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Monday 12th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: 3 Shoveler (2m f) still Wood Green Res 0645 (Bob Watts)
 * Bayhurst Woods: 4 Hawfinch near pond 09:25 (Richard Francis)
 * Brookmill Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * Dollis Brook, Holders Hill: 2 Grey Wagtail, Little Egret. (Samuel Levy)
 * Rainham RSPB: Spoonbill fsp 0900 (Howard Vaughan tweet)
 * Ruislip Wood: 1 Hawfinch at Fore St/Salisbury Rd entrance 10:05 (Richard Francis)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Jack Snipe, 4 Snipe, singing Water Rail, 2 Reed Bunting, 2 Shelduck, 2 Teal, 8 Shoveler (Chris Farthing)

Sunday 11th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: 3 Shoveler 2m f, c15 Tufted Duck, 1 Sparrowhawk m WG Res, 119 Carrion Crow Cricket Pitch (never counted these beasts before - wonder what the high could be) (Sam Jones), pair of Teal still on Conservation Pond (shy), Treecreeper near east entrance to park (Greg Smith)
 * Amwell NR: Gt Hardmead L - Pink-footed Goose roosted again on island fr viewpt then N 0715 (Ron Cousins via Twitter); 3 Pintail still TL378128 (Mike Ilett via Herts BC)
 * Battersea Reach: Spoonbill [Ldn foy] low upriver 0610 - seen fr Chelsea side (Dave Morrison via Twitter) See also entries for London Wetland Centre and Brent Res, below.
 * Bentley Priory: 2 Hawfinch - one from northern perimeter of Spring Meadow in trees in grounds of mansion (TQ154931) & second at southern end of Spring Meadow (TQ153927) (Tony Blake)
 * Brent Reservoir: Spoonbill East Marsh 12:43-13:30 at least, Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Lapwing, 24 Snipe (Magnus Andersson via Twitter); Spoonbill still 1435 but out of view (Andrew Self via Twitter); roosting North Marsh 15:10 (MA tweet); back in East Marsh 16:00 (Andrew Self); flew off SW 17:25 (MA tweet); 100+ Redwing woods near fields, ringed 1st-winter Common Gull from Czech Republic; male Muntjac (MA)
 * Broadwater GP: 9 Egyptian Goose, 3 Red-crested Pochard, 2 Goosander, 1 Oystercatcher (Chris Lamsdell)
 * Broxbourne Woods: 15+ Hawfinch Broxbourne Common area 1420 (David Jordan via Herts BC)
 * Charing Cross Hospital: 3 Peregrine Falcon (1 intruder chased off E at 9:27 - mating at 9:43 when male returned - public site) (Nathalie Mahieu, Ruth Savery, John Boorman)
 * Coopers Green GPs - Stanborough GP: 2 Red Kite, Green Sandpiper (Steven Pearce via Herts BC)
 * Crayford Marshes: 1st-winter Caspian Gull and presumed Caspian/Herring Gull 2nd-winter (ringed as a 1st-winter Caspian Gull at Pitsea in March 2017) at Jolly Farmers/recycling centre and a Mediterranean x Black-headed Gull hybrid (Richard Bonser, Dante Shepherd)
 * Fairlop Waters: Pink-footed Goose again on par 3 course, 2 Reed Bunting, 1 Red-legged Partridge, 1 Little Owl, 1 Kestrel (Steve Bacon)
 * Greenford UB6: Red Kite over my garden (Neil Anderson)
 * Haste Hill Golf Club, Northwood Hills: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker briefly drumming and calling by public footpath north of golf course at TQ09179041 (Michael Hammond)
 * Home Park, Hampton Court: Skylark singing by Rick Pond, plus 20 Redwing, also 3 Skylark by The Pavilion (Mike Foster) MF - many thx for your post, slightly edited. As explained here, the LNHS exports data from this page in 'comma-separated values' (CSV) file-format, which is why the 'period' has been replaced with a 'comma'.
 * KGV Reservoir: Greylag, 4 Shelduck, m Smew, 8 Goosander, m Red-breasted Merganser, pr Scaup, 10 Goldeneye, 5 Wigeon, m Pintail, Little Egret, 2 Red Kite, 3 Buzzard, Lapwing, Curlew then N, Oystercatcher, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Redshank, Kestrel, Peregrine, Skylark, Mistle Thrush, 2 Chiffchaff, 8 Meadow Pipit, 8 Linnet, Reed Bunting (Neville Smith per ELBF FB)
 * London Wetland Centre: Spoonbill 08:30-12:05 when it flew off NE, Bittern, Little Egret, Avocet main lake pm, 3 Jack Snipe, Redshank, Mediterranean Gull (WWT website); f Brambling (Bob Waller via Surrey BN)
 * Mayflower Park Wetlands: 2 Reed Buntings, 20+ Redwing and 4+ Chaffinches (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Panshanger Park: Chiffchaff singing (Murray Brown via Herts BC)
 * Putney Heath: 3 Snipe Ladies Mile/Inner Park Ride (Les Evans-Hill)
 * Rainham RSPB: 100+ Shoveler, c1000 Wigeon, 35 Gadwall, 225+ Teal, 40+ Pintail, 24 Pochard, 40 Tufted Duck, 4 Little Grebe, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Little Egret, 3 Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, Water Rail h, 27 Avocet, 34 Dunlin, 3 Ruff flying upriver, 4 Snipe, 24 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Curlew, 30+ Redshank, Peregrine, 15+ Skylark, 7 Cetti's Warbler, Stonechat, Water Pipit, 2 Rock Pipit, 10 Reed Bunting (Simon Satchell via EBwS BN)
 * Raynes Park: Tawny Owl heard hooting in garden 1.05am (P. Redmond)
 * Ruislip Woods: 2 Hawfinch (half way from Wiltshire Lane entrance towards the lake), 20+ Redwing (Fore St.), many Great Spotted Woodpeckers drumming 1 seen (Barbara and Jarek Francik)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: 2 Black-tailed Godwit E over Toll Rd 0850 (Toby Spall via Herts BC); Curlew 09:00-13:00 at least & Spotted Redshank [Ldn foy] 10:05-12:50 then NW - both fr gadwall_hide (Toby Spall/Emily Leonard/William Last via Herts BC/Twitter)
 * St Paul's Cray (The Brook): 4 Tufted Duck, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Goldfinch, Goldcrest calling. (Jack Headley Via Twitter)
 * Sewardstone Marsh/Pattypool Mead: calling Curlew E from KGV reservoir north basin at 07:30 (Martin Shepherd); 2 Black-tailed Godwit 10:00-12:25 at least (Neville Smith)
 * Staines Reservoir: Scaup distant on s basin, 8 Goldeneye, Black-necked Grebe, 2 Oystercatcher, Dunlin, American Horned Lark not seen but prob still on causeway bank (Dominic Pia via Twitter); AMERICAN HORNED LARK causeway still (Tony Sweetland via Twitter)
 * Stanstead Abbotts Lakes - N lake: 2 Oystercatcher (Jane Free via Herts BC)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: 11 Turnstone, PURPLE SANDPIPER still 12:35pm, also Jack Snipe, 2 Marsh Harriers, adult Mediterranean Gull, Yellow-legged Gull and Rock Pipit (Barry Wright, Bob Watts, Dominic Mitchell, Dante Shepherd, Richard Bonser)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: 20 Teal, 4m Pheasant (3 seen), Little Egret, 2 Buzzard feeding on ground, Kestrel, 2 tumbling Lapwing, 2 Golden Plover (1st record on deck - 1 previous Jan record of small flock over), 2 Snipe, Jack Snipe, 2 flight views Woodcock, 10 Stock Dove, 6+ Skylark (3 singing), 29 Meadow Pipit (5 on site & rest high S 17&6&1), 6 Redwing, 2 Reed Bunting (1 singing), 9 Chaffinch low E (Neil Anderson)
 * Thorndon CP: s section - Kestrel, pr Skylark m singing Old Thorndon Pastures area, 4+ Fieldfare, 50+ Redwing, 4 Mistle Thrush 2pr, Goldcrest singing, m Greenfinch, 4 Goldfinch, 6+ Yellowhammer some singing OTP area; n section - m Lesser Spotted Woodpecker drumming Childerditch Wd, 4 Mistle Thrush 2pr, m Greenfinch (Andrew Cox via EBwS BN)
 * Tooting Commons: Firecrest, Red Admiral Bedford Woods (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Totteridge Valley, Belmont Farm: 34 Canada Geese, 2 Farmyards, Egyptian Goose, Sparrowhawk, 8 Common Buzzard mainly N 09:50-15:00, 21 Black-headed Gull, 42 Common Gull, 18 Stock Dove, 2 Kestrel, Nuthatch, m Firecrest singing behind show pens 16:00, 9 Fieldfare, 86 Redwing, 3 Mistle Thrush, 62 Starling, 2 Grey Wagtail, Pied Wagtail, 5 Pheasant 2m 3f (Samuel Levy)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 4 Stonechat all f-type (2 Bomb Crater Field & 2 Leyton Marsh), c150 Starlings, 4 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing, 20 Linnet, 1 Kestrel (m) paddocks 11:00-12:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING still but again an infrequent visitor to the seed tray this morning, Scaup on No 4 and 2 Green Sandpipers on Lockwood (David Bradshaw, Ian Bradshaw, Jeff Humm)
 * Wanstead Flats: m Stonechat, 50+ Redwing, 13 Fieldfare, 5 singing Skylark (8 in all), 6 Meadow Pipit, Sparrowhawk, 4 Gadwall, 12 Shoveler, 5 Pochard, Little Grebe, 2 Little Owl, 2 Reed Bunting (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: 20 Teal, 14 Shoveler, f Pochard, 2 Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe, Little Egret, Goldcrest (Nick Croft)
