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Friday 20th April 2018

 * Brent Reservoir: Res 1st of yr Common Tern, pair of Little Ringed Plover, Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 10+ Blackcap, 6+ Chiffchaff, 3 Cetti's Warbler, Res 1st of yr Common Whitethroat (Oliver Simms-from Log); pair LRP and Tern still pm, feeding flies over water, 7 Black-headed Gull dropped in to feed on flies over water; 2 Orange Tip, 2 Peacock, 2 Small Tortoiseshell, 2 Speckled Wood, 2 Small White, Green-veined White. 100+ Yellow Dung Fly (Andrew Verrall)
 * Dollis Brook, Holders Hill: Grey Wagtail, 2 Singing Blackcap (Samuel Levy)
 * Fisher's Green: Nightingale singing & showing occasionally nr National Grid Substation, also 4 Common Tern, 2 Cuckoo, 8 Chiffchaff, 4+ Sedge Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 3-4 Whitethroat, 6 Blackcap am (Jim Anderson tweet)
 * Friday Lake: rh Smew still & calling Cuckoo (J.Murray)
 * Gallion's Reach: Greenshank, Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, 5 Common Tern, 2 Sand Martin, 4 Common Buzzard.(KJM).3 Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap, Willow Warbler, Common Sandpiper (Charlie Clark)
 * Grovelands Park: 2 Great Crested Grebe pr nest building, 2 Cormorant, 2 Mute Swan pr incubating, 2 Egyptian Goose pr, m Mandarin Duck, m Common Pochard, 6 Tufted Duck 3m 3f, 8 Stock Dove, 4 Swift Green Woodpecker, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Pied Wagtail, 5 Blackcap singing, Chiffchaff singing, Goldcrest singing, 3 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper pr nest building, m Chaffinch singing, m Brimstone, m Orange-tip, 3 Holly Blue (Robert Callf)
 * Kilburn/W.Hampstead Borders: Blackcap singing in garden by railway embankments, just south of Mill Lane Bridge, here for the summer (Andrew Verrall)
 * King George VI Reservoir: poss Roseate Tern on gantry late-am [permit only - view fr Staines Reservoir causeway] (BirdGuides); no sign 3pm (Dom Pia tweet)
 * London Wetland Centre: m Pheasant, Little Ringed Plover, 4 Redshank, 7 Swallow N, 7 Chiffchaff, 2 Sedge Warbler, 5 Reed Warbler, 8 Blackcap, 3 Wheatear grazing marsh, 3 Yellow Wagtail 2 grazing marsh & 1W (WWT website)
 * Loughton: 3 Swift soaring overhead 1455 (RSPB NE Ldn Grp tweet)
 * Mardyke Valley: Great Egret SE over A13 early-am (BirdGuides)
 * Mayflower Park: 3 Common Buzzards soaring high, Reed Warbler singing (Bob Smith)
 * Monkhams Hall, Waltham Abbey: Cuckoo at 09:20 - went north east at 09:30 (Martin Shepherd)
 * Pinner Park Farm: 2 Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, Little Owl (Dan Pinkham)
 * Richmond Park: Ring Ouzel (J.Wilczur); Yellow Wagtail over (M.Lewis); m Pheasant, 2 Red Kite, 7+ Buzzard, Kingfisher, 3 Swift, 2 Swallow, 10 Wheatear - including five Greenland types, 5 Stonechat, Reed Warbler, 4 Common Whitethroat, 10 Reed Bunting (J.Wilczur, P.Pentek, Friday Bird Group)
 * Ridgeway, Mill Hill: Sparrowhawk N 08:50, Singing Blackcap, Grey Heron. (Samuel Levy)
 * Ruxley, (Honeydale Farm): 3 Wheatear in horse fields near farm. (Jack Headley tweet)
 * St James's Park: Swallow (Frank Nugent).
 * Staines Reservoir: 9 Black Tern s basin (Paul Boult via Surrey BN); no sign of terns but Little Ringed Plover, Little Gull, 2 Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail 3pm (Dom Pia tweet); Great Northern Diver back on n basin 1545 (Jim Sweetland per TS tweet)
 * Stoneleigh Station KT17: 1 singing Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Blackcap, 1 Chiffchaff (Neil Batten)
 * Streatham Common: 2 m Wheatear by playground 2.30pm (Peter Newmark)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: 3 Arctic Tern on river, 2 Cuckoo, singing Nightingale, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 19 Cetti's Warbler, 6 Reed Warbler, 2 Sedge Warbler, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 9 Common Whitethroat, 11 Blackcap, Willow Warbler, 7 Chiffchaff, 2 Rook (Andrew Self)
 * Totteridge Valley:1 Wheatear, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Common Whitethroat, 20 Blackcap,7 Swallow, 6 Orange Tip, 2 Brimstone (Tony Clancy)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: Greenshank main gp south-side bay nr cormorant_tree 1150, also 4 Little Ringed Plover, Redshank h, 2 Great Black-backed Gull (TyttGP tweet)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Whinchat, 4 Wheatear, 3 Red-crested Pochard, Red Kite, Oystercatcher (Walthamstow Birders)
 * West Thurrock Marshes: Whimbrel (Andrew Self)
 * Wimbledon Common:4 Buzzard circling high over Thatched Cottage; 1 probable Arctic Skua also circling high c2.10pm heading east - very distinctive tail (Les Evans-Hill)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Whinchat, Sedge Warbler, 3+ Reed Warbler, Willow Warbler, 2 Linnet, 2 Teal (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)
 * Worcester Park:Common Buzzard south over observer's garden(Bob Smith)
 * Wormwood Scrubs: 1 singing Common Whitethroat, 8 Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, pr Linnet, m Kestrel, 2 Egyptian Goose over (Charlie Farrell)

Thursday 19th April 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Ring Ouzel female briefly playing field perimeter 0820 then flew to trees behind cricket scrub and no further sign, Northern Wheatear female briefly golf course (Gerry Rawcliffe per Bob Watts).
 * Amwell NR: 2 Little Gull fr viewpt 0630 (Ron Cousins tweet); Grasshopper Warbler seen reeling from reedbed bramble to left of lower viewpt 0700 (Allan Meadows tweet); 4 Common Tern great hardmead lake (Allan Meadows via Herts BC)
 * Belhus Woods CP: Nightingale at rear of huntshill lake 0700 (Alan Shearman per ELBF/BirdGuides); Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, Water Rail, 2 Common Tern, Cuckoo, Kingfisher, f Woodlark W 0720, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 8 Willow Warbler, 24 Chiffchaff, 2 Sedge Warbler, 3 Reed Warbler, 32 Blackcap, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Whitethroat, Nuthatch, Redstart, Bullfinch, 2 Reed Bunting (Alan Shearman per ELBF FB)
 * Brent Res: Common Sandpiper, Reed Warbler singing, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Red Kite (NB needs to be added to log as seen on departure), c20 singing Blackcap, 10 singing Chiffchaff, c150 Herring Gull on main res; also Brimstone, Holly Blue, Peacock, Green-veined White, Orange Tip (John Colmans)
 * Brockley Nature Reserve: singing Blackcap, singing Chffchaff (Keith Chambers)
 * Brockwell Park: 2 singing Willow Warbler, 2 singing Blackcap, 4 Jackdaw still around the ancient oak (of which there is only 1 here unlike Richmond Park) for 1st year (Michael Mac)
 * Brookmill Park: Kingfisher, Stock Dove, Song Thrush, 3 Blackcap, Chiffchaff (Tomos Brangwyn & Conrad Ellam)
 * City of London: 2 Swift flew past leadenhall bldg (BirdGuides)
 * Ealing (W13): Swallow N straight through low over garden late morning (Bill Haines).
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - f Sparrowhawk, Singing Blackcap, singing Goldcrest, House Sparrow calling 19:30 (2nd Garden Record and 1st since July 2013) (Samuel Levy)
 * Fishers Green: Nightingale singing by gate to National Grid substation (J.Murray)
 * Friday Lake: rh Smew still (BirdGuides)
 * Greenwich Park: Little Egret over, Willow Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat; Speckled Wood, Holly Blue (Joe Beale tweet)
 * Heathrow: 4 Wheatear 2m 2f (Adam Cheeseman)
 * Hounslow Heath: Buzzard, Red Kite, Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff & Blackcap (Paul Boult)
 * Hyde Park: 2 House Martin (Ray Crouch)
 * KGV Reservoir: Little Tern, Sandwich Tern, Arctic Tern, 15+ Common Tern, Little Gull, Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, Sand Martin (Simon Papps & Ian Lycett)
 * Lamorbey Park : 2 singing Blackcap, singing Chiffchaff , singing Goldcrest (Mike Amos).
 * Lea Bridge station: Dead Lesser Whitethroat on Platform 1 (D Beadle)
 * London Wetland Centre: Shelduck, Oystercatcher main lake, 3 Snipe, 5 Redshank, Swallow, 3 Willow Warbler, 5 Sedge Warbler, 6 Reed Warbler, Garden Warbler sheltered lagoon, Yellow Wagtail marsh (WWT website); 2f Wheatear and 1m Pheasant wader scrape, 1m 1f Pintail reservoir lagoon, numerous Blackcap (m and f) and Chiffchaff, plus a few Willow Warbler southern route (Martin Honey & B. Page)
 * London Zoo: Sparrowhawk 2, Buzzard 1+, Swallow, 4 Blackcap, Coal Tit (micro patch 1st!), 2 Red-crested Pochard (Sam Jones)
 * Mayflower Park: Red Kite south, Sedge Warbler singing. (Bob Smith) 2 Red-Eared Sliders and 1 male Blackcap; whereabouts was the the sedge warbler Bob, thanks (Isaiah Rowe). Hi Isaiah it was in the brambles between the pool where you saw the sliders and the pool right of that nearest the buildings. Just heard it briefly at 10.30. Hopefully it will stay on (Bob)
 * Moor Lane nr Rickmansworth: Common Tern flying along canal TQ065939 (Anna Marett via Herts BC)
 * North Weald: Common - m Ring Ouzel [leucistic] (Martin Redfern per ELBF FB)
 * Rainham Marshes: 3 Grasshopper Warbler reeling Enclosed Bay [1 from dog roses by path c100m from small carpark] 0815, 4 Ring Ouzel along riverwall 0800 (Ralph Vaughan tweets);  Garden Warbler (Andy Reid, Ian Plume per ELBF FB); 11 Little Egret, 3 Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, Whimbrel, Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Greenshank, 2ad Mediterranean Gull, 40 Common Tern, 4m Grasshopper Warbler, 5 Lesser Whitethroat, 12 Whitethroat, 5 Ring Ouzel 3m2f, pr Stonechat, 2 Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, Corn Bunting (per ELBF FB)
 * Richmond Park: Sedge Warbler singing by Pen Ponds (P.Pentek)
 * Roding Valley Meadows LNR: 2 Buzzard, 2 Treecreeper, Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, 18m Blackcap, 4 Whitethroat, 3 Reed Bunting (Barry Jones per ELBF FB)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: Mediterranean Gull on island fr draper hide 1610 (RSPB tweet)
 * Sevenoaks WR: Common Sandpiper (Mathew Bournat tweet)
 * Seventy Acres Lake: Cuckoo south end of lake (J.Murray)
 * South Croydon (Woodcroft Road) (17:15): 2 Swift over (Croydon Birders)
 * Staines Moor: Hobby, 3 Sedge Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Whitethroat, 2f Wheatear (Robert Martin tweet)
 * Staines Reservoir: Black-necked Grebe, Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper all on s basin am (Dave Carlsson tweet)
 * Stanstead Abbotts Lakes - N lake: 2 Oystercatcher, Common Tern (Jane Free via Herts BC)
 * Stanwell Moor: 2+ Cetti's Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, Sedge Warbler, 12+ Blackcap (Robert Martin tweet)
 * Stocker's Farm: Cuckoo h 1000 (Charlie Ramsey via Herts BC)
 * Stocker's Lake: 19 Little Egret, 2 Common Tern (Geoff Lapworth via Herts BC)
 * Teddington: 2 Swift (over the station 8.00am) (Ian R Watson)
 * Tooting Commons: Kestrel W at 13:20 (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Trent Park: 2 Eurasian Teal pr upper lake, Treecreeper singing Nature Trail (Robert Callf) ; Also Common Buzzard, 9 Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, 2 Common Whitethroat foy, Garden Warbler foy and earliest since I have been recording here, 4m Mandarin, pair Tufted Duck. ( Pete Lowman )
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: fishing lake - Little Egret, Common Tern 0645; main gp - 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 2 Redshank, Kingfisher, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 3+ Whitethroat, Yellow Wagtail (Rupert Evershed tweets)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 3 Lesser Whitethroat in hedges alongside side and rear paddocks (2 singing m), Common Whitethroat (singing m) NE corner Lammas Meadow, Sedge Warbler (singing m) Bomb Crater Field 09:00 - 09:30 (Alastair Dent)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 4 Wheatear, 4 Sedge Warbler, 5 Reed Warbler, 6 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Whitethroat, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 9 Sand Martins, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Sparrowhawk, 3 Greater Spotted Woodpecker, 6 Shoveler. (Daniel Whitelegg) Painted Lady (Chris Farthing)
 * Wanstead Flats: m Wheatear, 2 Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, 3 singing Meadow Pipit, 4 singing Skylark, singing Reed Bunting, 2-3 Linnet, 5 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Common Whitethroat, 2 Little Owl, 4 Buzzard, 2-3 Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Pochard, 3 Gadwall, 2 Shoveler, 4 Little Grebe (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: Buzzard, 8 Teal, 2 Shoveler, 5 Little Grebe, singing Goldcrest, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, 20+ singing Blackcap (Nick Croft)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Snipe, 2 Teal, Reed Warbler, 2 Linnet (Chris Farthing)
 * Wormwood Scrubs: f Ring Ouzel 0800 (Mike Waller tweet)

Wednesday 18th April 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Treecreeper pair, 4 Egyptian Goose, Willow Warbler (APOG Birders)
 * Bankside SE1: 1 Chiffchaff singing outside Tate Modern, 1 Blackcap singing near The Anchor (G Sawtell)
 * Dollis Brook, Holders Hill: Grey Wagtail, Blackcap, Coal Tit, 2 Mandarin Duck upstream 07:03, Pied Wagtail, Mistle Thrush; 2 Comma (Samuel Levy)
 * Edgwarebury, Edgware, Middx: Cuckoo calling 11.50, Sparrowhawk pair displaying, 2 Swallow back at farm, Long-tailed Tit pair nest building, male Reed Bunting, Little Owl, 2 singing Skylark, pair Linnet, Lapwing seeing off Kestrel & Carrion Crows, 41 Stock Dove; Peacock butterfly (Fay Broom & Bob Husband)
 * Fairlop Waters: Sedge Warbler, 8 singing Willow Warblers, 9 Shelducks (Alan Bell)
 * Gallions Reach: Buzzard, 8ad Mediterranean Gull upriver, Common Tern [v few so far] (Gary A James per EBwS BN)
 * Holly Hill Farm, Enfield: Red Kite, Kestrel, Red-legged Partridge, m Skylark singing, Pied Wagtail, 2 Lesser Whitethroat incl singing male in song flight - despite what some books state seen this species in song flight on several occasions, (So have I.....Ken Murray) Willow Warbler singing, no sign of yesterday's Black Redstart (Robert Callf)
 * KGV Reservoir: M Smew still on S Basin, 2 Common Sandpiper, 8+ Common Tern, 3 Sand Martins, 2 Goldeneye (Both Fems.), 2 Singing Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Yellow Wagtail flew over N Basin - 7am, 1 Singing Willow Warbler, 3 Singing Chiffchaff, 5+ Singing Blackcap, Pr. Teal. 6.30 - 7.40am (Davey Leach); later in the morning 2 Whimbrel on causeway, 3 Little Gull, 3 Wheatear (Martin Shepherd); Dunlin; Clouded Yellow (Chris Farthing) Also Tony Clancy and Geoff Crabtree reported all these.
 * Ladbroke Square Gardens: [Communal/Private Notting Hill] at least 2 singing Blackcap, Willow Warbler, Coal Tits, Goldcrest, Great Spotted Woodpecker, singing Goldfinch & more common birds; Butterflies - Small White, Brimstone and 1 Orange Tip (Angus Innes)
 * Ladywell Fields: Kingfisher, 2 Mistle Thrush, Blackcap, Chiffchaff and Song Thrush; plus 2 Brimstone, Small Tortoiseshell, Small White (Tom Moulton/Sue Gore/Judith Simmons)
 * Leatherhead, Randalls Way: 1 Common Buzzard distantly, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap (Neil Batten)
 * Leyton Marsh: 3 Common Whitethroat and Willow Warbler (GH) full name pls?
 * London Wetland Centre: Shelduck, male Pheasant, 3 Buzzard E 1040, 5 Redshank, Whimbrel, female Redstart, 3 Willow Warbler, 5 Sedge Warbler, 4 Reed Warbler, 10 Blackcap, Lesser Whitethroat (WWT website)
 * Mayflower Park Wetlands: 1 Red Kite harassed by crows then NW, 2 Peregrines circling high, 1 Chiffchaff, 1m Blackcap, 1 Song Thrush and a Red-Eared Slider terrapin (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Mudchute Farm: Lesser Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Sean Huggins)
 * North Finchley: Buzzard and Sparrowhawk over during 30 mins back garden birding (John Colmans)
 * North Mymms Park: Whitethroat (per Herts BC)
 * Palmers Green, N13: Red Kite low and fast heading N at 12:44, Common Buzzard circling high drifting N and then E at 12:47. Both over Eaton Park Road. (Katy McGilvray)
 * Panshanger Park; singing m Whitethroat (Murray Brown via Herts BC)
 * Rainham RSPB: 3 Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, 3 Short-eared Owl (John Humble et al per ELBF FB); 7 Whimbrel, Bar-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Greenshank, 40 Common Tern, Grasshopper Warbler, 3 Lesser Whitethroat (Howard Vaughan, Andy Reid per ELBF FB)
 * Richmond Park: Buzzard, Red Kite, Hobby, 3 Wheatear, m Whinchat, Common Whitethroat (P Pentek)
 * St James's Park: 2 Blackcap, 1 Chiffchaff (Andrew Self); 2 Common Buzzard soaring at 14:30, 6 Blackcap comprising four males and two females; Holly Blue (Frank Nugent)
 * Staines Reservoir: Goosander (redhead), 9 Shoveler, 6 Pochard, 3 Arctic Tern, 2 Common Tern, Wheatear (Tom Jordan)
 * Stanwell Moor: Lesser Whitethroat & pr Bullfinch car field evg (Tony Sweetland tweet)
 * Stoneleigh Station KT17: 2 Blackcap, 1 Chiffchaff (Neil Batten)
 * The Warren, Copped Hall: Nightingale (Peter Vaughan per ELBF FB)
 * Tooting Commons: 3 Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Red Kite E at 16:35 (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: Mandarin Duck, f Garganey, 10 Teal, Grey Heron, Sparrowhawk, 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Coot, 57+ Stock Dove, 22 Rook, 6 Swallow, 2 Nuthatch, 10 Chiffchaff, 10 Blackcap, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, Wheatear (Owl_field), 2 Linnet; Holly Blue, Peacock, Comma, Orange Tip, Brimstone (Samuel Levy)
 * Tufnell Park NW5: Red Kite heading low west over Dartmouth Park Road towards Gospel Oak at 15:57 (Tim Blackburn)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: main gp - 2 Little Ringed Plover, Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Lesser Whitethroat, 5+ Whitethroat; fishing lake - Common Gull, 2 Great Black-backed Gull; tytt fm - m Whinchat bean crop behind fm. Flew towards paddocks 1215 (Rupert Evershed tweets); Whimbrel main gp on sand spit briefly 1025 (Steve Blake via Herts BC); 5 Little Ringed Plover evg (Simon West tweet)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: this morning - 3+ Chiffchaff and many Blackcap, Lesser Whitethroat by North paddock, 2 Sedge Warbler in Bomb Crater field, Skylark over; Sedge Warbler in Horseshoe Coppice; 5 Rook adult over & 4 immatures on Filter Beds; 3+ House Martin, 3+ Sand Martin (Paul Whiteman)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 8-9 Buzzards 3 displaying north of Lockwood & 5-6 S, Red Kite E, Willow Warbler s end of Lockwood, 4 ‘commic’ Terns N over Engine House (Paul Whiteman)
 * Wandsworth Common: Garden Warbler, 10 Blackcap, 4 Willow Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 4 Shoveler, Sparrowhawk (Nick Rutter)
 * Wanstead Flats: Ring Ouzel, f Wheatear, Willow Warbler, 5+ Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Linnet, 2 Common Buzzard, Kite (presumably red), 3-4 Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 3 Gadwall, 4 Shoveler, Pochard, 4 Little Grebe, Common Gull (no sign Caspian), 4 Meadow Pipit, 6 Skylark, Swallow (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, 5 Little Grebe, 2 Gadwall (Nick Croft)
 * West Horndon: Osprey N 0730 (Rob Burgess per ELBF FB)
 * West Norwood Cemetery: singing Blackcap (3 on Sunday), Nuthatch making almost hawk like sound, female Sparrowhawk, Red-tailed Bumble Bee surprised no Song Thrush here (Michael Mac)
 * Wildhill: Cuckoo, Lesser Whitethroat (per Herts BC)
 * William Girling Reservoir: relief channel - Greenshank, 3 Green Sandpiper, Shelduck, 6 Teal, 25 Sand Martin, Little Egret (Chris Farthing)
 * Wimbledon Common: Lesser Whitethroat on Mounds, 2 Wheatears (m) on Plain, Red Kite low over Plain, 2 Buzzards (Adrian Podmore)
 * Woodoaks Farm: Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Wheatear (Roger Harbird via Herts BC)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Reed Warbler, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Linnet (Chris Farthing)

