July 2021

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Saturday 31st

Beddington Farmlands: 2nd-summer Caspian Gull; also Black-tailed Godwit, Wheatear and 18 Green Sandpipers (I Jones).

London Wetland Centre: Sanderling and Green Sandpiper (BirdGuides/WWT).

Shackleford: Grasshopper Warbler at Lydling Farm (P Osborn/E Stubbs).

Tice’s Meadow: Dunlin, 3 Common Sandpipers, 4 Green Sandpipers and 2 Little Ringed Plovers (M Nurse/R Seargent).

Friday 30th

Beddington Farmlands: Black-tailed Godwit on Wet Grassland (I Jones).

Clandon Wood: Wheatear (M Phelps).

Thursley Common: Green Sandpiper (D Brassington).

Tice’s Meadow: 3 Little Ringed Plovers (K Duncan).

Thursday 29th

Wheatear, Clandon Wood (M Phelps).
Wheatear, Clandon Wood (M Phelps).

Clandon Wood: Wheatear (M Phelps).

London Wetland Centre: female-type Garganey on Wader Scrape (J Klavins).

Tice’s Meadow: Redshank, Wheatear and Common Sandpiper (R Horton).

Wednesday 28th

Beddington Farmlands: Wood Sandpiper in south-east corner; also Green Sandpiper and Little Ringed Plover (G Jones).

London Wetland Centre: female-type Garganey on Wader Scrape; also Whinchat and Common Sandpiper (J Klavins/S Patel).

Purley: Wheatear at Old Lodge Lane (J Parkinson).

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

Tuesday 27th

London Wetland Centre: Wheatear, Oystercatcher and Common Sandpiper (M Parker).

Tice’s Meadow: Dunlin, 3 Little Ringed Plovers and Common Sandpiper (J Hunt).

Monday 26th

Garganey, London Wetland Centre (J Klavins).
Garganey, London Wetland Centre (J Klavins).

Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper and Common Sandpiper (N Hadden).

London Wetland Centre: Garganey on Wader Scrape; also Whinchat, juvenile Mediterranean Gull, 2 Oystercatchers and Common Sandpiper (J Klavins).

Tice’s Meadow: Ringed Plovers, 2 Little Ringed Plovers and Green Sandpiper (M Nurse).

Sunday 25th

Yellow-legged Gull, Beddington Farmlands (A Dutta).
Yellow-legged Gull, Beddington Farmlands (A Dutta).

Beddington Farmlands: 1st-summer Caspian Gull, 2 juvenile Yellow-legged Gulls and 8 Green Sandpipers (A Dutta/N Gardner).

Frensham Great Pond: Oystercatcher on beach (S Peters).

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

South Norwood CP: 2 Oystercatchers (J Hughes).

Thursley Common: Crossbill (J Gates).

Wokingham: female Black Redstart in garden (L Barlow-Wright).

Saturday 24th

Frensham Great Pond: 2 Oystercatchers on beach (S Peters).

Tice’s Meadow: Curlew and Common Sandpiper (R Horton/R Seargent).

Friday 23rd

Mediterranean Gull, Mercers CP (S Gale).
Mediterranean Gull, Mercers CP (S Gale).

London Wetland Centre: Green Sandpiper (WWT).

Mercers CP: juvenile Mediterranean Gull (S Gale).

Thursley Common: Curlew (passage bird) flew over early morning (D Brassington).

Tice’s Meadow: Wood Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper and Common Sandpiper (R Horton/R Seargent).

Thursday 22nd

Common Sandpiper, Old Woking SF (J Snell).
Common Sandpiper, Old Woking SF (J Snell).

Beddington Farmlands: 1st-summer Yellow-legged Gull and Green Sandpiper (Z Pannifer).

Clandon Wood: Tree Pipit (M Phelps).

Old Woking SF: Common Sandpiper (J Snell).

Richmond Park: Common Sandpiper (C Barker).

Thursley Common: Crossbill (S Grimwade).

Wednesday 21st

Black-tailed Godwit, Tice's Meadow (C Varndell).
Black-tailed Godwit, Tice’s Meadow (C Varndell).

Battersea: 2 Oystercatchers flew upriver early morning (D Morrison).

Beddington Farmlands: Common Sandpiper (O Flory).

London Wetland Centre: Common Sandpiper (WWT).

South Norwood CP: Common Sandpiper (J Hughes).

Tice’s Meadow: 2 Black-tailed Godwits (C Varndell).

Tuesday 20th

Black-tailed Godwit, Holmethorpe SP (G Hay).
Black-tailed Godwit, Holmethorpe SP (G Hay).

Holmethorpe SP: Black-tailed Godwit at Spyne’s Mere (G Hay).

London Wetland Centre: 3 Common Sandpipers (J Klavins).

Thursley Common: juvenile Black Redstart briefly by Pine Avenue (D Brassington).

Tice’s Meadow: 2 Ringed Plovers, 2 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers (R Horton).

Monday 19th

Yellow-legged Gull, Rotherhithe (R Bonser).
Yellow-legged Gull, Rotherhithe (R Bonser).

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

London Wetland Centre: Whinchat on Grazing Marsh (WWT).

