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Friday 31st

Capel: 2+ Crossbills flew over (W Attridge).

Chelsea & Lambeth Reservoirs: 14 Green Sandpipers (C Turner).

Thursley Common: 16 Crossbills flew over (D Brassington).

Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret still; also Greenshank, Dunlin, 8 Green Sandpipers and Common Sandpiper (K Britten/J Hunt).

Weyburn Meadows: 5 Crossbills flew over (E Stubbs).

Thursday 30th

Leith Hill: 16 Crossbills over tower (M Davis/M Phelps).

Newchapel: 2 Green Sandpipers at British Wildlife Centre (K Noble).

Richmond Park: Red-crested Pochard (P Pentek).

South Norwood CP: 2 Green Sandpipers and Common Sandpiper (J Hughes).

Surbiton: Common Sandpiper at Surbiton Filter Beds (M Hare).

Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret still; also Greenshank, 1 Common Sandpiper and 5 Green Sandpipers (D Kenrick).

Wimbledon Common: 2 Crossbills flew north over Mounds (A Podmore).

Wednesday 29th

Ash Vale: Great Egret (probably same bird as at Tice’s) at Lakeside NR in morning (BirdGuides).

Burgh Heath: juvenile male Hen Harrier still at Canons Farm until 09:30 then no further sign; also Honey Buzzard (probably a female) flew south at c.15:00 and Pied Flycatcher briefly by metal gate leading to Stoney Nob mid-afternoon. Park on Canons Lane (R Draper/S Ferguson/C Northwood et al).

Cranleigh: 5 Crossbills flew west over garden (R Stride).

Papercourt Water Meadows: 2 Whinchats (I Rowe).

Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret again; also Greenshank and Green Sandpiper (K Duncan/R Horton/H Leonard).

Tuesday 28th

Beddington Farmlands: 5 Green Sandpipers and Shelduck (BFBG).

Burgh Heath: juvenile male Hen Harrier still at Canons Farm throughout day though mobile; park on Canons Lane (S Ferguson/S Gale/I Jones/B Shimmers/V Soares et al).

Dorking: juvenile Mediterranean Gull with Black-headed Gulls at Priory School in evening (M Davis).

Frensham Great Pond: 8 Common Sandpipers together on south side (J Hodge).

Guildford: possible Night Heron flew north over Slyfield Industrial Estate in afternoon (BirdGuides).

London Wetland Centre: Dunlin and Common Sandpiper (P Wallace).

Newchapel: Green Sandpiper at British Wildlife Centre (K Noble).

Richmond Park: Red-crested Pochard (P Pentek).

Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper (T Knox).

Tuesley: Crossbill flew south (E Stubbs).

Monday 27th

Burgh Heath: juvenile male Hen Harrier again at Canons Farm, at Infront George East and Stoney Nob between 19:30 and 20:00 (S Hammond).

Capel: Green Sandpiper (W Attridge).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Green Sandpipers and Redstart (WWT).

Newchapel: Green Sandpiper at British Wildlife Centre (K Noble).

Thursley Common: 2 Crossbills over Ockley Common (E Stubbs).

Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret again early morning then flew off at 05:00; also Arctic Tern (BirdGuides/L Winchcombe).

Sunday 26th

Beddington Farmlands: Common Sandpiper (Z Pannifer).

Burgh Heath: juvenile male Hen Harrier again at Canons Farm, at Infront George East and West then Stoney Nob between 19:00-20:00 (S Hammond).

Holmethorpe SP: 2 Common SandpiperS (G Hay).

Newchapel: Green Sandpiper at British Wildlife Centre (K Noble).

Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret again in morning then flew up Blackwater Valley; also Arctic Tern, Dunlin, 5 Green Sandpipers and 8 Common Sandpipers (J Ainsworth/T Gibson/J Hunt/R Horton/R Seargent).

Saturday 25th

Crooksbury Common: 14 Crossbills (J Gates).

Esher: Crossbill over (S Jones).

Ewell: Common Sandpiper sound recorded over Ewell at 23:07 (S Thomas).

Forest Green: Crossbill flew west (R Stride).

Morden Hall Park: Dunlin flew over at 06:00; also adult Yellow-legged Gull (S Patmore).

Richmond Park: Red-crested Pochard (P Pentek).

Tice’s Meadow: 2 Green Sandpipers and 3 Common Sandpipers (J Hobden/j Wareing).

Friday 24th

Burgh Heath: juvenile male Hen Harrier at Canons Farm over Horse Pasture in evening (S Hammond).

Newchapel: 2 Green Sandpipers at British Wildlife Centre (K Noble).

Rotherhithe: adult Yellow-legged Gull (R Bonser).

Tice’s Meadow: 2 Great Egrets again in The Workings then flew east at 11:15; also Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers (S Ferguson/R Seargent/L Winchcombe).

Thursday 23rd

Cranleigh: 10 Crossbills flew over garden (R Stride).

