May 2025
Saturday 31st
Bagshot Heath: singing male Wood Warbler at Swinley Forest (D Sussex).
Friday 30th
South Norwood CP: singing male Marsh Warbler (J Shaub).
Wandsworth: Oystercatcher (A Westenberger).
Thursday 29th
Newlands Corner: Crossbill over (P Davies).
Wednesday 28th
London Wetland Centre: Shoveler (M Wheeler).
Pirbright Ranges: Curlew (S Harley).
Tice’s Meadow: Ringed Plover (P Brown).
Tuesday 27th
Bolder Mere: Common Sandpiper (B Harding).
Monday 26th
London Wetland Centre: Ringed Plover (A Salmon).
Sunday 25th
Beddington Farmlands: 2 Ringed Plovers (D Bulling).
Saturday 24th
London Wetland Centre: 2 Oystercatchers (A Salmon).
Friday 23rd
Binscombe: Osprey north (R Brown).
Thursley Common: Crossbill over (D Campbell).
Thursday 22nd
Beddington Farmlands: drake Garganey (N Gardner).
London Wetland Centre: Common Sandpiper (A Salmon).
Mercers CP: 2 Avocets on raft (N Hadden).
Tice’s Meadow: 2 Ringed Plovers (K Duncan).
Wednesday 21st
Beddington Farmlands: Short-eared Owl and Cattle Egret (A Dutta/M Parker).
London Wetland Centre: 6 Oystercatchers (A Salmon).
Tice’s Meadow: 2 Ringed Plovers, Common Gull and Common Sandpiper (R Horton).
Tuesday 20th
London Wetland Centre: Common Sandpiper (A Salmon).
Tice’s Meadow: Common Sandpiper (P Brown).
Vauxhall: Yellow-legged Gull and Oystercatcher on Thames (M Mac).
Monday 19th
London Wetland Centre: Snipe, Yellow Wagtail and 2 Common Sandpipers (A Salmon).
Stoke Lake: Common Sandpiper (M Kettell).
Tice’s Meadow: Grey Plover (BirdGuides).
Sunday 18th
Beddington Farmlands: Great Egret (D Bulling).
London Wetland Centre: Ringed Plover, Spotted Flycatcher and Yellow Wagtail (M Bradbury).
Saturday 17th
Tice’s Meadow: Oystercatcher (K Britten).
Friday 16th
Island Barn Reservoir: drake and female Garganey (D Harris).
Tice’s Meadow: Common Sandpiper (P Brown).
Thursday 15th
Beddington Farmlands: 3 Wood Sandpipers (BirdGuides).
Crooksbury Common: 2 Crossbills (S Allen).
Holmethorpe SP: 3 Oystercatchers at Mercers West; also Common Sandpiper (G Hay).
Wednesday 14th
Beddington Farmlands: Common Sandpiper (A Cruz).
Denbies Hillside: Woodlark (S Gale).
London Wetland Centre: 3 Little Ringed Plovers (A Salmon).
Tice’s Meadow: Common Sandpiper (P Brown).
Tuesday 13th
Beddington Farmlands: Yellow Wagtail (N Gardner).
Chobham Common: Wheatear (E Sames).
London Wetland Centre: Yellow Wagtail on Grazing Marsh (A Salmon).
Papercourt GPs: Oystercatcher and Common Sandpiper (E Sames).
Stoke Lake: Great Egret (M Kettell).
Tice’s Meadow: Cattle Egret (K Duncan).
Monday 12th
Capel: Yellow Wagtail (W Attridge).
Holmethorpe SP: 2 Common Sandpipers (G Hay).
Island Barn Reservoir: 2 Sandwich Terns (D Harris).
Richmond Park: 2 Oystercatchers at Pen Ponds (B North).
Tice’s Meadow: Cattle Egret; also Great Egret in The Meadow (K Duncan/R Horton).
Sunday 11th
Beddington Farmlands: Wood Sandpiper and Common Sandpiper (D Bulling).
Capel: Mediterranean Gull over (W Attridge).
Chobham Common: Common Sandpiper (E Sames).
Holmethorpe SP: Common Sandpipers (G Hay/I Kehl).
Leith Hill: 7 Spotted Flycatchers (W Attridge).
London Wetland Centre: Common Sandpiper (M Auger).
