May 2024

Friday 31st

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): Short-eared Owl east (D Harris).

Wey Manor Meadows: 3 pairs of Lapwings with chicks (J Snell).

Thursday 30th

Kittiwakes, Bankside (R Braddock).
Kittiwakes, Bankside (R Braddock).

Bankside: 9 Kittiwakes over Blackfriars Bridge (R Braddock).

Wednesday 29th

London Wetland Centre: 2 Oystercatchers (C Moore).

Unstead SF: 2 Shoveler (J Parr).

Tuesday 28th

London Wetland Centre: female Pochard with ducklings (A Salmon).

Monday 27th

Burpham: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker along River Wey (W Justice).

Leigh: Spotted Flycatcher at Deanoak Lane (I Kehl).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern booming from Reservoir Lagoon (A Salmon).

Palewell Common: female Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (T Vine).

Tice’s Meadow: Shoveler pair (M Scott).

Sunday 26th

Crooksbury Common: Osprey east (J Gates).

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 2 Shelduck (J Snell).

Peasmarsh: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker in garden (S Pont).

Unstead SF: Shoveler pair (J Parr).

Saturday 25th

Red-backed Shrike, Thursley Common (S Ferguson).
Red-backed Shrike, Thursley Common (S Ferguson).

London Wetland Centre: Ringed Plover on Main Lake and Teal on Wader Scrape; also Red-crested Pochard (K Robinson).

Thursley Common: male Red-backed Shrike at South Bog/Shrike Hill; fifth site record in last decade! (H MacBean/many observers).

Friday 24th

Chobham Common: 2 Crossbills (W Richardson).

Thursday 23rd

London Wetland Centre: Ringed Plover on Main Lake (C Moore).

Tate Modern: female Wheatear (R Braddock).

Wednesday 22nd

Little Stint and Ringed Plovers, Beddington Farmlands (I Jones).
Little Stint and Ringed Plovers, Beddington Farmlands (I Jones).

Beddington Farmlands: Little Stint with 4 Ringed Plovers on Wet Grassland (I Jones).

London Wetland Centre: 4 Yellow Wagtails on Grazing Marsh; also 2 Common Sandpipers (D Williams).

Tuesday 21st

Thursley Common: Honey Buzzard north (D Robinson).

Monday 20th

Honey Buzzard, Whitmoor Common (M Jones).
Honey Buzzard, Whitmoor Common (M Jones).

Whitmoor Common: Honey Buzzard west (M Jones).

Sunday 19th

Devil’s Punch Bowl: 22 Crossbills (J Gates).

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

London Wetland Centre: Yellow Wagtail on Grazing Marsh (A Salmon).

Unstead SF: Little Ringed Plover (J Parr).

Westcott: Hawfinch at Logmore Lane (A Holden).

Saturday 18th

Beddington Farmlands: Short-eared Owl (I Jones).

Capel: Honey Buzzard north-west (W Attridge).

Hankley Common: 2 Spotted Flycatchers (J Gates).

London Wetland Centre: Great Egret on Grazing Marsh; also Yellow Wagtail (M Bravery/C Moore/G Nickerson/W Toolson).

Papercourt Water Meadows: Common Sandpiper along River Wey (A Press).

Richmond Park: Spotted Flycatcher at Pond Plantation (D Brasier).

Thursley Common: 5 Crossbills (R Grewal).

Tice’s Meadow: 4 Greenshank (R Horton).

Weybourne: White Stork (presumed released bird) south (J Gates).

Friday 17th

Effingham Forest: Hawfinch and 2 Crossbills (P Rodgers).

London Wetland Centre: Wheatear (D Lowman).

Thursday 16th

Leith Hill: 40 Crossbills (W Attridge).

London Wetland Centre: Yellow-legged Gull on Main Lake (A Salmon).

Unstead SF: Little Ringed Plover on South Meadow (J Parr).

Wednesday 15th

Spotted Flycatcher, Holmethorpe SP (G Hay).
Spotted Flycatcher, Holmethorpe SP (G Hay).

Beddington Farmlands: Dunlin on Wet Grassland (S Thomas).

Frensham Great Pond: Black Tern (S Peters).

Holmethorpe SP: Spotted Flycatcher and 2 Common Sandpipers (G Hay).

