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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 Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).

Wandsworth: Black Redstart at King George’s Park (BirdGuides).

Monday 30th

Beddington Farmlands: Bearded Tit, 3 Water Pipits, Jack Snipe, 2 Shelduck and Green Sandpiper (G Jones/I Jones/S Thomas).

Capel: Hawfinch at Weare Street (W Attridge).

Cutt Mill Ponds: 5 Goosander (A Wilkinson).

Haslemere: Brambling (J King).

Kingston upon Thames: 1st-winter Caspian Gull at recycling centre (T Inns).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern (P Lewis).

Mercers CP: drake Pintail on Mercers Lake (N Hadden/G Hay).

Richmond Park: Redshank, Marsh Harrier north-east and 3 Dartford Warblers (D Brasier/C Le Jeune).

Shalford Water Meadows: female Bearded Tit at St Catherine’s Marsh; also Jack Snipe (D Brassington/M Kettell).

Wey Manor Meadows: Pintail (M Higham).

Worcester Park: 115 Carrion Crows (B Smith).

Sunday 29th

Beddington Farmlands: male Bearded Tit; also 2 Jack Snipe, 2 Water Pipits, 4 Green Sandpipers and 2 Shelduck (D Bulling).

Bletchingley: 3 male Yellowhammers (C Tomkins).

Burgess Park: Great Black-backed Gull (D Clark).

Holmethorpe SP: 2 Green Sandpipers (G Hay/I Kehl).

Holmwood: Brambling and 30 Lapwings at Lodge Farm (T Gibson).

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): Dunlin; also 35 Barnacle Geese and Green Sandpiper (D Harris).

Leatherhead: Goosander at Common Meadow (A Nunns).

London Wetland Centre: Bearded Tit from Headley Hide; also Great Black-backed Gull (C Moore/M Wheeler).

Papercourt Water Meadows: Hawfinch (E Sames).

Send: 2 Bramblings and 100+ Chaffinches at Heath Farm, 7+ Brambling at Prews Farm and 300+ Linnets by weir (M Bradbury/J Downing/E Sames).

Shalford Water Meadows: female Bearded Tit at St Catherine’s Marsh; also Jack Snipe and c 60 Common Snipe (D Brassington).

Saturday 28th

Beddington Farmlands: Knot at 100 Acre; also 2 Water Pipits, 3 Shelduck and 4 Green Sandpiper (G Jones/I Jones).

Burgess Park: Great Black-backed Gull (D Clark).

Effingham Forest: 4 Hawfinches, Goshawk and 2 Crossbills at Dick Focks Common (P Davies/T Gibson/M Keenan).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern and Great Black-backed Gull (G O’Sullivan).

Tice’s Meadow: Goosander; also 2 Green Sandpipers (M Elsoffer).

Woking: 2 Hawfinches at Hoe Valley (BirdGuides/J Taylor).

Friday 27th

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Water Pipits, 3 Shelduck and 4 Green Sandpipers (G Jones/M Roche).

Effingham Forest: Hawfinch at Dick Focks Common (D Haydon).

Leatherhead: drake Goosander on River Mole (J Snell).

London Wetland Centre: Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Great Black-backed Gulls and Bittern at Main Lake (K Dossett/J Klavins/D Panchaud/A Salmon).

Sheepleas: 4 Hawfinches (BirdGuides).

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).

Thursday 26th

Burgess Park: Great Black-backed Gull (D Clark).

Effingham Forest: 6 Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (E Smith).

Holmethorpe SP: Great Black-backed Gull at Mercers West; also 2 Green Sandpipers (G Hay).

Richmond Park: Green Sandpiper at Upper Pen Pond (T Rosas).

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).

Wednesday 25th

Cutt Mill Ponds: drake Goosander (K Duncan).

Sheepleas: 4 Hawfinches by car park (Y Pocklington).

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).

Woking: Hawfinch at Hoe Valley (BirdGuides).

