November 2022

Wednesday 30th

Brent Goose, Beddington Farmlands (D Warren).
Brent Goose, Beddington Farmlands (D Warren).

Beddington Farmlands: Brent Goose on North Lake; also Shelduck (S Thomas/D Warren).

London Wetland Centre: Dartford Warbler on Wader Scrape; also female Goldeneye (M Wheeler/A Wilkinson).

Papercourt Water Meadows: Water Pipit in fields off Tannery Lane (J Hobden).

Worcester Park: Little Bunting briefly near stables at Lower Morden Equestrian Centre at 12:00 but no further sign by 13:10; 10th Surrey record pending acceptance (C Northwood).

Tuesday 29th

Beddington Farmlands: Shelduck on North Lake (D Warren).

Cutt Mill Ponds: 7 Goosander (5 drakes and 1 redhead on Warren Pond; 1 redhead on house pond) late morning (J Snell).

London Wetland Centre: female Goldeneye (A Wilkinson).

Monday 28th

Brockwell Park: Mediterranean Gull on playing field (S Patmore).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern on Main Lake; also Water Pipit, Dartford Warbler and female Goldeneye (M Mac/A Wilkinson).

Sunday 27th

Bittern, London Wetland Centre (S Simnett).
Bittern, London Wetland Centre (S Simnett).

Beddington Farmlands: 5 Water Pipits, Jack Snipe, Shelduck and 11 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner).

Lammas Lands: 2 Dartford Warblers on Overgone Meadow (P Osborn).

London Wetland Centre: 2+ Bitterns on Main Lake; also female Goldeneye and 2 Pintail (M Murphy/D Panchaud/A Salmon/S Simnett).

Saturday 26th

Water Pipit, Beddington Farmlands (A Ramesh).
Water Pipit, Beddington Farmlands (A Ramesh).

Beddington Farmlands: 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull on Wet Grassland; also drake Shelduck, 2 Water Pipits and 4 Green Sandpipers (Z Pannifer/A Ramesh).

Frensham Little Pond: Bittern in flight (BirdGuides).

Lammas Lands: Hawfinch by Godalming United Church then flew south (E Stubbs).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern on Main Lake; also Jack Snipe and Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh and female Goldeneye (C Dewhurst/A Salmon).

Outwood: 3 Bramblings at Burstow Park Farm (J Snell).

Richmond Park: Dartford Warbler (N Anderson).

Friday 25th

Wheatear, Richmond Park (N Jackman).
Wheatear, Richmond Park (N Jackman).

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 2 redhead Goosander, 6 Barnacle Geese and 2 Green Sandpipers (J Snell).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Bitterns on Main Lake; also female Goldeneye, Dartford Warbler and Pintail (A Wilkinson).

Old Woking: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker at Hoe Bridge (R Mooney).

Richmond Park: male Wheatear in Pond Slade area (N Jackman).

Tice’s Meadow: Dartford Warbler in meadow (BirdGuides).

Thursday 24th

Beddington Farmlands: 3 Water Pipit, Dartford Warbler and 4 Green Sandpipers (Z Pannifer).

London Wetland Centre: female Goldeneye, Dartford Warbler and Pintail (A Wilkinson).

Richmond Park: male Wheatear in Pond Slade area (N Baker).

Wednesday 23rd

Beddington Farmlands: 3 Water Pipit, Jack Snipe, Dartford Warbler and 5 Green Sandpipers (Z Pannifer).

Cutt Mill Ponds: 3 Goosander (P Osborn).

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh; also 2 Bitterns, female Goldeneye 2 Pintail and Green Sandpiper (A Salmon/A Self).

Wimbledon Common: Dartford Warbler (J Reeves).

Tuesday 22nd

Great Egret, Tice's Meadow (M Fincham).
Great Egret, Tice’s Meadow (M Fincham).

Banstead: Bittern flew over at 20:05 (S Gale).

