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Friday 20th January 2017
Gull ID event tomorrow Sat 21 Jan 10:00am-12:30pm at RSPB Rainham Marshes - details here


 * Hackney Marsh, r.Lea from Friends Bridge to Homerton road: 76 Teal, 38 Mallard, 23 Tufted duck, 14 Gadwall, 35 Coot, 27 Moorhen, 8 Little Grebe, 3 Chiffchaff, 2-3 Goldcrest, 3-4 Stock Dove, 2 Kingfisher, 1 Grey Wagtail. Ring-necked Parakeet in tree hole.(Marcin Kempa).
 * Barking Bay:6 Wigeon, 180 Teal, 70 Shelduck, Little Egret, 4 Avocet, 260 Dunlin, 190 Redshank, 36 Black-tailed Godwit, 7 Curlew, 3 Snipe, 1 Glaucous Gull 2cy flew upstream seen later at Creekmouth, 2 Caspian Gull 2cy 4cy, 6 Yellow-legged Gull, 20 Skylark, 2 Rock Pipit, 40 Meadow Pipit, 12 Stonechat, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 85 Linnet (Nick Senior)
 * Berrylands: 6 Waxwings flew SE at 15:06 (Nick Tanner).
 * Brookmill Park: Little Grebe, 8 Redwing, Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
 * Creekmouth: 52 Gadwall, Peregrine male, 8 Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Snipe, Glaucous Gull 2 cy at outfall then on rooftops until spooked and flew back out onto the Thames also at Barking Bay pic file=Glaucous_Gull_2_cy_Creekmouth_20.01.2017_record_shot.jpg 3 Caspian Gull 2 2cy Ad, 4 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Rock Pipit, 2 Stonechat, Siberian Chiffchaff calling intermittently and a second bird also with the full suite of diagnostic features but did not call - both near small blue substation but roaming along the channel bushes with 24''' Common Chiffchaff including 1 very pale grey variant, 6 Cetti's Warbler (Nick Senior)
 * Harold Hill: 1 Waxwing Ashton Rd still early-am (BirdGuides)
 * Heathrow: fem Smew, m. Goldeneye. (Adam Cheeseman)
 * Highbury N5: Poets Rd, No sign of Waxwings by 1145, but 30 Fieldfares and 30 Redwings (Pete Mantle) 13.45 No sign of Waxwings, 1 Redwing in the tree outside 18 Poet's Rd, 3 Long Tailed Tit's. potentially collecting nesting material ? (MarkF) Long-tailed Tits collecting nesting material in January is not uncommon these days (JR)
 * Ingrebourne Valley LNR: Great Grey Shrike still on west side of Berwick Ponds c8am (BirdGuides)
 * Lamorbey Park: Firecrest still present and vocal, 3 Little Grebe, Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, Kingfisher, 4+ Redwing, Nuthatch, unidentified large raptor distant to W c12.45 (Ian Stewart et al)
 * London Wetland Centre: 6 Bittern, 2 Jack Snipe, Water Pipit (J.Wilczur, S.Woolfenden, J.Cass)
 * Oakwood ( j/n Prince George Ave / Merrivale, N14): Redwings & Fieldfares feeding on red berries (Bob Husband)
 * Orchard Estate SE13: 30 Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * Pinner (HA5): Red Kite over at 12:01, 2 Sparrowhawk, Cormorant north-west at 08:48, 3 Mallard west, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, 2 Goldfinch, Goldcrest & 2 Coal Tit (Jon Ridge)
 * Sidcup DA15 (York Avenue): male Blackcap in garden, 5 Redwing (Ian Stewart)
 * Sutcliffe Park: Drake Teal, Water Rail, Common Snipe, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Conrad Ellam)
 * Swanley Park : 14 Egyptian Geese (3 Ringed birds recorded from brood at Chiswick House June 2016), Coot, Sparrowhawk, Redwing, Fieldfare (Andy Meaton)
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: 2 Collared Dove (1st this year), Pied Wagtail, Ring-necked Parakeet, 4 Goldfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Rook (1st sighting here), and Stock Dove. (Samuel Levy)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Water Rail, 2 Common Snipe, 3 Teal, Reed Bunting, 2 Cetti's Warblers, 2 Egyptian Geese (Chris Farthing)

Thursday 19th January 2017

 * Banstead Woods: 2 Pheasant, 9 Lesser Redpoll, 2 Bullfinch (Duncan Jennings via CFBW blog)
 * Bedfont Lakes CP: Bittern still on south side of North Lake then flew towards South Lake 1400 (BirdGuides)
 * Chafford Hundred: 3 Waxwing briefly Swallow_Close/Saffron Rd jn 1230 (David Darrell-Lambert via Twitter) TQ592787
 * East Finchley Station: 13 Fieldfare high E 8.00 (Neil Anderson)
 * East India Dock Basin: Water Rail showing well in NW corner at lunchtime (John Archer)
 * Enfield, Freezywater: m Blackcap in garden (Brian Dawton)
 * Enfield Town (River View, EN2): 2 Blackcap fem feeding on block of fat in garden and male feeding on berries (Robert Callf)
 * Harold Hill: 12 Waxwing still Ashton Rd early pm (BirdGuides)
 * Heathrow: 156 Golden Plover in field next to Hyatt Hotel, north of A4. (Adam Cheeseman)
 * Highbury N5: still c30 Waxwing c11:00-11:30 moving between tree behind No. 1 Poets Road, TV aerial, above No. 11 and tree in front of No. 19, also Redwing, Fieldfare, Mistle Thrush and Goldcrest seen. (Richard Moorhead); 4 still Poets Rd 1530 (BirdGuides)
 * Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens: Great Black-backed Gull 2w, Kingfisher still (Ralph Hancock blog)
 * Ingrebourne Valley: Bullfinch, 2 Reed Bunting, Cetti's Warbler, Goldcrest, Lesser Redpoll, 2 Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 3 Pheasant (Simon Worsfold); Woodcock (Shaun Harvey via Twitter)
 * Lamorbey Park: Firecrest still present 08.35, 2 Little Grebe, Kingfisher am visit; Firecrest showed well c12.15 but gradually more elusive, 2 Egyptian Geese, Nuthatch pm (Ian Stewart et al)
 * Lee Valley, Cornmill Meadows: Green Sandpiper, 8 Teal, 20+ Fieldfare (Simon Papps)
 * Lewisham SE13, Orchard Estate: 6 Redwing perched in Lime Tree, seen from balcony (Conrad Ellam)
 * London Wetland Centre: 4 Pintail, 4 Bittern, Firecrest nr last bench on path to wildside hide, 38 Fieldfare E/NE, 2 Water Pipit (WWT website)
 * Mill Hill Cemetery: 1 Woodcock top field, 28 Redwing (Bill Rutherford)
 * Pinner (HA5): Buzzard over at 14:20, 2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Jay, 2 Jackdaw over, 2 Coal Tit on feeders, singing Goldcrest & 4 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Queen Mother Reservoir: Mediterranean Gull 2w 12:15-12:55 at least - permit only (Marek Walford via Herts BN)
 * Rainham RSPB: 10+ Avocet Aveley Bay (Fraser Simpson via Twitter)
 * Redbridge Lakes, Woodford Bridge: 4 Snipe (Alan Hobson).
 * Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge: Little Egret, Goldcrest (Alan Hobson).
 * Ruxley GPs: (permit only) 10+ Gadwall, 4+ Shoveler, f Teal, c200 Tufted Duck, 15 Pochard, c10 Little Grebe, 4 Great Crested Grebe, Kestrel, 5 Water Rail, Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail, 10+ Redwing, 4-5 Cetti's Warbler (1 singing), Chiffchaff (Ian Stewart)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: Water Pipit still draper scrape (RSPB blog)
 * Sidcup: Burnt Oak Lane/Marlborough Park junction - 12 Redwing on school field (Eric Brown)
 * Sidcup: High Street - Grey Wagtail, Red Admiral (Ian Stewart)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: 20+ Redwing, 3 Goldcrest (Bob Watts)
 * Tufnell Park N19: Brecknock Rd - 6 Redwing and 1 Fieldfare feeding off cotoneaster in my garden (Francis Tusa)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: 2 Great White Egret still main pit 1135, Tyttenhanger Farm - 5+ Tree Sparrow in usual tree by feeders (TGP twitter)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: Paddock  c.110 Fieldfare, 3 Mistle Thrushes, 10 Blackbird, 27 Linnet, 30 Chaffinch, 1 Kestrel - 14.20-16.00 (Marcin Kempa).
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 13 Goldeneye (5 Lockwood & 2 High Maynard & 1 No 4 & 5 West Warwick), 3 Kingfisher, Water Rail, Common Sandpiper, Peregrine, Chiffchaff, Stonechat and 4 Lapwing No 5 (Katy Thomas and Dave Morrison).
 * Wanstead Flats: 6 Redwing, 2 Goldcrest, 6 Skylark, Meadow Pipit, Reed Bunting, 10 Shoveler, 3 Teal (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: Chiffchaff, Nuthatch, Goldcrest, Grey Wagtail, Water Rail, Siskin, 12 Redwing, 4 Little Grebe, 15 Shoveler, 19 Gadwall, Wigeon, 5 Tufted Duck (Nick Croft)
 * Watford: Barnacle Goose on canal w/ Canada Geese by Watford business park (Ben Norcott via Herts BC)
 * Westminster: Peregrine over Victoria Street, calling. Landed on Westminster Abbey (Frank Nugent).
 * Woodford Bridge: Snakes Lane East - 7 Redwings (Alan Hobson).
 * Wraysbury GPs: 6 Goosander (3m 2rh Hythe Lagoon & m Colne Mere) (Robert Martin via Twitter)

Wednesday 18th January 2017

 * Bedfont Lakes CP: Bittern still south lake 1030 (BirdGuides)
 * Bedfords Park: 2 Goldcrest, 2 Firecrest, Coal Tit ('CRJ' per Howard Vaughan via ELBF Facebook)
 * Bow Creek Ecology Park: 12 Redshank, 16 Teal (Charlie Farrell); Cetti's Warbler, Sparrowhawk female (John Archer)
 * Brockley & Ladywell Cemetery: 10+ Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * Brookmill Park: Little Grebe, 4 Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * Cheshunt: 32 Waxwing still feeding on two orange-berried rowan trees near the junction of High Street & Church Lane. Excellent views between 1.30pm and 2pm (Debbie Burkett/Brian Dawton ) TL357028
 * East India Dock Basin: Caspian Gull 1w on basin early morning, Shelduck, 10 Teal (Tom Speller); Great Spotted Woodpecker female in copse (John Archer)
 * Ellenbrook Fields: Short-eared Owl still nr cattle field 1520, m Stonechat (Pete Waldron via Herts BC)
 * Finchley Central Station: c30 Redwing (Bill Rutherford)
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - 9 Redwing, also 2+ foxes 'screaming' (Samuel Levy)
 * Grovelands Park: Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, 2 Grey Heron, 3 Mute Swan, 11 Egyptian Goose, 10 Mandarin Duck 6m 4f, 2 fem Shoveler, 16 Tufted Duck 9m 7f, fem Smew - very tame, Sparrowhawk, Green Woodpecker, Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush, 4 Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch (Robert Callf)
 * Highbury: Mildmay N5 - Waxwing numbers down to c10 [11am], thrush numbers down too - not many berries left now, Sparrowhawk seen (Chris Farthing); c30 Waxwing still at junction of Petherton Road and Poets Road at 12.15pm 5 mins from Canonbury Overground station (Mike Wheeler); c8 15.35 (Twitter)
 * Hogsmill STW Nature Reserve: 2 Kestrel, 12500 Black-headed Gull (10500 E), 3330 Herring Gull E, 14 Stock Dove, 5 Waxwing over (4 NW and 1 heard), 4 Redwing over, Linnet (Andrew Skotnicki)
 * Ingrebourne Valley LNR: Great Grey Shrike still in bomb field Berwick Woods (Tom Bell, Barry Tranfield, Steve Elwell et al per ELBF Facebook)
 * Kensington Gardens: c10 Redwing, Coal Tit, Green Woodpecker, singing Stock Dove (Charlie Farrell)
 * Lamorbey Park: 3 Little Grebe, Greylag Goose, Canada/Greylag hybrid Goose, m Teal, Kingfisher, Stock Dove in brief visit 8-8.50a.m no sign of Firecrest (Mike Amos); Firecrest elusive this morning but seen well 10.00, Great Black-backed Gull W, Nuthatch (Ian Stewart)
 * London Wetland Centre: 3 Bittern (showing very well at edge of main lake and one out on the ice reservoir lagoon), 6 Pintail, 1 Jack Snipe, 1 Peregrine (WWT Website); 5 Bittern, 6 Common Snipe, 1 Jack Snipe, 2 Water Pipit, 1m Stonechat, 1f Sparrowhawk, 1 Stock Dove, 8 Pintail, 1 Peregrine on Ch. X. Hosp.; 1m Bearded Tit seen and photographed from Headley hide by others (Martin Honey); 2 Jack Snipe grazing marsh (WWT website)
 * Margravine Cemetery: 4 Mistle Thrush, ca 20 Redwing (Nathalie Mahieu).
 * Mill Hill East: 11 Redwing (Bill Rutherford)
 * Minet Country Park, Hayes: Firecrest ringed & released, also 2 Little Egret, 2 Common Snipe, Lesser Redpoll, 3 Bullfinch (Dave Bookless).
 * Mottingham (The Tarn): pair Gadwall, f Teal, Little Grebe, Water Rail showing very well, 38+ Moorhen, Redwing, Goldcrest, Coal Tit, Jay, 3 Jackdaw (Ian Stewart)
 * Muswell Hill: Cranborne Rd - 6 Waxwing at 14.30 (James Palmer, Maggie Sparrow)
 * Pinner (HA5): Red Kite over at 13:12, 2 Sparrowhawk, Great Spotted Woodpecker & Coal Tit. Later: Blackcap briely seen & heard at the end of the garden (Jon Ridge)
 * Rainham Marshes: Cetti's Warbler (occasionally showing well), 3 Stonechats (1 as confiding as a Robin), 17 Avocets, Barn Owl, Water Rail, 7 Pintail, Kingfisher, 2 Fieldfares, 6 Redwings, Rock Pipit, 3 Kestrels, Meadow Pipit, 12+ Shelduck, 12 Linnets, 2 Reed Buntings, 2 Pied Wagtails, 2 Grey Herons, 7+ Stock Doves, 2 Pheasants, 12-15 Snipe, Dunlin (Alan Hobson)
 * Roding Valley Meadows NR: 3 Blackcap 2m f (ELBF Facebook)
 * Romford: 22 Waxwing Whitelands Way/Bryant Ave (BirdGuides) TQ53904
 * Rye Meads RSPB: Bittern still fr draper hide (BirdGuides)
 * Scratch Wood: Firecrest still (per Dungeon Hill & Scratch Wood Birds blog)
 * Staines Moor: 4 Little Grebe, 2 Red Kite, Buzzard, 2 Snipe, 20+ Blackbird, 10 Fieldfare, 30+ Song Thrush, 4 Skylark (Robert Martin via Twitter)
 * Staines Reservoir: 251 Wigeon, 143 Gadwall, 73 Teal, 377 Shoveler, 329 Pochard, 575 Tufted Duck, 14 Goldeneye, 2 Black-necked Grebe, 110 Lapwing, 2 Redshank (Alan Goddard via Twitter)
 * Swanley Park: Wigeon (2nd site record), Egyptian Goose, Coot, 50 Redwing (Andy Meaton)
 * Sydenham Hill Woods: Firecrest, Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill (NW7): 9 Stock Dove, 4 Ring-necked Parakeets, Green Woodpecker (A First for me here), 3 Goldfinch, 2 Coal Tit (Also a first for me here) (Samuel Levy)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: fem Blackcap, 14 Fieldfare, 4 Redwing, 4 Bullfinch, 7 Teal (John Colmans)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: 2 Great White Egret flew NW early morning, 2 Red Kite, 6 Tree Sparrow, Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Goldcrest, good numbers of Bullfinch, 7 Siskin on Colne (Nick Croft); 2 GWE still on main pit 1135 (TGP twitter)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 4 Goldeneye 2pr, 24 Teal & Little Egret on Upper Maynard, another pr Goldeneye on Lockwood, 22 Fieldfare & 1 Chiffchaff on Bank between 2 Maynards Reservoirs - 12-1pm (Davey Leach).
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Teal, Reed Bunting, Cetti's Warbler, 4 Egyptian Geese, Redwing, Jay (Chris Farthing)