Tuesday 24th

Beddington Farmlands: 1st-winter Caspian Gull, drake Goosander, Water Pipit, 2 Shelduck and 2 Green Sandpipers (A Dutta/G Jones/I Jones).

Burgess Park: Great Black-backed Gull (D Clark).

Effingham Forest: Hawfinch at Dick Focks Common (P Harrison).

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): Great Black-backed Gull; also Barnacle Goose flock in fields to south and 3 Green Sandpipers (T Inns).

London Wetland Centre: 1+ Bearded Tits from Headley Hide; also Bittern on Reservoir Lagoon (BirdGuides/A Salmon).

Lonsdale Road Reservoir: 2 Shelduck (H Sun).

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).

Westcott: Goosander at Milton Court (C York).

Monday 23rd

Beddington Farmlands: adult Yellow-legged Gull, Jack Snipe, 5 Water Pipits, 3 Shelduck and 4 Green Sandpipers (D Bulling/G Howgate).

Effingham Forest: 17 Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (J Klavins/N More).

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): Green Sandpiper (T Inns).

London Wetland Centre: Shelduck on Main Lake (A Salmon).

Richmond Park: Dartford Warbler (T Rosas).

Tate Modern: 2 Great Black-backed Gulls (R Braddock).

Sunday 22nd

Beddington Farmlands: Water Pipit, 2 Shelduck and Green Sandpiper (G Jones/I Jones).

Effingham Forest: 9 Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (M Fincham).

Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper at Mercers West (G Hay/I Kehl/A Kundrotas).

Leatherhead: 4 Goosander on River Mole (J Snell).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern at Main Lake; also 2 Shelduck (K Leonhardt/T Richardson/T Rosas).

Mercers CP: drake Goosander over (G Hay/I Kehl).

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).

Saturday 21st

Beddington Farmlands: Shelduck (B Carter/G Howgate).

Richmond Park: Mediterranean Gull, 2 Bramblings, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker and 5 Dartford Warblers (D Brasier).

Tice’s Meadow: Jack Snipe (R Seargent).

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).

Wandsworth: Green Sandpiper (R Goodman).

Friday 20th

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Shelduck (G Howgate).

Effingham Forest: 2 Goshawks and 7 Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (A Harding).

Frensham Great Pond: 2 Goosander (P Brown).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern on Reservoir Lagoon and Pintail on Main Lake (M Auger/M Ball/A Salmon).

Newlands Corner: 7 Hawfinches (M Kettell).

Pennymead Lake: 7 Goosander (A Harding).

Richmond Park: Dartford Warbler (D Williams).

Send: 4+ Bramblings at Prews Farm (J Downing/L Sawkins).

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

Wimbledon Common: 10 Firecrests (J Reeves)

Thursday 19th

Beddington Farmlands: male Bearded Tit; also Water Pipit, 3 Shelduck and 3 Green Sandpipers (J Pettit).

Effingham Forest: 3 Hawfinches, 3 Bramblings and 3 Crossbills at Dick Focks Common (K Tsering).

Holmethorpe SP: Water Pipit at Chilmead Farm (N Hadden).

London Wetland Centre: Pintail (M Andrews).

Wednesday 18th

Downside: 4 Goosander on River Mole (J Snell).

Effingham Forest: 10+ Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (M Bravery).

Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper at Chilmead Farm (N Hadden).

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh, Bittern at Wildside, female Pintail on Main Lake and Great Black-backed Gull (A Fitzgerald/T Richardson/M Wheeler).

Tice’s Meadow: Merlin (R Horton).

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).

Tuesday 17th

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Shelduck (A Dutta).

Cutt Mill Ponds: 4 Goosander (R Seargent).

Frensham Great Pond: 1st-winter Red-throated Diver found dead; also 6 Goosander (S Alley/BirdGuides).

Hedgecourt Lake: redhead Goosander (J Ross).

London Wetland Centre: male and female Bearded Tits at Main Lake and 2 Bitterns at Reservoir Lagoon (A Salmon).

Papercourt Water Meadows: Great Egret (E Sames).

Richmond Park: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker at Isabella Plantation; also 2 Dartford Warblers (N Anderson/P Matthews).