Beddington Farmlands: 3 Water Pipits on enclosed lagoons in south-east corner; also 4 Jack Snipe and 3 Dartford Warblers (BirdGuides).

Effingham Forest: 6 Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common and 6 in yews above Troy Bridge; also male Goshawk (J Hobden/M Waite).

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh (A Salmon).

Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret; also 2 Dartford Warblers in meadow (BirdGuides/M Fincham).

Monday 21st

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh; also Green Sandpiper (A Salmon).

Sunday 20th

Beddington Farmlands: 3 Water Pipits on 100 acre; also Dunlin, Brambling and 6 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner/A Ramesh).

Cutt Mill Ponds: 2 drake and 2 female Goosander on House Pond (A Barker/J Snell).

Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper on The Moors (A Kundrotas).

London Wetland Centre: 2 Bitterns on Main Lake; also Water Pipit and female Goldeneye (C Dewhurst/D Price/A Wilkinson).

Tice’s Meadow: Golden Plover in The Workings; also 2 drake Pintail, Great Egret, 2 Dartford Warblers and 2 Green Sandpipers (K Duncan/R Seargent).

Saturday 19th

Goosander, Cutt Mill Ponds (S Simnett).
Goosander, Cutt Mill Ponds (S Simnett).

Beddington Farmlands: Siberian Chiffchaff by Mile Road gate; also redhead Goosander, Water Pipit and Green Sandpiper (Z Pannifer).

Cutt Mill Ponds: Goosander pair (R Seargent/S Simnett).

Effingham Forest: 7 Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common; also male Goshawk and 4 Bramblings (J Hobden).

Frensham Great Pond: Goosander (T Cronyer).

Hawfinches, Effingham Forest (J Hobden).
Hawfinches, Effingham Forest (J Hobden).

Frensham Little Pond: Ring Ouzel (BirdGuides).

Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper on The Moors (A Kundrotas).

London Wetland Centre: redhead Goosander on Main Lake; also 2 Bitterns and female Goldeneye (A Salmon/P Smallshire).

Mercers CP: Green Sandpiper over (G Hay/I Kehl).

Pintail, Shalford Water Meadows (E Stubbs).
Pintail, Shalford Water Meadows (E Stubbs).

Shalford Water Meadows: female Pintail (E Stubbs).

Thursley Common: 4 Bramblings and Green Sandpiper (J Hobden).

Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret flew north-east at 11:30 (M Scott).

Friday 18th

Beddington Farmlands: 2nd-winter Caspian Gull and 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull (Z Pannifer).

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh; also 2 Bitterns, Dartford Warbler on Wader Scrape, female Goldeneye and Green Sandpiper (C Dewhurst/M Honey/B Page/D Panchaud/A Salmon).

Richmond Park: 4 Dartford Warblers (R Dunne).

Tice’s Meadow: Dartford Warbler (R Seargent).

Unstead SF: 6 Pintail flew south-west at 08:55 J Parr).

Thursday 17th

Yellow-legged Gull, Holmethorpe SP (G Hay).
Yellow-legged Gull, Holmethorpe SP (G Hay).

Beddington Farmlands: Black-tailed Godwit on North Lake; also 2nd-winter Caspian Gull, 2 Redshank, 2nd-winter Mediterranean Gull, Water Pipit, 6 Green Sandpipers and 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull (Z Pannifer).

Holmethorpe SP: adult Yellow-legged Gull on Water Colour Lagoon 1 (G Hay).

Leatherhead: swift species low east over Randalls Way at 12:50 (N Batten).

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh; also Bittern and Green Sandpiper (O Dewhurst/D Panchaud/A Salmon).

Thursley Common: male Hen Harrier on Ockley Common (D Brassington/R Burns/D Colledge).

Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret and 4 Shelduck (BirdTrack).

Worplesdon: 8 Goosander flew west (J Gates).

Wednesday 16th

Godstone: swift species (probably Pallid) north at 08:30 (G Hay).

Hurst Green: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker at Whitegates Farm (K Puttock).

