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 D’Abernon: male Brambling at Slyfield Farm (J Snell).

Tice’s Meadow: Goosander and Green Sandpiper (B Dent).

Wednesday 29th

Badshot Lea Pond: Great Egret (J Hunt).

Battersea Power Station: Great Black-backed Gull (D Morrison).

Beddington Farmlands: 4 Shelduck and 2 Green Sandpipers (A Dutta/G Howgate/I McDonald).

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

Clapham Common: Mediterranean Gull (N Rutter).

Lammas Lands: Jack Snipe (N Willis).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Bearded Tits, 3rd-winter Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Bitterns and 2 Shelduck (N Anderson/C Dewhurst/J Reeves/A Salmon).

Send: Corn Bunting at Prews Farm (G Hinchon).

Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret (R Horton).

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake (A Wilkinson)

Tuesday 28th

Beddington Farmlands: 5 Shelduck, Jack Snipe, 6 Green Sandpipers and 2 Water Pipits (N Gardner)

London Wetland Centre: 2 Shelduck, Yellow-legged Gull, Bittern and Water Pipit (L Butler/A Salmon/A Wilkinson).

Send: Corn Bunting at Prews Farm (E Sames)

Monday 27th

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Shelduck (G Howgate).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Shelduck (P Lewis)

Walton-on Thames: 1st-winter Mediterranean Gull at The Anglers (D Harris)

Sunday 26th

Beddington Farmlands: Caspian Gull, 3 Water Pipits, 5 Shelduck, 2 Jack Snipe and 1 Green Sandiper (D Bulling/N Gardner).

Holmthorpe SP: Great Black-backed Gull and Green Sandpiper (T Blake/I Kehl).

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit, 2 Shelduck and 2 Great Black-backed Gulls (T Georgiev/A Harding/Z Zhou)

Shalford Water Meadows: female Bearded Tit; also Jack Snipe (D Brassington).

Saturday 25th

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

Cutt Mill Ponds: 4 Goosander (A Goddard).

London Wetland Centre: 1+ Bearded Tit and Bittern (BirdGuides).

Milford: Brambling at Secretts Farm (D Brassington).

Send: Corn Bunting at Prews Farm (A Westenberger).

Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret (R Horton).

Wallington: c 100 Golden Plovers north-west (N Gardner).

Friday 24th

Beddington Farmlands: 3 Shelduck (G Howgate).

Cutt Mill Ponds: 4 Goosander (N Bew/F Clark).

Effingham Forest: 3 Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (BirdGuides).

Send: Little Bunting at Prews Farm (E Sames).

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

Thursday 23rd

Beddington Farmlands: 3 Water Pipits, 2 Jack Snipe, 2 Shelduck and 2 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner).

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

London Wetland Centre: Bittern on Main Lake; also 2 Pintail (D Kettles/A Salmon).

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

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

Wallington: Great Black-backed Gull (A Dutta).

Wednesday 22nd

Clapham Common: Mediterranean Gull (N Rutter).

Coulsdon: Hawfinch in garden (O Carmona).

Effingham Forest: 10 Hawfinches and 2 Bramblings at Dick Focks Common (N Bew/R Dunne).

Frensham Great Pond: 4 Goosander (S Woolfries).

Holmethorpe SP: female Marsh Harrier south-west over Mercers West (I Kehl).

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh; also Pintail and 2 Great Black-backed Gulls (L Butler/A Salmon/M Wheeler).

Rotherhithe: Shag at South Dock (BirdGuides).

Send: Brambling and 100+ Linnets at Prews Farm (G Carmichael).

Tuesday 21st

Beddington Farmlands: Marsh Harrier over 100 Acre; also 3 Shelduck and Green Sandpiper (G Howgate/M Kohler).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern and Water Pipit (L Butler/C Dewhurst/A Salmon).

Ranmore Common: 21 Hawfinches at Dorking Wood (S Gale).

Richmond Park: 2 Dartford Warblers (N Anderson).

Send: 5 Bramblings at Prews Farm (E Sames).

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

Monday 20th

Beddington Farmlands: Jack Snipe, 5 Shelduck and Green Sandpiper (I Jones/M Kohler/R Walker).

Effingham Forest: 5 Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (D Haydon).

Haslemere: Brambling (R King).

Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper at The Moors (A Kundrotas).

Lambeth: Caspian Gull on River Thames (BirdGuides).

Send: Little Bunting at Prews Farm (12th vice-county record but sixth since 2020); also Brambling (E Sames).