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 2 Shelduck (J Snell).

Leith Hill: Crossbill (J Cassidy).

London Wetland Centre: Yellow Wagtail on Grazing Marsh (M Wheeler).

Thursley Common: 5 Crossbills (S Mason).

Tuesday 14th

Beddington Farmlands: Ringed Plover on Wet Grassland (I Jones).

Cobham: Night-Heron on River Mole (N Banks).

Croydon: singing Wood Warbler along Whitgift Avenue (BirdGuides).

Frensham Great Pond: Common Sandpiper (S Woolfries).

Leith Hill: 67 Crossbills (M Davis).

Monday 13th

Beddington Farmlands: Shelduck (I Jones).

Epsom Downs: Osprey south (S Gale).

Leith Hill: 2 Crossbills (M Matthews).

Tice’s Meadow: Common Sandpiper (J Byrne).

Sunday 12th

Spotted Flycatcher, Broadmoor (S Gale).
Spotted Flycatcher, Broadmoor (S Gale).

Beddington Farmlands: Great Egret over; also Yellow Wagtail and Shelduck (D Bulling/N Gardner).

Broadmoor: Spotted Flycatcher (S Gale).

Crooksbury Common: Hawfinch (J Gates).

London Wetland Centre: Wood Sandpiper from Dulverton Hide; also 2 Great Egrets on Grazing Marsh, Common Sandpiper and Shelduck on Main Lake (M Auger/BirdGuides/D Bradshaw/P Edwards/D Panchaud/S Patel).

Great Egrets, London Wetland Centre (S Patel).
Great Egrets, London Wetland Centre (S Patel).

Holmethorpe SP: 5 Common Sandpipers (G Hay/I Kehl).

Hogsmill SF: Common Sandpiper (J Gale/E O’Brien).

Puttenham Common: Spotted Flycatcher (A Lockett).

Richmond Park: Sanderling on Upper Pen Ponds then flew south-east; also Whinchat at Sawyers Hill (D Brasier).

Wimbledon Common: male Wheatear and Common Sandpiper (A Podmore).

Saturday 11th

Common Sandpiper, Thursley Common (D Brassington).
Common Sandpiper, Thursley Common (D Brassington).

Chobham Common: 3 Crossbills (J Clark).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Great Egrets on Grazing Marsh (J Boersma/C Moore).

Sheepleas: Spotted Flycatcher (J Hobden).

Thursley Common: 3 Common Sandpipers and 3 Crossbill (D Brassington).

Tice’s Meadow: Black Tern briefly (BirdGuides).

Friday 10th

Beddington Farmlands: Common Sandpiper (B Bird/R Walker).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Yellow Wagtails on Grazing Marsh (A Salmon).

Richmond Park: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Common Sandpipers and 2 Shelduck (F Maroevic).

Thursley Common: Hawfinch and 6 Crossbills (E Stubbs/L Zurikarai).

Thursday 9th

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Wood Sandpipers, 2 Greenshank and Common Sandpiper on Wet Grassland (C Owens/M Parker).

Guildford: Common Sandpiper at Millmead (R Fisher).

London Wetland Centre: 3 Wood Sandpipers from Peacock Tower (C Moore).

Wednesday 8th

Elstead: 2+ Whimbrels over at 22:20 (P Howse).

London Wetland Centre: Curlew (satellite-tagged bird from Severn and Avon Vale Curlew Project) on Main Lake and Yellow Wagtail on Grazing Marsh (C Dewhurst/A Salmon/M Wheeler).

Mare Hill: 9 Crossbills (P Nevett).

Worcester Park: 2 Wheatears (B Smith)

Tuesday 7th

Kittiwake, Tate Modern (R Braddock).
Kittiwake, Tate Modern (R Braddock).

Beddington Farmlands: Wheatear (I Jones).

Frensham Common: Nightjar (R Douglas).

Horton CP: 1+ Nightingale (B Smith).

Leigh: White Stork (presumed released bird) over Deanoak Lane (I Kehl).

Pewley Down: Wheatear (P Davies).

Richmond Park: female Wheatear (J Wilczur).

Shackleford: Wheatear (P Osborn).

Tate Modern: adult Kittiwake over Millennium Bridge (R Braddock).

Tice’s Meadow: Spotted Flycatcher (R Horton).