 * Wimbledon Common: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Inner Windmill Road (Les Evans-Hill & Paul Cox) Hi Les and Paul, I saw a female at 7:45am between Springwell Cottage  and White Cottage, could it be the same bird? I thought I might have heard another one calling [Colin Williams] Catherine Beazley photographed a male today, posted on Twitter; excellent views of LSW from Inner Windmill road late morning, 14 Lesser Redpoll with 1 Siskin, c30 Redwing (S.Nicholls & C.Beazley) Many thanks all, the Wimbledon and Putney Commons Wildlife and Conservation Committee of which I'm a member meets this Tuesday, I'll make comment of the LSW sightings with which I'm very encouraged and grateful [LEH]
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 2 Jack Snipe, 7 Snipe, Water Rail, 2 Reed Bunting, 2 Shelduck, 4 Lesser Redpoll, 5 Teal, 6 Shoveler, mixed flock of c60 winter thrushes northbound (Chris Farthing)
 * Worcester Park: 1-2 Little Egret 1 on horse field with 30+ Black-headed Gulls and a probable second flew over and landed in brook on Green Ln (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Yeading Brook Meadows: 2 Red Kite (1 here & 2nd bird over Willow Tree Roundabout mobbed by Crow), 2 Little Owl together, 2 singing Skylark, Meadow Pipit, c20 Redwing, m Bullfinch; 300+ Common Frog (& much spawn) (Neil Anderson)

Saturday 10th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Stonechat male southern perimeter playing fields from 1040, Linnet south 0940, pair Eurasian Teal Conservation Pond (APOG Birders); female Kestrel actively hunting in grass adjacent to Conservation Pond (Greg Smith)
 * Amwell NR: rh Smew Gt Hardmead L still (William Bishop via Herts BC)
 * Brent Reservoir: Shelduck, 11 Little Grebe, 22 Common Snipe, Water Rail, 3 Redwing, 3 Cetti's Warbler (Roy Beddard, Andrew Verrall)
 * Brook Farm, Upminster: 2 Sand Martin [Ldn foy] over fishing lake, also incl Cetti's Warbler, Grey Wagtail (Alan Shearman per ELBF FB/RBA)
 * Broxbourne Woods: Raven over, 20+ Hawfinch into roost pm (Laurence Drummond via Herts BC)
 * Bushy Park: 2 Goldcrest, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 3 Long-tailed Tit, Meadow Pipit, 3 Mistle Thrush, Red Kite 9.30am circling low mobbed by crow briefly before drifting NW, 4 Redwing, Reed Bunting, 3 Skylark, 2 Song Thrush, Stonechat, Treecreeper (Ian R Watson)
 * Canada Water: Sparrowhawk over the station at 10:30 (John & Janet Cadera)
 * Crayford Marshes: pair Shoveler, 2 Shelduck, male Marsh Harrier over landfill, Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 2 Skylark, 2 Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler singing (Mike Amos)
 * Dulwich Park: pair Shoveler, 4 Jackdaw, 100 Redwing, Nuthatch (Graeme Wright)
 * Fairlop Waters: Pink-footed Goose, Pintail (Neil Twyford/Alan Bell)
 * Feltham: Peregrine over St Giles Hotel 14.15 (Andy Roberts)
 * Gallions Reach: 3 Egyptian Goose, 4 Oystercatcher, 14 Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 4 Chiffchaff (Dave Morrison via Twitter)
 * Greenwich Peninsula: Oystercatcher, Stonechat m, Chiffchaff, Linnet (Richard Green, John Bushall)
 * Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park: 2 Little Grebe, 2 Redwing (Richard Green, John Bushall)
 * Hackney Marshes: 11 Stock Dove on meadow outside filter beds 11:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Hilly Fields: 57 Redwing, 54 Black-headed Gull (Keith Chambers); 2 Mandarin (Graeme Wright)
 * Hogsmill Open Space: 3 Little Egrets on river and a pair flying around calling loudly [my highest count for this year/winter season], 1 Kingfisher at bourne hall, 6 Grey Wagtail, 2 Nuthatches, 1 Grey Heron over, 20+ Redwing still and 1 Sparrowhawk (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Ingrebourne Valley: 2 Grey Partridge, 45 Lapwing, Chiffchaff, 2m Stonechat, Grey Wagtail, Bullfinch (Paul Hawkins via ELBF FB)
 * KGV Reservoir: [permit only] 2 Greylag, 2 Shelduck, 15 Shoveler, 13 Wigeon, Smew, 9 Goosander, m Red-breasted Merganser still, 3 Pheasant 2f m, Little Egret, Dunlin, Redshank, 2 Lapwing, Curlew N 0655, Great Black-backed Gull 1w, 3 Skylark NE 0810, 2 Chiffchaff, Mistle Thrush, 2 Reed Bunting (Neville Smith)
 * Limehouse: 4 House Sparrows on the tree next to Regent's Canal nr Commercial Rd bridge (Roman Werpachowski)
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 Curlew, 1 Goldeneye and 1 Bittern main lake, 13 Pintail across site, 3 Shelduck, 10 Common Snipe, 5 Fieldfare [per website] and 4+ Redwing, 4 Stonechat m 3f grazing marsh (Martin Honey, A. Innes, W. Newnham)
 * Mad Bess Wood: 8+ Hawfinch at TQ07588964, 7 Northern Lapwing W; 1 Pipistrelle sp. feeding at noon (Michael Hammond, Michael Robinson)
 * Middlesex Filter Beds: Firecrest singing strongly in scrub along the river at 18:00, Peregrine on Millfields sub-station pylon (Alastair Dent); Chiffchaff (Ernest Thomason)
 * Northolt & Greenford CP: Egyptian Goose, Sparrowhawk, Snipe, 2 Redwing, 3 Mistle Thrush (Neil Anderson)
 * Rainham RSPB: Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, 22 Avocet, 6 Oystercatcher, 46 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Ruff, 152 Dunlin, 15 Redshank, Barn Owl, 3 Kestrel, Peregrine, 4 Stonechat (Alan Shearman per ELBF FB)
 * Ravenor Park, Greenford: 60+ Redwing feeding on the turf, pr Mistle Thrush (Neil Anderson)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues, also 5 Lesser Redpoll, 1 Chaffinch, 5 Goldfinch. Parking charges apply Mon-Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * St John's Wood Church Gdns LNR: Treecreeper, House Sparrow (Kabir Kaul via Twitter)
 * St Paul's Cray (The Brook): 1 Little Egret, 2 Tufted Duck, 6 Canada Goose. (Jack Headley)
 * South Hampstead: Green Woodpecker calling West End Ln NW6 1230 (Michael Thain)
 * Stocker's Lake: m Scaup (BirdGuides)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: PURPLE SANDPIPER, 2 Marsh Harrier, 3 Dunlin, 2 Turnstone, 5 Stonechat, 40 Fieldfare N, 14 Cetti's Warbler, Blackcap, 2 Raven, 40 Linnet (Andrew Self)
 * Teddington: Red Kite over Bushy Park, NPL then N 0945 (Mike Foster)
 * Ten Acre Wood Area: Woodcock flying up & down the brook, Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, 2 Greylag Geese over, 3 Stonechat, Reed Bunting, Lapwing, 2 Skylark, 5 Meadow Pipit, 15 Linnet (Nigel Dodd)
 * Tooting Commons: Firecrest still Bedford Wd northeast corner 0930 (Peter White via Twitter)
 * Tottenham Marsh: 4 Stonechat, 2 Reed Bunting, Chiffchaff (A.Middleton)
 * Walthamstow Marsh: 30 Redwing at Riding School (Rhys Evans)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING still but elusive today - only seen briefly around seed tray a couple of times up to 1pm, Scaup on No 4, Green Sandpiper on overflow (Walthamstow Birders); LB showed on bush and by seeds c3.30pm (A.Middleton); 3 Goldeneye, 2 Stock Dove, 4 Greenfinch, 2 Shelduck (Rhys Evans)
 * Wanstead Flats: Common Snipe, Peregrine Falcon, Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 6 Skylark, 6 Meadow Pipit, 7-10 Linnet, 10+ Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, 3 Pochard, 2 Little Owl (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: Firecrest, 11 Goldcrest, Chiffchaff, 7 Coal Tit, 4 Nuthatch, 8 Stock Dove, 10+ Redwing, 2 Sparrowhawk, Little Egret, Water Rail, Kingfisher, 2 Reed Bunting, 35 Shoveler, 11 Teal, 3 Pochard, 18 Tufted Duck, 2 Little Grebe. Great Crested Grebe (Wanstead Birders)
 * Waterworks Nature Reserve: 1 Bullfinch my first here, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Greenfinch, 1 Kingfisher, 4juv Mute Swans, 1 Peregrine, 3 Reed Bunting, 1 Water Rail (Marcus Mitchell)
 * Wimbledon Common: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 1 seen & possibly a 2nd heard drumming (Les Evans-Hill) Hi Les, where on the common did you see the LSW? Thanks Inner Windmill Rd again as per 5 March sighting [LEH]
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Jack Snipe, 3 Snipe, Peregrine, 2 Reed Bunting, 6 Shoveler (Chris Farthing)
 * Yeading Brook Meadows: 2 Teal, 2 Little Egret, Kestrel, 70 Common Gull on playing fields and 9 Pied Wagtail amongst them, 2 Skylark, Meadow Pipit, pr Bullfinch, Chiffchaff (Nigel Dodd)

Friday 9th March 2018
NB Rye Meads RSPB is now open again on Fridays 9am-5pm.