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).

Monday 16th

Cutt Mill Ponds: 10 Goosander (I Rowe).

Frensham Great Pond: 1st-winter Red-throated Diver; also 4 Goosander (BirdGuides).

Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper at The Moors (J Middleton).

Horley: Green Sandpiper (J Middleton).

Jacobs Well: drake Pintail at Britten’s Pond (L Sawkins).

London Wetland Centre: male and female Bearded Tits at Main Lake; also Water Pipit, Bittern and Pintail (M Parker/A Salmon).

Mickleham: 2 Hawfinches at Norbury Park (J Snell).

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).

Sunday 15th

Beddington Farmlands: 3 Water Pipits, 2 Shelduck and 4 Green Sandpipers (D Bulling/G Howgate).

Berrylands: 1+ Crossbill over (N Tanner).

Bookham Common: Hawfinch (R Iredale).

Frensham Great Pond: 1st-winter Red-throated Diver; also 4 Goosander (S Peters).

Holmethorpe SP: Water Pipit at Chilmead Farm; also Green Sandpiper (T Blake/G Hay/I Kehl).

Jacobs Well: drake Pintail at Britten’s Pond (M Fincham).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern, Pintail and Great Black-backed Gull (J Bingley).

Richmond Park: 2 Dartford Warblers (F Matthews).

Send: Brambling at Prews Farm (W Justice).

Tice’s Meadow: Dunlin (S Kirby).

Saturday 14th

Beddington Farmlands: Water Pipit, 2 Shelduck and 3 Green Sandpipers (B Carter/G Jones/M Keenan).

Frensham Great Pond: 4 Goosander (R Morris/B Scammell).

London Wetland Centre: Brent Goose, Bearded Tit and Bittern at Main Lake; also Great Black-backed Gull, Goldeneye and Shelduck (N Johnson/C Moore/S Price).

Send: 14 Bramblings at Prews Farm (M Fincham/H Macbean/E Sames).

Thorpe Park: drake Goldeneye at St Ann’s Lake (J Snell).

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

Friday 13th

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Shelduck and 2 Green Sandpipers (I Jones).

Earlswood Lakes: drake Goosander on lower lake (I Kehl).

Effingham Forest: 16+ Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (T Morgan).

Frensham Great Pond: 3 Goosander (J Sinclair).

London Wetland Centre: male and female Bearded Tits at Main Lake; also Caspian Gull, 2 Water Pipits on Wader Scrape, Bittern and Great Black-backed Gull on Main Lake and 2 Shelduck on Reservoir Lagoon (C Dewhurst/D Panchaud/A Salmon).

Richmond Park: Pintail (P Pentek).

Worcester Park: Brambling (C Alpera).

Thursday 12th

Beddington Farmlands: female Goosander over; also Water Pipit, female Shelduck and 2 Green Sandpipers (D Bulling).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern at Wildside; also 2 Shelduck (T Richardson/A Salmon).

Send: 3 Bramblings at Prews Farm (A Goddard).

Wednesday 11th

Beddington Farmlands: Water Pipit and 6 Great Black-backed Gulls (S Kirby).

Earlswood Lakes: drake Goosander on lower lake (K Duncan).

Leatherhead: adult Great Black-backed Gull north-west (N Batten).

Mickleham: Mediterranean Gull at Norbury Park Farm (J Snell).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern and 2 Shelduck (C Dewhurst/C Lowman).

Tuesday 10th

Bookham Common: Hawfinch (R Iredale).

Effingham Forest: 2 Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (BirdGuides).

Holmethorpe SP: 2 Green Sandpipers at Chilmead Farm (G Hay).

London Wetland Centre: male and female Bearded Tits; also 2 Shelduck on Main Lake and Great Black-backed Gull (M Bowen/A Salmon/K Sim).

Papercourt GP: adult Mediterranean Gull (E Sames).

Send: 20+ Bramblings at Prews Farm (E Sames).

Tate Modern: Great Black-backed Gull (R Braddock).