Monday 6th

Dunlin, Frensham Great Pond (D Brassington).
Dunlin, Frensham Great Pond (D Brassington).

Chobham Common: Crossbill (M Matthews).

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

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 2 Black Terns and Arctic Tern (C Turner).

London Wetland Centre: drake Garganey on Wader Scrape; also 3 Dunlin (D Bradshaw/R Johnson/S Patel/B Reding/A Salmon).

Sunday 5th

Nightingale, Holmethorpe SP (G Hay).
Nightingale, Holmethorpe SP (G Hay).

Ash Ranges: 10+ Nightjars (D Bridger).

Beddington Farmlands: Yellow Wagtail and 2 Wheatears (N Gardner/I Jones).

Hankley Common: Wheatear (N Batten).

Holmethorpe SP: Nightingale and Common Sandpiper (G Hay/I Kehl).

Horton CP: Nightingale (P Spencer).

London Wetland Centre: Common Sandpiper (M Bowden/M Wheeler).

Puttenham Common: Nightjar (D Green).

Richmond Park: Mediterranean Gull east; also Tree Pipit over, Wheatear and Common Sandpiper (D Brasier).

Saturday 4th

Corn Bunting, Shackleford (E Stubbs).
Corn Bunting, Shackleford (E Stubbs).

Beddington Farmlands: 4 Whimbrel at Wet Grassland; also Yellow Wagtail and 3 Wheatears (G Jones/I Jones/C Strudwick).

Hankley Common: 2+ Nightjars (P Howse).

Horton CP: Nightingale (B Smith).

Leith Hill: 38 Crossbills (P Evans).

Priest Hill: 24 Whitethroats (N Batten).

Pyford: unringed White Stork at Newark Priory (BirdGuides).

Shackleford: Corn Bunting briefly; also Fieldfare, 2 Yellow Wagtails and Wheatear (E Stubbs).

Tice’s Meadow: Arctic Tern in Workings (R Seargent).

West Putney: Osprey west (R Kaye/J Wilczur).

Whitmoor Common: Nightjar (S Brownhill).

Friday 3rd

White Stork, Pyrford (M Leitch).
White Stork, Pyrford (M Leitch).

Beddington Farmlands: 5 Dunlin on Wet Grassland; also 5 Yellow Wagtails and Wheatear (N Gardner/I Jones/A Ramesh).

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 2 Arctic Terns (D Harris).

Leith Hill: c 40 Crossbills (S Gale).

London Wetland Centre: 6 Dunlin, 2 Yellow Wagtails and Common Sandpiper on Main Lake (C Moore/M Parker).

Pyrford: White Stork (unringed, perhaps wild) near Newark Priory (K Duncan/M Kettell/M Leitch).

Wescott: 2 Yellow Wagtails at Milton Court Farm (M Davis/A Holden).

Thursday 2nd

Sandwich Tern, Enton Lakes (E Stubbs).
Sandwich Tern, Enton Lakes (E Stubbs).

Beddington Farmlands: Yellow Wagtail (I Jones).

Crooksbury Common: Spotted Flycatcher (J Gates).

Enton Lakes: Sandwich Tern north (E Stubbs).

Godstone: White Stork over M25 (G Hay).

Hedgecourt Lake: Common Sandpiper (D Dack).

Sandwich Tern, Unstead SF (K Britten).
Sandwich Tern, Unstead SF (K Britten).

Holmbury Hill: 33 Crossbills (R Stride).

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 4 Shelduck (J Snell).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Common Sandpipers (P Gilfillan/B Spencer).

Pyrford: White Stork near Newark Priory (G Barter).

Unstead SF: Sandwich Tern north (same as Enton Lakes); second site record (K Britten).

Wednesday 1st

Common Sandpiper, Beddington Farmlands (D Warren).
Common Sandpiper, Beddington Farmlands (D Warren).

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Whimbrel over; also Common Sandpiper (G Howgate/I Jones/D Warren).

Blackheath: Nightjar (K Britten).

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 3 Shelduck (J Snell).

London Wetland Centre: Yellow Wagtail on Grazing Marsh and Common Sandpiper on Main Lake (A Salmon).

Richmond Park: Yellow Wagtail at the Bog (H Bradshaw).

Winterfold Heath: Nightjar (R Stride).