Tuesday 17th January 2017

 * Battersea New Cemetery, Lower Morden: Buzzard south, Little Owl, 60 Redwing (Bob Smith) Patch Report available from blackcap.bob1@outlook.com
 * Bedfont Lakes: 2 drake Smew still on south lake (Jim Sweetland)
 * Bow, Abbey Creek to Cody Wharf: Grey Heron, 75+ Teal, 5 Gadwall, 5 Redshank, Reed Bunting, 2 Shelduck, Great Crested Grebe (JW Davies)
 * Cheshunt: 32 Waxwing still behind Leighton Ct at Church Ln/High St jn early-am (BirdGuides)
 * Connaught Water: f Smew, 8 Goosander 2m 6f, Little Egret, Buzzard, Coal Tit, 5 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper, m Bullfinch (Dan Barrett per ELBF Facebook)
 * Gallions Reach: Curlew, 20 Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 4 Black-tailed Godwit, 19 Teal, 2 Shelduck, 2 Kingfisher, Meadow Pipit (Simon Worsfold)
 * East India Dock /Canning Town: 93 Teal, 7 Shelduck, 10 Redshank, 2 Greenfinch, Grey Wagtail, Great Black-backed Gull (Simon Worsfold)
 * Hampstead Heath: 25 Shoveler on Ham No.1 this afternoon (Pete Mantle)
 * Harold Hill: 13 Waxwing Ashton Rd still 0930 (BirdGuides)
 * Highbury: 25 Waxwing still Pertherton Rd nr jn w/ Poet's Rd 0900 (BirdGuides); not in evidence at 13.30 approx. (Richard Moorhead); 16 present 1340 (Twitter); 37 Waxwing present at 15:00 plus a Fieldfare and Redwings (Frank Nugent, Bob Husband).
 * Hogsmill STW Nature Reserve: 5 Shoveler, 8750 Black-headed Gull E, 2240 Herring Gull E, 31 Lesser Black-backed Gull E, 29 Great Black-backed Gull E, 12 Stock Dove, Redwing; also 1st-winter Caspian Gull nearby on roof of Villiers Road Recycling Centre (Andrew Skotnicki)
 * Hounslow: High Street - 20+ Pied Wagtail roosting in tree outside Next (Tony Leppard)
 * Hounslow: Lampton Park - 3 Redwing (Tony Leppard) TQ 131763
 * Ingrebourne Valley: Woodcock, Great Grey Shrike again [last seen 5 Jan] c2pm west side of Berwick ponds by bomb hole though mobile, 7 Redpoll (Paul Hawkins via Twitter)
 * Lamorbey Park: Firecrest showing well 08.35, 3 Little Grebe, Kingfisher, drumming Great Spotted Woodpecker, 10+ Goldcrest (Ian Stewart, Mike Amos)
 * Lee Valley, Cornmill Meadows: 57 Wigeon, 72 Teal, 4 Buzzard, Red Kite, 10 Siskin (Simon Papps)
 * Lee Valley, Friday Lake: drake Smew, Cetti's Warbler, 4 Bullfinch (Simon Papps)
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 Bittern – reservoir lagoon Western corner (WWT website); 4 further Bittern main lake, 1 Water Pipit, 1m Stonechat, 14 Common Snipe, 6 Pintail, 2 Jack Snipe, 13 Mandarin, 5 Reed Bunting, c12 Fieldfare, 1 Peregrine on Ch. X. Hosp. (Martin Honey)
 * Lyle Park: Attempted to nail a Caspian Gull here this afternoon. Can anyone positively identify the gulls in the two photos I've just uploaded onto the images section? (Nick Moll) Herring for me, but keep trying, there are a fair few Caspians about! (JB)
 * Morden Hall Park: 3 Little Egret Rose Gdn (MHP Nature Group twitter)
 * Muswell Hill: 20+ Redwing M&S car park (Anne Oakes)
 * Orpington: No sign of yesterday's Waxwings 11:00 and 12:30, 30+ Redwings, Mistle Thrush, pair Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker all on deck at Green on Charterhouse Road where it meets Abingdon Way (Jo East)
 * Oxleas Wood Siskin Coaltit Goldcrest Kestrel[fm] Stockdove[Ron Turner] RT pls format properly
 * Oxleas Wood: Siskin, Coal Tit, Goldcrest, Kestrel (f), Stock Dove (Ron Turner) — this is how to do it within the preferred style adopted by everyone else
 * Pinner (HA5): 2 Red Kite (11:55 & 12:01), Sparrowhawk, 8 Redwing, Coal Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Pied Wagtail & 4 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Pond Road, Blackheath: 20+ Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * Primrose Hill: 2 Kestrel, poss Curlew h over 0800, Fieldfare, 52 Redwing (Twitter)
 * Rainham RSPB: c. 20 Avocet, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, Marsh Harrier, Short-eared Owl (Nick Croft); Water Rail, 2+ Marsh Harrier, 3 Curlew, Barn Owl, 3 Short-eared Owl (MMcL) full name pls?
 * Rotherhithe: Stave Hill -  2 Firecrest, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goldcrest, Jay, Kingfisher, 8 Greenfinch, 4 Chiffchaff (Richard Page-Jones); Rotherhithe, Thames - Grey Wagtail, Ring-necked Parakeet, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Common Gull (Alan Hobson)
 * Staines Res: 2 Black-necked Grebe, 7 Goldeneye, 65 Lapwing, 135 Pochard (Dominic Pia via Twitter)
 * Sutcliffe Park: 6 Commmon Snipe (Conrad Ellam)
 * Sydenham Hill Wood: 2 Firecrest (Steven Robinson)
 * Tower of London: Kestrel (Charlie Farrel)
 * Trent Park: m Bullfinch, 2 Goosander m f, 2 Pochard m f, 8 Mandarin 5m 3f, Kestrel, 3 Stock Dove, Song Thrush, Jackdaws (Pete Lowman).
 * Tyttenhanger GP: 2 Great White Egret, 5+ Little Egret, 1stW Caspian Gull briefly, 2 Green Sandpiper, Kingfisher, 8 Tree Sparrow, Red Kite (Steve Blake/Pete Elton).
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 1 Ad. Mediterranean Gull flew S with B.H. Gulls over No.4/No. 5 Embankment towards Sewage Works, M. Scaup & 1 Common Sandpiper on No. 4, Another Common Sand on No. 5, along with Ad. Great Black-backed Gull, 2+ Kingfisher and Water Rail (Hd.) on No. 3, Cetti's Warbler on No. 2, good numbers of Teal and Grey Wagtails in whole area - 13.00-14.00 (Davey Leach).
 * Warren Gorge: Water Rail, Kingfisher, Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff (per ELBF Facebook)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Shelduck, Teal, Reed Bunting, Grey Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, Coal Tit (Chris Farthing)
 * Wormwood Scrubs: pair Stonechat (m and f), c 12 Meadow Pipit, c 15 House Sparrow (David Jeffreys)
 * Wraysbury GPs: Scaup ad m [possibly just outside London RA] on mainly-frozen BA sailing pit but flew off w/ Tufties (Chris Lamsdell via Berks BN)

Monday 16th January 2017

 * Brookmill Park: 2 Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
 * Cheshunt: 36 Waxwing in various trees near the Co-op at 14:25 - originally 16 but joined by two other groups (Martin Shepherd)
 * Creekmouth: 620 Teal, 2 Curlew, 3 Caspian Gull ad 2cy 3cy, 5 Yellow-legged Gull, 8 Cetti's Warbler, 13 Chiffchaff (Nick Senior)
 * East India Dock Basin: Caspian Gull 1st winter on Thames then flew to beach by O2, Common Sandpiper on Thames, 8 Shelduck, 7 Tufted Duck, 21 Teal, Reed Bunting, Grey Wagtail (John Archer).
 * Fairlop Waters and surrounding fields: 140 Lapwings, Common Snipe, 2 Pheasants, 4 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, 2 Teal, c130 Fieldfare, 54 Redwing, 4 Meadow Pipit, Linnet (Simon Worsfold )
 * Garston, Herts: Kingswood - 5 Waxwing Meadow Rd 1030 (BirdGuides); 7 till 1320 then flew E, 7 re-found on Garston Drive between 14.20-15.25 (Simon West)
 * Harold Hill: 18 Waxwing Ashton Rd still 0925 (BirdGuides)
 * Highbury: 15-20 Waxwing still just off Pertherton Rd at Poet's Rd 1300 (BirdGuides) N5 2SL
 * Hogsmill Water Treatment Works: 4 Shoveler, Pochard, Water Rail, Snipe, 16 Great Black-backed Gull (15 E), Redwing SE, 26 Linnet (Andrew Skotnicki)
 * Islington: 65 Redwings and 2 Fieldfares in trees behind 55 Hemingford Rd at 1355 (Pete Mantle)
 * Lamorbey Park: Firecrest seen well but not exactly showy and silent, 2 Mute Swan, Greylag, 12+ Canada Goose, Greylag x Canada Goose, c10 Mallard, 10 Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, Cormorant, 10+ Moorhen, 6 Coot, 8+ Goldcrest, Nuthatch (Ian Stewart)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Bittern, 1 Water Pipit, 1 Stonechat, 4 Snipe, 2 Redpoll, 7 Pintail, 1 Kingfisher, 14 Fieldfare (WWT Website)
 * Lyle Park: 3 Caspian Gull 1w, 1w Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Great Black-backed Gull 1w, Song Thrush (Nick Croft)
 * Oakwood Park: Blackcap (Robert Callf)
 * Orpington: 6 Waxwing Sevenoaks Rd 1215 before flying to back gdns (BirdGuides) BR6 9JN
 * Pinner (HA5): 21 Redwing (Jon Ridge)
 * Rainham RSPB: Grey Plover, Spotted Redshank, 3 Short-eared Owl, 3 Water Pipit (BirdGuides)
 * Roding Valley Meadows NR: 34 Fieldfare, 42 Redwing, 28 Meadow Pipit (per ELBF Facebook)
 * Trent Park: 8 Mandarin Duck 5m 3f, fem Teal, 5 Pochard 4m 1f, 2 Tufted Duck m f, 2 Goosander m f, 2 Woodcock, 2 Stock Dove singing and displaying, 3 Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 9 Goldcrest, Nuthatch, Treecreeper (Robert Callf)
 * The Ridgeway (Mill Hill NW7): Red Kite drifting through low heading SE 12:50 (Samuel Levy)
 * Tyttenhanger GP: Great White Egret, 1stW Caspian Gull, 2 Little Egret, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Egyptian Goose, 6 Tree Sparrow (Steve Blake)
 * Woodford Bridge (Snakes Lane East): Redwing, 7 Ring-necked Parakeets. It is worth noting that the RNPs have been around in Western Europe for a lot longer than many people think. A while back I saw a medieval, C15 illuminated MS in the British Library, showing birds of northern France and England. Among them was a RNP. They were presumably pets (although it is interesting that all the other birds shown were wild species), but it shows that, in some capacity at least, they have been around in Western Europe for centuries [Alan Hobson] They've been in Britain since the Romans arrived. A 1st century AD wall painting showing them was recently discovered in London. [Ralph Hancock]

