May 2026
Sunday 31st
Salfords: Little Ringed Plover (C Eastwood).
Thursley Common: Wheatear (AJ Collins-Smith).
Tice’s Meadow: Oystercatcher (P Brown).
Saturday 30th
London Wetland Centre: Bittern (A Salmon).
Weybourne: Honey Buzzard north (J Gates).
Friday 29th
Tice’s Meadow: 2 Ringed Plovers and Oystercatcher (P Brown/M Elsoffer/R Smith).
Thursday 28th
London Wetland Centre: female Goosander and Bittern (A Salmon).
Lonsdale Road Reservoir: Shelduck (P Boult).
Tice’s Meadow: Oystercatcher (M Elsoffer).
Wednesday 27th
Ash Vale: Quail sound-recorded at 01:37 (G Clarke).
Burpham Water Meadows: 7 White Storks (J Gates).
Chobham Common: Wheatear (D Jowett).
Cranleigh: 11 White Storks at Home Farm (R Stride).
London Wetland Centre: booming Bittern (A Salmon).
Thursley Common: 3 Crossbills (P Howse).
Tice’s Meadow: Oystercatcher (R Smith).
Tuesday 26th
Papercourt GP: Common Sandpiper (M Hillary).
Monday 25th
Chobham Common: Spotted Flycatcher and Crossbill (N Smith).
Effingham Forest: Crossbill (P Davies).
Farnham Heath RSPB: Spotted Flycatcher (P Jenkins).
London Wetland Centre: booming Bittern; also Great Egret on Main Lake (P Smallshire).
Norbury Park: female Goosander with nine ducklings (D James).
Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir: *Broad-billed Sandpiper* on north side then flew off and perhaps taken by Peregrine; first for Surrey and London recording area (D Harris/C Turner).
Redlands Wood: Hawfinch and 2 Crossbills (P Davies).
Richmond Park: Spotted Flycatcher (N Hughes).
Thursley Common: Wheatear and Spotted Flycatcher (R Smith).
Tice’s Meadow: Cattle Egret east; also Oystercatcher (C Varndell).
Sunday 24th
Beddington Farmlands: Cattle Egret on Phase 1; also subadult Yellow-legged Gull (A Dutta).
London Wetland Centre: Redshank (N Stapley).
Thursley Common: female Teal with five ducklings; seventh year in a row breeding has been confirmed here, the only site in Surrey the species breeds (D & P Boyd).
Wallington: Quail sound-recorded at 00:30 (A Dutta).
Saturday 23rd
Ewell: Quail sound-recorded at 01:45 (S Thomas).
Leatherhead: female Goosander with duckling brood on River Mole (R Herring).
London Wetland Centre: 2 Redshank (C Moore).
Thursley Common: 2 Spotted Flycatchers (D Lowe/R Thomas).
Tice’s Meadow: Scarlet Darter; also 2 Oystercatchers (BirdGuides/P Welling).
Friday 22nd
Godalming: Crossbill over Salgasson Meadow (N Willis).
Mercers CP: Great Black-backed Gull (G Hay).
Thursley Common: 2 Spotted Flycatchers (N D Stedman).
Tice’s Meadow: 2 Ringed Plovers (R Horton).
Thursday 21st
Beddington Farmlands: Oystercatcher and Spotted Flycatcher (C Turner).
Leith Hill: 2 Spotted Flycatchers (W Attridge).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern (D Wells).
Thursley Common: 2 Spotted Flycatchers (N Bew/S Lumsden).
West Horsley: Spotted Flycatcher (D Cox).
Wednesday 20th
Beddington Farmlands: Sanderling (D Bulling/A Dutta/R Walker).
Horley: Spotted Flycatcher at Weatherhill Common (T Walker).
London Wetland Centre: Great Black-backed Gull (M Wheeler).
Thursley Common: Marsh Harrier west (R Douglas).
Tuesday 19th
Enton Lakes: Shelduck (D Brassington/E Stubbs).
Slyfield: 5+ White Storks (M Fincham).
Tice’s Meadow: 2 Oystercatchers (P Brown).
Monday 18th
Slyfield: 5 White Storks (L Evans/M Scott).
Sunday 17th
Ash Ranges: Crossbill (C Jones).
Capel: Great Egret north (W Attridge).
Leith Hill: 6 Spotted Flycatchers (W Attridge).
London Wetland Centre: Curlew and Great Black-backed Gull (A Hurst/A Salmon).
