October 2017

October's highlight: a Hawfinch irruption
My choice for Bird of the Month is the humble Hawfinch, which was seen in unusual numbers across London from 9th October onwards, following a mass dispersal from Eastern Europe. Any London birder out and about during October stood a fair chance of clocking this shy bird flitting overhead and perhaps dropping down briefly.

London normally records a few wandering Hawfinch in October: last year this wiki had five reports totalling seven birds. But October 2017 has been a record-breaking month, with more than 60 sightings totalling more than 200 birds, ranging from ones and twos up to a flock of 40.

And still they come.

Although I usually nominate a twitchable rarity as my B-of-the-M, I settled on the Hawfinch irruption because the only rare birds that stayed around long enough for birders to catch up with them were a couple of pre-twitched rednecks: the Red-necked Grebe at Roding Valley Meadows LNR, which stayed from 22nd Sep to 25th Oct, and a Red-necked Phalarope at Staines Reservoir from 20th to 22nd Oct, following an earlier bird at the same site from 11th to 14th Sep.

In other circumstances my choice might have been Leach’s Storm-petrel or Corncrake, but neither of these birds lingered to show themselves to more than one observer. The Leachie, which circled low over Barnes on 8th Oct, was the first reported in London since autumn 2009. And the Creaker, flushed at Wanstead Flats on the 22nd, was only the second in London this century, following a juvenile in August 2010 that ended its days as a lunchtime snack for a Grey Heron. Another elusive bird was a Spotted Crake that was heard but not seen at Tyttenhanger GPs on the 20th.

Muddy Staines
By the start of October the wader-fest in the muddy drained south basin of Staines Reservoir was coming to an end. But the site continued to attract some good waders, albeit in smaller numbers. Apart from the above-mentioned RN Phal, there were further reports of Avocet, Grey Plover, Ruff, Curlew Sandpiper and Little Stint, among others.

In addition Staines had early sightings of winter wildfowl, with four Barnacle Goose on the 7th and a Brent Goose on the 8th. Other notable wildfowl included three Whooper Swan at Rainham Marshes on the 29th and 20 Pink-footed Goose over Tottenham on the same day.

Birds of prey
Another stand-out bird at Staines was the Merlin that took a liking to the reservoir early in September and stayed for more than a month. It was last seen over Staines Moor on 6th Oct. Elsewhere, a juvenile Goshawk has been seen more than once at Fryent Country Park, suggesting that this species may have bred not a million miles from north-west London. Other birds of prey included a late Honey Buzzard over Woodland Farm on the 17th and a few sightings of Short-eared Owl here and there.

Other non-passerines
Great White Egret were seen briefly on 10 occasions, so perhaps this species is becoming too frequent to mention in the monthly round-up. A Spoonbill settled in at Rainham Marshes from 16th to 24th Oct.

A Cuckoo in Nazeing on 8th Oct was surprisingly late, although still 17 days short of the London record set in 1994. And an unusually late Arctic Tern was at Dulwich Park boating lake on the 11th.

The autumn’s first Woodcock — sadly also the first Woodcock casualty of the year — was a bird found dead beneath an Aldgate window on the 19th.

And last but not least, the passerines
Wintering Rock Pipit and Water Pipit began to appear this month, but the star passerine was Red-throated Pipit, with one bird over Rainham Marshes on the 9th and another over Berrylands on the 17th. These were the first sightings of this rare vagrant since Oct 2013.

Following an early bird on 26th Sep, the second Ring Ouzel of the autumn was seen on the 14th, after which numbers steadily increased. And while the Woozles were leaving us, winter thrushes were arriving, with Redwing aplenty, although surprisingly few Fieldfare as yet.

Yellow-browed Warbler and Firecrest were reported from various London sites. Although both were once rare in London, these winter visitors are becoming somewhat ho-hum and may not merit inclusion here in future.

Apart from the B-of-the-M Hawfinch, the emberizids (finches and buntings) provided some interesting sightings, including both Snow Bunting and Lapland Bunting at Gallions Reach (15th and 25th, respectively). A Lap Bunt also flew over Regent’s Park on the 24th, while a Snow Bunt was reported at Totteridge Valley on the 29th.

''In my September round-up I lamented that it was weeks since anyone had posted any images to this wiki. Since then Samuel Levy has uploaded a number of photographs, and I have chosen to illustrate this paragraph with his colourful image of a Long-tailed Tit surrounded by red berries. Samuel would no doubt be the first to admit that his pics (like my own) may not win any major prizes — after all, we cannot all afford to spend thousands of pounds on elaborate equipment — but his images are delightful for being honest records of London birds. So please keep them coming.''

(Contributed by Andrew Haynes, who accepts full responsibility for any errors. Historical information is mainly based on archived reports on this wiki and on ‘The Birds of London' by Andrew Self.) ---

Tuesday 31st October 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Ring Ouzel male south 0656, 6 Hawfinch west 2 perched butterfly meadow, Brambling SW, 10 Redpoll, 300+ Redwing west, 80+ Fieldfare west, 50+ Starling north, 20+ Chaffinch, 100+ Woodpigeon - viz mig 0650 to 0910 (APOG Birders)
 * Barnes (Trinity Church Rd): 17 Fieldfare & 1 Redwing dropping down to land but then carried on 7.30 (Neil Anderson)
 * Bow Creek: 22 Redshank, 70+ Redwing in single flock (Paul Hyland)
 * Brent Reservoir: Green Sandpiper, Lapwing, 9 Common Snipe; Vis-mig 769 Starling, 64 Woodpigeon, Meadow Pipit, 2 Pied Wagtail, 292 Redwing, 180 Fieldfare, 66 Chaffinch, Siskin, 3 Lesser Redpoll - 06:30-08:40 (Andrew Self, Andrew Verrall)
 * Brockwell Park: Movement of thrushes and starling this am all generally W/SW. 300+ Starling, 300+ Fieldfare, 100+ Song Thrush, 100+ Redwing, 4 Blackbird, 3 Jay, 3 Cormorant S, 30+ Chaffinch, 6 Goldfinch 07.20-09.00, also 2 Pied Wagtail, 1 Mistle Thrush, 19 Black-headed Gull, 37+ House Sparrows 20+ in beds by entrance to cafe (roosting ? they are usually there some nest on the house) also 17+ Brixton Water Lane gate area, on ponds Kingfisher and Grey Heron on upper pond, also 11 Tufted Duck, 25 Mallard, 33 Black-headed Gull, 5 Mute Swan (3 juv.), 2 Coot, 4+ Moorhen (Tony Stones); Top Pond - Kingfisher still present at 4pm, 1 Water Rail came out briefly at 4:30pm, 200 Ring-necked Parakeets in roost (Michael Mac)
 * Brookmill Park: Little Egret, Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 20 Fieldfare w, Coal Tit (Conrad Ellam)
 * Canada Water: 22 Tufted Duck, 2 Pied Wagtail (John Cadera)
 * Canons Farm: 3 Hawfinch, 2500 Redwing, 560 Fieldfare, 13 Siskin, 9 Redpoll, 80 Chaffinch, 410 Starling - Hither Field 06:30-10:15 (Twitter)
 * Chingford/Connaught Waters: 34 Mandarin, 5 Teal, 10 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall, Common Buzzard, Treecreeper (Simon Worsfold)
 * Copped hall estate 2 Red kites 2 yellowhammers 1 stonechat (Brian Dawton )
 * East India Dock NR: Kingfisher, Cetti's Warbler, 4 Shelduck (Paul Hyland)
 * Elephant and Castle: 3 Hawfinch west over Globe Academy, New Kent Road 7.10am; also 25 Redwing and 2 Fieldfare (Richard Bonser)
 * Gallions Reach: Bearded Tit, 120 Fieldfares, Curlew, 8 Lapwing, 11 Redshank, Redwings & Skylarks still going through. (KJM)
 * Greenwich Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker, Redwing 2, Chaffinch 20SW. (Richard Green); also 1 Skylark, 80+ Redwings W/NW, 170+ Fieldfares W/NW, 110 Chaffinches W/NW, Brambling heard, 350+ Starlings W, 6+ Siskins, 3 Redpolls, 2 Meadow Pipits N, 4 Blackbirds W, 4 Hawfinches W (Joe Beale)
 * Hampstead Heath: Tawny Owl in tree between Sanctuary Pond and feeders, same hole as 5 or 6 years ago. (M.Hill for MBS)
 * Lamorbey Park: (late visit) 2 Mute Swan, f Shoveler main lake, 2 f Teal lower lake, 5 Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goldcrests (Ian Stewart)
 * Motspur Park: Peregrine on gas holder (Bob Smith)
 * Northumberland Heath Brook Street: 40+ Starlings Flying Back and Forth from Becton Place Flats observer?
 * Pinner (HA5): 2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Coal Tit, Goldcrest, 5 Jay; viz mig: 60 Redwing west, 15 Fieldfare north-west, Song Thrush, 28 Chaffinch west, 8 Greenfinch & 9 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Primrose Hill: 8 Hawfinch in the hour after dawn 2W w/ 3 Fieldfare 07:05 & 6SW 07:20 (Twitter)
 * Putney Embankment: c25 Skylark NW in a flock, no sign of Common Dolphin (J.Wilczur, R.Kaye)
 * RSPB Rainham Marshes: Great White Egret on Target Pools. (Howard Vaughan via Twitter)
 * Rotherhithe: c.30 Redwing and 5 Fieldfare SW over Rope Street 6.35am (Richard Bonser)
 * St James's Park: Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail and c30 Fieldfare NW (Frank Nugent).
 * Sidcup DA15 (York Avenue): 2 Hawfinch W 08.45 site first, Cormorant SW, Sparrowhawk W, Peregrine, 4 Common Gull, Stock Dove SE, 120+ Woodpigeon S & locals, 2 Skylark NW, 2 Song Thrush SW, 5 Mistle Thrush W, 35+ Fieldfare W, 42+ Redwing generally W, 3 Blackbird 1SW 2W, 2 Goldcrest, Coal Tit, Magpie W & 5 local, Jackdaw, 125+ Starling W & locals, 90+ Chaffinch W/NW, 4 Redpoll 1S 1N 2W, 10+ Goldfinch, 4 Siskin NW (Ian Stewart)
 * Sidcup Place: Tawny Owl calling along Frognal Ave 06.17 (Ian Stewart)
 * Southwark Park: 2 Grey Wagtail (John Cadera)
 * Stave Hill: 2 Fieldfare, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Chaffinch, 12 Long-tailed Tit, 4 Goldcrest, Pied Wagtail (John Cadera)
 * Stoneleigh Station: 16 Redwing and 2 Grey Heron s. (Neil Batten)
 * Sydenham Hill Wood: 2 Hawfinch seen flying high over Forest Hill this morning (Twitter)
 * Trent Park: 6 Mandarin Duck 4m 2f, 9 Common Pochard 6m 3f, f Tufted Duck lower lake (Robert Callf)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Black-necked Grebe still at north end of Lockwood, 170 Redwing, 130 Fieldfare including one flock of 60, 110 Chaffinch and 4 Skylark west. (David Bradshaw, Jamie Partridge)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 2 Peregrine, 2 Sparrowhawk, Kingfisher, 35 Fieldfare SW, c100 Redwing SW (one of each thrush also seen perched) & 2 Lesser Redpoll feeding in birch between New River and West Reservoir (Chris Farthing)
 * Woodford Green: Redwing and two Goldcrest emerged from Hawthorn roost at 6.58am, 21 Fieldfares North at 7.17am, 12 Starlings NNW 7.20am, 2 Grey Wagtails over at 8.20am, 7 Hawfinch Two South at 8.30am & One South at 8.46am & One East at 8.52am & One SW at 9.20 am & Two NNW at 9.25am, plus 4 Little Egrets over at 11.00am. (Ken Murray)
 * Worcester Park: Little Egret (Bob Smith), 10 Redwing west

Monday 30th October 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Stonechat southern perimeter playing fields 0650 until 0705 at least, also Reed Bunting west, 90+ Woodpigeon, 4 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing by 0715 (Bob Watts, Bruce Carson)
 * Barn Elms Playing Fields, Barnes: 5 Wigeon W, Peregrine, 2 Lapwing NW, 2500 Woodpigeon SW, 46 Song Thrush mostly W, 4 Mistle Thrush 2 local & 2 S, 254 Fieldfare NW/W, 179 Redwing NW/W, 4 Meadow Pipit NE/SW, 9 Skylark SW/NW, 510 Starling W, 5 Magpie High NE/SE, Nuthatch, 71 Chaffinch mostly NW, 2 Brambling SW/NW, 4 Lesser Redpoll NE/NW, 9 Siskin SW, 11 Goldfinch S, 2 Linnet SW, 11 Hawfinch 3 NW 07.00 & 1 W 09.10 & 1 NW 09.11 & 3 SW 09.59 & 1 W 10.31 & 2 N 10.55 (R.Kaye)
 * Beddington Farmlands: Great White Egret over NW (Twitter)
 * Brent Reservoir: Little Egret and 2 Green Sandpiper N.Marsh, 2 Brambling W over the bridge towards N.Marsh at 11.10, Wigeon, 5 Common Snipe, Common Sandpiper; Vis-mig - Goosander drake high N, 91 Starling, 866 Woodpigeon, 4 Stock Dove, 6 Jackdaw, 117 Redwing, 136 Fieldfare, 3 Mistle Thrush, 3 Song Thrush, Blackbird, 66 Chaffinch, 4 Greenfinch, 7 Goldfinch, Bullfinch, 2 Siskin, 5 Lesser Redpoll - 06:30-10:40 (Simon Worsfold, Andrew Verrall); Brambling in trees S of shrike field 10:20, 1 Skylark N, 6+ Redpoll N/NW, 19 Siskin 4S plus 6 in trees around Canoe Club, Water Rail and 2 Green Sandpiper still at North Marsh mid-afternoon (Bill Haines).
 * Fairlop: M Peregrine, 30 Lapwing (Steve Bacon)
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - 1700 Woodpigeon S/SW, 61 Redwing NW/N, 12 Fieldfare & 5 Blackbird at tops of trees then flew high and to N 16:00. (Samuel Levy)
 * Hampstead Heath: Escaped Demoiselle Crane currently on the cricket pitch in the process of being captured by City of London! Surreal sight earlier as it was pursued in flight by huge number of Crows and Gulls over Parliament Hill. Also 2 Skylark S, Linnet NW, 6 Redpoll W, c300 Fieldfare mainly NW, 3 Meadow Pipit NW (Frank Nugent).
 * Morden Cemetery: Little Owl, 30 Stock Doves (Bob Smith) Hi Bob, what part of the area was the Little Owl in?
 * Motspur Park: Nuthatch in gasholder wood (first for year) (Bob Smith)
 * Pinner (HA5): male Blackcap, Linnet over, 4 Goldfinch, 5 Jay, Jackdaw, Green Woodpecker & 4 House Sparrow on the feeders (Jon Ridge)
 * Regent's Park: Hawfinch NW 6.50am, Brambling 7.40am landed briefly, Bullfinch NW 11.40am, Ring Ouzel NW 7.50am, 550 Fieldfares, 620 Redwings, 330 Chaffinches, 30 Lesser Redpolls, 3 Skylarks (Tony Duckett).
 * Richmond Park: all between Pembroke Lodge and Pen Ponds - 3 Stonechat, 2 Meadow Pipit, 26 Fieldfare, also 1 Treecreeper, on Pen Ponds about 20 Pochard (Keith Bates); Red Kite, Woodcock, Hawfinch in low flight at 07.10 (S.Read); Brambling (M.Lewis); male Dartford Warbler (J.Few, B.Atherton); 13 Teal, 5 Wigeon, Little Grebe, 2 Buzzard, Skylark W, 15 Song Thrush W, 160 Redwing W, 360 Fieldfare W, 3 Mistle Thrush S, 2 Magpie S, Raven, 640 Starling W, 135 Chaffinch W/NW, 2 Linnet S, 9 Redpoll, 2 Hawfinch W at 10.30 (J.Wilczur)
 * Sidcup DA15 (York Avenue): 2 Canada Geese NE, Sparrowhawk, 2 Peregrine, 2 Common Gull W, 320+ Woodpigeon S + locals, 4 Stock Dove W, m Great Spotted Woodpecker, 16 Fieldfare W, c20 Redwing W, Goldcrest, Coal Tit, 2 Jackdaw S, small numbers of Chaffinch W but more heard than seen (Ian Stewart)
 * Sidcup: Lamorbey Park - 2 Mute Swan, 9 Egyptian Goose, 32 Canada Goose, 35 Mallard, 3 Tufted Duck 1m 2f, Little Grebe, Grey Heron, 80 Black-headed Gull 30 & 50, 2 Common Gull, Nuthatch, 5 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Jay, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Coal Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Dunnock, Wren, 2 Goldcrest, Peregrine (Eric Brown)
 * Snaresbrook Crown Court: Firecrest (Stuart Fisher)
 * Southwark Park: 14 Greylag, 20 Canada Goose, 2 Egyptian Goose, 2 Grey Heron, 6 Long-tailed Tits, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 15 Redwing over W, 1 Herring Gull (John & Janet Cadera)
 * Stave Hill: 1 Firecrest, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goldcrest, 2 Chiffchaff, Long-tailed Tit, 23 Fieldfare (3 over W & another 20 over Surrey Water), Grey Wagtail (John & Janet Cadera, Richard Page-Jones)
 * Staines Reservoirs: 1 Curlew, 8 Dunlin, 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Black-necked Grebe all on S basin. N basin SE bank, 2 Rock Pipit, 1 Water Pipit, early pm. (Roger Moreton, Franko J Maroevic)
 * Totteridge Valley: Barn Owl seen at 17.15 in Cow field from path towards Folly Farm, also distant Tawny Owl hooting on several occasions and Common Buzzard heard (Simon Worsfold) (101 Species now recorded in the valley this year breaking all previous known year counts! - SL)
 * Trent Park: 3 Mandarin Duck 2m 1f, f Teal, 7 Common Pochard 5m 2f lower lake, Red Kite, f Sparrowhawk, m Kestrel, Woodcock (only my second October sighting at this site - most arrive in November), Kingfisher, 2 Redwing, 5 Goldcrest, Firecrest foraging in laurel SW edge of Rough Lot 13:00, Nuthatch, Siskin, Small Copper, Speckled Wood (Robert Callf)
 * Tyttenhanger GP: 2 Hawfinch flew over grass field north of Main Pit, Brambling on Maize, Green Sandpiper, 11 Little Egret, Kingfisher, c20 Linnet, 30+ Chaffinch, 2 Buzzard, 6 Tree Sparrow. (Steve Blake)
 * Victoria Embankment Gardens: Firecrest in bushes behind Robert Burns statue 13:15-13:30, plus Coal Tit, Song Thrush, Grey Wagtail feeding on barge moored along Victoria Embankment opposite Gardens (Graeme Spinks)
 * Wanstead Flats: Hawfinch over E (Twitter); 3 Brambling, Siskin, Redpoll, Linnet, c100 Chaffinch, 7 Skylark, 10+ Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 100+ Common Gull, Rook, Common Snipe, 40 Fieldfare, 40+ Redwing, 3 Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel, 5 Teal, Pochard, 1500 Woodpigeon (Wanstead Birders)
 * Woodford Green: 5 Hawfinch 2 South against a Western Sky at 6.52 am. then a single NW-SE at 8.27 am (images) and two over at 8.50 going SE. (Ken Murray)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: female Bullfinch, pair of Stonechats and 2 Goldcrests (J-P Elmes)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Black-necked Grebe, Green Sandpiper - Lockwood, 115 Fieldfare & 60 Redwing W, 2 Common Sandpipers High Maynard and No 5, released Woodcock at top of No 1 (David Bradshaw, Lol Bodini, Lol Cummings)
 * Waterworks NR: Ring Ouzel (D Beadle)
 * Wimbledon SW17: calling Peregrine carrying pigeon followed by Crow, Peregrine landed on pylon & began to pluck prey (Neil Anderson)