Tuesday 17th April 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Northern Wheatear briefly early afternoon Golf Course, 5+ Chiffchaff, 2 Greylag (APOG Birders)
 * Bankside: [SE1] 2 Chiffchaff singing by Tate Modern 09:00 (Reuben Braddock)
 * Battersea Park Lake: 4 singing Blackcap, f Sparrowhawk, 3 Gadwall [right down now - always used to be at least 20 all year round], m Pochard, pr Mandarin, 2 Greylag, 5 Canada Geese, 5 Egyptian Geese; 10 Terrapins (Michael Mac) Note for moderator/site manager - Battersea Park is listed on South London when it is actually in Inner London - any chance of changing it? Thanks. MM - I'm not admin but you cd always change it & include a note to them.
 * Bookham Common: pr Raven circling to ne of Common then NE 1130 (P Hambrook via Surrey BN)
 * Brent Reservoir: Reed Warbler, 21 Blackcap, Willow Warbler, 8 Chiffchaff, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Swallow, 4 Snipe, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Nuthatch (Andrew Self); later 3 Little Ringed Plover, Black-headed Gull, m Peregrine over hide, m Kestrel (Andrew Verrall)
 * Brookmill Park: 2 Blackcap m f (Conrad Ellam)
 * Cassiobury Park: 1-2m Mandarin, 5 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, pr Bullfinch moorhen_alley am (Ralph Darvill tweet)
 * Charlton: [SE7] Hawfinch at gdn fdr briefly am (Jane Ruthven tweet)
 * Dollis Brook: Cormorant, Coal Tit, Goldcrest, 2 Blackcap, Grey Wagtail; also 2 Comma and lot's of Bee-fly's. (Samuel Levy)
 * East India Dock Basin: 2 Little Ringed Plover, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 3 Shelduck, 2 Teal (Paul Hyland)
 * Ellenbrook Fields: Cuckoo calling in sw cnr nr Notcutts, Willow Warbler singing (David Booth tweet); 5+ Willow Warbler, m Ring Ouzel flushed then high E (Andrew Steele via Herts BC )
 * Gallions Reach: juv Iceland Gull, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Wheatear (Kevin J McManus); also 2 Common Tern, m Ring Ouzel (Gary James via EBwS BN)
 * Holly Hill Farm: Black Redstart f/imm on and around pile of builders rubble 13:23-13:35 viewed fr public path (Robert Callf)
 * Ingrebourne Valley: Common Tern, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Common Redstart, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Bullfinch, Siskin (Dave Morrison tweet)
 * Leatherhead: Stn - 1 Blackcap, 1 Chiffchaff. 4 Egyptian Geese S 18:25 (Neil Batten)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Shelduck, 2 Pintail, 2 Jack Snipe, 5 Redshank, 2 Common Tern, 4 Willow Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, 2 Sedge Warbler, 10 Blackcap (WWT website); m Wheatear, pr Sparrowhawk, Kestrel (Bill Haines)
 * Mardyke, Stifford-Aveley: incl 2 Gadwall, 2 Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, 2 Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, 3 Buzzard, Woodcock, 3 Snipe, 15 Black-headed Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Barn Owl, Tawny Owl, 3 Kingfisher, Skylark, 7 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Willow Warbler, 24 Chiffchaff, Reed Warbler, 26 Blackcap, 2 Reed Bunting (Alan Shearman per ELBF FB)
 * Mayflower Park: Northern Wheatear W (Bob Smith)
 * Mudchute Farm: Swallow, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, Jackdaw, Ring-necked Parakeet (Richard Harrison).
 * Olympic Park: Little Ringed Plover (JW Davies)
 * Orsett Fen: incl 4 Red-legged Partridge, 2 Grey Partridge, 4 Pheasant, 4 Buzzard, Peregrine, 16 Skylark, 2 House Martin, 5 Cetti's Warbler, Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, Lesser Whitethroat, 14 Blackcap, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Meadow Pipit, 18 Linnet, 10 Yellowhammer, 2 Reed Bunting (Alan Shearman per ELBF FB)
 * Panshanger Park: Snipe, Cuckoo h (Murray Brown via Herts BC)
 * Rainham Marshes: 2 Whimbrel, Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, 7+ Arctic Tern downriver 11:00-11:45, 2 Common Tern, 2 Wheatear, Sedge Warbler, 3 Swallow (James Hudson); Black-necked Grebe 13:10 Aveley Pools (BirdGuides); also m Redstart, Lesser Whitethroat, 9 Whitethroat, 61 Common Tern (Howard Vaughan via ELBF FB); Cuckoo (RSPB via ELBF FB)
 * Richmond: SIBERIAN LESSER WHITETHROAT ssp blythi reported on Birdguides. Any observer's name please ? (FJM)
 * Richmond Park: Buzzard, 5 Greylag Geese, Hobby, 8 House Martin, Meadow Pipit, Red-crested Pochard, 2 Stonechat, 3 Wheatear (Friday Group members); Skylark singing lawn field, Swallow W over pond slade 14.35 (S Czapski)
 * St James's Park: 1 singing Willow Warbler, 1 singing Chiffchaff, 4 singing Blackcap (Frank Nugent)
 * Sevenoaks WR: 2 Shelduck, 0 Black-necked Grebe, 3 Little Ringed Plover, Sand Martin (Mathew Bournat tweet)
 * Staines Moor: Common Sandpiper R Colne s end nr stone bridge, 3 Willow Warbler, 6 Blackcap, 2 Whitethroat, 2 Wheatear m f (Robert Martin tweet)
 * Staines Reservoir: 5 Common Scoter, 2 Black-necked Grebe s basin, Great Northern Diver s/p n basin am (Dave Carlsson tweet); also 2 Little Ringed Plover (Dom Pia tweet); 3 Arctic Tern s basin pm (Mike Wheeler)
 * Stanwell Moor: 6 Lapwing [poss 3pr], 2+ Cetti's Warbler, 3 Willow Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler reeling at border w/ Staines Moor nr nest box am, 4 Blackcap (Robert Martin tweet)
 * Stocker's Lake: 15 Egyptian Goose, 13 Little Egret, 2 Oystercatcher, Common Tern, c12 Swallow, 12 House Martin, Cetti's Warbler (per Herts BC)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: 5 Blackcap, 7 Chiffchaff, 1 Jay, 4 Canada Goose, 5 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Common Whitethroat, 5 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 1 Reed Bunting, 1 Little Egret, 14 Greylag Goose inc pr & 8 goslings, 12 Shelduck, 4 Teal, 5 Gadwall, 3 Common Tern, 1 Kestrel, 2 Linnet, 2 Skylark, 2 Marsh Harrier; butterflies - 5 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Orange Tip, 4 Peacock, 1 Brimstone, 2 Green-veined White 8.30-11.30 (Roger Keith)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: f Garganey still, 3 singing Lesser Whitethroat, Swallow, 12 singing Blackcap, 9 singing Chiffchaff, 4 Buzzard, Kestrel, 8 Teal, 13 Rook, Egyptian Goose, 3 Coot incl pr on Darlands; also Brimstone, Comma, Small Tortoiseshell (John Colmans)
 * Trent Park: Common Buzzard, 3 Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Teal m f upper lake, Treecreeper, 5 Mandarin 3m 2f (Pete Lowman)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: PENDULINE TIT still briefly early-am but departed high NE 0650 (Rupert Evershed tweet); 4 Little Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Whitethroat, c6 Tree Sparrow, Yellow Wagtail (Alan Gardiner via Herts BC; White Wagtail main gp (Terry Smith via Herts BC)
 * Victoria Park: Great Crested Grebe, Red-crested Pochard, 15+ House Martins over western lake (Harry Harrison)
 * Walthamstow Filter Beds: Wheatear, Grey Wagtail, Meadow Pipit (per ELBF FB)
 * Wanstead Flats: Caspian Gull 2cy, Great Black-backed Gull 2cy, 70+ other Herring Gull, 12+ Lesser Black-backed Gull, Common Redstart, 5 Wheatear, 2 Willow Warbler, 5 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Common Whitethroat, 2 Kestrel, 3 Sparrowhawk, 5 Meadow Pipit, 6 Skylark, 2 Pochard, 4 Linnet (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: Buzzard, m Reed Bunting, Kingfisher, 2 Teal (Nick Croft)
 * Woodoaks Farm: m Wheatear on rubble heap (Geoff Lapworth via Herts BC)

Monday 16th April 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Treecreeper pr nr Conservation Pond, 2 Common Buzzard, 8+m Blackcap, m Greenland Wheatear, female-type Northern Wheatear 1730-1920 at least Golf Course (APOG Birders)
 * Bankside SE1: Willow Warbler in birches by Tate Modern (Reuben Braddock)
 * Brent Reservoir: pr Little Ringed Plover, 4 Common Snipe, Red Kite E, Swallow just 1 feeding for awhile over rafts, 2 Stock Dove pr doing a prolonged display over nearby South Bank, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 15 Blackcap 14m f, 8 Chiffchaff; also Speckled Wood in sunshine between hides and 110+ Yellow Dung Fly aka Golden Dung Fly behind hide many mating (Andrew Verrall)
 * Copped Hall Estate: 2 Red Kite, 8 Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Bullfinch, 17 Linnet, 14 Yellowhammer, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Common Whitethroat, 7 Blackcap, 4 Red-legged Partridge, 3 Green Woodpecker; Hare (Chris Baldwin)
 * Crayford Marshes: 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, 5 Blackcap, Common Buzzard, 6 Common Tern, 2 Oystercatcher, 4 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff (Kev Jarvis)
 * Fairlop Waters: 3 Barnacle Goose on driving range, 120 Canada Goose, 60 Greylag Goose, flock of 11m Pied Wagtail, 1 Swallow, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Green Woodpecker (Charlie Farrell)
 * Finchley: gdn N3 - f Sparrowhawk, Red Kite (Samuel Levy)
 * Leatherhead: Randalls Way - 1 Common Buzzard e over, 1 singing Chiffchaff (Neil Batten)
 * London Wetland Centre: 6 Redshank & Greenshank scrape, 4 Swallow, 5 Chiffchaff, 6 Willow Warbler, 3 Sedge Warbler, 11 Blackcap, Meadow Pipit NW, Linnet (WWT website); Snipe, Jack Snipe, Red Kite at 10.30 (Simon Fogg)
 * London Zoo: Buzzard, Peregrine both over Primrose Hill 1330 (Sam Jones)
 * M25 J9: 1 Common Buzzard circling (Neil Batten)
 * Malden Rushett: 1 Common Buzzard circling over crossroads (Neil Batten)
 * Mayflower Park: Red Kite S, 2 Willow Warblers (Danny Ramsay per Bob Smith)
 * Millfields: [E5] dead adult Mute Swan in canal next to Prince of Wales pub (Marcin Kempa)
 * Richmond: SIBERIAN LESSER WHITETHROAT ssp blythi still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon-Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Richmond Park: 6 Buzzard, 3 Sparrowhawk, 3 Hobby, Common Tern, pair Red-crested Pochard, pair Gadwall, 2 Wheatear, House Martin (P Pentek); 2 Wheatear 1m 60 acre & 1m Pond Slade both late-pm (Mike Lewis per FJM); 2 Red Kite 1 W over Pond Slade c17.35 & another a few min later (S Czapski).
 * Roxbourne Park: Sparrowhawk, 4 Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Green Woodpecker, Collared Dove, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Cormorant over, 3 Greenfinch, 3 Song Thrush (Tim Rymer)
 * Staines Moor: 6+ Blackcap, Whitethroat, Bullfinch, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Red Kite, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Little Egret (Peter Carlill)
 * Teddington: Common Sandpiper on Trowlock Is at 0900 (Mike Foster)
 * Tooting Commons: pr Sparrowhawks soaring over Graveney woods (D Peers); 1 Common Sandpiper at lake, 1 Red Kite and 1 Common Buzzard W at 10:25 (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: Egyptian Goose, Mandarin Duck, f Garganey still, 10 Teal, Grey Heron, 3 Sparrowhawk, 4 Common Buzzard, Red Kite, 3 Lapwing, 23 Stock Dove, 2 Kestrel, 22 Rook, Swallow, 2 Goldcrest, 7 Chiffchaff, 13 Blackcap, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Pied Wagtail, Tree Pipit flushed from trees at Folly Farm then N, 4 Bullfinch, 8 Linnet (Samuel Levy)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: 3m Blackcap (Bob Watts)
 * Trent Park: m Mandarin Duck, 2 Eurasian Teal pr upper lake, 2 Tufted Duck pr lower lake, m Sparrowhawk, 3 Common Buzzard, f Kestrel, 2 Stock Dove, 3 Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 7 Chiffchaff, 3m Nuthatch, Treecreeper, singing m Greenfinch, 2 Bullfinch pr; Adela reaumurella (Robert Callf): also Red Kite, 7 Blackcap, 6 Mandarin 5m f, Goldcrest, Song Thrush, Chiffchaff, Common Buzzard (Pete Lowman)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: PENDULINE TIT 11.25 in reedmace on main lake causeway. Can't seem to upload my photos. Steve should put them on the Herts site. Visited twice over an hour. Showing well 1450-1505 at least. Relocated 1915 north [field] edge of main gp nr life buoy TL196052 (TyttGP/Rupert Evershed tweets); also female Marsh Harrier over, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Willow Warbler, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Oystercatcher (Jo Edwards and Steve Blake)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: rear paddocks - Wheatear, 50+ Linnet, Mistle Thrush, Fieldfare (JW Davies); 25 Stock Dove, 1 Fieldfare eve'g (Marcin Kempa)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: No5 - 2 Arctic Tern, Common Tern till 4.30pm, small flock House Martin, Red Kite S over Filter Beds then WSW over Walthamstow Marshes; Lockwood - 4 Swallow, 8 Sand Martin (Matthew Cunningham): 2m Wheatear, Red Kite, Lesser Whitethroat, pr Sparrowhawk, Jackdaw, Rook - Lockwood 08.30-09.50 (Lol Bodini)
 * Wanstead Flats: Ring Ouzel, 2 Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Common Whitethroat, 3 Swallow, 2 Redpoll, 3 Linnet, 4 Meadow Pipit, 5 Skylark, Red Kite, Common Buzzard, 3 Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 2 Little Owl, 3 Gadwall, 8 Shoveler (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: 2 Teal, 5 Gadwall, 8 Shoveler, 2 Little Grebe, Linnet, Nuthatch (Nick Croft)
 * West Finchley Station: Swallow N 12:58 (Samuel Levy)
 * Winchmore Hill: [N21] 1 Chiffchaff singing behind Sainsbury's 10:15 (Katy McGilvray)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Great Black-backed Gull, Peregrine, 2 Linnet, 3 Red-crested Pochard, 2 Teal (Chris Farthing)
 * Worcester Park: Little Egret on horse fields (Bill Reid per Bob Smith)

Sunday 15th April 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Swallow N, 2 Linnets over filter beds (Bob Watts)
 * Beddington Farmlands: Hoopoe [50 year local blocker], female Bufflehead [escape] (Peter Alfrey, BFBG) pics
 * Botany Marshes: 1 Raven, 4 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 10 Shelduck, 3 Shoveler, 1 Little Egret (Charlie Farrell)
 * Brent Reservoir: drake Red-crested Pochard, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Lesser Redpoll (Brent Birders)
 * Ewell: Court House - Red Kite high 11am (Julie Drewett)
 * Greenway: Kestrel, 2 Blackcap, 5 Linnet (Harry Harrison)
 * Heathrow: behind Polar Pk - 4+ singing Skylark, calling Pheasant, singing Chiffchaff, 2 Pied Wagtails, Common Buzzard, Red Kite (Wendy Marks)
 * Hilfield Park Reservoir: 6 Little Gull [5 ad & 1 2cy], 1 Sedge Warbler (Tony Blake)
 * KGV Res: female Common Redstart (Mike Messenger); Hawfinch E, Yellow Wagtail, Turtle Dove, Wheatear, 2 Little Gull, 2 Arctic Tern, Oystercatcher, Whimbrel, 5 Brent Goose (Tony Clancy, A.Middleton) pics
 * Lamorbey Park: 5 Tufted Duck, 6 Herring Gull, Great Spotted Woodpecker, singing Song Thrush, singing Blackcap, singing Chiffchaff, possible Willow Warbler, singing Goldcrest, Nuthatch, Jay, pr Jackdaw on school fields (Mike Amos)
 * London Wetland Centre: Jack Snipe, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail N, male Pheasant, Shelduck, 2 Reed Warbler, 4 Sedge Warbler, 7 Redshank, 2 Pintail, 2 Wigeon, 8 Snipe, 8+ Blackcap, 3 Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff (WWT website)
 * Mayflower Park: Peregrine, Cormorant, f Reed Bunting (Bob Smith)
 * Mayesbrook Park: 17 Mute Swan, Greylag Goose, 5 Mallard, 3 Pochard, Cormorant, Buzzard, Black-headed Gull, 22 Herring Gull, Collared Dove, 6 Ring-necked Parakeet, 22 Carrion Crow, Great Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, Wren, 16 Blackbird, 2 Mistle Thrush, House Sparrow, 3 Goldfinch, Pink-footed Goose, 15 Egyptian Goose, 7 Shoveler, 30 Tufted Duck, 2 Grey Heron, Coot, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, Woodpigeon, Green Woodpecker, Magpie, Blue Tit, Swallow, 3 Blackcap, Starling, 2 Song Thrush, Robin, 3 Chaffinch (Alan Shearman) AS - many thx for numbers - on this news page for LNHS data purposes grateful if you cd pls place each total before the species name thx
 * Rainham Marshes RSPB: Jack Snipe ouzel_field, Bar-tailed Godwit with roosting curlews (Ian Bradshaw); Whimbrel at the Stone Barges (Frank Nugent).
 * Rainham village: Red Kite (Richard Harrison)
 * Ranelagh Gardens: Wheatear, Willow Warbler, 2 Hawfinch NW (N.P.Senior)
 * Richmond Park: Buzzard, Red Kite (P. Redmond)
 * South Norwood CP: Cuckoo 1st since 2012 (Croydon Birders)
 * Staines Reservoirs: 12 Common Scoter on S basin, 3 Black-necked Grebe, 1 Pintail, Sandwich Tern over then S 12.20, Little Gull ad arr'd 12.30, 3 Common Tern, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Redshank, 1 Lapwing, no sign of American Horned Lark (Bob Warden, Dom Pia et al per FJM)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: 4 Swallow, c10 House Martin, 3 Marsh Harrier, Water Rail, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 1 Skylark, 8 Shoveler, 1 Pochard (Charlie Farrell)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: Kingfisher, Peregrine, male Wheatear, 3 Skylark, 2 Red Kite, Buzzard, Kestrel, 3 Chiffchaff (Deiniol Owen)
 * Totteridge Valley: Belmont Farm - 12 Canada Geese, 2 Mandarin Duck, 2 Red-legged Partridge, 2 Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, 2 Swallow, Nuthatch, Goldcrest, 2 Blackcap, 2 Pied Wagtail (Samuel Levy)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Stock Dove, 1 Little Egret over (Rhys Evans)
 * Walton Resevoirs: 17 Brent Goose over then SE, 1 Glaucous Gull juv, 2 Wheatear (Chris Turner)
 * Wanstead Flats: 3-4 Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, Brambling, 14 Linnet, 2 Redpoll, Reed Bunting, 8 Meadow Pipit, 6 Skylark, Red Kite, 5 Common Buzzard, 3 Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Little Owl, 3 Swallow, 2 Shelduck, 10 Shoveler, 3 Gadwall, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Fieldfare, ad Rook (Wanstead Birders)
 * West Harrow: Linnet briefly on main allotment site was an unexpected patch tick, also Buzzard and Sparrowhawk soaring above (Alex Massey)
 * Worcester Park: Garden KT4- 1 Red Kite thermalling then S and 3 Common Buzzards past woodlands ave (Isaiah Rowe)

