November 2024
Saturday 30th
Beddington Farmlands: 3 Water Pipits; also female Shelduck and 2 Green Sandpipers (M Bravery/G Howgate/I Jones/J Pettit/A Ramesh).
Bletchingley: 2 Green Sandpipers over golf club (G Hay).
Earlswood Lakes: drake Goosander (A Baldock).
Holmethorpe SP: Water Pipit at Chilmead Farm (G Hay).
London Wetland Centre: Avocet on Main Lake; also Bittern at Reservoir Lagoon and Great Black-backed Gull (S Alley/E Devlin/K Peacock/A Salmon).
Richmond Park: Avocet on Upper Pen Pond (D Brasier).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).
Wandsworth: Green Sandpiper (R Goodman).
Friday 29th
Beddington Farmlands: Water Pipit and Green Sandpiper (M Parker/D Warren).
Burgess Park: drake Goosander on main lake; also adult Mediterranean Gull and Great Black-backed Gull (M Mac/F Symons/G Wright).
Earlswood Lakes: drake Goosander on lower lake (N Hadden).
Lammas Lands: Great Egret west (E Stubbs).
London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh; also Bittern (C Moore/F Newell).
Richmond Park: 4 Dartford Warblers (P Pentek/D Williams).
Thursley Common: female-type Marsh Harrier and 2 Green Sandpipers at Pudmore (D & P Boyd).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).
Thursday 28th
Beddington Farmlands: Short-eared Owl over mound; also 2 Water Pipits, Jack Snipe, 3 Firecrests and 2 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner/I Jones).
Earlswood Lakes: drake Goosander on lower lake (G Hay/I Williams).
Effingham Forest: 5+ Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (BirdGuides).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern on north side of Main Lake; also Water Pipit on Main Lake (BirdGuides).
Papercourt Water Meadows: Brambling (E Sames).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).
Wednesday 27th
Beddington Farmlands: Water Pipit and 5 Green Sandpipers (G Howgate/I Jones/Z Pannifer).
Earlswood Lakes: drake Goosander on lower lake (A Baldock).
London Wetland Centre: Great Black-backed Gull (M Wheeler).
Papercourt GPs: drake Goosander over (E Sames).
Papercourt Water Meadows: Great Egret north over Prews Farm (E Sames).
Rotherhithe: Great Black-backed Gull at Stave Hill (J Cadera).
Tuesday 26th
Effingham Forest: 3+ Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (J Birkett).
Headley Heath: 2 Hawfinches over Canada Heath (G Barter).
Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper at Chilmead Farm (G Hay).
London Wetland Centre: Mediterranean Gull (A Wilkinson).
Papercourt Water Meadows: Brambling at Prews Farm (M Fincham).
Tate Modern: Great Black-backed Gull (R Braddock).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).
Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret; also 3 Green Sandpipers (P Brown/R Horton).
Wanborough: 1+ Brambling at West Flexford Farm (P Davies).
Monday 25th
Beddington Farmlands: 2 Bramblings along permissive path; also Water Pipit, 2 Green Sandpipers and female Bullfinch (M Bravery/G Howgate/I Jones/J Pettit).
Earlswood Lakes: drake Goosander on lower lake (S Lyons).
Enton Lakes: drake Goosander on Johnson’s Lake (D Brassington).
Hankley Common: Crossbill west (P Howse).
London Wetland Centre: Yellow-legged Gull and Bittern on Reservoir Lagoon (A Salmon/N Stapley).
Richmond Park: Dartford Warbler (P Pentek).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).
Sunday 24th
Beddington Farmlands: adult Great Black-backed Gull, 3 Jack Snipe, 4 Water Pipits and 3 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner).
Holmethorpe SP: Water Pipit at Chilmead Farm; also 3 Great Black-backed Gulls at Mercers West (G Hay).
Lakeside NR: drake Goosander (M Scott).
London Wetland Centre: Shelduck on Main Lake (A Salmon).
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 2 Great Black-backed Gulls (T Inns).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).
Saturday 23rd
Beddington Farmlands: 2 Water Pipits, Jack Snipe and 2 Green Sandpipers (I Jones).
Frensham Great Pond: adult Little Gull (E Stubbs).
Hersham GP: 108 Barnacle Geese (D Harris).
London Wetland Centre: Caspian Gull on Main Lake (A Salmon).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).
Friday 22nd
Beddington Farmlands: female Marsh Harrier over Wet Grassland; also Water Pipit, Shelduck, 2 Green Sandpipers and Jack Snipe (A Dutta/G Howgate/R Walker/D Warren).
