August 2023

Thursday 31st

Great Egret, Bolder Mere (J Snell).
Great Egret, Bolder Mere (J Snell).

Bolder Mere: Great Egret (red-ringed ‘ACJ’); bird was ringed at Shapwick Heath, Somerset, on 4 May and has been at Warnham LNR, West Sussex, for the last couple of months until Monday (J Everitt/D Harris/J Snell).

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): Fulmar north-east at 16:05 (D Harris).

London Wetland Centre: drake Red-crested Pochard; also drake Garganey, 2 Spotted Flycatchers and 2 Common Sandpipers (S Fowles/A Salmon).

Wednesday 30th

Whinchat, Mercers CP (G Hay).
Whinchat, Mercers CP (G Hay).

Banstead Heath: Whinchat and Spotted Flycatcher (S Gale).

Beddington Farmlands: 4 Yellow Wagtails, Shelduck, Common Sandpiper and 2 Green Sandpipers (A Dutta).

Bolder Mere: Great Egret (D Harris).

London Wetland Centre: drake Red-crested Pochard; also Garganey, Whinchat, 3 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers (C Dewhurst/R Dunne/M Parker/A Salmon/M Wheeler).

Mercers CP: Whinchat at Mercers Farm (G Hay).

Mogador: 3 Whinchats (S Gale).

Papercourt Meadows: Spotted Flycatcher (A Goddard).

Richmond Park: 3 Whinchats and Wheatear (R Dunne).

Thursley Common: Spotted Flycatcher (D Brassington).

Tice’s Meadow: 3 Whinchats, Dartford Warbler and 4 Green Sandpipers (R Horton).

Unstead SF: Common Sandpiper (J Parr).

Tuesday 29th

Brockwell Park: Tree Pipit south (S Patmore).

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): Common Sandpiper (J Snell).

London Wetland Centre: Red-crested Pochard, Whinchat, 3 Green Sandpipers and Common Sandpiper (A Salmon).

Thursley Common: juvenile Marsh Harrier over Pudmore early morning then flew north-west; also Wheatear and Spotted Flycatcher (D Brassington).

Tice’s Meadow: 3 Green Sandpipers (P Brown).

Unstead SF: Common Sandpiper (J Parr).

Monday 28th

Spotted Flycatcher, Chobham Common (E Sames).
Spotted Flycatcher, Chobham Common (E Sames).

Abinger Common: 3 Spotted Flycatchers (J Cassidy).

Beddington Farmlands: Shelduck, 6 Green Sandpipers and Common Sandpiper (I Jones/M Keenan).

Box Hill: Tree Pipit east (I Rowe).

Brockwell Park: Tree Pipit and Yellow Wagtail over (S Patmore).

Chobham Common: 2 Spotted Flycatchers (E Sames).

Leith Hill: Spotted Flycatcher (P Evans).

London Wetland Centre: Garganey, Red-crested Pochard, Wheatear, 2 Common Sandpipers, Green Sandpiper and Spotted Flycatcher (M Auger/H Cura/A Press).

Mercers CP: Tree Pipit and Yellow Wagtail south (G Hay).

Puttenham Common: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (J Snell).

Thursley Common: 3 Yellow Wagtails over; also 2 Wheatears (D Brassington).

Unstead SF: male Lesser Spotted Woodpecker; also Common Sandpiper (J Parr).

Sunday 27th

Ringed Plover, Island Barn Reservoir (D Harris).
Ringed Plover, Island Barn Reservoir (D Harris).

Beddington Farmlands: Whinchat, Wheatear, Shelduck, 3 Common Sandpipers and 11 Green Sandpipers (D Bulling/M Keenan).

Chobham Common: Whinchat (E Sames).

Crooksbury Common: Spotted Flycatcher (J Gates).

Felbridge: Yellow Wagtail (K Noble).

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): Grasshopper Warbler in scrub along entrance track; also juvenile Ringed Plover (D Harris).

Marsh Harrier, London Wetland Centre (A Wilkinson).
Marsh Harrier, London Wetland Centre (A Wilkinson).

London Wetland Centre: juvenile Marsh Harrier over Main Lake and Grazing Marsh late morning then flew south-east; also Great Egret and Garganey on Main Lake, 3 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers (J Anderson/C & O Dewhurst/R Dunne/R Johnson/T Richardson/A Salmon/A Wilkinson).

Nutfield Ridge: male Redstart and Whinchat (G Hay).

Thursley Common: 2 Wheatears (J Mancini).