 * Alexandra Park: Eurasian Teal pair still present 0650 Conservation Pond (Bob Watts)
 * Basinghall Street EC2: male Black Redstart singing roof of Davy’s bar 08:20 & 09:55 then on Guildhall roof 11:33 (N P Senior)
 * Berwick Glades: 50 Fieldfare, 2 Yellowhammer (James Palmer)
 * Brookmill Park: Peregrine, Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 6 Redwing, Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
 * Broxbourne Woods: Danemead Wd - 10+ Brambling w/ 200+ Chaffinch, 5+ Hawfinch 3 in trees opp start of boardwalk & 2 flyovers, 40+ Siskin (Anders Gray via Herts BC)
 * Bushy Park: 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Green Woodpecker, 3 Mistle Thrush, 4 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, Treecreeper (Ian R Watson)
 * Crayford (Jolly Farmers): 1w Glaucous Gull amongst huge numbers of other gulls, 6-7 Linnets, 3 Pied Wagtail, Sparrowhawk and a leucistic Herring Gull (Jack Headley via Twitter)
 * Crossness: 70 Shelduck, 500 Teal, 40 Shoveler, 40 Gadwall, 15 Wigeon, Peregrine, Kestrel, Pheasant, 50 Lapwing, 120 Dunlin, 25 Redshank, 12 Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 50 Fieldfare, 20 Redwing, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Goldcrest, 2 Linnet (Conrad Ellam)
 * Dollis Brook: Barnet Lane - 60+ Ring-necked Parakeets, Little Egret (Samuel Levy)
 * Finchley: garden N3 - Tawny Owl calling 0600, m Blackcap, 4 Stock Dove (Samuel Levy)
 * Golders Hill Park: 60+ Redwing in communal song on central slope (James Levy)
 * Hilly Fields: 8 Redwing (Keith Chambers)
 * Hyde Park: pair of Peregrine perched high on the north face of the Peninsular Tower of Knightsbridge Barracks am (Dave Jordan)
 * Isle of Dogs: Yellow-legged Gull 3w Saunders Ness (Sean Huggins)
 * KGV Reservoir: m Red-breasted Merganser, m Smew & m Scaup all still S. Basin, Water Pipit on C. Causeway then S towards Sailing Club, 4 Goosander 2pr, 28 Goldeneye 13m, pr Grey Wagtail, 6 Shoveler, 24+ Teal, Green Woodpecker, Meadow Pipit, Kestrel f 1-2pm (Davey Leach)
 * London Wetland Centre: 3 Shelduck, 9 Pintail, Goldeneye, 3 Bittern, 5 Snipe, 7 Fieldfare, 2 Siskin (WWT website); 1 Jack Snipe, 1 Redwing (Shailesh Patel); 1 Water Pipit, 2+ Siskin (Mike Wheeler et al)
 * Mayflower Park: 180 Redwings 50 into and 130 N (Bob Smith)
 * Middlesex Filter Beds: Firecrest in holm oak along river (Ernest Thomason)
 * Millfields: 2 Egyptian Goose, Common Gull (Ernest Thomason)
 * Northaw Great Wood: 2 Marsh Tit, 8 Hawfinch central ride (per Herts BC)
 * Pinner: Lloyd Court - Tawny Owl calling 3 or 4 times per minute for over an hour from 03:30, a record 23 Blackbirds on back lawn at 06:30 (Richard Francis)
 * Pinner (The Croft): 40+ Redwing, 2 Goldcrest, Ring-necked Parakeet, 6 Goldfinch, Chaffinch and Long-tailed Tit (Nigel Barratt)
 * Queen Mother Reservoir: Short-eared Owl circling & drifting high E toward Heathrow 10:30-10:40 (Peter Newbound via Berks BN/BirdGuides)
 * Regent's Park: f Stonechat in Triangle Pen, Water Rail, Siskin over N (Magnus Andersson)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon - Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic); As reliable as death and taxes (JW) What, the bird or the parking charges? Both! [My favourite subjects death, taxes and parking.] Ironic.. Young Swiss couple visited today Raphael & Ameline from Lausanne and saw it, with no penalty charge, asssuming parking was free!. Phew. [FJM]
 * Richmond Park: 3 Buzzard, c36 Common Gull, pr Egyptian Geese with 9 goslings, Gadwall, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Pochard, 1 Red Kite, 9 Reed Bunting, 3 Stonechat, Water Rail heard (Friday Bird Group); 10+ Siskin m&f, 4 Mistle Thrush 2pr, 5 Tawny Owl 1 seen 4 heard (P. Redmond)
 * Ruislip Woods: 3 Hawfinch showing well near to Wiltshire Lane entrance 10:45 (Richard Francis) Congratulations to the two other birders who also saw these birds (Richard & Weldon, surnames unknown) Sorry for the confusion [RF]
 * Sewardstone Marsh: Pink-footed Goose NE across Pattypool Mead at 09:50 (Martin Shepherd)
 * Sidcup (Haddon Grove Shuttle Riverway footpath): 3 Grey Wagtail between Willersley Avenue Bridge and Environment Agency culvert, 2 Mistle Thrush, Redwing, Green Woodpecker (Eric Brown)
 * South Norwood CP: Hawfinch 0820 (John Hughes per John Birkett via Twitter)
 * Spa Fields: Mistle Thrush (Francis O'Sullivan)
 * Staines Reservoir: m Scaup, Black-necked Grebe, 2 Redshank, AMERICAN HORNED LARK still (Allan Goddard via Twitter)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: 1 PURPLE SANDPIPER [Ldn foy], 1 Bearded Tit m, 3 Stonechat, 24 Lapwing, 3 Linnet, 1 Skylark, 18 Gadwall, 12 Teal, 2 Oystercatcher, 1 Shelduck, 15 Redshank, 5 Dunlin, 9 Turnstone, 11 Greylag Goose, 3 Canada Goose, 1 Kestrel, 1 Reed Bunting, 3 Cetti's Warbler 2 heard 1 seen 9.30-13.30 (Roger Keith) Where was the Sandpiper? Did it fly off?