Woking: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker at Hoe Valley (R Chodankar).
Saturday 10th
Holmethorpe SP: Cattle Egret at The Moors (first Holmethorpe record); also 2 Common Sandpipers (N Hadden/G Hay).
Island Barn Reservoir: 4 Black Terns and 4 unringed Bar-headed Geese (D Harris).
London Wetland Centre: Common Sandpiper and 7 Oystercatchers (A Salmon).
Tice’s Meadow: Wood Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpipers and Common Sandpiper (R Horton).
Friday 9th
Capel: Common Sandpiper (W Attridge).
Cranleigh: Crossbill flew over garden; second garden record in 38 years! (R Stride).
Enton Lakes: Oystercatcher (D Brassington).
Holmethorpe SP: 3 Common Sandpipers (N Hadden).
South Norwood CP: 2 Common Sandpipers (J Shaub).
Thursday 8th
Cranleigh: Common Sandpiper at Knowle Park (R Stride).
Crooksbury Common: Spotted Flycatcher (J Gates).
Holmethorpe SP: Common Sandpiper (G Hay).
London Wetland Centre: Turnstone over Main Lake; also 3 Common Sandpipers (C Moore).
Papercourt GPs: Oystercatcher (E Sames).
Tice’s Meadow: Greenshank, Whinchat and 2 Common Sandpipers (R Horton).
Wednesday 7th
Beddington Farmlands: drake and female Garganey at 100 Acre (BirdGuides).
London Wetland Centre: Curlew and Common Sandpiper (A Salmon).
Richmond Park: Oystercatcher and 6 Common Sandpipers (P Pentek).
South Norwood CP: Common Sandpiper (J Shaub).
Tice’s Meadow: 2 Common Sandpipers (R Horton).
Tuesday 6th
Beddington Farmlands: drake and female Garganey (BirdGuides).
Island Barn Reservoir: Arctic Tern (D Harris).
London Wetland Centre: Greenshank on Main Lake; also Ringed Plover, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Common Sandpipers (C Moore/A Salmon).
Tice’s Meadow: 2 Common Sandpipers (R Horton).
Monday 5th
Holmethorpe SP: Common Sandpiper and 5 Little Ringed Plovers (N Hadden/G Hay).
Island Barn Reservoir: 7 Arctic Terns (D Harris/C Turner).
Leith Hill: Spotted Flycatcher (W Attridge).
Stoke D’Abernon: 2 Whinchats at Slyfield Farm (J Snell).
Winterfold Heath: Crossbill (R Stride).
Sunday 4th
Addlestone GPs: Common Sandpiper (J Snell).
London Wetland Centre: Whimbrel, Oystercatcher chick and Ringed Plover (W Newnham/T Richardson/M Wheeler).
Pyrford: 2 Oystercatchers (R Seargent).
Richmond Park: Whimbrel, Tree Pipit, Yellow Wagtail and Wheatear (D Brasier).
Saturday 3rd
Brockham: Ring Ouzel near Pondtail Farm (BirdGuides).
Tice’s Meadow: Whimbrel (R Horton).
Friday 2nd
Beddington Farmlands: Whimbrel, Greenshank, drake and female Garganey, Redshank, 2 Common Sandpipers and 3 Little Ringed Plovers (I Jones).
Britten’s Pond: Common Sandpipers (M Fincham).
Capel: 2 Common Sandpipers (W Attridge).
Crooksbury Common: 10 Crossbills (J Gates).
Tice’s Meadow: Whimbrel and Oystercatcher (K Duncan/R Horton).
Thursday 1st
Beddington Farmlands: Ruff, drake and female Garganey, 5 Common Sandpipers and 2 Green Sandpipers (I Jones/S Thomas).
Capel: Common Sandpiper (W Attridge).
Enton Lakes: 2 Common Sandpipers (D Brassington).
Horsell Common: Nightjar (BirdGuides).
Leatherhead: White Stork south-west (N Batten).
Papercourt GPs: 2 Common Sandpipers (E Sames).
Papercourt Water Meadows: Common Sandpiper (E Sames).
Tice’s Meadow: Whimbrel, 2 Shelduck, 2 Green Sandpipers and 8 Common Sandpipers (K Duncan/R Horton).
Waverley Abbey: Whinchat (K Duncan).