Tice’s Meadow: Ringed Plover, Whinchat, Common Sandpiper, 2 Wheatears, 2 Dartford Warblers and 3 Green Sandpipers (K Britten/R Horton/R Seargent).

Wanborough: Redstart (C Burchell).

Saturday 26th

Banstead Heath: Wheatear (K Curran-White).

Beddington Farmlands: Tree Pipit over; also 3 Whinchats, 3 Yellow Wagtails, 3 Green Sandpipers and 3 Common Sandpipers (Z Pannifer).

Brockwell Park: Yellow Wagtail over (S Patmore).

London Wetland Centre: Garganey on Main Lake; also Wheatear and 2 Common Sandpipers (O Dewhurst/C Moore/A Salmon).

Richmond Park: Spotted Flycatcher (I Rowe).

South Norwood CP: Wheatear (J Hughes).

Thursley Common: Whinchat, 3 Wheatears and Yellow Wagtail (D Brassington/J James/J Lynton-Jenkins).

Tice’s Meadow: Ringed Plover and 2 Green Sandpipers (R Seargent).

Friday 25th

Grasshopper Warbler, Beddington Farmlands (Z Pannifer).
Grasshopper Warbler, Beddington Farmlands (Z Pannifer).

Beddington Farmlands: Grasshopper Warbler; also 3 Yellow Wagtails, Shelduck, 2 Common Sandpipers and 3 Green Sandpipers (A Dutta/Z Pannifer).

Brockwell Park: Pied Flycatcher with tit flock; also Spotted Flycatcher (S Patmore).

Capel: 2 Yellow Wagtails south (W Attridge).

Chobham Common: Wheatear (E Sames).

Dorking: Redstart at Chadhurst Farm (M Davis).

London Wetland Centre: Oystercatcher and 3 Green Sandpipers (B Reding/A Salmon).

Richmond Park: Tree Pipit, 3 Whinchats and 2 Redstarts (N Baker.R Dunne/D Kane/P Pentek).

Thursley Common: Wheatear (D Brassington).

Tice’s Meadow: Arctic Tern early morning; also Ringed Plover and 2 Green Sandpipers (M Elsoffer/R Seargent).

Wimbledon Common: female-type Redstart on the Mounds (J Reeves)

Worcester Park: Wheatear at Mayflower Park Wetlands (B Young).

Thursday 24th

Beddington Farmlands: Tree Pipit south; also Shelduck, 6 Green Sandpipers, 2 Common Sandpipers and 2 Yellow Wagtails (Z Pannifer).

Capel: 3 Green Sandpipers; also Redstart (W Attridge).

Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper (G Hay).

London Wetland Centre: Wheatear, Common Sandpiper and 4 Green Sandpipers (S Fowles/A Salmon).

Newchapel: Whinchat and Wheatear at Shawlands Farm (K Noble).

Puttenham Common: 3 Spotted Flycatchers (J Snell).

Thursley Common: Greenshank (D Brassington).

Tice’s Meadow: 2 Green Sandpipers (R Horton).

Wednesday 23rd

Beddington Farmlands: Yellow Wagtail south; also Shelduck, Green Sandpiper and Wheatear (Z Pannifer).

Downside: Whinchat (J Snell).

Leith Hill: 12 Spotted Flycatchers (D Robinson).

London Wetland Centre: 4 Green Sandpipers (A Salmon).

Richmond Park: Redstart, 5 Whinchats and Spotted Flycatcher (H Bradshaw).

Shackleford: 3 Whinchats (P Osborn).

South Norwood CP: Whinchat in Moat Field (J Hughes).

Tice’s Meadow: 2 Green Sandpipers (R Horton).

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

Tuesday 22nd

Pied Flycatcher, Chobham Common (E Sames).
Pied Flycatcher, Chobham Common (E Sames).

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Green Sandpipers (M Bravery).

Burgh Heath: Wheatear at Canons Farm (P Goodman).

Chobham Common: Pied Flycatcher north of Langshot Stud Farm; also Whinchat (E Sames).

Eashing: Redstart at Eashing Farm (E Stubbs).

Hascombe: 8 Crossbills (E Stubbs).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Greenshank; also 5 Green Sandpipers (A Salmon).

Newchapel: Spotted Flycatcher at Shawlands Farm (K Noble).

Honey Buzzard, Whitmoor Common (M Fincham).
Honey Buzzard, Whitmoor Common (M Fincham).

Richmond Park: Whinchat and Spotted Flycatcher (H Bradshaw).

Thursley Common: Green Sandpiper (R Cowley).

Tice’s Meadow: Black-tailed Godwit, Whinchat, Green Sandpiper and Wheatear (R Horton).