London Wetland Centre: Golden Plover south-east; also Bittern on Main Lake (M Parker/A Salmon).
Richmond Park: Great Black-backed Gull and 3 Dartford Warblers (R Dunne/P Pentek/T Vine).
Send: Brambling (C Lodge).
Tice’s Meadow: Little Bunting trapped and ringed in reedbed (R Dickey).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).
Thursday 21st
Ash Vale: male Lesser Spotted Woodpecker at Hollybush Hill (R Seargent).
Beddington Farmlands: Golden Plover south-east; also 2 Jack Snipe, 2 Water Pipits and Green Sandpiper (N Gardner).
London Wetland Centre: Jack Snipe on Main Lake (C Moore).
Thursley Common: male Hen Harrier (D Brassington).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).
Wednesday 20th
Beddington Farmlands: Great Egret on North Lake; also 3+ Water Pipits, Jack Snipe and 3+ Green Sandpipers (J Dickersen/A Dutta/G Howgate/I Jones/R Walker).
Burgh Heath: 100+ Skylarks at Canons Farm (S Casson/A Harding).
Capel: Hawfinch north-west (W Attridge).
Effingham Forest: 30 Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (BirdGuides).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern on Main Lake; also female Pintail at Wildside, 2nd-winter Yellow-legged Gull, Shelduck and Water Pipit (C Moore/J Reeves/A Salmon/M Wheeler).
Richmond Park: Great Egret south-east; also Great Black-backed Gull and 3 Dartford Warblers (N Baker/J Wilczur).
Thursley Common: male Hen Harrier; also Ringed Plover at Pudmore (P Howse).
Tooting Common: 1st-winter female Ferruginous Duck on lake; origin suspect (BirdGuides).
Weybourne: 1st-winter male Black Redstart at Green Lane Meadows (BirdGuides).
Tuesday 19th
Beddington Farmlands: 12 Kittiwakes east over mound; also Jack Snipe, 5 Water Pipits and 2 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner).
Haslemere: Brambling in garden (D Kettles).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern on Reservoir Lagoon (A Salmon).
Richmond Park: Shelduck at Upper Pen Pond (T Smith).
Southwark Park: Great Black-backed Gull (J Cadera).
Tooting Common: juvenile female Ferruginous Duck on lake (BirdGuides).
Unstead SF: 2 Green Sandpipers on South Meadow (J Parr).
Monday 18th
Headley Heath: c 30 Hawfinches (BirdGuides).
Holmethorpe SP: Water Pipit on pools at Chilmead Farm (N Hadden/G Hay).
London Wetland Centre: Shelduck (S Lay).
Lonsdale Road Reservoir: drake Shelduck (N Anderson).
Richmond Park: Shelduck at Pen Ponds (T Mountford).
Sunday 17th
Beddington Farmlands: 2 Water Pipits, 2 Jack Snipe and 3 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner/A Harding/C Strudwick).
Capel: Green Sandpiper (W Attridge).
Effingham Forest: 8+ Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (A Turbett).
Frensham Great Pond: Brent Goose on east side (S Peters).
Headley Heath: 8 Hawfinches on west side (S Osbourne).
Holmethorpe SP: female Red-crested Pochard at Railway Pools; also Green Sandpiper (T Blake/R Perry).
London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Wader Scrape; also 2 Bitterns on Main Lake and Reservoir Lagoon, Great Black-backed Gull and Shelduck (C Lowman/P Gray/W Newnham/B Reding/T Richardson/A Salmon).
Newchapel: 5 adult Russian White-fronted Geese at Shawlands Farm (K Noble).
Papercourt Water Meadows: Brambling at Prews Farm (M Fincham).
Saturday 16th
Beddington Farmlands: Jack Snipe, Water Pipit and 2 Green Sandpipers (I Jones).
Effingham Forest: 8 Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (N Collins/B Hagan).
Holmethorpe SP: female Red-crested Pochard at Railway Pools (R Perry).
London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit over Grazing Marsh; also and 2 Shelduck (M Bowen/S Casson/R Morris/P Gilfillan/A Salmon).
Tice’s Meadow: 2 Green Sandpipers (R Horton).
Wandsworth: Green Sandpiper (R Goodman).
Friday 15th
Beddington Farmlands: 2 Water Pipits (J Pettit).
Holmethorpe SP: Bittern at Spynes Mere (G Hay).
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): adult Mediterranean Gull (D Harris).