Tice’s Meadow: Jack Snipe and 63 Common Snipe (R Horton).

Wandsworth Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).

Monday 9th

Beddington Farmlands: Water Pipit, 2 Shelduck and Green Sandpiper (R Browne/R Walker).

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh and 3rd-winter Yellow-legged Gull on Main Lake (A Salmon/M Wheeler).

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).

Sunday 8th

Enton Lakes: 1st-winter Long-tailed Duck on Johnson’s Lake (D Brassington).

Mercers CP: Great Black-backed Gull (S Casson/A Harding).

Saturday 7th

Earlswood Lakes: drake Goosander on upper lake (A Baldock).

Waterloo: 1st-winter Caspian Gull on River Thames (BirdGuides).

Friday 6th

Desborough Island: Great Black-backed Gull (J Irvine).

Earlswood Lakes: drake Goosander on upper lake (A Baldock).

Frensham Great Pond: drake Goosander (P Davy).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Water Pipits on Grazing Marsh, Bittern on Main Lake and female Pintail on Wildside (J Reeves/A Salmon).

Richmond Park: Dartford Warbler (R Dunne).

Thursday 5th

Albury: 50 Mandarin Duck at Postford Ponds (E Garcia).

Beddington Farmlands: 3 Water Pipits, female Shelduck and Green Sandpiper (A Dutta/M Kohler/M Murphy/R Walker).

Holmethorpe SP: 3 Green Sandpipers at Chilmead Farm (N Hadden).

London Wetland Centre: Yellow-legged Gull (P Gray/D Hasletine).

Wednesday 4th

Beddington Farmlands: male Bearded Tit at South Lake; also female Shelduck on North Lake, 3 Water Pipits and Green Sandpiper (D Bulling/G Howgate/I Jones).

Capel: Great Egret north-east (W Attridge).

Earlswood Lakes: drake Goosander on lower lake (A Bashford).

Effingham Forest: 4 Hawfinches, female Goshawk and Brambling at Dick Focks Common (P Davies).

Hersham GP: 108 Barnacle Geese (J Snell).

Knight & Bessborough Reservoirs (permit only): Common Sandpiper (A Quinn).

London Wetland Centre: adult Yellow-legged Gull on Main Lake; also Bitterns at Main Lake and Reservoir Lagoon, female Pintail at Wildside and Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh (C Dewhurst/J Reeves/A Salmon/M Wheeler).

Send: 2 Bramblings at Prews Farm (M Bravery/E Sames).

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).

Waterloo: 1st-winter Caspian Gull on Thames at Waterloo Bridge (BirdGuides).

Tuesday 3rd

Beddington Farmlands: male and female Bearded Tits at South Lake; also 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull on Wet Grassland, 3 Water Pipits, female Shelduck and Green Sandpiper (A Dutta/G Howgate/R Walker).

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh (A Salmon).

Send: Brambling (E Sames).

Tate Modern: Great Black-backed Gull (R Braddock).

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

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).

Monday 2nd

Beddington Farmlands: 3 Water Pipits, female Shelduck and 2 Green Sandpipers (G Howgate/R Walker).

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh (A Salmon).

Papercourt Water Meadows: Great Egret over; also 4 Bramblings at Prews Farm (E Sames).

Redhill: female Goshawk over army reserve centre (R Seargent).

Richmond Park: Dartford Warbler (E Devlin).

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).

Wandsworth Common: 2 Mediterranean Gulls (N Rutter).

Sunday 1st

Beddington Farmlands: 4 Hawfinches over North Lake; also female Shelduck and Green Sandpiper (D Bulling).

Frimley: male Brambling in garden on Old Pasture Road (M Radbourn).

Holmethorpe SP: Water Pipit and 2 Green Sandpipers at Chilmead Farm (T Blake/G Hay/I Kehl).

London Wetland Centre: adult Yellow-legged Gull and Bittern on Main Lake (A Salmon).

Send: Brambling at Prews Farm (A Press).

South Norwood CP: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (K Sproson).

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).