Tuesday 24th

Beddington Farmlands: male Ruff at North Lake; also Cattle Egret at Phase 3 Wet Grassland (I Jones).

Capel: 120 Swifts south (W Attridge).

Monday 23rd

Tice’s Meadow: Redshank (K Duncan).

Sunday 22nd

London Wetland Centre: Greenshank, Great Black-backed Gull and Teal (A-M Harris/A Salmon/M Williamson).

Richmond Park: Green Sandpiper (P Pentek)

Tice’s Meadow: Redshank (J Hunt).

Saturday 21st

London Wetland Centre: pair of Oystercatchers with 2 chicks and Teal (A Salmon).

Tice’s Meadow: 3 Great White Egrets and Redshank … Read more

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

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

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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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

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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

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Tuesday 31st

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

Saturday 30th

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

Thursday 31st

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).

Wednesday 30th

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

Monday 30th

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).

Sunday 29th

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