London Wetland Centre: Shelduck (A Salmon).
Richmond Park: Shelduck (B Munn).
Weybourne: female-type Black Redstart in gardens near Green Lane Meadows (BirdGuides).
Thursday 14th
Beddington Farmlands: 4 Goosander on North Lake; also 3 Water Pipits and 2 Green Sandpipers (N Gardner/I Jones/D Warren).
Capel: 2 Bramblings south-west and 65 Redpolls (W Attridge).
Effingham Forest: 8 Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (BirdGuides).
Headley Heath: 30+ Hawfinches (S Gale).
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): Great Black-backed Gull and Shelduck (J Snell).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern and Green Sandpiper (C Moore/T Richardson).
Milford: 200 Chaffinches at Secretts Farm (D Brassington).
Papercourt Water Meadows: 250 Chaffinches and 2 Bramblings at Prews Farm (M Kettell).
Tate Modern: 2 Great Black-backed Gulls (R Braddock).
Wednesday 13th
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): redhead Red-breasted Merganser; also adult Caspian Gull, Great Black-backed Gull and 3 Goldeneye (R Dunne/D Harris/A Quinn).
Headley Heath: Hawfinch (L Bugby).
Lammas Lands: Jack Snipe (N Willis).
Leith Hill: 11 Bramblings (W Attridge).
London Wetland Centre: 2 Bitterns and Water Pipit (A Salmon/M Wheeler).
Papercourt Marshes: Brambling and Woodcock (E Sames).
Papercourt Water Meadows: 3 Bramblings at Prews Farm (A Goddard).
Richmond Park: Shelduck (J Keddie).
Tice’s Meadow: Great Egret (J Snell).
Tuesday 12th
Beddington Farmlands: Whinchat; also Dunlin, Green Sandpiper and Water Pipit (D Bulling/G Howgate).
Effingham Forest: 30+ Hawfinches, 2 Goshawks and Brambling at Dick Focks Common (P Davies).
Headley Heath: Hawfinch (A Nunns).
Holmethorpe SP: 2 Green Sandpipers (G Hay).
Leith Hill: 7 Marsh Tits (P Gilfillan).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern (J Tricker).
Richmond Park: Hawfinch and Shelduck at Upper Pen Pond (D Campbell/I Rowe/M Rowell).
Tate Modern: 2 Great Black-backed Gulls (R Braddock).
Tooting Common: juvenile female Ferruginous Duck on lake (BirdGuides).
Monday 11th
Beddington Farmlands: Black-tailed Godwit on North Lake; also 3 Water Pipits, Great Black-backed Gull and Green Sandpiper (N Gardner/G Howgate/J Pettit/R Walker).
Burgh Heath: Dartford Warbler at Canons Farm (G Barter).
Capel: 3 Hawfinches west and Woodlark south-east (W Attridge).
Effingham Forest: 10+ Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (BirdGuides).
Holmethorpe SP: drake Red-crested Pochard at Spynes Mere (G Hay).
Papercourt Marshes: 2 Bramblings (E Sames).
Richmond Park: Shelduck (N Hughes).
Tooting Common: juvenile female Ferruginous Duck on lake (BirdGuides).
Sunday 10th
Beddington Farmlands: male and female Bearded Tits at North and South Lakes; also Black-tailed Godwit on North Lake, female-type Marsh Harrier north-east, female Pintail, adult Great Black-backed Gull, Brambling, Water Pipit, Yellowhammer and Green Sandpiper (D Bulling/A Dutta/D Warren).
Capel: Brambling west (W Attridge).
Effingham Forest: 30+ Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common; also female Crossbill (K Britten/S Kirby).
Hackhurst Downs: Great Egret flew over; also Hawfinch (A Lockett).
Headley Heath: 12+ Hawfinches (T Blake).
Holmethorpe SP: Goldeneye at Spynes Mere; also Green Sandpiper and 7 Water Rails (N Hadden/G Hay/I Kehl).
Kingswood: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker at Chiphouse Wood (R Lance).
London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh; also Great Black-backed Gull (K Harris/D Raisey/M Wheeler).
Papercourt GPs: 4 (3 drakes and a female) Red-crested Pochard (J Bingley/S Osbourne).
Puttenham: Hawfinch (BirdGuides).
Tooting Common: juvenile female Ferruginous Duck on lake (BirdGuides).
Saturday 9th
Beacon Hill: Brambling (C Jones).
Beare Green: Hawfinch in garden (D Robinson).