Unstead SF: Common Sandpiper on Dry Lagoon (J Parr/S Sandry).

Whitmoor Common: adult male Honey Buzzard (bearing a white ring; presumably ringed in southern England) flew over in afternoon (M Fincham).

Monday 21st

Effingham Forest: 3 Crossbills over Greene Deene car park (B Young).

Epsom Downs: Whinchat and Wheatear (S Gale).

Esher Common: 2 Crossbills (G Barter).

Glebe Lake: Common Sandpiper (G Hay).

Holmethorpe SP: 2 Green Sandpipers (N Hadden).

London Wetland Centre: 4 Green Sandpipers (C Dewhurst/A Salmon).

Newchapel: 2 Spotted Flycatchers at Shawlands Farm (K Noble).

Puttenham Common: 2 Spotted Flycatchers (J Snell).

Richmond Park: Spotted Flycatcher (N Jackman/D Kane/R Patterson).

Thursley Common: 4 Spotted Flycatchers (S Starr).

Tice’s Meadow: Wood Sandpiper; also Whinchat, Wheatear and Green Sandpiper

Sunday 20th

Chobham Common: 3 Spotted Flycatchers (E Sames).

Lammas Lands: Redstart (S Jones).

London Wetland Centre: Redshank and 3 Green Sandpipers (A Salmon/A Wilkinson).

Mitcham Common: Great Egret (L Parikian).

Puttenham Common: Crossbill, 5 Spotted Flycatchers and Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (S Jones/E Stubbs).

Thursley Common: Green Sandpiper (D Brassington).

Tice’s Meadow: Turnstone in the Workings; also Ruff (K Britten/R Horton/J Snell).

Waddon Ponds: Spotted Flycatcher (J Birkett).

Saturday 19th

Yellow-legged Gull, Kingston upon Thames (T Inns).
Yellow-legged Gull, Kingston upon Thames (T Inns).

Beddington Farmlands: 6 Green Sandpipers (M Keenan/Z Pannifer).

Holmethorpe SP: female-type Pied Flycatcher briefly by railway line; also Common Sandpiper at Water Colour Lagoons (G Hay).

Kingston upon Thames: adult Yellow-legged Gull (T Inns).

London Wetland Centre: 4 Green Sandpipers (C Dewhurst/A Salmon).

Mitcham Common: Great Egret (J Davis).

Richmond Park: Wheatear (R Tom).

Tice’s Meadow: Ruff (R Horton).

Wandsworth Common: Spotted Flycatcher (N Rutter).

Friday 18th

Beddington Farmlands: Golden Plover over; also Greenshank and 6+ Common Sandpipers (Z Pannifer).

Dorking: Whimbrel sound recorded at 04:05 (S Dorman).

Godstone: Yellow Wagtail north (G Hay).

Holmethorpe SP: 2 Green Sandpipers (G Hay).

Holmwood Common: 5 Spotted Flycatchers (T Gibson).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Green Sandpipers (A Salmon).

Thursley Common: Whinchat, Green Sandpiper and 2 Spotted Flycatchers (D Brassington).

Tice’s Meadow: Ringed Plover and Green Sandpiper (R Seargent).

Unstead SF: Green Sandpiper on South Meadow; also Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (J Parr).

Walton on the Hill: 2 Common Sandpipers at Mere Pond (I Rowe).

Thursday 17th

Beddington Farmlands: Curlew, Yellow Wagtail, 7 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers (M Keenan/Z Pannifer).

Chobham Common: Whinchat (E Sames).

Crooksbury Common: 6 Spotted Flycatchers (J Gates).

Frensham Common: Wheatear (N Trout).

Lammas Lands: Whinchat on Overgone Meadow (P Osborn).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Green Sandpipers (A Salmon).

Peper Harow: Wheatear (E Stubbs).

Pirbright: Spotted Flycatcher (J Hurman).

Thursley Common: Greenshank (J Bryant).

Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper (K Britten).

Wallington: Yellow Wagtail south (A Dutta).

Wednesday 16th

Whinchat, Richmond Park (T Inns).
Whinchat, Richmond Park (T Inns).

Beddington Farmlands: Yellow Wagtail, 5 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers (M Keenan/Z Pannifer).

Chobham Common: Spotted Flycatcher (L Ridley).

Holmethorpe SP: 2 Green Sandpiper (N Hadden).

London Wetland Centre: Whinchat and 4 Green Sandpipers (M Parker/A Salmon).

Richmond Park: Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart and Wheatear (H Bradshaw/C Barker/T Inns).