Saturday 14th April 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Lesser Whitethroat singing from hawthorn perimeter to playing fields, Rook briefly on pitches, Willow Warbler, 2 Linnet, Redwing (APOG Birders)
 * Amwell NR: ad Little Gull fr viewpt 0740 (Ron Cousins tweet); also Yellow Wagtail (Allan Meadows)
 * Barking Bay: 51 Shelduck, 6 Oystercatcher, 2 Avocet, 4 Ringed Plover, 1 Curlew, 2 Whimbrel ENE, Iceland Gull 2cy downriver, Yellow-legged Gull 3cy, 12 Common Tern, 1 Black Tern downriver, 4 Sand Martin, 3 singing Skylark, 8 singing Meadow Pipit, 14 Wheatear at least 9 leucorhoa types, 4 Whitethroat, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Sedge Warbler, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff (N.P.Senior)
 * Brent Reservoir: Little Egret, 8 Herons in roost incl pr on nest, pr Wigeon, Little Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Lapwing, 4 Snipe, raptor movement - 4 separate Red Kite, 11 Common Buzzards over most in group 5, 3 Redwing, Willow Warbler, 4 Cetti's Warbler, 6+ Chiffchaff, 10+ Blackcap, Lesser Redpoll W; 2 Noctule Bats flying over N.Bank areas pm, Brimstones, Orange Tip m, Peacock (Brent Birders)
 * Canons Farm: 4 Hawfinch E (Steve Gale tweet)
 * Cassiobury Park: 1-2 Red Kite, 2+ Buzzard, 1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Mandarin Duck, 5 Chiffchaff, 13 Blackcap, 12+ Coal Tit, 8+ Nuthatch (Charlie Farrell)
 * Chigwell: M11 - Common Buzzard, Red Kite (Barbara Miller)
 * Clapton: [River Lea E5] 4-6 Sand Martins using drainage holes along walkway visible from opposite The Capital ring path along river (Ernest Thomason)
 * Crayford Marshes: 2 Buzzard, Kestrel, Greenfinch, Chiffchaff, Little Owl, 4 Meadow Pipit, 8 Skylark, 2 Oystercatcher, 4 Gadwall, 3 Wigeon, 4 Common Tern, Black Redstart, Fieldfare, Redwing, Pied Wagtail, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Whitethroat (Donna Zimmer)
 * Crossness: 7 Common Scoter, 2 Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, Peregrine, 40 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Skylark, 6 Cetti's Warbler (George Kalli)
 * Croxley Common Moor: Lesser Whitethroat in scrub opp concrete bridge (Chris Sharp tweet)
 * Dover House Road PF: f Ring Ouzel still NW corner by tennis courts, also Red Kite E, 2 Linnet S (Rupert Kaye)
 * Dungeon Hill: Lesser Whitethroat singing 0840 (Ian Ward tweet)
 * Ellenbrook Fields: Curlew over, 6 Willow Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat (Laurence Drummond tweet); Cuckoo (John Yates via Herts BC)
 * Enfield Island Village: Lesser Whitethroat (Martin Shepherd)
 * Enfield Lock: Oystercatcher S over house calling late aft (Martin Shepherd)
 * Finchley: gdn N3 - 2 Common Buzzard NW, 2 Red Kite W, f Sparrowhawk, singing Blackcap (Samuel Levy)
 * Greenwich Peninsula: 2 Peregrine, Buzzard, Wheatear f, Whitethroat, Jay seen with nesting material (Richard Green, John Bushall, Martin Hallam)
 * Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park: Green Woodpecker, 2 Sand Martin, 2 Chiffchaff, up to 6 Blackcap, 2 Lesser Whitethroat (Richard Green, John Bushall, Martin Hallam)
 * Halfway Reach: 7 Common Scoter on Thames by ford car park opp crossness outfall 1230 (Mike Amos tweet) [new site for LNHS gazetteer TQ491812]
 * Hampstead Heath: 11 Fieldfare dropped into tree tops on Parliament Hill then N, 5 Linnets N/NW, Siskin W, 5 Song Thrush, 5 singing Willow W, pr Teal at back of High No1 pond (Pete Mantle, Dave Porritt)
 * Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens: Wheatear m southern end of Parade Ground at 11am - flew up into lone plane tree (Dave Jordan); ad Mediterranean Gull high SW 1100, 10 Willow Warbler, 9 Chiffchaff, 18+ Blackcap, Linnet over (Des McKenzie tweets)
 * Ingerbourne Valley: 2 Red-legged Partridge, 1 Yellowhammer, Sparrowhawk, 3 Blackcap, 2 Kestrel, Willow Warbler singing (Jack Headley tweet)
 * Juniper Hill: 4+ Crossbill NW over hill 0730 (Ed Stubbs tweet)
 * KGV Res: 14 Little Gull mostly adult, drake Smew, 7 Common Tern, 4 Sand Martin (Ian Lycett)
 * Lilly's Wood, Orpington: 10 Chiffchaff, 15 Robin, 27 Blackbird, 45 Blue Tit, 32 Great Tit, 67 Woodpigeon, 14 Blackcap, 4 Yellowhammer, 15 Wren, 6 Chaffinch, 30 Ring-necked Parakeet, 6 Magpie, 7 Dunnock, 1 Greenfinch, 5 Song Thrush, 2 Stock Dove, 1 Common Buzzard, 4 Goldfinch, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Treecreeper, 5 Bullfinch, 3 Carrion Crow, 6 Nuthatch, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Collared Dove (Jamie Fletcher)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Pintail, Goldeneye, Jack Snipe, 8 Snipe, 4 Redshank, 4 Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, 4 Sedge Warbler, 7 Blackcap (WWT website); Lesser Whitethroat (Simon Fogg); 3 Reed Bunting, 16 Blackcap, 8 Cetti's Warbler, Sparrowhawk, Red Kite and Buzzard all am flyovers reliably reported (Angus Innes)
 * Mayesbrook Park: Pink-footed Goose still present, Sedge Warbler nr boathouses, Mallard w/ 2 ducklings (G. Harding)
 * New river and Myddelton house estate: Swallow and 10 Redwing (Brian Dawton)
 * Ponders End Lake: an interesting Aythya female maybe a Ferruginous Duck or close hybrid, quite nervous & secretive at times, bright rufous colours don't come out well in distant images, bright white wing-bar & undertail coverts (A.Middleton) pics
 * Priest Hill: f Wheatear, 4 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, 4m Pheasant (Neil Batten)
 * Rainham RSPB: 7 Common Scoter, juv Iceland Gull stone barges, Willow Warbler behind main c/p, Black-necked Grebe on Aveley Pool, Great White Egret, plus 2 Avocet, Ringed Plover & Short-eared Owl on Aveley Bay (Simon Worsfold, Tom Bell, Frank Nugent); Grasshopper Warbler by marshland discovery zone (BirdGuides); 3 Iceland Gull roosting stone barges jetty 1040 (Jonathan Wasse tweet); 2m Redstarts, photographed with 3 Wheatear feeding on shoreline debris by Aveley bay; also Grasshopper Warbler reeling in nearby bush & 2 Whimbrel calling overhead (J.Murray); Hobby Wennington Marshes, Corn Bunting (Sean Huggins)
 * Regent's Park: 4 Common Buzzards, Common Snipe, 35 Redwings, Firecrest, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Sedge Warblers, 4 Willow Warblers, 7 Linnets (Tony Duckett)
 * Richmond: SIBERIAN LESSER WHITETHROAT ssp. blythi still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Free parking on Sundays (Bob Watts, Franko J Maroevic)
 * Royal Albert Dock: 3 Common Tern (Charlie Clark)
 * Shadwell Basin: 2 Eurasian Jays (Roman Werpachowski)
 * St Albans: Hawfinch in gdn in St Stephens (Chris Hocking via Herts BC)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: Lesser Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, 2 Willow Warbler (Martin Shepherd)
 * Staines Moor: 2 Ring Ouzel still 0645 (Tony James tweet); 2 Ring Ouzel, 2 Wheatear, Cetti's Warbler, Tufted Duck, 2 Chiffchaff, Little Egret, Stock Dove, Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, Jay 07:00-08:00 (Tim Rymer) It would be good if birders could show better field craft, and not be selfish, but standing on top of the 'butts' trying to see the Ring Ouzels, or pushing behind it to flush them so they see them as they flush, rather than standing a decent distance away and allowing them to come out to feed, where all will get to see them well - it is no wonder this site rarely holds them for long. The motorcycle racing across the moor did not enhance the visit, but the birders pushing the birds even excelled the idiot on the motor bike as the birders should know better. Some, it seems have no patience. One should never underestimate the number of birdwatchers who are complete arseholes. (I think we're all broadminded enough in 2018 to read the word 'arse' without having a hissy fit).
 * Staines Reservoir: 14 Common Scoter [10 s basin & 4 n basin], 3ad Little Gull, Dunlin (Dom Pia tweet); AMERICAN HORNED LARK still 09:45 (Tim Rymer) will the horned lark become a pet Confirmed by DNA results, from a feather, by Martin Collinson, as of Nearctic origin and possibly one of the western races. (Roger Morton)
 * Stanwell Moor: Cetti's Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff, 3 Song Thrush, Grey Heron 06:40-07:00 (Tim Rymer)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: 4ad Little Gulls on river, 4 Mediterranean Gull over, 2 Arctic Tern, 5 Common Tern, 2 Red-legged Partridge, Red Kite, Common Buzzard, 12 Turnstone, Wheatear, 17 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Sedge Warbler, 14 Blackcap, Common Whitethroat, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 12 Chiffchaff (Andrew Self)
 * Tooting Commons: 1 Red Kite E high at 15:45 (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Tottenham East Marsh: singing Willow Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Red Kite over - 9-10am (Lol Bodini)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 2 Egyptian Geese, f Garganey still, 10 Teal, 5 Cormorant, Lapwing, 43 Stock Dove, 22 Rook, 3 Swallow, 2 Coal Tit, 3 Nuthatch, singing Treecreeper, Goldcrest, 17 Chiffchaff, 16 Blackcap, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, Redwing, Yellow Wagtail, 4 Pied Wagtail, Reed Bunting, Meadow Pipit, 6 Linnet; raptor movement mainly NW - 7 Sparrowhawk, 5 Red Kite, 26 Common Buzzard, Kestrel; Comma, Small Tortoiseshell, Orange Tip, Peacock (Samuel Levy, Tony Clancy, Nigel Taylor) Belmont Farm: m Barn Owl seen at 9pm (Belmont Farm staff per Samuel Levy)
 * Trent Park: 2 Eurasian Teal m f upper lake, 2 Tufted Duck m f lower lake, m Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 6 m Blackcap, 2 m Nuthatch, Treecreeper singing, Chaffinch singing (Robert Callf); also 4 Common Buzzard, 10 Mandarin 9m,f, 3 Pied wagtail, 4 Mistle Thrush, Small Tortoiseshell.(Pete Lowman).
 * Trent Park GC: m Goldcrest singing, m Chaffinch singing (Robert Callf)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: Curlew flew from main gp to fishing lake 0730 (TyttGP tweet)
 * Wallington: private gdn - 4 Hawfinch SE am, prob Osprey NE ac12:30pm - that kind of day when you lose it in the sun through both camera and binoculars (Arjun Dutta)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 1 Sedge Warbler nr s entrance to wetlands, c10 Blackcap, 5 Linnet (Rhys Evans)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Red Kite, Little Ringed Plover - Lockwood 10-11am (Lol Bodini) Wheatear flitting around the edge of No4 then N c2pm (Andrew McCafferty)
 * Walton-on-the-Hill: 2 Common Buzzard and 1 Sparrowhawk at Wildwoods Riding Centre p.m. (Neil Batten)
 * Wanstead Flats: 2-3 Ring Ouzel, 36 Fieldfare, 17 Redwing, 3 Wheatear, m Brambling again on Alex, Siskin, 3 Linnet, Common Snipe, Woodcock, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Common Buzzard, 3 Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon, 4 Meadow Pipit, 5 Skylark, 3 Little Owl, 3 Gadwall, 6 Shoveler (Wanstead Birders)
 * West Putney: Huntingfield Rd SW15 - 3 Sparrowhawk incl a migrant high SE, Red Kite W, 16 Buzzard various directions, Rook NE, Crow a presumed migrant very high SE, 7 Linnet S/E (Rupert Kaye)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Sedge Warbler, 2 Linnet, 2 Willow Warbler, 3+ Reed Bunting, Kestrel (Chris Farthing)
 * Wormwood Scrubs: 8 Blackcap, 7 Chiffchaff, 6 Linnet, m Kestrel, 1 Meadow Pipit (Charlie Farrell)
 * Worcester Park: Garden KT4- 1 prob Goshawk NE at 13:41 (Isaiah Rowe); Common Buzzard high N, Little Egret on horse fields (Bob Smith)

Friday 13th April 2018

 * Alexandra Park: 2 Fieldfare, Redwing, Barn Swallow, Greylag Goose, Willow Warbler (APOG Birders)
 * Boxer's Lake, Enfield: 2 Grey Heron & 1 nest w/ yg, m Mandarin Duck, m Gadwall - unusual only my second record here, 2 Shoveler m f, 7 Tufted Duck 4m 3f, 2 ad Lesser Black-backed Gull, f Pied Wagtail, Song Thrush, m Blackcap singing, 2 Willow Warbler singing, 2 Goldfinch (Robert Callf)
 * Blackheath: Point Hill - 1 m Kestrel (Mike Paice)
 * Brent Reservoir: Little Ringed Plover, Snipe, Swallow, Sedge Warbler, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Willow Warbler, 7+ Chiffchaff, 10+ Blackcap (Andrew Self); no sign of LRP later, but Green Sandpiper, 4 Snipe, 2f Sparrowhawks circling above Bridge, 2 more Swallows, 4 House Martins, 1 Sand Martin, 5 Herons incl 2 on one nest (Andrew Verrall)
 * Clerkenwell: Peregrine probable m soaring w/ Lesser Black backs at 2:15pm (Dan Fletcher)
 * Cornmill Meadows: 10 Teal, 10 Shoveler, Lapwing, Water Rail, 3 Little Egret, Kingfisher, Swallow, 2 Sedge Warbler, 2 Willow Warbler, 10+ Chiffchaff, 7+ Blackcap, 2 Raven circling high overhead mobbed by Rooks, Grey Wagtail, 2 Linnet, Reed Bunting (Simon Papps)
 * Dover House Road PF: f Ring Ouzel still in NW corner by tennis courts often elusive (Rupert Kaye)
 * Finchley: gdn N3 - m Blackcap, m Brambling, 6+ Stock Dove (Samuel Levy)
 * Greenford: [UB6] Red Kite low over mobbed by 2 parakeets (Neil Anderson)
 * Hogsmill Open Space: 1 Little Egret perched in trees above river 08.40 (Neil Batten)
 * Hollyoak Wood Park; Mistle Thrush, 2 Jay, 2 Coal Tit, Grey Heron, Blackcap (Eric Brown)
 * Kelsey Park: 2 Black Swan pr mated while I was in the park, 10+ Mandarin Duck (Ian Young)
 * KGV Reservoir: 1 Whimbrel N over n basin 07.05am, m Scaup & Little Ringed Plover on n basin, 2 Arctic Tern & 8 Common Terns on s basin, 2 singing Sedge Warbler, singing Willow Warbler, pr Goosander, 7 Goldeneye 3m, Green Woodpecker, 20+ Sand Martin, 12+ Swallow, 5 singing Blackcaps, 2 singing Chiffchaff (Davey Leach)
 * Leyton Marsh: 3 Sand Martin (Alastair Dent)
 * London Wetland Centre: m Shelduck on wader scrape [female possibly in nest box], 2 Pintail grazing marsh, 4 Redshank grazing marsh and wader scrape, 4 Snipe wader scrape and grazing marsh, 2 Jack Snipe wader scrape, 2 Reed Warbler reedbed and behind dulverton, 4 Sedge Warbler reedbed/main lake/nr peacock_hide, 5 Willow Warbler wildside/south route/sheltered lagoon, 7 Chiffchaff wildside/west route/sheltered lagoon, m Redstart E.bund in NE cnr, Glaucous Gull main lake then reservoir lagoon, 2 Great Crested Grebe m f displaying, Goldeneye reservoir lagoon, m Peregrine over sheltered lagoon, 3 Mandarin 2m f, m Great Spotted Woodpecker on feeders, 2 House Martin, 2 Swallow, numerous nesting Sand Martin (Simon Fogg, Martin Honey, WWT website); m Yellow Wagtail on grazing marsh c12.00 (Nick Moll)
 * Margravine Cemetery: 2m Blackcap 1 singing (Nathalie Mahieu)
 * Notting Hill: singing Willow Warbler in Pembridge Villas (Pete Mantle)
 * Pimlico Gardens: Common Tern W (N.P. Senior)
 * Queen's Park, Kilburn: f Peregrine with prey over Harrow Rd (Charlie Farrell)
 * Rainham RSPB: Black-necked Grebe (Tom Bell via London Birds FB)
 * Richmond: The Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat has now been confirmed as a genetic blythi ssp. [Martin Collinson twitter] Still present in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. (Michael McCarthy per FJM)
 * Richmond Park: 4 Buzzard, 1 Lesser Redpoll, 10 Reed Bunting, 3 Skylark, 10 Stonechat, 3 Swallow, 3 Wheatear (Friday Bird Group)
 * Roxbourne Park: Red Kite drifting N, Mistle Thrush, Chiffchaff, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker (Tim Rymer)
 * Ruislip Woods: 6+ Hawfinch 3 close to The Waters Meet 10:10 & 3+ down from Wiltshire Ln entrance 10:40 (Richard Francis)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: 2 Garganey pr on distant flood fr Lapwing hide until 15.15 at least (Murray Orchard via Herts website)
 * Sevenoaks Wildfowl Reserve: 8 Black-necked Grebe, 1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Firecrest (Jack Headley tweet)
 * Staines Moor: 2m Ring Ouzel, 1-2 Whinchat, 6 Wheater, 6 Reed Bunting, 10+ Skylark, 20+ Meadow Pipit, Water Pipit, Linnet, Redshank, 2 Little Egret, 10 Lapwing over, 4 Shelduck over, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 10+ Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, 6 Blackcap, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, 3 Sand Martin, Swallow, 8 Buzzard circling S, 3 Red Kite, Hobby, 4 Kestrel, 2 Pheasant (Nick Baker)
 * Stave Hill: 5m Blackcap singing, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler singing, 1 Sedge Warbler on Globe Pond am (John & Janet Cadera)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: 4 Chiffchaff, 5 Cetti's Warbler, 15 Gadwall, 7 Shoveler, 8 Shelduck, 9 Greylag Goose, 4 Canada Goose, 1 Peregrine Falcon, 1 Wheatear, 1 Little Egret, 2 Linnet, 1 Skylark, 13 Turnstone, 22 Redshank, 1 Dunlin, 2 Oystercatcher, 1 Green Woodpecker h, 1 Meadow Pipit, 2 Marsh Harrier, 5 Great Crested Grebe roosting on river, 4 Ring-necked Parakeet, 1 Water Rail h, 4 Tufted Duck, 6 Common Tern feeding on Thames off St Clements buoy, 2 Pochard, 2-3 Grey Heron on nests (Roger Keith)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 15 Canada Geese, 2 Egyptian Geese, 3 Mandarin Duck, 10 Teal, Cormorant, 2 Coot, 2 Lapwing, Kestrel, 22+ Rook, Raven over Darlands, 3 Nuthatch, singing Willow Warbler, 18 singing Chiffchaff, 14 singing Blackcap, 7 Redwing, Song Thrush, 15 Starling, 2 Pied Wagtail, 2 Meadow Pipit, 2m Reed Bunting, 6 Hawfinch, 7 Siskin, 3 House Sparrow, 4 Linnet (Samuel Levy)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: Common Snipe low N 1240 was an unexpected patch tick, 2m Goldcrest, 2m Blackcap yesterday (Bob Watts)
 * Trent Park: Mute Swan 1s over, 2 Eurasian Teal m f upper lake, 2 Tufted Duck m f upper lake, m Kestrel, 8 Moorhen lower lake, 2 singing male Willow Warbler lower lake, 3 m Nuthatch, 5 Goldfinch (Robert Callf)
 * Trent Park Equestrian Centre: 2 m Barn Swallow, 13+ House Sparrow 7m 6f (Robert Callf)
 * Tufnell Park: [N7] Red Kite over Huddleston Rd 16:30 - first I've had here (Reuben Braddock)
 * Wallington Garden: Red Kite S 13:10 (Arjun Dutta)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: Ring Ouzel m on Lammas Meadow TQ354874 10:00 feeding on ground then chased into thicket by Blackbirds, 6 Stock Dove and c20 Linnet on rear paddocks (Alastair Dent)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: m Ring Ouzel 2cy still 100-200m south of engine house, pr Teal, Yellow Wagtail No1, 3 Goldeneye m 2f No5, c50 Hirundines of all 3 species [species estimates pls?] No4/No5 causeway, 12 White Wagtail, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 6+ Brambling betw No2 & 3 mostly behind Fisherman’s Hut, Willow Warbler by Engine House, Common Sandpiper and Green Sandpiper on Lockwood, many Chiffchaff and Blackcaps around (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Wanstead Flats: Tree Pipit doing sub-song [present all day at the viz mig point], 10 Meadow Pipit, 5 Skylark, 10 Linnet, Common Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Peregrine Falcon, Kestrel, Red Kite, Shelduck, 2 Teal, 3 Gadwall, 14 Shoveler, 3 Pochard, 20+ Tufted Duck, 2 Swallow, 2 Little Grebe (Wanstead Birding)
 * Westminster: Common Buzzard high S over Westminster Abbey at 15:00 (Frank Nugent)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Whitethroat, 2 Linnet, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Shelduck, Snipe, 5+ Reed Bunting (Chris Farthing)
 * Woodford Green: Black Redstart in my small NE London garden (Tony Brown) A few photos on the my blog here
 * Worcester Park: Garden KT4- 2 Sparrowhawk thermaling then high N and 1 Little Egret S (Isaiah Rowe)