Beddington Farmlands: Golden Plover north-east; also Black-tailed Godwit, Water Pipit and Green Sandpiper (G Howgate/M Keenan/M Murphy/A Ramesh).
Capel: 2 Hawfinches west (W Attridge).
Effingham Forest: 26 Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common; also Goshawk (T Gibson).
London Wetland Centre: 2 Goldeneye (C Hardiman).
Papercourt GPs: 4 (3 drakes and a female) Red-crested Pochard (T Gibson/W Justice).
Papercourt Marshes: Brambling (S Osbourne).
Richmond Park: 2 Short-eared Owls; also Lesser Spotted Woodpecker and Shelduck (D Brasier/P Pentek).
Tooting Common: juvenile female Ferruginous Duck on lake (BirdGuides).
Wallington: 2 Hawfinches over (A Dutta).
Friday 8th
Beddington Farmlands: male and female Bearded Tits at North Lake; also 2 Water Pipits and 2 Green Sandpipers (I Jones).
Headley Heath: 30+ Hawfinches in western valleys (S Gale).
Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper at The Moors (G Hay).
London Wetland Centre: Water Pipit on Grazing Marsh; also 2 Goldeneye (W Curnutt/A Salmon).
Newdigate: Hawfinch at Hogspudding Lane (W Attridge).
Papercourt GPs: 4 (3 drakes and a female) Red-crested Pochard (P Brown/A Harding/C Lodge/A Press).
Richmond Park: Shelduck (P Pentek).
Tooting Common: juvenile female Ferruginous Duck on lake (BirdGuides).
Thursday 7th
Beddington Farmlands: Short-eared Owl over lakes; also Black-tailed Godwit on North Lake and Green Sandpiper (R Browne/I Jones/H Kleeberg).
Effingham Forest: 5+ Hawfinches at Dick Focks Common (P Davies).
Papercourt GPs: 4 (3 drakes and a female) Red-crested Pochard (T Cummins/M Fincham/A Goddard/B Scammell).
Pyrford: Brambling at Lady Place Farm (J Snell).
Tooting Common: juvenile female Ferruginous Duck on lake (BirdGuides).
Wallington: Hawfinch over (A Dutta).
Wednesday 6th
Beddington Farmlands: Black-tailed Godwit on North Lake; also Dunlin, Water Pipit and 2 Green Sandpipers (G Howgate/I Jones/J Pettit/R Weller).
Capel: Hawfinch west (W Attridge).
Little Woodcote: female-type Black Redstart (S Gale).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern (N Bew).
Papercourt GPs: 5 (4 drakes and a female) Red-crested Pochard (D Carlsson/K Duncan/A Goddard).
Papercourt Water Meadows: 4 Great Egrets east; also 5+ Bramblings (E Sames).
Richmond Park: Shelduck and Dartford Warbler (R Dunne/P Pentek).
Shalford Water Meadows: female Bearded Tit at St Catherine’s Lock (D Brassington/A Goddard).
Tice’s Meadow: 3 Pintail (P Brown/R Horton).
Tooting Common: juvenile female Ferruginous Duck on lake (BirdGuides).
Worplesdon: Hawfinch over (J Gates).
Tuesday 5th
Beddington Farmlands: Hawfinch north; also Marsh Harrier over North Lake, drake Pintail, Brambling, 2 Water Pipits, Shelduck, 3 Firecrests and 3 Green Sandpipers (R Browne/N Gardner/I Jones/M Parker).
Bolder Mere: 4 Great Egrets (D Harris).
Effingham Forest: Crossbill at Dick Focks Common (P Davies).
Little Woodcote: female-type Black Redstart (A Dutta).
Papercourt Water Meadows: 2 Bramblings at Prews Farm (E Sames).
Richmond Park: Hawfinch at Isabella Plantation; also Ring Ouzel and Shelduck (S Kirby/P Pentek).
Shalford Water Meadows: female Bearded Tit at St Catherine’s Lock (D Brassington).
Tooting Common: juvenile female Ferruginous Duck on lake (BirdGuides).
Monday 4th
Albury: 3 Hawfinches west of St Peter’s and St Paul’s Church (BirdGuides).
Chessington: 9 Hawfinches; 2 south over Winey Hill, 3 in adjacent woodland and 4 over Garrison Lane (I Rowe).
Effingham Forest: Hawfinch at Dick Focks Common (D Carlsson).
Haslemere: Brambling at Braeside Close (M Phyllis).
Hydon’s Ball: Brambling (R Cowley).
