November 2023
Thursday 30th
Beddington Farmlands: 2 Golden Plovers over the mound; also 2 Water Pipits, drake and female Shelduck and 2 Green Sandpipers (M Keenan/Z Pannifer).
Buckland Park Lake: 17 Bramblings over (W Attridge).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern on Main Lake (A Salmon).
Thorpe Park: drake Red-crested Pochard on Manor Lake (J Snell).
Westcott: 2 Goosander at Logmore Place (J Clarke).
Wednesday 29th
Banstead Woods: Mealy Redpoll with Lesser Redpolls south-west of Harholt Plantation (I Ward).
Crooksbury Common: Crossbill (J Gates).
Cutt Mill Ponds: 6 Goosander (J Snell).
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 2 juvenile Great Northern Divers (D Harris).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern, 2 Shelduck and female Goldeneye on Main Lake and Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh (M Honey/M Wheeler/A Wilkinson).
Unstead SF: Green Sandpiper on South Meadow (J Parr).
Woking: 360+ Pied Wagtails roosted at Commercial Way (T Forster).
Tuesday 28th
Beddington Farmlands: 6 Water Pipits; also Jack Snipe, Shelduck and 3 Green Sandpipers (Z Pannifer).
Crooksbury Common: 5 Crossbills (S Brownhill).
Cutt Mill Ponds: drake Goosander (R Love).
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 2 juvenile Great Northern Divers (D Harris).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern on Main Lake; also female Goldeneye (C Dewhurst/A Wilkinson).
Thorpe Park: drake Red-crested Pochard on Manor Lake (J Snell).
Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper (P Brown).
Unstead SF: Green Sandpiper on South Meadow (J Parr).
Witley Common: 1+ Mealy Redpoll with Lesser Redpolls; also 5 Crossbills (D Brassington/E Stubbs).
Monday 27th
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 2 juvenile Great Northern Divers (D Harris).
London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh (A Salmon).
Unstead SF: Green Sandpiper on South Meadow (J Parr).
Sunday 26th
Beddington Farmlands: 4 Great Egrets south; also 6 Goosander high west, 4 Water Pipits, 2 Jack Snipe and 3 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner/I Jones/Z Pannifer).
Chobham Common: 4 Crossbills south-west (S Musievski).
Effingham Forest: 4 Hawfinches, Goshawk, 2 Bramblings and 10+ Crossbills at Dick Focks Common (J Gell/M Matthews).
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): Brent Goose; also 2 juvenile Great Northern Divers and 129 Barnacle Geese (D Harris).
Leith Hill: 36+ Crossbills; also 5+ Bramblings (W Attridge).
London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh; also Brambling north-west and female Goldeneye on Main Lake (M Auger/A Kostornichenko/W Newnham/A Salmon).
Richmond Park: Short-eared Owl high over Lawn Field at 11:15 (H Bradshaw).
Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper (R Horton).
Unstead SF: Green Sandpiper on South Meadow (A Barker/K Britten/J Parr).
Saturday 25th
Beddington Farmlands: 3,728 Woodpigeons over; also Jack Snipe and 2 Water Pipits (G Jones).
Blackheath: 20 Crossbills near war memorial (E Garcia).
Brockwell Park: 2,294 Woodpigeons south/south-east; also Brambling (S Patmore).
Crooksbury Common: female Brambling; also 25 Crossbills (J Gates).
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 2 juvenile Great Northern Divers (D Harris).
London Wetland Centre: 2 Bitterns (Main Lake and Reservoir Lagoon); also female Goldeneye (M Andersson/E Devlin/C Moore).
Netley Park: 3 Hawfinches at Netley Plantation (M Waite).
Thursley Common: Yellow Wagtail at West Bog; also 19 Crossbills (E Stubbs).
Tice’s Meadow: 2 Green Sandpipers (M Fincham).
Unstead SF: Green Sandpiper on South Meadow (P Marshall/J Parr).
Friday 24th
Beddington Farmlands: 2 Short-eared Owls; also 6 Water Pipits, Jack Snipe and 2 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner).
Cutt Mill Ponds: drake and female Goosander (C Grindrod).
Effingham Forest: Goshawk at Dick Focks Common (I Jones).
Holmethorpe SP: 2 Green Sandpipers at The Moors (N Hadden).
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 2 juvenile Great Northern Divers (D Harris).
London Wetland Centre: 2 Bitterns (Main Lake and Reservoir Lagoon); also female Goldeneye and 2 Shelduck (C Dewhurst/S Fowles/D Panchaud/A Salmon).
Old Woking: ringtail Hen Harrier quartering south of Carters Lane late afternoon (N Wyatt).
Richmond Park: Mealy Redpoll with Lesser Redpolls in Hawthorn Valley (R Dunne).
Tice’s Meadow: Marsh Harrier late morning; also Green Sandpiper (P Brown/R Horton).
Thursday 23rd
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 2 juvenile Great Northern Divers (D Harris).
