June 2019
Sunday 30 June
Holmethorpe SP: Common Sandpiper on Railway Pools (G Hay).
London Wetland Centre: 41 Black-tailed Godwits by WWF Hide early afternoon (second highest Surrey count); also Common Sandpiper (WWT).
Richmond Park: Red-crested Pochard (P Pentek).
South Norwood Lake: Common Gull flew over (J Watson).
Tice’s Meadow: 16 Black-tailed Godwits in morning then flew south-east; also Common Sandpiper and two Green Sandpipers (J Brough/M Elsoffer/L Winchcombe).
West Molesey: returning adult Caspian Gull flew down River Thames early morning (D Harris).
Saturday 29 June
Frensham Common: 10 adult Mediterranean Gulls flew east at 06:40 (S Peters).
Thorncombe Street: Curlew flew over Allden’s Hill at 02:02 (E Stubbs).
Friday 28 June
London Wetland Centre: Black-tailed Godwit mid-morning until late afternoon when flew south; also two Redshanks and Green Sandpiper (A Dutta/D Panchaud/WWT).
Richmond Park: Black-tailed Godwit flew north-east; also Red-crested Pochard still and Green Sandpiper (P Davies/P Pentek/P Redmond).
Thursday 27 June
London Wetland Centre: two Redshanks and Green Sandpiper (WWT).
Richmond Park: three Red-crested Pochard still (F Antram).
South Norwood CP: four Black-tailed Godwits on island (J Hughes/J Kirby).
Wednesday 26 June
Beddington Farmlands: two Black-tailed Godwits (BFBG).
Kew Gardens: Red-crested Pochard (K West).
London Wetland Centre: Curlew flew east; also three Green Sandpipers (WWT).
Thursley Common: Wood Sandpiper on Pudmore in afternoon (G Hinchon).
Tuesday 25 June
London Wetland Centre: two Green Sandpipers still (WWT).
Monday 24 June
Hook: 1st-summer Mediterranean Gull flew north-west (G Barter).
London Wetland Centre: Green Sandpiper still on Wader Scrape (WWT).
Richmond Park: four Red-crested Pochard still on Pen Ponds (K Bates).
Tice’s Meadow: probable Spotted Redshank in morning (M Huddie).
West Clandon: Woodlark at Clandon Wood Natural Burial Ground – second site record (M Phelps).
Sunday 23 June
Island Barn Reservoir: four Oystercatchers (D Harris).
London Wetland Centre: Redshank and Green Sandpiper (WWT).
Richmond Park: four Red-crested Pochard (P Pentek).
Thursley Common: two Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers briefly in dead tree between Pine Island and Shrike Hill (R Douglas).
Saturday 22 June
Beddington Farmlands: three Green Sandpipers (P Alfrey).
London Wetland Centre: Green Sandpiper still on Wader Scrape (WWT).
Friday 21 June
London Wetland Centre: two Green Sandpipers still on Wader Scrape from Peacock Tower (Y Simmonds).
Nutfield Marshes: Lesser Redpoll.
Snowdenham Mill Pond: female Red-crested Pochard (E Stubbs).
Wandsworth: Common Gull (Surrey first of autumn?) near River Thames by Juniper Drive (L Parikian).
Thursday 20 June
Beddington Farmlands: Redshank and three Green Sandpipers (BFBG).
Hascombe: Crossbill flew north-west over New Barn (E Stubbs).
London Wetland Centre: two Green Sandpipers still (WWT).
Wimbledon Park: 102 Greylag Geese (S Patmore).
Wednesday 19 June
Thursley Common: no sign of harrier species (S Chastell/S Ferguson et al).
West Clandon: Crossbill flew south over Clandon Wood Natural Burial Ground (M Phelps).
Tuesday 18 June
London Wetland Centre: Green Sandpiper still (WWT).
Richmond Park: two Shelduck flew north-east; also two Red-crested Pochard (L Kennedy-Midkiff/J Wilczur).
River Thames at Richmond: two Ruddy Shelduck (presumably feral) in evening (N Tsinonis)
Thursley Common: late news from Monday 17th of a grey, male harrier species (not thought to be Montagu’s) at western end (J Hawtree).
Monday 17 June
London Wetland Centre: Mediterranean Gull flew high east; also two Green Sandpipers still on Wader Scrape (WWT).
Snowdenham Mill Pond: female Red-crested Pochard (E Stubbs).
Sunday 16 June
London Wetland Centre: two Green Sandpipers on Wader Scrape (WWT).
Snowdenham Mill Pond: female Red-crested Pochard (E Stubbs).
Saturday 15 June
Richmond Park: 1st-summer Mediterranean Gull on Upper Pen Pond then flew off (J Wilczur).
South Norwood CP: 36 Whitethroats (J Hughes).
Thorncombe Street: male Grey Partridge on private land on Wintershall Estate (E Stubbs).
Tice’s Meadow: Oystercatcher and Curlew (P Myers-Brown).
Thursday 13 June
Battersea Reach: immature Shag swam up River Thames at 14:20 (D McKenzie).
Beddington Farmlands: Redshank and Raven (BFBG).
Wednesday 12 June
London Wetland Centre: three Mediterranean Gulls flew south-west; also Red-crested Pochard on Main Lake (WWT).
Tuesday 11 June
Beddington Farmlands: Redshank and 500 Swifts (BFBG/S Thomas).
London Wetland Centre: Green Sandpiper (autumn begins!) late morning (K Noble).
Sunday 9 June
Snowdenham Mill Pond: female Red-crested Pochard (E Stubbs).
Weybourne: second-summer Mediterranean Gull drifted northeast early afternoon (J Gates).
Saturday 8 June
London Wetland Centre: Red-crested Pochard (B Karadogan).
Tice’s Meadow: Ringed Plover; also 200-300 Swifts (M Elsoffer/L Winchcombe).
Thursday 6 June
Redhill Common: two adult Mediterranean Gulls drifted high southeast (G Hay).
Richmond Park: one Common Sandpiper (O Dewhurst).
Snowdenham Mill Pond: female Red-crested Pochard (E Stubbs).
Wednesday 5 June
Mitcham Common: late news of a Rosy Starling on 18 May.
Tuesday 4 June
Leatherhead: possible adult Yellow-legged Gull at Randalls Way roosting on chimney of former food research building (N Batten).
London Wetland Centre: Ringed Plover (WWT).
Thursley Common: probable Grasshopper Warbler reeling by boardwalk near The Moat car park early morning (S Cossey).
West Horsley: 10 Crossbills flew over near Upper Common (S Chastell).
Sunday 2 June
Blackheath Common: one Crossbill (K Britten).
London Wetland Centre: two Mediterranean Gulls flew west (WWT).
Snowdenham Mill Pond: female Red-crested Pochard (E Stubbs).
Saturday 1 June
London Wetland Centre: Ringed Plover (WWT).