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

Sunday 19th

Beddington Farmlands: 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Water Pipits, 2 Jack Snipe, Great Black-backed Gull, 4 Shelduck and 3 Green Sandpipers (D Bulling/N Gardner).

Churt: Green Sandpiper in garden (R Douglas).

Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper (T Smith).

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): drake and female Pintail east (D Harris).

London Wetland Centre: male and female Bearded Tits, 2 Bitterns and female Pintail (J Lynton-Jenkins/W Newnham/N Stapley).

Ranmore Common: 30 Hawfinches at Dorking Wood (S Gale).

Richmond Park: Dartford Warbler in Skylark Protection Area (BirdGuides).

Tice’s Meadow: Goosander (R Horton).

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

Saturday 18th

Alfold Crossways: female Ring-necked Duck on pond north of Pallinghurst Farm (A Goddard/R Stride).

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

Cutt Mill Ponds: 6 Goosander (M Fincham).

Hersham GP: 146 Barnacle Geese (D Harris).

Holmwood SF: Green Sandpiper (A Holden).

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit and Pintail (A Salmon/A Wilkinson).

Send: Brambling and several hundred Chaffinches at Prews Farm (M Kettell).

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

Friday 17th

Alfold Crossways: female Ring-necked Duck on pond north of Pallinghurst Farm (R Stride).

Beddington Farmlands: 4 Water Pipits, 5 Shelduck and 6 Green Sandpipers (G Howgate/R Walker).

Effingham Forest: 5+ Hawfinches and 18 Bramblings at Dick Focks Common (D Cox).

London Wetland Centre: male and female Bearded Tits from Headley Hide; also Bittern on Main Lake, Water Pipit, Goldeneye, Pintail and 2 Great Black-backed Gulls (BirdGuides/P Major/D Panchaud/G Robson).

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

Thursday 16th

Beddington Farmlands: 3 Water Pipits, Shelduck and 2 Green Sandpipers (I Jones).

Cutt Mill Ponds: 2 Goosander (T Harrison).

Effingham Forest: Goshawk and 15 Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (R Clare/L Jones).

Fetcham: 5 Goosander on River Mole (W Attridge).

Hersham GP: 16 Barnacle Geese and drake Shelduck (J Snell).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern at Reservoir Lagoon and Water Pipit at Main Lake; also Pintail and Great Black-backed Gull (M Auger/M Mac/A Salmon).

Richmond Park: Mediterranean Gull and Dartford Warbler (P Pentek/D Woods).

Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret; also Green Sandpiper (R Horton).

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

Wednesday 15th

Beddington Farmlands: Shelduck (G Howgate).

Capel: Hawfinch north (W Attridge).

London Wetland Centre: Hawfinch on South Route feeders; also 2 Bitterns, Water Pipit and Great Black-backed Gull (C Dewhurst/W Newnham/A Salmon/M Wheeler).

Richmond Park: Great Black-backed Gull at Stave Hill (J Cadera).

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on pond (BirdGuides).

Tuesday 14th

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

Effingham Forest: Goshawk, 10+ Hawfinches and Brambling at Dick Focks Common (P Davies/G Robson).

Fetcham Mill Pond: redhead Goosander (A Nunns).

Horley: Green Sandpiper (J Middleton).

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

Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper (H Lewis).

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

Waverley Abbey: Cattle Egret (K Duncan).

Monday 13th

Beddington Farmlands: 4 Water Pipits, Shelduck and Green Sandpiper (A Dutta/G Howgate/R Walker/D Warren).

Clapham Common: Mediterranean Gull at Mount Pond (A Bayly/J Sigrist).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern on Main Lake; also 3 Great Black-backed Gulls (B Carter/C Dewhurst/M Mac).

Stoke D’Abernon: male and female Bramblings at Slyfield Farm (J Snell).

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

Wandsworth Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck (BirdGuides).

Sunday 12th

Beddington Farmlands: Golden Plover, 3 Water Pipits, Jack Snipe, 2 Shelduck and 3 Green Sandpipers (S Camilleri/N Gardner/G Howgate/C Strudwick).

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

Farnham Heath RSPB: female Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (I Bradshaw).

Frensham Great Pond: 2 drake Goosander (D Brassington).

Island Barn Reservoir: 129 Barnacle Geese (D Harris).