Sunday 15th January 2017

 * Algenon Road, Lewisham: Male Blackcap in Garden (Conrad Ellam)
 * Archway, Despard Road: 6 Waxwings on the small trees still carrying berries 08.30, flushed twice to TVs aerials (P.Angus)
 * Bexleyheath: Horsham Road, male Blackcap in garden (Ralph Todd)
 * Bedfont Lakes: 2 male Smew, Redwing, Meadow Pipit (Andrew Peel, LNHS walk); also red-head Smew (Brian Dawton and Geoff Crabtree )
 * Brent Reservoir: drake Goldeneye briefly, also 81 Pochard, 20 Snipe (Peter Casselton, Andrew Self, Roy Beddard)
 * Cornmill Stream: 4 Goosander 2pr (Lisa Brady per ELBF Forum)
 * Dartford: Caspian Gull 2w at recycling centre (BirdGuides)
 * Gallions Reach: 2m Goosander site-1st, 4 Curlew, 7 Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 10 Snipe, Kittiwake, 3 Yellow-legged Gull 2ad & 1w, Caspian Gull ad, 4 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing (Gary A James via Essex BwS blog)
 * Hackney Marshes: 1 Jackdaw in treetop just S of the end of the ex-pitch and putt at 1130 (Alastair Dent)
 * Highbury N5: 22 Waxwings in usual area (at 09.30 they were in the tall tree in the rear garden of 10 Leconfield Rd N5 2SN) (D. Jordan); still present 11-11.30 (Fyfe Dangerfield); feeding at 17 Poets Rd N5 at 13:00 plus 2 Redwing (Alastair Rae)
 * Lamorbey Park: Firecrest still - foraging in bushes often only inches off the ground and calling occasionally, Little Grebe, Kingfisher, 21+ Redwing (Ian Stewart)
 * London Wetland Centre: 5 Bittern (4 Main Lake 1 Reservoir Lagoon), 2 Jack Snipe, 2 Water Pipit (Peter Gray); Caspian Gull, Bearded Tit fr headley hide (WWT website)
 * Lyle Park and the O2: 5 first-winter Caspian Gull (Dante Shepherd, Jamie Partridge and Richard Bonser)
 * Middlesex Filter Beds: 1 Reed Bunting in Bed 3 (bed nearest the pond) at 1145 (Alastair Dent)
 * Sevenoaks WR: 2 Little Egret, Water Rail, 4 Snipe, Chiffchaff, Coal Tit, 20+ Siskin (Mathew Bournat via Kent OS blog)
 * Totteridge Valley: 9 Redwing, 4 Pied Wagtail, 4 Robin, Wren, 2 Dunnock, 4 Ring-necked Parakeets, 60+ Jackdaw, 22 Long-tailed Tit, Goldcrest, 20 Common Gull, Cattle Egret 15:00 amongst Belmont Childrens Farm cattle then flew low NW - Superb find Sam [JR], also 2 Egyptian Geese, 2 Pheasant, Treecreeper (Samuel Levy) thanks JR (SL)
 * Tower of London: 2 Waxwing (BirdGuides)
 * Tyttenhanger: Great White Egret still, showing tall and proud on the sandy area with Great Black-backed Gulls and possible Caspian Gull (reported by A.N. Other); also Gadwalls on the lake South of the Causeway (Geoff Crabtree and Brian Dawton)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Black Redstart still on no 5 and was showing well on the rocks of the reservoir in front of the conifer trees (Walthamstow Birders); also 5 Goosander (2m 3f), Scaup and 2 Goldeneye (1m 1f) on no.4; pair of Stonechat and 4 Shoveler on East Warwick (Adam Winstanley).
 * Wanstead Flats: WeBS 3 Teal, 4 Gadwall, 18 Shoveler, 117 Mallard, 6 Pochard, 13 Tufted Duck, 269 Canada Goose, 57 Greylag Goose, 13 Mute Swan, 686 Common Gull, 112 Black-headed Gull, 8 Herring Gull, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gull; others including Meadow Pipit, 12 Linnet, Reed Bunting, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk (Nick Croft)
 * Woodford Green: 3 Siskin, 3 Chaffinch, Redwing, male Greenfinch, Little Egret, Common Buzzard and female Blackcap (Ken Murray)

Saturday 14th January 2017

 * Alexandra Park: 10 Redwing Golf Course, Meadow Pipit west over Conservation Pond, much fewer gulls than last Saturday (Bob Watts)
 * Balls Wood nr Hertford Heath: 2 Yellowhammer on footpath betw Mangrove Ln & Balls Wood (Colin Smith via Herts BC)
 * Banstead Woods: 2 Woodcock nr park farm, 3 Rook hither field, 2 Stonechat stagbury field, 20 Fieldfare, 30 Redwing, 12 Linnet, 3 Bullfinch (Ian Magness & Ian Ward via CFBW blog)
 * Bedfont Lakes CP: 3 Smew 2m rh south lake still 1140 (BirdGuides)
 * Brent Reservoir: 170+ Tufted Duck, 52 Pochard, Water Rail, 17 Snipe, Cetti's Warbler (Roy Beddard)
 * Cheshunt: 30+ Waxwing opposite Co-op Cheshunt High St (Neville Smith, Harry Lacey, Andrew Middleton); 6 W over Church Ln/A10 jn 1510 (Herts BN twitter); 8+ in gardens behind Hatton Road at 3.20pm (Simon Papps)
 * Chelsea Bridge: Caspian Gull 2cy lingering late afternoon then flew W, 3 Grey Wagtail (Nick Senior)
 * Dartford: Caspian Gull 1w at recycling centre pm (BirdGuides)
 * Ellenbrook Fields: Short-eared Owl again as 8 Jan nr BT field (John Yates via Herts BC)
 * Enfield Playing Fields: 10 Redwings (Phil Rhodes)
 * Epping Forest, High Beech woods: c12 Brambling, 5 Nuthatch, 3 Treecreeper, 2 Common Buzzard, 7 Goldcrest, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Coal Tit, Grey Wagtail, Redwing flock (Chris Baldwin)
 * Fairlop Waters: Short-eared Owl still (BirdGuides)
 * Finchley (Garden): 1 Stock Dove (1st sighting for 6 months), also Song Thrush seen again, as well as large amounts of Finches (10 Greenfinch, 25 Goldfinch, 20 Chaffinch). (Samuel Levy)
 * Friday Lake: pr Smew am (Chris Sharp via Twitter) TL371020
 * Harold Hill: c15 Waxwing Ashton Rd still opp Newey & Eyre bldg 1530; 24 reported (BirdGuides)
 * Hogsmill Open Space, Ewell: Firecrest still 1520 (Amy Niloc via Twitter); 1 Little Egret 12:10 - 12:40 but couldn't find firecrest at that time (Neil Batten)
 * Hogsmill Water Treatment Works: 28 Teal, 3 Shoveler, Sparrowhawk, 12 Grey Wagtail, 3 Fieldfare S, Redwing, 11 Goldcrest, 25 Linnet (Andrew Skotnicki, John Gale)
 * Highbury N5: c22 Waxwings on Poets Rd (BirdGuides); Waxwings outside 19 Poets Rd (N5 2SL) in tree 14.43 (Frances B)
 * Lamorbey Park: Firecrest, Greylag, hybrid Greylag x Canada Goose, m Teal, 3 Little Grebe, Little Egret, 2 Kingfisher, Nuthatch (Ian Stewart)
 * London Wetland Centre: Caspian Gull 2cy, 60 Shoveler (J.Wilczur, S.Woolfenden); 3+ Bittern, Water Pipit, Stonechat, 6 Pintail (WWT); 4 Bittern, 7 Common Snipe, Water Rail heard, plus 1 Kingfisher and 1 Goldcrest seen by others (Martin Honey); 3 Siskin wildside (WWT website)
 * Mudchute Farm: c20 Redwing (Chris Parish)
 * Pinner (HA5): 2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Redwing, Jay, Coal Tit & 6 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Pinner (HA5): 9 Blackbirds on lawn eating oats for second day,  Stock Doves up to seven (RF) - Hi Richard - still haven't seen any Stock Dove here yet, despite being only half a mile away - hehe, perhaps they hate me : ) (JR)
 * Poulter Park: 2 Siberian Chiffchaff again as 7 Jan by R Wandle nr wooden bridge on east side of Pk 0910 (BirdGuides); seen again at 1300, also Little Grebe (Terence Baker)
 * Primrose Hill: Stock Dove N, 3 Fieldfare, c20 Redwing, 2 Siskin WNW 0850 yr-1st (Twitter)
 * Rainham Marshes: Adult Mediterranean Gull by refuse jetty, 16 Avocets, 4 Golden Plover, 5 Ringed Plover, Grey Wagtail, 2 Stonechats (Sean Huggins); Purfleet - ad Kittiwake flew downriver 1605, 3 Yellow-legged Gull, Grey Plover, 8 Corn Bunting (Fraser Simpson via Twitter); Turnstone, Common Sandpiper, 4 Short-eared Owl, 3 Rock Pipit, 3 Water Pipit (per ELBF Facebook)
 * Ranelagh Gardens: Tawny Owl, 7 Skylark S, 23 Blackbird influx, 5 Redwing race coburni, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Coal Tit, 265 Carrion Crow, 6 Chaffinch, 1 Brambling (Nick Senior)
 * Richmond Park: Dartford Warbler (J.Wilczur); 110 Shoveler, Kingfisher (S.Woolfenden); Grey Stonechat DNA results show the bird to be a European Stonechat. Also of note the Dungeness stonechat of which this bird looked extremely similar too, has had a DNA re-test & this has shown the bird to be a European Stonechat of either form rubicolia or hibernans. Info via (BirdGuides)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: Water Pipit still fr Gadwall_hide (Twitter)
 * Staines Moor: 1 Golden Plover (beside Colne), 2 Water Pipit (Colne), 2 Jack Snipe (Colne), 3 Water Rail (Colne), 1 Wigeon (Colne), 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Red Kite, 8 Little Grebe, 4 Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler (Lee Dingain)
 * Staines Reservoir: 2 Black-necked Grebe (s basin), 18+ Goldeneye, 10 Meadow Pipit (Nick Croft)
 * Stocker's Lake: red-head Smew still (Sean Moore via Twitter)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: Avocet, Grey Plover, 140 Lapwing, 4 Curlew, Water Pipit, Rock Pipit, Peregrine, Bearded Tit (Andrew Self)
 * Theydon Bois: Little Owl (heard), 2 Buzzard, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 2 Rook, c30 Fieldfare, Redwing, Goldcrest (Joe Dickens)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: Exposed sand-flat - Herring-sized 1w gull with plausible Caspian features, Fishing lake - red-head Goosander, 2 Kingfisher, Great White Egret, also 15 Tree Sparrow (Jo Edwards); Fishing Lakes - 2 Great White Egret, 17 Little Egret, Green Sandpiper (Steve Blake et al)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 16 Fieldfare and 30 Linnet on rear paddocks, 2 Stonechat (1m 1f/imm) on fence near E end of boardwalk - c11:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Black Redstart in SW corner of No 5 still; drake Scaup on No 4; Common Sandpipers on No 4 & No 5 (Phil Aylen, Lol Bodini, David Bradshaw)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Possible Ring-Billed Gull? Photographed ... any clarification? 212.jpg(East Warwick Reservoir), Merlin (Coppermill streem), Kestrel (Reservoir no.1), Green Sandpiper (reservor no.4), Stonechat female (West Warwick) Golden eye female (West Warwick), 4+ Kingfishers, 10+ Little Egrets, 10+ Fieldfare, 10+ Redwing and numerous other birds (Malachi1) It does look quite like a Ring-Billed Gull, but the bill is odd, more ringed than one would expect at that age when a black tip seems to be normal. Can't think what else it might be. (Ralph Hancock)
 * Wanstead Flats: Woodcock, Little Owl (Bob Vaughan); 12 Linnet (Tony Brown)
 * Woodford Green: c20+ Redpolls (mobile), 4 Siskin, 5 Little Egret, 2 Nuthatch, fem Sparrowhawk, 4RNP's, Song Thrush, Chaffinch and Tawny Owl plus Peregrine over. (Ken Murray)

Friday 13th January 2017

 * Barnes, Barn Elms Playing Fields: I am regularly seeing a handful of Canada Geese that are not typical birds. Slightly smaller, smaller billed, squarer headed, chin strap buff and narrowing towards the top and with a black line through the white throat. Slightly darker mantle, flanks and breast. There are also birds with intermediate features. They do not really fit one of the obvious races. Is there a small cryptic population of another Canada race in London? Do others see similar birds? (R.Kaye) - Interesting observations - I have come across several smaller birds with variable plumages, but simply dismissed them as first-winters. thanks Rupert (JR) If you could get some pictures then there maybe people on here who could tell you if they are one of the many subspecies of Canada's. (SL) A study in Canada Geese wasn't exactly a career choice, but I'll see what I can do : ) (JR). Are these perhaps Canada/Greylag hybrids? These are present on nearby Barnes Pond and may well flight out from there with the Canadas. Any Canadas in this area will mostly be BTO ringed on the left leg, hybrids are not ringed. Hope this helps. (P J Belman).
 * Bedfont Lakes CP: 3 Smew now present on south lake incl 2 drakes 0900 (Paul Bursche)
 * Broadwater GP: 2 Siberian Chiffchaff by R Colne nr sailing club 1000 (BirdGuides) TQ044895
 * Brookmill Park: Little Grebe, Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * East India Dock Basin: Common Buzzard drifted SE 13:00 mobbed by crows, Kestrel flew S 12:55, 2 Redwing, 14 Shelduck, 6 Tufted Duck, 20 Teal (John Archer)
 * Footscray Meadows: 7 Siskin in alders near Pennyfarthing bridge (Jim Butler)
 * Greenwich Ecology Park: Drake Teal, pair of Gadwall, Little Grebe (John Bushell)
 * Harold Hill: 34 Waxwing on Whitelands Way (BirdGuides)
 * Heathrow: by Sipson farm/Harmondsworth lane - 20+ Golden Plover (Jim Fell)
 * Hogsmill LNR: 3-4 Little Egret, Firecrest, Chiffchaff, Grey Wagtail (Geoff Barter via Twitter); open space - 2 Snipe, 4 Kingfisher, Chiffchaff (Steve Gale via Twitter)
 * Lamorbey Park: Firecrest still present 09.35, 3 Little Grebe, Kingfisher (Ian Stewart)
 * Leatherhead, Common Meadow: 1 drake Teal, 3 Little Grebe, 4 Common Gull, 1 Meadow Pipit (Neil Batten)
 * London Wetland Centre: 3 Caspian Gull - two 2cy & 4cy, 2 Yellow-legged Gull - ad & 2cy, m Scaup/Pochard(?) hybrid, 47 Fieldfare (J.Wilczur); 2 Pintail, Jack Snipe, Water Pipit (WWT website)
 * Lyle Park: 1st w Caspian Gull (regular bird), 2 Yellow-legged Gulls (Jamie Partridge)
 * Mildmay N5: Waxwings still in Poets Rd 8.45 (Sheila Warbus); 17 top plane tree, corner Petherton Rd/Poets Rd at 08.50 (Jon Agar); 22 birds at 14:15 and still plenty of berries left (Chris Farthing)
 * Pinner (HA5): Red Kite north-east at 14:26, 3 Redwing, Jackdaw, Goldfinch & Coal Tit (Jon Ridge)
 * Rainham Marshes: first-winter Caspian Gull and 5 Yellow-legged Gulls east of the stone barges on the sheltered south slope of the landfill viewable from Havering River Path, also a flock of 56 Skylarks there - probably the largest flock I have ever seen in London (Dominic Mitchell) - Great count Dom - my best London count is 60 (24/10/1996) back in the days when Skylarks were a lot easier than they are now (JR)
 * Ranelagh Gardens: 2 Egyptian Geese, Tawny Owl, Fieldfare, 30 Redwing, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Coal Tit, 5 Chaffinch (Nick Senior)
 * Redbridge Lakes, Woodford Bridge: 2 Snipe, 4 Ring-necked Parakeets, Song Thrush, Common Gull (Alan Hobson).
 * Richmond Park: grey-phase European Stonechat still present in usual place around 2pm, Common Stonechat, c100 Shoveler on Upper Pen Pond and not a lot else (Mat Hare)
 * Sidcup Place: 18 Redwing, 3 Greenfinch (Ralph Todd) were these near/in the Gdn pls? Redwing feeding on grass by the main footpath along Chistlehurst Rd - Greenfinches in pines nr building. thx v much
 * South Lodge Farm, Enfield: 45 Redwing (Robert Callf)
 * St James's Park: 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull, Peregrine, Goldcrest (Andrew Self)
 * Staines Reservoir: 2 Black-necked Grebe still on south basin (BirdGuides)
 * Trent Park: 9 Pochard 5m 4f, 3 Tufted Duck 1m 2f, 2 Goosander m f, Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, Kestrel, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5+ Goldcrest (Robert Callf); also 3 m Mandarin, Kingfisher, Nuthatch, Stock Dove (Pete Lowman)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: main GP - Wigeon, 2 Great White Egret & Caspian Gull 1w still, 12+ Tree Sparrow, fishing lake - Goosander, 4+ Green Sandpiper, garden wood - 2 Woodcock (Rupert Evershed via Herts BC); 2 Red-legged Partridge, 3 Kingfisher, 6 Bullfinch (TGP twitter)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Black Redstart in SW corner of No 5; Yellow-legged Gull 3w - High Maynard; 4 Goosander - No 4: 4 Goldeneye on High Maynard (Paul Whiteman, David Bradshaw); Jack Snipe No1 north end new reedbed 16:10-16:20 also Water Rail; drake Scaup No4 still (Twitter)
 * Wanstead Flats: 6 Teal, 16 Shoveler, Pied Wagtail (Simon Worsfold); 4 Meadow Pipit, 11 Redwing (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park: Wigeon, 39 Gadwall, 11 Shoveler, 6 Teal, Little Grebe, Meadow Pipit, 3 Redwing, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Simon Worsfold)
 * Woodford Green: flyovers - 3 Little Egret, Common Buzzard and female Sparrowhawk, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Nuthatch, 6 Siskin, 4 Goldfinch, 2 Chaffinch, 13 Ring-necked Parakeet and 14+ Blue Tits on the feeders (Ken Murray)