Thursday 12th April 2018
''Message to the administrators of this site. If you are responsible for deleting published sightings ''[I'm not admin but rest assured, RM, all good-faith posts are retained. In your case, I'm afraid whoever posted the subsequent 'no AHL' JH tweet deleted your AHL sighting, i.e. it may have been deliberate rather than the usual s/w glitch]'' without any good reason, please let us contributors know, it will save us the bother of contributing and we will share information on other platforms. If it is not you then who is it? (Roger Morton)'' Hi Roger, not an administrator, just another contributor, but this happens to me on a random basis once or twice a year. I don't think there's anything sinister about it - the correct response when two people try to edit the page at the same time is not described very clearly, and when this happens people probably delete other sightings by accident all the time. Guess any wiki where everyone has write/edit access probably suffers from this. Alastair Dent Happened to me also last Sat (Gordon Shaw) This issue is almost certainly a system software problem. It's likely that somewhere in the process, the site thinks a valid post is spam and deals with it accordingly. Difficult to ascertain where the trigger is since the contributions arrive via all sorts of devices. I doubt it's a personal issue with the contributors. If anyone wanted to be an a...hole, they simply delete the entire page. ''Hi all, This could possibly be related, but I have had problems uploading sightings using a mobile phone - where after I have published the page the changes do not appear and I've had to post them again. It seems Wiki can be flaky at times? (Lee Dingain). This sometimes happens it could be an error in software?, it pays to check your post is still here about 5 mins after posting to check and re-post if necessary (Michael Mac) On iPhone it always opens to an old version of the page. Post on it and it disappears. Solution is to click on the three horizontal lines in left hand corner, click explore London bird club wiki then click latest news. Brings up latest version and no problem posting. Just a bit of a faff doing this every time (Tim Rymer)''
 * Alexandra Park: 2 Willow Warblers, 4 Swallow, 3 House Martin, Sand Martin Wood Green Res 1730, Greylag (APOG Birders)
 * Bankside SE1: Blackcap (f) still, singing Chiffchaff (Reuben Braddock)
 * Belair Park: singing Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Little Grebe (Dave Clark)
 * Brent Reservoir: 5 singing Willow Warbler, Sand Martin, 5 Snipe (Andrew Self); Nuthatch, Coal Tit and Chiffchaff in Cemetery, Greylag Goose (Andrew Verrall)
 * Claverhambury: 3 Red Kite late afternoon, 2 behaving as a pair (Martin Shepherd)
 * Dollis Brook: Totteridge Station - Barnet Lane: 3 Singing Chiffchaff, 1 Singing Blackcap (Samuel Levy)
 * Dover House Road PF: 2 f Ring Ouzel nw corner elusive at times 08.00 (Rupert Kaye) [new site for LNHS gazetteer TQ225742]
 * Finchley: gdn N3 - m Blackcap (Samuel Levy)
 * Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park: Little Grebe, 6 Blackcap 5m, Chiffchaff, 2 Reed Warbler, 4 Sand Martin (Richard Green, John Bushall)
 * Hackney Marshes: 5 Stock Dove by cricket squares, 8 singing Blackcap, 4 singing Greenfinch 07:00-08:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Hampstead Heath: Lesser Whitethroat singing (very briefly) in hedge above bandstand, also a Redpoll NW at 1600 (Pete Mantle)
 * Heathrow: 4 Wheatear 2m,2f (Adam Cheeseman)
 * KGV Res: 1 Brent Goose, 2 Common Scoter, drake Smew, 3 Common Tern, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Willow Warbler (I Lycett)
 * Lee Valley: Pink Footed Goose, Yellow Wagtail & 2 Swallow at Holyfield hall farm (J.Murray)
 * London Wetland Centre: Jack Snipe, 4 Sedge Warbler, 5 Willow Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap, 4 Redshank, Reed Warbler, 3 Swallow, 3 Pintail - 2 Ring Ouzel (m & f) WWT website/Simon Fogg et al). 1 House Martin, 15+ Sand Martin (Bill Haines). Please note: There will be disturbance to the main lake today due to contractors undertaking a full site water vole survey, apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
 * Margravine Cemetery: Sparrowhawk (with Starling kill) (Nathalie Mahieu).
 * Mayflower Park: male and female Reed Buntings(Bob Smith)
 * Millfields E5: 2 Kestrel (m&f) in orchard, Peregrine with prey on pylon at 16:30 (Alastair Dent)
 * Pinner The Croft Park 8 Goldfinches,pr Chaffinches, Green Woodpecker, 2 Coal Tit (N Barratt)
 * Regent's Park: 2m Wheatear on the muddy patch east of area 37 at 08.30, though then flushed by dogs (Tim Blackburn)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon - Sat. Park only in visitors parking bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Richmond Park: 1 m Ring Ouzel flying south over Gorse enclosures to Sidmouth Wood (Hugh Bradshaw)
 * St James's Park: 1-2 singing Willow Warbler, 1 singing Chiffchaff and 4 singing Blackcap (Frank Nugent).
 * Roding Valley Meadows NR: 2 Gadwall, 15+ Tufted Duck, 3+ Green Woodpecker, 2 Swallow, 5+ singing Chiffchaff, 8+ singing Blackcap, singing Willow Warbler, 2 Grey Wagtail (Simon Papps)
 * Southfields (Girdwood Road, SW18): 1m singing Blackcap in back garden (Martin Honey)
 * Staines Moor: 2 Ring Ouzel (males) still near Butts (Birdguides) also 1 male Whinchat, 5 Wheatear, 1 Hobby (Tony Clancy)
 * Staines Res: to 0730 12 Common Scoter still, 10+ Swallow (Gordon Shaw, Bob Warden) American Horned Lark still present causeway, 2 Common Tern, 2 Little Ringed Plover (Tony Clancy)
 * Thames Barrier Park: 26 Teal, 2 Grey Plover until pushed by tide, Little Gull ad E, 2 Yellow-legged Gull 2cy 4cy, Wheatear, 2 Blackcap, 9 House Sparrow, 3 Linnet (N P Senior)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: Lapwing, Sparrowhawk, 9 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 4 Rook, 11 Teal, 2 Egyptian Goose (John Colmans)
 * Trent Park: 4 Eurasian Teal 2m 2f, 2 Common Pochard m f, 9 Tufted Duck 5m 4f, m Kestrel, 2 Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler singing by lower lake, Nuthatch, 11 Goldfinch (Robert Callf); Vicarage Farm, Enfield (private site, viewable from Trent Park) - Also m Northern Wheatear, 3 Mistle Thrush, 2 Song Thrush, 7 Pied Wagtail, Kestrel, Meadow Pipit, m Pheasant, 2 Starling, Stock Doves (s), Blackcap, Chiffchaff ( Flycatcher Corner). ( Pete Lowman ).
 * Victoria Embankment Gardens: 4 Blackcap, 1 Willow Warbler (N P Senior)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: scores of hirundines [estimated nos. pls?] of all 3 species mostly over No4 but spread around, 8 Brambling behind Fisherman’s Hut on No4 but also on northern island on No3 and along closed footpath betw No1/No2/No3 Reservoirs, 2 Willow Warblers, many Chiffchaff and Blackcaps around site, 8 White Wagtails on No4/No5 causeway, 1+ Sandwich Tern SW late am, Oystercatcher around E Warwick Is, 1 Teal E Warwick; eveg 2 Yellow Wagtail, Greenshank over No4, Ring Ouzel again south of Engine House (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 2 Linnet, Lesser Redpoll, 3 Red-crested Pochard, Willow Warbler, Sand Martin, 4 House Martin, 3 Swallow (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)
 * Wanstead Flats: m Brambling still, 2 Linnet, pr of Wheatear, 2 Redwing, Yellow Wagtail, 8 Meadow Pipit, 2 Swallow, 5 Skylark, 16 Shoveler, 3 Gadwall, 2 Teal, 3 Pochard, 20 + Tufted Duck, 2 Little Grebe, eastern sounding Chiffchaff again nr Alex (one also in the OSW) (Nick Croft) Fieldfare (Bob Vaughan)
 * Worcester Park: 2 Little Egrets (Bob Smith)

Wednesday 11th April 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Linnet heard, 2 Willow Warblers, Swallow (APOG Birders)
 * Bankside SE1: Firecrest in birches at east end of Tate Modern, very vocal; Blackcap (f) near Founders Arms 13:00 (Reuben Braddock)
 * Bentley Priory: 3 Hawfinch next to path at the northern end, close to Spring Meadow 13:50 (Richard Francis)
 * Blackheath, Vanbrugh pits: singing Blackcap (Mike Paice)
 * Brent Reservoir: Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler, 18 singing Blackcap, 10 singing Chiffchaff, 3 Cetti's Warbler (Andrew Self); 13 Pochard, 3 Common Snipe, 13 Swallow N, also a hybrid Canada Goose, orange bill and legs (Magnus Andersson, Andrew Verrall)
 * Brockwell Park: female Brambling round bottom pond then flew, pr Blackcap (Michael Mac)
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - M Blackcap (Samuel Levy)
 * Greenwich Park, by deer enclosure: singing Blackcap (Mike Paice)
 * Hackney Marshes: pair of Blackcaps, Kingfisher (J-P Elmes) 9 Stock Dove, Green Woodpecker (Alastair Dent)
 * Holland Park: drumming Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Song Thrush, singing Blackcap, Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest, Yellow Wagtail N, 15+ Meadow Pipit N (Simon Papps)
 * Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens: Yellow Wagtail NE, 16 Meadow Pipit N, 1 Barn Swallow, 4 Song Thrush dropped in, 10 Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 7 Chiffchaff, 2 Willow Warbler, Firecrest male south side of Serpentine Bridge, 2 Lesser Redpoll W, Brambling E (N P Senior)
 * Lamorbey Park: Willow Warbler singing (Ian Stewart)
 * Leatherhead, Randalls Way: Singing Blackcap by Howden's Joinery (Neil Batten)
 * London Wetland Centre: Female Black Redstart, male Ring Ouzel (found by M. Lewis) (WWT website/Twitter, Martin Honey) Also 11 Chiffchaff, 1f Sparrowhawk, 10 Cetti's Warbler, 8m 1f Blackcap, 3 Willow Warbler, 2m 1f Reed Bunting, 1m 1f Jay nest building, 9 Common Snipe, 3 Jack Snipe, 3 Redshank, 2 Swallow heading N, numerous Sand Martin including local nesters, 4 Wigeon, 1m Shelduck, 1m 1f Mandarin, 4 Stock Dove, 1 GSWoodpecker, 3 Siskin (Martin Honey) Also: Goosander 1 - redhead in to main lake at ~1315, landed and then not seen again, Little Gull 1 (2nd summer- not an adult- different bird to previous days?), House Martin 4-5 (Sam Jones)
 * Mayflower Park Wetlands: 3 Chiffchaff, 2 male Blackcap, 1 Grey Heron and 1 Cormorant (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Mayesbrook Park: Pink-footed Goose, Sand Martin (3), Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff (4), Blackcap (4), Grey Wagtail, Sparrowhawk, Great Spotted & Green Woodpecker, Great Crested Grebe, Egyptian Goose (8+). (Alan Shearman)
 * Millfields E5: Peregrine on pylon 09:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Morden Cemetery: 2 Little Owls(Bob Smith, Bill and Janis Reid)
 * Raynes Park: Pied Wagtail outside Waitrose (P. Redmond)
 * Richmond : Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon - Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic) - Genetically confirmed as Siberian Lesser Whitethroat S. c. blythi (Thom Shannon)
 * RSPB Rainham Marshes: 5 Chiffchaff, 2f 7m Blackcap, 14 Cetti's Warbler, 32+ Curlew, 44 Shelduck, 16 Common Tern, 14 Sand Martin, 2 Willow Warbler, 4 Oystercatcher, 3 Swallow, 11 Bar-tailed Godwit, Great White Egret, 6 Great Crested Grebe, 32 Tufted Duck, 5 Whimbrel, 253 Wigeon, 120 Shoveler, 15 Common Snipe, 20 Grey Plover, 3 Dunlin, Wheatear, 4 Sedge Warbler, 7 Little Egret, 12 Reed Bunting, Reed Warbler, Common Buzzard, m Stonechat, 17 Pochard, 2m 1f Marsh Harrier, 4 Little Grebe, Stock Dove, 2 Ruff, 4 Pintail, Jack Snipe, 2ad Med Gulls, m Ring Ouzel, 7 Black-tailed Godwit, Short-eared Owl (Samuel Levy et al)
 * Ruislip Woods: 5 + Hawfinch down from Wiltshire Lane entrance 09:10 (Richard Francis)
 * Shortwood Common: Red Kite (Adam Cheeseman)
 * Staines Moor: 2 Ring Ouzel (males), Whinchat (Birdguides)
 * Staines Reservoirs: 12 Common Scoter still on S basin early am, 4 Little Gull, 2 Yellow Wagtail on causeway. (Bob Warden per FJM) No sign of AMERICAN HORNED LARK but Water Pipit, 3 Little Gull and 12 Common Scoter (Jack Headley tweet) If individuals keep deleting published sightings I will not bother to enter any future records on this site!!! The Horned Lark was on the west end of the causeway early afternoon, also seen was the Sandwich Tern. (Roger Morton)
 * St Paul's: Blackcap singing in cathedral gardens at 7.30am (Ian Bradshaw)
 * Trent Park: 2 Grey Heron incl leucistic bird, 3 Mandarin Duck 2m f, 4 Eurasian Teal two prs upper lake, 4 Tufted Duck, 3 m Blackcap, 6 Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler sub-song lower lake, Goldcrest, 3 m Nuthatch, Treecreeper (Robert Callf); Vicarage Farm, Enfield (private, but viewable from Trent Park) : Also 3 Northern Wheatear 2m,f --- flycatcher corner horse field, 6 Pied Wagtail, 5 Mistle Thrush, 6 Song Thrush, m Pheasant, Green Woodpecker ( Pete Lowman) What time were these sightings, please? - R Callf. Hi Robert: They were present at about 16;00 hours and i watched them for about thirty minutes. They were still present when i left. rgds Pete
 * Walthamstow Marshes: Paddocks: 1 Brambling (f) with 24 Linnet on rear paddock N of the one with two small elders, 2 Shelduck, 2 Lesser Black-Backed Gull, 2 Little Egret, 1 singing Willow Warbler; Bomb Crater Field: 2 Meadow Pipit over, 1 Kestrel, 1 Reed Bunting; Leyton Marsh: 2 Sand Martin 09:30 – 10:30 (Alastair Dent); Redstart in Horseshoe Thicket at 15:30 (Michael Pattinson)
 * Walthamstow Wetlands: M Ring Ouzel near old hide, then near Engine House till 18:40 at least; 6 Brambling still behind fishermen's hut, assorted hirundines. Also M & F Wheatear on Lockwood early, and C Sandpiper, 14 White Wagtails and 1 Yellow Wagtail (Walthamstow Birders). Lockwood @18.00: Brent Goose, drake Wigeon, 3 Swallow, m Wheatear (Lol Bodini).
 * Wanstead Flats: m Brambling. 3 Wheatear (2m), 20 + Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, 2 Redwing, Common Whitethroat, eastern sounding Chiffchaff on Alex, 30 + Meadow Pipit, 7 Skylark, 2 Swallow, 15 Linnet, 17 Shoveler, 5 Gadwall, 3 Pochard, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Little Owl (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park: 7 Siskin, 2 Redpoll, Linnet, 3 Little Grebe, 4 Swallow (Nick Croft)
 * West Norwood Cemetery: Chiffchaff, f Sparrowhawk, Green and Great spotted Woodpeckers; cemetery is undergoing tree and undergrowth removal preparing to bid for up to £7 million redevelopment grant, to make it more attractive for the public to look round at weekends, bizzarre or what? (Michael Mac) If they did that, I wouldn't be seen dead in the place!
 * Wimbledon Common: 3 Meadow Pipit on the Plain morning (Les Evans-Hill)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 2 Linnet (my first ever here), Snipe, 4 Swallow, Sparrowhawk (Chris Farthing)
 * Wormwood Scrubs: 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, pr Linnet, 2 Redwing (Charlie Farrell)
 * Worcester Park: 3 Little Egrets (Bob Smith) 1 Peregrine on pylons (Isaiah Rowe)

Tuesday 10th April 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Swallow east over Wood Green Res 0740 (Bob Watts)
 * Amwell NR: Mediterranean Gull 1s S & Sandwich Tern 0650 (Barry Reed tweet); ST still 0730 (Ron Cousins tweet); ST flew off early-am (Barry Reed via Herts BC)
 * Brookmans Park: Brambling, 14 Siskin (per Herts BC)
 * Brookmill Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush, 2 Blackcap male & female (Conrad Ellam)
 * Crayford Marshes: Sedge Warbler, 2 Whitethroat, 2 Peregrine, 12 Common Tern, Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper, 3 Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, Little Egret, 9 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Great Crested Grebe (Kev Jarvis)
 * Dagenham Chase: 3 Shelduck, 12 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall, 4 Wigeon, 10 Teal, Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, Water Rail 5 Lapwing, 3 Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Tern, Kestrel, Peregrine, 8 Sand Martin, 5 Swallow, House Martin, Cetti's Warbler, 3 Willow Warbler, Whitethroat, pr Bullfinch, 3 Siskin, 3 Reed Bunting (Vince Halley-Frame per ELBF FB)
 * Fairlop Waters: Arctic Tern main lake west end on blue buoy TQ455906 (Steve Bacon per LEBF FB); Red Kite (per ELBF FB)
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - 6 Stock Dove, Common Buzzard W 13:05, Chiffchaff, Blackcap. (Samuel Levy)
 * Hendon: Female Sparrowhawk over RAF Museum at 2:30pm (Dan Fletcher)
 * Hilly Fields Park, Enfield: 6 Nuthatch 5m f (Robert Callf)
 * KGV Reservoir: Red-throated Diver am (Stuart Hamilton per ELBF FB); pm - 2 Common Tern, 10 Common Scoter, 3 Goldeneye, 1 Goosander, 3 Wigeon, 4 Yellow Wagtail, 3 Arctic Tern, 1 Little Gull (Tony Clancy, Mike Messenger)
 * Ladywell Fields: Little Egret, Mandarin Duck m, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Song Thrush one singing, Nuthatch, singing Chiffchaff, 2 Collared Dove. (Keith Chambers)
 * London Wetland Centre: male Redstart [Ldn foy] sheltered lagoon by peacock_tower pm, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Water Pipit in almost full summer plumage, Rock Pipit, 2 Jack Snipe, 2 Pintail, 5 Snipe, 4 Redshank, 18+ Sand Martin, 7 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 3 Willow Warbler, 10 Chiffchaff, 2 Sedge Warbler, 10+ Blackcap, Water Rail (WWT website)
 * Mardyke, Stifford-Aveley: 4 Gadwall, 4 Teal, 2 Tufted Duck, 5 Little Egret, 2 Buzzard, Kestrel, Kingfisher, Skylark, 5 Cetti’s Warbler, 2 Willow Warbler, 15 Chiffchaff, Reed Warbler, 20 Blackcap, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Pied Wagtail, Reed Bunting (Alan Shearman per ELBF FB)
 * Mayflower Park: 1 Redwing (Bob Smith); 1 male Reed Bunting, 1+ Chiffchaff and a male Blackcap (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Olympic Park: Osprey circling over copper box arena 1035 then NE (Jack Wright tweet)
 * Rainham RSPB: Great White Egret still, 2 Wheatear (per ELBF FB)
 * Raynes Park: Mute Swan flying E over Richmond Road gardens 0815, Sparrowhawk circling 1412 then SE (P. Redmond)
 * Regent's Park: Yellow Wagtail, pr Wheatears, Sedge Warbler, 2 Willow Warblers, 4 Chiffchaff, 8m Blackcaps, 1f Reed Bunting.(Tony Duckett).
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon - Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Sevenoaks Wildfowl Reserve: 8+ Egyptian Goose, 4 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Snipe, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Sand Martin, 6+ Swallow, 1 House Martin, 3 Pied Wagtail. (Jack Headley tweet)
 * Sleapshyde: 2 Little Egret by rain pool in horse field nr A414 TL195064 (Steven Pearce via Herts BC)
 * Staines Moor: pair of Ring Ouzel (NW corner on top of mature hawthorns on the left just before you reach the sign for Butts Pond), 3 Redshank, 15+ Linnet, 10+ Skylark, 5 Reed Bunting, 1 Cetti's Warbler (heard), 1 Kestrel, 1 Red Kite, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Fieldfare, 2 Chiffchaff (Adam Bolton); 2 RO still 1315, also Buzzard, 4 Chiffchaff, Wheatear (Jim Sweetland tweet); 2m RO still nw cnr of Moor 1500 (Dom Pia tweet); 3 Ring Ouzel 2m f nw cnr by butts pond pm (Bob Waller per Lee Dingain tweet)
 * Staines Reservoirs: 1 Great Northern Diver sum plum on N basin 09.00, 12 Common Scoter still, 2 Arctic Tern, 4 Little Gull early am (Bob Warden per FJM); 3 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Black-necked Grebe, AMERICAN HORNED LARK still, 2 Arctic Tern, Common Tern, 2 Little Gull and the 12 Common Scoter still present mid day but no sign of the GND (John Edwards); Curlew SE at 10:15 and 3 Little Gulls (2 ad & 1 imm) and small number of hirundines 10+ Swallow, 2-3 Sand Martin through (Bill Haines)
 * Stave Hill: Red Kite over (Richard Page-Jones), 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap, 3 Jay, Song Thrush, Great Spotted Woodpecker (John Cadera & Richard Page-Jones)
 * Stoneleigh Station KT17: 1 singing Chiffchaff, Carrion Crow sitting on nest, 13 Ring-necked Parakeet (Neil Batten)
 * Strayfield Road, EN2: 2 Barn Swallow back on territory (Robert Callf)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: 24 Greylag Goose, 2 Egyptian Goose, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 3 Greenfinch, 10 Shelduck, 2 Canada Goose, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Skylark, 8 Gadwall, 4 Shoveler, 1 Marsh Harrier (m), 1 Song Thrush, 1 Little Egret, 3 Grey Heron, 1 Yellowhammer, 1 Green Woodpecker, 5 Swallow, 1 Wheatear, 37 Redshank, 10 Turnstone (Roger Keith)
 * Tooting Commons: 1 Buzzard S, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Green Woodpeckers (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 17 Canada Geese, 2 Egyptian Geese, f Garganey, 12 Teal, Sparrowhawk, 3 Common Buzzard, 2 Coot, Lapwing, 42 Stock Dove, 22 Rook, Swallow, 2 Nuthatch, 4 Goldcrest, 9 Singing Chiffchaff, 2 Singing Blackcap, 2 Song Thrush, 65 Starling, 2 Pied Wagtail, 2 Linnet. (Samuel Levy)
 * Trent Park: Common Buzzard, Red Kite, 3 Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Goldfinch, 2 Teal m f upper lake, 5 Mandarin 4m f, 4 Tufted Duck 2m 2f, also Muntjac crossing Ferny Hill Road (Pete Lowman)
 * Tufnell Park N7: 1 Blackcap (m) on Huddleston Road 09:20 (Reuben Braddock)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs and Willows Farm: 2 Little Ringed Plover & Green Sandpiper main gp, 2 Oystercatcher willows fm lake (TyttGP tweet); Sedge Warbler main gp (per Herts BC)
 * Walthamstow Wetlands: Sandwich Tern, 2 Yellow Wagtails, 4 White Wagtails No4/No5 causeway, 2 Fieldfare, Redwing, 6 Swallow, c20 House Martins, Wheatear, Water Rail (Walthamstow Birders); 5-6 Bramblings in willows near cafe 11.30 (Quentin Given); 2 Brambling later behind Fishermen’s Hut (Terry Rawlings); 2 Fieldfare, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Kestrel (Daniel Whitelegg)
 * Wanstead Flats: Yellow Wagtail, 14 Meadow Pipit, White Wagtail, 6 Swallow, f Wheatear still by barrage balloon hitches, 5 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall, 3 Pochard, 2 Little Grebe, 4 Skylark, Kestrel, Little Owl, 2 Siskin, 26 Linnet (the majority going north), 2 ad Black-headed Gull west (Nick Croft/Marco Johnson)
 * Wanstead Park: 2 Siskin, Nuthatch, 3 Little Grebe, Pochard (Nick Croft)
 * Whitewebbs Park: 5 Treecreeper incl one singing male (Robert Callf)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Swallow, Lesser Redpoll, 5 Red-crested Pochard, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Shelduck (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)
 * Worcester Park: 2 Little Egrets (Bob Smith); 3 Little Egrets on horse field 14:15 onwards, 1 Song Thrush and a Meadow Pipit (Isaiah Rowe)