Holmethorpe SP: Common Sandpiper (G Hay).

Richmond Park: Red-crested Pochard (P Pentek).

Tice’s Meadow: 2 Great Egrets again in The Workings then flew east at 11:45 (1 later returned); also 3 Common Sandpipers (K Britten/J Brough/M Nurse).

Wednesday 22nd

Beddington Farmlands: Common Sandpiper and Green Sandpiper (E Chak/A Dutta/Z Pannifer).

Leith Hill: 29 Crossbills (R Stride).

Newchapel: 2 Green Sandpipers at British Wildlife Centre (K Noble).

Shackleford: Whinchat at Lydling Farm (E Stubbs).

Tice’s Meadow: 2 Great Egrets then flew down Blackwater Valley (1 returned late morning); also 2 Green Sandpipers (J Brough/J Wareing).

Tuesday 21st

London Wetland Centre: Greenshank, 2 Black-tailed Godwits, 2 Redshank and Green Sandpiper (WWT).

Newchapel: 2 Green Sandpipers at British Wildlife Centre (K Noble).

Papercourt Water Meadows: 2 Whinchats (J Hobden).

Richmond Park: Red-crested Pochard (P Pentek).

Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret in The Workings; also Dunlin, Green Sandpiper and Common Sandpiper (P Brown/D Burford/R Horton/many observers).

Monday 20th

Beddington Farmlands: Common Sandpiper on North Lake (A Wasley).

Godstone: Crossbill flew south (G Hay).

Holmethorpe SP: Common Sandpiper on Spynes Mere (G Hay).

Newchapel: Green Sandpiper at British Wildlife Centre (K Noble).

Rotherhithe: juvenile Mediterranean Gull (R Bonser).

Thursley Common: 11 Crossbills (E Stubbs).

Sunday 19th

Beddington Farmlands: 3 Redshanks and Green Sandpiper (I Jones).

Capel: Little Ringed Plover (W Attridge).

Newchapel: Green Sandpiper at British Wildlife Centre (K Noble).

Richmond Park: Redshank briefly on Pen Ponds (A Westenberger).

Tice’s Meadow: Turnstone, Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Dunlin, 3 Oysteratchers, 3 Redshanks and 4 Green Sandpipers (K Duncan).

West Molesey: adult Caspian Gull in morning (D Harris).

Saturday 18th

Chiddingfold Forest: Lesser Redpoll and 20 Crossbills (C Burchell).

Denbies Hillside: 7 Crossbills (M Davis).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Mediterranean Gulls (WWT).

Tice’s Meadow: metal-ringed Arctic Tern on post in The Workings (R Seargent).

Friday 17th

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Crossbills flew over (BFBG).

Chiddingfold Forest: 7 Crossbills (C Burchell).

Effingham Forest: juvenile Hawfinch (C Northwood).

Farncombe: 3 Crossbills flew over (E Stubbs).

Wallington: Redshank sound recorded (A Dutta).

Thursday 16th

Holmethorpe SP: Redshank on Spynes Mere in afternoon (G Hay).

Morden Hall Park: 270 Swifts flew west between 05:30 and 06:45 (S Patmore).

Tice’s Meadow: Wood Sandpiper, 2 Redshanks, Yellow Wagtail, Common Sandpiper and Green Sandpiper in The Workings (J Brough/TMBG).

Wallington: Whimbrel over A237 (BirdTrack).

Wednesday 15th

London Wetland Centre: Great Egret, Oystercatcher and Common Sandpiper (A Wilkinson/WWT).

Rotherhithe: juvenile Yellow-legged Gull (R Bonser).

Tuesday 14th

Beddington Farmlands: Whimbrel (BFBG).

Holmethorpe SP: Redshank on Spynes Mere in afternoon (G Hay).

Island Barn Reservoir (no access): juvenile Wheatear (D Harris).

Newchapel: Green Sandpiper at British Wildlife Centre (K Noble).

Newlands Corner: 27 Crossbills flew over (J Gates).

Rotherhithe: juvenile Yellow-legged Gull (R Bonser).

Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper and Common Sandpiper in The Workings (J Brough).

Monday 13th

Chiddingfold Forest: 6 Crossbills (E Stubbs).

East Dulwich: Crossbill flew east (S Robinson).

Morden Hall Park: Little Ringed Plover flew over at 05:45 (S Patmore).

Sunday 12th

Holmethorpe SP: Common Sandpiper on Glebe Lake (G Hay).

Island Barn Reservoir (no access): drake Common Scoter; also Oystercatcher and Common Sandpiper (D Harris).

Leith Hill: 6 Crossbills flew north-east (W Attridge).

London Wetland Centre: Green Sandpiper (J Owen).

Morden Hall Park: 6 Crossbills flew south-west at 06:55 (S Patmore).

Tate Modern: Oystercatcher flew upriver (J Palmer).

Tice’s Meadow: 3 Common Sandpiper (J Hunt).

Worcester Park: Whinchat in horse fields (C Northwood).

