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

Water Pipit, Beddington Farmlands (A Dutta).
Water Pipit, Beddington Farmlands (A Dutta).

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).

Siberian Chiffchaff, Send (E Sames).
Siberian Chiffchaff, Send (E Sames).

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

Water Pipit, Holmethorpe SP (G Hay).
Water Pipit, Holmethorpe SP (G Hay).

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).