Monday 9th April 2018

 * Bayhurst Wood: 6+ Hawfinch at southern edge 09:50 (Richard Francis)
 * Betchworth Quarry: 2 Hawfinch (David Stubbs tweet)
 * Bramblehall Wood: 3 Hawfinch early-am - big clear-out (Steve Gale tweet)
 * Brockwell Park: 4 Jackdaws one carrying nest material around - not resident here, 1 Swallow, Black Swan reported (Michael Mac)
 * Brookmill Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush, Blackcap (Conrad Ellam)
 * Crayford Marshes: 39 Common Scoter, pr Goosander, 10ad Kittiwake all on Thames, Whitethroat, 3 Swallow, 18 Common Tern, 3 Common Sandpiper, 5 Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Curlew, 3 Oystercatcher, 6 Cetti's Warbler (Kev Jarvis)
 * Dartford Marshes: 2 Goosander (per Kent OS)
 * Hogsmill Open Space: 1 Little Egret, 4 Blackcap 2m 2f, 3+ singing Chiffchaff, 1 Nuthatch and 5 Grey Wagtail 2pr (Isaiah Rowe)
 * KGV Reservoir: 8 Common Scoter, Sandwich Tern, 3 Common Tern, 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 15+ Swallow, 15+ House Martin, 20+ Sand Martin, White Wagtail, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Sedge Warbler, 3 Blackcap, Reed Bunting (Neville Smith)
 * Laleham Park: Thameside - 2 Oystercatcher [prob pr] TQ050678 (Jeremy Soane via Surrey BN)
 * London Wetland Centre: Little Gull main lake (Simon Fogg); also Little Ringed Plover, 6 Snipe, 3 Redshank, 15 Sand Martin, 20 Swallow, 10 House Martin, 5 Willow Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap, Yellow Wagtail Disturbance to the grazing marsh and reservoir lagoon today due to contractors undertaking a full site water vole survey (WWT website)
 * Mile End: Antill Rd E3 - m Blackcap in gdn (Harry Harrison)
 * Oxleas Wood:2Greatspottedwoodpecker,2Nuthatch,Goldcrest,4Coaltit,Greenwoodpecker,Stockdove Jackdaw,Kestrel(fm)3Blackcap(m)(Ron Turner).
 * Queen Mother Reservoir: Sandwich Tern 0715, 2 Arctic Skua briefly 0645 (Andy Tomczynski via Berks BN)
 * Rainham Marshes: Great Egret still on purfleet scrape, Grey Plover, Ringed Plover, Short-eared Owl (Andy Tweed per ELBF FB); 42 Common Scoter [same as Crayford flock] on Thames late-am at least and 2 Goosander (Andy Tweed, Dominic Mitchell et al); 2 Yellow-legged Gulls both 3cy nr stone barges, 18 Common Terns, singing m Common Whitethroat barges c/p (Dominic Mitchell)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon-Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Silvertown: Common Sandpiper on Thames foreshore by Woolwich Ferry (Conrad Ellam)
 * Staines Reservoir: 12 Common Scoter 6m 6f [10 s basin & 2 n basin] by 1005; 3+ Little Gull, Common Tern & Little Ringed Plover 0930 (Paul Ward tweets); also 4 Goldeneye, 2 Black-necked Grebe & AMERICAN HORNED LARK still (Jim Sweetland tweet); 12 CS still pm (Dom Pia tweet); Little Gull 1w 1535, 2 Common Tern 1555 (Neal Moister tweet); 4 Black-necked Grebe still (Tony Cummins via Surrey BN); also Common Sandpiper n basin, 2 Arctic Tern s basin, 26 Pied Wagtail causeway (Lee Evans tweet)
 * Tooting Commons: 3m Willow Warbler (Peter White tweet)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 17 Canada Geese, 2 Egyptian Geese, 8 Teal, 2 Cormorant, Grey Heron, Little Egret, 3 Common Buzzard, 2 Coot, 20 Black-headed Gull, 43+ Stock Dove, 2 Kestrel, 22+ Rook, Coal Tit, Nuthatch, Goldcrest, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, 170+ Starling, Reed Bunting (Samuel Levy)
 * Trent Park: 2 Eurasian Teal pr upper lake, 2 Common Pochard pr lower lake, 6 Tufted Duck 3m 3f, Common Buzzard, Green Woodpecker, f Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4m Blackcap, 6 Chiffchaff, 6 Nuthatch incl 2pr, Treecreeper, 8 Chaffinch (Robert Callf)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 2 Shelduck, 5 Snipe (J-P Elmes); rear paddocks - Little Egret, 2 Blackcap, 17 Stock Dove, Kestrel, Green Woodpecker (JW Davies)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Common Scoter at 9.45 on Lockwood (David Bradshaw, Terry Rawlings); Scoter gone by 1.15pm, Sandwich Tern, Red Kite, c10 Swallow (Lol Bodini); still 4 Goldeneye on No5, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 9 Blackcap 8m f, 5 Chiffchaff, 25+ House Martins, 8 Meadow Pipit, 1 Kestrel, 12 Shelduck, 1 Common Sandpiper (Daniel Whitelegg) They should build a hide like the Peacock Hide at Barnes with scopes in, so people can see all over the reservoirs from the comfort of it [Michael Mac] Facilities at a free-to-enter site are unlikely to match those at a site which charges a £14 entry fee.[Chris F] People don't respect what they get for free, particularly if they aren't into birds or wildlife anyway. Let's see what type of visitors they get when its hot weather, drunks wanting a swim and sunbath perhaps
 * Wanstead Flats: Black Redstart reported but not confirmed, f Wheatear, 2 Redwing, Red Kite, singing Willow Warbler, 5 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall, 15 Tufted Duck, 2 Pochard, 2 Little Grebe, 3 Meadow Pipit, 3 Skylark (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park: 2 Teal, Pochard, 3 Little Grebe, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 7 Herring Gull on Ilford GC (Nick Croft)
 * Worcester Park: Little Egret 3 on horse field (Bob Smith)

Sunday 8th April 2018

 * Amwell NR: Common Tern in 0630, Little Gull in 0710, 2 Redshank in 0730 (William Bishop tweets); Arctic Skua [Ldn foy] SE 0900 (Barry Reed tweet); 2 Little Gull late-aft (Laurence Drummond per Amwell Birding tweet); 10+ House Martin (LD tweet)
 * Brent Reservoir: 11 Shoveler, 2 Green Sandpiper pm, 7 Common Snipe, 60+ Swallow, 3 House Martin, 6 Sand Martin, 3 Little Egret, 8 Blackcap, 6 Chiffchaff, 3 Cetti’s Warbler, pr Reed Bunting (Brent Birders)
 * Brockwell Park: 4 Common Scoter low W c4.30pm (Michael Mac)
 * Brookmill Park: 2 Song Thrush, 2 singing Blackcap (Conrad Ellam)
 * Broomfield Park: 4 Egyptian Goose 2pr, 2 Mandarin Duck pr, 6 Shoveler 3m 3f, 21 Tufted Duck 13m 8f, 2 Grey Wagtail pr, 2 Goldcrest pr displaying (Robert Callf)
 * Bushy Park: Woodland Garden - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker m, 6 Redpoll (R Dunne)
 * Copped Hall: Estate - Red Kite, 22 Yellowhammer, 19 Linnet, 2 Bullfinch, 8 Skylark, 8 Red-legged Partridge (Chris Baldwin)
 * Crayford Marshes: Swallow, 4 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, 9 Cetti's Warbler, 29 Redshank, 4 Oystercatcher, 3 Meadow Pipit, 4 Skylark (Kev Jarvis)
 * Dollis Brook: Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail (Samuel Levy)
 * Fairlop Waters: m Yellow Wagtail, 7 House Martins, 2 Sand Martins, 3 singing Willow Warblers (Alan Bell); also 8 Shelduck, 3 Shoveler, 12 Teal, 2 Snipe, Little Owl, 9 Swallow, 20 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap (Steve Bacon per ELBF FB)
 * Gallions Reach: 2 Curlew, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 20 Redshank, 5 Common Tern, Arctic Tern, 2 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap [Gary James via EBwS BN)
 * Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park: Little Grebe, Swallow, Sand Martin, Chiffchaff, Blackcap (John Bushall)
 * Hackney Marshes: 5 singing Blackcap (Alastair Dent)
 * Hampstead Heath: Willow Warbler singing from Sanctuary Pond (Pete Mantle)
 * Haringey: Old fountain in front of Town Hall - 1 Grey Wagtail (Mavis Pilbeam)
 * Hilfield Park Reservoir: 9 Common Scoter flock of 8 & wintering bird, 1 Goldeneye, 1 singing Willow Warbler, c10 Swallow, 2 House Martin (Tony Blake)
 * Holmethorpe SPs: 4 Sandwich Tern Mercers L 0620 then SW, m Ring Ouzel briefly am The Moors TQ289513 (BirdGuides); pr Common Scoter Mercers L c4pm (Gordon Hay per Dave Harris tweet)
 * Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens: Sandwich Tern SE, 5 Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, 6 Blackcap (N P Senior)
 * Ingrebourne Valley: Swallow, 6 Willow Warbler, Wheatear (Paul Hawkins tweet)
 * Island Barn Reservoir: 2 Common Scoter, 2 Little Gull, 5 Swallow (Chris Turner)
 * KGV Reservoir: 2 Common Scoter, Little Gull, Arctic Tern, Common Tern, Sandwich Tern 1030, 2 Peregrine copulating, 3 Common Buzzard, Dunlin, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Redshank, 2 Wheatear, 3 Cetti's Warbler, Willow Warbler, 5 Blackcap, 4 Reed Bunting (Neville Smith)
 * Ladywell Fields: Kingfisher, Song Thrush, Blackcap (Conrad Ellam & Anita Gwynn)
 * London Wetland Centre: Kittiwake until c11am, Brambling, 2 Jack Snipe, Goldeneye, 4 Pintail, Sedge Warbler, 11 Swallow, 20 House Martin, 3 Dunlin (Simon Fogg, Oscar Dewhurst, Peter Gray); also Buzzard, Little Ringed Plover, 7 Snipe, 6 Redshank, 6 Willow Warbler, 7 Chiffchaff, 2 Sedge Warbler, 8 Blackcap, Yellow Wagtail (WWT website)
 * Nazeing GP: 5 Common Scoter, 2 Common Tern (Adam Wilson)
 * Orsett Fen: 2 Sparrowhawk, 4 Buzzard, Barn Owl, 2 Kestrel, 2 Peregrine, Raven, 21 Skylark, Cetti's Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, Sedge Warbler, 6 Blackcap, m Ring Ouzel, 4 Yellow Wagtail, 16 Linnet, 17 Yellowhammer, 9 Reed Bunting (Alan Shearman per ELBF FB)
 * Panshanger Park: Cuckoo calling in woods s of broadwater TL281128 (Christine von Hagen via Herts BC)
 * Priest Hill, Ewell: 2 singing Chiffchaff, 3 male Pheasant, 1 Sparrowhawk (Neil Batten)
 * Rainham RSPB: dark- [per SH] or intermediate- [per JH] phase Arctic Skua on Thames at Ferry Ln 1505 - flew off 1530 (Shaun Harvey/Jack Headley tweets); Great Egret still, Short-eared Owl flew toward Wennington, 10 Common Tern downriver, Wheatear pm (JH tweets); Iceland Gull still, 2 Arctic Skua [1 dark- & 1 intermediate-phase] on river (Howard Vaughan tweet); 4 Arctic Tern above Thames on Kent side nr R Darent barrier 1610 (JH tweet); Sandwich Tern (Chris Ruis tweet); 2 Kittiwake both 1w (Davey Leach per ELBF FB); also 6 Little Egret, 5 Marsh Harrier 3m2f, 2 Buzzard, Water Rail, 3 Curlew, 30 Common Tern, 20 Sand Martin, 7 Swallow, 2 House Martin, Willow Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, Sedge Warbler, 4 Blackcap, 2 Wheatear (per ELBF FB/RSPB blog)
 * Raynes Park: Sparrowhawk m on garden fence 0900, Coal Tit (Paula Redmond)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. No parking charges on Sunday. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Roding Valley Meadows LNR: Red Kite (Andy Tweed per ELBF FB)
 * Ruislip Lido: 2 House Martin, 2 Swallow, Willow Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, Hawfinch (Nigel Dodd)
 * Ruislip Woods: 6 Hawfinch down from Wiltshire Ln entrance 09:30 (Richard Francis)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: fr draper hide - Shelduck, Little Grebe, Green Sandpiper, 3 Redshank; Little Ringed Plover fr gadwall_hide 1225 (Emily Leonard tweets); Yellow Wagtail (RSPB tweet)
 * Sevenoaks Wildfowl Reserve: pr Common Scoter east lake 1245 (Graham Saxby per Mathew Bournat); pr CS still roosting by spit 1445 & Green Sandpiper both fr tyler hide (Mathew Bournat tweets); 2 Egyptian Goose & gosling, pr Common Scoter fr bench betw Tyler & Sutton hides), 2 Little Ringed Plover 18:30-19:20 (Jack Headley tweet)
 * Staines Moor: m Ring Ouzel n end early-am (Dave Kenrick tweet); RO still 1000 but mobile betw the butts & bonehead ditch (Dave Carlsson tweet); RO still in scrub s of butts 1415, Wheatear am (Dom Pia tweets)
 * Staines Reservoir: 2 Arctic Terns, 2 Common Terns, 2 Little Gulls mid-am (Roger Morton); also 2 Goldeneye, 4 Black-necked Grebe still, 3 Little Gull, AMERICAN HORNED LARK still (Jonathan Nasir tweet); 1 White Wagtail (Bob Warden et al); 3 Common Scoter s basin 1615, 3 Grey Plover NW 1440 (Ken Purdey per Dom Pia tweets); Little Ringed Plover (Tim Rymer); 3 Common Scoter 2m f still present 1915, also 2 Oystercatcher, 3 Little Gull, 2 Common Tern (DP tweet)
 * Stanstead Abbotts Lakes - N lake: 5 Common Scoter 3m 2f 0800, Kingfisher, 5 Sand Martin, 22+ Swallow, 2 House Martin, Sedge Warbler (Jane Free via Herts BC); 5 CS still 1100 (William Last tweet)
 * Stanstead Innings: 4 Egyptian Goose 2pr, Oystercatcher display flight, Cetti's Warbler (Murray Orchard via Herts BC)
 * Stanwell Moor: 8 House Martin, Swallow, 7 Fieldfare, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Blackcap, Red Kite (Tim Rymer)
 * Totteridge Valley: 7 Hawfinch, 4 singing Blackcap, 10 singing Chiffchaff (Tony Clancy); Belmont Fm - 11 Canada Geese, Mandarin Duck, Red-legged Partridge, 4 Cormorant, Swallow, Nuthatch, singing Goldcrest, 2 singing Chiffchaff, singing Blackcap, 11 Starling, Pied Wagtail (Samuel Levy)
 * Trent Park: 4 Teal pr upper lake & pr lower lake, 5 Mandarin 4m f, leucistic Grey Heron, 4 Tufted Duck 2m 2f, Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 3 Song Thrush (Pete Lowman)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: m Common Scoter 0815 (Rick Flesher tweet); still 1025 (Rupert Evershed tweet); CS still 1215 at least, also 2 Egyptian Goose, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 6+ Snipe, 2 Redshank, 7 Great Black-backed Gull [recent pr & 5 off NE by 0800], 6+ Redwing all on main gp, 22+ Swallow (Rupert Evershed via Herts BC); CS still main gp 1745-1815, 30+ Swallow, House Martin (Simon West via Herts BC/Twitter)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 2 Sand Martin over Leyton Marsh; 9 Linnet, 2 Egyptian Geese & 2 Stock Dove rear paddocks plus 2 Shelduck over N; 1 Meadow Pipit & 1 Reed Bunting m Bomb Crater Field (Alastair Dent)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 2 Common Scoter e warwick 1725, 2 Little Ringed Plover, White Wagtail (David Darrell-Lambert per ELBF FB / BirdGuides)
 * Wanstead Flats: 2m Ring Ouzel (Wanstead Birding tweets); Redwing, Swallow, 3 Linnet, Kestrel, 10+ Meadow Pipit, up to 6 singing Skylark, 7 Shoveler, 2 Pochard, pr Little Grebe (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wimbledon Common: Cuckoo at Ladies Mile presume same bird calling c2pm in woodland north of windmill c/p [LE-H], 2 Redpoll, 6 Blackcap, 6 Chiffchaff, 29 Tufted Duck on Queensmere (Adrian Podmore)
 * Worcester Park: gdn KT4- 3 Swallow N (Isaiah Rowe)