London Wetland Centre: Dartford Warbler on Wader Scrape; also Shelduck and Green Sandpiper (A Wilkinson).

Thursley Common: male Hen Harrier on Ockley Common; also Brambling over (A Barker/D Cox/P Hewett/J Hobden/E Stubbs).

Wimbledon Common: 2 Dartford Warblers (M Bravery).

Tuesday 15th

Hen Harrier, Thursley Common (S Simnett).
Hen Harrier, Thursley Common (S Simnett).

Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper at Chilmead Farm (N Hadden).

London Wetland Centre: 30+ Cetti’s Warblers and Dartford Warbler (A Wilkinson).

Papercourt Marshes: Brambling (J Hobden).

Thursley Common: male Hen Harrier (D & P Boyd/S Simnett).

Monday 14th

Beddington Farmlands: Siberian Chiffchaff in channel at south end of Phase 3; also Dartford Warbler (J Bartley).

Epsom Downs: juvenile Arctic Skua flew low west at 15:20 (S Gale).

Enton Lakes: 2 Shelduck briefly on Johnson’s Lake (D Brassington).

Holmethorpe SP: 3 Great Egrets over at dusk (G Hay).

London Wetland Centre: Green Sandpiper (A Wilkinson).

Thursley Common: male Hen Harrier late morning; also Great Grey Shrike at Spur Wood at dusk (BirdGuides).

Worplesdon: female-type Merlin over fields at dusk (J Gates).

Sunday 13th

Black Redstart, Island Barn Reservoir (C Turner).
Black Redstart, Island Barn Reservoir (C Turner).

Beddington Farmlands: Curlew, 3 Water Pipits, 2 Dartford Warblers and 3 Jack Snipe (N Gardner).

Croydon: apparent Siberian Lesser Whitethroat in private garden (L Offer).

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): male Black Redstart by tower; also 2 Goosander (A Quinn/C Turner/M White).

Lammas Lands: Dartford Warbler (P Osborn).

Leith Hill: Hawfinch (W Attridge).

Siberian Lesser Whitethroat, Croydon (L Offer).
Siberian Lesser Whitethroat, Croydon (L Offer).

London Wetland Centre: Short-eared Owl flew SSE c.08:25; also Bittern on Main Lake from Dulverton Hide, Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh and 2 Dartford Warblers on Wader Scrape (A Wilkinson).

Norbury Park: Brambling (T Gibson).

Thursley Common: Great Grey Shrike briefly late afternoon; also male Hen Harrier in flight (R Mist).

Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret (R Horton).

Wimbledon Common: Dartford Warbler (J Reeves).

Saturday 12th

Beddington Farmlands: 3 Water Pipits, Brambling and 4 Green Sandpipers (G Jones).

Burgh Heath: Black Redstart near watchpoint north of Canons Farm (BirdGuides).

Chelsea & Lambeth Reservoirs (no access): 2 Short-eared Owls (C Turner).

Effingham Forest: Hawfinch (BirdGuides).

Holmethorpe SP: Hawfinch south over Mercers Farm (G Hay).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern on Main Lake; also Pintail (S Patel/A Salmon).

Thundry Meadows: Great Egret flew east (P Howse).

Friday 11th

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

Headley Heath: 4 Hawfinches (S Gale).

Holmethorpe SP: moribund adult Kittiwake at Spynes Mere; also Green Sandpiper on The Moors (G Hay).

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): adult Kittiwake (BirdGuides).

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh; also 2 Pintail, Dartford Warbler and 2 Green Sandpipers (T Smith/A Wilkinson).

Thursday 10th

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): adult Kittiwake (BirdGuides).

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh; also Bittern on Main Lake, 2 Jack Snipe and 2 Green Sandpipers (A Wilkinson).

Wimbledon Common: 2 Dartford Warblers (J Reeves).

Wednesday 9th

Beddington Farmlands: 2 Water Pipits and 5 Green Sandpipers (Z Pannifer).

Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper on The Moors (N Hadden).

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh; also Bittern on Main Lake, Dartford Warbler and 2 Green Sandpipers (M Honey/B Page/A Wilkinson).

Thorpe Park: Green Sandpiper (J Snell).

Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret (R Horton).

Tuesday 8th

Kittiwake, Island Barn Reservoir (D Harris).
Kittiwake, Island Barn Reservoir (D Harris).

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): adult and 1st-winter Kittiwakes (D Harris).

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh; also 2 Green Sandpipers (M Honey/A Wilkinson).

Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper (S Brownhill).

Monday 7th

Kittiwake, Island Barn Reservoir (D Harris).
Kittiwake, Island Barn Reservoir (D Harris).

Capel: Hawfinch (W Attridge).

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 1st-winter Kittiwake mid-afternoon for 10 minutes then flew north-east (D Harris).

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh; also Jack Snipe, 2 Green Sandpipers and Pintail (I Martin/A Wilkinson).

Sunday 6th

Beddington Farmlands: Dartford Warbler, Jack Snipe and 5 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner).

Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): female Pintail (D Harris).

Lammas Lands: Dartford Warbler (P Osborn).

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh, Bittern on Main Lake and 3 Pintail (A Salmon).

Wimbledon Common: Dartford Warbler on The Plain (BirdGuides).

Saturday 5th

Beddington Farmlands: Brambling and 1,759 Woodpigeons south; also Green Sandpiper (Z Pannifer).

Brockwell Park: Ring Ouzel flew west; also 10 Bramblings (S Patmore).

Frensham Little Pond: Crossbill (A Barker).

Lammas Lands: Hawfinch north-east over Overgone Meadow; also Dartford Warbler (E Stubbs).

Leith Hill: 33+ Bramblings between tower and Dukes Warren (W Attridge).

London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit and Jack Snipe on Grazing Marsh; also Bittern on Main Lake, 2 Dartford Warblers and 2 Green Sandpipers (J Cass/M Parker/A Wilkinson).

Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret (K Duncan/M Fincham).

Friday 4th

Capel: 3,700 Woodpigeons south-east by 07:30 (W Attridge).

Gatton Park: Great Egret on lake (D Harbison).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern, 4 Jack Snipe, 2 Pintail and 3 Green Sandpipers (C Dewhurst/D Panchaud/A Salmon/B Wilson).

Newdigate: 1,900 Woodpigeons south-east (W Attridge).

Richmond Park: 7 redhead Red-breasted Merganser over Lower Pen Pond at 12:25 then flew south-west; also Dartford Warbler on Sawyers Hill and Red-crested Pochard (R Dunne/N Jackman/R Kaye/P Pentek).

Thursley Common: 3,760 Woodpigeons south; also Merlin low north over Shrike Hill and 2 Bramblings (E Stubbs).

Tice’s Meadow: Greenland Wheatear and Dartford Warbler (R Horton/J Hunt).

Thursday 3rd

Beddington Farmlands: Green Sandpiper (A Robertson).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern and Oystercatcher on Main Lake (A Salmon).

Sanderstead: Ring Ouzel calling near Briton Hill Road (J Birkett).

Wednesday 2nd

Beddington Farmlands: 3 Pintail (Z Pannifer).

Capel: Hawfinch south-east (W Attridge).

Esher: Barnacle Goose flock (M Bravery).

London Wetland Centre: Jack Snipe on Grazing Marsh; also Dartford Warbler and Bittern (M Honey/B Page/A Salmon).

Shackleford: 2 female-type Black Redstarts at Lydling Farm (E Stubbs).

Tice’s Meadow: 3 Green Sandpipers (P Brown).

Wimbledon Common: Dartford Warbler (J Reeves).

Tuesday 1st

Frensham Little Pond: Bittern flew into reedbed on west side (BirdGuides).

London Wetland Centre: Bittern (J Apps).

Tice’s Meadow: 4 Green Sandpipers (P Brown).