Saturday 11th

Croydon: adult Mediterranean Gull and possible juvenile Yellow-legged Gull over Melville Avenue (A Pearson).

Leith Hill: Hawfinch, 442 Swifts, 7 Crossbills and Meadow Pipit flew over tower (W Attridge).

London Wetland Centre: adult Mediterranean Gull and Common Sandpiper (O Dewhurst).

Thursley Common: Green Sandpiper on Pudmore (D Brassington).

Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret briefly in The Workings (L Winchcombe).

Walton-on-Thames: adult Yellow-legged Gull on Walton Bridge (D Harris).

Friday 10th

Beddington Farmlands: Greenshank and Curlew (P Alfrey).

Farnham Heath RSPB: Crossbill (P Osborn).

Tice’s Meadow: 4 Redshanks, 2 Common Sandpipers and Curlew in The Workings (R Seargant).

Thursday 9th

Epsom Downs: 449 Swifts flew west between 07:30 and 10:15 (S Gale).

Holmethorpe SP: 110 Swifts (G Hay).

Thorncombe Street: 531 Swifts flew west/south-west over Allden’s Hill between 06:05 and 07:20 (E Stubbs).

Tice’s Meadow: Redshank, Green Sandpiper and Common Sandpiper (J Brough/R Horton).

West Clandon: c.150 Swifts flew south-west over Clandon Wood (M Phelps).

Wednesday 8th

Beddington Farmlands: 6 Green Sandpipers (P Alfrey).

Bletchingley: Great Egret flew low over fields at Brewerstreet Farmhouse (A Brookes).

Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper (G Hay).

Tice’s Meadow: 12 Black-tailed Godwits, Green Sandpiper and 2 Common Sandpipers (K Britten/L Winchcombe).

West Clandon: 10 Crossbills and c.500 Swifts flew west over Clandon Wood (M Phelps).

Tuesday 7th

Godstone: 3 Crossbills flew north (G Hay).

Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper (G Hay).

London Wetland Centre: Arctic Tern on Reservoir Lagoon; also Green Sandpiper and 2 Oystercatchers (WWT).

Thursley Common: 6 Crossbills flew south-east (E Stubbs).

Tice’s Meadow: two adult Cattle Egrets showing well around Bike Pool until 13:55 when flew west with 3 Little Egrets; also Black-tailed Godwit and Common Sandpiper. 11th county record of Cattle Egret (pending acceptance), though 10th in the last 4 years and 4th record for Tice’s Meadow (K Duncan/many observers).

Worplesdon: 3 White Storks of unknown origin circled the flew south-west at 17:00 (J Gates).

Monday 6th

Leith Hill: 11 Crossbills flew east-north-east (W Attridge).

Richmond Park: Whinchat and Red-crested Pochard (A Westenberger).

Stoke Lake: Redshank and Common Sandpiper (S Chastell).

The Hurtwood: 13 Crossbills (E Stubbs).

Tice’s Meadow: Redshank and 2 Common Sandpipers (L Winchcombe).

West Clandon: 15 Crossbills flew north over Clandon Wood (M Phelps).

Sunday 5th

Beddington Farmlands: Black-tailed Godwit (I Jones)

Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper and Meadow Pipit (G Hay).

Rotherhithe: Yellow-legged Gull (R Bonser).

Thorncombe Street: Curlew flew high west over Allden’s Hill at 07:14 (E Stubbs).

Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper and 2 Common Sandpipers (M Elsoffer/R Horton/J Hunt).

Saturday 4th

Beddington Farmlands: Black-tailed Godwit (N Gardner/A Wasley)

Frensham Great Pond: 350+ Sand Martins (S Jones/E Stubbs).

Holmethorpe SP: Great Egret on The Moors; also Green and Common Sandpipers on Spyne’s Mere (G Hay/J Simpson).

Friday 3rd

Beddington Farmlands: 10+ Crossbills flew over (BFBG).

Chantries: 6 Crossbills (J Gates).

Thorncombe Street: 2 Crossbills flew east over Allden’s Hill (E Stubbs).

Tice’s Meadow: Redshank, Green Sandpiper and Common Sandpiper (J Brough).

Thursday 2nd

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Black-tailed Godwits, Common Sandpiper and 3 Green Sandpipers (I Jones/A Wasley).

Coulsdon: c.20 Crossbills flew over (J Gill).

Tice’s Meadow: 16 Black-tailed Godwits flew over c.13:30 (R Horton).

Wallington: Oystercatcher sound recorded at 01:55 (A Dutta).

Winkworth Arboretum: 7 Crossbills flew west (E Stubbs).

Wednesday 1st

Godstone: 15 Crossbills flew west over Godstone Golf Club (B Thomas).

Island Barn Reservoir (no access): female Goldeneye (D Harris).

Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper on Spyne’s Mere (G Hay).

Leith Hill: 21 Crossbills flew east (W Attridge/M Davis/M Phelps/R Stride).