June 2020

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Tuesday 30th

Tice’s Meadow: Oystercatcher flew over and Redshank in The Workings (J Brough).

Monday 29th

Beddington Farmlands: Redshank (A Wasley).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Dunlin, 2 Oystercatchers and Common Sandpiper (WWT).

Sunday 28th

Black Redstart, Epsom Downs (K Lelliott).
Black Redstart, Epsom Downs (K Lelliott).

Epsom Downs: juvenile Black Redstart (K Lelliott).

Thursley Common: 2 Crossbills (P Osborn).

Tice’s Meadow: 2 Redshanks and Common Sandpiper (J Brough).

Saturday 27th

The Hurtwood: 5 Crossbills (J Gates).

Tice’s Meadow: 2 Redshanks and Common Sandpiper (R Seargent).

Friday 26th

Tice’s Meadow: Ruddy Shelduck early morning (K Duncan).

Redshank, Beddington Farmlands (A Wasley).
Redshank, Beddington Farmlands (A Wasley).

Thursday 25th

Beddington Farmlands: Redshank on north lake (A Wasley).

Ewell: Curlew sound recorded early morning (S Thomas).

Leith Hill: 3 Crossbills (S Chastell).

London Wetland Centre: Mediterranean Gull (WWT).

Wednesday 24th

Bookham Common: 10+ Crossbills flew over (D Cox).

Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper on Railway Pools (G Hay).

Priest Hill: possible female Red-footed Falcon flew over c.13:45 (J Simpson).

Tuesday 23rd

Thursley Common: 2 Crossbills (C MacKenzie).

Woldingham: Crossbill over (B Thomas).

Monday 22nd

Roseate Tern, Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir (D Harris).
Roseate Tern, Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir (D Harris).

Buckland SP: Crossbill over (D Campbell).

Chiddingfold Forest: 12 Crossbills over (T Gibson).

Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir (no access): Roseate Tern; eighth Surrey record and first since 2 July 2014 (D Harris).

Shackleford: Quail still singing at Lydling Farm in main alfalfa field; park in village and take footpath north from Chalk Lane (BirdGuides).

Tice’s Meadow: 2 Redshanks (J Brough).

Warlingham: 7 Crossbills flew over Oakley Road (B Thomas).

West Clandon: Crossbill over (M Phelps).

Sunday 21st

Beddington Farmlands: Mediterranean Gull on south lake (M Healy).

Holmethorpe SP: Hawfinch south-west over Mercer’s Farm at 08:59 (G Hay).

Shackleford: Quail still singing at Lydling Farm in main alfalfa field; park in village and take footpath north from Chalk Lane (BirdGuides).

Thorncombe Street: 3 Crossbills flew south-west over The Ridge (S Chastell).

Saturday 20th

Capel: Hawfinch (W Attridge).

Effingham Forest: 2+ Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (J Simpson).

Farncombe: Oystercatcher flew south at 11:20 (E Stubbs).

Morden Hall Park: female/1st-summer male Golden Oriole flew low north-east over North Meadow at 06:39 (S Patmore).

Shackleford: Quail still singing at Lydling Farm in main alfalfa field; park in village and take footpath north from Chalk Lane (BirdGuides).

Tice’s Meadow: Redshank (TMBG).

Friday 19th

Shackleford: Quail still singing at Lydling Farm in main alfalfa field; park in village and take footpath north from Chalk Lane (BirdGuides).

Thursday 18th

Shackleford: Quail still singing at Lydling Farm in main alfalfa field; park in village and take footpath north from Chalk Lane (BirdGuides).

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

Wednesday 17th

Beddington Farmlands: Green Sandpiper (A Wasley).

Papercourt GPs: Wood Sandpiper flew over mid-afternoon (J Hobden).

Shackleford: Quail still singing at Lydling Farm in main alfalfa field; park in village and take footpath north from Chalk Lane (BirdGuides).

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

Tuesday 16th

Bonaparte's Gull, Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir (D Harris).
Bonaparte’s Gull, Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir (D Harris).

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Green Sandpipers (A Wasley).

Hascombe: 2 Crossbills at Juniper Hill (R Brewer/J Gates/E Stubbs).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Mediterranean Gulls (A Wilkinson).

Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir (no access): 1st-summer *Bonaparte’s Gull* late afternoon then flew north at 18:10; second Surrey record and first since 29 January 1983 (D Harris).

Shackleford: Quail still singing at Lydling Farm in main alfalfa field; park in village and take footpath north from Chalk Lane (BirdGuides).

Monday 15th

Shackleford: Quail still singing at Lydling Farm in main alfalfa field; park in village and take footpath north from Chalk Lane (BirdGuides).

Sunday 14th

Beddington Farmlands: Barnacle Goose (A Wasley).

Capel: 6 Hawfinches flew east at 07:25 (W Attridge).

Effingham Forest: 25+ Crossbills

Shackleford: Quail singing at Lydling Farm in main alfalfa field from c.08:00 until dusk; park in village and take footpath north from Chalk Lane (E Stubbs/many observers).

Witley Common: 4 Crossbills (P Pentek).

Saturday 13th

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Shelduck (K Guest/A Wasley).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Mediterranean Gulls, Oystercatcher and 6 Shelduck (O Dewhurst).

Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper (J Hunt).

Friday 12th

Tice’s Meadow: Redshank and Oystercatcher (J Brough).

Thursday 11th

London Wetland Centre: 2 Oystercatchers (WWT).

Wednesday 10th

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Green Sandpipers (A Dutta).

Ewell: Quail sound recorded at 02:45 (S Thomas).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Oystercatchers (WWT).

Tice’s Meadow: no sign of male and female Black-winged Stilts (BirdGuides).

Tuesday 9th

Black-winged Stilt, Tice's Meadow (K Campbell).
Black-winged Stilt, Tice’s Meadow (K Campbell).

Box Hill: 4 Crossbills flew west (S Gale).

Holmwood: 5 Crossbills flew west (W Attridge).

Leith Hill: Great Egret flew over Redlands and appeared to drop in between Chadhurst and Westcott at 07:50 as viewed from tower (W Attridge).

Tice’s Meadow: male and female Black-winged Stilts in Workings from mid-morning (seen mating!); seventh county record. Also Mediterranean Gull and Green Sandpiper (J Brough/K Campbell/L Evans/S Ferguson/R Seargent/L Winchombe et al).

West Clandon: 6 Crossbills flew south (M Phelps).

Monday 8th

Beddington Farmlands: Shelduck (A Walmsey).

Mitcham Common: Quail reportedly flushed (BirdGuides).

Sunday 7th

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

Island Barn Reservoir (no access): 6 Mediterranean Gulls through (C Turner).

London Wetland Centre: 6 Mediterranean Gulls and 2 Oystercatchers (WWT).

Rotherhithe: 1st-summer Yellow-legged Gull at Greenland Dock (R Bonser).

Saturday 6th

Tice’s Meadow: Ringed Plover (K Duncan).

Friday 5th

Leith Hill: 20+ Crossbills (M Phillips).

Thursday 4th

London Wetland Centre: 2 Mediterranean Gulls, Green Sandpiper, 2 Oystercatchers and Redshank (WWT).

Thursley Common: Snipe (D Brassington).

Wednesday 3rd

Leith Hill: 20+ Crossbills flew over tower; also Lesser Redpoll (W Attridge/M Davis).

Thursley Common: 3 Crossbills flew over (D Brassington).

Tice’s Meadow: Oystercatcher (K Duncan).

Tuesday 2nd

Redshanks and Little Ringed Plover, Holmethorpe SP (G Hay).
Redshanks and Little Ringed Plover, Holmethorpe SP (G Hay).

Dorking: 2 Crossbills flew over (M Davis).

Holmethorpe SP: 2 Redshank and Little Ringed Plover on Spyne’s Mere (G Hay).

Monday 1st

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Shelduck (K Guest).

Ewell: at least one Bee-eater heard seemingly heading east over farmland between Priest Hill and Howell Hill at 14:45; 11th Surrey record (S Gale).

Hankley Common: 5 Crossbills (J Clark).

Papercourt Water Meadows: no sign of possible female Red-backed Shrike at Broadmead (J Hobden).

West Clandon: 2 Crossbills flew south (M Phelps).