Redlands Wood: 2 Crossbills (P Davies).
Slyfield: 6 White Storks (R Clark/M Kettell).
Stoke D’Abernon: Yellow Wagtail at Slyfield Farm (J Snell).
Tice’s Meadow: Grey Plover in The Meadow; also Ringed Plover and 2 Oystercatchers (K Duncan/M Elsoffer/P Welling).
Saturday 16th
Crooksbury Common: 8 Crossbills (M Elsoffer).
Slyfield: 4 White Storks (G Cole/W Justice/S Simnett).
Tice’s Meadow: Oystercatcher (P Brown).
Wishmoor Bottom: 4 Crossbills (P Newbound).
Friday 15th
Beddington Farmlands: Yellow Wagtail and 2 Common Sandpipers (N Gardner).
Blackheath: 2 Crossbills (D Mckenzie).
Capel: Honey Buzzard north-west (W Attridge).
Enton Lakes: Osprey over (D Brassington).
Holmethorpe SP: Common Sandpiper (G Hay).
Pewley Down: Nightingale and Woodlark (G Everson).
Tice’s Meadow: Osprey over (M Elsoffer).
Thursday 14th
Bankside: Oystercatcher (R Braddock).
Capel: Yellow Wagtail and 120 House Martins at Butterlee and Clockhouse Pits (W Attridge).
Slyfield: 3 White Storks (D Brassington).
Tice’s Meadow: Common Sandpiper (M Elsoffer).
Wednesday 13th
Burpham Water Meadows: 5 White Storks (S Casson/M Kettell/B Scammell/M Wood).
Capel: 2 Shelduck at Butterlee and Clockhouse Pits (W Attridge).
Leith Hill: 2 Hawfinches, Spotted Flycatcher and 14 Crossbills (W Attridge).
Tuesday 12th
Burpham Water Meadows: 5 White Storks (K Britten/M Fincham/M Scott).
Capel: 2 Shelduck (W Attridge).
Holmethorpe SP: Redwing and Common Sandpiper (G Hay).
Mercers CP: 3 Common Sandpipers (G Hay).
Pewley Meadows: male Pied Flycatcher (J Mitchell).
Richmond Park: Common Sandpiper (J Wilczur).
Monday 11th
Blackheath: 6 Crossbills (K Britten).
Burpham Water Meadows: Little Ringed Plover (P Davy).
Capel: 2 Shelduck (W Attridge).
Holmethorpe SP: Redwing (N Hadden).
Horley: Little Ringed Plover at Littlelake Farm (T Walker).
London Wetland Centre: 2 Yellow Wagtails and Common Sandpiper (A Salmon).
Sunday 10th
Earlier this month Goosander was confirmed as breeding in Surrey for the first time ever.
Beddington Farmlands: 2 Ringed Plovers (M Read).
Frensham Great Pond: Great Egret north (S Peters).
London Wetland Centre: Common Sandpiper (A Salmon/M Wheeler).
Slyfield: 5 White Storks (S Gillingham/M Kettell/A Turbett/C Whiter).
Thursley Common: 3 Crossbills (M Warden).
Saturday 9th
Beddington Farmlands: Yellow Wagtail, Common Sandpiper and Shelduck (J James).
Bermondsey: Yellow-legged Gull and Oystercatcher (J Cadera).
Cranleigh: White Stork north (BirdGuides).
Epsom: White-tailed Eagle south-east (J Barnes).
Frensham Great Pond: adult Kittiwake (S Peters).
Holmethorpe SP: Redwing; also Common Sandpiper (G Hay/I Kehl).
London Wetland Centre: 4 Common Sandpipers (L Davies/A Salmon).
Priest Hill: male Whinchat (N Batten).
Slyfield: 4 White Storks (K Britten).
Thursley Common: 7 Crossbills (D Brassington/M Robinson).
Friday 8th
Cranleigh: 2 White Storks (G Howgate).
Goldsworth Park Lake: Common Sandpiper (K Duncan).
Hogsmill SF: Common Sandpiper (J Gale).
London Wetland Centre: Great Black-backed Gull (A Harrison).
Slyfield: 2 White Storks (J Gates).
Thursley Common: Whimbrel, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, Wheatear and Green Sandpiper (D Lowe/A Saunders).
Tice’s Meadow: Oystercatcher (M Wood).
Thursday 7th
Beddington Farmlands: Wood Sandpiper (BirdGuides).