Island Barn Reservoir (permit only): 204 Barnacle Geese (D Harris).
Leith Hill: 2 Hawfinches and 17 Bramblings (W Attridge).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern at Reservoir Lagoon; also 2 Bramblings north-west (A Salmon).
Pewley Down: Dartford Warbler (M Kettell).
Richmond Park: Shelduck (P Pentek).
Shalford Water Meadows: female Bearded Tit at St Catherine’s Lock (M Fincham).
Tice’s Meadow: 3 Hawfinches flew over (R Horton).
Tooting Common: juvenile female Ferruginous Duck on lake (BirdGuides).
Sunday 3rd
Ashtead: Brambling (R Guy).
Beddington Farmlands: Golden Plover by mound; also adult Mediterranean Gull, 3 Water Pipits and 3 Green Sandpipers (R Browne/D Bulling/B Carter/A Dutta/N Gardner/I Jones/C Strudwick).
Brook: 11 Yellowhammers at Witley Farm (D Brassington).
Dormansland: Brambling (A Moore).
Effingham Forest: 10+ Hawfinches, 4+ Crossbills and Brambling at Dick Focks Common (A Westenberger).
Ewell: Dunlin sound recorded at night (S Thomas).
Fetcham: Great Egret south-east (D Cox).
Leith Hill: 2 Hawfinches, Brambling, 1160 Redwings and 370 Fieldfares south-west (W Attridge).
London Wetland Centre: Short-eared Owl over Main Lake and Bittern on Main Lake (A Salmon).
Mercers CP: Green Sandpiper (G Hay/I Kehl).
Morden Hall Park: 2 Hawfinches (N Rutter).
New Malden: Red-throated Diver north-east over garden (T Inns).
Richmond Park: 4 Hawfinches over (BirdGuides).
Shalford Water Meadows: female Bearded Tit at St Catherine’s Lock; also 2 Hawfinches over (D Brassington).
Tooting Common: juvenile female Ferruginous Duck on lake; also 5 Hawfinches over (BirdGuides).
Tulse Hill: 2 Hawfinches south (S Patmore).
Wallington: Brent Goose flock sound recorded at 19:29 (A Dutta).
Saturday 2nd
Barn Elms: Red-throated Diver west over playing fields; also 2 Hawfinches and Brambling over (C & O Dewhurst).
Beddington Farmlands: Green Sandpiper (I Jones).
Brockwell Park: Hawfinch north-east; also Brambling (S Patmore).
Busbridge: 2 Hawfinches east (BirdGuides).
Capel: Brambling (W Attridge).
Effingham Forest: 20+ Hawfinches and 2 Goshawks at Dick Focks Common (A Bolton/S Kirby).
Hindhead Common: 2 Crossbills (S Newton).
Holmethorpe SP: Green Sandpiper (N Hadden).
Leith Hill: 2+ Bramblings (W Attridge).
London Wetland Centre: Bittern and 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull on Main Lake (O Dewhurst).
Papercourt Water Meadows: Dartford Warbler (R Clark).
Richmond Park: Ring Ouzel and Hawfinch over (BirdGuides).
South Norwood CP: Short-eared Owl (D Rouse).
Tooting Common: juvenile female Ferruginous Duck (unringed) on lake (N Batten/M Keenan/M Murphy).
Wallington: Golden Plover, Ring Ouzel and multiple Dunlin sound recorded at night (A Dutta).
Friday 1st
Ashtead: Hawfinch over Overdale (E Drewitt).
Beddington Farmlands: 2 Bearded Tits at North Lake; also Water Pipit and Green Sandpiper (A Harding/I Jones).
Cranleigh: 2 Hawfinches south-west over Thistley Lane (N Willis).
Effingham Forest: 4 Hawfinches, 7 Crossbills and 2+ Goshawks at Dick Focks Common (J Snell).
Godstone: Hawfinch west (G Hay).
Headley Heath: 10+ Hawfinches (BirdGuides).
Lammas Lands: Jack Snipe (E Stubbs).
Papercourt Water Meadows: Brambling at Prews Farm (A Goddard).
Richmond Park: 28 Hawfinches over; also Golden Plover north and 15 Ring Ouzels, 1280 Redwings and 1045 Starlings over (D Brasier/R Kaye/F Matthews/J Wilczur/S Woolfenden).
Tooting Common: female Ferruginous Duck of unknown origin on lake (D Bulling).
Tulse Hill: 7 Hawfinches south-west (S Patmore).