Thursday 12th January 2017

 * Amwell (Great Hardmead Lake): 3 Smew (all red-heads), 5 Goldeneye 4m, 160+ Lapwing, Water Rail, singing Marsh Tit just inside London recording area (according to grid ref calculations) (Nick Croft)
 * Bedfont Lakes CP: 2m Smew still 0940 (BirdGuides)
 * Bounds Green (tunnel); Brambling (flew to golf course) (Sheila Warbus)
 * Brent Reservoir: 36 Common Snipe, Sparrowhawk, 3 Water Rail, Pintail f, 8 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Redwing, 4 Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, 11 Goldcrest, Reed Bunting f, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 6 Pied Wagtail, 84 Canada Geese (Magnus Andersson and Simon Worsfold)
 * Broadwater GP: Siberian Chiffchaff still 0950 (BirdGuides) TQ044895
 * Fulham Broadway: c10 Redwing feeding on ornamental Sorbus in nearby estate with 2 Mistle Thrush & Blackbirds, flock of c20 Greenfinch over (Neil Anderson)
 * Harold Hill: 21 Waxwing still 1400 (BirdGuides); 32 reported (per ELBF Facebook)
 * Heathrow: 145 Golden Plover on fields north of A4 at Sipson Farm. (Adam Cheeseman)
 * Hogsmill Open Space: Firecrest 0940 (Amy Niloc via Twitter) TQ2150863350
 * Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens: 7 Red-crested Pochard, 10 Shoveler, c100 Common Gull, 6 Stock Dove, Green Woodpecker, Chiffchaff, 3 Treecreeper (Des McKenzie via Twitter)
 * Lamorbey Park: Firecrest still present calling occasionally c09.00- much more vocal near sunset it seems; 3 Little Grebe, 2 Kingfisher (Ian Stewart)
 * London Wetland Centre: 3 Caspian Gull - 2cy 4cy and sub-adult, ad Yellow-legged Gull (J.Wilczur)
 * Mildmay, N5: 2 Waxwings mobile in the area of Petherton Rd, Leconfield Rd & Poets Rd, favouring the white berries of the Kashmir Rowan trees on Poets Rd and resting in the very tall tree at the centre of the triangle formed by the roads mentioned above, with a large thrush flock (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler); still behind New River Ct 1215 (Twitter) [plenty of berries left on Poets Rd if anyone fancies trying tomorrow morning]
 * Mile End Ecology Park: c10 Redwing, Mistle Thrush (Charlie Farrell)
 * Pinner (HA5): 3 Redwing, Great Spotted Woodpecker & 2 Coal Tit (Jon Ridge)
 * Primrose Hill: m Kestrel, 27 Fieldfare SE 08:35-08:45, 3 Redwing - light rain began 10am (Twitter)
 * Rainham RSPB: White-fronted Goose in field, 18 Waxwing W (BirdGuides)
 * Ruislip Lido: 1 Jack Snipe late am (R.Middleton).
 * Stocker's Lake: 19 Goldeneye 7m 12f, Yellow-legged Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Kingfisher (Geoff Lapworth via Herts BN)
 * Swanley Park: no sign of Waxwings- berries all gone! Fieldfare and 20+ Redwing within the park (Ian Stewart)
 * Tottenham Hale Station: 2 Waxwing am (BirdGuides) TQ345895
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: 2 Goldcrest, Redwing (heard) (Charlie Farrell)
 * Trent Park: 4 Mandarin Duck 2m 2f, 7 Pochard 4m 3f, 3 Tufted Duck 1m 2f, 2 Goosander m f, Common Buzzard, adult Common Gull, 5 Goldcrest, 3 Siskin 1m 2f, 10 Goldfinch, 2 Bullfinch m f (Robert Callf)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: 2 Great White Egret & Caspian Gull 1w still 1145 (BirdGuides)
 * Walthamstow (King Edward Rd): 25 Fieldfare, 3 Redwing (Caroline Nash)
 * Wanstead Flats: 11 Fieldfare, 2 Goldcrest, Skylark, singing Song Thrush, 2 singing Mistle Thrush (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park: 33 Gadwall, 3 Pochard, 7 Tufted Duck, Great Crested Grebe, 3 Little Egret, singing Stock Dove (Nick Croft)

Wednesday 11th January 2017

 * Bedfont Lakes CP: 2 drake Smew, 1 Bittern on South lake (Jim Fell)
 * Blackwall: Peregrine (Charlie Farrell)
 * Brookmill Park: Little Grebe, Blackcap (Conrad Ellam)
 * Broadwater Lake, Harefield: Siberian Chiffchaff P.c. tristis the R. Colne behind the yacht club, 12 Common Chiffchaff P.c. collybita along the river between the yacht club and the A412 road, On the lake itself one drake Goosander, 400 Tufted Duck, 6 Goldeneye and 150 Pochard. A duck sp. inadvertently flushed from the river flew away from me. It was larger than Teal, had a grey back, dark head and a flash of white on the lower face or neck. Maybe Falcated Duck or hybrid something or other? I could not relocate it on the river or the lake but mention this to alert people and to put the sighting on record. The one that got away . (John Edwards)
 * East India Dock Basin: 6 Shelduck, c100 Teal (Charlie Farrell)
 * Greenwich Peninsula: At least 2 Chiffchaff in trees by the Thames Path, just beyond the Emirates Air Line at 1240. (Andrew McCafferty).
 * Harold Hill: 22 Waxwing still on Ashton Road at 10:30 (Deiniol Owen et al)
 * Hogsmill SW: 25 Waxwing nearby on Lower Marsh Rd am (BirdGuides)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Bittern, 12 Common Snipe, 4 Pintail m 3f, 1 Water Pipit, 9 Mandarin, 1m Stonechat, 2 Jack Snipe (Martin Honey); 2 Peregrine on Charing X Hosp (Mike Wheeler); 4 Siskin (WWT website)
 * Muswell Hill: 2 Waxwing - same time (0845), same place (Cranbourne Road) as yesterday (Andrew Bailey et al); 2 in big tree and rowan in front of number 36 at 1530 for a couple of minutes, flew NE (Suzanna Maas)
 * Pinner (HA5): at least 3 Red Kite in the air at 13:28, 15 Redwing, Mistle Thrush, Green Woodpecker, Goldcrest, Coal Tit, Jackdaw & 6 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Rainham RSPB: Turnstone, 7 Curlew, 20+ Snipe, Golden Plover, 20+ Avocet, Marsh Harrier, ad Yellow-legged Gull, Water Pipit, Barn Owl (Nick Croft/RSPB); 2 Barn Owl Coldharbour Ln after 8pm (Fraser Simpson via Twitter)
 * Ruislip Lido: Jack Snipe still fr boathouse (BirdGuides)
 * Ruxley GPs (permit only): 3 Shoveler, 6+ Teal, 13 Pochard, Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 2 Water Rail, Kingfisher, 11 Pied Wagtail to roost in Cray Valley, Grey Wagtail, Mistle Thrush, 20+ Redwing, Cetti's Warbler, 2+ Chiffchaff, 5+ Goldcrest, 2+ Bullfinch (Ian Stewart)
 * Scratch Wood: Firecrest still, Stonechat Long Hill (Graham Harris) (per Dungeon Hill & Scratch Wood Birds blog)
 * Sidcup station: Common Buzzard NE c14.10 mobbed by Crows (Ian Stewart)
 * Stocker's Lake: red-head Smew still (BirdGuides)
 * Stoke Newington: 1+ Waxwing Petherton Rd N5 2RT (Tony Butler per Chris Farthing via Twitter); 1 showing well w/ c40 Fieldfare behind New River Ct fr Poet's Rd 13:45-13:50 (Twitter)
 * Swanley Park: 2 Waxwing still 9.30 (Andy Meaton); showing well at midday (Conrad Ellam et al)
 * Trent Park: 5 Cormorant, Grey Heron, male Shoveler, 7 Pochard 3m 4f, 3 Tufted Duck 1m 2f, 2 Goosander m f, 4 Treecreeper, male Siskin, 6 Goldfinch (Robert Callf)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: Caspian Gull 1w on main pit (Samuel Perfect/Larissa Simulik via Herts BC), 2 Great White Egret still (BirdGuides)
 * Walthamstow Resevoirs: Scaup (m) now on the Lockwood, 8 Goldeneye (4 on Lockwood 4 on Upper Maynard) (Richard Drew)
 * Wanstead Flats: 16 Shoveler, 7 Teal, 2 Pochard (Nick Croft, Simon Worsfold)
 * Wanstead Park: Water Rail, 60 Gadwall, 12 Shoveler, 19 Teal, Wigeon, 2 Pochard, 2 Little Egret, 2 Goldcrest, 2 Redwing, 2 Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Nick Croft, Simon Worsfold)
 * Waterloo: Waxwing 0930 (BirdGuides)
 * Woodoaks Farm nr Maple Cross: 40 Golden Plover N, 50 Fieldfare, Stonechat (Paul Lewis via Herts BC)
 * Wraysbury GPs: Colne Mere - 3 Goosander 2m rh (Roger Stansfield via Berks BN)

Tuesday 10th January 2017

 * Angel Islington: 20 Redwings flying over Upper Street Business Design Centre (Simon Worsfold)
 * Bedfont Lakes CP: 2m Smew still, Bittern (BirdGuides)
 * Beech Farm GP: no SEOwl this pm but Barn Owl, pr Stonechat BT field, 40 Meadow Pipit (David Booth via twitter)
 * Bishops Park (Fulham): Tawny Owl calling at 0:30am (Nathalie Mahieu).
 * Bow Creek: 20 Redshank in roost. A bit difficult to count fully today as path opposite being replaced. (Paul Hyland)
 * Brent Reservoir: 30 Common Snipe, Sparrowhawk, Blackcap m, Chiffchaff, 2 Water Rail, Reed Bunting f, Coal Tit, Goldcrest (plus Black Swan and 3 Muscovy Duck) (Steve Blake, Magnus Andersson)
 * Brookmill Park: Little Grebe, Cormorant over (Conrad Ellam)
 * Burnt Oak: 2 Mistle Thrush (Bill Rutherford)
 * Charing Cross Hospital: Grey Wagtail (Nathalie Mahieu).
 * Cole Green Tip: Woodcock, 2 Stonechat, 12 Yellowhammer (Andy Haig/Adrian Bonner via Herts BC)
 * Cornmill Meadows and Breaches Farm: 20+ Teal, 50+ Red-legged Partridge, 3 Sparrowhawk, 3 Buzzard, Red Kite, 3 Kestrel, Lapwing, 100+ Jackdaw, 150+ Skylark, Treecreeper, 180+ Fieldfare, 40+ Redwing, 2-3 Yellowhammer, Reed Bunting, 50+ Chaffinch, 3 Bullfinch, 2-3 Siskin (Simon Papps)
 * East Barnet: male Blackcap, 6 Goldfinch, 6 House Sparrow on garden feeders ( Pete Lowman ).
 * East India Dock NR: 6 Shelduck, 34 Teal, 2 Jay, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Paul Hyland)
 * Ewell, Hogsmill Open Space: 1 Little Egret perched in trees (viewed from train) (Neil Batten)
 * Hampstead Heath: Kingfisher, 4 Mandarin Duck, Kestrel around ponds on the extension (Rich Townsend)
 * Harold Hill: 35 Waxwing Ashton Rd still 1355 (BirdGuides)
 * Heathrow: m Smew, Cetti's Warbler (Adam Cheeseman)
 * Hogsmill STW Nature Reserve: 5 Shoveler, Snipe, 10 Stock Dove, 16 Waxwing dropped in for a few minutes at c09:30, 10 Redwing over, 26 Linnet (Andrew Skotnicki)
 * Ingrebourne Valley LNR: 5+ Yellowhammer, 4 Reed Bunting, pr of Bullfinch, 20+ Lesser Redpoll, 3 Linnet, 30+ Chaffinch, 5+ Cetti's Warbler, 2 Buzzard, 3 Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 4 Water Rail, 10+ Teal, 2 Shoveler, 30+ Gadwall, 4+ Pochard, 2 Red-legged Partridge, 30+ Redwing, 10 Fieldfare (Dave McGough/Nick Croft)
 * Lamorbey Park: Firecrest calling a lot c14.40, 10 Tufted Duck, 4 Little Grebe, Kingfisher, 21 Redwing (Ian Stewart)
 * Leyton (Ruckholt Road traffic island): Water Rail (James Palmer)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Bittern, Jack Snipe, Water Pipit (Surrey BC twitter)
 * Muswell Hill: 2 Waxwing seen briefly Cranbourne Road at 0845, flew East (Andrew Bailey et al)
 * Primrose Hill: 2 Waxwing SSE 0805 (Twitter)
 * Rainham Marshes RSPB: Cattle Egret, Water Pipit (BirdGuides); Stone Barges - Turnstone, ad Yellow-legged Gull 09.00, Caspian Gull 2cy, juv Peregrine 15.30, Aveley Bay - Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, Avocet, Rainham RSPB - Barn Owl hunting over reserve 14.00, Marsh Harrier, Curlew, Pintail (Ben Epstein)
 * Regent's Park: m Shelduck, Water Rail & Blackcap still (Twitter)
 * Richmond Park: grey-phase European Stonechat @ bottom of Hawthorn Valley 13.45 pm (BirdGuides)
 * Ruislip Lido: at least one Jack Snipe 'bouncing' seemingly unconcerned by work going on nearby. (Jim Fell)
 * Sidcup DA15 (York Avenue): adult Yellow-legged Gull W c13.15 (Ian Stewart)
 * St James's Park: Peregrine, the falcon over a few times this morning (Frank Nugent).
 * Swanley Park: 2 Waxwing showing well, 61 The Spinney 10am (Andy Meaton); Waxwings still performing well 12.25, also 20+ Redwing, f Blackcap, Sparrowhawk over Swanley Park, where also Chiffchaff and 2 Goldcrest (Ian Stewart et al with thanks to Andy M)P1960246.jpg
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: m Stonechat, Meadow Pipit (both in `owl' field), Treecreeper, 7 Redwing, 2 Fieldfare, 9 Teal (John Colmans)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: 12 Waxwing nr scrapyard meadow then SSW am (BirdGuides); 14 until 1545 when presumably went to roost (John Archer et al.)
 * Trent Park: 2 Goosander m f, 2 Gadwall 2f, f Teal, 4m Mandarin, 2 Tufted Duck m f, m Shoveler, 7 Pochard 4m 3f, Green Woodpecker (Pete Lowman).
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: 2 Great Egret, 9 Little Egret, 14 Tree Sparrow, Kingfisher, Green Sandpiper, Red Kite, 2 Common Buzzard (Jo Edwards); Barnacle Goose Tyttenhanger Farm (per Herts BC)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: Water Rail in Ditch by Cycle Path S of Marina by Main River, Fem. Sparrowhawk mobbing Buzzard over West Warwick, Reed Bunting, Grey Wagtail - 12.30-1pm (Davey Leach).
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: m Scaup, 9 Goldeneye, 4 Goosander, Peregrine, 5 Green Sandpiper flood channel, Stonechat (Katy Thomas/Dave Morrison)
 * Wanstead Flats: 7 Meadow Pipit, 13 Shoveler, 2 Teal, Goldcrest (Bob Vaughan/Nick Croft)