Sunday 29th October 2017

 * Bayhurst Wood: 5 Hawfinch, also Nuthatch, 2 Siskin, Red Kite, Sparrowhawk (Dan Pinkham)
 * Black Park: 12 Mandarin (C Lamsdell)
 * Beckton: 2 Great White Egret (N at 09.05), Common Buzzard, 4 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Kingfisher, 2 Redwing, 65 Chaffinch, Hawfinch (west at 08.50). (Gary A James)
 * Brent Reservoir: Little Egret, 3 Lapwing, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 15 Common Snipe, Water Rail, 2 Cetti's Warbler; Vis-mig - 65 Starling, 14 Redwing, 26 Fieldfare, 5 Hawfinch (4&1), 41 Chaffinch, Siskin, 2 Lesser Redpoll - 06:30-08:45 (Brent Birders)
 * Brockwell Park: 2 Water Rail at 3:15pm 1 alarm calling after visible scrap in reeds in top pond, 2 Grey Wagtail, no sign of Kingfisher reported last week (Michael Mac)
 * Brookmill Park: Little Egret, Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 50 Fieldfare nw, 5 Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
 * Clapham Common: (near Eagle Pond) Grey Heron standing yards away from busy A24 surrounded by a group of gulls 12.55 (SEC) Was driving so couldn't stop to look closer.
 * Eastcote (Abbotsbury Gardens): Sparrowhawk & Green Woodpecker (Jon Ridge)
 * Fairlop Waters: Hawfinch, Treecreeper, Kingfisher, 3 Common Buzzard (S.Bacon, Neil Tyford)
 * Foots Cray Meadows: Little Grebe, Little Egret, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Nuthatch, Jay (Ian Stewart)
 * Gallions Reach: Great White Egret 08.00 (KJM)
 * Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park: Kingfisher, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Song Thrush (John Bushell)
 * Hackney Downs Park: 8 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 55+ Herring Gull, 7 Common Gull, 15 Redwing, 190 Woodpigeon, 1 Song Thrush, 20 Chaffinch, 40 Goldfinch, 4 Meadow Pipit, 1 Goldcrest, 3 Mistle Thrush, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Jay - 0645-0815 (Jonathan Nasir)
 * Hall Place Bexley: Blue Tit, Great Tit, Dunnock, Robin, Wren all from the Hide in the Garden, there were 6 Long-tailed Tits by the Spring Garden, Pied Wagtail on the Roof of the House, 20 Greylag Geese, 10 Mallards and 30+ Canada Geese this Afternoon (Harry Halstead)
 * Kentish Town, NW5: 11 Fieldfare of which nine over together N & two perched in a poplar then E, Common Buzzard N, Peregrine S (Frank Nugent).
 * London Wetland Centre (WWT): Bittern, Firecrest, Brambling, Peregrine, 3 Redpoll, 3 Siskin (S), 2 Stonechat, 5 Snipe (WWT Website/Twitter); 1 Bittern, Water Pipit (Peter Gray)
 * Lonsdale Road Reservoir, Barnes: 14 Barnacle Goose high SW 09.30 [15 later seen at Leith Hill Surrey 10:20 going SW], Little Egret, Water Rail, Magpie high S, Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, 54 Chaffinch NW, 2 Siskin NW (R.Kaye)
 * Mayflower Park: Reed Bunting (Julie Drewett)
 * Pinner (HA5) viz mig: Red Kite over at at 10:14, Yellowhammer north-north-east at 09:40 [using 'tsit' flight/migration call], Lesser Redpoll north at 09:05, 24 Goldfinch, 14 Greenfinch north-west, 17 Redwing north-west, 13 Fieldfare north-west, 6 Jay, 4 Jackdaw over, 108 Woodpigeon south-west & 15 Ring-necked Parakeet north (Jon Ridge)
 * Rainham Marshes: 3 Whooper Swans on Butts Scrape (Howard Vaughan-Twitter)
 * Rammey Marsh: Yellow-browed Warbler 0656hrs showing and calling well by tall Willows and scrub by east of Marsh. Take path up canal or Marsh from car park till you see white Dutch barge on canal, stand on path left of canal, stand on path with small sight post and view brambles and Willows north of path. Short-eared Owl 0730ish being mobbed by crows, went east towards Gunpowder Park, 2 Stonechat, 30+ Siskin, 2 Bullfinch, Firecrest 13:39hrs, Cetti's Warbler (Neville Smith); 2 Yellow-browed Warbler now, still calling on other side of canal 11:16-13:30hrs (Neville Smith, Lol Cumming et al).
 * Richmond Park: 2 Raven- perched then flew off (A.Curtis, H.Bradshaw); Kingfisher, Stonechat, Red-crested Pochard (Mat Hare)
 * Rotherhithe: Stave Hill - 2 Firecrest, Siskin, Kingfisher, Redwing, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Chiffchaff (Richard Page-Jones)
 * Ruislip Lido/Woods: 10 Shoveler, 8 Little Egret (1 golf course), 2 Red Kite sightings (1 or 2 birds), 12+ Lesser Redpoll in birches (Poors Field entrance), 2 Bullfinch calling, 2 Hawfinch low over larches (golf course), 4 Red Admiral, 15+ Common Darter (Neil Anderson/LNHS group)
 * Staines Moor: 4 Water Pipit (Colne), 1 Little Grebe (Colne), 1 Lesser Redpoll, 1-2 Chiffchaff, 5 Stonechat, 38 Linnet, 1-2 Kingfisher, 135 Woodpigeon S, 2 Siskin W, 3 Redwing E, 4 Red Kite, 1 Common Buzzard, 4 Kestrel, 1f Sparrowhawk (Lee Dingain)
 * Ten Acre Wood Area: m Kestrel, Pheasant, 18 Lapwing, 5 Skylark, 10 Meadow Pipit, pr Stonechat, Lesser Redpoll, 30 Linnet, Coal Tit, 10 Redwing, 3 Fieldfare, 2 Cormorant over (Nigel Dodd)
 * Tottenham Marsh, Wild Marsh East: skein of 20 Pink-footed Geese flew West then veered SW over Tottenham c7.35, Hawfinch N, Bullfinch N, Brambling NW, f Goosander flew out of channel on to Banbury (Stuart Fisher)
 * Totteridge Valley, Belmont Farm: Snow Bunting flushed from animal pen behind Sheepwash Pond at 15:53 then flew high SE calling loudly (1st known valley record), also 5 Collared Dove, 3 Egyptian Geese, Pied Wagtail, Grey Heron, Kestrel, 2 Redwing, 22 Goldfinch. (Samuel Levy) Just wondering why my sighting was deleted the first time round? SL - check the history [drop-down blue menu at top of page] just after your 1st post to see what happened
 * Trent Park: 6 Common Pochard 4m 2f lower lake, male Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, 5 Common Darter (Robert Callf)
 * Wandsworth Common: Pheasant, 25 Redwing through 07:30-08:00 (Nick Rutter)
 * Wanstead Flats: 7 Lapwing, 2 Bullfinch, Brambling, 30+ Chaffnch, 10 Linnet, 8 Redpoll, Siskin, 30+ Redwing, 10+ Fieldfare, 400+ Woodpigeon, Chiffchaff, 3 Goldcrest, 3 Teal, 8 Shoveler, 2 Pochard, 7 Tufted Duck, 4 Skylark, 10+ Meadow Pipit, Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wimbledon Common: 6 Stonechat and 1 Treecreeper (Les Evans-Hill)
 * Worcester Park, Garden KT4: 19+ Redwing, 1 Grey Wagtail NE, 1 Pied Wagtail N, 1 Chaffinch SE, 1 Blackcap and 2 possible Hawfinches over 7:30-8:20 (Isaiah Rowe).Hi Isaiah I would love to know whereabouts you live in Worcester Park as I watch the Hamptons area. We had a Firecrest yesterday-Bob Smith. In a close just off The Avenue, I have visited the Hamptons recently but haven't made it as a patch but may start to use Nonsuch Park as it is underwatched and has plenty of potential (Isaiah Rowe). ; Common Buzzard flying south 8.15am seen from Lincoln Road (Julie Drewett)

Saturday 28th October 2017

 * Alexandra Park: 9 Redpoll, 3 Siskin, 60+ Chaffinch, 125 Redwing, 43 Fieldfare, Skylark, 5 Meadow Pipit, 200+ Woodpigeon, 7 Stock Dove, 250+ Starling, 6 Jackdaw, 5 Shoveler on Boating Lake but no sign of the Mandarin - 0815 to 1000 (Bob Watts, Trevor, James Palmer)
 * Beddington Farmlands: 2 Hawfinch, 1900 Woodpigeon, 295 Fieldfare, 140 Redwing, 12 Redpoll, 2 Siskin (Peter Alfrey, BFBG) pics
 * Beckton: Curlew, Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Water Rail, 545 Woodpigeon (west), 580 Starling (west), Redwing, 52 Fieldfare, 3 Lesser Redpoll, Brambling, 25 Chaffinch, 3 Skylark. (Gary A James)
 * Barnehurst DA7: 1 Redwing flying/calling. (Harry Halstead)
 * Blackheath, Vanbrugh Park area: 1 Woodcock flew across road (Joe Beale)
 * Brent Reservoir: Little Egret, 1+ Green Sandpiper, 16 Common Snipe, 2 Water Rail, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Cetti's Warbler; Vis-mig - House Martin (joint latest ever with '93 record), 8 Skylark, 3 Wigeon, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 800+ Woodpigeon, 8 Stock Dove, 504 Starling, 2 Pied Wagtail, 6 Meadow Pipit, 204 Redwing, 158 Fieldfare at last, 18 Song Thrush, 81 Chaffinch, 10 Siskin, 15 Lesser Redpoll, 49 Goldfinch, 17 Greenfinch, 8 Linnet, Bullfinch - 07:15-10:45 (Brent Birders)
 * Brookmill Park: Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Redwing, Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
 * Dalston: Sparrowhawk being hassled by Herring Gull (Jon Agar)
 * Fairlop Waters and surrounding fields: Ring Ouzel, Bullfinch, Stonechat, Coal Tit, Skylark, Meadow Pipit, Kingfisher, Fieldfare, Redwing, Chiffchaff, Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Little Owl, Little Egret, Stock Dove. (Alan Thomas/Neil Twyford)
 * Fryent Country Park: 4 Brambling, 4 Skylark, f Sparrowhawk (Joe Taylor)
 * Golders Hill Park: Buzzard sp. SE 14:15 (James Levy)
 * Greenford UB6: 6 Redwing circled over garden a couple of times before heading off 11.00, Red Admiral on ivy (Neil Anderson)
 * Greenwich Park: 2 Redpoll, 1 Treecreeper (rare here), 1 Brambling, 9 Linnets, 7 Siskins, 1 Firecrest, c160 Starlings W, 70+ Chaffinches W/NW, 7 Hawfinches W, 2 Meadow Pipits, 3 Song Thrushes, 510+ Redwings W/NW, 56 Fieldfares W, 2150 Woodpigeons (Joe Beale)
 * Hackney Downs Park: 30+ Redwing 30+ Fieldfare, 3 Common Gull, 2 Goldcrest, Meadow Pipit, 200+ Woodpigeon, 30+ Chaffinch, 2 Greenfinch, Sparrowhawk - 0830-0930 (Jonathan Nasir)
 * Hyde Park/Kemsington Gardens: 1 Snipe S, 28 Common Gulls, 1 Yellow-legged Gull 2cy, 1770 Woodpigeon SW, 16 Stock Dove, 5 Skylark S, 310 Redwing (280 W & 30 grounded), 6 Mistle Thrushes W, 3 Fieldfare w, 3 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, 18 Goldcrests, 1 Firecrest (male W side of nursery), 11 Coal Tit, 7 Treecreepers, 420 Starlings W, 50 Chaffinches WNW, 1 Brambling WNW, 3 Siskin W, 2 Hawfinch Perched near Henry Moore Arch then off W (Nick Senior)
 * Lamorbey Park: 3-4 Egyptian Goose, f Teal, 5 Tufted Duck, 2 Little Grebe, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, 2+ Pied Wagtail, 2 Redwing, 8+ Goldcrest, 2+ Coal Tit, 2 Nuthatch, 2+ Jay, 2 Jackdaw (Ian Stewart)
 * London Wetland Centre, Barnes, WWT: Water Pipit, 44 Lapwing, 4 Common Snipe, 40+ Wigeon - all in Wader Scrape or on bund, Water Rail, Fieldfare, Redwing, 1 Black Swan, Egyptian Geese & all usual water birds (Angus Innes, Martin Honey); Bittern (p.m.) (WWT Website/Twitter)
 * Lonsdale Road Reservoir: Little Egret, many Teal and Shoveler (David Jeffreys)
 * Mayflower Park: Firecrest in dump area (Bob Smith)
 * Morden Cemetery: Fieldfare (Bob Smith)
 * Pinner (HA5): Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Coal Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Goldcrest, 5 Jay, Jackdaw, Grey Heron west; viz mig - 59 Redwing west, 14 Fieldfare west, 127 Woodpigeon south-west, 31 Chaffinch north-west & 17 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Rainham Marshes: Water Pipit on foreshore (Sean Huggins)
 * Raynes Park: 2 Pied Wagtail (o/s Costa Lambton Rd), 2 Collared Dove, Song Thrush (P. Redmond)
 * Riddlesdown: 185+ Redwings, 57 Starlings, 3+ Siskin, 1 Redpoll, 4 Skylarks all mainly heading WNW. (John Birkett)
 * Sanderstead Plantation, Croydon): 1 Hawfinch WNW at 07:42, 20+ Redwings WNW. (John Birkett)
 * Stoneleigh Broadway: 19 Redwing sw. (Neil Batten)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: 3 Buzzard, 2 Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 17 Lapwing, Snipe, c300 Woodpigeon, 12 Stock Dove, 2 Collared Dove W, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker low W, 17+ Skylark, 14 Meadow Pipit, 3 alba wagtail W, 1100 Starling W, c260 Redwing W (& 1 close bird in hedge), 55 Fieldfare W, Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest, 26 Linnet, m Siskin, 15 Chaffinch W, 25 Goldfinch W, small flock high unidentified finch W - 7.50-10.00 (Neil Anderson)
 * Trent Park: 2 Mandarin Duck, 4 male Common Pochard, 2 Common Buzzard, Treecreeper, f Bullfinch, poss Hawfinch seen briefly in fight - broad white wing bar at base of primaries, Lesser Redpoll, Small Copper, Common Darter (Robert Callf)
 * Trent Park: Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk ( both from Ferny Hill lay-by), Kestrel, 4 m Pochard, 5 Mandarin (4m,f), 6 Linnet. ( Pete lowman).


 * Thames Ditton (KT7): f Brambling visiting bird feeders in a private garden (Billy Dykes).
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 2 Stonechat, 3 Fieldfare roaming (Frank Nugent).
 * Walthamstow Wetlands: Black-necked Grebe, Little Gull on Lockwood, Water Pipit with Grey and Pied Wagtail on edge of East Warwick, Little Egret, Sparrowhawk - from 8-12oc (G.Gram); No. 4 Common Sandpiper, 2 Scandinavian Rock Pipits, East Warwick, 5 Red-crested Pochard (Paul Whiteman, Lol Bodini, Lol Cummings)
 * Vauxhall Bridge: 2 Yellow-legged Gulls (Michael Mac)
 * Wanstead Flats: 9 Hawfinch, 2700 Woodpigeon, 230 Fieldfare, 300 Redwing, 200 Chaffinch, 4 Siskin, Brambling, 2 Reed Bunting, 20 Meadow Pipit, 5 Skylark (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wembley Park: Tawny Owl hooting in someone's garden then briefly in flight over houses at 20:30, also Peregrine and Common Buzzard over earlier this afternoon (Joe Taylor)
 * Worcester Park, Garden KT4: 3 Siskin S/E, 4 Greenfinch S, 3 Chaffinch S, 20+ Fieldfare W, 13 Redwing S and in trees, 60+ Woodpigeon S 8:30-9:30 (Isaiah Rowe); 20 Redwing west (Bob Smith)

Friday 27th October 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Mandarin drake still Boating Lake (first seen 1730 on 25th), also drake Aythya hybrid, 100+ Woodpigeon west, 10+ Redwing, Siskin heard (Bob Watts)
 * Barn Elms Playing Fields, Barnes: 9 Wigeon E, Grey Heron high SW, Peregrine, Kingfisher, 1,500 Woodpigeon SW, 10 Meadow Pipit SW, 4 Skylark S/NE, 112 Redwing mostly W, 7 Fieldfare NW, 650 Starling W, Magpie very high SW, Nuthatch, 172 Chaffinch W/NW, 2 Brambling NW, 8 Goldfinch S, 9 Lesser Redpoll mostly S, 3 Siskin S, 5 Greenfinch S, 2 Linnet S, Hawfinch E 08.55, Yellowhammer N 11.05, 2 Red Admiral SW. (R.Kaye)
 * Bexleyheath (The Warren): Meadow Pipit S (Ian Stewart)
 * Blendon: c30 Fieldfare NW over Blendon Road (Ian Stewart)
 * Brent Reservoir: 2 Little Egret N. Marsh, Vis-mig incl.1,640 Woodpigeon, 18 Stock Dove, 81 Starling, 62 Redwing, 12 Song Thrush, 46 Chaffinch, 7 Bullfinch - 07:15-10:00 1,893 birds, 14sp (Andrew Verrall)
 * Crayford Marshes: 8 Wigeon, c20 Teal, 2 Pheasant, 5 Little Egret, male Marsh Harrier, 2 Kestrel, 4+ Ringed Plover, 38 Golden Plover, c30 Lapwing, 25+ Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 150+ Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Curlew, Yellow-legged Gull, Barn Owl, Kingfisher, 2 Skylark, 20+ Meadow Pipit, 4 Rock Pipit, poss Water Pipit along Darent creek, 6 Stonechat, 4 Cetti’s Warbler, Rook, 4 Reed Bunting (Ian Stewart)
 * Gallions Reach: Hawfinch, Fieldfare, Rock Pipit, 8 Blackwit, Redwings, Skylarks.(KJM)
 * Greenwich Park: 6 Hawfinches over, 3 Redpolls over, Bullfinch heard over, Reed Bunting heard over, 60+ Chaffinch W/NW, Little Grebe, c250 Woodpigeon, 300 Starlings, Skylark (Joe Beale)
 * Hackney Marsh: Buzzard heading north (James Palmer)
 * Higham's Park: 20+ Siskins in alders by lake, 2 Redpoll, 2 Redwing, 7 Meadow Pipit, 2 Little Egret and 400+ Woodpigeon over, 4 Shoveler, 3 Gadwall 8 Pochard and Kingfisher on lake. (Joe Dickens)
 * Hogsmill NR: Dartford Warbler along track to new hide at 13:45 (Nick Tanner).
 * King George V Reservoir: Goosander 1 female on flood relief channel (Christopher Wright), 4 Female Goosander on same Channel by C Causeway - 1.30pm, 2 Black-necked Grebe on S Basin, Fem Goldeneye (N. Basin), Skylark flushed, 6+ Meadow Pipits, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk (Fem.)- (Davey Leach).
 * Lamorbey Park: Firecrest, f Teal, Little Grebe, Peregrine, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Pied Wagtail, Redwing, c30 Fieldfare NW, 10+ Goldcrest, 2+ Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Jackdaw (Ian Stewart)
 * North Finchley: Buzzard over house c11.30 (John Colmans)
 * Oxleas Wood: 11 Jackdaw, 12 Goldcrest, 2 Common Buzzard, Kestrel [fm], Red Kite, 14 Goldfinch, Peregrine, 3 Coal Tit, 2 Treecreeper, 60+ Redwing, Blackcap [fm], 4 Song Thrush, Green Woodpecker, Sparrowhawk, Chaffinch [fm], Grey Wagtail, 4 Nuthatch (Ron Turner)
 * Pinner (HA5): Red Kite west at 15:11, 2 Sparrowhawk, Green Woodpecker, 5 Jay, Goldcrest, Coal Tit; viz mig: 1,122 Woodpigeon south-west, 8 Redwing west, Fieldfare north-east, 11 Goldfinch, 18 Chaffinch north-west, 10 Greenfinch, 5 Pied Wagtail north-west, 70 Starling west & 15 Ring-necked Parakeet north (Jon Ridge)
 * Primrose Hill: Hawfinch W 07:40, Bullfinch (foy; prev'y 28 Oct 14) over calling; Regent's Park: Firecrest (foy; prev 2 Nov 16) (Birdman Euston-Twitter)
 * Richmond Park: 4 Buzzard, 3700 Woodpigeon - 2,400 SW and 1,300 flew off NE from Park at first light, Kingfisher, 5 Skylark, 12 Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 2 Fieldfare W, 46 Redwing W, 760 Starling W,130 Chaffinch W, 12 Siskin (J.Wilczur)
 * St James's Park: Kingfisher (Frank Nugent).
 * Slade Green: c70 Fieldfare NW in 2 flocks (Ian Stewart)
 * Staines Moor: 6 Goosander N, 40 Barnacle Geese NW, 2,052 Woodpigeon S (from dawn to 09:00), 1 Water Pipit (Colne), 2 Common Snipe, 1 Kingfisher, 8 Stonechat, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 2 Sparrowhawk, 4 Reed Bunting, 4 Egyptian Geese over, 3 Red Admiral SSW (Lee Dingain)
 * Swanley Park : 17 Egyptian Geese (site record high) (Andy Meaton)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: 3 Marsh Harrier, 2 Peregrine, 2 Little Egret, 4 Water Rail, 22 Lapwing, Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 3 Redshank, Water Pipit, Rock Pipit, 3 Stonechat, 21 Cetti's Warbler, Bearded Tit; vis-mig - 910 Woodpigeon, 10 Skylark, 70 Starling, 120 Chaffinch, 3 Siskin, 3 Lesser Redpoll & flock of 14 Magpie heading West; Clouded Yellow & 2 Speckled Wood butterflies (Andrew Self)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: Sparrowhawk, 7 Redwing, 3 Fieldfare, 2 Mistle Thrush, 3 Skylark, 4 Meadow Pipit, Bullfinch, 5 Teal, also Red Admiral (John Colmans)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: Firecrest male still 1315 Monument Glade, also 3 Common Blue & 2 Small White Scrapyard Meadow, 8+ Goldcrest, 20+ Starling west (Bob Watts)
 * Trent Park: Common Buzzard, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Song Thrush, 9 Redwing, Greenfinch, 2 Bullfinch, 3 Small Copper, Speckled Wood, 2 Red Admiral, 1 Vestal (dead) on ragwort (Robert Callf)
 * Trent Park: 50 Fieldfare, Goldcrest, 8 Mandarin ( 4m,4f), 3 Song Thrush, 3 Lesser Redpoll, ( plus a flock of c25 small finches likely to be this species ) ,10 Redwing, Stock Dove(s), 20 B H Gull, 25 Jackdaw, ( Pete Lowman).
 * Walthamstow Marsh: 2 Stonechat (James Palmer)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Black-necked Grebe still on Lockwood (James Palmer) Yes, very active in sunshine, 3.30,Tower end of Lockwood. (G.Gram).
 * West Harrow: Red Kite, Buzzard and Sparrowhawk all thermalling together briefly over the house at 11.25, before drifting off north, west and east respectively. My first "raptor thermal hat-trick" on the home patch! (Alex Massey)
 * Wimbledon Common: 2 Buzzard - north of Windmill (J.Wilczur); 6 Reed Bunting on Putney Heath and 2 Kestrel (Les Evans-Hill)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: c850 Woodpigeon SW, c200 Redwing SW, Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Reed Bunting, Little Egret (Chris Farthing)
 * Wraysbury GP: 26 Egyptian Geese, 3 Cetti's Warbler (all males), 3 Chiffchaff, 6 Hawfinch (2 at least roosted on site - all headed or heading south) (C Lamsdell)