 * Tooting Commons: Firecrest still in Bedford Woods (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Totteridge Valley: Long Pond - 2 Coot, 2 Canada Geese, 2 Moorhen, 2 Mallard; Belmont Farm - 30 Canada Geese, 2 'farmyard' geese, 2 Greylag, Kestrel (Samuel Levy)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: Firecrest  male still Horse Chestnut Glade 1300, also 6+ Goldcrest, 6 Redwing, Coal Tit heard (Bob Watts)
 * Trent Park: 7 Mandarin Duck 4m 3f lower lake, 3 Eurasian Teal 1m 2f upper lake - flew off, 3 Common Pochard 1m 2f lower lake, 4 Tufted Duck 2m 2f, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Nuthatch, Treecreeper, 10+ Chaffinch Rough Lot, Hawfinch seen in flight near obelisk 13:45 and later perched up in tree nearby edge of Rough Lot 13:57 (Robert Callf)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: Little Ringed Plover [Ldn foy] circled main pit then S 1005 (TyttGP twitter)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING showing well & regularly early-am but still no sign of Serin (Paul Watts via Twitter); Ringed Plover landed East Warwick island at 15:35 (Chris Farthing)
 * Wanstead Flats: Redpoll, 6 Skylark, 3 Meadow Pipit [one singing on territory], 13 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, 2 Pochard, 3 Redwing (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park: Treecreeper, 20 Teal, 14 Shoveler, 2 Pochard, Little Grebe, Water Rail, Kingfisher, Common Buzzard, Kestrel, 7 Fieldfare, 5 Redwing (Nick Croft)
 * Westbourne Park: Grand Union Canal - 2 Peregrine (Francis O'Sullivan)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 3 Jack Snipe, 5 Snipe, Water Rail, 2 Reed Bunting, 2 Shelduck, 4 Teal, 5 Shoveler (Chris Farthing)

Thursday 8th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: pair Eurasian Teal Conservation Pond 1730 (Bob Watts)
 * Amwell NR: Pink-footed Goose on island fr viewpt 0615 [roosted overnight] then NW 0645, Woodcock (Ron Cousins/Phil Ball via Twitter); 2 Oystercatcher on Grt Hardmead L island 0600 then S toward Stanstead Abbotts, 3 Hawfinch W from Easneye Wd over Gt Hardmead L 1645 (William Bishop via Herts BC)
 * Bayhurst Wood: 15+ Hawfinch close to car park 09:45 (Richard Francis)
 * Brent Reservoir: Shelduck, 2 ad Great Black-backed Gull, 3 Common Snipe (Andrew Haynes); Little Egret behind dam late afternoon (Andrew Self)
 * Brookmill Park: Kingfisher, Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * Bumble's Green, near Nazeing: Red Kite over road at 14:15 near entrance to Harold Park Farm (Martin Shepherd)
 * Finchley: garden N3 - m Blackcap, 2 Stock Dove (Samuel Levy)
 * Forty Hall CP: 6 Mandarin Duck 4m 2f, m Sparrowhawk, m Kestrel, 68 Black-headed Gull, 3 Common Gull adult and 2 first-winter, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2 Mistle Thrush pr, Goldcrest singing (Robert Callf)
 * Forty Hall Farm, Enfield: 100+ Redwing (Robert Callf)
 * Greenwich Ecology Park: f Goldeneye, f Teal, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Siskin (Richard Green, John Bushall)
 * Greenwich Peninsula: River - 2 Oystercatcher, 5 Teal; Central Park - c15 Redwing, c10 Chaffinch (Richard Green, John Bushall)
 * Guy Lodge Farm: Mediterranean Gull 1st-winter until 13:30 at least in pig field, 22+ Common Gull incl at least 10 1st-winter, 14+ Lesser Black-backed Gull, 4 Stock Dove, 3 Rook (Robert Callf)
 * Kingston-upon-Thames: Black Swan at confluence of R Thames and R Hogsmill by Charter Quay (Nigel Jackman)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Shelduck, 2 Black-tailed Godwit grazing marsh pm, 13 Snipe, Jack Snipe & Redshank scrape, 8 Fieldfare, 11 Siskin (WWT website); 1  Bittern, 3 Pintail, Peregrine (Shailesh Patel)
 * Munden Estate: Snipe, Green Sandpiper TL134000, Raven (Tony Bates via Herts BC)
 * Petersham Meadows: Kestrel hunting overhead at 17.45 (P. Redmond)
 * Pinner (The Croft Park): 25+ Redwing, Red Kite low at 10.10am (Nigel Barratt)
 * Pinner Memorial Park: Mistle Thrush, 50+ Redwing, 2 Goldcrest, Long-tailed Tit, 4 Goldfinch (Nigel Barratt)
 * Rainham Marshes: Red Kite over Wennington Marshes 0946 (Fraser Simpson)
 * Ravenor Park, Greenford: low flying Buzzard being mobbed by numerous Crows 06.45, Red Kite just above my roof 15.45 & towards the park just to east of my house (Neil Anderson)


 * Richmond Park: a pleasant walk in blustery conditions. The only birds of note were 1m Great Spotted Woodpecker and 1 Treecreeper [always nice to see] (Martin Honey & B. Page); 8 Woodcock (R.P. Bird Group)
 * Ruislip Woods: 9+ Hawfinch 6+ down from Wiltshire Ln entrance 10:05 & 3 at Fore St/Salisbury Rd entrance 10:15 (Richard Francis)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: 5 Black-tailed Godwit fr gadwall_hide (Vicky Buckel via Herts BC)
 * St Paul's Cray (The Brook): 2 Kingfishers calling but not seen, Goldfinch, Little Egret, Grey Wagtail (Jack Headley via Twitter)
 * Sanderstead Plantation: 1st migrant Chiffchaff pm (John Birkett via Twitter)
 * Turnford Marsh GPs: 3 Goosander m 2f ashley pit (Paula Moore via Herts BC)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING on and off this morning, Serin only seen first thing this morning as far as we hear (Walthamstow Birders); drake Scaup, 4 Goldeneye, 2 Shelduck, 3 Lapwing, 2 Peregrine, Fieldfare (Tom Jordan)
 * Wanstead Flats: 2 Skylark, Meadow Pipit, 9 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, 2 Teal, Little Owl (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: 30+ Redwing, 30+ Fieldfare, 5 Siskin, 18 Teal, 46 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 2 Little Grebe, 5 Stock Dove, Nuthatch (Nick Croft); Nuthatch, 5 Stock Dove, 2 Goldcrest in Bush Wood (Tim Harris)
 * Whitewebbs Park: 20 Mandarin Duck 13m 7f ornamental pond, 2 Shoveler m & f (Robert Callf)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Jack Snipe, 2 Snipe, Water Rail, Peregrine, 3 Reed Bunting, Coal Tit (Chris Farthing)

Wednesday 7th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Drake Shoveler Wood Green Res, Treecreeper just south of Conservation Pond (Bruce Carson per Bob Watts)
 * Balham: Peregrine adult S 3:30 pm (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Brookmill Park: Little Egret, Kingfisher, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 12 Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * Bushy Park: 3 Lesser Redpoll in the Woodland Gardens (Billy Dykes)
 * Dagenham Chase: Hawfinch still (Vincenzo Halley-Frame per ELBF FB); seen c1600 pre-roost for 3rd day (Alan Shearman blog)
 * Eastcote: Field End RG - Greenfinch, 2 Song Thrush, 30 Black-headed Gull, 30 Common Gull (Tim Rymer)
 * Field Common GP: area - Dunlin feeding in flooded paddock south of gp (Mark Davis via Surrey BN) TQ128671
 * Finchley: garden N3 - m Blackcap, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Samuel Levy)
 * Foots Cray Meadows: Egyptian Goose, 7 Tufted Duck, 2+ Little Grebe, 2 Little Egret, Kingfisher, Green Woodpecker, 10+ Redwing, Chiffchaff [pale looking bird], 4+ Goldcrest (Ian Stewart)
 * Greenwich Ecology Park: f Goldeneye on outer lake, Jack Snipe, 2 Little Grebes, Goldcrest, Grey Wagtail, Chiffchaff (John Bushell & Conrad Ellam per Pat Lipscombe)
 * Hainault: 4 Grey Wagtail (Steve Bacon per ELBF FB)
 * Hertingfordbury: Hawfinch calling in treetops Hertingfordbury mill (Laurence Drummond via Herts BC)
 * Ladywell Fields: c30 Redwing (Dom Ison)
 * Leatherhead Station & Randalls Way: 1 singing Siskin briefly in Station car park 09:00, 5 Common Buzzard circling to the northeast 13:45 (Neil Batten)
 * Lippitts Hill: Common Buzzard, drumming Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 drumming, Green Woodpecker, singing Song Thrush (Simon Papps)
 * Little Britain Lake: brief afternoon visit - 2 Common Buzzard, c4 Red Kite, 1 male Mandarin, 1 Great Crested Grebe, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Roger Dewey)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Shelduck, 10 Pintail, 3 Jack Snipe, 14 Snipe, 6 Fieldfare, 11 Redwing (WWT website)
 * Middlesex Filter Beds: 3 Goldcrest, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Green Woodpecker; 8 Stock Dove just outside on Hackney Marshes meadow, Peregrine on Millfields sub-station pylon 08:45-09:45 (Alastair Dent)
 * Pimlico Gardens: Yellow-legged Gull ad (N P Senior)
 * Pinner (The Croft): 3 Goldfinch, 2 Greenfinch, cock Chaffinch, 2 Long-tailed Tit, Redwing (Nigel Barratt)
 * Rainham RSPB: 40 Pintail, 2 Little Egret, 5 Marsh Harrier, 2 Buzzard, 15 Avocet, 31 Golden Plover, 7 Curlew, 80 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Ruff, 400 Dunlin, 7 Snipe, 21 Redshank, m Peregrine, f Blackcap, Fieldfare (Howard Vaughan via RSPB)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon-Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic)j
 * Richmond Park: 20 Redwing, Buzzard, Pintail, 2 Woodcock (P Pentek et al)