Monday 9th January 2017

 * Bedfont Lakes CP: 2m Smew still on south lake am (BirdGuides)
 * Broadwater Lake: 2 Siberian Chiffchaff this morning one behind the sailing club and one in the dogwood opposite the cut, also along the river 16+ Common Chiffchaffs, 3 Goosander and 2 Water Rails (Roger Morton); Sibe Chiffy [ringed per Herts BN] still just north of sailing club by Colne 1420 (BirdGuides); also Chiffchaff ssp abietinus (Herts BN)
 * Chingford Plain/Connaught Waters: Smew f, Pintail m, Goldcrest, Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 6 Fieldfare, Redwing (Simon Worsfold)
 * Cole Green Tip: 3 Snipe, 6 Linnet, 12 Yellowhammer (Andy Haig/Adrian Bonner via Herts BC)
 * Cornmill Gardens: Little Egret on River Ravensbourne early morning (John Archer)
 * Harold Hill: 24 Waxwing still 1400 (BirdGuides)
 * Holmethorpe SPs: 2 White Wagtail ssp alba unusual winter sighting on ploughed field by new road on Nutfield Ridge (Ray Baker via HSP twitter)
 * Kingston: Black Swan still on River Thames opposite Charter Quay (Nigel Jackman)
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 Bittern, 12 Redwing, 5 Pintail, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Jack Snipe, 1 Water Pipit (WWT Website)
 * Mill Hill, The Ridgeway: 7 Fieldfare, 4 Goldfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 200+ Common Gulls S, 20 Black-headed Gulls SW, 10 Stock Dove W - 09:00-10:30 (Samuel Levy)
 * Muswell Hill: 2 Waxwing still in Cranbourne Road 8.45am in tall tree by number 38-40 (As I was leaving workmen were turning up to dig up the road right underneath them hopefully won't scare them off.) (MarkF); 2 Waxwing in large tree Cranbourne Road 11.45 (Bob Husband)
 * Rainham RSPB: 30+ Black-tailed Godwit, 24 Avocet, 10+ Snipe, 3 Curlew, 20+ Dunlin, Grey Plover, 3-4 Water Pipit, Rock Pipit, 20+ Skylark, 2 Marsh Harrier, Sparrowhawk, Barn Owl, 3 Stonechat, 30+ Fieldfare, 10+ Redwing, 5 Pintail (Nick Croft)
 * Ranelagh Gardens: Tawny Owl, 4 Fieldfare, 31 Redwing, 5 Goldcrest, 3 Coal Tit (Nick Senior)
 * Rotherhithe: Southwark Park - 7 Shoveler, 16 Tufted Duck, 3 Little Grebe, 2 Grey Heron (John & Janet Cadera)
 * Russia Dock Woodland: Kingfisher, Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam); Great Spotted Woodpecker, Long-tailed Tit, 4 Goldcrest, no sign of Firecrest mid-morning (John & Janet Cadera)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: Water Pipit still fr Gadwall_hide next to painted blue no.6 11:15 (BirdGuides)
 * Swanley Park: 2 Waxwing feeding outside 61 The Spinney BR8 7YN seem settled been there since 11 am, also 5 Egyptian Geese (Andy Meaton); 2 Waxwing still present 13.00 (BirdGuides)
 * Totteridge Valley: male Peregrine hunting over Dollis Brook at Woodside Park at 09:56. Also several Redwings in gardens there (Ian Ellis)
 * Trent Park: 2 Goosander m f, 7 Pochard 4m 3f, Redwing (Pete Lowman).
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: 2 Great White Egret still (BirdGuides)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Scaup m still on no. 4 showing well, 5 Pochards, Great Crested Grebe (Alan Hobson); lunchtime visit in rain - 5 Fieldfare, Redwing, Grey Wagtail, 39 Pochard & M Shoveler on no. 1, Goldcrest in Long-tailed Tit flock (Davey Leach).
 * Woodford Bridge: Green Woodpecker in cemetery on Roding Lane North (Alan Hobson)

Sunday 8th January 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Fieldfare, Chiffchaff near bridge New River (Bob Watts); male Blackcap in Garden adjacent to lower fields, and dozens of Redwings feeding on damp grass near 'heritage' oak in Grove at dusk (Jonathan Cooke)
 * Barking Bay: 60 Teal, 5 Wigeon, 16 Snipe, 2 Avocet, 29 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Knot, c40 Dunlin, 7 Curlew, 2 Caspian Gull ad 2cy, 2 Rock Pipit, 15 Skylark, 12 Waxwing S calling, 4 Stonechat, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, c50 Linnet, 11 Reed Bunting (Nick Senior)
 * Beckton SW: 2 Little Egret, Water Rail, Curlew, 4 Common Sandpiper, 15+ Chiffchaff, 5 Grey Wagtail, 3 Rock Pipit (David Morrison via Twitter)
 * Beddington Park: 2 Little Egret fishing near Grange (Arjun Dutta)
 * Bedfont Lakes CP: 2m Smew still on south lake 0935 (BirdGuides)
 * Brent Reservoir: 4 Greylag Geese, 3 Egyptian Geese, 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull, female Pintail North Marsh, Meadow Pipit over (Brent Birders)
 * Broadwater: m Goosander on R Colne, Siberian Chiffchaff by Colne behind sailing club pm (Twitter)
 * Brompton Cemetery: Chiffchaff, 10-12 Redwing (Des McKenzie via Twitter)
 * Ellenbrook Fields nr Hatfield: Short-eared Owl 1530 old BT field (J Bird via Herts BC)
 * Epping Forest, Little Monk Wood: c10 Brambling, several each of Nuthatch and Treecreeper, Tawny Owl (A.Middleton, Neville Smith) Tawny pic
 * Fulham Reach: Caspian Gull 1w just east of Hammersmith Br 1425 (BirdGuides)
 * Harold Hill: 24 Waxwing still Ashton Rd (BirdGuides)
 * Hogsmill STW Nature Reserve: Teal, 6 Shoveler, Gadwall, Sparrowhawk, Snipe, 39 Great Black-backed Gull E, 12 Stock Dove, 2 Redwing (Andrew Skotnicki)
 * Holmethorpe SPs: Shelduck yr-1st Spynes Mere, 2 Little Egret (Neil Randon via HSP blog)
 * Lamorbey Park: 2 Little Grebe, 2 Egyptian Geese, 2 Cormorant, 3 Tufted Duck, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Nuthatch, Coal Tit, Goldcrest (Mike Amos); Firecrest calling frequently and singing occasionally, Kingfisher, c20 Redwing (Ian Stewart)
 * London Wetland Centre: 3 Bittern, 2 Jack Snipe, 5 Snipe, 1 Grey Wagtail, 6 Pintail, 1 Water Pipit, 6 Fieldfare E (WWT Website)
 * Muswell Hill: 2 Waxwing still, showing very nicely in Cranbourne Road at 08:00 (Frank Nugent); in tree opposite number 14 at 08:19 (Dominic Mitchell); still there at 10:30 and a pair of Blackcap (FN); still in trees by No38 1215 (Francis Tusa); still there at 1:20 (@HarringayBirder); and at 15.00 - feeding on berries for 30 second visits despite one birder standing 6ft away…. (Matt Evans); flew off high E at 15:28, were feeding in small tree with pink blossom before flushed by car (Katy McGilvray)
 * Oxleas Wood Kestrel Jackdaw[pr] Goldfinch Goldcrest Common Buzzard[hunting in woods] Great Spotted Woodpecker Coaltit Stockdove[pr] Nuthatch [Ron Turner] RT - it only takes a moment to format your sightings so we don't have to
 * Rainham Marshes RSPB: 2 Marsh Harriers, Common Buzzard, 26 Avocets, Grey Plover, 2 Short-eared Owls, 2 Ravens, Mistle Thrush, Water Pipit, Lesser Redpoll (Sean Huggins); Merlin female over Landfill, 2 Caspian Gull 2cy Coldharbour Point, 1 Rock Pipit Aveley Bay (Nick Senior); 3 Jack Snipe after sunset, also 27 Avocet, 4 Snipe (Frank Osterburg via Twitter)
 * Reigate Town Center: 2 Redwing (A La Pietra)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: Water Pipit still fr draper hide (RSPB twitter)
 * Southgate: Footpath Playing fields behind Walker school - Tawny Owl calling & seen in flight at 8pm (Davey Leach); Waxwing by ASDA Chase Side N14 5PW (BirdGuides)
 * Staines Moor: Water Rail, 2 Jack Snipe, 2 Snipe, 3 Water Pipit (Dominic Pia via Twitter)
 * Swanley Park: 8 Egyptian Geese (pair mating plus 1 ringed bird reported), Tufted Duck m, Coot, 10 Redwing, 5 Fieldfare, 6 Mistle Thrush (Andy Meaton)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: 2 Teal, m Pheasant, 2 Buzzard (1 flew from ground 7.50 before light), Sparrowhawk, Merlin seen 8.18 flying at Skylark as it flew from ground, both birds spiralling up in the sky, Merlin then flew in front & above me in level flight showing face pattern, small compact falcon shape with pointed wings like a mini peregrine before chasing Skylark again before disappearing rapidly to north in extensive open area, c46 Lapwing, 2 Skylark, Meadow Pipit, Redwing, singing Mistle Thrush, 2 Goldcrest, 2 Rook over, f Bullfinch (Neil Anderson)
 * Tyttenhanger Gravel Pits: 2 Great White Egrets, fem Peregrine, 5 Tree Sparrows, Buzzard. (Davey Leach); no sign of Firecrest of 3rd Jan (Alan Gardiner via Twitter)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Scaup m on no. 4, 2 Water Rail (1 on West Warwick and the other on Coppermill Stream), 4 Goldeneye m 3f on West Warwick, 18 Fieldfare, 6 Redwing, 39 Pochard, 439 Tufted Ducks, 11 Little Grebe, 3 Shelduck, 7 Teal, 20 Shoveler, 6 Little Egret, 122 Greylag Geese, 4 Egyptian Geese, 3 Stonechat m 2f, Chiffchaff, Meadow Pipit, Song Thrush, Kingfisher (Simon Worsfold); pr Goosander, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 7 Chiffchaff, 40+ Fieldfare, 10 Redwing, Kingfisher, Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, 6 Meadow Pipit (Lockwood), up to 50 Little Grebe on the river between Stratford and Tottenham Hale including Walthamstow reservoirs (Nick Croft); f Reed Bunting west warwick, Chiffchaff & c30 Fieldfare pumphouse (Phil Aylen via Twitter)
 * Walton-on-Thames: 8 Barnacle Goose N over Thames at Anglers pub landing in swan_sanctuary (Mark Elsoffer via Twitter)
 * Wanstead Flats: 6 Meadow Pipit, flock of Linnet, Great Black-backed Gull (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: Water Rail, Little Egret, pr of Teal (Wanstead Birders); 2 Woodcock, Tawny Owl, 3 Little Grebe (Nick Croft)
 * Watercress LNR: f Kingfisher (Alan Gardiner via Herts BC)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Peregrine grabbed a pigeon which escaped minus quite a few feathers, Coal Tit, 2 Reed Bunting (Chris Farthing)
 * Wormley West End, Herts: Hawfinch [London RA winter-1st] in garden (Graham White via Twitter)
 * Yeading (White Hart Roundabout): 30+ Redwing feeding in Cotoneasters (Neil Anderson)