Thursday 26th October 2017

 * Brent Reservoir: 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Water Rail, 35 Common Gull, 2 Little Egret, 8 Common Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (longest staying ever, beating Oct 20th record from ‘97), 3 Chiffchaff, Vis-mig incl. 3 Skylark, 96 Redwing, 194 Chaffinch, 19 Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 6 Pied Wagtail, 4 Bullfinch, 82 Goldfinch, 41 Siskin, 6 Lesser Redpoll - 548 birds 16 sp. (Magnus Andersson, Simon Worsfold, Andrew Verrall)
 * Crayford Marshes: Kestrel and 10 Collared Doves at Howbury Farm, 2-3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Stonechat, small flocks of Meadow Pipits and Long-tailed Tits, Common Sandpiper, 20 Common Teal, 30 Mallard, 30 Canada Geese, 2 Grey Heron and 1 Little Egret (Patrick English)
 * Greenwich: Yellow-legged Gull 2nd-winter by the O2 (Richard Bonser).
 * Lake Farm Country Park, Hayes: 1 Ring Ouzel mobile early am, 28 Redwing, 42 Song Thrush, 30 Blackbird, 2 Redpoll, 2 Stonechat, 4 Chiffchaff, 8 Goldcrest. (Dave Morris per FJM)
 * Lamorbey Park: 2 Mute Swan, Egyptian Goose, c60 Mallard, f Teal, 3 Tufted Duck, 2 Little Grebe, Cormorant, Little Egret, 2 Grey Heron, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, c30 Meadow Pipit SW, 4+ Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, 10+ Song Thrush, 20+ Redwing, 15+ Goldcrest, Coal Tit, 5 Nuthatch, Treecreeper, 4 Jay, 2 Jackdaw, 20+ Chaffinch, Brambling, Linnet E, 2 Greenfinch (Ian Stewart)
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 Water Pipit, 1 Water Rail, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Reed Bunting, 1 Kestrel (juv), 8 Snipe (Mike Wheeler); Song Thrush, 2 Siskins, 1 juv Kestrel (with metal ring on right leg), 1 Water Pipit, 1 Water Rail, 1m Reed Bunting and 1 Cetti's Warbler showing well on wader scrape, 14 Common Snipe (Martin Honey)
 * New Change EC2: 8 Redwing S, 24 Fieldfare W, 3 Redpoll sp S, 58 Goldfinches SE (Nick Senior)
 * Oxleas Wood: 40+ Redwing over, 30+ Goldfinch over, 2 Nuthatch, 5 Goldcrest, Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Song Thrush, Coal Tit, 5 Chaffinch, Greenfinch, 5 Jackdaw, f Kestrel (Ron Turner)
 * Regent's Park: Yellow-legged Gull (Tom Harris); also Hawfinch leading 11 Redwings 7.55am, 270 Redwing, 3 Skylark, 34 Meadow Pipit, 150+ Chaffinch, 20 Siskin - 7.45-10.00am (Twitter)
 * Rotherhithe: adult Yellow-legged Gull on Greenland Dock (Richard Bonser)
 * Ruxley GPs (permit only): 2 Mute Swan, c20 Gadwall, c10 Shoveler, 2 Pochard, c100 Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, 3 Great Crested Grebe, Kestrel, Kingfisher, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, 2 Cetti’s Warbler, 8+ Goldcrest, prob Firecrest heard frustration again with this species, just a few short peeps also made by Goldcrests and tits and no visuals or “classic” identification calls, 2+ Jay, 12+ Jackdaw over, 2 Bullfinch, poss Hawfinch W (Ian Stewart)
 * St James's Park: 7 Shoveler (Tom Jordan).
 * Stanwell Moor: 3 Cetti's Warbler and Blackcap (female) (C Lamsdell)
 * Thames Barrier Park: 5 Yellow-legged Gulls (adult, 3rd-winter and 3 1st-winters) and Kingfisher (Richard Bonser)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: 150+ Woodpigeon, 14 Chaffinch, 20 Starling all west, Meadow Pipit south, 4 Redwing perched then flew west, also 6+ Goldcrest, Coal Tit - viz mig 0750 to 0815 (Bob Watts)
 * Trent Park: 2 f Pochard, 5 Mandarin (3m,2f), 20 Fieldfare, Song Thrush, 40 Ring -necked Parakeet, G S Woodpecker. ( Pete Lowman).
 * Wimbledon Common: 1m Stonechat on the plain; daily visits recently by a f Sparrowhawk to the garden feeders (Les Evans-Hill)

Wednesday 25th October 2017

 * Brent Reservoir: male Blackcap (Allotments), Common Sandpiper (latest site record), 2 Green Sandpiper, 12 Common Snipe, 3 Water Rail, 3 Little Egret, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff singing +1, Vis-mig 07:15-10:45: Swallow S, 2 Skylark, 210 Woodpigeon, 12 Redwing, 36 Chaffinch, 3 Bullfinch, 74 Goldfinch, 8 Siskin, 6 Lesser Redpoll, c5 Migrant Hawker main hide (Magnus Andersson, Andrew Verrall)
 * Eastcote (Abbotsbury Gardens): 3 Jackdaw south-west (Jon Ridge)
 * Foots Cray Meadows: 4 Mute Swan, Tufted Duck, Pheasant, 6 Little Grebe, Little Egret, Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Water Rail, Kingfisher, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, 10+ Song Thrush, Redwing, Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, 10 Goldcrest, poss Firecrest heard, 6+ Jay, 5 Linnet, Redpoll, 2 Greenfinch, several Siskins, 2 Bullfinch, 4+ Red Admiral (Ian Stewart)
 * Gallions Reach: Lapland Bunting, 10 Skylarks, 2 Siskin, 3 Redwing, 20 Black-tailed Godwit (KJM) Where is the best place to view? Is the Lapland Bunting still present? [Normally flies over with Chaffs]
 * London Wetland Centre: c.10 Common Snipe mainly flushed by cows, Kestrel over grazing marsh mobbed by a Carrion Crow, Buzzard pm low over grazing marsh to SSW, Water Rail showing well on wader scrape, 1m 1f Stonechat grazing marsh, 1 Red Admiral butterfly migrating to SW (Martin Honey).
 * KGV Reservoir: 10:45 Great White Egret heading north up the Lee Valley (Stuart Hamilton); 1 M Goosander on Channel E of C Causeway, 1 Fem. Goldeneye (N Basin), 10 Meadow Pipit (including flock of 6 over), Lesser Redpoll flew over NW, 3 Buzzards (distant). 1 - 2pm (Davey Leach).
 * Mayflower Park: Peregrine on pylon, 20 Redwings west, 100 Starlings west (Bob Smith)
 * Norhaw Great Wood: 3 Marsh Tit including a pair (Robert Callf)
 * Oxleas Wood: 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Treecreeper, 14 Goldcrest, 4 Nuthatch, 2 Kestrel [pair], 7 Redwing, 3 Firecrest, 3 Sparrowhawk, 6 Song Thrush, Stock Dove, 7 Jackdaw, Green Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, 2 Goldfinch, 4 Coal Tit (Ron Turner)
 * Pinner (HA5): Skylark over, Sparrowhawk, Chiffchaff, 6 Jay, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Coal Tit, 9 Chaffinch west & 3 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Roding Valley Meadows Lake: juv Red-necked Grebe still at 13:30 at north end, preening then fishing under the willows at the edge of the small island. Also Kingfisher. (Debbie Burkett)
 * St James's Park: Common Buzzard drifting SW from 14:30, Kingfisher, Siskin dropped into an alder, Nuthatch, Grey Wagtail, 4 Shoveler (Frank Nugent).
 * Stave Hill: 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Song Thrush, 2 Green Finch, 6 Goldcrest, Grey Wagtail, 8 Long Tailed Tit, Great Spotted Woodpecker (John Cadera)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: 14.00 - 16.30 : 3 Marsh Harrier, 2 Buzzard, 1 Raven, 5 Stonechat, 1 Ring Ouzel, 3 Cettis Warbler, 5 Clouded Yellow Butterfly, 1 Wall Butterfly, 5 Red Admiral Butterfly singles all flying SE (Roger Keith).
 * Sydenham Hill Wood: Hobby calling, 2 Buzzard (Daniel Greenwood).
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: Clouded Yellow Scrapyard Meadow, also Comma, Small Whites, Large White, Chiffchaff (Bob Watts).
 * Tyttenhanger Gravel Pits: 1F Brambling in maize field, 1 first winter Mediterranean Gull, 1 Snipe, 2 Green Sandpiper (Jo Edwards, Steve Blake)
 * West Norwood Cemetery: Nuthatch, Coal Tit, Goldcrest, 3 Jackdaw over Jay, Great-spotted Woodpecker - supposed to be Tawny Owl here so waited round till after dark and heard nothing! (Michael Mac)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: poss Short-Eared Owl hunting over bomb crater field just after 6pm (Harringay Birder)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Black-necked Grebe and Wheatear on Lockwood. 2 Skylarks west (Paul Whiteman, David Bradshaw, Lol Bodini)

Tuesday 24th October 2017

 * Aldgate: Peregrine hunting over bus station area for a good 10 mins (Charles Farrell)
 * Antill Road E3: Goldcrest in garden (Harry Harrison)
 * Barn Elms Playing Fields, Barnes: Peregrine, Tawny Owl, Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker very high NW, 11 Redwing SW, 2 Fieldfare SW, 11 Song Thrush W, Chiffchaff, 10 Meadow Pipit SW/S, 4 alba Wagtail S, 410 Starling W, Swallow SW, Skylark S, 102 Chaffinch mostly W, 56 Goldfinch S/SW, 4 Siskin SE, 17 Brambling W, 2 Bullfinch S, 4 Linnet W, Mealy Redpoll S 10.00, 2 Crossbill NE 09.15, 5 Reed Bunting S. (R.Kaye)
 * Brent Reservoir: 10 Snipe, 2 Chiffchaff; Vis mig 07:15-09:45: 3 House Martin, 137 Redwing, 76 Starling, Meadow Pipit, 42 Goldfinch, 35 Chaffinch, 2 Siskin (Andrew Self, Simon Worsfold, Andrew Verrall)
 * Canons Farm: Ring Ouzel in yews at Fames Rough then flew towards Perrotts Farm at 08:58 (Twitter)
 * Clapton: 25 House Sparrow in garden behind 14, Geldeston Road (Tony Stones).
 * Creekmouth: Pintail, 6 Little Egret, Peregrine, 44 Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Redshank, Common Sandpiper (James Palmer)
 * East India Dock Basin: Siberian Chiffchaff in flock possibly for 2nd day in copse, heard calling (John Archer per Bob Watts) still present 1700 but elusive and occasionally calling also bright nominate Chiffchaff present, Little Egret, Kingfisher (Bob Watts)
 * Greenwich Park: Firecrest, 2 Redwing, 3 migrant Song Thrush, Siskins over (Joe Beale)
 * Grovelands Park: 8 Cormorant roosting, 3 Grey Heron, 5 Mute Swan 2 adults and 3 first-winter, 2 Egyptian Goose, 32 Mandarin Duck 22m 10f, 3 Common Pochard 2m 1f, 37 Tufted Duck, Mediterranean Gull 1st-winter on lake 16:29 - 17:06 - only central tail feather/s dark, 2 Common Gull adult and 1st-winter,15 Ring-necked Parakeet, Stock Dove, Green Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail 1st-w, 2+ Song Thrush, 6+ Goldcrest, Firecrest 15:42 and 17:18 when interacting with Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch, Treecreeper (Robert Callf)
 * Hampstead Heath: Parliament Hill, 100 Redwings (mostly SW) 25 Song Thrushes, mostly grounded,15 Linnets W, 25 Greenfinches W, 50 Chaffinches W, 10 Redpolls over, 2 Siskins and 40 Meadow Pipits S S/W, 2 Common Gulls over (Pete Mantle)
 * Kensington Gardens: Little Egret SW 09:05, 6 Hawfinch west 08:56 (Des McKenzie via Twitter).
 * Leyton Flats/Snaresbrook: Hawfinch on poplar nr Eagle Pond around 7,30 then flew South, 36 Lesser Redpoll, Skylark SW, Sparrowhawk, Siskin over, 2 Grey Wagtail, Kingfisher (Stuart Fisher)
 * London Wetland Centre (WWT): Bittern reported flying into middle reedbed channel (WWT Website/Twitter)
 * New Change EC2: 4 Meadow Pipits SW, 39 Redwings W/SW, 1 Redpoll sp SW (Nick Senior)
 * Oxleas Wood: 2 Kestrel (m), 2 Sparrowhawk (f m), Common Buzzard, 4 Goldcrest, Blackcap (m), 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Coal Tit, 5 Song Thrush, 3 Nuthatch (Ron Turner)
 * Pinner (HA5): Sparrowhawk, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Coal Tit, Green Woodpecker, 6 Jay, Jackdaw, Grey Wagtail south-west, Pied Wagtail south-east, 4 Redwing south-west, 8 Goldfinch & 43 Ring-necked Parakeet north (Jon Ridge)
 * Rainham RSPB: Spoonbill, 2 Little Egret, 6 Pintail, 3 Marsh Harrier, 2 Peregrine, Kestrel, 1 Ruff, 6-10 Skylark, 1 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 20+ Black Tailed Godwit, 2 Curlew (John & Janet Cadera)
 * Regent's Park: Lapland Bunting flew NW calling at 7.50am, Hawfinch west at 9.50am, (Twitter) Fieldfare 53, Redwing 110, Meadow Pipit 20, L.Redpoll 4, Siskin 22 (Tony Duckett).
 * Richmond Park: no sign of the Yellow-browed Warbler heard yesterday afternoon by M. Lewis in the Thatched House Lodge area (RPBG)
 * Stoneleigh Station: 2 Coal Tit, 1 Goldcrest, 6 Ring-necked Parakeet (Neil Batten)
 * St James's Park: 2 Teal (Tom Jordan)
 * Staines Moor: 3 Water Pipit (Colne) - 1 with metal ring on right leg, 7 Stonechat, 2 Common Snipe, 3+ Red Kite, 7 Siskin S, 13 redpoll sp S, 2 Kestrel, 2 Egyptian Geese E, 1 Tufted Duck E, 1 Peacock buttefly (Lee Dingain)
 * Staines Reservoir: Black-necked Grebe, Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Little Stint, 2 Pintail, 3 Ringed Plover, Rock Pipit. (Jim Sweetland)
 * Swanscombe Marshes: Wigeon heard, 46 Gadwall, 8 Teal, Little Egret, 2 Marsh Harrier (mf), Buzzard, Kestrel, Merlin, 12 Lapwing, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 10 Redshank, 7+ Stock Dove, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goldcrest, 8 Cetti's Warbler, Ring Ouzel (near the asymetrical pylon), 3 Fieldfare, Song Thrush, 3+ Redwing, 6 Stonechat, 18+ Meadow Pipit, Greenfinch, 4 Linnet, 3 Reed Bunting (Tom Stuart)
 * Theydon Bois: 7 Stonechat, c20 Skylark, 30+ Meadow Pipit, 2 Reed Bunting, 2 Redpoll, 2 Siskin N, 2 Snipe, Swallow S, c50 Redwing, Buzzard, Kestrel. (Joe Dickens)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 3 Stonechat (incl 1m) at S end of footpath from Long Ponds,m Blackcap, Fieldfare S, c35 Redwing mostly SW, 10 Meadow Pipit, Mistle Thrush, 7 Rook, 2 Bullfinch, 11 Teal (John Colmans)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: Firecrest male again on border between Cherry & High Glades though light abysmal at 0830, also small numbers of Redwing, Chaffinch, Song Thrush, 2 Greenfinch, 2 Chiffchaff, 5+ Goldcrests (Bob Watts)
 * Trent Park: Bullfinch, Kestrel, Song Thrush, 5 Pochard (3m,2f), 6 Mandarin ( 5m,f). ( Pete Lowman).
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: (Lockwood) Black-necked Grebe still, 5 meadow pipit, 15 redwing, common snipe over S, (Jamie Partridge) Wheatear also still on Lockwood (Chris Farthing)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Peregrine, Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Sparrowhawk, 3 Teal, 20 Shoveler (Chris Farthing)
 * Worcester Park: 15 Redwing fell from sky into Gasholder Wood (Bob Smith)

Monday 23rd October 2017

 * Alexandra Park: viz mig 08:00-09:00; 30+ Redwing west, 25+ Chaffinch, 2 Lesser Redpoll, Peregrine Falcon, Siskin calling (Bruce Carson)
 * Banstead Woods: 3 Hawfinch over the Banstead Woods Short Route at 08:40, 6 redpoll, 2 Siskin, 15 Redwing, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Meadow Pipit, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Greenfinch, 21 Goldcrest, 10 Song Thrush (CFBWBG)
 * Barking Bay: 242 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Little Stint, 51 Redshank, 8 Snipe, 11 Yellow-legged Gull, 5300 Woodpigeon S/SW, 14 Skylark + 8 S, 1 Swallow S, 103 Meadow Pipit SW, 3 Rock Pipit,, 4 alba Wagtails SW, 3 Stonechat, 2 Dartford Warblers (male & 1w along The Gores public footpath), 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 211 Linnet S, 77 Redpoll sp S, 40 Chaffinch WNW, 4 Hawfinch S, 9 Reed Bunting S (Nick Senior)
 * Brent Reservoir: Vis mig 07:15-10:00: Swallow, Skylark, Green Sandpiper, 900+ Woodpigeon, 143 Redwing, 31 Song Thrush, 5 Mistle Thrush, 2 Blackbird, 69 Starling, 15 Meadow Pipit, Pied Wagtail, 9 Linnet, 38 Greenfinch, 35 Goldfinch, 104 Chaffinch, 14 Lesser Redpoll, 2 Siskin (Andrew Self, Andrew Verrall)
 * Brookmill Park: Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Goldcrest, 15 House Sparrow (Conrad Ellam) Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, Grey Wagtail (Joe Beale)
 * Chiswick Eyot: 1cy Yellow-legged Gull on River Thames 11:45 (Josh Jones)
 * Elverson Road, Lewisham: Red Kite 08.30 (Joe Beale)
 * Fulham: 3 (adult, 2x 1cy) Yellow-legged Gulls on River Thames off Lysia St 10:45 (Josh Jones)
 * Gunpowder Park: Ring-necked Parakeet with yellow plumage, 2 Stonechat, Fieldfare west, 5 Lesser Redpoll, 4 Reed Bunting, 15 Redwing, Bullfinch, 5 Linnet, 15 Skylark, 12 Meadow Pipit, Kestrel (Martin Shepherd)
 * Leatherhead, Randalls Way: 2 Meadow Pipit s. 4 or 5 Redwing in trees around the area, calling (Neil Batten)
 * Leyton Flats/Snaresbrook: Little Owl, Tawny Owl, 35+ Redwing over, 2 Skylark SW, 10 Fieldfare over, 8 Lesser Redpoll on Flats, 1 Siskin over, 4 Linnet S, 3 Meadow Pipit, 2 Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Kingfisher, Coal Tit, and small phyllosc briefly near Eagle Pond that was a probable Yelllow-browed Warbler (Stuart Fisher)
 * Mile End: 20 Redwing west 0825 (Bob Watts)
 * Mill Hill, Barnet Way : 45 Redwing S at 9.20 (Simon Worsfold)
 * Pinner (HA5): Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest, 3 Coal Tit, Long-tailed Tit, 5 Jay, 24 Jackdaw south-west, 31 Redwing south-west, 106 Woodpigeon south-west & 34 Ring-necked Parakeet north (Jon Ridge)
 * Primrose Hill: 8 Hawfinch SW 08:05 (Twitter)
 * Regent's Park: 1400 Wood Pigeons, 850 Redwings, 14 Meadow Pipits, 11 Pied Wagtails, 4 Grey Wagtails, 430 Chaffinches, 300 Goldfinches, 15 Siskins, 4 Lesser Redpolls, 15 Shovelers, 36 Red crested Pochards 1m Stonechat chat bushes (Tony Duckett).
 * Richmond Park: 3 Dartford Warbler - including two males (J.Wilczur, J.Few, M.Lewis); Red Kite, 40 Common Gull, 4050 Wood Pigeon S, 2 alba Wagtail SE, 140 Redwing S, 4 Song Thrush S, 3 Fieldfare S, 100 Chaffinch W, 17 Siskin S, 7 Redpoll S (J.Wilczur)
 * St. James Church SE16: Great Spotted Woodpecker (John Cadera)
 * St James's Park: Kingfisher, 3 Chiffchaff, 4 Shoveler (Frank Nugent).
 * Sidcup DA15 (York Avenue): Adult Mediterranean Gull W 10.07 second site record, Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, Little Egret NE early doors, ad Common Gull W, Great Black-backed Gull SW, 280+ Woodpigeon S, 6+ Skylark S inc 5 with unidentified smaller bird, 90+ Meadow Pipit most S some very low, 3+ Pied Wagtail S, Grey Wagtail heard, 4 Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush W, 58+ Redwing most SW, 2 Goldcrest, Jay, 30+ Chaffinch most W, 22 Goldfinch S, 4 Greenfinch S, 3 Siskin S (Ian Stewart)
 * Staines Reservoirs: 2 Little Stint, 4 Ringed Plover, Grey Plover, Black-necked Grebe, Shelduck, 5 Pintail, 2+ Wigeon, 2 Skylark (Dan Forder @DanFWildlife) 1 Ruff, 1 Rock Pipit late pm on shingle islands at E end of S basin,1 Goldeneye. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Tower Hasmlets Cemetery Park: 20 Redwing and 10+ Chaffinch west by 0820, also Chiffchaff, Song Thrush (Bob Watts)
 * Town Park, Enfield: 2 Cormorant, 33 Canada Goose, hybrid Goose, 3 Shoveler 2m 1f, male Pochard, 3 Tufted Duck 1m 2f, 18 Goldfinch, 2 Goldcrest (Robert Callf)
 * Trent Park: 2 Goldcrest, 4 Lesser Redpoll, 5 Mandarin ( 4m,f), m Pochard, G S Woodpecker, Song Thrush, Redwing. ( Pete Lowman).
 * West Putney, Huntingfield Road: 73 Meadow Pipit SW, 2 Blackcap, 2 Siskin NW, 14 Linnet SW, 2 Bullfinch SW (R.Kaye, J.Wilczur)
 * Wanstead Flats: 2 Hawfinch (possibly 4 more going in same direction), f Bullfinch, 6 Siskin, 8 Redpoll, 20 + Chaffinch, 20 + Linnet, 2 Reed Bunting,  2-3 Ring Ouzel, 250 + Redwing, 64 + Fieldfare, 20 + Song Thrush, 2 Stonechat, Water Pipit (only 2nd record) going west over Alex, 30 + Meadow Pipit, 4 Skylark, 2 Goosander going west, 3 Teal, 1000+ Wood Pigeon south (excludes local foraging birds), 3 Coal Tit, 3 Goldcrest,  Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 2w Yellow-legged Gull still (Bob Vaughan/Nick Croft)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 3 Teal, c750 Woodpigeon SW, c100 Redwing SW (Chris Farthing)

