Results from the latest Surrey Bird Club Records Committee meeting can be viewed on the Records Committee Decisions page, with highlights including Common Rosefinch, Woodchat Shrike and Long-tailed Skua.
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).
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
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 )
*If you’ve any outstanding 2024 rarity records to submit please do so by the end of the year*
Battersea: 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull on River Thames (A Dutta).
Beddington Farmlands: Bearded Tit, Jack Snipe, 2 Water Pipits, 3 Shelduck and 2 Green Sandpipers (M Bravery/G Howgate/R Walker).
Holmethorpe SP: drake Pintail at Spynes Mere (G Hay).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern on Main Lake; also Yellow-legged Gull (M Auger/A Salmon).
Send: 12 Bramblings and Yellowhammer at Prews Farm (M Fincham).
Tate Modern: Great Black-backed Gull (R Braddock).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous … Read more
Beddington Farmlands: 3 Water Pipits; also female Shelduck and 2 Green Sandpipers (M Bravery/G Howgate/I Jones/J Pettit/A Ramesh).
Bletchingley: 2 Green Sandpipers over golf club (G Hay).
Earlswood Lakes: drake Goosander (A Baldock).
Holmethorpe SP: Water Pipit at Chilmead Farm (G Hay).
London Wetland Centre: Avocet on Main Lake; also Bittern at Reservoir Lagoon and Great Black-backed Gull (S Alley/E Devlin/K Peacock/A Salmon).
Richmond Park: Avocet on Upper Pen Pond (D Brasier).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).
Wandsworth: … Read more
The former Surrey County Recorder, Jeff Wheatley, died a couple of years ago and, sadly, his wife Jean died last year. Together they had a large collection of books which included books on birds both from the UK and around the world. They also had other natural history books. There are volumes of antiquity as well as newer volumes
A sale of these books is taking place this Saturday 2 November at Elstead United Reform Church. The proceeds will go to Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice and Elstead URC.
Beddington Farmlands: 2 Water Pipits and 2 Green Sandpipers (M Bravery/N Gardner).
Capel: 2 Hawfinches south-west (W Attridge).
Chipstead Downs: 4 Hawfinches at the Nuttery (BirdGuides).
Effingham Forest: 2 Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (BirdGuides).
Puttenham Common: 5 Hawfinches south (BirdGuides).
Tulse Hill: Hawfinch south-west (S Patmore).
Winterfold Heath: 12 Hawfinches over (R Stride).
Banstead: 7 Hawfinches west (S Gale).
Beddington Farmlands: Yellow-browed Warbler with mixed tit flock; also female-type Black Redstart by South Hide (S Thomas/G Walker).
Haslemere: … Read more
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): Black Tern (D Harris).
Rotherhithe: 2 Great Black-backed Gulls at King’s Stairs (J Cadera).
Westcott: 2 Redwings at The Nower (C York).
Beddington Farmlands: Whinchat, Common Sandpiper, 4 Green Sandpipers and Sand Martin (M Parker).
Charterhouse: Yellow Wagtail (S Allen).
Holmethorpe SP: female-type Marsh Harrier north-west; also c 553 House Martins south (G Hay/I Kehl).
London Wetland Centre: Whinchat at Wader Scrape (M Bowen/L Robinson/L Whittaker-Smith).
Priest Hill: 6 Redwings west (N Batten).
Thorpe Park: Common … Read more
The 2021 Surrey Bird Report (SBR) is out and will be arriving with members.
This, the 69th edition of the SBR, features a review of the year and the full systematic list of birds seen in the vice-county in 2021, 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 “A Survey of Population Changes in the Birds of Richmond Park 2012 to 2021” and the “Wintering Rustic and Little Buntings at Thursley Common, 2020-21”.
Non-members may purchase a copy at a price … Read more
Alfold: 2 Whinchats and 3 Yellow Wagtails at Pallinghurst Farm (R Stride).
Beddington Farmlands: 2 Yellow Wagtails, adult Common Gull and 9 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner).
Holmethorpe SP: Wheatear at Mercers Farm; also 3 Green Sandpipers (G Hay).
London Wetland Centre: 5 Black-tailed Godwits on Main Lake; also Wigeon, 3 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers (A Salmon).
Leg of Mutton LNR: Osprey (BirdGuides).
Richmond Park: Arctic Tern through Upper Pen Ponds; also 2 Whinchats, 13 Yellow Wagtails and 3 Tree Pipits (D Brasier/P Pentek).
South Norwood: 2 Arctic Terns north-east … Read more