Rotherhithe: 2 juvenile Yellow-legged Gulls (R Bonser).

Tice’s Meadow: 2 Common Sandpipers (J Hunt).

Sunday 18th

Effingham Forest: Hawfinch at Dick Focks Common (J Snell).

London Wetland Centre: Whinchat on Grazing Marsh (WWT).

Tice’s Meadow: 3 Black-tailed Godwits (R Seargent).

Saturday 17th

Beddington Farmlands: 4 Green Sandpipers and Common Sandpiper (N Gardner).

Hedgecourt Lake: 2 Common Sandpipers (D Dack).

London Wetland Centre: Sandwich Tern on Main Lake; also Green Sandpiper (WWT).

Unstead SF: Green Sandpiper (T Cummings).

Friday 16th

Beddington Farmlands: 4 Black-tailed Godwits on North Lake (J Dee/Z Pannifer).

London Wetland Centre: Green Sandpiper (WWT).

Thursday 15th

Black-tailed Godwits, Richmond Park (I Rowe).
Black-tailed Godwits, Richmond Park (I Rowe).

Beddington Farmlands: Greenshank flew north; also 10 Green Sandpipers and 4 Common Sandpipers (P Alfrey/Z Pannifer).

Holmethorpe SP: 34 Black-tailed Godwits flew east over Spyne’s Mere; also female Purple Emperor (G Hay).

Richmond Park: 2 Black-tailed Godwits at Upper Pen Ponds (I Rowe).

Tice’s Meadow: 19 Black-tailed Godwits flew over; also Common Sandpiper (S Chastell/C Varndell).

Wednesday 14th

Beddington Farmlands: Mediterranean Gull (D Warren).

Hogsmill SF: Black-tailed Godwit; present since 12th (K Bordreau).

Tuesday 13th

Red-crested Pochard, Earlswood Lakes (J Court).
Red-crested Pochard, Earlswood Lakes (J Court).

Beddington Farmlands: Common Sandpiper (A Ramesh).

Earlswood Lakes: Red-crested Pochard (J Court).

London Wetland Centre: Green Sandpiper (WWT).

Monday 12th

Beddington Farmlands: Portugese-ringed Black-tailed Godwit (D Warren).

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

Sunday 11th

Ewell: Redshank sound recorded over garden (S Thomas).

Wallington: Curlew sound recorded over garden at 00:25 (A Dutta).

Saturday 10th

Beddington Farmlands: 1st-summer Caspian Gull on Wet Grassland; also Greenshank, adult Mediterranean Gull, 4 Green Sandpipers and Common Sandpiper (Z Pannifer).

Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper and 5 Little Ringed Plovers (R Seargent).

Friday 9th

Beddington Farmlands: 4 Little Ringed Plovers, Oystercatcher and Common Sandpiper (A Treip).

Effingham Forest: 4 Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (J Snell).

Tice’s Meadow: 4 Ringed Plovers (R Seargent).

Thursday 8th

Beddington Farmlands: Common Sandpiper (A Dutta).

Dorking: Common Sandpiper sound recorded at 02:21 (S Dorman).

London Wetland Centre: 1st-summer Mediterranean Gull (J Klavins).

Sanderstead: Quail heard over garden at 22:38 (J Birkett).

Wednesday 7th

Effingham Forest: 8+ Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (J Snell).

London Wetland Centre: Black-tailed Godwit and 3 Mediterranean Gulls (J Klavins/M Parker).

Tice’s Meadow: 2 Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpiper and 2 Little Ringed Plovers (R Horton).

Tuesday 6th

Beddington Farmlands: 3 Black-tailed Godwits and Common Sandpiper (D Warren).

Monday 5th

Black-tailed Godwits, Beddington Farmlands (N Rutter).
Black-tailed Godwits, Beddington Farmlands (N Rutter).

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Black-tailed Godwits on North Lake (N Rutter/C Williams).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Oystercatchers (WWT).

Tice’s Meadow: 5 Little Ringed Plovers (J Snell).

Sunday 4th

Holmethorpe SP: Little Ringed Plover at Water Colour Lagoons (A Kundrotas).

Kew Bridge: 2 Ruddy Shelduck on Thames (S Jones).

London Wetland Centre: Common Sandpiper (J Klavins).

Tice’s Meadow: Dunlin and 4 Little Ringed Plovers (K Duncan).

Saturday 3rd

Capel: 22 Mediterranean Gulls flew south (W Attridge).

Effingham Forest: 3 Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common in afternoon (M Davis).

Holmethorpe SP: Common Sandpiper at Water Colour Lagoons (A Kundrotas).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Ruff on Main Lake; also Little Ringed Plover (WWT).

Thursley Common: 2 Green Sandpipers flew south-west (D Brassington).

Tice’s Meadow: Redshank (E Hein).

Friday 2nd

London Wetland Centre: Little Ringed Plover (WWT).

Thursday 1st

Shelduck, Thursley Common (E Stubbs).
Shelduck, Thursley Common (E Stubbs).

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Shelduck (A Wasley).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Oystercatchers (WWT).

Thursley Common: 4 Shelduck flew high north-east; also Green Sandpiper (E Stubbs).

Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper (S Brownhill).