Sunday 22nd October 2017

 * Alexandra Park: viz mig 07:25 until 10:00; Swallow south, Reed Bunting, 14 Redwing, Linnet, 15+ Chaffinch, 10+ Meadow Pipit, also 2 Chiffchaff, Muntjac and some talk of Badgers in the area recently, drake Aythya hybrid and probable female type Boating Lake (APOG Birders)
 * Arctic Street, Kentish Town: 10 Song Thrush W, Common Gull W, 5 Chaffinches, 2 Redpolls, single Siskin and Linnet over, all before 0930 (Pete Mantle)
 * Brent Reservoir: 15 Common Snipe, Kingfisher, Water Rail, Cetti's Warbler. Vis mig: late House Martin S, 16 Redwing, Meadow Pipit, 8 Chaffinch, 9 Lesser Redpoll, 111 Starling (07:15-09:20) (Brent Birders)
 * Brockwell Park: 1 Kingfisher, 2 Grey Wagtail, 4 Lesser Redpoll, 3 Goldcrest, 6 Redwing, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Paul Collins and Charlie Kitchen) Male Peregrine on church 16:45 still there at 18:30, Kingfisher must have been a flyover rare here (Michael Mac)
 * Fulham: 1cy Caspian Gull (German 'X574') and 5+ Yellow-legged Gulls on R Thames between Crabtree pub and Lysia Street late morning (Josh Jones).
 * Gunpowder Park: 2 Kestrel, 2 Bullfinch (Harry Harrison)
 * Ham, Richmond: 2 Teal, male & female upstream of Thames Young Mariners at 1000 (Mike Foster)
 * Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens: 12 Shoveler, Little Egret, 230 Woodpigeon S/SW, Firecrest male Magazine, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Redwing, Bullfinch male over S, 3 Siskin S; late aft 2 Yellow-legged Gulls 1cy & 2cy, 11 Common Gulls, Cetti’s Warbler (Nick Senior) Was the Egret on the deck or a flyover please? Thanks, Mark. It was flying over Buck Hill at c08:45 toward the Serpentine pursued by 2 Herring Gulls then lost from sight (NS); many thanks, M.
 * KGV Reservoir: 2 Swallow (South) (Neville Smith).
 * King's Wood, Sanderstead: 07:40-08:50. 1 Firecrest, 1 Marsh Tit, 25+ Long-tailed Tits, 2 Redpoll over SW.(John Birkett)
 * Lockwood: Black-necked Grebe (Stuart Fisher/Paul Whiteman). Also 14 viewable on WG Res from Mansfield Park
 * Lonsdale Road Reservoir, Barnes: Water Rail, 3 Redwing S, Skylark N, Grey Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, 3 Meadow Pipit SW, 24 Chaffinch S/W, Lesser Redpoll, Siskin, fem Bullfinch S, 3 Red Admiral E in the cold and wind. (R.Kaye)
 * Picketts Lock area: Wheatear, 6 Chiffchaff, 14 Lapwing (A.Middleton)
 * Priest Hill, Ewell: 1 Common Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 3 Meadow Pipit (Neil Batten)
 * Primrose Hill: Ring Ouzel briefly 0720, Stonechat (scarce here but 3rd this autumn) low SW 0730, Yellow Wagtail (my 2nd-latest ever - prev'y 24 Oct 2013) low SW 0735 (Birdman Euston-Twitter)
 * Rainham Marshes: Spoonbill, 3 Little Stints, 7 Ruff, Bar-tailed Godwit, 24 Black-tailed Godwits, Green Sandpiper, 34 Dunlin, 2 Curlew, 2 Siskins, 2 Stonechats (Sean Huggins) Spoonbill on Aveley pools, Ruff, Stonechat, Marsh Harrier, Dunlin, Long-tailed Tit, Redwing, Skylark, Kestrel, Curlew, Common Snipe, Goldfinch, Little Egret {Jack Headley}
 * Roding Valley Meadows Lake: juv Red-necked Grebe still (Barry Jones)
 * Staines Reservoir: Red-necked Phalarope, Black-necked Grebe, Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Little Stint, 3 Ringed Plover, 3 Pintail and a Peregrine (Jim Sweetland)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: 3 Buzzard, m Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 13 Lapwing, 6 Stock Dove, 6 Skylark, 25-30 Meadow Pipit, 3 Stonechat, Coal Tit (rare here), Nuthatch, 3 Chiffchaff, c12 Linnet (Neil Anderson)
 * Tottenham Marsh: Bullfinch N over Wild Marsh east, then briefly heard in bushes along canal before seeming to depart (Stuart Fisher)
 * Totteridge Valley, Belmont Farm: 47 Starling, 54 Redwing, Meadow Pipit, 3 Red-legged Partridge, Song Thrush, 15 Chaffinch, Green Woodpecker, 12 Goldfinch, 3 Greenfinch, 12 Canada Geese, 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Grey Wagtail, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Mistle Thrush, Coal Tit, 4 Collared Dove, Grey Heron, 14 Pied Wagtail, 2 Egyptian Geese, 8 Stock Dove, 2 Kestrel (Samuel Levy)
 * Uxbridge: Barn Owl hunting TQ056855 alongside A40 6.15am (Dan Pinkham)
 * Wanstead Flats: Corncrake flushed from patch of long grass on north side of Long Wood, a brief view as it glided under the canopy, unfortunately (and not surprisingly given the extent of cover here) 3 of us could not refind it – prominent black markings on back, trailing legs under tapering tail, red-browny rounded wings, short neck and small head; Rock Pipit nw over Alex, 6 Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 15 + Linnet, 12 Chaffinch, Siskin, Redpoll, 4 Skylark, Blackcap, 3 Goldcrest, Common Buzzard, 2 Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon, 2 Yellow-legged Gull still in roost and on Alex, 30 + Common Gull, 7 Teal, 8 Shoveler, 10 Redwing, possible Ring Ouzel alarm calling in brooms next to vizmig point (Nick Croft)
 * Walton: River Thames. Ad Caspian Gull, (Chris Turner).
 * Wimbledon Common: 1 Buzzard, 34 Woodpigeon, 1 Kestrel, 7 Jay, 3 Coal Tit, 28 Long-tailed Tit, 4 Wren, 5 Goldcrest, 2 Redwing, 10 White Wagtail, 3 Siskin (Alex Bailey)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Snipe, 3 Teal, Sparrowhawk, Common Gull (Chris Farthing)
 * Worcester Park: Common Buzzard south (Bob Smith)

Saturday 21st October 2017

 * Alexandra Park: viz mig 0730 until 1055: 3 Lesser Redpoll, Siskin heard, 15+ Linnet (all very low), 12+ Meadow Pipit, 20+ Chaffinch, 18 Redwing west,12 Starling north, also Peregrine (APOG Birders)
 * Bayhurst Wood area: Barn Owl, 3 Buzzard 7.15am. Other species before and after a rough bit of weather Redwing, Siskin, 2 Red Kite, Lesser Redpoll, Bullfinch, Skylark, Meadow Pipit, Chiffchaff, Reed Bunting, Goldcrest (Dan Pinkham)
 * Bow Creek: 5 Redshank, Cetti's Warbler singing in Ecology Park, Grey Wagtail, Peregrine over, Red Admiral (Frank Nugent).
 * Brent Reservoir: Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 13 Common Snipe; from 07:15: Late Swallow S, 63 Redwing, 7 Meadow Pipit, 20 Chaffinch, 3 Siskin, 80 Starling (Brent Birders)
 * Brookmill Park: Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, 2 Kingfisher, 2 Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
 * Chingford Plain: Ring Ouzel (A.Middleton, Ken Murray)
 * Dulwich Park: Water Rail, Firecrest, 6 Goldcrest, 2 Coal Tit, Shoveler, Little Grebe, Sparrowhawk, Fieldfare, 4 Redwing, 2 Jackdaw and 200+ Woodpigeon (Paul Collins and Charlie Kitchen)
 * Dulwich Woods: 4 Firecrest (Paul Collins and Charlie Kitchen)
 * East India Dock: Cetti's Warbler singing, Kingfisher, Little Egret, 1 Common Gull on the island, 66 Teal, Grey Wagtail, Red Admiral (Frank Nugent).
 * Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park: Sparrowhawk (female), Kingfisher, Little Egret, Grey Wagtail (John Bushell)
 * Hampstead Heath: 3 House Martin low w over Parliament Hills Fields (Haringay Birder-Twitter)
 * London Wetland Centre, Barnes, WWT: Black-tailed Godwit, 1m 1f Stonechat, C Snipe, Wigeon (30+), Teal, Gadwall and all common ducks, Firecrest - Sheltered Lagoon walk [located John Cass et friends], (Angus Innes) Kestrel, Sparrowhawk and Peregrine (Martin Honey)
 * Regent's Park: 2 Grey Wagtail and a Chiffchaff along Regent's Canal (John Colmans)
 * Staines Reservoirs: 1 Red-necked Phalarope still on S basin, near small gravel islands at E end, early am at least. (Bob Warden per FJM) 2 Little Stint, 4 Dunlin, 4 Ringed Plover, 2 Pintail and a Rock Pipit (Jim Sweetland). Red necked Phalarope still present late morning at the east end of south basin swimming in the water near two blocks. ( John Edwards) also 2 Curlew Sandpipers and 1 Northern Wheatear early afternoon (Chris Hazell)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: 6 Mistle Thrush, 3 Goldfinch, 14 Meadow Pipit, 12 Linnet, 6 Skylark, 3 Buzzard on the ground together, Sparrowhawk, Coal tit (Deiniol Owen)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake : 3 Common Buzzard, 10 Rook, 8 Teal, 1 Meadow Pipit (Simon Worsfold)
 * Wanstead Flats: Ring Ouzel (Richard Rae), Swallow first struggling south then blown back north 30 minutes later, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (2w and 3w), 6 Redpoll, 10+ Linnet, Siskin, Reed Bunting, 10+ Meadow Pipit, 3 Skylark, 2 Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 8 Teal, 4 Gadwall, 2 Shoveler, 40 + Redwing, 3 Mistle Thrush (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: Kingfisher, 2 Teal, 9 Wigeon, 73 Gadwall, 13 Shoveler, 5 Little Grebe, Chiffchaff, 4 Goldcrest, Nuthatch, Redpoll, 2 Linnet (Nick Croft)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Peregrine, Kingfisher, overdue first returning Common Gull (Chris Farthing)

Friday 20th October 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Shoveler male eclipse Boating Lake first of autumn also 10 Redwing (Bob Watts)
 * Brent Reservoir: 6 Little Egret N. Marsh, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 18 Common Snipe; from 07:15: 114 Redwing, 30 Song Thrush, 29 Chaffinch, 5 Lesser Redpoll, Siskin, 163 Starling (Andrew Self, Francis O'Sullivan, Andrew Verrall)
 * Brockwell Park: Short-eared Owl flying west at dusk, yellow Ring-necked Parakeet still present with 200 others greens, male Sparrowhawk causing parakeet distress (Michael Mac)
 * Brookmill Park: Yellow-browed Warbler, 2 Little Egret, Sparrowhawk,  2 Kingfisher, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 8 Fieldfare over, Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest, 2 Coal Tit (Conrad Ellam et al)
 * Clapham Manor Street: 1 great spotted woodpecker (OSL).
 * Greenwich Ecology Park: Kestrel, Water Rail, Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail, Redwing, Chiffchaff, 40 Goldfinch (John Bushell)
 * Grovelands Park: 5 Cormorant, 2 Grey Heron, 5 Mute Swan pair and three first-winter, 4 Egyptian Goose, 24 Mandarin Duck 17m 7f, 3 Common Pochard 2m 1f, 27 Tufted Duck 17m 10f, 4 adult Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2 Goldcrest, Firecrest foraging in laurel and holly 13:43 - 13:46 (Robert Callf)
 * KGV Reservoir: Goldeneye, 2 Rock Pipit (Neville Smith).
 * Fishers Green: Firecrest reported to be outside Bittern hide, Fishers Green (Neville Smith). Male Firecrest found by Stuart Hamilton at 10.30. Still present with Long-tailed Tit flock 100m west of hide at 11.45. Also on Seventy Acres/Hooks Marsh: 24 Little Egret (very high count for here), Kingfisher, 7 Lesser Redpoll, 5+ Siskin, Cetti's Warbler, 8+ Chiffchaff, 10+ Goldcrest (Simon Papps) 70 acres lake-1st winter Mediterranean Gull 1648hrs in front of hide (Neville Smith).
 * Lamorbey Park: Peregrine, Treecreeper site year-1st, 6+ Goldcrest (Ian Stewart)
 * London Wetland Centre: Black-tailed Godwit scrape, 28 Redwing SE/S, Yellow Wagtail SE, 3 Siskin world wetlands/wildside, Water Pipit marsh/scrape (WWT website)
 * Ponders End Lock: 2 Green Sandpiper S of Wharf Road in Concrete Overflow Channel, 2 Goldcrest by Towpath, 1 Chiffchaff in Paddock. (Lunchtime) (Davey Leach)
 * St James's Park: Kingfisher and 2 Redwing roaming (Frank Nugent)
 * Staines Reservoir: Red-necked Phalarope juv on S basin at E end, near small shingle islands till 13.50 at least, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Little Stint, 4 Ringed Plover, 3 Dunlin, 2 Rock Pipit all on shingle islands. 1 Black-necked Grebe 1 Goldeneye, 5 Pintail. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: Barn Owl, m blackcap, 11 Redwing, Pied Wagtail, 200+ Wood Pigeon, 2 Goldfinch (Deiniol Owen)
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: 3 Redwing, 5 Pied Wagtail. (Samuel Levy)
 * Tyttenhanger Gravel Pits: Call consistent with Spotted Crake (single whip note about every second, patchily for two minutes only, feeble quail-like tone, not full song, from ten yards), main lake, in reeded edge below poplars along high path to horse paddock 16.00hr (Jo Edwards).
 * Walthamstow Wastelands: Lockwood, 1+ Lapwing, 4 Black-necked Grebes, 1 Wheatear, a few Meadow Pipits. Green Sandpiper in overflow channel. Ring Ouzel on Wildmarsh East (per Pete Lambert). (Paul Whiteman, Jamie Partridge) about a gazillion people on the South side later, mostly nature lovers apparently. has anyone seen an otter here? The Evening Standard said they are present (Michael Mac) No, Otter has never been seen at Walthamstow. Some spraint was found soon after Otters were re-introduced at Amwell 30ish years ago, presumably from one of those dispersing, (Anonymous comment) Welll they are listed in tonight's Standard as species to see there now! (Michael Mac)
 * Wanstead Flats: 2w Yellow-legged Gull, 250 + Redwing, 6 + Song Thrush, 3 Meadow Pipit, Skylark, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: Water Rail, Kingfisher, 6 Little Grebe, 11 Wigeon, 27 Shoveler, 20 Teal, 68 Gadwall, f Pochard, Nuthatch, 2 Siskin, 2 Linnet, 2 Meadow Pipit, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Chiffchaff, c 50 Redwing, Sparrowhawk (Nick Croft)
 * West Putney, Huntingfield Road: 2 Swallow SW/S, House Martin S. (R.Kaye, J.Wilczur)

Thursday 19th October 2017

 * Aldgate: Woodcock - found dead after a collision with a window (Charlie Farrell)
 * Bayhurst Wood area: Barn Owl, Tawny Owl, Redwing overhead pre-dawn. 4 Stonechat, 3 Reed Bunting, 4 Skylark, 26 Redwing, 5 Fieldfare, Grey Wagtail, Buzzard, 5+ Meadow Pipit, Siskin (Dan Pinkham)
 * Bexley DA5 (Upper College Farm): Kestrel, Green Woodpecker, 2+ Skylark, 7+ Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 2 Stonechat, Goldcrest (Ian Stewart)
 * Brent Reservoir: 2 Common Snipe high W, 154 Redwing, 61 Chaffinch, 5 Siskin, 163 Starling (Andrew Verrall); 94 Tufted Duck, 25 Pochard, 2 Water Rail, 16 Common Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Kingfisher, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Goldcrest (Roy Beddard)
 * Brookmill Park: Yellow-browed Warbler, 2 Kingfisher, 2 Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
 * Crystal Palace Park: circa 200 Chaffinch south (in parties of 12 - 30), circa 20 Song Thrush grounded, 3 x Redwing over. (Dave Clark)
 * Coldblow field (Bexley): Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Jay, c20 Chaffinch (Ian Stewart)
 * Foots Cray Meadows: 4 Mute Swan, 2 Tufted Duck, 2 Little Grebe, Water Rail, Kingfisher, 2 Swallow low W, Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Mistle Thrush, 2+ Redwing, 2 Chiffchaff, 6+ Goldcrest, prob Firecrest heard once only, 30+ Chaffinch, 4+ Siskin (Ian Stewart)
 * Gallions Reach: 120 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Sanderling, 15 Redshank, Snipe, Bearded Tit, movement of Redwings, Skylarks, Meadow Pipits (KJM)
 * Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park: Teal 1 male, Water Rail 2, Grey Wagtail, Song Thrush, Great Spotted Woodpecker. (John Bushall)
 * Gunpowder Park: Coal Tit, Cetti's Warbler, 10 Skylark, 4 Meadow Pipit, Brambling (over N), Bullfinch, Lesser Redpoll, 9 Skiskin, 4 Reed Bunting (Neville Smith).
 * Hampstead Heath: 2 Skylarks flushed near the running track, circled then flew W, 75 Chaffinches mostly SW, 40 Redwings all directions, overnight fog was slow to lift here, there were Meadow Pipits calling and Fieldfare but numbers undetermined (Pete Mantle)
 * Highams Park and Lake E4: 22 Cormorant - highest count this century, 42 Black-headed Gulls, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 12 Pochard (6m 6f), 16 Gadwall, 7 Tufted Duck, 2 Mandarin Duck 1 Grey Heron, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Goldcrest, 25 Jackdaw, 70 Woodpigeon, 4 Jay, 1 Green Woodpecker, 30 Long-tailed Tit. (Daniel Whitelegg)
 * Hyde Park; Peregrine and 14 Redwings over, late morning.(Dave Jordan); 8 Shoveler, Kingfisher, 4 Skylark S, 45 Song Thrush, 2 Fieldfare S, 3 Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, 35 Goldcrest, 3 Firecrest (2 Magazine, 1 Cavalary Monument),3 Treecreeper, 17 Coal Tit, 30 Chaffinch, 2 Brambling, 10 Greenfinch, 2 Reed Bunting, 2 House Sparrow (Nick Senior)
 * London Wetland Centre: Firecrest in Wildside and 2 Brambling NW (Twitter)
 * Mayflower Park: 3 Chiffchaffs (Bob Smith)
 * Oxleas Wood: 2 Coal Tit, Treecreeper, 9 Goldcrest, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Common Buzzard, 10 Goldfinch, Red Kite, Firecrest, 3 Song Thrush, 4 Redwing, Kestrel [m], Jackdaw (RonTurner)
 * Ponders End Lock (Wharf Road): 1 Brambling feeding in paddock with mixed Chaffinch/Goldfinch flock. Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail and Stock Dove Bathing in Concrete channel parallel to Canal, 1 Peregrine over, 1 Chiffchaff & 2 Goldcrests in mixed Tit flock also in Paddock. 13.00 - 14.00. (Davey Leach).
 * Richmond Park: m Wigeon still, 2 Teal. 2 Gadwall, 3 Red-crested Pochard still, 95 Pochard - highest count this century, Pied Wagtail, 23 Stonechat - including a grey morph at Sawyers Hill presumably last year's bird returning, 38 Song Thrush - 22 grounded & 16 flew S, 2 Dartford Warbler - in different areas to those of the 17th so possibly different birds, 50 Chaffinch - 25 grounded & 25 flew S, 3 Hawfinch flew W (J.Wilczur)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: Swallow, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Bullfinch (Neville Smith).
 * Sidcup DA15 (York Avenue): 4 Lapwing S 09.55 site year-1st, Peregrine, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Skylark heard, 2+ Pied Wagtail over, 2 Song Thrush E, 3 Mistle Thrush W, several Redwings heard in darkness and daylight with a few leaving the garden first thing, 2+ Goldcrest, Coal Tit, Jackdaw over, 50+ Chaffinch most W, 2 Linnet W, Siskin heard (Ian Stewart)
 * Stoneleigh Station KT17: 3 Redwing s 08:20 (Neil Batten)
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: 56 visible Redwing but many more heard flying over in the mornings fog, Coal Tit, 2 Goldcrest, Song Thrush, 5 Pied Wagtail. (Samuel Levy)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs. 1 F Wheatear, 25 Teal on High Maynard; 10 Little Egret on Low Maynard. (Quentin Given).
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 3 Lapwing over S at 08:45, Common Snipe, Kingfisher (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)

Wednesday 18th October 2017

 * Brent Reservoir: Vis mig: 7 Redwing, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, 27 Chaffinch, Goldfinch, 7 Greenfinch, 58 Starling, 66 Woodpigeon, Stock Dove, dry, one 10min shower 07:15-09:30 (Andrew Verrall)
 * Brixton: 11 House Sparrow, Blenheim Gardens Estate (Tony Stones).
 * Brookmill Park: Yellow-browed Warbler just south of pond, calling occasionally, 4 House Martin N, Collared Dove, 2 Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, Chiffchaff, 4+ Goldcrest, Coal Tit, Jay (Ian Stewart)
 * Gallions Reach: Greenland Wheatear (KJM)
 * Lamorbey Park: Pair Mute Swan, Egyptian Goose, f Teal, Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, 3 Grey Heron, Peregrine, 2 Kingfisher, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Meadow Pipit NW, Pied Wagtail, 20+ Goldcrest, Nuthatch (Ian Stewart)
 * Lewisham (Hilly Fields): 4 Goldcrest, Song Thrush, Jay, c20 Goldfinch (Ian Stewart)
 * Morden Cemetery: Little Owl, 50 Stock Doves (Bob Smith)
 * Oxleas Wood: 2 Kestrel [pair], 4 Greenfinch, 5 Nuthatch, 5 Song Thrush, 9 Goldcrest, 4 Coal Tit, Firecrest, 7 Goldfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Ron Turner)
 * Pinner (HA5): Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Jay & 13 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Rainham Marshes: Spoonbill still on Avery Pool (Howard Vaughan-Twitter)
 * St James's Park: Kingfisher showing very nicely in the rain this morning, feeding voraciously and regurgitated a pellet (Frank Nugent).
 * Sidcup DA15 (York Avenue): Chiffchaff, Coal Tit, Jay, Siskin (Ian Stewart)
 * Staines Reservoirs: Great Egret late pm along back edge of island on S basin but not seen at 1735 to dusk.(Steve M per FJM) 1 Avocet, 3 Grey Plover, 2 Little Stint, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Ringed Plover, 3 Rock Pipit, 1 Black Redstart fem along fence on N basin at E end. 2 Swallow. (Dave Morris per FJM)
 * Stave Hill: Grey Heron, 6 Long Tailed Tit, at least 10 Goldcrest, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail. No sign of House Sparrow around Globe Pond for at least 4 months, previously around 20 individuals were present (John Cadera ) The Sparrows have probably moved somewhere nearby, back in July there was about 50 at Norway Dock nearby (Michael Mac)
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: 26 Redwing, 22 Goldfinch (Samuel Levy)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs, Lockwood: Dunlin flew through and went down on Banbury, eclipse drake Scaup. East Warwick: Pair of Wigeon. (Paul Whiteman)
 * Wanstead Flats: probable Hawfinch nr Long Wood then SSSI, c. 150 Chaffinch, 7 Redpoll, 3 Linnet, Siskin, 7 Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, Skylark, Stonechat (young male), 5 Redwing, 2 Chiffchaff, 4 Goldcrest, 600+ Woodpigeon, Peregrine Falcon, 2 Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, Common Snipe, 16 Shoveler, 6 Teal, 2w Yellow-legged Gull still by Alex (Wanstead Brders)
 * Woodford Green: Chiffchaff/s between 8-10.30am, Song Thrush, Goldcrest, Blackcap and 3 separate flights of Chaffinch heading N.East. (Ken Murray)
 * Woodlands Farm: 10+Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * Worcester Park: Peregrine on pylons, 6 Blackbirds and 6 Song Thrushes (migrants) Bob Smith