London Wetland Centre: Goldeneye on Reservoir Lagoon (C Dewhurst/A Wilkinson).
Richmond Park: Dartford Warbler at Pond Slade (J Reeves).
Tice’s Meadow: Goosander and Green Sandpiper (P Brown).
Wednesday 22nd
Beddington Farmlands: Short-eared Owl over Wet Grassland (D Warren).
Chobham Common: 2 Crossbills at Albury Bottom (P Davies).
Farnham Heath: 2 Crossbills (P Robson).
Horley SF: Green Sandpiper (J Middleton).
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 2 juvenile Great Northern Divers (D Harris).
Leith Hill: 3 Bramblings (W Attridge).
London Wetland Centre: male and female Goldeneye on Main Lake (T Richardson/P Smallshire).
Stoke Lake: 7 Great Egrets briefly in flooded field at Stoke Lock then flew south; record Surrey count (M Fincham).
Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper (C Jenkins).
Tuesday 21st
Beddington Farmlands: Brent Goose on mound and North Lake; also 2 Short-eared Owls hunting around the mound, 3 Water Pipits and 2 Jack Snipe (Z Pannifer).
Holmethorpe SP: Jack Snipe at The Moors (G Hay).
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 2 juvenile Great Northern Divers (J Barkham/D Harris).
London Wetland Centre: Slavonian Grebe on River Thames by Queen Elizabeth Walk late morning; also Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh (N Anderson/A Salmon).
Lonsdale Road Reservoir: 4 Shelduck (N Anderson).
Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper (R Horton).
Wandsworth Common: Mediterranean Gull on playing field (N Rutter).
Monday 20th
Effingham Forest: 3 Hawfinches and 7 Crossbills at Dick Focks Common (J Snell).
Horley: Green Sandpiper at Riverside Garden Park (J Middleton).
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 2 juvenile Great Northern Divers (D Harris).
London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh; also female Goldeneye and Bittern on Main Lake and 2 Shelduck on Wader Scrape (A Wilkinson).
Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper (P Brown).
Sunday 19th
Beddington Farmlands: 2 Short-eared Owls; also 5 Water Pipits, Brambling, Jack Snipe and 2 Green Sandpipers (D Bulling/N Gardner/I Jones/Z Pannifer/M Rowell).
Blackheath: 12 Crossbills by car park (K Britten).
Crooksbury Common: 12 Crossbills (J Gates).
Cutt Mill Ponds: 5 (3 drakes & 1 redhead on house pond; 1 drake on Warren Pond) Goosander (J Snell).
Guildford: Crossbill in flight over Stoughton (C Burchell).
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 2 juvenile Great Northern Divers (D Harris).
London Wetland Centre: Yellow-legged Gull and female Goldeneye on Main Lake (E Devlin/R Johnson/A Salmon/B Wilson).
Thorpe Park: drake Goldeneye on St Ann’s Lake (K Duncan).
Tice’s Meadow: Jack Snipe and Green Sandpiper (A Bird/R Horton).
Saturday 18th
Frensham Great Pond: female Shelduck (S Peters).
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 2 juvenile Great Northern Divers (D Harris).
Friday 17th
Beddington Farmlands: Short-eared Owl, 4 Water Pipits, 2 Jack Snipe and 2 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner).
Brockwell Park: Brambling (S Patmore).
Cutt Mill Ponds: 2 drake Goosander on house pond (M Fincham).
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 2 juvenile Great Northern Divers (D Harris/A Quinn/J Snell).
London Wetland Centre: drake and redhead Goosander on Main Lake; also female Goldeneye on Reservoir Lagoon (N Bew).
Richmond Park: 4 Goosander at Pen Ponds; also 2 Dartford Warblers near Pen Ponds (P Owens/P Spencer).
Tice’s Meadow: 2 Green Sandpipers (M Matthews).
Thursday 16th
Brockwell Park: drake Goosander on main pond (S Patmore).
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): juvenile Great Northern Diver; also redhead Goosander and female Goldeneye (D Harris).
Wednesday 15th
Chessington: Swallow west (G Barter).
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): juvenile Great Northern Diver (D Harris).
London Wetland Centre: female Goldeneye on Reservoir Lagoon (A Wilkinson).
Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper (S Brownhill).
Weybourne: female-type Black Redstart at Green Lane Meadows (J Hunt).
Tuesday 14th
London Wetland Centre: drake Pintail and female Goldeneye on Main Lake (M Parker).
Monday 13th
Brixton: 2 hirundine sp. west (A Westenberger).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern from Headley Hide and Water Pipit and Pintail on Grazing Marsh (C & O Dewhurst/A Wilkinson).
Tice’s Meadow: 2 Green Sandpipers (R Horton).
Sunday 12th
Beddington Farmlands: Short-eared Owl by enclosed lagoon; also Golden Plover flushed from mound, 7 Water Pipits, 3 Jack Snipe and 3 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner/M Keenan).