 * Ruislip Woods: 10 Hawfinch down from Wiltshire Ln entrance 09:10 (Richard Francis). Seen again in same area later at 12:30, plus 1 in Copse Wd area, also 3 Bullfinch 2m f, 5+ Siskin in Mad Bess Wood, 2 Red Kite, Common Buzzard, 4 Mistle Thrush, 2 Song Thrush, Redwing, Stock Dove, 4 Teal, 3+ Great Spotted Woodpecker [much drumming], 6+ Nuthatch, 3 Ring-necked Parakeet (Caroline Nash)
 * Ruxley GPs: (permit only) - 20+ Gadwall, 5+ Shoveler, 2 Teal, 4 Pochard, c100 Tufted Duck, 4 Little Grebe, 4 Great Crested Grebe, Green Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, Cetti’s Warbler, 3+ Goldcrest, 2-3 Lesser Redpoll, 1+ Bullfinch (Ian Stewart)
 * St Paul's Cray: Pleasance Rd - 21 Jackdaw 2 flocks flying over - presumed going to roost - combined total in separate flocks twenty then a single bird over. (The Brook): 1 Kingfisher, 8-9 Redwing, 4 Long-tailed Tits and 4 Canada Goose (Jack Headley via Twitter)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: Pattypool Mead - Ruff at 08:30 third day. Flew N at 08:40 (Martin Shepherd)
 * Sidcup (York Avenue): Common Buzzard flew in large semi-circle from NE to NW, Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, 2 male Blackcap, Chiffchaff through gardens, Goldcrest, 2 Coal Tit, Jay, 2 Jackdaw (Ian Stewart)
 * Springfield Park: nr Walthamstow Wetlands - 10 House Sparrows on feeders and outside houses on Lingwood Rd, 3 Mistle Thrush (Michael Mac)
 * Staines Moor: 2 Water Pipit on R.Colne by the old fallen Willow - one bird carrying a BTO ring on the right leg, Green Sandpiper & Common Redshank on one of the flood pools, plus 3 Common Snipe, only one Stonechat; along path from Hithermoor Ln to moor, 100 Redwing & 100 Fieldfare in Black Poplars in grounds of KG VI Res. The Redwings were all in sub song which accompanied by the 'chacking' of the Fieldfares resulted in a lovely cacophony. They are soon to depart north no doubt. (John Edwards); 2 Dunlin 1330 (DJ Cox via Surrey BN); Ruff N, with 70+ Lapwing, 3 Buzzard, Red Kite, 156 Woodpigeon, 2 Reed Bunting, 4 Stonechat, 2 Kestrel (Samuel and Ephraim Perfect)
 * Staines Reservoir: AMERICAN HORNED LARK still causeway midpoint (Dom Pia via Twitter); Black-tailed Godwit n basin e bank 1200 (DJ Cox via Surrey BN); Black-necked Grebe S basin, 10 Goldeneye, Redshank, 2 Dunlin, 126 Lapwing, 2 Shelduck, Kestrel, 20 Shoveler (Samuel and Ephraim Perfect)
 * Stanwell Moor: Redshank, Jack Snipe (Chris Lamsdell)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 2 'farmyard' geese, 33 Canada Geese, 2 Mandarin Duck, 14 Teal, 2 Common Buzzard, 164 Common Gull, 62 Stock Dove, 2 Collared Dove, Barn Owl hunting in owl_field, Kestrel, 2 Peregrine at Frith Riding Stables, 13 Rook, Nuthatch, 4 Goldcrest, 62 Fieldfare, 88 Redwing, 3 Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Meadow Pipit, Hawfinch flushed from bottom of old gropper field near folly brook (Samuel Levy)
 * Trent Park: 2 male Eurasian Teal upper lake - no sign of female, 3 Common Pochard 2m 1f lower lake, 5 Tufted Duck 2m 3f, 2 Treecreeper Rough Lot (Robert Callf)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: main gp - Curlew then N 0955, Ruff briefly then S 1135; fishing lake - Oystercatcher still (per TyttGP twitter)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 7+ Snipe (J-P Elmes)
 * Walthamstow Wetlands: Serin, 50m from LITTLE BUNTING both a few hundred metres south of the Engine House. Still present 13:30 at least (Paul Whiteman, Dave Bradshaw et. al.); Little Bunting and Serin still present c15:00 (James Palmer); Scaup, Common Sandpiper, Wigeon, first Skylark of year N (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Worcester Park: Peregrine male on pylons, 60 Redwings (Bob Smith)

Tuesday 6th March 2018

 * Brent Reservoir: Black-tailed Godwit & Stonechat on Neasden Rec 15:35, 2 Dunlin, 2 Green Sandpiper, 11 Snipe, 8 Lapwing, 2 Shelduck East Marsh (Andrew Self)
 * Dollis Brook, Holders Hill: 5 Redwing, Peregrine low over holders hill circus/roundabout chasing pr Mallard 07:05 (Samuel Levy)
 * Eastcote: Field End RG - 14 Fieldfare, 7 Redwing, 3 Song Thrush, Green Woodpecker (Tim Rymer)
 * Finchley: garden N3 - m Blackcap, 3 Stock Dove, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Redwing (Samuel Levy)
 * Finsbury Park: 30+ Redwing, 7 Red-crested Pochard 6m f (Ann Feltham)
 * Friday Lake: red-head Smew still on; Mink (J.Murray)
 * Golders Hill Park: 2 Fieldfares E (James Levy)
 * Hampstead Heath: 100+ Redwing, 2 Goldcrest, 5 Mandarin Duck, 3 Egyptian Goose, Kestrel Kenwood Pond; 2 Nuthatch, 2 Coal Tit, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker all on feeders Bird Sanctuary Pond; 200+ Redwing by bandstand, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Mistle Thrush, 5 Goldfinch, pair Great Crested Grebe Men's Swimming Pond (Allan Stewart)
 * Hertford Heath: 2 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard (Jon Agar)
 * Holyfield Lake: northern end in river by weir a dead Barn Owl - informed an employee of the water board who fished it out (J-P Elmes)
 * Hyde Park: 22 Lapwing E 11:20, Peregrine (John & Janet Cadera)
 * King George V Reservoir: drake Red-breasted Merganser [Ldn foy] n basin n end, drake Smew, 12 Goosander, 28 Goldeneye, 5 Wigeon, 8 Dunlin, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Lapwing, Stonechat, 6 Buzzard, 3 Peregrine scrapping, 25 Fieldfare, 40 Redwing (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)
 * Lamorbey Park: pair Teal, 4 Tufted Duck, 2 Little Grebe summer plumage, Peregrine, 2 Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Pied Wagtail, 2 Mistle Thrush, 3+ Redwing, 4+ Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Jay, Jackdaw (Ian Stewart)
 * Leytonstone: Woodcock flushed from bushes to the north of A14 Bush Road (Roger Orwin)
 * Little Beechill Wood: 4 Common Buzzard overhead 12:50 (Robert Callf)
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 Bittern SE corner main lake but flew into middle of reed bed at 13.40, 5 Jack Snipe wader scrape, 1 Dunlin grazing marsh, 21 Common Snipe grazing marsh and wader scrape (Martin Honey); Yellow-legged Gull 2cy - different to last week's, 290+ Herring Gull, 20 Ring-necked Parakeet feeding on sallow catkins (J.Wilczur); 16 Redwing, 3 Fieldfare West Bank with sheep 13:00, 6+ Stonechat Wildside 14:30 (Sue Barry)
 * Motspur Park: Peregrine gas holder, 3 Goldcrests & 25 Redwing wood (Bob Smith)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: Pattypool Mead - Ruff at 07:50 flew north at 08:00. Unsure if this was the same bird as yesterday or another migrant (Martin Shepherd)
 * Southall: 4+ Red Kites over 10:30-11:40 (Phil Belman) TQ1280
 * Staines Reservoir: Black-necked Grebe & AMERICAN HORNED LARK still (Mark Bravery via Twitter)
 * Tooting Commons: 1 Firecrest in Bedford Woods, also 1 Sparrowhawk, 20+ Redwing (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Trent Park: Little Egret perched up over Merryhills Brook near bridle path, 3 Eurasian Teal 2m 1f upper lake, 4 Common Pochard 2m 2f lower lake, 4 Tufted Duck 3m 1f, 2 singing Coal Tit, 2 Nuthatch, Treecreeper (Robert Callf); 6 Tufted Duck 3m 3f, 6 Mandarin 4m 2f, 2 Song Thrush, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, 4 Pochard 2m f, no sign of Teal on upper lake late pm (Pete Lowman)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: Oystercatcher main gp (TyttGP twitter)
 * Walthamstow Wetlands: Serin [from 10 Feb] with Linnet flock & LITTLE BUNTING still (Jamie Partridge/David Bradshaw via Twitter); Serin not seen again between 9:30 and 3:30pm, Scaup still on No 4, Knot and Redshank on Lockwood, 2 Goosander early, Stonechat (Walthamstow Birders) Serin pics here
 * Wanstead Flats: 3 Stonechat, 6 Skylark 3 singers, 3 Meadow Pipit, Rook, Redwing, Reed Bunting, 14 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, 2 Teal, 18 Tufted Duck, Pochard, Kestrel (Niick Croft/Wren Group)
 * Wanstead Park: 13 Teal, 12 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, 2 Pochard, Water Rail, Little Grebe, 16 Redwing, 4 Fieldfare, 6 Song Thrush, Nuthatch, Treecreeper, 3 Coal Tit, 3 Goldcrest, Siskin, Reed Bunting, 4 Stock Dove, Sparrowhawk, Buzzard (Nick Croft/Wren Group)
 * Westbourne Park: Red Kite E over tube station 09:30 (Charlie Farrell)
 * William Girling Reservoir: relief channel - Dunlin, 2 Green Sandpiper, 5 Little Egret, Shelduck, 25 Teal (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)
 * Wimbledon Common: 3 Fieldfare & 12 Redwing on the Plain (Les Evans-Hill)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 4 Snipe, 5 Teal, 2 Shelduck, 8 Shoveler, 3 Lesser Redpoll, 2+ Reed Bunting (Chris Farthing)
 * Worcester Park: Meadow Pipit, male Stonechat on horse fields (Bob Smith)

Monday 5th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Woodcock flew south from Cricket Scrub (Gerry Rawcliffe per Bob Watts)
 * Amwell Nature Reserve: 42 Lapwing, 4 Pintail, Yellow-legged Gull (Jon Agar)
 * Belvedere, River Thames: foreshore - incl. 7 Black-tailed Godwit, 7 Dunlin, 8 Gadwall, 4 Lapwing, 3 Meadow Pipit, an Oystercatcher, 5 Redshank and 3 Ringed Plover (Mike Robinson)
 * Betchworth Hills: 11 Hawfinch (Steve Gale via Twitter) [new site for LNHS gazetteer TQ207519]