Tuesday 17th October 2017

 * Barn Elms Playing Fields, Barnes: 7 Wigeon E, Grey Heron high NW, Swallow S, 4 Skylark S, just 25 Chaffinch W, Brambling W, 2 Linnet S, 25 Siskin W/S, 2 Lesser Redpoll S (R.Kaye)
 * Berrylands: Red-throated Pipit over south at 20:25, called twice (Nick Tanner).
 * Black Park: Raven (C Lamsdell)
 * Brent Reservoir: Vis mig: Hawfinch called, landed briefly, 2 Siskin, 2 Lesser Redpoll, 2 Linnet, 28 Chaffinch, 27 Goldfinch, 16 Greenfinch, Meadow Pipit, 3 Pied Wagtail, 35 Redwing, 5 Song Thrush, 3 Mistle Thrush, 169 Starling (07:15-09:45). Also 3 Cetti's Warbler, Bullfinch, Grey Wagtail, Kingfisher, 10 Common Snipe, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Egret, 7 Common Gull and 2 Migrant Hawker (Andrew Self, Magnus Andersson, Simon Worsfold, Andrew Verrall)
 * Brookmill Park: Yellow-browed Warbler still present, seen at 10.00 and again at 12.30 in Willows near pond, 2 Little Egret, 2 Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest, 2 Jackdaw over (John Bushell, Conrad Ellam & Richard Green ); YBW glimpsed at 1610 upstream from pond before bench on far bank of river, also 1 Coal Tit (Mike Paice)
 * Footscray Meadows: 6 Tufted Duck, Kingfisher, 2 Water Rail (Andy Meaton)
 * Gunpowder Park: (from viewpoint looking East 1300-1450) 3 Red Kite (together), 2 Common Buzzard, 3 Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 28 Skylark (7 singles over nw, 21 feeding flock), 3 Lesser Redpoll (flock over s), Siskin, 2 Reed Bunting (singles over s)(Neville Smith).
 * KGV Reservoir: 4 Goosander, 4 Skylark (over S/E), 29 Meadow Pipit (over south small flock), 27 Linnet (over south), 3 Goldcrest, 3 Chiffchaff (Neville Smith).
 * Lamorbey Park: 7 Egyptian Geese, f Teal, Little Grebe, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, c15 Goldcrest, 2 Jay, c25 Goldfinch (Ian Stewart)
 * New Change EC2: 3 Skylark S, 3 Song Thrush SW, 4 Redpoll sp SW, 37 Goldfinch SE (Nick Senior)
 * Oxleas Wood: 5 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper, Common Buzzard, Stock Dove, 17 Goldcrest, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 9 Goldfinch, 4 Coal Tit, Jackdaw, Blackcap [fm], 9 Song Thrush, Redwing, Kestrel [m], Chiffchaff (Ron Turner)
 * Purfleet: 1 Little Stint, 1 Avocet, 21 Black-tailed Godwit, 129 Lapwing, 61 Redshank, 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Common Sandpiper, 26 Dunlin, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (Fraser Simpson)
 * Richmond Park: Bearded Tit (J.Wilczur); 3 Dartford Warbler - male and two fem/imm the former first seen on the 13th (J.Wilczur, J.Few, B.Atherton); Wigeon, Little Egret SW, Peregrine (P.Pentek); 3 Water Rail heard, 80 Woodpigeon S, 28 Meadow Pipit grounded, 9 Stonechat, Chiffchaff, 28 Chaffinch W, 13 Greenfinch SW, 9 Reed Bunting (J.Wilczur)
 * Roding Valley Lake: juvenile Red-necked Grebe, Kingfisher, Common Gull (Francis O'Sullivan, Ray Teale)
 * RSPB Rainham Marshes: Spoonbill still on Aveley Pools (BirdGuides)
 * Ruislip Woods, Poor's Field: 40+ Redpoll, 2 f Bullfinch, 2 Coal Tit (Deiniol Owen)
 * Sidcup DA15 (York Avenue): prob Hawfinch heard am but once only amid lots of noise pollution, 2 Peregrine, 5 Stock Dove SE, 2 Song Thrush, Goldcrest, Coal Tit (Ian Stewart)
 * Staines Reservoirs: 2 Little Stint, 2 Grey Plover, 2 Ruff, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Ringed Plover, 3 Rock Pipit early pm. (Dave Morris per FJM)
 * St James's Park: Kingfisher (Frank Nugent).
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: 6 Redwing, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Canada Geese, Kestrel, 2 Goldcrest. (Samuel Levy)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: Firecrest male still, Song Thrush, 7+ Goldcrest, Meadow Pipit, 10 Woodpigeon west, Chiffchaff (Bob Watts)
 * Trent Park: 2 m Shoveler, f Kestrel, Grey Wagtail, 2 Goldcrest, 4 Coal Tit, 2 Bullfinch (Robert Callf)
 * Woodford Green: Hawfinch going South 9.25am. and again at 9.41am going N.East. (Ken Murray)
 * Walthamstow Wetlands: was on BBC lunchtime news, apparently it's largest wetland in Europe? it said opens to the public on Friday for first time in 150 years. Funny its been open to the public already for years. A councillor said 'its going to help local people, business and new housing? 'So perhaps it will be used as a selling point for new properties being built (Michael Mac) What? Even bigger than Coto Donana, Camargue or the Danube Delta etc? (AGC) 'Biggest urban wetlands' was the claim.
 * Woodlands Farm: Honey Buzzard s 3pm (Conrad Ellam)
 * Wormwood Scrubs:2 Stonechat,3 Meadow Pipit plus Viviparous Lizard (Francis O'Sullivan)

Monday 16th October 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Hawfinch in flight from Birdwatch office window over park airspace (per Ian Lycett).
 * Barn Elms Playing Fields, Barnes: Great White Egret NE 11.55 then W 12.09, Caspian Gull 2CY, 154 Chaffinch W, 46 Brambling W (R.Kaye)
 * Barnes Cray (Byway 105): 2 singing Chiffchaff, singing Cetti’s Warbler (Ian Stewart)
 * Brent Reservoir: Cetti's Warbler singing on Dump, 2 Little Egret over Dump; vis-mig 07:00-09:45 109 Woodpigeon S, 4 Stock Dove, 98 Starling, Pied Wagtail, 4 Redwing, 11 Song Thrush, 4 Mistle Thrush, 17 Chaffinch, 14 Greenfinch, 4 Goldfinch, 7 Siskin (Francis O'Sullivan, Andrew Verrall); Main Hide 10.00 Water Rail, 4 Snipe, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Gull, Cetti's Warbler, Little Egret, 3 Chiffchaff, Coal Tit (Francis O'Sullivan)
 * Brookmill Park: Yellow-browed Warbler, Sparrowhawk, 3 Little Egret, 2 Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Chiffchaff, 4 Goldcrest, Coal Tit (Conrad Ellam); the YbW showed briefly in a Willow, overhanging the river, about 50 yards upriver from the pond; the YbW showed well for a few minutes with a tit flock at 2.20 pm
 * Crayford Marshes: Wigeon, c40 Teal, 3 Pheasant, 4 Little Egret, Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 4 Kestrel, c40 Lapwing, 2 Ringed Plover, c15 Dunlin, Little Stint, 2 Green Sandpiper, c150 Redshank, 4 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Ruff, c30 Skylark, c30 Meadow Pipit, 10+ Pied Wagtail, 2 Grey Wagtail, 8 Stonechat, Redwing, 5 Mistle Thrush, 5 Cetti’s Warbler, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, 4 Bearded Tit high over Darent creek, c50 Jackdaw S in one flock, Brambling, c100 Goldfinch, 4+ Reed Bunting (Ian Stewart)
 * Enfield Lock: Coal Tit calling on Government Row at 08:24 (Martin Shepherd)
 * Greenwich: Chiffchaff singing in Woodlands Park Road. (Richard Green)
 * Gunpowder Park: (12-1300hrs) 5 Common Buzzard, 2 Sparrowhawk, 29 Skylark (22 touched down, 7 over), 22 Redwing (distantly over south), 50+ Chaffinch (over N/W in small groups up to 12), Lesser Redpoll (single over south) (Neville Smith). 18 Lesser Redpoll in Birch stand on top rise at 08:45, 17 Linnet, c30 Meadow Pipit, c150 Goldfinch, 2 Bullfinch (Martin Shepherd)
 * KGV Reservoir: 4 Goosander, Goldeneye, 2 Sparrowhawk, 8 Skylark (mainly northwards), Redwing 12 (over), 2 Cetti's Warbler, Treecreeper (heard), Siskin, 4 Yellowhammer (over S), 2 Reed Bunting (over S) (Neville Smith).
 * Oakhill Park: Little Owl in oak trees adjacent to Parkside Gardens with some mobbing by small birds 7:50am (D Bates)
 * London Wetland Centre: Great White Egret, 2 Pintail, 3 Snipe, 3 Water Rail, 1 Grey Wagtail (WWT Website)
 * New Change EC2: Woodlark S 08:12, 2 Meadow Pipit SW, 55 Goldfinches SE (Nick Senior).
 * Northolt Park: 13 Redwing, Sparrowhawk (Dan Pinkham)
 * Purfleet: 1 Little Stint, 7 Black-tailed Godwit, 101 Lapwing, 118 Redshank, 2 Ringed Plover, 16 Dunlin (Fraser Simpson)
 * Rainham RSPB Reserve: 3 Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, 60 Golden Plover, Lapwing, 5 Little Egret, Shoveler, Teal, Gadwall, Pochard, Tufted Duck, 5 Stonechat, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Skylark, Meadow Pipit, Kestrel (Nigel May). Also Spoonbill photographed on target pools (Friends of RSPB Rainham Marshes Fb group)
 * Rammey Marsh: Stonechat (Neville Smith).
 * Richmond Park: Red Kite, Buzzard, 550 Woodpigeon S, 3 Swallow SE, Skylark W, 9 alba Wagtail S/SE, 11 Meadow Pipit SW, Redwing W, 88 Song Thrush SW, 5 Mistle Thrush S, 180 Starling W, 120 Chaffinch W, 64 Goldfinch S, 14 Siskin S, 18 Linnet S (J.Wilczur)
 * Roding Valley Meadows Reserve Lake: Red-necked Grebe (juv) (Nigel May).
 * St James's Park: Kingfisher and Chiffchaff (Frank Nugent). Kingfisher, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Shoveler (Tom Jordan)
 * Scadbury Park: Tawny Owl calling 00.05 heard from Sidcup side of A20 (Ian Stewart)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: Sparrowhawk, Cetti's Warbler, Treecreeper, 2 Stonechat (m&f), Lesser Redpoll (single over east) (Neville Smith).
 * Southgate (St Andrew's Church): 107 Feral Pigeon on roof - my first count over 100 here (Robert Callf)
 * Staines Moor: Water Pipit (C Lamsdell)
 * Surbiton: 7 Hawfinch West 8.45 (J Herbert).
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: Vis-mig 07:30-11:00: 31 Redwing, Fieldfare, 9 Greenfinch, 500+ Woodpigeon, 4 Song Thrush, 6 Pied Wagtail, 85 Chaffinch, Siskin, Meadow Pipit, Common Buzzard, Also 2 Coal Tit, 4 Goldcrest, 2 Green Woodpecker, 20 Ring-necked Parakeet in to Roost at 14:00 and 15 Mallard Roosting 15:45 (Sheepwash Pond), (presumably due to the Sandstorm), (Samuel Levy)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 5 Redwing, 4 Song Thrush in `owl' field, Skylark, 3 Meadow Pipit, Mistle Thrush, Chiffchaff, Grey Wagtail, 8 Teal, also Muntjac (John Colmans)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: 10 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, 2+ Chiffchaff, 6+ Goldcrest (Bob Watts)
 * Wanstead Flats: 4 Swallow, 80 Redwing, 2 Redpoll (Jono Lethbridge)

Sunday 15th October 2017

 * Alexandra Park: viz mig 0830 & 1030 - 4 Hawfinch west 0835, 0843, 1000, also 24 Jackdaw, 18 Redwing, Linnet, 4 Skylark, 25+ Meadow Pipit, 30+ Chaffinch, 4 Chiffchaff, Peregrine (APOG Birders)
 * Amwell GP: Red kite, Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Common Snipe, 16+Skylark (over), 10+Meadow Pipit. Bearded Tit (male), Stonechat (ad male), 13+ Redpoll, 30+ Redwing (over Westwards), 3 Siskin, 2 Yellowhammer (over S/W) (Neville Smith).
 * Barn Elms Playing Fields: 2 Mandarin, Grey Heron high W, ad m Peregrine, Buzzard S, Golden Plover S 09.00, Yellow-legged Gull 3CY, 3 Collared Dove SW, 14 Meadow Pipit mostly S, 11 Skylark SW, 73 Song Thrush SW, Mistle Thrush S, 15 Redwing S, 240 Starling W, House Martin S, Coal Tit a mover N, 21 Greenfinch SW, 476 Chaffinch mostly W but some SW/NW, 2 Siskin S, 18 Goldfinch NW, 18 Linnet S, Brambling S, Reed Bunting NW, 2 Red Admiral (R.Kaye)
 * Beddington Park: 3 Little Egret and 1 Kingfisher (Frank Nugent).
 * Bow Creek: 4 Redshank and 1 Kingfisher which then flew over the road to East India Dock (Frank Nugent).
 * Brent Reservoir: Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 7 Snipe, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Cetti's Warbler; Vis-mig 07:00-09:15: Lapwing 1 W, 146 Woodpigeon S, 1 Stock Dove, 48 Starling, 3 Redwing, 6 Song Thrush, 6 Mistle Thrush, 33 Chaffinch, 8 Greenfinch, 5 Goldfinch, Siskin (Francis O'Sullivan, Andrew Haynes, Andrew Verrall); plus Lesser Redpoll singing by path to main hide 11:30 (AH)
 * Brookmill Park: 3 Little Egret, 2 Kingfisher, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
 * East India Dock: Little Egret, Kingfisher, c50 Teal, Kestrel hunting over the reedbed (Frank Nugent).
 * Gallions Reach: Snow Bunting, 33 Skylarks, 100+ Chaffinches. A good little bit of movement today. (KJM)
 * Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park: Song Thrush, Goldcrest 2, Blackcap 1 female, Chiffchaff 2, Kingfisher (Richard Green, John Bushall)
 * Hampstead Heath: 40 Hawfinch over (Rare Bird Alert)
 * Juniper Bottom, Surrey: 6 Hawfinch NW (Steve Gale-Twitter)
 * Lambeth Bridge: Caspian Gull 1cy, Yellow-legged Gull adult (Nick Senior)
 * Lamorbey Park : Little Grebe, 4 Cormorant over, Grey Heron, 2 Mute Swan, 2 Egyptian Geese, f Teal, Sparrowhawk , Common Buzzard low West mobbed by 2 Carrion Crows, Stock Dove, Green Woodpecker, 2 Nuthatch 2+ Jay, 4 Jackdaw, 4 Goldfinch (Mike Amos).
 * Lodge farm: peregrine low over ( Brian Dawton )
 * Netherhouse Farm: 2 Coal Tit in scrub on top ridge, 86 Redwing east in small groups, 25 Skylark, 12 Meadow Pipit, 15 Linnet, 10 Goldcrest, Sparrowhawk (Martin Shepherd)
 * Osterley Park: Common Buzzard, 4 Egyptian Goose, 10 Gadwall, 3 Great Crested Grebe, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Grey Heron, 25+ Jackdaw, 2 Jay, Kingfisher, 2 Pied Wagtail, Red Kite, 7+ Ring-necked Parakeet, 14 Shoveler (Richard Woolley)
 * Oxleas Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker, Nuthatch, 7 Goldcrest, Common Buzzard, Kestrel [m], 6 Goldfinch, 20+ Redwing, 9 Song Thrush, 2 Blackcap [m/fm], Sparrowhawk (Ron Turner)
 * Pinner (HA5): Red Kite south-west at 13:47, Jay & Goldfinch while emptying the bin (Jon Ridge)
 * Primrose Hill: 9 Stock Dove N, 63 Woodpigeon S/SW, 102 Starling W/SW, 109 Redwing SW/W, Grey Wagtail SSW, Pied Wagtail S, 31 Meadow Pipit S/SW, 15 Chaffinch, 8 Linnet S, 16 Redpoll S, 32 Goldfinch, 6 Siskin SW, 3 Reed Bunting S 09:20 - vismig 07:25-09:25 (Twitter)
 * Purfleet: 1 Little Stint, 1 Brambling, 1 Brent Goose, 148 Lapwing, 1 Ringed Plover, 3 Curlew, 10 Black-tailed Godwit, 25 Dunlin, 164 Redshank, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Siskin (Fraser Simpson)
 * Ranelagh Gardens: 3 Collared Dove W, 4 Skylark S, 13 alba Wagtails S, 20 Meadow Pipits SW, 61 Song Thrush W/SW + 7 in, 1 Redwing SW, 2 Tree Sparrow S, 510 Chaffinches WNW (still going at 4pm in sporadic big flocks), 5 Brambling WNW, 2 Hawfinch W, 1 Redpoll sp w; 2 Clouded Yellow (Nick Senior)
 * Richmond Park: 38 Mandarin Duck, Red Kite, 2 alba Wagtail S, 32 Meadow Pipit SW, 10 Redwing W, 2 Mistle Thrush S, 103 Song Thrush SW, 180 Starling W, 340 Chaffinch W/S, 39 Greenfinch S/SW, 27 Goldfinch S (J.Wilczur)
 * Roding Valley Meadows Lake: Red-necked Grebe (juv) still, Sparrowhawk (Barry Jones).
 * RSPB Rainham Marshes: 78+ Redwing, 780 Chaffinch (364 from one part of reserve and 416 from another), 2 Common Sandpiper, 45 Meadow Pipit, 195+ Goldfinch, 6 Goldcrest, 3 Kingfisher, 4 Fieldfare, 17 Cetti's Warbler, 5 Curlew, 10 Song Thrush, 3 Greenfinch, Brent Goose, Rock Pipit, 57 Jackdaw, 28+ Skylark, Grey Plover, Ring-necked Parakeet, 6 Chiffchaff, 5 Rook, 6 Black-tailed Godwit, Pintail, Barn Owl, 10 Stonechat, 8 Kestrel, 3 Marsh Harrier, 4 Ruff, 38 Linnet, 8 Siskin, 2 Swallow, f Merlin, Brambling (pic here), 2 Common Buzzard, 21 Stock Dove, Sparrowhawk, 3 Whinchat, m Peregrine. (Samuel Levy, Dante Shepherd, Tom Bell) Unidentified Grey Parrot flying over Butt's hide around 4pm (Mark F). 1 Little Stint on Aveley Bay 4pm (Daniel Whitelegg)
 * Sidcup DA15 (York Avenue): 2 Peregrine, Great Black-backed Gull SW, 9 Stock Dove over, Skylark heard, 4+ Meadow Pipit S, 4+ Pied Wagtail S, Grey Wagtail heard, 12+ Redwing 6W 5S 1SW, 2 Goldcrest, Firecrest in garden briefly, Coal Tit, 2 Jay, 14+ Jackdaw 13E 1+S, 194+ Starling most W, 84+ Chaffinch most W, 5+ Brambling W, 4+ Linnet W, 30+ Goldfinch most S/SE, 3+ Siskin S (Ian Stewart)
 * Staines Reservoirs: 1 Brambling male with 65 Linnet at W end early pm. 1 Wheatear, 15 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Goldcrest,1 Chiffchaff by road at W end. 1 Sparrowhawk. (Franko J Maroevic) 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Grey Plover, 2 Dunlin, 1 Black-necked Grebe, 2 Goldeneye, Shelduck, Widgeon, Shoveler, etc. (Bob Husband, Mike Cawthorne, Fay Broom)
 * Stockwell - Housing Estate Tower Blocks: f Sparrowhawk seen same place and time as yesterday at 12:45pm (Michael Mac)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: Little Owl, 2 Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 10 Lapwing, 25 Linnet, 6 Skylark, 10 Meadow Pipit, 3 Redwing, 10 Song Thrush feeding together, Coal Tit - unusual here, 30 Chaffinch W in an hour, small flocks of Starling W, Swallow SW (Nigel Dodd)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake :Viz Mig 7.15- 9.30 : 48 Starling, 7 Chaffinch, 4 Linnet, 2 Lesser Redpoll, 9 Redwing, 2 Pied Wagtail, Greenfinch, also 3 Siskin, 4 Meadow Pipit, 8 Teal, Bullfinch (Simon Worsfold)
 * Walthamstow, Lockwood and Tottenham Marsh East: Short-eared Owl, 75+ Jackdaw through plus at least 30 on Lockwood later, Rook briefly, 2 Kingfisher, Lesser Redpoll, Siskin, 42+ Chaffinch over, 7 Meadow Pipit, 3 Fieldfare, 34 Redwing, 5 Reed Bunting, 2 Common Sandpiper (Lower Maynard), 70+ Woodpigeon, 4 Goldcrest, 8 Chiffchaff (Stuart Fisher et al)
 * Wanstead Flats: 2 Woodlark, 2 Short-eared Owl at last,  Rock Pipit (first for 2 year's),10+ Brambling, 20+ Redpoll, 30 + Linnet, 25 + Siskin, c. 200 Chaffinch, 3 Reed Bunting, 20 + Meadow Pipit, 2 Grey Wagtail, 15 Skylark, 2 Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 3 Kestrel, 3 Chiffchaff, 3 Goldcrest, 10 + Redwing, 2w Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Shoveler, 6 Teal  (J Lethbridge/B Vaughan/Nick Croft)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Peregrine, Kingfisher, Reed Bunting. Migrant birds all heading approx. WSW: c45 Woodpigeon, c20 Redwing, c20 Jackdaw (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)
 * Woodford Green: 2 Redwings, Goldcrest, Male and female Blackcap, Chaffinch and Grey Wagtail, plus Hawfinch flying over at 9.30am. (Ken Murray)
 * Worcester Park, Garden KT4: vis-mig 7:45-8:45, 1 Little Egret over W, 44 Chaffinch W, 3 Meadow Pipit S/SE, 2 Redwing and 3 Fieldfare S/SW, 1 Blackcap and 1 Sparrowhawk mobbed by crows (Isaiah Rowe) .Hi Isaiah I and a few others watch at Worcester Park.I would be happy to exchange e mails for news if you would like (Bob Smith)
 * Sanderstead, South Croydon, near Waitrose. Afternoon, around 3pm: distant call of a Sparrowhawk and a Peregrine flying overhead (first personal sighting in the area). Also suspected tawny owl faeces seen, deposited on a trailer tent. (Gareth Simkins)

