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

Ringed Plovers, Tice's Meadow (K Duncan).
Ringed Plovers, Tice’s Meadow (K Duncan).

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

Cattle Egret, Tice's Meadow (K Duncan).
Cattle Egret, Tice’s Meadow (K Duncan).

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

Sandwich Terns, Island Barn Reservoir (D Harris).
Sandwich Terns, Island Barn Reservoir (D Harris).

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

Black Terns, Island Barn Reservoir (D Harris).
Black Terns, Island Barn Reservoir (D Harris).

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

Common Sandpiper, Holmethorpe SP (G Hay).
Common Sandpiper, Holmethorpe SP (G Hay).

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).