 * Betchworth Quarry: 8-10 Hawfinch lower wooded section (David Stubbs via Twitter)
 * Bramblehall Wood: still 325+ Hawfinch mainly moved up to Ashurst Rough (Steve Gale)
 * Brent Reservoir: 2 Shelduck, 5 Snipe, 4 Dunlin, 1 Cetti's Warbler (Andrew Haynes). 11 Snipe, 2 Cetti's Warbler (incl. one singing just on the NE side of Cool Oak Bridge), 1 Skylark (dam), 1 Little Egret (N. Marsh), male Sparrowhawk, Lithuanian-ringed Common Gull, Finnish-ringed Black-headed Gull and colour-ringed Coot [that isn't one of mine from the London Royal Parks - possibly from Hilfield Park Res] - all North Marsh (Bill Haines)
 * Brockwell Park: dead Lapwing, c20 Redwing (Tom Pollard via Twitter)
 * Brookmill Park: Little Egret, Kingfisher, 3 Redwing, Goldcrest, Coal Tit (Conrad Ellam)
 * Broxbournre Woods: female Bullfinch (Jon Agar)
 * Burgess Park: 7 Siskin, 20 Redwing (Phil Laurie)
 * Canons Farm: Lapwing infront george, 150 Fieldfare, 30 Redwing, migrant m Stonechat reads bottom (Ian Magness via CFBW blog)
 * Colliers Wood: 1 Kingfisher, 2 Chiffchaff presumed overwinterers (Keith Bates)
 * Crayford Marshes: 20+ Shelduck, 16+ Gadwall, 4 Pintail 2 pairs at Darent mouth, c40 Wigeon, c100 Teal, 3 Little Grebe, Buzzard, 2+ Avocet, c200 Lapwing, Turnstone at saltings, c600 Dunlin a conservative estimate, Common Sandpiper, 30+ Redshank, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, ad Mediterranean Gull flew downriver along Thames, 2 Green Woodpecker, 6+ singing Skylark, Water Pipit at saltings but very elusive, Rock Pipit, 5+ Meadow Pipit, 6 Pied Wagtail, 4 Stonechat, 4 Song Thrush, 50+ Fieldfare, 30+ Redwing, 3 Cetti’s Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 4 Goldcrest, 3 Jay, 1+ Rook, 2 Greenfinch, 2 Reed Bunting singing, Corn Bunting singing along Darent creek (Ian Stewart)
 * East India Dock Basin: 11 Shelduck, Cetti's Warbler (Paul Hyland)
 * Eastcote: 2 Hawfinch Eastcote Cricket Club 09:10 (Richard Francis); Field End RG - 3 Greenfinch, Green Woodpecker, Fieldfare, 2 Song Thrush (Tim Rymer)
 * Erith Reach: foreshore - incl. 1 Avocet, 15 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Curlew, 4 Gadwall, a Grey Wagtail, a Rock Pipit, 36 Redshank and 70+ Teal (Mike Robinson) Little Egret and Lapwing (Charlie Clark)
 * Fairlop Waters: Woodcock, Stonechat, Common Buzzard (Joe and Alexander Dickens)
 * Greenwich Park: 2 Sparrowhawk m f (Ray Crouch)
 * Gunpowder Park: area - c25 Lapwing in field opp main entrance (Tony Brown via Twitter)
 * Hampstead Garden Suburb: Sheridan Walk - 2 Lapwings E 0945 and Peregrine W 1013 (Pete Mantle)
 * Hampstead Heath: 200+ Redwing feeding around bandstand, 5 Egyptian Goose on ponds, pair Great Crested Grebe on Men's Swimming pond, male Siskin with 5 Goldfinch, 7 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Green Woodpecker, 2 Coal Tit on feeders, Nuthatch on feeders Bird Sanctuary Pond (Allan Stewart)
 * Hilly Fields: c40 Redwing (Tom Moulton)
 * Holmethorpe SPs: pr Ruddy Shelduck Water Colour lagoons am (Gordon Hay per Dave Harris via Twitter)
 * Hook: Little Egret flew low across back garden (Nigel Jackman) TQ179653
 * Lee Valley, Friday Lake: red-head Smew (Mike Oakland)
 * Lee Valley, Holyfield Lake: Oystercatcher, Marsh Tit (Mike Oakland)
 * Little Britain Lake, Cowley, Uxbridge: 5 Mandarin Duck 3m 2f, 6 Red Kite together, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Little Egret, c18 Grey Heron c9 occupied nests, Shoveler, Gadwall (Roger Dewey)
 * London Wetland Centre: 3 Bittern, 2 Jack Snipe, 175 Lapwing, Curlew, Dunlin, 8 Pintail, 3 Shelduck including 2 looking in new Shelduck_box on wader scrape, 5 Siskin, 11 Redwing, 6 Fieldfare, Yellow-legged Gull (WWT website/Simon Fogg)
 * Olympic Park: 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Egyptian Goose, 2 Gadwall (Marcin Kempa)
 * Pinner (The Croft): flock of 20+ Goldfinch feeding in trees by play area (Nigel Barratt)
 * Rainham Marshes RSPB: 6+ Redshank, 16+ Shelduck, 5 Pintail, 6 Golden Plover, 5 Common Snipe, 40+ Dunlin, 14+ Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Stonechat, 3-4 Meadow Pipit, Skylark, 2 Marsh Harrier, 1 Fieldfare, 2 Curlew and a Kestrel (Jack Headley via Twitter); Pink-footed Goose [Ldn foy] (Andy Tweed per ELBF FB); ad Mediterranean Gull (per ELBF FB)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon - Sat. Park only in visitor bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Richmond Park: several dozen Redwing, Tawny Owl, Red Kite, Stonechat 2m 2f, 2 Kestrel, Shoveler pr, Gadwall pr, Great Crested Grebe, Song Thrush, Woodcock (P. Redmond)
 * Ruislip Woods: 10 Hawfinch down from Wiltshire Lane entrance 10:10 (Richard Francis)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: Pattypool Mead - Ruff feeding on edge of flooded area at 08:00 (Martin Shepherd)
 * Staines Moor: R.Colne from A30 to 2nd bridge - 1 Water Pipit, 4 Dunlin 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Redshank, 2 Common Snipe, 2 Wigeon, 2 Teal 07:45-09:15 (Alastair Dent); 5 Buzzard, 2 Red Kite, 1 Chiffchaff (Peter Carlill); also Little Egret, 3 Red Kite, 40 Lapwing, 2 Stonechat, Grey Wagtail (Robert Martin via Twitter)
 * Staines Reservoir: s basin - Black-necked Grebe; n basin - m Scaup, Oystercatcher, 3 Dunlin, Redshank (Dom Pia via Twitter)
 * Stocker's Lake: 2 red-head Smew still present - view from the screen or from shoveler_hide (John Edwards)
 * Surbiton Filter Beds: 3 Gadwall, 9 Lapwing, 2 Shoveler, 2 Wigeon (Nigel Jackman)
 * Telegraph Hill Park, New Coss: 27 Redwing, 2 Chaffinch m f, 30+ House Sparrow (Keith Chambers)
 * Tooting Bec Common: Bedford Wood - 1 Treecreeper, 1 Nuthatch, 30+ Redwing (Nick Moll); 1 Little Owl (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: Firecrest male and 2 Coal Tit Horse Chestnut Glade 0800, 5+ Goldcrest, 12 Goldfinch (Bob Watts)
 * Town Park, Enfield: 3 Shoveler 2m 1f, 7 Tufted Duck 4m 3f, 46 Black-headed Gull, imm Herring Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 61 Redwing (Robert Callf)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs and Willows Farm: main gp - Dunlin, 3 Green Sandpiper, Caspian Gull 2w late-pm, 142 Lesser Black-backed Gull, m Stonechat; fishing lake - Oystercatcher; willows fm - 2 Red Kite, 4 Buzzard, Little Owl (TyttGP twitter)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: male Stonechat, 2 Water Rail (Richard Hack)
 * Walthamstow Wetlands: LITTLE BUNTING still around seed tray with Reed Buntings & Linnets, Knot, Redshank, Dunlin and Green Sandpiper on Lockwood pm, Buzzard over (Terry Rawlings, David Bradshaw, Lol Bodini); Serin seen briefly from LB viewing spot in tree with Linnets, Peregrine (James Hudson)
 * Wanstead Flats: 5 Skylark, 2 Meadow Pipit, Stonechat, 7 Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Stock Dove, Goldcrest, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon, 6 Shoveler, Gadwall, 400+ Common Gull, 100+ Black-headed Gull, 15+ Herring Gull, 15 Greenfinch, 2 Reed Bunting (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park: Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 90+ Redwing, 50+ Fieldfare, 3 Mistle Thrush, 6 Song Thrush, 2 Goldcrest, Treecreeper, Nuthatch, Coal Tit, Little Grebe, 2 Pochard, 20+ Shoveler, 5 Teal, 9 Stock Dove, Kingfisher (Nick Croft)
 * Weald CP: Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 4 Buzzard, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Green Woodpecker, 6 Treecreeper, 2 Nuthatch, 15 Siskin, 10 Chaffinch, Greenfinch, 15 Goldfinch, Water Rail, 4 Moorhen, 2 Coot, 2 Coal Tit, 10 Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush, 8 Song Thrush (Martin Jordan per ELBF FB)
 * Whitewebbs Golf Course: Mediterranean Gull 1st-winter 09:43-09:47 (Robert Callf)
 * Whitewebbs Park: 3 Treecreeper, 2 Hawfinch perched together, possibly a third seen briefly in flight 08:15 (Robert Callf)
 * Wimbledon Common: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 1 seen drumming 06:45 adjacent to Inner Windmill Rd, before being moved on by a Great Spotted Woodpecker (Les and Angela Evans-Hill)
 * Wimbledon Village: Blackcap f, Firecrest (Hugh Nicholson)
 * Winchmore Hill: The Green, N21 - 10 Redwing (Robert Callf)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Dunlin, Snipe, 6+ Teal, 2 Shelduck, Great Black-backed Gull, 2+ Reed Bunting (Chris Farthing)

Sunday 4th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Gadwall drake southern end of Wood Green Res - 1st since Autumn 2016, 90+ Redwing, 25+ Fieldfare (Bob Watts)
 * Amwell NR: 2rh Smew still Gt Hardmead L south edge 1000 (Murray Orchard via Twitter); Raven over viewpt (per Herts BN)
 * Beddington Farmlands: 1 Ruff, 1+ Golden Plover, 1 Mediterranean Gull, 2+ Dunlin, 3+ Water Pipit, 2 Stonechat, 20 Redwing, 50+ Fieldfare, 45+ Snipe, Little Egret, 30+ Meadow Pipit, 4 Wigeon, 60+ Lapwing, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Kestrel, Common Buzzard, 2 Song Thrush, 12 Shelduck, 2 Skylark, 20+ Linnet, 3 Reed Bunting, Water Rail the highlights of LNHS walk this morning (Arjun Dutta)
 * Borehamwood: 53 Fieldfare on Habs playing field (Alan Lewis).