Saturday 14th October 2017

 * Alexandra Park: 3 Chiffchaff, Redwing, Siskin, Linnet, Meadow Pipit, small number of Chaffinches over between 0745 & 0900, Kingfisher Wood Green Res, Blackcap (Bob Watts)
 * Bow Creek: Cetti's Warbler singing from Ecology Park, different bird from East India Dock, Peregrine over (Frank Nugent).
 * Brent Reservoir: Common Sandpiper on rafts, 10 Snipe, Little Egret N.Marsh, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Cetti's Warbler; Vis-mig 07:15-09:30: 4 Stock Dove S, 113 Starling, Skylark, Meadow Pipit, 6 House Martin, 11 Redwing, 13 Song Thrush, Blackbird, 2 Mistle Thrush, 4 Pied Wagtail, 73 Chaffinch, 14 Greenfinch, 33 Goldfinch, Siskin, Lesser Redpoll, 6 Linnet (Magnus Andersson, Simon Worsfold, Andrew Verrall)
 * Brookmill Park: 3 Little Egret, 09:00-10:00, Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail, Chiffchaff singing (Frank Nugent).
 * Crayford Marshes: 2+ Gadwall, 6 Wigeon, 10+ Teal, 5 Pheasant, 6 Little Egret, 3 Kestrel, Avocet on Essex side of Thames, c30 Lapwing, c10 Dunlin, 4 Common Sandpiper, c100 Redshank, 2 Curlew on Essex side, Snipe, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Skylark, c20 Meadow Pipit, 6+ Pied Wagtail, 6+ Stonechat, Blackcap, 4 Cetti’s Warbler, poss Dartford Warbler warning call heard near Darent barrier, 2+ Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, 7+ Rook (on “Ouzel fields”), Redpoll, 3+ Reed Bunting (Ian Stewart)
 * East India Dock: Cetti's Warbler singing and briefly visible, not the Bow Creek bird, Reed Bunting over, calling,  Little Egret, 50 Teal, Grey Wagtail, Kingfisher, 2 Red Admiral (Frank Nugent).
 * Chingford Plain: Ring Ouzel, 2 Redwing, 10+ Song Thrush, 6 Meadow Pipits, 3 Bullfinch, over c10 Redpoll and 3 Skylark (Andrew Middleton)
 * Fairlop Waters: 2 Stonechat, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, 2 Reed Bunting, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Little Owl, Common Buzzard, Lapwing, Grey Wagtail, Skylark, Meadow Pipit. (Alan Thomas/Neil Twyford)
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - [tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:0830-0900 0830-0900] 0830-0900] 0830-0900] 0830-0900] 0830-0900] 0830-0900] 0830-0900] 0830-0900] 0830-0900] 0830-0900] 0830-0900]: 4 Meadow Pipit S, 2 Goldcrest, Brambling NW 08:34 calling loudly, 2 Fieldfare W, 3 Linnet SW. (Samuel Levy)
 * Gunpowder Park: Common Buzzard, 7 Skylark, 8 Meadow Pipit, Cetti's Warbler, 4 Redpoll sp (Neville Smith)
 * Hammersmith: 2cy Caspian Gull (German 'X307') and 4cy Yellow-legged Gull (Josh Jones, Andy Clements)
 * Lamorbey Park: 7 Egyptian Geese, 2 Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, c20 Goldcrest, Coal Tit, Nuthatch,2+ Jay (Ian Stewart)
 * Lonsdale Road Reservoir, Barnes: 68 Teal, 14 Shoveler, 2 Little Egret, Water Rail, juv Little Grebe, 4 Collared Dove NW/SW, 5 Meadow Pipit SW, 2 Grey Wagtail, 10 alba Wagtail SW, 6 Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, 7 Goldcrest, 6 Mistle Thrush W/S, 3 Redwing SW, 3 Song Thrush SW, 3 Dunnock high S, 260 Starling W, 133 Chaffinch W/SW, 2 Siskin NW, 7 Lesser Redpoll SW, 17 Goldfinch SW, 7 Linnet S, 3 Reed Bunting SW. (R.Kaye)
 * Morden: 25 Hawfinch over (Rare Bird Alert)
 * Muswell Hill : Skylark over, 10.30am (Brian Milligan)
 * North Finchley: Hutton Grove - 2 Meadow Pipits W 10:58, 2 Goldcrest. (Samuel Levy)
 * Oxleas Wood: Treecreeper, 3 Common Buzzard [1pair], 11 Goldcrest, Coal Tit, 2 Goldfinch, Nuthatch, Jackdaw, 7 Song Thrush, Linnet [over], Kestrel (Ron Turner)
 * Purfleet: 1 Woodlark, 2 Little Stint, 1 Grey Plover, 32 Wigeon, 1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Avocet, 76 Lapwing, 5 Ringed Plover, 5 Curlew, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 23 Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpiper, 128 Redshank, 4 Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Barn Owl (Fraser Simpson)
 * Rainham Marshes: Dartford Warbler, Tree Sparrow, 6 Rock Pipit, 9 Siskin, 12 Stonechat (Howard Vaughan - Twitter)
 * Netherhall farm Red Kite, m Blackcap & buck fallow deer (Brian Dawton)
 * Rammey Marsh: 3 Stonechat (2m), 2 Skylark (over), Meadow Pipit, Coal Tit, Bullfinch (m), Brambling, 2 Siskin (over), 4 Redpoll sp (Neville Smith).
 * Richmond Park: 3 Red-crested Pochard, Little Egret, Red Kite lingering, 2 Buzzard, 2 Common Gull, Kingfisher, 1000+ Woodpigeon erupting from woods, House Martin, 15 Meadow Pipit S, Grey Wagtail SW, 50 Redwing W, 11 Song Thrush SW, 3 Mistle Thrush S, 45 Starling W, 880 Chaffinch W - mainly 11.00-12.30, 11 Greenfinch S, 23 Linnet S, 12 Redpoll S, 60 Siskin mainly S, 25 Goldfinch (J.Wilczur) A Little Owl was hunting not to far from Pembroke lodge at around 15:00 (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Sewardstone marsh f Goosander in flood relief channel (Brian Dawton)
 * Sidcup DA15 (York Avenue): Sparrowhawk, Skylark heard, Pied Wagtail S, Goldcrest, Coal Tit, c75 Chaffinch W (Ian Stewart)
 * Staines Reservoirs: 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Ringed Plover, 2 Dunlin, 1 Ruff, 1 Black-necked Grebe, 8 Pintail, 20 Meadow Pipit, 150 Linnet, 1 Kestrel fem landed on mud for few minutes then SW mid pm. No sign of possible Golden Plover reported early pm. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Stockwell: f Sparrowhawk mobbed by Magpie from ground level to great height and performing acrobatic dive together (Michael Mac)
 * Stratford, Olympic Park: Coal Tit, 4 Siskin NW, 16 Meadow Pipit, Kingfisher (Stuart Fisher)
 * Tooting Common: 1 Hawfinch flying west calling (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Trent Park: male Pochard, 2 Sparrowhawk together over Rough Lot 11:55, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, 2 Nuthatch, Treecreeper (Robert Callf)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 2 Stonechat (m+f) on bomb crater field (Jon Agar)
 * Wanstead Flats: House Martin, f Yellowhammer (first this year), 6 Reed Bunting, 263 Chaffinch, 10 Redpoll, 20 + Linnet, 2 Siskin, 50 + Goldfnch, 2 Yellow-legged Gull stll by Alex, 20 + Common Gull, Stonechat, Redwing, 8 Song Thrush, 20 Skylark (some movement south), 20 + Meadow Pipit, 3 Grey Wagtail, Red Kite, 3 Sparrowhawk, 3 Kestrel, 10 Teal, 10 Shoveler, 3 Chiffchaff, f Blackcap, 4 Goldcrest (Wanstead Birders)


 * Peckham/Honor Oak: Nightingale - seen and heard. . 6.30 pm (Simon Howells)
 * Earlsfield (Field View off Burntwood Lane), c12:00. 4 Skylarks flying South.

Friday 13th October 2017

 * Amwell NR: Rock Pipit showing well on mud by viewpoint (Barry Reed - Twitter)
 * Belvedere: 4 Ringed Plover, juvenile Caspian Gull (James Palmer)
 * Brent Reservoir: Vis-mig 07:15-09:45: 46 Redwing, 6 Song Thrush, 11 Mistle Thrush, 38 Starling, 17 Greenfinch, 12 Goldfinch, 36 Chaffinch, 1 Lesser Redpoll (Andrew Verrall)
 * Brookmill Park: Brambling bathing in the Ravensbourne, near the pond. Little Egret, Kingfisher, singing Chiffchaff, Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
 * Dollis Brook: Tawny Owl calling from near Finchley tennis club 06:52 (Samuel Levy)
 * Dulwich Park: Circa 300 Woodpigeon, 2 Redwing, Water Rail, 34 Herring Gull (Dave Clark)
 * Grovelands Park: 3 Cormorant, 5 Mute Swan pr and three 1st-winter, 60 Canada Goose, 5 Egyptian Goose, 24 Mandarin Duck 14m 10f, male Pochard, 27 Tufted Duck, 34 Black-headed Gull, adult Common Gull, 7 Stock Dove, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Song Thrush including juv/1st-winter, Mistle Thrush, Coal Tit, 2 Goldcrest, 4 Nuthatch, 35 Magpie on Pitch & Putt 17:05 (Robert Callf)
 * Hackney Marshes: 1 Common Gull (first of the autumn here for me), 1 Great Crested Grebe (ad) on Old R Lea at 11:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Lamorbey Park: 7 Egyptian Geese, Little Grebe, Peregrine, Grey Wagtail, 5+ Redwing, 2+ Chiffchaff, 16+ Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch, Redpoll SW, c25 Siskin (Ian Stewart)
 * Petts Wood: Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Chiffchaff, 20+ Goldcrest, Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Rook, 9 Siskin, 2 Bullfinch (Ian Stewart)
 * Purfleet: 1 Marsh Harrier, 82 Lapwing, 3 Ringed Plover, 3 Curlew, 143 Redshank, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Kingfisher (Fraser Simpson)
 * Richmond Park: 3 Red-crested Pochard, Kingfisher, an all-yellow Parakeet with a flock of Ring-necked Parakeets - presumably a domesticated form that has escaped (Friday Bird Group) If I remember correctly, there are a number of this colour form at Beddington Farmlands - it might have got the wandering bug? (Neil Batten) About 7-8 years ago there was at least one yellow R-n Parakeet in Sidcup with the neck ring being white, associating with the usual birds. I then saw what I took to be the same bird in Kelsey Park about 2011 so perhaps a more usual aberration to the green plumage than we think (Ian Stewart) There was one at Brockwell Park about 3 weeks ago (Michael Mac)
 * Staines Reservoirs: 1 Grey Plover in flight then on back mud beyond island at E end of S basin early pm. 3 Ringed Plover, 6 Dunlin, 2 Ruff, 1 Black-necked Grebe, 8 Pintail, 2 Rock Pipit along causeway mostly on N basin side. 47 Chaffinch flew W in small groups early pm. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Swanscombe Marsh : 13.30 - 17.30 : 2 Swallow ( up river ), 5 Stonechat, 3 Cettis Warbler, 1 Little Egret, 43 Redshank, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Ringed Plover, 9 Gadwall, 4 Shoveler, 18 Meadow Pipit, 2 Raven, 7 Teal ( 2 on Black Duck Marsh & 5 on river ). (Roger Keith)
 * Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 200+ Jackdaw now in and around 'Cow' Field, 2 Coal Tit, 5 House Martin stopped off briefly to feed until they flew S, 8 Goldcrest, 2 Bullfinch, 15+ Stock Dove, 9 Teal, 4 Pheasant, 4 Chiffchaff, 4 Redwing, 4 Meadow Pipit, Common Buzzard, 46+ Rook, Common Gull, Little Owl. (Samuel Levy)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 1 Stonechat (m) Bomb Crater Field, 1 Kingfisher heading downriver under the black bridge, 2 Sparrowhawk (m & f) W across Leyton Marsh about 30 mins apart - all 09:00 - 10:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Worcester Park: Peregrine, 30 Pied Wagtails, 30 Stock Doves (Bob Smith)
 * Wormwood Scrubs: 200+ Woodpigeon, 2 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Goldcrest (Charlie Farrell)

Thursday 12th October 2017

 * Battersea Park: 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Jay, 20+ Long Tailed Tit, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Common Buzzard NE at 11:50 (John & Janet Cadera)
 * Brent Reservoir: Bullfinch, Goldcrest, singing Chiffchaff on Dump. Vis-mig. 07:00: Skylark, 3 House Martins south, 7 Redwing, 24 Chaffinch, Pied Wagtail (Andrew Verrall)
 * Brockwell Park: 1 Redwing in walled garden, 5 Greenfinch, 20 Goldfinch, 40 House Sparrows - mainly Brixton Water Lane entrance area (Michael Mac)
 * Crayford Marshes: 4 Wigeon, 4 Little Egret, Common Buzzard, 4 Kestrel, Golden Plover, 25 Lapwing, c10 Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, c100 Redshank, 5 Ruff, 8+ Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Swallow S, c20 Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 10 Stonechat, Cetti’s Warbler, Chiffchaff, 16 Rook, 2 Reed Bunting (Ian Stewart)
 * Dartford Marshes (lake near Bob Dunn Way): 2 Greylag Geese, 2 Gadwall, 4+ Shoveler, Teal, 2+ Pochard, 5 Tufted Duck, 6 Little Grebe, 2 Great Crested Grebe, Yellow-legged Gull (Ian Stewart)
 * Eastcote (Abbotsbury Gardens): Green Woodpecker & 2 Jay (Jon Ridge)
 * Foots Cray Meadows: 4 Mute Swan, 1 Tufted Duck, 4 Little Grebe, Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel, Water Rail, Kingfisher, Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 2 Stonechat, 3+ Chiffchaff, 10+ Goldcrest, Nuthatch, 2+ Jay, 18 Linnet, Siskin (Ian Stewart)
 * Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park: Grey Wagtail, Kingfisher, Chiffchaff 4, Willow Warbler 1, Female Blackcap, Goldfinch up to 50. (Richard Green, John Bushall)
 * KGV Reservoir: Goosander, Sparrowhawk, Common Sandpiper, 4 Rook (East), 9 Skylark (over N/W), 30+ Meadow Pipit, 2 Stonechat, 3 Cetti's Warbler (heard only), 12 Goldcrest, 40+ Linnet, 2 Reed Bunting (over) (Neville Smith).
 * Lamorbey Park: 14:00 Firecrest flitting and hovering about a holly tree along boundary of Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School sports field. Also Goldcrest, flock of Long-tailed Tits, Chaffinches and a Great-spotted Woodpecker. 2 Mute Swans and Grey Heron at the lake. 14 Egyptian Geese on adjacent Sidcup Golfcourse (Patrick English) f Teal, Little Grebe, Meadow Pipit NW, Chiffchaff, 3 Siskin (Ian Stewart)
 * Oxlease Woods: Firecrest, 3 Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * St James's Park: 2 Kingfisher (Frank Nugent).
 * Sidcup DA15 Marlborough Park: 2 male Kingfishers having a territorial dispute also 3rd (prob female) flew off. Sidcup station: Common Buzzard N. York Avenue: Cormorant SW, Peregrine, Stock Dove SE, Green Woodpecker, Swallow SE, 6+ Meadow Pipit over, Pied Wagtail over, Song Thrush, 2 Redwing in garden early + 3+ W, poss Fieldfare W, poss Ring Ouzel SW (no calls from either), 2 Goldcrest, 3 Coal Tit, 10 Long-tailed Tit, Jay, 3 Jackdaw, 10+ Chaffinch (Ian Stewart)
 * Theobalds Park Farm: Common Buzzard, 51 Golden Plover, 5 Meadow Pipit, 25 Linnet (Neville Smith).
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: Sparrowhawk SE 10:32, 4 Fieldfare SE 10:41, 7 Lesser Redpoll + 7 Redwing SW 10:47, Siskin W 11:06, Common Buzzard S 11:13. (Samuel Levy)
 * Tooting Common: 1 Common Buzzard E (4:30), also Peacock, Holly Blue and Speckled Wood butterflies (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 9 Lesser Redpoll (2 NW and 7 SW), 10 Linnet (8 E), Reed Bunting NW, Bullfinch, Redwing, 3 Meadow Pipit, Chiffchaff, 4 Nuthatch, 7 Teal, 3 Rook, Little Owl calling. (Simon Worsfold)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: Firecrest,  2 Goldcrest, 2 Coal Tit, Chiffchaff, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Paul Hyland), 3+ Chiffchaff, 15 Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush (Bob Watts)
 * Town Park, Enfield: 2 Nuthatch pair (Robert Callf)
 * Trent Park: 2 male Shoveler, male Common Pochard, Grey Wagtail, 6 Goldcrest, Firecrest SW edge of Rough Lot in larch and laurel 11:32 - 11:34 hrs (Robert Callf)
 * Walthamstow E17: 2 Goldcrest, 50 Starling, 4 Long Tailed Tit, 10 Goldfinch (Daniel Whitelegg)
 * West Norwood Cemetery: 1 Fieldfare calling top of a tree, Coal Tit (Michael Mac)
 * West Putney, Huntingfield Road: 3 Collared Dove NW/SW, 5 Mistle Thrush, 4 Redwing SW/N, Blackbird NW, 2 Song Thrush SW, alba Wagtail SW, 5 Meadow Pipit SW, Goldcrest, 2 Chiffchaff, 9 Goldfinch S, 28 Chaffinch NW, 4 Brambling NW/SW, Hawfinch low SW 10.05, 14 Linnet SW, Lesser Redpoll SW, 3 Siskin NW (R.Kaye)
 * Wimbledon: 85 Pied Wagtail (and probably others already present) flying into established roost outside Wimbledon mainline station (Nigel Jackman)
 * Worcester Park: Chaffinch 15, Goldfinch 10, Linnet 10 on horse field. Linnet is a maximum seen over last 10 years(Bob Smith)
 * Wormwood Scrubs: 100+ migrating Woodpigeon, 4 Meadow Pipit, 4 Song Thrush, Goldcrest, Pied Wagtail (Charlie Farrell)

Wednesday 11th October 2017

 * Bexley DA5 (Upper College Farm): 4 Skylark, 8 Meadow Pipit, Goldcrest (Ian Stewart)
 * Brent Reservoir: Little Owl perched on Dump 06:55, Green Sandpiper N.Marsh, 10 Snipe, 10+ Chiffchaff, 3 Cetti's Warbler; male Peregrine 09:01 snatched one of 4 Greenfinches flying West (photographed by Magnus). Vis-mig 07:00-09:15: 41 Starling, 5 Redwing, 3 Song Thrush, 10 Chaffinch, 14 Greenfinch, 3 Meadow Pipit, Pied Wagtail, 22 Goldfinch, Siskin (Magnus Andersson, Simon Worsfold, Andrew Verrall)
 * Boxer's Lake, Enfield: 2 Egyptian Goose, 5 Mandarin Duck 3m 2f, 11 Shoveler, 4 Common Pochard 2 adult male, 1 first-winter male, 1 female, 20 Tufted Duck 10 m 10f, Common Buzzard over, Lesser Black-backed Gull, 36 Black-headed Gull (Robert Callf)
 * Broadway Fields, Lewisham: Little Egret on the Ravensbourne (Tom Moulton)
 * Dollis Brook, Holders Hill: 2 Grey Wagtail, 13 Collared Dove S 16:00. (Samuel Levy)
 * Dulwich Park: 1 Arctic Tern flying over boating lake 11:10 (1st park record?), 2 Bullfinch in trees in middle of boating pond (rare in park), 1 Blackcap, 1 Nuthatch, 3 Jay, 5 Egyptian Geese (Paul Collins) Not impossible but very late, did you consider Arctic, more likely the later it gets apparently You're right; now amended to Arctic. I've done a flight-call comparison and Arctic is spot on. Common T has been recorded in Herne Hill, and I hadn't expected Arctic around here. Thanks.
 * Foots Cray Meadows: 4 Mute Swan, 3 Little Grebe, Little Egret, Kestrel, 2 Water Rail, 2 Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 2 Stonechat, 4+ Redwing, Chiffchaff, 10+ Goldcrest, Coal Tit, 6 Linnet (Ian Stewart)
 * Hackney Marshes: 1 Great Crested Grebe (ad), 1 Little Grebe, 7 Teal, 2 Gadwall, 1 Kingfisher 08:00, all on Old R. Lea (Alastair Dent)
 * Lamorbey Park: 17 Egyptian Geese (site high), f Teal, Little Grebe, Redwing, 16+ Goldcrest (Ian Stewart)
 * Leicester Square WC2: Kestrel swooping over Global Radio building (James Hudson)
 * Middlesex Filter Beds: 2 Goldcrest, 1 Kingfisher 08:30 (Alastair Dent)
 * Roding Valley lake: Red-necked Grebe (juv) still. Also Kingfisher. 3 Goldcrest and 1 Chiffchaff moving with tit flock. (M McLoughlin, R Regan)
 * St James's Park: 2 Kingfisher, one visible throughout 08:00-08:50 and 14:00-15:00, both together briefly at 08:35, plus Grey Wagtail and Sparrowhawk (Frank Nugent).
 * Stoneleigh Station KT17: 101 Herring Gull e. am (Neil Batten)
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: f Peregrine nearly took out a Stock Dove over playing fields this afternoon, Also 6 Goldcrest. (Samuel Levy)
 * Thames Barrier Park: Little Egret, 2 Caspian Gull 1cy 2cy, 3 Yellow-legged Gulls, 18 House Sparrow (Nick Senior)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: Firecrest male still High Glade in mixed flock 0800 (Bob Watts)
 * Valentines Park: 2 Swallow (James Palmer)

