flycatcher just beyond main car park (R Seargent).
Hascombe: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker at New Barn; also Spotted Flycatcher (E Stubbs).
Holmethorpe SPs: Greenshank flew west at 09:15; also Green Sandpiper at Glebe Lake (G Hay).
London Wetland Centre: Pied Flycatcher briefly at Wildside early morning; also 3 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers (WWT).
Molesey Heath: Great Egret still; also 2 Green Sandpipers (BirdGuides).
The complete list of all bird species recorded in the vice-county of Surrey has been updated, up to May 2019. You can find it here.
Photo: Brent Goose, E Stubbs
Beddington Farmlands: Greenshank, Little Ringed Plover and 2 Common Sandpiper (A Wilkinson).
Capel: Common Sandpiper (W Attridge).
Holmethorpe SP: 2 Green Sandpipers at Spyne’s Mere (G Hay).
London Wetland Centre: Little Ringed Plover (WWT).
Newchapel: Wood Sandpiper still at British Wildlife Centre in area with no general access (K Noble).
Stoke Lake: Common Sandpiper (M Fincham).
Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret still; also Ruff, Ringed Plover, 2 Dunlin, 8 Green Sandpiper and 2 Common Sandpiper (R Horton/M Nurse/L Winchcombe).
London Wetland Centre: 3 Common Sandpipers (WWT).
All five of the juvenile Peregrines at Woking have now fledged. An adult and one of the juveniles can be seen in this photo, taken by James Sellen on 15 June.
Want to learn more about this species? Come to East Horsley Village Hall on Friday night to hear Keith Betton’s Return of the Peregrine talk. Here are more details. Free entry and you do not need to be a member to come along.
Our County Recorder has written an article about where you might find Nightingales in Surrey. If you find one singing please do let the County Recorder know. See 3 Ways to Submit
Photo: Nightingale, Shaun Ferguson
Holmethorpe SP: Common Sandpiper on Railway Pools (G Hay).
London Wetland Centre: 41 Black-tailed Godwits by WWF Hide early afternoon (second highest Surrey count); also Common Sandpiper (WWT).
Richmond Park: Red-crested Pochard (P Pentek).
South Norwood Lake: Common Gull flew over (J Watson).
Tice’s Meadow: 16 Black-tailed Godwits in morning then flew south-east; also Common Sandpiper and two Green Sandpipers (J Brough/M Elsoffer/L Winchcombe).
West Molesey: returning adult Caspian Gull flew down River Thames early morning (D Harris).
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The five chicks are still doing well and were colour-ringed yesterday. Join us in Woking’s Jubilee Square on Saturday (18th May) between 10 am and 4 pm where we hope to see both parents flying in with food. We will have a telescope looking at the ledge outside the nest area, as well as an iPad so that you can see what is happening inside the nest too. In the meantime, you can see what is happening now.
Photo: Woking Peregrine chick, Craig Denford 15/05/2019
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Photo: Wood Warbler, Dave Carlsson
London Wetland Centre: Ringed Plover (WWT).
Tice’s Meadow: Curlew (TMBG).
London Wetland Centre: Yellow Wagtail (WWT).
Esher: Crane or stork species flew southwest (B Waller).
Beddington Farmlands: 174 Carrion Crows (BFBG).
Thursley Common: no sign of Golden Oriole.
Tice’s Meadow: Oystercatcher (M Elsoffer).
Thursley Common: male Golden Oriole singing in woodland adjacent to Parish Field for c.20 minutes mid-morning though no further sign in afternoon (P Marshall).
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