Leith Hill: 2 Bramblings (J Taylor).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Bitterns, Water Pipit, Pintail, Great Black-backed Gull, 142 Shoveler and 3 Shelduck (D Bradshaw/C Robson/A Salmon/M Wheeler/A Wilkinson/F Wright).

Richmond Park: Dartford Warbler (BirdGuides).

Send: 2 Bramblings at Prews Farm (B Hagan/C Le Jeune).

St Martha’s Hill: 12 Hawfinches (T Knox).

Thorpe Park: drake Goldeneye at Abbey Meads Lake (K Duncan).

Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper (M Scott).

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck (BirdGuides).

Wotton: Hawfinch and 30+ Yellowhammers by church (A Holden).

Saturday 11th

Beddington Farmlands: Redshank, Water Pipit, Jack Snipe, Shelduck and Green Sandpiper (G Jones/G Howgate).

Cranleigh: 2 Great Black-backed Gulls south (R Stride).

Downside: Green Sandpiper (J Snell).

Effingham Forest: 10 Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (S Kirby/H Speirs).

Leatherhead: drake Goosander by Leatherhead bridge (D Kiddell).

London Wetland Centre: 3 Bearded Tits; also 2 Bitterns, Pintail and Water Pipit (O Hague/N Maybury/J McCulloch/C Ryland/A Salmon).

Milford: 100 Linnets at Secretts Farm (D Brassington).

Newlands Corner: c 10 Hawfinches below car park (BirdGuides).

Friday 10th

Beddington Farmlands: male Bearded Tit, first-winter Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Great Black-backed Gulls, Water Pipit, Shelduck and 3 Green Sandpipers (A Dutta).

Chessington: Dartford Warbler at Park Farm (J Gordon).

Hook: first-winter Black Redstart at Hook Road (T Inns).

London Wetland Centre: male and female Bearded Tits, Bittern and 2 Shelduck on Main Lake and Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh (D Panchaud/A Salmon).

Send: Brambling at Prews Farm (E Sames).

Thorpe Park: drake Goldeneye at Abbey Meads Lake (J Snell).

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

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck (BirdGuides).

Thursday 9th

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Water Pipits, Jack Snipe, Great Black-backed Gull, Shelduck and 3 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner/G Howgate/R Walker).

Fetcham: 5 Goosander on River Mole (J Snell).

Holmethorpe SP: Great Egret and Green Sandpiper at The Moors (J Rushforth).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern and female Pintail on Main Lake; also Great Black-backed Gull and 2 Shelduck (S Camilleri/R Dunne/A Salmon/A Wilkinson/C Williams).

Polesden Lacey: 3 Goosander (A Nunns).

Richmond Park: 2 Jack Snipe and Dartford Warbler (P Pentek).

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

Tice’s Meadow: Jack Snipe, Dartford Warbler and Green Sandpiper (R Horton).

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck (BirdGuides).

Wednesday 8th

Downside: drake Shelduck (J Snell).

Hook: female-type Black Redstart in garden (G Barter).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern, Great Black-backed Gull and female Pintail on Main Lake and Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh (C Dewhurst/W Newnham/P Pentek/A Salmon).

Newlands Corner: 20+ Hawfinches below car park (BirdGuides).

Send: 6 Bramblings at Prews Farm (R Dunne/A Goddard/E Sames).

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck (BirdGuides).

Tuesday 7th

Beddington Farmlands: adult Mediterranean Gull on Wet Grassland; also 2 Water Pipits, Jack Snipe, 2 Shelduck and 3 Green Sandpipers (A Dutta/G Howgate/R Walker/D Warren).

Cutt Mill Ponds: 4 Goosander (P Brown/S Casson/R Seargent).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern on Reservoir Lagoon (A Salmon).

Merrow Downs: 6+ Hawfinches (BirdGuides).

Papercourt Water Meadows: adult White-fronted Goose at Papercourt Farm (E Sames).

Puttenham Common: Brambling (R Horton).

Southwark Park: Great Black-backed Gull (J Cadera).

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

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

Monday 6th

Beddington Farmlands: Shelduck (G Howgate).

Cutt Mill Ponds: 4 Goosander (D Kettles).

Frensham Outlet Pond: 5 Goosander (G Sharples).

Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper at The Moors (N Hadden).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern on Reservoir Lagoon (A Salmon).

Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck (BirdGuides).

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: Corn Bunting, Siberian Chiffchaff and Brambling at Prews Farm (N Bew/T Cummins/C Lodge/I Poulter/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).