Tuesday 10th October 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Meadow Pipit over helipad am, 5+ Chiffchaffs, 5+ Goldcrest in mixed flock just south of middle platform adjacent to Wood Green Res 1800 (Dominic Mitchell, Bob Watts)
 * Brent Reservoir: Water Rail, 10 Snipe, vis-mig 07:30-09:30: 10 Redwing, 9 Song Thrush, 9 Mistle Thrush, 26 Chaffinch, Meadow Pipit, 6 Pied Wagtail, Linnet, 12 Goldfinch (Andrew Self, Andrew Verrall)
 * Brookmill Park: Little Egret, Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
 * Dollis Brook: Tawny Owl calling 06:56 from near Gordon Road allotments (Samuel Levy)
 * Hemans Estate Community garden/Stockwell: 10+ House Sparrows in bird bath 11:45 (Michael Mac)
 * Kew (The National Archives lake): 17:45 - Common Tern and Grey Heron (SEC)
 * Ladywell Fields: Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
 * Lamorbey Park: 2 Mute Swan, 8+ Egyptian Goose, f Teal, 2 Sparrowhawk female high causing flush then male below, mobbed by increasing numbers of Ring-necked Parakeets, Peregrine, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2+ Song Thrush, 2+ Redwing (the dell), c20 Goldcrest, 2+ Coal Tit, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Jay, Jackdaw (Ian Stewart)
 * Leyton Flats/Snaresbrook: Hawfinch NW over Court 07:45, 13 Song Thrush, 10 Chaffinch (Stuart Fisher)
 * London Wetland Centre: Kingfisher, 2 Stonechat, 7 Redwing over and 3 Snipe on scrape (Twitter)
 * New Change EC2: 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Jay W, 2 Linnet SE, 26 Chaffinches WNW, 2 Brambling WNW, 11 Siskin NW (Nick Senior)
 * Orchard Estate SE13: Male Pheasant in allotments (Conrad Ellam)
 * Piimlico Gardens: Yellow-Legged Gull 2cy, 1 Caspian Gull 1cy on Cory Barges (Nick Senior)
 * Pinner (HA5): 7 Jay, Jackdaw, Coal Tit, Goldcrest, Pied Wagtail south-west & 15 Goldfinch west (Jon Ridge)
 * Roding Valley lake: juv Red-necked Grebe at South end, 11am. (Jim Fell)
 * St James's Park: 1 Kingfisher and 1 Peregrine (Frank Nugent).
 * Sidcup DA15 (York Avenue): Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, 29 Black-headed Gull SW, 2+ Song Thrush, 10 Redwing seemed to come up from hawthorns at first light, possibly put down by overnight rain, 2 Goldcrest, Jay, 5 Chaffinch W, 3 Goldfinch NW + 7 in garden, 4 Siskin S (Ian Stewart)
 * Sidcup Place: Tawny Owl calling 06.40 next to Frognal Avenue (Ian Stewart)
 * Staines Moor: 20 Meadow Pipits, 7 Redwing flying W, 10 Stonechats, 1 Dartford Warbler - in hawthorns in middle of moor, 4 Cettis Warbler, 2 Red Kite, plus all the usual (Nick Baker)
 * Stoneleigh Station KT17: 5 Redwing s. 08:15 (Neil Batten)
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: 14 Redwing NW 08:17 (Samuel Levy)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 2 Stonechat (1m, 1f), Chiffchaff, 5 Meadow Pipit, 12 Pied Wagtail, 2 Rook, Buzzard, Cormorant over, 7 Teal, 6 Common Gull (first of winter) (John Colmans, Simon Worsfold)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: First Firecrest of the autumn, male in flock at High Glade 1315 also Coal Tit in same flock, several Goldcrests (Bob watts)
 * Trent Park: Kestrel v Sparrowhawk in aerial battle over Old Golf course, Common Buzzard, Cormorant, 30 B H Gull. ( Pete Lowman).
 * Walthamstow Marsh: m+f Stonechats, 10 Meadow Pipit bomb crater field, 10 Redwing over west (Jamie Partridge)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Peregrine, Kingfisher, 2 Teal (Chris Farthing)
 * Worcester Park: 15 Chaffinch, 6 Chiffchaffs, 5 Meadow Pipit (Bob Smith)

Monday 9th October 2017

 * Bankside SE1: 1 Peregrine on Tate chimney, 1st winter Common Gull around pier, 1 Chiffchaff in Tate community garden (Reuben Braddock)
 * Brent Reservoir: Lesser Redpoll W over Shrike Field, 3 Meadow Pipit, 2 Mistle Thrush N (Simon Worsfold)
 * Brookmill Park: Little Egret, Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
 * Ealing (W13): 10 Redwing W/NW over garden late morning. Also 4 small unidentified finches, 2 alba wagtail, 5+ Meadow Pipit, 1 Chaffinch, female Sparrowhawk and Red Admiral. (Bill Haines).
 * Fulham: adult Yellow-legged Gull on River Thames off The Crabtree pub (Josh Jones)
 * Hampstead Heath: Snipe flushed 7:50 (Dave Porritt) 60 Redwing N/NW, 25 Song Thrush same, 5 Blackbirds N, 100 Chaffinch W, 20 Redpoll, mostly N, 50 M. Pipits W/SW, 3 Common Gulls W, 2 Swallows W, 2 Chiffchaffs at Hedge 1 (Pete Mantle)
 * Heathrow: WHITE STORK. unconfirmed report of one circling over the airport c.16.00. (Adam Cheeseman). If anyone sees species of note at the airport can you contact me on 07713&#x20;075727 please (Adam Cheeseman, Heathrow Biodiversity Manager).
 * Leyton Flats/Snaresbrook: 2 Hawfinch N at c10.15, 6 Pied/White Wagtails over, 28 Redwing, 5 Song Thrush, 5 Chaffinch, Reed Bunting S, 18 Gadwall, 9 Shoveler, 17 Pochard (Stuart Fisher)
 * Mayflower Park: Peregrine, Sparrowhawk, 100 Redwings and 10 Chaffinches west 1115-1130 (Bob Smith)
 * New Change EC2: 2 Sparrowhawk high S, 8 alba Wagtails S, 90 Redwings W, 12 Song Thrush W, 16 Chaffinch WNW, 1 Redpoll sp SW (Nick Senior)
 * Oxleas Wood: Chaffinch, Sparrowhawk [fm], 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Blackcap [fm], 4 Goldfinch, 15 Goldcrest, 4 Firecrest, 5 Redwing [over], Kestrel [m] (Ron Turner)
 * Pinner (HA5): 4 Redwing north-west, Chiffchaff, 3 Cormorant - two west at 09:34 & one south at 09:54, 7 Jay, 2 Jackdaw, Coal Tit & 7 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Richmond Park: 70 Pochard, 2 Red-crested Pochard, juv male Peregrine, Buzzard, 260 Wood Pigeon SW, Kingfisher, Swallow, 5 House Martin S, Grey Wagtail, 15 Meadow Pipit, 4 Stonechat, 7 Mistle Thrush over, 1,030 Redwing flew W mainly 08.30-10.00, 130 Starling - 50 of these left roost and 80 flew SW, 80 Chaffinch W, Redpoll over, 7 Reed Bunting (J.Wilczur)
 * Roding Valley Lake: Juvenile Red-necked Grebe present at south end, 12:55 (Roy Woodward).
 * RSPB Rainham Marshes: RED-THROATED PIPIT one reported flying south mid-afternoon (Birdguides)
 * Sidcup DA15 (York Avenue): 162 Redwing most W 07.00 - 09.00, Skylark, 4+ Pied Wagtail, 20+ Chaffinch W, 2 Meadow Pipit SE, Sparrowhawk, 2 Peregrine, 2 Mistle Thrush E (Ian Stewart)
 * St James's Park: 160 Redwing over NW 08:00-09:00 and one feeding on berries on a Rowan tree, 1 Kingfisher (Frank Nugent). Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Kingfisher, f Shoveler. No Redwings 09:15-09:45 (Tom Jordan).
 * Southgate (ASDA): Treble Brown-spot - a late record (Robert Callf)
 * Strayfield Road, EN2: 3 Goldcrest, male Bullfinch (Robert Callf)
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: 33 Redwing NW 07:30-09:00, Also 2 Fieldfare 09:28+14:13, Grey Heron, 3 Pied Wagtail, Goldcrest, 17 Meadow Pipit NW 11:00-11:15, 37 Goldfinch NW 11:20-11:30, 2 House Martin S 14:20 (Samuel Levy)
 * Trent Park: Red Kite, Common Buzzard ,Kestrel, 6 Stock Dove, 3 Mandarin ( 2m,f), Grey Wagtail, Nuthatch, Bullfinch. ( Pete Lowman).
 * Tyttenhanger Gravel Pits: 2 Great Egret again with 7 Little Egret. Probable Caspian Gull 2nd or 3rd calendar year. Peregrine hunting. No sign of the little stint mid morning. (Jo Edwards)
 * Wanstead Flats: 60+ Chaffinch through, 2 Siskin, 3 Linnet, 25+ Meadow Pipit, 4 Skylark, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (same birds as yesterday) in small gull roost by the Alex, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest, 25 Redwing, 4 Mistle Thrush, 6 Song Thrush, m Stonechat, 40+ Long-tailed Tit, 2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel, 2 Teal (Nick Croft)
 * Wimbledon: Painted Lady found in Worple Rd garden; fresh looking but not very active (Neil Anderson)
 * Worcester Park: 2 Meadow Pipits, 21 Pied Wagtail, Peregrine (same as Mayflower Park bird) attacking migrant Redwings (Bob Smith)
 * Wormwood Scrubs: female Stonechat, 7 Linnet, 5 Meadow Pipit, Kestrel (Francis O'Sullivan)

Sunday 8th October 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Redpoll, 2 Siskin (APOG. Birders)
 * Barnes, Barn Elms Playing Fields: Leach's Petrel in from the NW 07.28 quite low, circled then flew towards river, presumably to exit downriver, 3 alba Wagtail S/SW, 18 Meadow Pipit SW, 4 Song Thrush in, 3 Redwing SE/W, Blackbird in, 22 Jay S, 2 Lesser Redpoll S, 6 Goldfinch SE, 6 Chaffinch NW, 3 Linnet S, 2 Siskin W, Red Admiral S (R.Kaye)
 * Bayhurst Wood area: walk n/s and back but not around = 6 Skylark, Little Owl 6.55am, 4 Stonechat, 22 Meadow Pipit+, 3+ Reed Bunting, Greenfinch, Bullfinch, 3 Redwing, Grey Wagtail, Little Egret (Dan Pinkham)
 * Brent Reservoir: juvenile Peregrine, Lapwing, 6 Snipe, 3 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Stonechat in shrike field, Skylark over (Brent Birders)
 * Fairlop Waters: Stonechat, Little Owl, Grey Wagtail, Meadow Pipit, Skylark, Chiffchaff, Lapwing (Neil Twyford)
 * Fryent Country Park: 5 Redwing, 4 House Martin, Swallow, 2+ Skylark over, 16 Magpie (Joe Taylor)
 * Fulham: 4cy Yellow-legged Gull on River Thames off The Crabtree pub (Josh Jones)
 * Gallions Reach: Patch Mega 2 COAL TIT, Rock Pipit, 8 Black-tailed Godwit, 11 Redshank (KJM)
 * Iver: 85 Red Kite and 3 Common Buzzard (C Lamsdell)
 * Kentish Town, NW5: Peregrine falcon relentlessly buzzing a Gull over Murphy's Yard, 3 Common Buzzard, two together drifting S at 14:50, one also S at 15:10, also two W earlier, Kestrel and Sparrowhawk over, Chiffchaff, 2 House Martin NW (Frank Nugent).
 * Kentish Town, Arctic Street: C.Buzzard flew W at 0930 (Pete Mantle)
 * KGV Reservoir: Goosander, 3 Peregrine interacting together, Sparrowhawk, 3 Common Buzzard, Grey Plover straight through North 0745, Common Sandpiper, 7 Skylark over, 20+ Meadow Pipit, 2 Stonechat, Mistle Thrush, 37 Redwing over, 2 Swallow, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Little Owl (Neville Smith).
 * Lodge Farm, Nazeing: Cuckoo, 35 Skylark, 7 Meadow Pipit, 4 Yellowhammer, Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 5 Red-legged Partridge, 3 Goldcrest (Martin Shepherd)
 * Lonsdale Rd Res (part of WeBS count): 2 Little Egret, 5 Heron, 6 Cormorant, 2 Little Grebe (1 juv), 10 Shoveler, 66 Teal, surprisingly only 1 Coot (my lowest ever count for this species) (Neil Anderson)
 * Pinner (HA5): 8 Jay, Green Woodpecker, Coal Tit, Goldcrest, Pied Wagtail north & 9 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Purfleet: 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 4 Little Egret, 15 Golden Plover, 107 Redshank, 16 Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Siskin (Fraser Simpson)
 * Rainham Marshes RSPB: Little Stint and Ruff from shooting butts hide on target pools, also Goldfinch, Skylark, Linnet, Curlew, Lapwing, Marsh Harrier, Kestrel, Cetti's Warbler, Little Grebe, Stonechat, Teal, Pintail, Shoveler, Black-tailed Godwit, Skylark, Great Crested Grebe (Jack Headley)
 * Ranelagh Gardens: 2 alba Wagtails S, 5 Redwing S, Chiffchaff, 5 Coal Tit (no ater though), 3 Siskin SW (Nick Senior)
 * Roding Valley Meadows LNR and Recreation Ground Lake: Red-necked Grebe (juv) present at 18:30 by fishing platforms, also 2 Buzzard, 2 Kingfisher, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Reed Bunting (Barry Jones)
 * Staines Reservoirs: 1 Brent Goose till mid am only. 2 Little Stint, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 12 Dunlin, 6 Ruff, 5 Ringed Plover, 1 Black-necked Grebe. (Bob Warden, Franko J Maroevic)
 * Theobalds Park Farm: Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 6 Swallow, 3 Stonechat, 2 Treecreeper, 6 Goldcrest, Reed Bunting (Neville Smith).
 * Totteridge Valley, Belmont Farm: 18 Redwing, 25 Goldfinch, 3 Common Buzzard, 5 Fieldfare, 3 Chiffchaff, 7 Pied Wagtail, 2 Stock Dove, 77+ Starling, 4 Meadow Pipit, 5 Collared Dove, 2 Egyptian Geese, 2 Grey Heron, Grey Wagtail, 3 Green Woodpecker, Swallow W 13:40, Also Muntjac and 2+ Red Admiral. (Samuel Levy)
 * Trent Park: 3 Common Buzzard. ( Pete Lowman).
 * Victoria Park: Coal Tit (site first for me), 10 Mistle Thrush, Red Admiral (Harry Harrison)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 5 Meadow Pipit, 1 Stonechat (f, alarm-calling in reedmace on the pond) in Bomb Crater field at 11:00 (Alastair Dent) Little Egret on rear paddock (Jon Agar)
 * Wanstead Flats: 2 Yellow-legged Gull (same as for the 3rd), 16 Common Gull, Stonechat (new bird), 20 Meadow Pipit, 3 Grey Wagtail, 3 Skylark, 16+ Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, 3 Siskin, 10+ Linnet, Reed Bunting, 2 Kestrel. 2 Sparrowhawk, 8 Teal, 8 Shoveler (James Heal/Nick Croft) 2 Song Thrush, 2 House Martin (Reuben Braddock)
 * Wanstead Park: Water Rail, Kingfisher, 2 Nuthatch, 19 Siskin (James Heal/Tim Harris)
 * Waterworks NR, Walthamstow late pm: 10 Redwing, Water Rail calling, Kingfisher, numerous Goldcrests, Blackcaps, Chiffchaffs and L-t Tits (David Callahan).
 * Worcester Park, Garden KT4: 1 Meadow Pipit S, 2 Pied Wagtails W and 1 Song Thrush, 8:00-8:45 (Isaiah Rowe).

Saturday 7th October 2017

 * Bow Creek: 2 Kingfisher, both visible at 12:15, and 2 Common Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail (Frank Nugent).
 * Brent Reservoir: Little Egret, 12 Common Snipe, 3 Green Sandpiper, 6 House Martins, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Siskin (Brent Birders)
 * Eastcote (Abbotsbury Gardens): a cacophony of House Sparrows heard from a residential property - still audible 100 yards away [estimate: around 30 birds] (Jon Ridge)
 * Eastcote (Field End Road): Grey Wagtail & Pied Wagtail over (Jon Ridge)
 * East India Dock: Cetti's Warbler singing in the rain, 2 Kingfisher, both visible at 13:00 but possibly the Bow Creek birds, Little Egret, 46 Teal, Chiffchaff (Frank Nugent).
 * Fulham: adult & 1cy Yellow-legged Gulls on River Thames off The Crabtree pub (Josh Jones)
 * Fryent Country Park: Stonechat in horse paddocks, 2 Siskin, 5 Redwing, Blackcap (Joe Taylor)
 * Gunpowder Park: Redwing, Stonechat, Blackcap, Redpoll sp (Neville Smith).
 * Priest Hill, Ewell: 83 Redwing nw, 2 Stonechat, 14 Meadow Pipit, 400+ Herring Gull, 2 Common Gull (Neil Batten)
 * Lamorbey Park: a.m. Little Grebe, Little Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 13 Egyptian Geese, f Teal, 2 Peregrine, Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail over, 4 Pied Wagtail, 2 Chiffchaff in tit flock, Nuthatch, 2 Jackdaw, 50+ Carrion Crow, 2 Goldcrest (Mike Amos).
 * Purfleet: 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 3 Little Egret, 9 Golden Plover, 63 Lapwing, 1 Ringed Plover, 37 Redshank, 6 Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Rock Pipit (Fraser Simpson)
 * Rainham Marshes RSPB: 2 Raven, Little Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, Common Snipe, 2 Black-tailed Godwit (Tom Bell, David Brown, Simon Worsfold)
 * Richmond Park: 2 Siskin, 9 Stonechat including a grey bird (presumably last winter's returning bird) 1 kingfisher (Pen Ponds) (Hugh Bradshaw)
 * Stewardstone Marsh: Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, Treecreeper (Neville Smith).
 * Sidcup DA15 (York Avenue): Tawny Owl calling 00.08 (Ian Stewart)
 * Staines Reservoirs: 4 Barnacle Goose, 4 Ruff, 1 Goldeneye fem, 1 Black-necked Grebe all on S basin by mid am. (Bob Warden, Dave Carlsson per FJM)
 * St James' Park: 1 Kingfisher (JSL)
 * Totteridge Valley: Common Snipe (first of year) flushed in owl field but flew off high, f Stonechat, Siskin, 6 Meadow Pipit, 4 Greenfinch, 5 Teal, Chiffchaff. (Ian Ellis); f Stonechat still, 37+ Stock Dove, 8 Meadow Pipit, 25 Rook, 20 Goldfinch, Common Gull, Kestrel, 6 Chiffchaff, 3 Goldcrest, 7 Teal, Little Owl, 6 Redwing dropped into usual winter Roost 18:20 (Samuel Levy)
 * Trent Park: Firecrest foraging in laurel SW edge of Rough Lot 12:29 and 12:58 - 12:59 (Robert Callf)
 * Tyttenhanger Gravel Pits: Little Stint at 11.00am on the sandy edge of the east lake from the central north/south path view point by the sand belt (Jo Edwards)
 * Wanstead Flats: 14 Redwing, Stonechat, 10+ Meadow Pipit, 4 Goldcrest, 6 Chiffchaff, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, Great Crested Grebe, 8 Teal (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wimbledon Common: Putney Heath highlights - Chiffchaff, 5 Greenfinch, 10+ Redwing, 4 Reed Bunting & f Sparrowhawk (Les & Angela Evans-Hill).
 * Wormwood Scrubs: 2 Stonechat, c6 Meadow Pipit (Charlie Farrell)