Saturday 7th January 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Adult Mediterranean Gull Wood Green Res on bank near Tunnel Res 1015 and still 1220 then flew to Filter Beds, also Kingfisher, Jackdaw (Gareth Richards, Bob Watts)
 * Arnos Park, N11: 2 Nuthatch incl singing male (Robert Callf)
 * Bedfont Lakes CP: 2 male Smew South Lake (Y. Simmonds ); also 1 Bittern (S. Fordred); Water Rail (Twitter)
 * Brent Reservoir: 31 Common Snipe, Cetti's Warbler (possible 2nd by Heron Hide), 2 Water Rail, 7 Goldcrest, 2 Redwing, 28 Pochard, 10 Gadwall, 11 Shoveler, c20-30 Teal, 2 Muscovy Ducks, Black Swan (Roy Beddard, Simon Worsfold, Andrew Haynes)
 * Brookmans Park: Raven calling over Dutch nursery (Anders Gray via Herts BC)
 * Broomfield Park, Palmers Green: 43 Greenfinch pre-roost gathering at 15:10 (Robert Callf)
 * Bury Lake: 30 Siskin (Joan Thompson via Herts BC)
 * Chiswell Green nr St Albans: Raven E 0950 (Alan Gardiner via Twitter)
 * Crossness: Common Sandpiper, 20+ Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Kingfisher, 4 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff (Ian Stewart)
 * Dagenham Chase LNR: 3 Waxwing on Crowfoot Marsh just behind Slack 1430 (DG LNR twitter)
 * Erith riverside: Water Pipit, 100+ Black-tailed Godwit, 300+ Dunlin, 5 Rock Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 2 Jackdaw over (Ian Stewart)
 * Ewell, Hogsmill Open Space: 2 Little Egret (apparently three have been present recently), 1 Grey Heron (Neil Batten)
 * Fairlop Waters and surrounding fields: Firecrest, 2 Short-eared Owl, 2 Treecreeper, 2 Little Owl, Common Buzzard, Shelduck, Kingfisher, Stonechat, 300+ Fieldfare, 50-60 Redwing, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Reed Bunting, 200+ Lapwing. (Alan Thomas/Neil Twyford)
 * Finchley Central, Pointalls Allotments: 70 Redwing, 2 Pied Wagtail, 20 Goldfinch, 2 Meadow Pipits. (Samuel Levy) TQ259904
 * Finchley: gdn - Song Thrush (first one seen in at least 6 months) (Samuel Levy)
 * Harold Hill: 21 Waxwing still in industrial estate on Ashton Rd nr Bampton Rd (Colin Jump via Essex BwS); 22 on Ashton Rd opp Newey & Eyre bldg (BirdGuides) TQ541910
 * Lamorbey Park: 2 Little Grebe, 2 Egyptian Geese, 9 Cormorant, Grey Heron, 3 Tufted Duck, Kingfisher, 3-4 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Nuthatch, 6+ Goldcrests (Mike Amos).
 * London Wetland Centre: 3 Bittern, 2 Jack Snipe, c20 Fieldfare, 2 Water Pipit, 2 Common Snipe, 3 Mandarin 2m f (Martin Honey et al.)
 * Muswell Hill: 2 Waxwings from Rosebery Road early a.m., plus 2 Blackcaps m f, 2 Fieldfares over and 27 species in total (Dominic Mitchell); then Waxwings again nearby feeding in Cranbourne Road (Dominic Mitchell, Gareth Richards); no sign 1515 (BirdGuides) TQ289902 - photo Brian Milligan Waxwing_1.jpg
 * Oxleas Woods (SE9 1YG): male Firecrest bathing vigorously amongst Holly and Choisya leaves then preening in Cotoneaster Cornubia, also Tawny Owl hooting 6am (John Reid)
 * Palmers Green (Aldermans Hill, N13): Little Egret flew E at 15:25 (Robert Callf)
 * Ponders End: South Marsh channel - Green Sandpiper, Water Rail (A.Middleton)
 * Poulter Park: 2 Siberian Chiffchaff by R Wandle nr wooden bridge 0955 (BirdGuides)
 * Rainham RSPB: 1 Water Pipit, 28 Avocet, 6 Ringed Plover, 7 Common Snipe, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Peregrine, 1 Kestrel, 1 m Marsh Harrier, Barn Owl (John & Janet Cadera); R Thames Purfleet - Merlin, 773 Lapwing, Grey Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, 382 Dunlin, 3 Yellow-legged Gull (Fraser Simpson via Twitter)
 * Richmond Park: grey-phase European Stonechat still 11.15 at least in Hawthorn Valley c1400m west of Sheen car park (Bob Watts, Franko J Maroevic, Hugh Bradshaw, Dan Keel, Amanda Davies) (Photo: www.ilikebird.uk)IMG 6096 2.jpg
 * Rye Meads RSPB: gadwall_hide - Shelduck, 3 Green Sandpiper 1 colour-ringed red/white on right leg (Mike Ilett via Herts BC)
 * Scratch Wood: Firecrest still (per Dungeon Hill & Scratch Wood Birds blog)
 * Stanstead Abbotts Lakes - N lake: Bittern (Jane Free via Herts BC)
 * Stocker's Lake: red-head Smew still (William Bishop/Simon Knott via Herts BC); m Goosander still fr shoveler_hide (Paul Ward via Herts BC)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: 2 Water Pipit [one colour-ringed], Marsh Harrier, 12 Shelduck, 1500 Dunlin, 275 Lapwing, 2 Curlew, 3 Turnstone, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Raven (Andrew Self)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: Barn Owl, 4 Snipe, 2 Buzzard, 40+ Lapwing (G Westley)
 * Thames Barrier Park: Caspian Gull 1w, Common Sandpiper (David Darrell-Lambert via Twitter)
 * Totteridge Valley: 8 Redwing, 218 Common Gull, Grey Wagtail, 44 Goldfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 70 Rook, 4 Goldcrest, 2 Stock Dove, Green Woodpecker, 14 Teal, 11 Ring-necked Parakeets (Samuel Levy)
 * Tyttenhanger GP: 2 Great White Egret, 12 Little Egret, Common Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Kingfisher, Peregrine Falcon, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 6+ Bullfinch, 6+ Tree Sparrow. (Steve Blake)
 * Victoria Park: 9 Red-crested Pochard, f Kingfisher (David Darrell-Lambert via Twitter)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 4 Stonechat (m & f/imm on fence at E edge of Bomb Crater Field & same again on Leyton Marsh), 5 Fieldfare over NW, no sign of Paul's Jack_Snipe at 1000 - about 10 degrees warmer than yesterday and a shedload of new rain in the Flood Relief Channel so no big surprise  (Alastair Dent)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 38 Little Egret - roost on No 2 [my count exactly one year ago was 54], 3 Stonechat, 2 drake Goldeneye and 1 Kingfisher on West Warwick, Scaup and 3 Goosander [two drakes] on No 4, 1 Common Snipe, 1 drake Goldeneye and 40 Fieldfare on High Maynard, 2 Green Sandpiper on flood relief channel, also noted were a Pheasant on West Warwick and 2 Shelduck on East Warwick, 50+ Redwing, Cetti's Warbler and 3 Chiffchaff (Frank Nugent).

Friday 6th January 2017

 * Amwell NR: Bittern Gt Hardmead L opp viewpt (Herts BC)
 * Beddington Farmlands: 1 juv Glaucous Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (Peter Alfrey, Kevin Guest, Frank Prater and BFBG) pics here
 * Bedfont Lakes: 2 drake Smew still at 12.30 (Jim Sweetland)
 * Canons Farm: Barn Owl briefly by farmhouse 1525 (Steve Gale via Twitter)
 * Copped Hall Estate: Red Kite, 2 Yellowhammer, 4 Common Buzzard, 24 Red-legged Partridge, 5 Rook, c70 Fieldfare, c50 Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush, 12 Stock Dove, 2 Bullfinch, Skylark (Martin Shepherd)
 * Fairlop Waters and surrounding fields: Common Snipe, Kestrel, 11 Redwings, 47 Fieldfare, Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush, 21 Lapwing, Pheasant, 9 Gadwall, 5 Shoveler, 2 Meadow Pipit, Goldcrest (Simon Worsfold)
 * Forty Hall CP: Firecrest reported near Beggars Hollow entrance TQ337989, lots of Goldcrest, Treecreeper, Nuthatch, fem Sparrowhawk, handful of Shoveler on lake, Tawny Owl calling (Brian Dawton)
 * Holmethorpe SPs: 2 Raven S over Mercer's Farm onto Nutfield Ridge (Steve Gale via HSP blog)
 * Lee Valley, Bowyers Water: 2 male Goldeneye (Mike Oakland)
 * Lee Valley, Friday Lake: red-head Smew, Snipe (Mike Oakland)
 * Lee Valley, Holyfield Marsh: finch flocks in wild bird seed crop north of Seventy Acres - c150 Linnet, c50 Chaffinch flock, which included one male Brambling (Mike Oakland)
 * Lee Valley, Seventy Acres Lake: Bittern in reedbed by Information Point. Bird climbed part way up the reeds after it appeared to have been disturbed by a marauding mink that was searching through the reedbed. Showed well from viewing platform to the left of the hide. (Mike Oakland)
 * Leyton Marsh: Jack Snipe in overflow channel to the east of the riding stables, view looking south from the bridge over the channel next to the pylon by the back paddocks. Bird is on the right hand side about 50-75m south under a 5mph sign. Found 09:30 still there 12:30 at least (Paul Whiteman); bird bobbing and feeding well in the rain there at 4pm. Good directions, thanks (Davey Leach).
 * Lyle Park: 4 Caspian Gull (3 first-winter and 1 second-winter) (Dante Shepherd)
 * North Finchley: fem Sparrowhawk over Lodge Lane Car Park (John Colmans)
 * Rainham Marshes RSPB: Water Pipit, Jack Snipe, 26 Avocet, Grey Plover, 2 Curlew, 10 Pintail, 10+ Rook, Merlin reported, 2 Marsh Harrier, Common Buzzard, Short-eared Owl, Barn Owl, 10 Stonechat, 10+ Redwing, 4 Fieldfare, 10 Cetti's Warbler, Goldcrest (Nick Croft/RSPB); Barnacle Goose on landfill w/ Canadas, 2 Ringed Plover Aveley Bay west end (Max Hellicar via Twitter)
 * Richmond Park: 4 Grey Heron - 2 pairs at nests, 3 Teal, 2 Gadwall, 0 Shoveler, 36 Pochard, 23 Tufted Duck - Pen Ponds largely frozen (J.Wilczur)
 * Rotherhithe, Canada Water: 18 Tufted Duck, 3 Common Gull (John Cadera)
 * Rotherhithe, Southwark Park: 1 Tufted Duck, 6 Shoveler, 1 Little Grebe (John Cadera)
 * Rotherhithe, Stave Hill: Firecrest still around the entrance to the ecology park, 2 Goldcrest, 6 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Grey Heron, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Grey Wagtail, Great Spotted Woodpecker (John Cadera)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: Water Rail, Grey Plover, Turnstone, 2 Dunlin, 2 Curlew, Rock Pipit, 4 Stonechat, 300+ Fieldfare, 50+ Redwing, 4 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, Bearded Tit, c20 Reed Bunting (Ian Stewart)
 * Trent Park: Kingfisher lower lake (Robert Callf)
 * Tyttenhanger GP: 2 Great White Egret, 12 Tree Sparrow, Little Grebe. (Steve Blake)
 * West Molesey: Iceland Gull SE over my house in Hurst Road at 8.30am. (Adam Cheeseman)
 * West Thurrock Marshes: 18 Avocet, 2 Grey Plover, 1100 Dunlin, 2 Jack Snipe (David Darrell-Lambert via Twitter)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Snipe, 24 Pochard, Teal, Shoveler, Reed Bunting, 2 Egyptian Geese (Chris Farthing)
 * Woodlands Farm: 37 Fieldfare over, Sparrowhawk, Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
 * Woolwich Common: Common Buzzard mobbed by corvids (Conrad Ellam)