Riddlesdown: Spotted Flycatcher (G Flinn).

Shackleford: 2 Whinchats and 5 Wheatears (M Fincham/P Osborn).

Tice’s Meadow: 3 Green Sandpipers (K Britten).

Walton-on-Thames: adult Yellow-legged Gull at Walton Bridge (S Spooner).

Tuesday 15th

London Wetland Centre: Ringed Plover, Little Ringed Plover and 3 Green Sandpipers (M Parker/A Salmon).

Richmond Park: 3 Whinchats; also Wheatear (C Barker/D Campbell/C Farabaugh).

Monday 14th

Osprey, Eashing Fields (E Stubbs).
Osprey, Eashing Fields (E Stubbs).

Eashing Fields: Osprey south-west (E Stubbs).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Green Sandpipers (A Salmon).

Papercourt Water Meadows: Whinchat (E Sames).

Richmond Park: 2 Whinchats (D Brasier).

South Holmwood: Tree Pipit south-west; also Redstart (W Attridge).

Tice’s Meadow: 2 Green Sandpipers (P Jones).

Sunday 13th

Green Sandpiper, Holmethorpe SP (G Hay).
Green Sandpiper, Holmethorpe SP (G Hay).

Beddington Farmlands: Whinchat, 18 Green Sandpipers and 3 Common Sandpipers (D Bulling/N Gardner/Z Pannifer/A Ramesh).

Beddington Park: Green Sandpiper (Z Pannifer).

Crooksbury Common: 3 Spotted Flycatchers in car park (R Seargent).

Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper at The Moors (G Hay).

Leith Hill: 12 Spotted Flycatchers (W Attridge).

London Wetland Centre: drake Garganey on Wader Scrape; also 4 Green Sandpipers (A Salmon).

Tice’s Meadow: 5 Green Sandpipers (K Britten).

Saturday 12th

Beddington Farmlands: Yellow Wagtail, 4 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers (Z Pannifer/C Strudwick).

London Wetland Centre: drake Garganey on Wader Scrape; also Spotted Flycatcher, Meadow Pipit and Green Sandpiper (A Salmon).

Friday 11th

Yellow-legged Gull, Walton-on-Thames (D Harris).
Yellow-legged Gull, Walton-on-Thames (D Harris).

London Wetland Centre: 3 Green Sandpipers (A Salmon).

South Norwood CP: Common Sandpiper (J Schaub).

Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper (P Brown).

Walton-on-Thames: 2nd-summer Yellow-legged Gull by The Anglers pub (D Harris).

Thursday 10th

Pied (right) and Spotted Flycatchers, Leith Hill (W Attridge).
Pied (right) and Spotted Flycatchers, Leith Hill (W Attridge).

Beddington Farmlands: Whinchat, 7 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers (M Keenan/Z Pannifer).

Chobham Common: Spotted Flycatcher (J Downing).

Crooksbury Common: Spotted Flycatcher (J Gates).

Hankley Common: 5 Spotted Flycatchers (J Snell).

Leith Hill: female-type Pied Flycatcher by tower; also juvenile Black Redstart, 3 Hawfinches north, 3 Tree Pipits south and 3 Spotted Flycatchers (W Attridge/M Davis/R Stride).

Cattle Egret, London Wetland Centre (J Reeves).
Cattle Egret, London Wetland Centre (J Reeves).

London Wetland Centre: 4 Cattle Egrets from Peacock Tower; also drake Garganey and 3 Green Sandpipers (W Newham/J Reeves/A Salmon/A Wilkinson/D Wright).

Redhill: adult Mediterranean Gull south (G Hay).

Richmond Park: Whinchat (C Barker).

Tice’s Meadow: 3 Green Sandpipers (R Horton).

Wednesday 9th

Beddington Farmlands: Wheatear, Green Sandpiper and Common Sandpiper (Z Pannifer).

Brockwell Park: 2 Yellow Wagtails (S Patmore).

London Wetland Centre: Common Sandpiper and 2 Green Sandpipers (A Salmon).

Richmond Park: Whinchat (J Owen).

Thorpe Park: Oystercatcher and Common Sandpiper at St Ann’s Lake (J Snell).

Tice’s Meadow: 3 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers (R Horton/A Press).

Tuesday 8th

Beddington Farmlands: 10 Green Sandpipers and 3 Common Sandpipers (Z Pannifer).

Hankley Common: Spotted Flycatcher (A Goddard).

London Wetland Centre: Wheatear and 5 Green Sandpipers (Y Qiu/A Salmon).