 * Brent Reservoir: Dunlin on mud, 18 Snipe, 3 Lapwing, 130+ Tufted Duck, 32 Pochard, 2 Shelduck, Pintail, 4 Cetti's Warbler, 120 Redwing, 30 Fieldfare, 4 Siskin, 3 Redpoll (Andrew Self, Roy Beddard)
 * Brockwell Park: 120 Redwing, 2 Fieldfare, 2 Mistle Thrush, 3 Chaffinch, 1 Little Grebe upper pond (Matthew J. Bradbury)
 * Brookmill Park: 2 Kingfisher, 10 Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * Bow Creek: 39 Redshank, 2 Common Sandpiper (Dante Shepherd)
 * Bushy Park: 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, 4 Mistle Thrush, 60+ Redwing, Reed Bunting, Song Thrush, 2 Stonechat (Ian R Watson)
 * Crossness: Cormorant, 30 Shelduck, 4 Wigeon, Gadwall, 50 Teal, Mallard, 1 male Pintail, 30 Shoveler, 30 Lapwing, 400 Dunlin, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Curlew, 2 Skylark, 4 Pied Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler (George Kalli)
 * Enfield Lock: Cetti's Warbler singing at 09:00 in Government Row garden (Martin Shepherd)
 * Enfield Town: Red Kite circling 12:00 (Robert Callf)
 * Erith-Church Manorway: 2 Cormorant, 20 Shelduck, Gadwall, 20 Teal, Mallard, 1 Oystercatcher, 2 Avocet,100 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Curlew, 15 Redshank,1 Meadow Pipit, 1 Rock Pipit, Pied Wagtail, 1 Stonechat, 8 Fieldfare, 6 Redwing, 1 Mistle Thrush, 3 Long-tailed Tit, Goldfinch, 6 Linnet (George Kalli)
 * Fairlop Waters: No sign of Great Northern Diver, but Caspian Gull 2w perched on boats, 1 Dunlin on main island, 3 Pintail, Snipe & Little Owl seen (J.Murray)
 * Finchley: garden N3 - m Blackcap (Samuel Levy)
 * Garden Wood: 20 Hawfinch (TyttGP twitter)
 * Greenford Bridge to Hanwell Lodge (River Brent): 12 Teal, m Mandarin, Red Kite, f Sparrowhawk, 4 Stock Dove, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker chasing each other over field, 3 Green Woodpecker heard, Grey Wagtail, 2 Goldcrest, 113 Redwing 73 Churchfield Rec Ground, 8 Fieldfare golf course, 6 Mistle Thrush 4 Churchfield, 4 Greenfinch (Neil Anderson)
 * Greenway: Kestrel, 12 Fieldfare over, 40+ Redwing, 2 Goldcrest, 16 Linnet, 2 Teal [site first] (Harry Harrison)
 * Greenwich Peninsular: 1 Dunlin, 4 Gadwall, 4 Yellow-legged Gull (Dante Shepherd)
 * Hogsmill River: 1 Little Egret on Tolworth Court Farm side (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Isle of Dogs: Yellow-legged Gull 2cy on Thames shore at Masthouse Terrace Pier (Sean Huggins)
 * Gunpowder Park: 4 Common Snipe, 86 Fieldfare, 35 Redwing, 11 Skylark, 17 Meadow Pipit, Kestrel, 13 Lapwing over NE, Water Rail on River Lea relief channel (Martin Shepherd)
 * Guy Lodge Farm: 11 Northern Lapwing on field 08:45 (Robert Callf)
 * Hilfield Park Reservoir: Aythya hybrid - much like male Ferruginous Duck but yellowy eye and flanks contrasting with breast suggest not pure. In south east corner of res - viewable from Hogg Lane viewing platform, with 4 Pochard, Common Scoter 1f still, 2 Dunlin flew E 12pm, 15 Fieldfare N (Tony Blake)
 * Hilly Fields Park, Enfield: female Lesser Spotted Woodpecker singing (Robert Callf)
 * Hollow Pond: 2 Redpoll (Phil Aylen via Twitter)
 * KGV Res: 15 Shoveler, 30 Gadwall, 5 Wigeon, 50+ Teal, 3 Scaup, 23 Goldeneye, Smew, 4 Goosander, 4 Little Egret, Oystercatcher, 23 Lapwing, Grey Plover, 2 Ruff, 22 Dunlin, 3 Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 3 Skylark, Chiffchaff, Mistle Thrush, 3 Grey Wagtail, 12 Meadow Pipit, 40 Linnet, Reed Bunting (Neville Smith via Twitter)
 * Ladywell Fields: 28 Black-headed Gull on football pitches, Green Woodpecker, Kingfisher, 3 Fieldfare, 5 Redwing, Mistle Thrush, 3 Song Thrush singing, c50 Goldfinch with Chaffinch m in one flock, Grey Wagtail 16.15-17.30 (Keith Chambers); 2 Snipe by R Ravensbourne am (Chris White via Twitter)
 * Lamorbey Park: Song Thrush, Nuthatch, Goldcrest (Mike Amos); Egyptian Goose, 16 Teal, 2 Little Grebe, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, 20+ Fieldfare, 10+ Redwing, 6+ Goldcrest, Nuthatch, Jay, 2 Jackdaw (Ian Stewart)
 * London Wetland Centre: 3 Bittern, 28 Fieldfare, 4 Redwing, 7 Pintail, 4 Shelduck, Kingfisher, 3 Water Rail,  3 Jack Snipe, Dunlin, Goldeneye (WWT website); 1 Curlew low over Dulverton Hide at 1530 (Keith Bates)
 * Lonsdale Road Reservoir (St Paul's Playing Fields): c85 Fieldfare, 65 Redwing (David Jeffreys)
 * Millfields E5: Peregrine on the sub-station pylon at 17:30 (Alastair Dent)
 * Morden Hall Park: Lapwing, Kingfisher (MHP NG twitter)
 * Mudchute Farm: 34 Redwing, 2 Fieldfare, 2 Great Spotted Woodpeckers 1 drumming, Goldcrest singing (Sean Huggins)
 * Osterley Park: 7 Common Gull, 2 Egyptian Goose, 2 Fieldfare, 3 Grey Heron, 20+ Jackdaw, Little Owl, 2 Mistle Thrush, Pied Wagtail, 70+ Redwing, 58+ Ring-necked Parakeet, 9 Shoveler, 5 Stock Dove (Richard Woolley).