Thursday 5th January 2017

 * Brixton: 2 Fieldfare south, Lyham Road (Tony Stones)
 * Brookmill Park: Little Grebe, Song Thrush (Conrad Ellam)
 * Crayford Marshes (Howbury Farm): Little Owl, 2 Rook, 2 Stock Dove, 70+ Fieldfare; Foreshore - 70 Lapwing, 60 Dunlin, 30 Lesser Black-backed Gull (Ralph Todd).
 * Dollis Brook: (near Finchley tennis club) 30+ Redwing. (Samuel Levy)
 * Enfield lock area: Redshank and Water Rail right in open plus pair Goosander flood relief channel and close up Kingfisher in Turkey Brooke. (Brian Dawton)
 * Farningham Village, Lion Hotel: Little Egret (Andy Meaton)
 * Footscray Meadows: 2 Little Grebe, 2 Mute Swan, 2 Gadwall, f Teal, 3 Tufted Duck, Water Rail, Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail, 4 Redwing (in a brief visit woodland not covered) (Mike Amos).
 * Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park: Gadwall (pair), Little Grebe (inner lake), Tufted Duck (male), Kestrel (female), Goldfinch (50+), Goldcrest (John Bushell)
 * Heathrow: 5 Smew 3m 2f, 3 Goldeneye, 3 Water Rail, Kingfisher (Adam Cheeseman)
 * Ingrebourne Valley: Great Grey Shrike Bonnetts Wood Hill (Tom Bell, Barry Tranfield, Steve Elwell et al per ELBF Facebook)
 * Kentish Town: Arctic St, 2 Waxwings feeding on a Rowan tree (1020) also Blackcap (Pete Mantle) Hi Pete! Could I get an extra steer on the Arctic St Waxwings? There aren't any trees in the street! Many thanks Francis Tusa. - birds were in gardens behind our block of flats (No.1) the tree they briefly fed on is on edge of Woodyard Close. It's favoured by Blackbirds and Woodpigeons but still has some fruit so there must be a chance they'll return tomorrow? (PM)
 * Lee Valley, Bowyers Water: 2 male Goldeneye (Simon Papps)
 * Lee Valley, Friday Lake: red-head Smew, 2 Cetti's Warbler (Simon Papps)
 * Lippitts Hill area: Woodcock flushed (Brian Dawton)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2+ Bittern, 4 Jack Snipe, 2 Water Pipit, 1m Kestrel, 2 Stock Dove, 1 Peregrine (Martin Honey)
 * Richmond Park: The grey-phase European Stonechat still showing by the fallen willows at 12:30, Peregrine, 2 Little Owl, 3 Kestrel, 4 Stock Dove, 48 Shoveler, 8 Gadwall, 3 Teal, 33 Pochard, mating pair of Grey Heron, Water Rail calling SE of southern Pen Ponds, Stonechat, Treecreeper, Nuthatch, Song Thrush, 2 Redwing, Meadow Pipit (Magnus Andersson, Simon Worsfold)
 * Ruxley GPs (permit only): 6 Mute Swan, 1 Canada Goose, 6+ Mallard, 20+ Gadwall, 3 Shoveler, f Teal, 15 Pochard, 100+ Tufted Duck, 10 Little Grebe, 3 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Cormorant, Little Egret N, 3 Grey Heron, 3+ Water Rail, 4+ Moorhen, 250+ Coot, Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail, Fieldfare, 10+ Redwing, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 3+ Chiffchaff, 5+ Goldcrest, Lesser Redpoll, 3+ Bullfinch, 1+ Reed Bunting in to roost (Ian Stewart)
 * St James's Park: female Sparrowhawk (Andrew Self)
 * Sidcup Place: 6+ Redwings (Mike Amos).
 * Staines Moor: 5 Jack Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Water Rail, Little Grebe, Kingfisher, 45 Fieldfare, 8 Song Thrush, 3 Stonechat (Thomas Gibson)
 * Sutcliffe Park: Water Rail, Common Snipe (Conrad Ellam)
 * Stocker's Lake: f Smew fr Shoveler_hide (Geoff Lapworth via Herts BC); 25 Siskin in alders nr Stockers house (Steve Carter)
 * Swanley Park: 6 Egyptian Geese (2nd record in 30 yrs), Coot (rare here), 100+ Redwing, 25 Fieldfare, Kestrel, Heron (Andy Meaton
 * Syon Park: Grey Wagtail, 2 Little Owls, 20 Redwing (f.McK) full name pls?
 * The Ridgeway (Mill Hill): 30+ Redwing feeding on field in front of BCF. (Samuel Levy) Where is BCF? Also suggest heading should read: Mill HIll, The Ridgeway, NW7 (Belmont Children's Farm). [SL - site renamed to match 1) farm address & 2) LNHS site-database format - feel free to change it back if you prefer] TQ224928
 * Thorney CP: m Bullfinch, 2 Shoveler, 3 Gadwall, Grey Heron, Goldcrest, 2 Goldfinch, 3 Redwing, Fieldfare, Chiffchaff, Dunnock, Ring-necked Parakeet (Sue Giddens).
 * Tooting Common: Little Owl in usual tree at back of Bedford Wood (per Peter White)
 * Tottenham Marshes: Wild Marsh area/Chalk Bridge - f Peregrine on pylon by Banbury Reservoir, f Goosander, Green Sandpiper and 3 Grey Wagtail on Overflow channel, 3 Teal in Lea River - 12-1pm (Davey Leach).
 * Waltham Abbey Gardens: 30 Fieldfare, Coal Tit (Martin Shepherd)
 * Waltham Abbey, Kennel Wood area: f Stonechat, c220 Skylark, 27 Lapwing, 9 Stock Dove, 8 Red-legged Partridge, 3 Common Buzzard, Kestrel, Linnet, 3 Fieldfare, 7 Song Thrush, 3 Goldcrest (Martin Shepherd)
 * Walthamstow: Lockwood - pr Goosander, 6 Goldeneye 3m 3f, 3+ Little Grebe, Green Sandpiper, 17 Fieldfare (Stuart Fisher); Peregrine, Meadow Pipit, Fieldfare, Kingfisher, Common Sandpiper - c3pm (Simon Worsfold)
 * Wanstead Flats: 6 Skylark (Bob Vaughan); 6 Shoveler, 3 Teal, 2 Goldcrest, 30 Fieldfare, 8 Redwing, 2 Kestrel (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park: Water Rail, 2 Little Egret, 35 Gadwall, 6 Shoveler, 3 Pochard, 8 Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Chiffchaff, 2 Redwing, 3 Goldcrest (Nick Croft)
 * Watercress LNR: Water Rail, 30+ Siskin (Andrew Steele via Herts BC)
 * West Drayton: Bottom of Swan Rd by bridge Little Egret along river (Sue Giddens)
 * Wraysbury GPs: 2 Smew m f, 8 Goldeneye, Kingfisher (Thomas Gibson)

Wednesday 4th January 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Water Rail (Conservation Pond) (James Palmer)
 * Blackfriars: Great Black-backed Gull on foreshore by Mondrian hotel (D Bates)
 * Chelsea Bridge Wharf: Grey Wagtail (Neil Anderson)
 * Foots Cray: Little Egret, Grey Wagtail on Hales Field c16.20 (Ian Stewart)
 * Hogsmill STW Nature Reserve: Teal, Shoveler, Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, Kestrel, Snipe, 13200 Black-headed Gull (12900 E), 4900 Herring Gull E, 43 Lesser Black-backed Gull (40 E), 2 Fieldfare over, 5 Redwing (Andrew Skotnicki)
 * Grovelands Park: Great Crested Grebe, 2 Cormorant, Mute Swan, 11 Egyptian Goose, 12 Mandarin Duck 7m 5f, 22 Tufted Duck 14m 8f, Sparrowhawk, 8 Common Gull, 4 Stock Dove, Grey Wagtail, 2 Redwing, 8 Goldcrest, Coal Tit singing, 5 Nuthatch incl four males, Treecreeper (Robert Callf)
 * Hockenden area: Stonechat in gorse on bike field, Pheasant, Sparrowhawk, 10+ Fieldfare, Redwings (Ian Stewart)
 * Kingston: Black Swan still on River Thames opposite Charter Quay (Nigel Jackman)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Water Pipit, 1 Jack Snipe, 2 Bittern, 5 Mandarin 3m 2f, 3 Pintail 2m f, 2m Stonechat, 1 Song Thrush, 3 Peregrine on Charing Cross Hospital (Martin Honey)
 * Lyle Park: 1 first-winter Caspian Gull, 3 Yellow-legged Gull (Dante Shepherd)
 * Middlesex Filter Beds: 15 Redwing at 0830 (1 in treetop & 14 over SE), 1 Goldcrest, 3 Collared Dove (back for spring) (Alastair Dent)
 * Millfields E5: 2 Stock Dove in poplars by the orchard at 0900 (back for spring - none here over the winter) (Alastair Dent)
 * North Wembley: 6+ Fieldfare & c20 Redwing feeding in large Cotoneasters (Neil Anderson)
 * O2, North Greenwich: 2 second-winter Caspian Gull, Swiss yellow ringed Yellow-legged Gull HD232 (Dante Shepherd)
 * Rainham Marshes RSPB: 6 Kestrel, 123 Redshank, 123 Teal, 25 Shelduck, Song Thrush, 16 Black-tailed Godwit, 36 Gadwall, 4 Pied Wagtail, 22 Meadow Pipit, 167 Wigeon, Reed Bunting, 212 Lapwing, 2 Raven, 20 Curlew, 2 Water Pipit, 19 Avocet, 4 Dunlin, 12 Linnet, 5 Stonechat, 12 Fieldfare, 64 Redwing, 2 Knot, 7 Skylark, 28 Pintail, 5 Little Egret, 20 Shoveler, 2 Barn Owl, Green Woodpecker, 17 Pochard, 13 Tufted Duck, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Rook, Marsh Harrier, 56 Golden Plover, 4 Snipe (Total of 65 Species seen) (Samuel Levy)
 * Ruislip Lido: Jack Snipe still present in SW corner asleep amongst the sallows. View from the boathouse on the dam. (John Edwards)
 * St Pauls Cray Hill Park: Woodcock flushed from hillside, Buzzard, 7 Skylark, c40 Meadow Pipit, 3 Linnet (Ian Stewart)
 * Staines Moor: pm. 1 very pale Short-eared Owl NW corner, 5+ Kestrels, 1 Little Egret, 1 Water Pipit, 8 Meadow Pipits, 4 Stonechat, Skylark, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Snipe, Numerous Cormorants flying over, 20+ Fieldfare, 10+ Redwing, 8 Song Thrush, Linnets, Siskin. (Nick Baker).
 * Stoke Newington: pm. 7 Waxwing, 1 Redwing (Penny Walker) Location please? [CF] Garden, Winston Rd N16 [PW] Thank you.
 * Stoneleigh KT17: 137 Herring Gull ne (Neil Batten)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: Little Egret, 2 Reed Bunting, c25 Fieldfare, c45 Redwing, 22 Rook, 20 Canada Geese, 9 Teal (John Colmans)
 * Trent Park: Kingfisher, 2 Bullfinch, 4 Shoveler 3m f, 5 Pochard 3m 2f, f Tufted Duck, Redwing, Fieldfare, c40 Black-headed Gull (Pete Lowman).
 * Tyttenhanger GP: 2 Great White Egret, 11 Little Eget, Kingfisher, Green Sandpiper, Tree Sparrow, 2 Bullfinch, 2 Red-legged Partridge, 2 Red Kite (Steve Blake)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 2 Black-necked Grebe on Lockwood, also pr Goldeneye & f Sparrowhawk over, f Peregrine flew low E over both Maynard Reservoirs, ad Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Fieldfare & Grey Wagtail around Upper Maynard - 12.10-13.10 (Davey Leach); drake Scaup No4, pr Goosander on N of Lockwood - 12:25-13:30 (Stuart Fisher)
 * Wanstead Flats: Yellow-browed Warbler briefly with Long-tailed Tits at 08:30 (Rob Sheldon); Y-bW again briefly at 14:30, 3 Goldcrest, 4 Skylark, 12 Linnet, Reed Bunting, c20 Shoveler, 2 Teal, 2 Gadwall, 10+ Tufted Duck, 4 Pochard, 3 Redwing, Kestrel (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park:  Firecrest, Nuthatch, Coal Tit in Bush Wood (Bob Vaughan); 3 singing Coal Tit, 5 Goldcrest, 13 Fieldfare, 3 Redwing, 3 Mistle Thrush, Kingfisher, 5 Little Egret, 5 Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, 4 Shoveler, 3 Teal, 32 Gadwall, Pochard, 15 Tufted Duck (Nick Croft/Mike Messenger)

Tuesday 3rd January 2017

 * Brookmill Park: Little Grebe, 4 Redwing over (John Bushell & Conrad Ellam)
 * Bullsmoor Lane Enfield: Goosander pair on New River then flew south at 8:45, Kingfisher (Deiniol Owen).
 * Chislehurst ponds: Male Mandarin (Ian Stewart)
 * Connaught Water: Redwing, 4 Goldcrest, Treecreeper, M Pintail 08.00-10.20 (G.Gram).
 * Creekmouth: Siberian Chiffchaff (Jamie Partridge and Dante Shepherd) Pics here and here
 * East India Dock NR: 8 Shelduck, 4 Reed Bunting (Paul Hyland)
 * Finchley: gdn - 60 Blue Tit, 25 Great Tit, 6 Long-tailed Tit, 6 Coal Tit, 25 Goldfinch, 10 Greenfinch, 15 Chaffinch, 10 Robin, 4 Dunock, 9 Redwing (into roost), 7 Ring-necked Parakeet, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Wren, 10 Blackbird (and all the usual pigeons and crows) - (First Bird count this year 3-4:15) (Samuel Levy)
 * Hogsmill STW Nature Reserve: Kestrel, 12800 Black-headed Gull (12100 E), 1800 Herring Gull E, Kingfisher, 23 Stock Dove, 11 Redwing, 15 Linnet (Andrew Skotnicki)
 * Hornchurch: my garden this morning - 2 Waxwings (flew off North), 17 Redwing, 2 Goldcrest and 9 Fieldfare (Dave Morrison)
 * Lamorbey Park: 2 Little Grebe, Little Egret, Grey Heron, 2 Mute Swan, c30 Canada Geese, Egyptian Goose, Kestrel, Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Goldcrest, small flock of Siskin (Mike Amos).
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Bittern (main lake), 1 Water Pipit (wader scrape), probably 2 Jack Snipe (grazing marsh), 2 Mandarin (wildside), 3 Pintail 2m 1f (main lake) (Martin Honey)
 * Lyle Park, Thames Barrier Park and by the O2: 4 Caspian Gull (3 first-winter and 1 second-winter) (Jamie Partridge and Dante Shepherd)
 * Petts Wood: 2+ Firecrest, Fieldfare, 200+ Jackdaw, Rook, Siskin (Ian Stewart)
 * Ponders End: 3 Song Thrush flew SW together mid-morning; yesterday 3 Bullfinch Yardley Hill with interesting calls (A.Middleton)
 * Richmond Park: grey-phase European Stonechat still near Hawthorn valley, near large fallen Willows 300 yards East of Cambrian Gate along horse track (Birdguides).
 * Rotherhithe, Stave Hill Ecology Park: Firecrest 11:15 (Tim Rymer).
 * Ruislip Lido: 1 Jack Snipe opposite the boathouse late morning (Roger Morton)
 * St James's Park: Rook over W at 08:35 (Frank Nugent, Jo Lawrence)
 * Sidcup DA15 (York Avenue): 8 Fieldfare NE, Redwing (Ian Stewart)
 * Sidcup Place: 12+ Redwings, Goldfinch in grounds of Registry office by Morrison's (Mike Amos).
 * Stoke Newington West Reservoir: Mediterranean Gull (Chris Farthing)
 * Sutcliffe Park: Green Sandpiper (John Bushell)
 * Tyttenhanger GP: 2 Great White Egret, 11 Little Egret, Water Rail, Green Sandpiper, Kingfisher, Snipe, Peregrine, c20 Skylark, Red Kite (S Blake/P Elton); Firecrest at edge of car park by bailiff's caravan (Alan Gardiner via Twitter)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: m Scaup and Grey Wagtail on No4, Meadow Pipit and Green Sandpiper flushed from No5, f Goldeneye, 8 Shoveler and 38 Little Egret on East Warwick - 12.10-13.10 (Davey Leach).
 * Wanstead Flats: Stonechat, Fieldfare, 4 Redwing, 7 Meadow Pipit, Goldcrest, 20 Shoveler, 3 Gadwall, 2 Teal, 4 Pochard, 4 Tufted Duck, 12 Linnet, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park:  Firecrest, 10 Goldcrest, Treecreeper, 2 Nuthatch, Coal Tit, 2 Siskin, 5 Redwing, 15 Fieldfare, 2 Teal, 33 Gadwall, 7 Shoveler, 3 Pochard, 12 Tufted Duck, 6 Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, drumming Great Spotted Woodpecker, Sparrowhawk (Nick Croft)