Saturday 7th April 2018

 * Alexandra Park: 6m Blackcap, m Tufted x Pochard Boating Lake (Bob Watts)
 * Amwell NR: 2ad Little Gull fr viewpt 0810 (Barry Reed tweet); still 1820 but not after 1900 when roosting gulls flushed (Ron Cousins tweets); 2 Little Gull still, 2 Sand Martin, Swallow, pr Raven (Laurence Drummond tweet)
 * Battersea Park: 5 singing Blackcap 1 with very varied call song/subsong could easily have been confused for other species but for fact clearly visible, Chaffinch, drumming Great Spotted Woodpecker, pr Mandarin, 4 Gadwall, Stock Dove at nest (Michael Mac) This park is becoming increasingly uniform and needs a bird area, the meadow that had brambles was cleared out and trees cut down, there has been general removal of dead trees, anyone interested in writing to the park authorities to have a specific dog free bird area created? The demand on this park for human use is set to increase 10 fold in the next few years with all the new flats being built around it. [suggest someone writes the email that can be circulated to many departments of the Council, then to get as many signatures on the email as possible, birders and wild flower people, butterfly people, etc. or people who love nature, who live in that Council Area, a lot of them.] It will then probably work, if enough signatures are obtained. Thanks for response will post more details soon (Michael Mac)
 * Brent Reservoir: singing Sedge Warbler [Brent foy], Little Ringed Plover, 3 Green Sandpiper, 8 Common Snipe, 8 Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff, 4 Cetti’s Warbler, f Reed Bunting, Water Rail; also Comma, Peacock, Brimstone and 160+ Yellow Dung Fly (Brent Birders)
 * Brookmill Park: Stock Dove, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Song Thrush, singing Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
 * Bury Lake: Common Tern still 0730 (Gordon Cox via Herts BC)
 * Canons Farm: Ring Ouzel still (Roy Weller per KJM/CF tweets); Hobby drifting N catching insects 1615 (Steve Gale tweet)
 * Crayford Marshes: Brambling, Willow Warbler, Common Tern, 2 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Egret, 5 Cetti's Warbler, Oystercatcher, 32 Redshank (Kev Jarvis)
 * Finchley: gdn N3 - m Sparrowhawk, Collared Dove, 5 Stock Dove (Samuel Levy)
 * Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park: 2 Little Grebe, 4 Sand Martin, 1 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff (Richard Green, John Bushall)
 * Hook nr Kingston: 2 Brent Goose W 1530 (Geoff Barter tweet)
 * Ingrebourne Valley: 3 Swallow, Willow Warbler, Sedge Warbler (Shaun Harvey tweet)
 * Kensal Green Cemetery and St Mary’s Cemetery: 5 Blackcap, 1 Chiffchaff, pr Coal Tit, Green Woodpecker, 3 Stock Dove; 1 Brimstone butterfly (Charlie Farrell)
 * KGV Reservoir: Scaup m, Goosander, 5 Common Buzzard, 2 Sparrowhawk, 4 Kestrel, Arctic Tern, Common Tern, 2 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 10+ Sand Martin, Yellow Wagtail S, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 5 Blackcap, Whitethroat, 3 Reed Bunting (Neville Smith)
 * Lamorbey Park: 2 Egyptian Geese, 11 Tufted Duck, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Nuthatch, 4 singing Coal Tit, 6+ singing Goldcrest, singing Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap 3m f, Jackdaw (Mike Amos)
 * London Wetland Centre: 4 Pintail, Goldeneye, 5 Redshank, 6 Snipe, 12+ Sand Martin, Sedge Warbler, 4 Blackcap (WWT website); 1 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Jack Snipe, 4 Common Snipe, Goldeneye, 2 Shelduck, 8 Blackcap, Willow Warbler, Linnet, also apparent Viking Gull 2cy again (Oscar Dewhurst, Simon Fogg); also 2 Norwegian-ringed Lesser Black-backed Gulls (Peter Gray)
 * Manor Park, Lewisham: Mandarin drake, Song Thrush (Tom Moulton)
 * Paddington: mainline stn - Grey Wagtail singing 0620 (Des McKenzie tweet)
 * Queen Mary Res: m Common Scoter, Swallow, Willow Warbler, 12 Blackcap am (Steve Chastell tweet)
 * Rainham RSPB: f Garganey & 2 Ruffs flooded ouzel_field, ad Mediterranean Gull calling overhead, Barn Owl, Swallow (Ian Bradshaw); also 7 Pintail, 4 Marsh Harrier 2m2f, 2 Buzzard, Great Egret still, 7 Little Egret, 2 Water Rail, 7 Curlew, 4 Ruff, 7 Snipe, ad Little Gull upriver, Iceland Gull juv, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 20 Common Tern, Barn Owl, 2 Bearded Tit, 6 Swallow, 5m Chiffchaff, 4m Blackcap, 4 Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, 5 Yellow Wagtail, Water Pipit (per ELBF FB); 3 Arctic Tern, Corn Bunting (Martin Jordan via ELBF FB); also Great Egret still on purfleet scrape fr VC, 3 Redshank, 2 Common Gull, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, ad Iceland Gull flying close to bay at far end of river wall w/ Herring Gulls, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, Kestrel, 10+ Skylark many singing, 2 Meadow Pipit, 6+ Cetti's Warbler singing, 5 Linnet (Ben Mapp via EBwS BN)
 * Richmond Park: m Wheatear, 3 Swallow, House Martin, m Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Skylark [last 3 species all singing], 6 Buzzard, 2 Red KIte (P Pentek)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: Marsh Harrier (RSPB tweet); 3 Shelduck, Oystercatcher, 3 Green Sandpiper, 3 Redshank (Graham Canny tweet)
 * Staines Moor: m Ring Ouzel, m Wheatear (Luke Harrison, Gordon Shaw)
 * Staines Reservoir: 4 Black-necked Grebe, Avocet, Little Gull 1w, AMERICAN HORNED LARK causeway still [s basin midpoint], Yellow Wagtail (Dom Pia tweet); also 2 Little Ringed Plover, Mediterranean Gull, Common Tern (Dave Kenrick tweet); 4 Black-necked Grebe, Goldeneye, 2 Shelduck, Avocet swimming w/ gulls on n basin, Dunlin, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Common Tern, Sparrowhawk, 2 Red Kite, Barn Swallow, Mistle Thrush, Horned Lark foraging on causeway path towards east end - 3pm (Tom Jordan)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: 6 Pheasant 4 seen, 2 Buzzard together, m Kestrel, 2 Lapwing, 3 Snipe, 15+ Stock Dove 11 together, 5+ Skylark 2-3 singing, c4 Redwing, 3 singing Chiffchaff, 2 singing Blackcap, 3m Reed Bunting 1 singing (Neil Anderson); 12 Pheasant, 2 Goldcrest, 1 Fieldfare, 6 Song Thrush, 2 Mistle Thrush, Cormorant over (Deiniol Owen)
 * Thorndon CP: n section - 7+ Nuthatch [6 territories - pr at nest hole plastering mud & 5+ males h singing], Treecreeper singing (Andrew Cox via EBwS BN)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 8 Canada Geese, 2 Egyptian Geese, f Garganey still, 8 Teal, Cormorant, 3 Sparrowhawk, 2 Common Buzzard, Coot, 2 Black-headed Gull, 12 Common Gull, 34 Stock Dove, Collared Dove, 22+ Rook, 3 Swallow, Coal Tit, 5 Nuthatch, 16 singing Chiffchaff, 10 singing Blackcap, 10 Redwing, 6 Song Thrush, 2 Mistle Thrush, 17 Starling, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Pied Wagtail, 4 Meadow Pipit, singing Reed Bunting, 13 Hawfinch, 2 Bullfinch, 8 Linnet, 3 Greenfinch; also Tortoiseshell, Peacock (Samuel Levy & Simon Worsfold)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery: Blackcap 1m singing, Chiffchaff 1m singing (Rhys Evans)
 * Trent Park: 5 Mandarin Duck 3m 2f, 2 Eurasian Teal m f upper lake, 2 Common Pochard m f lower lake, 5 Tufted Duck 3m 2f upper lake, 3 Common Buzzard, 3 singing m Blackcap, 6 singing Chiffchaff, 5 Nuthatch 3m 2f, 2 Treecreeper incl 1 nest building; 21 Common Toad spawning lower & upper lakes (Robert Callf); also Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 4 Teal a pair on each lake, 7 Tufted Duck 4m 3f, leucistic Grey Heron (Pete Lowman)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs and Willows Farm: Great Egret SE over Plant'n Wd 0945; main gp - 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 1+ Snipe, 4+ Tree Sparrow, Yellowhammer; also in area - 4+ Sand Martin, 6+ Swallow, Willow Warbler, 3+ Chiffchaff, Sedge Warbler, 3+ Blackcap, 22 Fieldfare (Tyttenhanger Birders via Herts BC/Twitter)
 * Verulamium Park: incl 4 Little Egret on heron_island, 3+ Red Kite, 5 Swallow (Dan Fletcher per Herts BC)
 * Vicarage Road Stadium, Watford: Peregrine and Red Kite over while watching the match (Jonathan Nasir)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 3 Sand Martin (Jon Agar)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Hoopoe [1st seen y'day pm but local birders didn’t hear until this morning. Seen 3 times around south end of No3 by old hide c9.45 but not since despite searches of all reservoirs] (Lol Cummings, Terry Rawlings, David Bradshaw, Lol Bodini); Swallow, 4 Sand Martins, 2 Green Sandpipers on No1, Yellow Wagtail over, 4 Goldeneye on No5 (Walthamstow Birders); 2 Goldeneye (Jon Agar); Cetti's Warbler showed well in vegetation adj to Coppermill stream c15.30 (R. Moorhead) There are complaints that the new permits system, is not fair as rare birds are posted on here, people who don't have permits are being turned away. When few years ago there were no restrictions before it became 'The Wetlands.'  You still had to pay to get in before it was the Wetlands. Didn’t know you still had to pay. On my visits I simply walked in, round, and out again. I saw no signs inviting me to pay and noone questioned me. If payment is required (or permits to be shown), surely the actual entrance is the best place? Plus when I was there, a large amount of the general local population seemed also to be at the place, not many of them birders. Permits, payment? To all intents and purposes, this is now as open a site as, say, Wanstead Flats. So yes, the old patch (which I DID pay for a day permit) was better. Re permits, as a non permit holder I was advised to apply to Nathaniel Legall on niegallATwildlondon.org.uk, the closing date was 30 Mar 2018,I am waiting a reply to see if it has been accepted, the cost is £10 as I understand for a year. hope this helps. [G.Gram] This e-mail address bounced back - doesn't work. some one told me they were not allowed to go to area of the Bluethroat because they didn't have a permit other people have also complained of this. It seems the local clique kept permits to themselves and I was told no more are being issued! I have paid £1 entry for over 10 years and people who have paid should have been notified of the permit system and the deadline, and given chance to apply [Michael Mac] Won’t be going there again then, what's the point of going if its all closed off and full of shoppers? It needs reorganising more like the wetland centre, with flat membership fee only for entry, no joggers or cyclists.
 * Wanstead Flats: 13 Swallow, 2 Sand Martin, Red Kite, 3-4 Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon, 4 Little Owl, Shelduck, 2 Gadwall, 5 Shoveler, 2 Pochard, 20 Tufted Duck, 3 Little Grebe, 11 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Linnet, Reed Bunting, 3 singing Skylark, 7 Meadow Pipit 3 singing & 4 others (Wanstead Birders)
 * Waterlow Park: pr Blackcap, Chiffchaff and Goldcrest (Allan Stewart)
 * Waterworks NR: Reed Warbler singing [PW tweet] I think 1-2 have been there for a couple of days - PW [updated - thx!], also 2 Willow Warbler, 3+ Blackcap, Willow Warbler on paddocks north of Lea Bridge Rd and 2 Fieldfare (Paul Whiteman)
 * Winchmore Hill: [N21] Large, pale, and cream-coloured gull flew briefly along the New River at Carpenter Gardens then flew roughly E at 18:15. Direct direction of flight not seen, viewed from the 329 bus and it had gone once I jumped off. Local large gulls are all adult LBB Gulls and Herring Gulls, hence why this one stood out. I will look again tomorrow and check the nearby local gull loafing spots at Clowes Sports Ground and Firs Farm Wetlands. (Katy McGilvray)
 * Worcester Park: Redwing (Bob Smith)
 * Yeading Brook Meadows: 3 Pheasant h, 2 sightings 1-2 Little Egret low in flight [possibly same bird], Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, singing Skylark, 2 Meadow Pipit, 4 singing Chiffchaff (Neil Anderson)

Friday 6th April 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Linnet singing from small tree nr filter beds 1745 (Bob Watts)
 * Amwell NR: Sandwich Tern on post opp viewpt 0600-0625 then flew off (Barry Reed tweet)
 * Arnos Park: Cormorant over, 4+ Stock Dove, Great Spotted Woodpecker, f Grey Wagtail nest building, 3 singing m Blackcap, Goldcrest nest building, 3 Long-tailed Tit nest building, 2m Nuthatch (Robert Callf)
 * Balham: f Pheasant in my back garden 1.30 today - a first (Nick Moll)
 * Belhus Woods CP: 11 Egyptian Goose, 13 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall, 6 Teal, 4 Pochard, 42 Tufted Duck, 10 Little Grebe, 6 Great Crested Grebe, 9 Cormorant, Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, Water Rail, Barn Owl, Kingfisher, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, 6 Green Woodpecker, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 15 Chiffchaff, 16 Blackcap, Whitethroat [Ldn foy], Nuthatch, 32 Starling, 10 Blackbird, 3 Redwing, 11 Song Thrush, 3 Mistle Thrush, 2 Bullfinch, 3 Greenfinch, 3 Lesser Redpoll, 6 Siskin, 2 Reed Bunting (Alan Shearman per ELBF FB)
 * Blackfriars Bridge: Yellow-legged Gull 3cy (N P Senior)
 * Bow Creek Ecology Park: incl 2-3 Cetti's Warbler (Charlie Farrell tweet)
 * Brent Reservoir: Hoopoe flew E past main hide at 14:25 in good sunshine, about 2 metres over the water, at distance of the furthest raft out, but still close to them. All features instantly ID'd it, as all 3 of us know the species, in fact it was Simon's trigger/spark bird, having seen one at a young age in the Algarve years ago. There was no time to grab camera or scope, it flew, landed 2m off the ground in a bush, from main hide right of Willow Island, raised its crest, then flew behind Willow Island and past Heron_Hide, off in direction of River Brent. A search failed to re-find it. Longest day of birding very unusual for us, with coverage from 07:20 to sunset 19:42 - 12 hrs 22 mins. Best of other spp. seen - 2 Red Kites S together, pr Peregrines N [only seen by rare visitor Eddie Wang], f Sparrowhawk, m Kestrel, 3 Little Ringed Plover pr & m most of day, Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Snipe, 6 Shoveler 3pr, 2 Water Rail, 7+ Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap 5m 1f (Magnus Andersson, Simon Worsfold, Andrew Verrall, then joined later in evening by James ). Now for Spring.
 * Brookmill Park: 2 Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush, 2 Blackcap m&f, Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
 * Broomfield Park: 2 Egyptian Goose pr, m Mandarin Duck, 8 Shoveler 4m 4f, 15 Tufted Duck 9m 6f, m Grey Wagtail, 2 Nuthatch pr copulating (Robert Callf)
 * Bury Lake: Common Tern (Charlie Ramsay via Herts BC)
 * Canons Farm: 1 Ring Ouzel (Steve Gale)
 * East India Dock Basin NR: Egyptian Goose, 6 Shelduck, 2 Gadwall, 16 Teal, 2 Oystercatcher flyover from Bow Creek Ecology Park, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Cetti's Warbler (Tom Speller tweet); also 13 Shelduck, 20 Teal, Cetti's Warbler (Charlie Farrell tweet)
 * Harefield: GPs Moorhall Rd entrance - 2 Kestrel, Buzzard circling high, Chiffchaff, pr Great Crested Grebe, pr Tufted Ducks, 3f Chaffinch, calling Green Woodpecker (Nigel Barratt)
 * Ingrebourne Valley: Red-crested Pochard, 4 Sparrowhawk displaying, Buzzard, Willow Warbler, 5 Blackcap, Hawfinch again, 2 Siskin (Dave Morrison tweet)
 * Kentish Town: pr Blackcaps at Gaisford St (Pete Mantle)
 * KGV Reservoir: 6 Sandwich Tern S 0840, Arctic Tern, 2 Common Tern, Swallow, 2 House Martin, 5 Blackcap (Neville Smith)
 * Kingston-upon-Thames: Swallow feeding low over riverside nr Canbury Gdns (Phil Davies)
 * Lamorbey Park: 2 Egyptian Geese, Little Grebe sp, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, m Blackcap hawking insects over lake, singing Chiffchaff, Song Thrush, Jackdaw, 2 Stock Dove, 4 Goldcrest, Coal Tit, 2 Herring Gull on school field. Cool breeze-no butterflies but abundant bees. (Eric Brown).
 * Lincoln's Inn Fields: 1 Goldcrest (A Casey)
 * London Wetland Centre: 4m Reed Bunting, 8 Blackcap 7m 1f, 3 singing Chiffchaff, probably 2 Jack Snipe, 2 Shelduck 1m 1f, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Sedge Warbler singing sporadically from the reed bed, 2 Mandarin mating 1m 1f, 2 Lesser Redpoll, 2 Swallows, 1 Russian colour-ringed Great Black-backed Gull (Martin Honey & S. Fogg); also 3 Shelduck, 4 Pintail, f Goldeneye still, 7 Redshank, Kestrel, 10 Sand Martin wader scrape, 6 Chiffchaff, 9 Blackcap (WWT website)
 * Mill Hill: [NW7] singing Blackcap; Brimstone butterfly [both gdn foy] (Andrew Haynes)
 * New Change: [EC2] 3 Common Buzzard NW (N P Senior)
 * Oxleas Wood:4Nuthatch,3Treecreeper,6Jackdaw,Sparrowhawke,5Greatspottedwoodpecker,Goldcrest 5Stockdove,5Blackcap(1fm),Chiffchaff,3Greenwoodpecker,2Kestrel,6Goldfinch,Chaffinch,Songthrush Mallard(pr),WillowWarbler.(Ron Turner)
 * Ponders End Lake: Little Gull ad wp, Glaucous Gull [or Viking Gull per ELBF FB] 2w (Neville Smith tweets)
 * Rainham Marshes RSPB: 1 Willow Warbler singing, 1 Blackcap singing c13:00 (Toni Piccolo); Great Egret still, 2 Marsh Harrier, Red Kite, 2 Mediterranean Gull, Iceland Gull 2cy, Arctic Tern, Swallow (Dominic Mitchell tweet); also 5 Marsh Harrier, 4 Buzzard, Whimbrel, 9 Curlew, 8 Ruff, 8 Snipe, 5 Mediterranean Gull, 30 Common Tern, Peregrine, 4 Bearded Tit (per ELBF FB)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon-Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Richmond Park: Yellow Wagtail NE, Swallow, 12 Fieldfare W (J.Wilczur); Little Egret, Peregrine, 14 Shoveler incl 11 high NE (P.Pentek); 7 Buzzard, 3+ Red Kite, 3m Blackcap, 20+ Lesser Redpoll (Friday Group et al)
 * Roding Valley Meadows LNR: 2 Buzzard, 60 Common Gull, Arctic Tern, 5 Chiffchaff, 10m Blackcap, 11 Pied Wagtail (Barry Jones per ELBF FB)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: 3 Shelduck, 3 Green Sandpiper, 3 Redshank (Allan Meadows via Herts BC)
 * Sevenoaks WR: 0 Water Rail [survey], Ringed Plover, 2 Little Ringed Plover fr tyler hide, 3 Siskin, Reed Bunting (per Susanna Clerici via Kent OS)
 * Shrewsbury Park: 2 Redwing, Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Kestrel, 2 Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 2 Song Thrush (Tim Rymer)
 * Staines Moor: 1 Swallow, 4+ Water Pipit swamp [se cnr] & R Colne all in summer plumage, 2-3 Shelduck, 1 Water Rail Colne, 1 Tufted Duck Colne, 3 Red Kite, 2-4 Common Buzzard, 3 Kestrel, 5 Reed Bunting, 1 Lapwing, 1 Little Egret (Lee Dingain); also Kingfisher, Cetti's Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap (Robert Martin tweet)
 * Staines Reservoirs: AMERICAN HORNED LARK still w end causeway early am, 1 Sandwich Tern, 1 Common Tern both through am, 4 Black-necked Grebe; s basin - 1 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Swallow (Bob Warden et al per FJM)
 * Stanwell Moor: 5 Gadwall, 2 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, Cetti's Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap (Robert Martin tweet)
 * Tooting Common: 4 Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Redwing E (James Hudson)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 9 Canada Geese, 2 Egyptian Geese, Mandarin Duck, f Garganey still, 5 Teal, 3 Cormorant, Grey Heron, 3 Sparrowhawk, 5 Common Buzzard, Coot, Lapwing, 15 Stock Dove, Collared Dove, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker drumming, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, 22+ Rook, Coal Tit, Nuthatch, 4 Goldcrest, 13 singing Chiffchaff, 6 singing Blackcap, 14 Fieldfare, 3 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, 83+ Starling, 2 Grey Wagtail, 4 Pied Wagtail, 4 Meadow Pipit, 5 Hawfinch, 6 Greenfinch (Samuel Levy)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: Linnet W 0740, m Goldcrest, m Blackcap, m Chiffchaff (Bob Watts)
 * Trent Park: 2 Common Buzzard, Kestrel, Nuthatch, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, 5 Mandarin 4m f, 4 Teal [pr on each lake], leucistic Grey Heron, 6 Tufted Duck 4m 2f, m Pochard, 2 Swallow, 2 Treecreeper (Pete Lowman)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs and Willows Farm: 4 Egyptian Goose, 2 Oystercatcher 1 found dead, Little Ringed Plover, Redshank, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, Little Owl, Kingfisher, 4 Sand Martin, 4 Swallow, House Martin, Fieldfare, 4 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 12+ Redwing, 6+ Tree Sparrow, 4+ Redpoll, 6+ Siskin (TyttGP tweet)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 4 Sand Martins, Green Sandpiper - Lockwood 16.00 (Lol Bodini); Hoopoe seen c1545 by 'non-local' birder (per John Cantelo/Paul Whiteman tweets)
 * Wimbledon Common: Blackcap & Chiffchaff Thatched Cottage (Les Evans-Hill)
 * Wanstead Flats: BLACK KITE SE 15:50, probable Hobby, Buzzard, 2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel, Little Owl, Yellow Wagtail, 3 Redpoll, 2 Linnet, singing Reed Bunting, 2 Little Grebe, 7 Shoveler, Pochard (Nick Croft); 2 Redwing, 4 singing Skylark, 3 singing Meadow Pipit, 5 Chiffchaff, 4 singing Blackcap (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: 5 Buzzard, up to 5 Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon, Linnet, Fieldfare still in OSW, 16 singing Blackcap, 9 singing Chiffchaff, 19 Shoveler, 8 Teal, 3 Gadwall, 3 Little Grebe (Nick Croft/Mike Messenger); 2 Swallow over OSW (Rob Sheldon)
 * Watercress LNR: 3+ Chiffchaff, 2+ Blackcap, 15+ Lesser Redpoll, 5+ Siskin (Andrew Steele via Herts BC)
 * Wormwood Scrubs: Kestrel, pr Jackdaw, 2 Chiffchaff, Linnet (Charlie Farrell tweet)

