January 2025
Sunday 5th
Barn Elms: Caspian Gull on Thames foreshore (J Wilczur).
Beddington Farmlands: male Bearded Tit, Jack Snipe, Water Pipit, 2 Shelduck and 8 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner/G Howgate/A Robertson).
Burgess Park: Great Black-backed Gull (D Clark).
Holmethorpe SP: Water Pipit at The Moors; also Great Black-backed Gull and Green Sandpiper (G Hay).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern on Main Lake (A Salmon).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).
Saturday 4th
Beddington Farmlands: male Bearded Tit, 2 Water Pipits, 2 Green Sandpipers and 3 Shelduck (G Jones).
Effingham Forest: 11 Hawfinches and 7 Bramblings at Dick Focks Common (T Gibson).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern on Reservoir Lagoon, female Pintail on Main Lake and Great Black-backed Gull (A Hurst/A Salmon).
Send: 5 Bramblings at Prews Farm (M Fincham/W Justice).
Tice’s Meadow: Dartford Warbler and Green Sandpiper (P Brown).
Tooting Common: Great Egret south; also 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck (I Strickland).
Westcott: 6 Goosander at Milton Court Lake (A Holden).
Friday 3rd
Beddington Farmlands: Golden Plover south; also 2 Water Pipits, 2 Great Black-backed Gulls, 2 Jack Snipe, 3 Shelduck and 2 Green Sandpipers (B Clyne/A Dutta/Z Pannifer/M Parker/C Strudwick/R Walker).
Box Hill: 40+ Hawfinches at Ashurst Roughs (A Holden).
Effingham Forest: female Goshawk and 5 Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (J Klavins/G Robson).
Haslemere: male Brambling in garden (D Kettles).
Kingston upon Thames: Caspian Gull (T Inns).
London Wetland Centre: 2 Bitterns at Reservoir Lagoon; also Water Pipit and Great Black-backed Gull (G Bunce/T Richardson/A Salmon).
Holmethorpe SP: 2 Great Black-backed Gulls at Mercers West (G Hay).
Send: Siberian Chiffchaff and Brambling at Prews Farm (N Bew/T Cummins/C Lodge/E Sames).
Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper (R Horton).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).
Unstead SF: 7 Water Rails (J Parr).
Worplesdon: White-fronted Goose with Greylags at Hollow and Rokers Farms (J Gates).
Thursday 2nd
Badshot Lea Pond: redhead Goosander (J Hunt).
Beddington Farmlands: Black-tailed Godwit; also 3 Water Pipits, 2 Shelduck and 8 Green Sandpipers (R Dennis/G Howgate/C Strudwick).
Box Hill: 150+ Hawfinches at Ashurst Rough (S Gale).
Cutt Mill Ponds: 3 Goosander (M Elsoffer).
Effingham Forest: 15 Hawfinches and 2 Bramblings at Dick Focks Common (G Robson).
Hedgecourt Lake: Goosander or Red-breasted Merganser over (K Noble).
Holmethorpe SP: 2 Green Sandpipers (G Hay).
Kingston upon Thames: 1st-winter Caspian Gull (BirdGuides).
Leatherhead: redhead Goosander on River Mole (J Snell).
London Wetland Centre: male and female Bearded Tits from Headley Hide; also Pintail (BirdGuides/C Dewhurst/A Wilkinson).
Mickleham: Hawfinch (S Gale).
Mickleham Downs: 20 Hawfinches (S Gale).
Richmond Park: Brent Goose (R van der Hoeven)
Send: 2 Bramblings and Yellowhammer at Prews Farm (S Lumsden/R Marshall).
Southwark Park: Great Black-backed Gull (J Cadera).
Stoke Lake: Great Black-backed Gull (S Casson).
Tice’s Meadow: 4 Redshank (S Kirby).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).
Westcott: 4 Goosander at Milton Court Lake (J Waterman/C York).
Wednesday 1st
Beddington Farmlands: adult Kittiwake east; also 1st-winter Caspian Gull, 2nd-winter Yellow-legged Gull, 4+ Great Black-backed Gulls, 2 Water Pipits, Jack Snipe, 2 Shelduck and 2 Green Sandpipers (B Clyne/G Jones/I Jones/Z Pannifer).
Cutt Mill Ponds: Goosander (G Sharples).
Holmethorpe SP: Water Pipit and Green Sandpiper at Chilmead Farm, drake Pintail at Spynes Mere, Great Black-backed Gull over and Jack Snipe at The Moors (G Hay/I Kehl/A Kundrotas).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern on Main Lake; also 2 Water Pipits, Great Black-backed Gull and Jack Snipe (A Salmon/Y Simmonds).
Send: Brambling and Yellowhammer at Prews Farm (E Sames).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).