Brockwell Park: 5 Bramblings (S Patmore).
Effingham Forest: 10 Bramblings at Dick Focks Common (W Justice).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern and female Goldeneye on Main Lake (A Robertson/A Salmon/M Wheeler).
Richmond Park: male Dartford Warbler (BirdGuides).
Thursley Common: Green Sandpiper and 2 Crossbills (D Brassington).
Saturday 11th
Beddington Farmlands: Short-eared Owl along south and east sides; also 4 Water Pipits, 3 Jack Snipe and 2 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner/I Jones/A Robertson/C Strudwick).
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 1st-winter Grey Phalarope; also redhead Goosander (J Barkham/D Harris/C Turner/S Waters).
Papercourt Water Meadows: Dartford Warbler (R Clark).
Richmond Park: Dartford Warbler in bracken by Pen Ponds; also up to 1,000 Woodpigeons west (BirdGuides/I Rowe).
Thursley Common: 3 Crossbills (M Matthews).
Tice’s Meadow: 4 Green Sandpipers (R Horton).
Tooting: Short-eared Owl over (BirdGuides).
Friday 10th
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 1st-winter Grey Phalarope; also Goosander and Green Sandpiper (C Lewis/J Snell).
London Wetland Centre: Green Sandpiper (D Panchaud).
Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper (R Horton).
Thursday 9th
Chobham Common: 5 Crossbills (M Matthews).
Effingham Forest: Brambling (K Francis).
Headley Heath: 8+ Hawfinches in western valleys (S Gale).
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 1st-winter Grey Phalarope (D Harris/many observers).
Leith Hill: Ring Ouzel in flight near tower (W Attridge).
Richmond Park: 2 Ring Ouzels south-west at Upper Pen Pond (BirdGuides).
Thursley Common: 6 Crossbills (D Brassington).
Wednesday 8th
Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper on The Moors (A Jenkins).
Tuesday 7th
Crooksbury Common: 20 Crossbills at Crooksbury Common (S Harley).
Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper on The Moors (N Hadden).
Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper (R Horton).
West End Common: 11 Crossbills over (G Barter).
Monday 6th
Chessington: 5,000 Woodpigeons south (G Barter).
Chobham Common: 4,000 Woodpigeons south (E Sames).
Cranleigh: 4,778 Woodpigeons west (R Stride).
Eashing Fields: 15,500 Woodpigeons south-west; also Short-eared Owl high south (E Stubbs).
Epsom Downs: 10,575 Woodpigeons south (S Gale).
Godalming: 900 Woodpigeons south-west (N Willis).
Holmethorpe SP: Red-crested Pochard pair at Spyne’s Mere (A Baldock).
Kingston-upon-Thames: 750 Woodpigeons south-west (A Skotnicki).
Leith Hill: 23,560 Woodpigeons south-west; also 8 Ring Ouzels south-east and 23 Bramblings south-west, plus 30 Bramblings and 14 Crossbills on Duke’s Warren (W Attridge/M Davis).
Loseley: 2,700 Woodpigeons south (J Snell).
Pewley Down: 500 Woodpigeons south (P Davies).
Richmond Park: Dartford Warbler (N Anderson).
Thursley Common: male Hen Harrier flew over Ockley Common (D Banks).
Wandsworth Common: 500 Woodpigeons south-west (N Rutter).
Sunday 5th
Beddington Farmlands: Short-eared Owl over mound; also 4 Water Pipits, 2 Jack Snipe and 2 Green Sandpipers (D Bulling/N Gardner/I Jones).
Crooksbury Common: Crossbill (J Gates).
Epsom Downs: 5,000 Woodpigeons south (S Gale).
Frensham Great Pond: female Goldeneye (S Peters).
Hogsmill SF: 3 Cattle Egrets (J Gale).
Holmwood SF: Green Sandpiper (M Davis).
Netley Heath: 20 Crossbills (P Davies).
Papercourt Water Meadows: Great Egret at Papercourt Farm (E Sames).
Thursley Common: 4 Crossbills (D Brassington).
Tice’s Meadow: 2 Green Sandpipers (R Horton).
Saturday 4th
Beddington Farmlands: Short-eared Owl over mound; also 5 Water Pipits, 4 Jack Snipe and 2 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner/P Rogers).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern on Main Lake (J Cass/A Salmon/M Wheeler).
Netley Heath: 2 Crossbills (P Davies).
Friday 3rd
Beddington Farmlands: Short eared Owl over southern mound (S Thomas).
Lammas Lands: Jack Snipe and Green Sandpiper (N Willis).
London Wetland Centre: 2 Pintail (R Blyth).
Thursday 2nd
Beddington Farmlands: Swallow and 2 Green Sandpipers (M Keenan).
Tice’s Meadow: Dunlin and Green Sandpiper (J Brough).
Wednesday 1st
London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh and Brambling at South Route feeders (A Salmon).
Tice’s Meadow: Green Sandpiper (R Horton).