Thursday 5th April 2018

 * Alexandra Park: 4 male Blackcap, 2 Aythya hybrid Boating Lake (APOG Birders)
 * Amwell NR: incl Redshank S, Peregrine, 3 Sand Martin, Swallow (William Bishop tweet)
 * Barn Elms Playing Fields: 10 Cormorant - migrants high E, Peregrine, 2 Kestrel, 3 Sparrowhawk, Red Kite, 20 Buzzard, Grey Heron high E, 2 Meadow Pipit N, 2 Grey Wagtail SW, 10 Sand Martin, Linnet E (Rupert Kaye)
 * Barnes Thames Path: singing Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff; 2m Brimstone (Neil Anderson)
 * Beddington Farmlands: m Sedge Warbler am (BirdGuides) not Ldn foy as Walthamstow had 2 on Monday, just not on wiki MA - many thx for update, duly added below
 * Blackfriars: beach - 2 Great Black-backed Gulls, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 1 Herring Gull, 4 Common Gulls [all adults] (D Bates)
 * Brent Reservoir: Green Sandpiper, Common Snipe, Little Egret, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, Common Buzzard, 2 Sparrowhawk, 49 Common Gull, 3 Cetti’s Warbler, Grey Wagtail, Linnet N; also Comma, Small Tortoiseshell and 5 Brimstone (Andrew Haynes, Magnus Andersson)
 * Brockwell Park: singing Chiffchaffs, 5 Greenfinch, 2 Jackdaw, 1 Song Thrush (Charlie Kitchen & Paul Collins); Swallow, Blackcap, House Sparrows in walled garden (Michael Mac)
 * Brookmill Park: Sparrowhawk, Stock Dove, Kingfisher, Song Thrush, Blackcap, Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
 * Buckland: Hobby [Ldn foy] through Park Pit 1210, also Common Sandpiper, Raven, 3 Sand Martin, Swallow, House Martin, Blackcap; 14 Buzzard over Box Hill ridge to north & east (Wes Attridge tweet)
 * Cassiobury Park: no sign of Mandarins, Treecreeper, 4-5 Chiffchaff around marsh, Blackcap, 2 Bullfinch (Ralph Darvill tweet)
 * Clerkenwell: 2 Buzzard over (Will Rose tweet)
 * Dartford Marshes: Water Pipit (BirdGuides)
 * Dollis Brook: BBS square highlights incl 4 Meadow Pipit N 07:05, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Blackcap, singing Chiffchaff, 3 Coal Tit, Pied Wagtail, 10 Stock Dove; also 2 Brimstone (Samuel Levy & Joan Arnold)
 * Dulwich Park: singing Blackcap, 2 singing Chiffchaffs, 2 Jackdaw, 5 Shovelers 3m 2f; also Small Tortoiseshell butterfly (Paul Collins & Charlie Kitchen)
 * Finchley: gdn N3 - 4m Blackcap, 5 Stock Dove, f Peregrine circling 10:45-10:50 then E, f Sparrowhawk (Samuel Levy)
 * Finchley Central: 2 Redwing over Dollis Park Rd 06:50 (Samuel Levy)
 * Foots Cray Meadows: f Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 4 Skylark (Donna Zimmer tweet)
 * Fortune Street Park: singing Chiffchaff (Tom Smith)
 * Frays Farm Meadows: Sparrowhawk, 5 Buzzard, 2 Kingfisher, Kestrel (Dilshan Muthalib tweet)
 * Gallions Reach: 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Curlew, 2 Redshank, 10+ Common Tern, 2 Arctic Tern, Chiffchaff am (Gary James via EBwS BN)
 * Greenwich Ecology Park: Egyptian Goose, pr Little Grebe, Buzzard S 1100, juv Iceland Gull high over [Twitter pic of SH's Beckton Creekside bird of 25 Mar w/ missing 7th primary on L wing], 3 Sand Martin, m Willow Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap 2m f, 5 Linnet O2 (Richard Green tweets)
 * Hampstead Heath: Red Kite circling over Parliament Hill am, also Common Buzzard SW, now up to 4 singing Blackcaps around south Heath and 3 Chiffchaffs (Pete Mantle)
 * Hyde Park: Peregrine over serpentine diving SW 8.00am, Chiffchaff calling on serpentine island 7.00 onwards (Malachi Yarker)
 * Ingrebourne Valley: Buzzard, Water Rail, Willow Warbler, 12 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap, Redwing, Bullfinch (Martin Jordan per ELBF FB)
 * Kew Gardens: 2 Sparrowhawks, 1 Golden Pheasant 10:30-11:30 (Toni Piccolo)
 * KGV Reservoir: Arctic Tern, Swallow, 3 Blackcap (Neville Smith); still feeding on S Basin - 9 Goldeneye 3m, 3 Goosander m 2f, 2 Sand Martin, pr Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 2 singing Chiffchaff 1.15pm (Davey Leach)
 * KGVI Res: Osprey high N over KGV1/Staines Res 1020 fr Wraysbury GPs, 4 Red Kite, 16+ Buzzard (Roger Morton tweet)
 * Kingston: 2 Red Kite circling each other courting I guess over North Kingston heading towards Teddington Lock at 1815 (Mike Foster)
 * Lamorbey Park: 5 Tufted Duck, Sparrowhawk, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Stock Dove, 2-3 m Blackcap, 1 singing Chiffchaff, 3+ Goldcrest, Nuthatch, 2 Coal Tit, House Sparrow, Goldfinch (Mike Amos); no sign of Willow Warbler by 18.02 but Greylag Goose, Green Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, pr Jackdaw on school fields (Mike Amos)
 * Leatherhead: Randalls Way - 6 Common Buzzard 2 circling very high to northeast & another 4 circling to northwest; 1 Brimstone butterfly on the wing (Neil Batten)
 * Little Woodcote: Black Redstart in paddock by no5 oaks track (Ian Jones tweet)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Jack Snipe, 6 Common Snipe, 17 Buzzard mostly N/NW, 2 Kestrel, 3 Sparrowhawk, 2 Swallow, 16 Sand Martin, 2 Blackcap, 3 Pintail (Oscar Dewhurst, Simon Fogg); 5m Blackcap southern route/sheltered lagoon; Red Kite NW am, 12 Chiffchaff, 9 Blackcap (WWT website); 1 Yellow-bellied Slider on wader scrape (Martin Honey); 4+ male Brimstone and 1 Small Tortoiseshell seen (OD/SF/MH). Sand_Martin nest-bank now closed till 3 May (WWT Ldn tweet)
 * London Zoo: 1 Blackcap singing; also Brimstone, Comma and a Pipistrelle bat flying around Regents Canal in the sunshine (Sam Jones)
 * Orsett Fen: 3 Buzzard, Barn Owl 4 Kestrel, 16 Skylark, 2 House Martin, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, Redwing, 5 Fieldfare, 6 House Sparrow, 5 Reed Bunting, 19 Chaffinch, 15 Yellowhammer (Alan Shearman per ELBF FB)
 * Oxleas Wood: 5 Nuthatch, 3 Treecreeper, 2 Sparrowhawk, 3m Blackcap, 3 Green Woodpecker, 4 Jackdaw, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Stock Dove, 2 Kestrel f m, 2 Song Thrush, 4 Chiffchaff, Pied Wagtail, 2 Common Buzzard pr, ???Garden Warbler??? Very Early?, Goldcrest, Coal Tit, Chaffinch (Ron Turner)
 * Pinner: [HA5] f Sparrowhawk flying into bush after prey (Nigel Barratt)
 * Ponders End Lake: ad Kittiwake on lake 1230, plus 2 Common Tern (Neville Smith); Kw still 1630 (Connor Rand tweet)
 * Rainham RSPB: Great Egret still target pools am, Short-eared Owl fr serin_mound, Sedge Warbler am (BirdGuides); also 12 Common Tern, 2 Arctic Tern, m Corn Bunting (Howard Vaughan via ELBF FB); 6 Little Egret, 7 Marsh Harrier 4f3m, 12 Buzzard, 7 Ruff, Spotted Redshank, 2 Short-eared Owl, 4 Mediterranean Gull 3 ad & 2s, 2m Blackcap (per ELBF FB)
 * Rammey Marsh: 4 Buzzards in a courtship display along trees and watercourse, 2 singing Blackcaps and 4+ Chiffchaffs (Brian Dawton)
 * Ravenor Park: displaying Sparrowhawk (Neil Anderson)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon-Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Richmond Park: 1 Black Redstart cattle enclosure, 1 Fieldfare, 2 Stonechat (Hugh Bradshaw); 5 Sparrowhawk, 11 Red Kite mostly SE, 19+ Buzzard mostly NW incl 6 local birds, m Shoveler, 12 Pochard, 2 Red-crested Pochard pr, 3 Swallow, Sand Martin, 5 Stonechat (J.Wilczur, B.Marsh, P.Pentek, P.Redmond)
 * Ruislip Woods: 26+ Hawfinch 6+ in Fore St/Salisbury Rd area 07:30 & 20+ north of 'The Waters Meet' c/p 08:00 (Richard Francis)
 * St James's Park: Common Buzzard drifted N from c14:30, singing Blackcap; Brimstone (Frank Nugent)
 * Sevenoaks WR: 2 Little Ringed Plover fr tyler hide pm, also 2 Egyptian Goose, Treecreeper, 3 Chiffchaff, Blackcap (Jack Headley tweet)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: Osprey circled then N 0925 (Neville Smith)
 * Shrewsbury Park: 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Nuthatch, Kestrel, 2 Jay, 2 Song Thrush, Green Woodpecker, Grey Heron W, Cormorant S, Tawny Owl h (Tim Rymer)
 * Springwell Lake: pr Goldeneye (Chris Sharp tweet)
 * Staines Reservoirs: 1 Yellow Wagtail [Ldn foy] early am, no sign of Manx Shearwater early am (Bob Warden per FJM); also 2 Black-necked Grebe still, Little Ringed Plover, Curlew, AMERICAN HORNED LARK still (Dom Pia tweet)
 * Stocker's Lake: 10 Little Egret (Geoff Lapworth via Herts BC)
 * Sutcliffe Park: Common Snipe, Song Thrush, Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: 17 Gadwall, 12 Shelduck, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Wheatear, 1 Reed Bunting, 8 Greylag Goose, 2 Marsh Harrier, 4 Buzzard, 1 Mediterranean Gull over, 1 Water Rail, 2 Kestrel, 3 Skylark, 9 Teal, 2 Canada Goose, 5 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Oystercatcher, 12 Turnstone, 1 Common Sandpiper, 26 Redshank; 4 Brimstone, 1 Peacock & 1 Small Tortoiseshell butterfly 9.00-12.30 (Roger Keith)
 * Sydenham Hill Wood: Willow Warbler (Dave Clark per SHW tweet)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: Woodcock flushed from 'owl'_field, Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, 9 Teal, 2 Egyptian Goose, 8 Rook, 9 singing Chiffchaff, 1 singing Blackcap, Treecreeper singing, pair Bullfinch and still 5 Common Gull [usually gone by now]; also Weasel (John Colmans); also 1 Raven, 1 Garganey, 1 Wheatear, 1 Red-legged Partridge, 2 Eygptian Goose, 2 Common Buzzard mating in big Oak tree Folly Farm; 3 Comma, 1 Small Tortoiseshell (Tony Clancy)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: singing Blackcap and Chiffchaff; 4 Brimstone (Bob Watts)
 * Trent Park: 3 Mandarin Duck 2m f, 4 Eurasian Teal 2m 2f upper lake, 4 Tufted Duck 3m f, 3 Common Buzzard, 2 m Kestrel, 8 Stock Dove, 2 Green Woodpecker, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 singing Blackcap, 9 singing Chiffchaff, 4 Coal Tit, 7 Nuthatch 5m 2f, Treecreeper singing; 2 Red Admiral, 3 Comma, Peacock, f Brimstone (Robert Callf); also 5 Common Buzzard, leucistic Grey Heron, Goldfinch (Pete Lowman)
 * Tufnell Park: [N7] 5 Jay and 3 Magpie chasing each other around on Huddleston Rd 9:00 (Reuben Braddock)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs and Willows Farm: 5+ Sand Martin main pit, 2 Swallow & Willow Warbler tytt fm, 3 Yellow Wagtail over willows fm (Rupert Evershed tweet); also Oystercatcher, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, Little Owl, 5+ Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, Redwing (TyttGP tweet)
 * Victoria Park: 2 singing Willow Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff 2 singing, 2m Blackcap, m Red-crested Pochard, 25+ Tufted Duck, 3 Gadwall, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 5 Mistle Thrush, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goldcrest, Egyptian Goose pair w/ 5 goslings (Jan Dobbie)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING still, 2 Common Terns, House Martin, Goosander, Willow Warbler, 7 Blackcaps, Green Sandpiper, 8 Buzzards (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Wanstead Flats: Redstart sp [not a Ldn foy that's still up for grabs. Really couldn't say which species it was as I was distracted by a second bird that turned out to be nothing more exciting than a Dunnock - NC] flew from Long Wd to Brooms c1125 (Wanstead Birders tweet); 5 Snipe, Fieldfare, Redpoll, Linnet, Reed Bunting, 7 Blackcap 5m 2f, 5 Chiffchaff, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Sand Martin, 7 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, Pochard, Little Grebe, 6 Meadow Pipit, 5 Skylark (Wanstead Birders)
 * Waterworks NR: 1-2 Reed Warbler [Ldn foy] (per Paul Whiteman)
 * Wick Woodland: pm walk in rare sunshine no birds of note but 3 Comma, 2 Brimstone, 2 Peacock and 2 Small Tortoiseshell (Harry Harrison)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 2 Shelduck, 2 Snipe, Peregrine, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 4 Reed Bunting (Chris Farthing)
 * Woodoaks Farm: m Wheatear still on rubble pile (Chris Sharp tweet)
 * Wormwood Scrubs: 1m Ring Ouzel in grasslands, pr Kestrel displaying, 1 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff (Charlie Farrell)

Wednesday 4th April 2018

 * Alexandra Park: m Blackcap, m Chiffchaff, Greylag, 3 Great Crested Grebe Wood Green Res 2 fighting (Bob Watts)
 * Amwell NR: Osprey w/ damaged primary on R wing fishing Great Hardmead L fr viewpt 1910-1925 then S (Phil Ball & Ron Cousins via Twitter)
 * Barn Elms Playing Fields: pr Egyptian Goose with one downy young, Herring Gull x Lesser Black-backed Gull hybrid 4cy, m Wheatear (Rupert Kaye)
 * Beckton Sewage Works: 3 Buzzard, 2 Oystercatcher, Curlew, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 4 Common Tern, Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff (Dave Morrison tweet)
 * Brent Reservoir: Little Egret, Grey Heron standing on a nest for an hour - strange - they have attempted but not bred yet, drake Shoveler, singles of Common Snipe, Lapwing, Green Sandpiper, m Kestrel, 3 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 3 Cetti's Warbler, Nuthatch (Andrew Verrall)
 * Brookmill Park: Sparrowhawk, Song Thrush, Blackcap (Conrad Ellam)
 * Dagenham Chase: Shelduck, Red Kite, 5 Sand Martin, 2 Swallow, 3 Fieldfare, 3 Redwing (DC website)
 * Finchley: gdn N3 - 2m Blackcap incl 1 singing, 5 Stock Dove (Samuel Levy)
 * Hampstead Heath: 4 Redpolls N then S 0900, Rook S, 2 Woodpigeons N, both Blackcap and Chiffchaff h singing from Parliament Hill (Pete Mantle)
 * Heathrow: Willow Warbler (Adam Cheeseman); Little Owl back of Polar Park calling 2am (Wendy Marks)
 * Heston: area - Buzzard low over M4 betw Osterley & Heston (Neil Anderson)
 * Holyfield Hall Farm: 1 Pink-footed Goose in stubble field w of Fm, 4 Egyptian Geese, 2 Red-legged Partridge, Peregrine, Kestrel 5pm (Davey Leach)
 * Home Park: 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Little Owl, 1 Blackcap, 2 Shelduck sw, 3 Stock Dove (John Herbert) Where was the Little Owl, John? [Mat Hare] hi mat it was on the northern edge of the wall pond in an oak
 * Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens: 2 Redwing, 5 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 3 Treecreeper (N P Senior)
 * KGV Reservoir: Smew, Arctic Tern, House Martin, 5 Sand Martin, 2 Wheatear (Neville Smith)
 * Ladywell Fields: Mandarin, Stock Dove, Song Thrush, Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
 * Little Britain Lake: 2 well-grown Grey Heron chicks in heronry, pair Mandarin, pair Grey Wagtail, 1 Common Tern, several Coot nests [1 young], 1 Great Crested Grebe (Roger Dewey)
 * London Wetland Centre: 4 Pintail, 3 Snipe, 5 Redshank, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 7 Sand Martin, Swallow (WWT website); 3 Blackcap 2m f, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Jack Snipe (Martin Honey et al.)
 * London Zoo: f Peregrine 1330 (Sam Jones)
 * Mayesbrook Park: Great Crested Grebe, 1 Stock Dove, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Blackcap (G. Harding)
 * Pinner (The Croft): Red Kite circling low over park and neighbouring gardens 1pm (Nigel Barratt)
 * Rainham RSPB: 24 Brent Goose flew downriver 08:30, 4 singing Chiffchaff, 111 Shelduck, 45 Teal, 20 Gadwall, 2 Oystercatcher, Avocet, 5 Marsh Harrier 3m 2f, 8 Cetti's Warbler, 27 Tufted Duck, 232 Wigeon, 10 Little Grebe, 9 Black-tailed Godwit, 7 Little Egret, 149 Shoveler, Great Egret still, 24+ Skylark, 3 Peregrine 2f m, 6 Common Tern, Sandwich Tern, 20 Pochard, 7 Pintail, Dunlin, Spotted Redshank, 2 Sand Martin, 2 Kestrel, 3 Pied Wagtail, Barn Owl, Whimbrel, singing Blackcap, 5 Common Snipe, 10 Stock Dove, 7 Jackdaw, 5 Rook (Samuel Levy et al)
 * Richmond Park: singing Chiffchaff and Skylark, Fieldfare, 2 Redwing, 3 Buzzard, 4 Wigeon, 3 Shoveler, 20 Lesser Redpoll, 5 Greylag, 2 well-grown Grey Heron chicks old enough to be left in nest between parental feeding trips (P Pentek)
 * Ruxley: Honeydale Farm DQ14 - pr Red-legged Partridge, singing Skylark, 3 Buzzard (Ian Stewart)
 * Sevenoaks WR: 4 Little Ringed Plover, Common Tern (James King per Mathew Bournat); 4 Little Ringed Plover, Common Tern, Swallow, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 9 Redwing (per Susanna Clerici via Kent OS)
 * Shrewsbury Park: 4 Chiffchaff, Kestrel, Nuthatch, 2 Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goldcrest, 2 Jay, 2 Song Thrush (Tim Rymer)
 * Shooters Hill: GC - Peregrine w/ Ring-necked Parakeet kill fr Shrewsbury Pk 06:30 (Tim Rymer)
 * Staines Reservoir: v distant MANX SHEARWATER on s basin till 1945 at least [found by Ken Purdey], 2 Sandwich Tern over n basin (Dom Pia tweet)
 * Swaines Green: Red Kite, Common Gull, 2 Skylark, Chiffchaff, 16 House Sparrow, Bullfinch, 2 Linnet (Roger Emmens via EBwS BN)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: 2m Goldcrest, Chiffchaff (Bob Watts)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: tytt fm - Grey Partridge chasing Red-legged Partridge in bean field Coursers Rd side 0900, Willow Warbler (TyttGP tweets)
 * Vanbrugh Pits, Blackheath: singing Chiffchaff, Song Thrush (Mike Paice)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING still around seed tray am, 2 singing Blackcaps, 6 Red-crested Pochard on No1, Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, Sand Martin (Walthamstow Birders); single Swallow over No4 13:20 (Callum Farrell-Morris)
 * Wanstead Flats: 3 Ring Ouzel c08:00 not afterwards, 8+ Meadow Pipit, 4 singing Skylark, 2 singing Blackcap, 3 singing Chiffchaff, 40+ Herring Gull, Common Gull, 2 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, 2 Little Grebe (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: 7+ singing Blackcap, 8 Chiffchaff, singing Goldcrest, 4 Coal Tit, 2 Nuthatch, 20+ Stock Dove, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 19 Shoveler, 17 Teal, 3 Gadwall, Pochard, 6 Little Grebe, 1-2 Fieldfare (Nick Croft)
 * West Finchley: Stn - 3 Cormorant over 07:05 (Samuel Levy)