Friday 6th October 2017

 * Brent Reservoir: 2 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2 Lapwing, 3 Common Snipe, best of vis-mig 3 Meadow Pipit, 9 Siskin (Stephen Branley, Andrew Verrall)
 * Boxer's Lake, Enfield: 2 Egyptian Goose, 3 Mandarin Duck 1m 2f, 12 Shoveler, 4 Common Pochard 2 adult male, 1 juvenile/first-winter male and 1 female, 21 Tufted Duck (Robert Callf)
 * Canons Farm: 1 Snipe, 1 Reed Bunting, 9 Meadow Pipit, 10 Skylark, 40 Linnet, 1 Stonechat, 1 Peregrine (CFBWBG)
 * Churchill Gardens - Pimlico: 30 House Sparrows one of few Inner London colonies left. How to get House Sparrows back in London Parks? Answer - duplicate the habitat - area of nest colony at Churchill Gardens (and other places were Sparrows are still successful) in all the London Parks, you will not find this exact type of hedge in any London Parks except Churchill Gardens, also no buildings in any of the big parks have suitable cavities anymore they've all been repaired as have buildings around the parks (Michael Mac)
 * Crossness: Great White Egret on West Paddock - a long-overdue first site record (Mike Robinson per JA)
 * Dollis Brook, Holders Hill: Meadow Pipit, Kingfisher flew out from the grass over side turning near Holders Hill Cirus Bus Stop calling loudly. (Samuel Levy)
 * Eastcote (Field End Road): Grey Wagtail over (Jon Ridge)
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - Tawny Owl calling 18:54. (Samuel levy)
 * Foots Cray Meadows: Hobby mobbed by a Crow (Mikey Amos) possible Yellow-browed Warbler heard, but only once, 4 Mute Swan, Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, 2 Little Egret, 6 Common Buzzard, 2 Sparrowhawk, Water Rail, Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Skylark, 4+ Meadow Pipit, 2 Grey Wagtail, 10+ Chiffchaff, 20+ Goldcrest, Coal Tit, 2+ Jay, 20+ Linnet, 30+ Goldfinch, 4+ Redpoll, 2 Bullfinch (Ian Stewart)
 * Fryent Country Park: juv m Goshawk flew over at 12:35, 2 Red Kite, Common Buzzard, fem Sparrowhawk, Swallow, Woodlark flew over calling loudly and going W at 13:35, 4+ Skylark flying W, Redpoll sp. over (Joe Taylor)
 * Greenford UB6: Sparrowhawk circling over home garden mobbed by 3 Crow, Red Admiral (Neil Anderson)
 * Greenway (Bow End): Stock Dove, 2 Jays, 3 Ring necked Parakeets (G.Harding)
 * Hammersmith: Iffely Road - (visible migration) 3 Redpoll sp and Siskin over S/E 0800hrs (Neville Smith).
 * KGV Reservoir: 2 alba Wagtails on Central Causeway, 1 Swallow & 2 House Martins flew NE, 1 Common Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail, m Sparrowhawk. 12.40 - 1.30pm (Davey Leach); 2 Goosander, Black-necked Grebe, Stonechat (Neville Smith).
 * Lamorbey Park: 2 Mute Swan, 12 Canada Goose, 14 Egyptian Goose, f Teal, 2 Little Grebe, 4 Cormorant, Little Egret, Grey Heron, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Pied Wagtail, 4+ Song Thrush, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, 10+ Goldcrest, Coal Tits, Nuthatch, 2+ Jay, Jackdaw (Ian Stewart)
 * Leyton Roundabout: Grey Wagtail, Greenfinch, c12 House Sparrows, Chaffinch, Wren, Blackcap, Common Whitethroat, and flyover Buzzard (Ken Murray)
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 Little Egret, 1 Snipe, 2 Stonechat (S. Patel)
 * Netherhouse Farm: 2 Stonechat, 8 Red-legged Partridge, 3 Stock Dove, 3 Meadow Pipit, 4 Common Buzzard, 2 Sparrowhawk, 3 Kestrel (Martin Shepherd)
 * New Change EC2 skywatch: 3 alba Wagtails S, 1 Grey Wagtail S, 5 Meadow Pipit SW, 1 Swallow S, 24 Jackdaws WNW in 1 flock, 2 Redpoll sp SW, 3 Linnet SW (Nick Senior)
 * Oxleas Wood: male Kestrel, 2 Common Buzzard, 6 Jackdaw, 15+ Goldfinch, 6 Goldcrest, Firecrest, 2 Treecreeper, 3 Coal Tit, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush, 3 Nuthatch, Stock Dove (Ron Turner)
 * Pinner (HA5): 4 Jay (Jon Ridge)
 * Richmond Park: 48 Pochard, Red Kite, 7 Buzzard - including six together (J.Wilczur); Peregrine (J.Few); 2 Kingfisher, 10 Stonechat (Friday Group)
 * Roding Valley, Buckhurst Hill, Essex: No sign of (reported?) Red-necked Grebe pm - only a Great Crested Grebe.
 * St James's Park: Kingfisher (Frank Nugent); 2 Chiffchaff - one on Duck island and singing bird on island at Western end. (Bill Haines)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: Marsh Harrier, 15 Lapwing, 24 Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Mediterranean Gull, Water Pipit, Common Redstart, 7 Stonechat, 12 Cetti's Warbler, 18 Bearded Tit, Raven (Andrew Self). 13.30-17.30: 9 Gadwall, 9 Shoveler, 2 Teal, 8 Mute Swan (3 juv & 5 adult), 2 Marsh Harrier (female type & Male), 1 Little Egret, 1 Whinchat, 1 Ring-necked Parakeet, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 6 Stonechat, 2 Chiffchaff, 4 Bearded Tit, 1 Raven, 3 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kestrel, 2 Reed Bunting, Water Rail (heard Black Duck Marsh) (Roger Keith)
 * River Lea (nr Bow Locks): 2 Kingfishers (fighting, even into the river - perhaps territorial) (G.Harding)
 * Staines Moor: Merlin, 2 Little Egret at dusk (Charlie Farrell)
 * Teddington: Kingfisher along Thames. Sparrowhawk crossed from Kingston in direction of Bushy Park at 0930, Little Egret flew downstream at 1835 - I'm just assuming it was a Little because it was getting dark (Mike Foster)
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: House Martin NE 07:18, 10 Siskin S (8 08:12, 2 09:43), Meadow Pipit S 10:14 (Samuel Levy)
 * Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 7+ Chiffchaff, 18+ Meadow Pipit, 5 Goldcrest, 28+ Goldfinch, 27+ Stock Dove, 8 Teal, Lesser Redpoll (calling from trees Southern edge 'Owl' field before flying high to the E), 3 Stonechat (m in 'Owl' field, m+f path to Long Pond), 2 Reed Bunting, 26+ Rook, 2 Treecreeper, Little Owl, 2 Pied Wagtail (Samuel Levy)
 * Trent Park: 2 Common Buzzard, 15 Goldfinch, Grey Wagtail, 3 m Mandarin, Nuthatch, Chiffchaff ( Pete Lowman ).
 * Trent Park: Grey Wagtail along Merryhills Brook at bridle path, Chiffchaff (Robert Callf)
 * Wanstead Flats: 8 Stonechat, c 20 Lesser Redpoll, 8 Siskin, 20 + Linnet, 2 Reed Bunting, 20 + Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 4 Skylark, 3 Mistle Thrush, 15+ Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 7 Goldcrest, 8 Teal, 5 Shoveler, 50 Egyptian Goose, Coal Tit, 3 Kestrel, 2 Sparrowhawk (Nick Croft/James Heal)
 * Wanstead Park: Lesser Redpoll, Siskin, Linnet, 10 Goldcrest, 8 Chiffchaff, Nuthatch, Meadow Pipit. Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, Little Egret, 10 Teal, Wigeon, 21 Shoveler, 42 Gadwall, 11 Tufted Duck, f Pochard, 2 Little Grebe (Nick Croft/James Heal)
 * Worcester Park: 2 Meadow Pipits, 8 Song Thrushes - probably migrants (Bob Smith)

Thursday 5th October 2017

 * Alexandra Park: 8+ Chiffchaff 1800 mostly fly catching from perimeter hawthorn opposite middle platform (Bob Watts)
 * Grovelands Park: Common Buzzard over 12:04, Shoveler juvenile, 2 Speckled Wood (Robert Callf)
 * Kensington Gardens: Ring-necked Parakeets landing on me even though I wasn't offering food and had my ear nibbled/bitten, a bloke selling peanuts to tourists to feed them with (Michael Mac).
 * Muswell Hill: Common Buzzard 15:40 just above Queens Wood tree-tops (Trevor Wyatt)
 * North Finchley: Sparrowhawk over c 14.00 (John Colmans)
 * North Wembley: Buzzard low north 11.50 mobbed by 6 Crows (Neil Anderson)
 * Pinner (HA5): Chiffchaff, 7 Jay, Green Woodpecker, Coal Tit, Goldcrest & Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Ruxley GPs (Permit only): 44 Gadwall, 15 Shoveler, f Pochard, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Swallow, 2 Pied Wagtail, 2 Cetti’s Warbler, 8+ Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Treecreeper, 2 Jackdaw over, Redpoll, 2 Bullfinch (Ian Stewart)
 * St James's Park: White Pelican soaring over lake at lunchtime in late autumn sunshine (Andrew Self); Kingfisher fishing throughout 14:00-14:45 (Frank Nugent).
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 3 Stonechat, 1 Swallow, 2 Meadow Pipit, Linnet, Common Buzzard, 7 Teal, 50+ Goldfinch, 2 Nuthatch. (Simon Worsfold) Also Redwing NW 08:51, 300+ Black Headed Gull SW/W (Samuel Levy)
 * Wanstead Flats: Stonechat, 8+ Meadow Pipit, White Wagtail, Skylark, 8 Chiffchaff, 4 Goldcrest, 2 Kestrel, 3 Sparrowhawk including a really small male, 5 Shoveler, 7 Teal, Gadwall, Little Grebe, 10 Common Gull, Linnet (Nick Croft/Marco Johnson)

Wednesday 4th October 2017

 * Arrandene Open Space and Featherstone Hill: Lesser Redpoll flushed from the border between Mill Hill School playing field and Arrandene during football match. It gave 3 short sharp trills before flying off. (Samuel Levy)
 * Brent Reservoir: Common Sandpiper, 6 Common Snipe (East Marsh), Little Egret, Common Gull ad ( North Marsh ) (Andrew Haynes-am); Hobby N.Marsh, 29 House Martin through (Andrew Verrall-pm)
 * Eastcote (Abbotsbury Gardens): Fieldfare over at 13:22 & Pied Wagtail (Jon Ridge)
 * Earlsfield: Kestrel f flew from Wandsworth Cemetery and perched in trackside tree 12:55 (P. Redmond)
 * Hackney Marshes: 1 Great Crested Grebe (ad), 1 Kingfisher, 2+ Teal on Old R. Lea at 08:30 (Alastair Dent)
 * Leatherhead, Randalls Way: 6 Meadow Pipit s 08:40 (Neil Batten)
 * Leyton Flats: drake Mandarin, 22 Pochard, Little Egret, 26 Linnet in 2 flocks S, 2 Reed Bunting N, 11 Meadow Pipit over, 4 Siskin NW, Lesser Redpoll S (Stuart Fisher)
 * Pinner (HA5): Sparrowhawk, Chiffchaff, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Coal Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Goldcrest, Jackdaw & 4 Jay (Jon Ridge)
 * Roding Valley Meadows Lake: Red-necked Grebe (juv) still present at 17:00 by fishing platforms, also Kingfisher, Chiffchaff (Barry Jones) 40+ Linnets also present on cricket pitch (Quentin Given).
 * St James's Park: Kingfisher fishing throughout 14:00-15:00 (Frank Nugent); 2 Peregrine Falcon (P. Redmond).
 * Stave Hill: 1 Kingfisher on Globe Pond - elusive, 3-4 Chiffchaff, 3 Green Finch at the Shed this morning (John Cadera)
 * Swanscombe Marsh : 15.30 - 17.30, 6 Stonechat, 2 Cettis Warbler, 1 Whinchat, 2 Redshank, 2 Lapwing, 5 Bearded Tit, (Botany Meadow reedbed), 1 Kingfisher, 1 Stock Dove, 15 Meadow Pipit (Roger Keith)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: 3 Chiffchaff (Bob Watts)
 * Trent Park: Grey Wagtail first-winter water outlet lower lake (Robert Callf)
 * Wanstead Flats: 3 Stonechat, 36 Chaffinch west, 7 Lesser Redpoll, 2 Linnet, Reed Bunting, ad Yellow-legged Gull low west over brooms, 10+ Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 3 Skylark, Nuthatch, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest, 10 Teal, 5 Shoveler, Gadwall, Little Grebe, 2 Kestrel, 2 Sparrowhawk (Nick Croft)
 * Woodford Green: 3-4 Chiffchaff, Firecrest and Song Thrush before 9.15am (Ken Murray)

Tuesday 3rd October 2017

 * Brent Reservoir: vis mig: 18 Swallow, 3 Pied Wagtail, 4 Meadow Pipit, 5 Mistle Thrush, 30 Starling, 5 Chaffinch, 6 Greenfinch, 11 Goldfinch, 1 Lesser Redpoll, 2 Linnet, 3 Reed Bunting (07:00-09:00). Also 9 Little Egret (North Marsh), House Sparrow (Main Hide), 3 Green Sandpiper, 7 Common Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Lapwing, Cetti's Warbler, Reed Bunting, Grey Wagtail, 3 Pied Wagtail, Common Gull (2CY), Greylag Goose and 20 House Martin. 2 Speckled Wood, Red Admiral, 2 Migrant Hawker (Brent Birders)
 * Canons Farm/Banstead Woods: 6 Pied Wagtail, 20 Chaffinch, 8 Meadow Pipit, 20 Skylark, 2 Wheatear, 2 Mistle Thrush (CFBWBG)
 * Cranford CP: 2-3 Grey Wagtail, 2 Kingfisher, Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel, 5 Stock Dove, 4 Mistle Thrush, Green Woodpecker, GS Woodpecker, 9 Red Admiral, 6 Small Copper (Wendy Marks)
 * Crayford Marshes: Gadwall, c50 Teal, 3 Wigeon, 3 Pheasant, 2 Little Grebe, 6 Little Egret, Common Buzzard, 2 Sparrowhawk, 4 Kestrel, c30 Ringed Plover, 14 Lapwing, c20 Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, c80 Redshank, 2 Greenshank, 4+ Yellow-legged Gull, Kingfisher, 2 Skylark, Swallow W, 20+ Meadow Pipit, 4 Whinchat, 11 Stonechat, Blackcap, 6 Cetti’s Warbler, Chiffchaff, 3+ Goldcrest, 4 Jay, Rook, c200 Linnet, 2 Reed Bunting (Ian Stewart)
 * Crossness LNR: Hobby, 2 Peregrine, 2 Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 2 Stonechat, 146 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Grey Wagtail, Mistle Thrush, 2 Little Egret (Donna Zimmer et al)
 * Fishers Green (near sailing club): 12 House Martin (James Palmer)
 * Gallions Reach: Firecrest, Arctic Tern (KJM)
 * Hyde Park: 1 Firecrest nr St George Statue, 6 Chiffchaff - 2 bathing in Nell Gwynn statue, moulting scruffy Sparrowhawk over (Michael Mac)
 * Kingston/Richmond border Riverside (KT2 5BH): Kingfisher on opposite bank and sparrowhawk circling overhead (Phil Davies)
 * Leyton Flats/Snaresbrook: f/1st w Stonechat, 4 Rook W, Yellow Wagtail NE, 3+ Meadow Pipit, Redwing N,  Reed Bunting W, Little Egret, Nuthatch (Stuart Fisher)
 * Morden. Torrington Way. 1 buzzard flew at roof top height along the gardens pursued by crows. (James Dee)
 * New Change EC2: 2 Redwing W, Chiffchaff, Brambling SW (Nick Senior)
 * Oxleas Wood: 10 Goldfinch, Mistle Thrush, 4 Nuthatch, 8 Goldcrest, 4 Firecrest, 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Jackdaw, Treecreeper, 3 Common Buzzard [one pair/one female], Stock Dove, female Sparrowhawk, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Song Thrush, male Blackcap, 3 Coal Tit (Ron Turner)
 * Pinner (HA5): 5 Jay, Coal Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Goldcrest & 2 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Roding Valley Meadows Lake: Red-necked Grebe (juv) still present between 10.00 - 11.30 a.m. (Simon West) still present at 17:00, also Kingfisher, Blackcap (Barry Jones)
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: 8 Redwing NW 07:37, Sparrowhawk NW 10:16 (Samuel Levy)
 * St James's Park: Kingfisher (two sightings), 2 Shoveler (Tom Jordan)
 * Staines Res: Black-necked Grebe, 5 Dunlin, 1 Goldeneye, 3 Little Stint, 15+ Ringed Plover, 5 Ruff, 1 Rock Pipit. (Jim Sweetland)
 * Stave Hill: Grey Heron, 14 Long-tailed Tit, 6 Goldcrest, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker (John & Janet Cadera, Richard Page-Jones)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 10 Chiffchaff (one singing), 6 Buzzard (including 4 together), 2 Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, Kingfisher (Dollis Brook), 4 Teal; also 3 Speckled Wood, Comma and Red Admiral (John Colmans)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: Clouded Yellow still, 2 Chiffchaff (Bob Watts)
 * Trent Park: 2 Common Buzzard, Kestrel, Chiffchaff, 2 G S Woodpecker, 9 Mandarin ( 5m,4f), 4 Blackcap, Song Thrush, 2 Goldfinch, Grey Wagtail. ( Pete Lowman).
 * Trent Park Golf Course: 2 House Martin (Robert Callf)
 * Victoria Park: 3 Great Crested Grebe (2 Juv 1 Ad) (JW Davies)
 * Wanstead Flats: m Whinchat, f Wheatear, 2 Stonechat, 6 Siskin, 5 Linnet, 10 Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, Red Kite, Common Buzzard, 2 Sparrowhawk, 3 Kestrel, 3 Swallow, 14 Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest, 10 Teal, 3 Gadwall, 7 Shoveler, Little Grebe, 2 probable Yellow-legged Gull (Nick Croft)
 * West Putney, SW15: Siskin SW (R.Kaye)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Water Rail - heard only, Peregrine, Sparrowhawk, Kingfisher, 2 Teal (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)
 * Wormwood Scrubs:Stonechat,Whitethroat,Blackcap,Chiffchaff(Francis O'Sullivan)

Monday 2nd October 2017

 * Alexandra Park: 35+ House Martin, 2 Meadow Pipit, 10+ Chiffchaff (APOG Birders)
 * Barnes, Barn Elms Playing Fields: 4 Brambling S, 10 Linnet S, 3 Chiffchaff. (R.Kaye)
 * Brookmill Park: Kingfisher, Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
 * Canons Farm/Banstead Woods: 1 Chiffchaff, 3 Skylark, 9 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Little Owl, 2 Tawny Owl, 10 House Martin (CFBWBG)
 * Leyton Flats/Snaresbrook: drake Mandarin on Hollow Pond, Firecrest, Lesser Redpoll over, 17 Pochard, 23 Gadwall, Shoveler, 8 Goldcrest, 2 Grey Wagtails over, Sparrowhawk, 3 Meadow Pipit (Stuart Fisher)
 * Pinner (HA5): 2 Sparrowhawk, 2 House Martin south-east, 2 Jay, Jackdaw & 2 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Ranelagh Gardens: 2 Chiffchaffs, 5 Goldcrests, 2 Siskins SW (Nick Senior)
 * Roding Valley Meadows Lake: juv Red-necked Grebe at 16:20, 26 Linnet  (Barry Jones)
 * St James's Park: 2 Kingfisher (Frank Nugent).
 * Stoneleigh Station KT17: 2 Meadow Pipit S 08:37, 1 Coal Tit (Neil Batten)
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: 6 Meadow Pipit (1 S 07:50, 3 SE 09:17, 2 S 10:09), 5 House Martin S 09:30, Hobby S 09:31, Common Buzzard NE 10:07, 2 Sparrowhawk mobbing Common Buzzard 12:51, Fieldfare NW 14:06. (Samuel Levy)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: Clouded Yellow Scrapyard Meadow, 2 Chiffchaff (Bob Watts)
 * Trent Park: Barn Swallow, 6 House Martin (Robert Callf)
 * Tyttenhanger: Male Stonechat, c50 House Martin, Green Sandpiper, 3+ Siskin, 10+ Skylark (Twitter)
 * Wanstead Flats: 9 Chiffchaff, 4 Goldcrest, 3 Meadow Pipit, Skylark, Coal Tit, 9 Teal, 5 Shoveler, 3 Gadwall, Little Grebe, Kestrel, 35+ Lesser Black-backed Gull, 7 Common Gull (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park: 24 Wigeon, 46 Gadwall, 18 Teal, 7 Shoveler, f Pochard, 10 Tufted Duck, 4 Little Grebe, 2 Swallow, 10 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 5 Goldcrest, Meadow Pipit (Nick Croft)
 * Woodford Green: Firecrest and Goldcrest 7.30am; Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, and a pair of Blackcap by 9.25am; also 4 Redwing over at 9.40am and Song Thrush at 10.15am, Chiffchaff at 11.20am and 4 House Martin drifting East at 16.17pm. (Ken Murray)

Sunday 1st October 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Yellow-browed Warbler still in mixed flock from middle platform adjacent to Wood Green Res 0815 (Gareth Richards), heard mid morning but no further sign, also 10+ Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, Coal Tit in flock, 7 juv Mute Swan, 3 1w Common Gull, Peregrine harassing gulls Wood Green Res, 8 Pied Wagtail playing fields (APOG Birders). 2 Hobbies over middle platform, with contact? calls. 2 Peregrines at same time with tree-top height fast 'fly-by'. 12.15 (Greg Smith et al)
 * Blackheath: Buzzard, 30 Swallow, 500 Starling (Ray Crouch)
 * Brent Reservoir: 11 Common Snipe, 4 Green Sandpiper, 5 Common Sandpiper, 40 House Martin, Bullfinch, Cetti's Warbler, Little Egret, Kingfisher, Common Gull, Water Rail, Greylag Goose. Also 9 Migrant Hawker (Brent Birders)
 * Canons Farm: 2 Red-legged Partridge, 1 Barn Owl, 2 Mistle Thrush, 1 Stonechat, 12 Meadow Pipit, 1 Pied Wagtail, 1 Little Owl, 2 Kestrel, 5 Buzzard, 2 Black-headed Gull, 39 Herring Gull, 2 Kestrel, 3 Rook, 8 Skylark, 2 Chiffchaff, 300 Linnet, 3 Yellowhammer (CFBWBG)
 * Crossness: 40 Lapwing, 40 Black-tailed Godwit, 50 Redshank, 140 Teal, 200 Black-headed Gull, 4 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 4 Little Egret, 4 Cormorant, 20 Canada Goose, Peregrine, 4 Pied Wagtail (Jon Agar)
 * Gunpowder Park: Stonechat (Neville Smith).
 * Holborn: 2 Fieldfare (resting on TV aerial before moving on) (Edward Troup)
 * KGV Reservoir: Goldeneye, Goosander, 200+ Shoveler, 5 Wigeon, 40+ Teal, Oystercatcher, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Swallow, 30+ Meadow Pipit, Wheatear, Stonechat, 4 Yellow Wagtail, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 20+ Chiffchaff, 10+ Goldcrest (Neville Smith).
 * Lonsdale Road Reservoir: 3 Chiffchaff, 4 Little Egret, 62 Teal. 1 Yellow-legged Gull ad, on River foreshore at low tide, from Small Profit Dock Gardens. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Muswell Hill: vis-mig 12.30-1300: 28 House Martin W, 5 Sand Martin NW, Swallow S, 3 Meadow Pipit S, 8 Mistle Thrush SW (Matt Evans)
 * Purfleet: 4 Little Stint (Fraser Simpson)
 * Roding Valley Meadows Lake: juv Red-necked Grebe still at 17:20, Little Egret, Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail (Barry Jones); Siskin, 2 Peregrine and 40+ House Martin over various parts of reserve (Joe Dickens)
 * Staines Reservoir: Merlin, 2 Little Stint, 4 Pintail, Goldeneye, 2 Dunlin, 7 Ruff, 1 Sparrowhawk (Thomas Gibson)
 * Stratford, Olympic Park: Lesser Whitethroat (Greenway), 2 Blackcap, 18+ Chiffchaff, 30 Pied Wagtail, 6 Gadwall, 7 Little Grebe, 3 Teal, imm Sparrowhawk (Stuart Fisher)
 * Totteridge Valley, Belmont Farm: 11+ Chiffchaff, 72+ Starling, Lesser Whitethroat, 5 Greenfinch, Goldcrest, 15+ Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, 2 Mistle Thrush, Treecreeper, Coal Tit, 5 Collared Dove, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Meadow Pipit, 7 Canada Geese, 2 Egyptian Geese, 10 House Martin W 12:10, 12 Goldfinch, Common Buzzard, 3 Red-legged Partridge, Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 42+ Stock Dove (Samuel Levy)
 * Tyler's Common, Harold Wood (midday): c50 House Martins, Swallow, Goldcrest, 5 Chiffchaffs (David Callahan).
 * Walthamstow Marshes: Rear Paddocks: Sparrowhawk and Kestrel each mobbed by Crow, Mistle Thrush, Little Egret, 20+ Linnet flock with Starlings; Cow Field: Kestrel, Wheatear on East fence line, Stonechat, Whinchat, at 14.45 (Jan Dobbie)
 * Wanstead Flats: 2 Hobby, Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel, 40+ House Martin, 15 Swallow, 16 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 4 Goldcrest, Mistle Thrush, 7 Common Gull, f Teal, 3 Gadwall, 7 Linnet (Nick Croft)
 * Winchmore Hill N21 garden: Goldcrest (huddled, looked exhausted) (Fran