London Wetland Centre: Grasshopper Warbler, Whinchat and Common Sandpiper (J James).
Mercers CP: 3 Common Sandpipers (G Hay).
Pewley Down: 2 Grey Partridges (A Lobb).
Thursley Common: Ringed Plover at Pudmore (C & D Brassington).
Tice’s Meadow: Common Sandpiper (R Horton).
Wednesday 6th
Ash Ranges: Oystercatcher over (C Dally).
Beddington Farmlands: Wood Sandpiper and 2 Common Sandpipers (S Batchelor/T Kleeberg).
London Wetland Centre: Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear and Common Sandpiper (S Bray/A Salmon/N Stapley/M Wheeler).
Polesden Lacy: Wheatear (D Cox).
Tice’s Meadow: Common Sandpiper (K Britten).
West End Common: Nightjar (P Cusdin).
Tuesday 5th
Bisley: White Stork (R Marshall).
Blackheath: 2 Nightjars (K Britten).
Island Barn Reservoir: Common Sandpiper (D Spragg).
Kew Gardens: singing Wood Warbler at Queen Charlotte’s Cottage (O Dewhurst).
London Wetland Centre: Yellow Wagtail and Common Sandpiper (A Salmon).
Richmond Park: 2 Great Black-backed Gulls (P Pentek).
Thursley Common: Crossbill (A Frost).
Tice’s Meadow: Greenshank (K Cobbett).
Monday 4th
Ash Ranges: 5 Crossbills (J Clark/C Jones).
Chobham Common: 2 Nightjars (J Downing).
Knowle Park CP: Common Sandpiper (R Stride).
London Wetland Centre: Greenshank and 2 Common Sandpipers (A Salmon/W Townsend).
Richmond Park: Shelduck (P Pentek).
Thursley Common: 3 Crossbills (C & D Brassington).
Sunday 3rd
Beddington Farmlands: Wood Sandpiper, 3 Cattle Egrets, 4 Greenshank and Common Sandpiper (D Bulling).
Brentmoor Heath: 2 Nightjars (A Hockey).
Crooksbury Common: 4 Crossbills (P Hedges).
Leith Hill: Spotted Flycatcher, Hawfinch and 2 Crossbills (W Attridge).
Holmethorpe SP: Whinchat at Mercers Quarry; also Wheatear and Common Sandpiper (N Hadden/G Hay/T Ledger).
Knowle Park CP: Common Sandpiper (R Stride).
London Wetland Centre: Common Sandpiper (A Salmon).
Stoke Lake: Common Sandpiper and 2 White Storks (M Kettell).
Thundry Meadows: Nightjar (P Howse).
Tice’s Meadow: 3 Oystercatchers and Common Sandpiper (J Oomen/P Welling).
Saturday 2nd
Ash Ranges: Crossbill (C Jones).
Beddington Farmlands: Whimbrel and 2 Greenshank (A Ramesh).
Burgh Heath: Wheatear at Canons Farm (P Goodman).
Chelsea & Lambeth Reservoirs: Greenshank (C Turner).
Chiddingfold Forest: Hawfinch over (BirdGuides).
Elstead: Mediterranean Gull over (P Howse).
Farley Heath: 4 Nightjars (Y Szczech).
Holmethorpe SP: Common Sandpiper (T Ledger).
London Wetland Centre: Whinchat, Great Black-backed Gull and Common Sandpiper (A Evans-Hill/A Hurst/D MacLeod/F Wright).
Stoke Lake: Common Sandpiper and 2 White Storks (P Coddington/W Justice).
Thursley Common: 2 Crossbills (J Mills/S Nichols).
Tice’s Meadow: 2 Oystercatchers (P Welling/R Wright).
Unstead SF: Dunlin at South Meadow (K Britten/J Parr).
Friday 1st
Chobham Common: 2 Nightjars (R Lee).
Lammas Lands: Whimbrel north-west (E Stubbs).
London Wetland Centre: Yellow Wagtail and Common Sandpiper (M Andrews/E Barlow/T Richardson).
Pewley Down: 2 Hawfinches north (BirdGuides).
Richmond Park: 2 Common Sandpipers (S Hucks).
Stoke Lake: 5 White Storks (P Davies).
Thursley Common: 2 Crossbills (S Clarke/S Wells).
Tice’s Meadow: 2 Wood Sandpipers, 2 Oystercatchers and 3 Common Sandpipers (G Bunce/R Horton).