Tuesday 3rd April 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Wheatear playing fields, 3m Chiffchaff, Litthe Grebe Wood Green Res (APOG Birders)
 * Amwell NR: 3 Red-breasted Merganser 2m f Gt Hardmead L fr viewpt briefly 0730-0740 (Barry Reed tweets); Osprey N 1820 (William Bishop tweet)
 * Boston Manor Park: Kingfisher at pond (Michael Robinson)
 * Brent Reservoir: fem Sparrowhawk, m Kestrel, 3 Little Ringed Plover flew in & fed on mud 13.17, 2 Black-headed Gull, Yellow-legged Gull 3cy, Great Black-backed Gull 2cy, Swallow N [Brent foy], 5 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 3 Cetti's Warbler, m Reed Bunting (Magnus Andersson, Andrew Verrall)
 * Brockley Nature Reserve: Chiffchaff singing (Keith Chambers)
 * Brookmill Park: 2 Kingfisher, singing Blackcap, singing Goldcrest; melanic Brown Rat (Mike Paice)
 * Canons Farm: 4 Red Kite, 2 Chiffchaff, 4 Fieldfare, 2 Brambling, 80 Linnet, 8 Yellowhammer (Steve Gale tweet)
 * Dagenham Chase: 25 Wigeon, m Pochard, Water Rail, 2 Kestrel, Peregrine, 4 Jackdaw, 11 Sand Martin, Swallow, 4 Blackcap, House Sparrow, Bullfinch (DC website)
 * Finchley: gdn N3 - m Blackcap (Samuel Levy)
 * Gallions Reach: m Black Redstart (Kevin J McManus)
 * Greenwich Ecology Park: 2 Sand Martin, singing Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
 * Gunpowder Park: Raven 13:20 battling Common Buzzard above Avey Ln area (Neville Smith)
 * Highgate Woods: Hawfinch in group of 4 finch sp. in oak canopy 12.15 (Jo Edwards)
 * Hilly Fields: Singing Blackcap (Conrad Ellam)
 * Island Barn Resevoir: 2 Wheatear and 2 Swallow (Chris Turner)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Shelduck, 4 Pintail, 3 Jack Snipe, 7 Snipe, 5 Redshank, 6 Sand Martin, Willow Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap (WWT website); 5 Chiffchaff, 9 Sand Martin, 1 Swallow, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 1 'Commic' Tern [probably Common but very distant across main lake] (Martin Honey et al.)
 * Queen Mother Reservoir: Curlew on gravel works to east side 0630-0930 then N, also Oystercatcher over (Andy Tomczynski via Berks BN); ad Greenshank [Ldn fos] on north bank then SSE 0755 (Derek Barker via Berks BN)
 * Rainham RSPB: Great Egret still, Spotted Redshank, Sandwich Tern, 3 Common Tern, Arctic Tern [Ldn foy], 4 Sand Martin (Howard Vaughan tweets); 2 Wheatear, Swallow, 7 Ruff, 3 Marsh Harrier, 2 Common Buzzard (James Hudson)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon-Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Richmond Park: m Wheatear (M.Lewis)
 * Ruislip Woods: 5+ Hawfinch close to bridle path heading north from Fore St/Salisbury Rd entrance 10:00 (Richard Francis)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: fr gadwall_hide - 2 Shelduck, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Green Sandpiper, Redshank; also Oystercatcher, 2 Snipe over, 2 Blackcap singing, f Wheatear on meadow 1000 (Allan Meadows via Herts BC)
 * St James's Park: 2 singing Blackcap (Frank Nugent)
 * Sevenoaks WR: Common Tern east lake, Lesser Redpoll, Redwing, 20 Siskin (per Susanna Clerici via Kent OS)
 * Seventy Acres Lake: 2 Egyptian Goose, 20+ Shoveler, 6+ Pochard, Peregrine Falcon, 1-2 Swallow, 4+ singing Chiffchaff, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 4+ Reed Bunting (Simon Papps)
 * Shrewsbury Park: Chiffchaff, Nuthatch, 2 Kestrel, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 2 Song Thrush (Tim Rymer)
 * South Lodge Farm: 111+ Woodpigeon, f Northern Wheatear (Robert Callf)
 * Stave Hill: 1 Willow Warbler (Richard Page-Jones)
 * Stocker's Lake: Osprey circling lake 1320 (Herts BN); later flew E along R Colne (Lee Evans tweet)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 2 Egyptian Geese, 3 Mandarin Duck, 12 Teal, 2 Pheasant, Sparrowhawk, 6 Common Buzzard, 28 Black-headed Gull, 18 Stock Dove, Kestrel, 22 Rook, House Martin hawking insects over Cricket Pavilion, 6 singing Chiffchaff, f Blackcap, 113 Starling, 4 Pied Wagtail, Meadow Pipit, 9+ Hawfinch 4 Darlands & 5+ path to Laurel Pond, Bullfinch, Linnet (Samuel Levy)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: Blackcap male singing near entrance am, also Goldcrest singing Sanctuary Wd pm (Bob Watts)
 * Trent Park: Little Grebe lower lake, 2 Grey Heron incl leucistic bird, 5 Mandarin Duck 4m f, 2 Eurasian Teal m f upper lake, 8 Tufted Duck 5m 3f lower lake, Chiffchaff, 3m Nuthatch, Treecreeper, 6 Chaffinch (Robert Callf)
 * Troy Mill Lake: 2 Swallow straight through heading north this afternoon (John Edwards)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 5 Red-crested Pochard, Green Sandpiper, 6 Sand Martin, 2 Wheatear, LITTLE BUNTING still (David Bradshaw tweet); Lockwood pm - pr Goldeneye, 2 Swallow S 17.50 & 18.45 (Lol Bodini)
 * Wanstead Flats: f Ring Ouzel late am [2nd earliest record], Redwing, 7 Song Thrush, Swallow, 4-5 singing Chiffchaff, Siskin, 4 Linnet, 20+ Greenfinch, Reed Bunting, Peregrine Falcon, Kestrel, 2-3 Sparrowhawk, Little Owl, 10+ Meadow Pipit [up to 5 singing birds], 9 Skylark, 6 Shoveler, 2 Pochard, Little Grebe, 30 Herring Gull, 7 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Black-headed Gull, Common Gull all appearing to have moved on over the weekend (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: 5 singing Chiffchaff, singing Blackcap, 2 Coal Tit, Shoveler, Little Grebe, 2-3 Sparrowhawk, Kestrel (Nick Croft)
 * William Girling Reservoir: relief channel - Red-legged Partridge, 3 Pheasant, 4 Little Egret, 2 Sand Martin, 2 Grey Wagtail, 4 Greenfinch (Barry Jones per ELBF FB)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 2 Water Rail, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, 8 Shoveler, 3 Lesser Redpoll, Reed Bunting (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)

Monday 2nd April 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Red Kite drifting E 17.15 (Brian Milligan)
 * Brent Reservoir: Egyptian Goose, 60+ Tufted Duck, 15 Pochard, 5 Common Snipe, Peregrine, Kingfisher, 3 Sand Martin, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting m f (Roy Beddard); pr Coal Tits from garden conifers came to tree by muddy path to hide (A. Verrall)
 * Brookmill Park: singing Blackcap, singing Willow Warbler (Conrad Ellam)
 * Bushy Park: 4+ Chiffchaff, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, 4 Song Thrush (Ian R Watson)
 * Canons Farm: f Merlin (Roy Weller per KJM)
 * Coopers Green GPs: Stanborough GP - Little Ringed Plover, 5 Green Sandpiper, m Wheatear (Steven Pearce via Herts BC)
 * Crayford Marshes: Common Buzzard, 2 Chiffchaff, Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Oystercatcher, 4 Cetti's Warbler, Little Egret, 38 Redshank, 28 Wigeon, 40 Teal (Kev Jarvis)
 * Eltham Park North: singing Blackcap, Stock Dove, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker (Tim Rymer)
 * Ewell: 4 Swallow se over dw fitness 12.55, also 1 Common Buzzard (Neil Batten)
 * Finchley: gdn N3 - m Blackcap (Samuel Levy)
 * Greenford: [UB6] m Blackcap in front garden trying to get on feeders (Neil Anderson)
 * Hilfield Park Reservoir: Avocet in centre of res and still there at 15.45, m Commom Scoter 2cy still (Tony Blake); 1 Swallow, 13 Sand Martin (Lee Evans tweet) AV's post combined w/ TB's
 * Kentish Town: [NW5] Peregrine E 18:10 (Frank Nugent)
 * KGV Res: 3 Wheatear, 2 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 12 Sand Martin, 2 Green Sandpiper, m Smew, 7 Goosander, 10+ Goldeneye (Andrew Middleton)
 * Leyton: [E15] Hawfinch Drapers Field 0930 (Stephen Harris tweet)
 * London Wetland Centre: Little Ringed Plover, 5 Redshank, 3 Siskin, 3 Jack Snipe, 6 Snipe, 2 Shelduck, 2 Pintail, Swallow, Willow Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap (WWT website); 6 Jack Snipe, 5 Sand Martin, f Goldeneye (Oscar Dewhurst)
 * Mad Bess Wood: 2 Hawfinch m f 13.00 feeding in leaf litter just north of Hillingdon Trail betew c/p & trail. Showed extremely well for 5 mins. (Matthew J. Bradbury)
 * Northaw Great Wood: 4 Marsh Tit, c6 Brambling, c7 Hawfinch (per Herts BC)
 * Oxleas Woods: Treecreeper, 3 Chiffchaff, 7 Goldcrest, Kestrel, 3 Nuthatch, 3 Stock Dove, 6 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 7 Jay, Song Thrush, Cormorant S (Tim Rymer)
 * Rainham RSPB: Great White Egret, Ruff, Barn Owl (Bob Husband & NW London RSPB Grp); also 6 Little Egret, 4 Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, Avocet, 3 Curlew, 2 Grey Plover, 2 Ringed Plover, 7 Ruff, 103 Black-tailed Godwit, Peregrine, Wheatear (Howard Vaughan, Andy Tweed, Alan Shearman per ELBF FB)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon-Sat. Park only in visitors parking bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Sevenoaks WR: Sand Martin, 3 Swallow, Willow Warbler, 6 Lesser Redpoll, 12 Siskin (Barry Wright tweet); Egyptian Goose, Shelduck, Blackcap (Mathew Bournat tweet); also Shelduck, 10 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall, 8 Wigeon, 20 Teal, 11 Pochard, 4 Grey Heron [3 nests occupied], 16 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Sparrowhawk m f, 2 Buzzard, 9 Lapwing, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Snipe, Redshank, 26 Common Gull, Coal Tit, 6 Sand Martin, 2 Swallow, 5 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 8 Redwing, Grey Wagtail (per Susanna Clerici via Kent OS)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: Curlew 10:00, Wheatear, Treecreeper singing 15:50, m Pintail 18:00 (Neville Smith)
 * Shrewsbury Park: Chiffchaff, Nuthatch, Kestrel, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Tim Rymer)
 * Staines Moor: Red Kite, Chiffchaff (Jon Agar)
 * Staines Reservoir: AMERICAN HORNED LARK, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Meadow Pipit, 2 Shelduck (Shailesh Patel); 2 Black-necked Grebe, 3 Little Ringed Plover, White Wagtail (Dom Pia tweet) Please note suspicious behaviour at Staines Res Sunday PM, I and another birder were approached by two fairly well dressed lads 15 to 17 years old who asked us to "tie their shoelaces for them, as they couldn't do it themselves". A little unnerving but not threatening, refused and they left. Not sure if it was an attempted mugging or a happy slapping type prank but be warned. [Gordon Shaw] Updated please contact Surrey Police and try to get a photo if you see them.
 * Stanstead Abbotts Lakes - N lake: 2 Swallow (Jane Free via Herts BC)
 * Tooting: 1 Swallow (D.Peers)
 * Totteridge Valley: 10 Hawfinch, 1 Lapwing, 4 Pheasant, 1 Chiffchaff. High water levels in Valley very muddy. (T.Clancy, B.Dawton, G. Crabtree)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs and Willows Farm: fishing lake - Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Sand Martin, 2 Swallow; willows fm - Barnacle Goose, 5 Egyptian Goose (per Herts BN); [pm] main gp - Little Ringed Plover, 3+ Snipe, 10+ Sand Martin, Chiffchaff, 20+ Fieldfare; fishing lake - Oystercatcher (Rupert Evershed tweet)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING still, Osprey N then W c08.50, 4 Wheatear, Rock Pipit, Little Ringed Plover, 3 Green Sandpipers, 5 Red-crested Pochard 4m f (Paul Whiteman/Stuart Fisher/David Bradshaw), first Sedge Warblers were at Waterworks not the reservoirs so moved below
 * Wandsworth Common: Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 2 singing Chiffchaff, 3 Siskin, Jackdaw, Greenfinch, 12 Shoveler (Nick Rutter)
 * Wanstead: m Blackcap singing in gdn Nightingale_Lane c7.59 (Geoff Gram)
 * Waterworks NR: 2 Sedge Warbler [Ldn foy] (per Magnus Andersson)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 2 Jack Snipe, Water Rail, 3 Lesser Redpoll (Tony Butler)

Sunday 1st April 2018

 * Addlestone: Osprey at quarry then N 0945 (BirdGuides)
 * Alexandra Park: 10 Linnet filter beds, pair Eurasian Teal Wood Green Res, m Blackcap, 2m Chiffchaff (APOG Birders)
 * Beckton Creekside NR: 25 Redshank, singing Willow Warbler, 8 Chiffchaff, Grey Wagtail (Shaun Harvey tweet)
 * Bramblehall Wood: 200 Hawfinch still (Steve Gale tweet)
 * Brent Reservoir: 8 Common Snipe, Red Kite, Peregrine, 4 Cetti's Warbler, pr Reed Bunting (Roy Beddard, Andrew Verrall, Magnus Andersson); 2m Nuthatch 1 in churchyard responding to 2nd bird further away (Francis O'Sullivan)
 * Brookmill Park: Little Egret, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush, singing Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
 * Bushy Park: Chiffchaff, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker (Ian R Watson)
 * Canons Park: Firecrest 12.15 & 13.25 Canons Dr end of The Spinney, Treecreeper, Nuthatch pr building mud nest hole (Bob Husband & NW London RSPB Grp)
 * Collier Row: Green Woodpecker 'yaffling' from tree 8:30 (G J Francis)
 * Colney Heath: Yellowhammer in fields by Roestock (Steven Pearce via Herts BC) TL207060
 * Copped Hall: 2 Red Kite, 7 Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 15 Skylark, 14 Linnet, 28 Yellowhammer, 5 Fieldfare, 2 Green Woodpecker; 5 Hares (Chris Baldwin)
 * Crayford Marshes: 2 Wheatear, Common Buzzard, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Curlew, 2 Oystercatcher, 5 Dunlin, Mediterranean Gull, 8 Skylark, 6 Meadow Pipit, 33 Wigeon, 6 Gadwall, 30 Teal (Kev Jarvis); Great to see you Kev. All I can add of note - 2 Snipe, Little Owl and m Reed Bunting (Ralph Todd)
 * Dagenham Chase: Green Sandpiper, Peregrine (DC website)
 * Fairlop Waters: south workings 1 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Common Snipe, 2 Lapwing, 1 Reed Bunting, 25 Teal, 2 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, Little Grebe (Steve Bacon)
 * Finchley: gdn N3 - Tawny Owl calling 21:35 (Samuel Levy)
 * Greenwich Ecology Park: Little Grebe, Kestrel, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Reed Bunting (John Bushell, Conrad Ellam & Richard Green)
 * Hampstead Heath: Wheatear m on running track, 6 Siskins E (Pete Mantle)
 * Hilfield Park Reservoir: m Common Scoter 2cy still, Goldeneye, 2 Sand Martin (Tony Blake via Herts BC)
 * Holyfield Park Farm: Pink-footed Goose still in field east of farm (Lol Cumming tweet)
 * Isle of Dogs: Yellow-legged Gull 3cy Thames shore at Saunders Ness (Sean Huggins)
 * Juniper Bottom: 8 Hawfinch (Steve Gale tweet)
 * Lodge Hill: 17 Hawfinch (Steve Gale tweet)
 * London Wetland Centre: m Wheatear, 2 Shelduck, 2 Pintail, 3 Jack Snipe, 5 Snipe, 5 Redshank, 3 Chiffchaff, Water Pipit & Rock Pipit wader scrape, 3 Siskin (WWT website); 6 Jack Snipe, 7 Common Snipe, Willow Warbler, Meadow Pipit on marsh, 3 Blackcap (Oscar Dewhurst)
 * Mad Bess Wood: 20+ Hawfinch in middle of site 09:40 (Richard Francis)
 * Mardyke, Stifford-Aveley; incl f Red-crested Pochard, 40 Gadwall, 59 Teal, 2 Buzzard, Water Rail, 55 Black-headed Gull, Kingfisher, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Treecreeper, 55 Redwing, Grey Wagtail, 3 Lesser Redpoll, Siskin, Reed Bunting (Alan Shearman per ELBF FB)
 * Mickleham Downs: 1 Hawfinch (Steve Gale tweet)
 * Mile End: Antill Rd E3 - f Sparrowhawk predates Starling in back gdn (Harry Harrison)
 * Morden Hall Park: Kingfisher, 4 Grey Wagtail, Little Egret, 2 Sparrowhawk in display flight, Kestrel, Peregrine, 3+ Chiffchaff (MHP Nature Grp)
 * Newton Park West: Grey Wagtail, Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Tim Rymer)
 * Oxleas Wood:7Nuthatch,4Treecreeper,3Chiffchaff,5Stockdove,5Jackdaw,6Greatspottedwoodpecker 2CommonBuzzard(pr),7Goldcrest,2Kestrel(fm),Coaltit,2Greenwoodpecker,3Goldfinch,2Mallard(pr) Sparrowhawke(fm),(Ron Turner)
 * Oxleas Wood: 7 Nuthatch, 4 Treecreeper, 3 Chiffchaff, 5 Stock Dove, 5 Jackdaw, 6 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Common Buzzard (pr), 7 Goldcrest, 2 Kestrel (from), Coal Tit, 2 Green Woodpecker, 3 Goldfinch, 2 Mallard (pr), Sparrowhawk (fm) (Ron Turner) Is this what you meant, Ron?
 * Pimlico Gardens: Caspian Gull 3cy late aft (N P Senior)
 * Priest Hill: singing Blackcap, 3 Meadow Pipit (Neil Batten)
 * Purfleet: 12 Shelduck, 18 Gadwall, 72 Wigeon, 23 Teal, ad m Marsh Harrier, Avocet, 6 Oystercatcher, 2 Curlew, 42 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Snipe, ad Kittiwake, Yellow-legged Gull, 23 Fieldfare, Stonechat, m Wheatear (Fraser Simpson tweet)
 * Pymmes Park: 2 Nuthatch (Andrew Middleton)
 * Rainham RSPB: 400 Wigeon, 32 Pintail, Great Egret aveley marsh still, 6 Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, 6 Marsh Harrier 3m 3f, 2 Buzzard, m Wheatear, Avocet, 2 Oystercatcher, Little Ringed Plover, 6 Curlew, 50 Black-tailed Godwit, 12 Ruff, Jack Snipe, 19 Snipe, 9 Dunlin, Barn Owl, Short-eared Owl, 2 Kestrel, f Peregrine, 6 Bearded Tit, 3m Chiffchaff, Water Pipit (per ELBF FB)
 * Raynes Park: gdn - Grey Heron E at 1515 - 3rd in 2 days quite unusual for Coombe Ln (Paula Redmond)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. No parking charges on bank holidays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Richmond Hill: 3 Red Kite and 1 Buzzard in thermals (Hugh Bradshaw)
 * Richmond Park: m Wheatear (H.Bradshaw); 2m Skylark, 17 Meadow Pipit, 2 Stonechat, 32 Redwing, no sign of yesterday's Redpoll flock - all Holly Lodge area (J.Wilczur); 12 Lesser Redpoll still in Hawthorn Valley late am (Franko J Maroevic); 2 Wheatear, 1 Snipe betw Spankers Hill Wood & White Lodge, 1 Red Kite (Peter Carlill)
 * River Brent, Greenford: 2 Teal, 2 Red Kites circling 11:05, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest. TQ1481 (Phil Belman)
 * Roxbourne Park: 2 Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, Song Thrush (Tim Rymer) [new site for LNHS gazetteer TQ121874]
 * Ruislip Woods: 33+ Hawfinch 25+ adj to car park north of 'The Waters Meet' 09:10 & 8+ betw Fore St & Wiltshire Ln 10:05 (Richard Francis) Is this The Waters Edge by the Lido please?
 * Sevenoaks WR: Black-tailed Godwit fr tyler hide still, 4 Chiffchaff, 30 Siskin (Susanna Clerici via Kent OS)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: Blackcap, m Pintail on pattypool mead at 09:20 (Martin Shepherd)
 * Shrewsbury Park: 20+ Lesser Redpoll, singing Chiffchaff, 3 Stock Dove, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, 4 Jay, Goldcrest, 4 Song Thrush, Nuthatch (Tim Rymer)
 * Staines Reservoir: AMERICAN HORNED LARK causeway still [south basin eastern end] (Dom Pia tweet); also 2 Black-necked Grebe still, Wheatear (Dave Carlsson tweet); 7 Goldeneye, Little Ringed Plover, Common Tern [Ldn foy], Swallow (Jim Sweetland tweet)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: 3 Teal, 8 Pheasant, Buzzard, f Sparrowhawk, m Kestrel, 6 Snipe, 6 Stock Dove, 4 Skylark, 2 Wheatear pr, Chiffchaff, 2 Reed Bunting (Neil Anderson)
 * Thames Barrier Park: Curlew and 2 Oystercatcher feeding (Frank Nugent)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: f Garganey still at Darlands, 2 Hawfinch, 4 Lesser Redpoll on usual feeder, 5 singing Chiffchaff, 15 Rook, 9 Teal, Kestrel (John Colmans); Belmont Fm - 26 Canada Geese, 2 Mandarin Duck, 2 Red-legged Partridge, 4 Pheasant, 3 Cormorant, 2 Sparrowhawk, 11 Stock Dove, Nuthatch, Song Thrush, 3 Mistle Thrush, 7 Starling, 3 Pied Wagtail (Samuel Levy)
 * Trent Park: 3 Mandarin Duck 2m f, 2 Eurasian Teal m f upper lake, m Common Pochard, 3 Tufted Duck 2m f, 3 singing Chiffchaff, Nuthatch, 2 Raven SE over Rough Lot calling and tussling - one returned NW calling having seen off the other 13:36 (Robert Callf)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: 2 Little Ringed Plover main gp (Alan Gardiner tweet); also 4 Buzzard, Willow Warbler tytt'r fm (Rick Flesher tweet)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING still, Willow Warbler, 3 Green Sandpipers, 7 Goldeneye (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Wood Farm, Stanmore: Raven W calling 10.05, 4 Linnet, Red Kite, Mandarin over (Tony Blake) TQ168934
 * Wormwood Scrubs: Woodcock flushed from grassland (Paul Thomas tweet)
 * Yeading Brook Meadows: 5 Pheasant, 3 Red Kite incl 2 together, f Kestrel, Little Owl, singing Skylark, 36+ Meadow Pipit, singing Chiffchaff, 8 Greenfinch (Neil Anderson)

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