Monday 2nd January 2017

 * Alexandra Park: 1+ Water Rail at dusk by small pond by NW corner of Wood Green reservoir, c25 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing, 25+ Magpie (to roost) (Sam Jones)
 * Amwell: f Smew right of watch point, Woodcock flew from railway crossing towards watchpoint at 1710; also Marsh Tit and 17 Red Kite less than a mile outside London recording area (Neville Smith).
 * Barking Bay: 3 Wigeon, 8 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Curlew, 1 Knot, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Caspian Gull 2cy ad, 5 Yellow-legged Gull, 14 Skylark, 30 Meadow Pipit, 4 Stonechat, Bearded Reedling, 2 Cetti's Warbler, c60 Linnet, 12 Reed Bunting, 1 Corn Bunting (Nick Senior)
 * Bounds Green: Marsh Tit briefly in garden am never seen in this area before (Sheila Warbus)
 * Brent Reservoir: Pair of Nuthatches clearing nest hole driven off by pair of parakeets, Water Rail, Sparrowhawk (Francis O'Sullivan); 14 Common Snipe, 2 Cetti's Warbler East Marsh, Chiffchaff (Roy Beddard, Steve Leeke); Black Swan and 3 Muscovy Duck still present (seen from my car as I waited to cross Cool Oak Bridge) (Andrew Haynes)
 * Crayford Marshes: Barn Owl hunting over NE area of landfill close to Moat Lane 16.50, 2 Grey Plover at Darent mouth, 2 Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Curlew, Stonechat (Ian Stewart)
 * Crossness: Black Redstart fem in sewage works around sludge tanks, 3 Buzzards soaring together, c85 Shoveler, 32+ Wigeon, Water Rail, Stonechat fem by Thames path (John Archer)
 * Colliers Wood (River Wandle): 2 Little Egret in Wandle Park, 1 Chiffchaff (Keith Bates)
 * Creekmouth: 1 first-winter Caspian Gull (Dante Shepherd and Jamie Partridge)
 * Fairlop Waters and surrounding fields: 2 Short-eared Owl, 2 Little Owl, Common Buzzard. (Neil Twyford)
 * Garden Wood (Tyttenhanger area): Marsh Tit w/ mixed tit flock (Dan Fletcher via Herts BC)
 * Grovelands Park (Southgate): f Firecrest in laurels near Winchmore Hill Road entrance calling but elusive, 2 Lesser Redpoll and 9 Siskin in alders by lake, 11 Egyptian Geese, 16 Mandarin 9m 7f on lake, 2 Treecreeper, 9 Redwing, 3 Fieldfare, 2 Green Woodpecker and 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming, large numbers of Nuthatch and Goldcrest in area, 3 Coal Tits - 7.30-9.15am (Davey Leach)
 * Gunpowder Park: Sparrowhawk, Green Woodpecker, Song Thrush, a few Redwings, 6 House Sparrows, 4 Reed Buntings and a pair of Bullfinches (Harry Harrison)
 * Hackney Downs: 40+ Ring-necked Parakeets, 2 Mistle Thrushes (Dusk) (Sue Barry)
 * Hogsmill STW Nature Reserve: 5 Shoveler, Teal, 3 Pochard, Sparrowhawk, Snipe, 12700 Black-headed Gull (11000 E), 1040 Herring Gull E, Great Black-backed Gull N, Kingfisher, 6 Redwing, Fieldfare W (Andrew Skotnicki)
 * Hornsey (Priory Park): female type Blackcap (James Palmer)
 * Kingston upon Thames: Black Swan on River Thames opposite Charter Quay (Nigel Jackman)
 * Lamorbey Park: No sign of Firecrest late am, Little Egret, 2 Kingfisher (Ian Stewart et al)
 * Lee Valley (adjacent to King George V Reservoir): Few Redwing and Fieldfare on grazing land between Navigation canal and reservoir, also a flock of 33 Linnets; pair of Goosander on eastern branch of River Lee adjacent to sailing club (Nick Moll)
 * London Wetland Centre: highlights included 2 Bittern (seen from Observatory looking towards Headely Hide and another looking towards WWF Hide - latter not seen by me), Water Pipit, 2 Water Rail, 2 Jack Snipe 1 seen by other observer, m Stonechat, Peregrine (CX Hospital) (Bill Haines); 3 Pintail, 2 Peregrine, 2 Reed Bunting, several Snipe (Mat Hare)
 * Lyle Park: 5 first-winter Caspian Gull (Dante Shepherd, Jamie Partridge and Richard Bonser)
 * Pinner (HA5): Red Kite over at 12:39 & the same or another north-west at 15:06, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Redwing over, 6 Goldfinch & Coal Tit on feeders, Long-tailed Tit, Jackdaw & 2 Common Gull (Jon Ridge)
 * Regent's Park: Male Kingfisher end of main lake by wildlife garden behind tennis courts (Toni Piccolo)
 * Richmond Park: grey-phase European Stonechat still near Hawthorn valley near large fallen Willows 300 yards East of Cambrian Gate along horse track, nearby 2 Stonechats, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker heard near Sheen Gate car park early am per visitors (Franko J Maroevic); by pen ponds 1 Dartford Warbler, 6 Stonechat, 1 Peregrine, c80 Shoveler (Oscar Dewhurst); presumed Stejneger's showing well 15.00 in grassland beyond fallen willows. This bird reminds me of a similarly cold toned bird seen by me and Des McKenzie at Thamesmead some twenty years ago. I am trying to dig out my notes. (R.Kaye); 88 Shoveler, Little Owl, Kingfisher (Pen Ponds); 3 Meadow Pipit, 7 Stonechat, probably 2 Dartford Warbler (Neil Anderson/K. Bull); also Little Owl at Bog lodge and Kingfisher on upper Pen ponds. (J.Murray).
 * Ruislip Lido: Jack Snipe seen from boathouse 9.45am (Tim Rymer).
 * Surbiton: 16 Cormorant, 10 Lapwing, 5 Little Grebe on Seething Wells Filter Beds (Nigel Jackman)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: Jack Snipe & Water Pipit on foreshore/saltmarsh, 2 Marsh Harrier, 10 Avocet, 61 Black-tailed Godwit, 82 Lapwing, 54 Redshank, 4 Stonechat, 1160 Fieldfare, 100 Redwing, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff (Andrew Self)
 * Trent Park: Common Buzzard, 6 Pochard 3m 3f, Woodcock, fem Great Spotted Woodpecker, Nuthatch, 4 Treecreeper, 2 Bullfinch (Robert Callf)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 2 Stonechat 1m 1f/imm on Leyton Marsh, f Kestrel over Bomb Crater Field, 14 Linnet on rear paddocks - 11:00-12:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Walthamstow Res: Drake Scaup on No4 and 44 Little Egrets roosted on East Warwick. (J.Murray)
 * Wanstead Flats: No confimred sighting of Yellow-browed Warbler by evening, Chiffchaff, 3 Goldcrest, Stonechat, Skylark, Grey Wagtail, 6 Pochard, 3 Tufted Duck, 7 Shoveler, 6 Teal, 4 Gadwall, Common Buzzard, Kestrel, Linnet (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: Treecreeper, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Coal Tit, Sparrowhawk (Bob Vaughan/Tony Brown)

Sunday 1st January 2017

 * Ashley Pit: 12 Goosander (Andy Bartlett via Herts BC)
 * Brent Reservoir: 2 Cetti's Warbler, 30+ Snipe, 310 Common Gull, Chiffchaff & 9 Goldcrest included in 54 species (Andrew Self, Andrew Verrall, Roy Beddard)
 * Broxbourne Woods: Marsh Tit, 8 Siskin (Jenny Sherwen via Herts BC)
 * Canons Farm & Banstead Woods: 3 ad Great Black-backed Gull over, Collared Dove, 7 Rook, 23 Skylark, f Stonechat hither field, 20 Fieldfare, 200 Redwing, Meadow Pipit, Lesser Redpoll, 8 Bullfinch, 21 Yellowhammer broadfield - 49 spp (David Campbell via CFBW blog)
 * Charing Cross Hospital: 3 Peregrine Falcon (juvenile still around) (Nathalie Mahieu).
 * Creekmouth, Barking: Curlew, Knot, 4 Common Sandpiper, 25 Redshank, Caspian Gull 3cy, 15 Chiffchaff, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Rock Pipit, 2 Reed Bunting (Paul Hawkins per ELBF Facebook)
 * Danson Park: 2 male Pochard, 3 Teal, Water Rail (Ian Stewart)
 * Ealing (W13): Female Blackcap in garden - 25 species recorded from house during day. (Bill Haines)
 * Foots Cray Meadows: Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff, Shoveler, Water Rail, Little Egret (Ian Stewart)
 * Greville Place LNR, Kilburn NW6: 20 Redwing, 2 Goldcrest (Francis O'Sullivan) TQ257833
 * Hammersmith (Wendell Park): 1 Waxwing w/ Fieldfares 1305 (BirdGuides) TQ216796
 * Harold Hill: 9 Waxwing still (BirdGuides)
 * Hilfield Park Reservoir: Red Kite, Kingfisher (Tony Blake via Herts BC)
 * Hogsmill STW Nature Reserve: 3 Teal, Shoveler, Pochard, 6300 Black-headed Gull (5500 E), 30 Lesser Black-backed Gull mainly E, 640 Herring Gull mainly E, Kestrel, 10 Stock Dove, Kingfisher, 7 Redwing, Fieldfare W (Andrew Skotnicki)
 * Holmethorpe SPs: 3 Little Egret, 5 Jack Snipe (Surrey BC)
 * Hornsey: male Blackcap, Goldcrest, Long-tailed Tit, 2 Redwing in my garden (James Palmer)
 * Lamorbey Park: Firecrest, Siskin (Ian Stewart)
 * Leyton: 1 Waxwing flew ENE over Leyton Fire Station at 11:00. (Paul Whiteman)
 * London Wetland Centre: pr Pintail, Bittern showing well beside WWF hide, pr Peregrine perched on Charing X Hospital, Water Rail, Jack Snipe (missed by me), Water Pipit (Neil Anderson et al); Bearded Tit reedbed (feeding on seed heads just S of bench on path to Wildside Hide), 10 Fieldfare, 11 Redwing, 4 Siskin (WWT website)
 * Lower Chingford: 3 Goosander, Redshank (James Palmer)
 * Lyle Park: 2 Caspian Gull (first-winter and second-winter), 6 Yellow-legged Gulls, 1 Fieldfare, 4 Redwing, 4 Linnet (Dante Shepherd) Pictures here
 * Pinner (HA5): Fieldfare, 15 Redwing, Coal Tit & a rather 'messed up' first-winter Common Gull (Jon Ridge)
 * Rainham RSPB: - Happy New Year everyone - a.m - 2 Short-eared Owl and 1 Barn Owl, 35 Black-tailed Godwits, Grey Plover, 15 Avocet, 11 Ringed Plover, Peregrine, 14 Pintail, 2 Stonechat, 4 Rock Pipit and 1 Water Pipit, Chiffchaff, Dark-bellied Brent Goose and Kingfisher (Dave Morrison); also 3 Little Egret, 3 more Avocet, 3 Golden Plover, 1200 Lapwing, 7 Curlew, 200 more Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Turnstone, Knot, 700 Dunlin, Jack Snipe, 23 Snipe, Caspian Gull 1w, 3 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, another Barn Owl, 40 Rook, 3 Raven, 14 Skylark, another Chiffchaff, 9 Cetti’s Warbler, 5 more Stonechat, 23 Fieldfare, 80 Redwing, Grey Wagtail, 9 Meadow Pipit, 4 more Rock Pipit, 4 more Water Pipit - 87 spp (per Howard Vaughan et al via ELBF Facebook)
 * Rayners Lane, Roxbourne Park: Nuthatch, Goldcrest, Common Gull (Tim Rymer)
 * Richmond Park: grey-phase European Stonechat still near Hawthorn valley. In long grass near lower large fallen willows. 300 yards East of Cambrian Gate along horse track. From gate walk uphill on left gravel path. Cross cycle track and turn left on horse track 10 yards beyond (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Rotherhithe, Canada Water: 10 Tufted Duck, 1 Common Gull, 2 Pied Wagtail (John & Janet Cadera)
 * Rotherhithe, Greenland Dock: 40 Tufted Duck, 8 Great Crested Grebe (John & Janet Cadera)
 * Rotherhithe, Southwark Park: 1 f Teal, 8 Tufted Duck, 2 Shoveler, 2 Egyptian Goose, 13 Greylag, 6 Canada Goose, 3 Little Grebe, Grey Heron, Goldcrest, 6 Long-tailed Tit, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Jay (John & Janet Cadera)
 * Rotherhithe, Stave Hill: Firecrest still around the entrance to the ecology park, 1 Chiffchaff, 4 Goldcrest, Long-tailed Tit, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Chiffchaff, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Grey Wagtail, Jay, Kingfisher (John & Janet Cadera)
 * Ruislip Lido: 1 Jack Snipe (seen mid-afternoon) (R.Middleton)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: Bittern Kingfisher_hide, Water Pipit fr Gadwall_hide (Andy Bartlett via Herts BC)
 * Scratch Wood, Woodmansterne: 2 Rook, 2 Firecrest [site-1st], 4 Lesser Redpoll [Gt Solom's Wd] (Dungeon Hill & Scratch Wood Birds facebook)
 * South Harrow: Red Kite following Piccadilly Line (Michael Robinson)
 * Staines Res: Brent Goose, m Scaup 1w, 11 Goldeneye, 2 Black-necked Grebe, 2 Red Kite (Dominic Pia & Tony Sweetland via Twitter)
 * Stocker's Lake: 12+ Red-crested Pochard, Ring-necked Parakeet (Axel Kirby); m Goosander (Clifford Smout)
 * Tottenham Marshes: Barn Owl near allotments and canal South Marsh c4 am (Stuart Fisher); female Stonechat in usual place, plus Kingfisher on Pymmes Brook near cafe (Quentin Given)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: Little Owl, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Bullfinch, 3 Redwing, 2 Fieldfare, Mistle Thrush, 11 Teal (John Colmans)
 * Tyttenhanger GP: fem Goosander, 2 Great White Egret, 3 Little Egret, Peregrine Falcon, Green Sandpiper (Steve Blake)
 * Verulamium Park: Kingfisher by bridge nr Fighting Cocks (Andy Day via Herts BC)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 2 Green Sandpiper in Flood Relief (reservoirs closed today seen from road) (Quentin Given)
 * Wanstead Flats: Yellow-browed Warbler still on Alex, Stonechat (Jonathan Lethbridge)
 * Wanstead Park: Firecrest, 3 Water Rail, 5 Little Egret (Jonathan Lethbridge/Tim Harris)

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