Richmond Park: 2 Whinchats at Lawn Field; also 2 Yellow Wagtails over and Wheatear at Holly Lodge (D Brasier).

Tice’s Meadow: 3 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers (R Horton).

Monday 7th

Elstead: 2 Spotted Flycatchers (P Howse).

London Wetland Centre: 4 Green Sandpipers (A Salmon).

Thursley Common: 2 Wheatears (D Brassington).

Tice’s Meadow: 2 Green Sandpipers and Common Sandpiper (P Brown).

Sunday 6th

Garganey, London Wetland Centre (M Bradbury).
Garganey, London Wetland Centre (M Bradbury).

Beddington Farmlands: juvenile Wood Sandpiper; also 5 Green Sandpipers and 3 Common Sandpipers (D Bulling).

Holmethorpe SP: Spotted Flycatcher along railway line; also Common Sandpiper at Mercers West (G Hay/I Kehl).

London Wetland Centre: Sanderling; also drake Garganey on Wader Scrape, 4 Green Sandpipers and Common Sandpiper (J Appleton/M Bradbury/E McGovern/W Newnham/T Richardson/A Salmon).

Spotted Flycatcher, Whitmoor Common (M Fincham).
Spotted Flycatcher, Whitmoor Common (M Fincham).

Papercourt GPs: Common Sandpiper (M Matthews).

Tice’s Meadow: Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Green Sandpipers and Common Sandpiper (P Brown/R Horton).

Whitmoor Common: Spotted Flycatcher at Brook Pond (M Fincham).

Winterfold: Spotted Flycatcher (T Smith).

Saturday 5th

Dunlin, London Wetland Centre (A Salmon).
Dunlin, London Wetland Centre (A Salmon).

Addlestone GPs: Green Sandpiper (J Snell).

Beddington Farmlands: juvenile Wood Sandpiper; also 5 Green Sandpipers and Common Sandpiper (N Gardner).

Buckland Park Lake: Oystercatcher briefly (W Attridge).

Frensham Great Pond: 2 Common Sandpipers (E Stubbs).

London Wetland Centre: Dunlin on Main Lake; also Yellow Wagtail south, 3 Green Sandpipers and Common Sandpiper (A Salmon).

Mercers CP: Green Sandpiper at Mercers Quarry (N Hadden).

Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper and 3 Common Sandpipers (R Horton).

Friday 4th

Mediterranean Gull, Thorpe Park (J Snell).
Mediterranean Gull, Thorpe Park (J Snell).

Alfold: Spotted Flycatcher (J Williams).

Beddington Farmlands: juvenile Wood Sandpiper; also 5 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers (Z Pannifer).

London Wetland Centre: drake Garganey on Wader Scrape; also 2 Common Sandpipers and 3 Green Sandpipers (D Kadra/D Panchaud/A Wilkinson).

Richmond Park: 2 Whinchats at Pond Slade/Pen Ponds (D Brasier/P Pentek).

Thorpe Park: adult Mediterranean Gull at St Ann’s Lake; also Common Sandpiper at Manor Lake (J Snell).

Tice’s Meadow: 3 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers (R Horton).

Thursday 3rd

Wood Sandpiper, Beddington Farmlands (D Warren).
Wood Sandpiper, Beddington Farmlands (D Warren).

Beddington Farmlands: Wood Sandpiper (D Warren).

Holmethorpe SP: Common Sandpiper at Spyne’s Mere (G Hay).

Leith Hill: Great Egret south-west (W Attridge).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Common Sandpipers and 4 Green Sandpipers (A Wilkinson).

North Holmwood: Oystercatcher over at 22:43 (T Gibson).

Papercourt GPs: White-fronted Goose of unknown origin (E Sames).

Shackleford: Wheatear (P Osborn).

Tice’s Meadow: Spotted Flycatcher and Common Sandpiper (J Dummond).

Wednesday 2nd

Beddington Farmlands: Wood Sandpiper, 7 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers (I Jones/Z Pannifer).

London Wetland Centre: drake Garganey on Wader Scrape; also Common Sandpiper and Green Sandpiper (N Wheeler/A Wilkinson).

Tice’s Meadow: 3 Green Sandpipers and Common Sandpiper (K Britten).

Unstead SF: Green Sandpiper on South Meadow (J Parr).

Tuesday 1st

Beddington Farmlands: Green Sandpiper (N Thomas).

London Wetland Centre: Common Sandpiper and 3 Green Sandpipers (M Parker).

Richmond Park: Whinchat in Pond Slade area; also Wheatear (P Pentek/J Reeves).

Tice’s Meadow: Redstart; also Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers (R Horton).