 * Purfleet: 1 Dark-bellied Brent Goose, ad m Marsh Harrier, 27 Avocet, 1 Oystercatcher, 3 Grey Plover, 128 Lapwing, 7 Curlew, 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, 51 Black-tailed Godwit, 671 Dunlin, ad Mediterranean Gull, 52 Fieldfare (Fraser Simpson)
 * Putney Heath: 1 Woodcock Ladies Mile, 3 Greylag Geese, 20 Fieldfare and 30 Redwing (Adrian Podmore); possibly the same Woodcock E along Jubilee Ride/Capital Ring c10am (Les Evans-Hill)
 * Ravenor Park: Sparrowhawk, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker calling, 40+ Redwing uttering sub-song from tall poplars, singing Goldcrest (Neil Anderson)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues, 1 Lesser Redpoll fem early am. No parking charges on Sundays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Ruislip Woods NNR and Ruislip Lido: Park Wood - 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker lots of drumming heard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 3 Stock Doves, 6 Redwing, 4 Ring-necked Parakeet, 2 Long-tailed Tit (Nigel Barratt); 30+ Hawfinch located on map marked with stars 9:05-10:10 (Richard Francis); Dunlin still at lido (Kabir Kaul via Twitter)
 * Sevenoaks WR: Shelduck, 20 Shoveler, 3 Pintail 2m f, 31 Pochard, 9 Little Grebe, 22 Great Crested Grebe, Black-necked Grebe still, Sparrowhawk, Red Kite, Water Rail, Black-tailed Godwit, 7 Snipe, 2 Coal Tit, Nuthatch, 20 Starling, 100 Fieldfare, 90 Redwing, 21 Goldfinch, 90 Siskin (per Susanna Clerici via Kent OS)
 * Sidcup: Lamorbey DA15 - c20 Fieldfare, Sparrowhawk W, adult Lesser Black-backed Gull E with c10 Herring Gulls (Mike Amos)
 * Springwell Lake: Great Egret still early-am but elusive (Paul Lewis via Twitter); 6 Goldeneye (Lee Evans via Twitter)
 * Staines Reservoir: Black-necked Grebe s/p, 3 Dunlin, AMERICAN HORNED LARK still mid-causeway south bank (Max Hellicar via Twitter); also Scaup, 2 Oystercatcher (per Dom Pia via Twitter)
 * Stocker's Lake: 2 rh Smew 1500 (Lee Evans via Twitter)
 * Thames Lambeth-Chelsea Bridges: 12 Gadwall, Dunlin E, 2 Caspian Gull 2cy 4cy, 2 Yellow-legged Gull ad 2cy, 30 Goldfinch (N P Senior)
 * Thames Barrier Park: 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Curlew upriver 12:22, 4 Lapwing upriver, 1 Mediterranean Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Rock Pipit (Dante Shepherd)
 * Tottenham Marshes: 2 Teal on River Lea, several Goldcrest.14:00 (Dave Nichols)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: Woodcock flushed from 'owl'_field, Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, 9 Teal, c55 Fieldfare, c35 Redwing, 5 Siskin (John Colmans); 4 Hawfinch, Bullfinch, Meadow Pipit, Common Buzzard, House Sparrow, 80 Common Gull, 2 Rook (Simon Worsfold); Belmont Farm - 2 Greylag & 3 'farmyards', 45 Canada Geese, 7 Mandarin Duck, Sparrowhawk, 19 Stock Dove, 2 Collared Dove, Tawny Owl, Monk Parakeet of unknown origin came in with a flock of Ring-necked Parakeets to roost 16:22, Nuthatch, f/1stw Black Redstart on farm buildings at opening then flew to lambing shed, 27 Fieldfare, 134 Redwing, 9 Starling, 2 Grey Wagtail, Hawfinch perched briefly by show pens then flew E towards Darlands 12:15 (Samuel Levy)
 * Teddington: Blackcap in tree (Mike Foster)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs and Willows Farm: main gp - 3 Red Kite, Water Rail, Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Caspian Gull 2w still, 3 Lesser Redpoll; fishing lake - Little Egret, Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper; tytt'r fm - 8 Tree Sparrow; willows fm - 2 Little Owl, 60+ Linnet (TyttGP twitter)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: c80 Fieldfare and c60 Redwing on the paddocks, 1 Stonechat f on Leyton Marsh 10:00-11:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Walthamstow Wetlands: LITTLE BUNTING showing well by seed tray at 13:00 with Reed Buntings for 5 minutes, male Scaup and 4+ Goldeneye, 3 Shelduck over (Allan Stewart); c30 Linnets and one Redwing, 2 Goldcrest 15:00 (Dave Nichols); Redshank, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper and 7 Lapwing around Lockwood (David Bradshaw, Lol Bodini); also 6 Goldeneye (Mark Bravery via Twitter)
 * Wanstead Flats: 6 Skylark, 77 Fieldfare, 20 Meadow Pipit, Linnet, Stonechat (James Heal via Twitter)
 * Wanstead Park: 2 Water Rail, Woodcock, Common Snipe, 25 Fieldfare, 60 Redwing, Siskin (Wanstead Birders); also Sparrowhawk, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Coal Tit, 45 Fieldfare, 5 Chaffinch (James Heal via Twitter)
 * Whitewebbs Farm: Hawfinch perched up in tree (Robert Callf)
 * Whitewebbs Park: 28 Mandarin Duck 17m 11f ornamental pond, 2 Common Buzzard pr displaying overhead, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch, 3 Treecreeper incl two singing males (Robert Callf)
 * Wimbledon Common: 1 Skylark, 1 Reed Bunting female, 2 Meadow Pipits on the Plain (Adrian Podmore); presumed same Skylark as Adrian plus 1f Sparrowhawk, 1f Kestrel, 2 Snipe [AEH] on the Plain (Les and Angela Evans-Hill)
 * Worcester Park: Garden KT4- 1f Blackcap in hedge, first female since the autumn (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Wormwood Scrubs: m Stonechat still (Paul Thomas via Twitter)

Saturday 3rd March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Dunlin 0950 [Bob Watts] for a few minutes working its way along east bank of Wood Green Res at water's edge flying between rocks and bank [2nd record this century], also 60 Fieldfare, 15+ Redwing, 56 Tufted Duck, 11 Pochard, 1-2 Treecreeper (APOG Birders)
 * Belvedere Nuxley Road: 40 Redwing (Sarah Barry)
 * Bow Creek: 30 Redshank and 2 Common Sandpiper in the roost, c30 Teal, Peregrine, Kestrel (Frank Nugent)
 * Brent Reservoir: 2 drake Shelduck, drake Pintail Main Hide, 4 Dunlin, 7 Common Snipe, 2 Egyptian Goose, 20+ Fieldfare, 40+ Redwing, 3 Water Rail seen, 3 Cetti’s Warbler, Meadow Pipit, Reed Bunting, lots of Woodcock tracks in the snow again, Nuthatch, Woodcock flushed on south bank 14:55 (Brent Birders)
 * Brookmill Park: 2 Teal, Kingfisher, Fieldfare, 5 Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * Bushy Park: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker calling in Woodland Gardens adjacent to Dukes Head Passage (Gordon Shaw); 100 Redwing near SHAEF memorial (Mike Foster)
 * Bushy Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, 2 Kestrel, 25+ Meadow Pipit, 2 Redwing (Ian R Watson)
 * Chinbrook Meadows: Common Snipe, 8 Redwing (David Slater)
 * Colliers Wood: 1 Snipe riverside towards Plough Lane, 1 Fieldfare (Keith Bates) WMNP site recorded separately below [KB]
 * Cowley, Uxbridge: 1 male Blackcap in garden eating fatballs.(Roger Dewey)
 * Crossness: 3 Avocet, 2 Grey Plover, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, 500 Dunlin, drake Pintail, 12 Wigeon, 54 Shoveler, 69 Fieldfare, Skylark, male Black Redstart (Dante Shepherd, Richard Bonser)
 * Dulwich SG: 60+ Fieldfare (Harry Rutherford via Twitter) TQ328735
 * Ealing: garden W13 - Song Thrush in garden [very rare as a garden bird] briefly before being chased off by Blackbirds, 7 Woodpigeon [garden record], 3 Redwing in front garden yesterday (Bill Haines)
 * East India Dock: 9 Redshank on the island which later relocated to Bow Creek, 15 Shelduck, Little Egret, 13 Teal, Cetti's Warbler. 2 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing and 3 House Sparrow in the copse (Frank Nugent)
 * Fairlop Waters: 1 Great Northern Diver, Caspian Gull 2w, 1 Woodcock, 3 Pintail, 1 m Sparrowhawk, 20 Pochard, 32 Teal, 3 Shelduck, 15 Tufted Duck, 23 Shoveler (Steve Bacon)
 * Figges Marsh: adult Mediterranean Gull, 85+ Common Gull, adult Herring Gull, 9 Fieldfare (James Hudson) [new site for LNHS gazetteer TQ280699]
 * Finchley: garden N3 - m Blackcap, Starling, Mistle Thrush, 10 Redwing, 2 Fieldfare, Song Thrush (Samuel Levy)
 * Footscray Meadows: 2 Little Grebe, 2 Little Egret, 2 Mute Swan, 2-3 Egyptian Goose, 4+ Tuftied Duck, Water Rail, 2+ Lapwing over, 2 Common Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Kingfisher, Green Woodpecker, 2+ Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming, Fieldfare, 2 Song Thrush, 6 Redwing, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Jay, 4+ Jackdaw, Greenfinch, 2 Goldfinch; no sign of the Jack Snipe or other cold weather movements in thorough search 10:00AM -14:00PM (Mike Amos)
 * Forty Hall CP, Enfield: Little Egret along Turkey Brook (Robert Callf)
 * Fulham Reach: 2 Dunlin 9.30am by Hammersmith Bridge (Nathalie Mahieu, John Boorman)
 * Garden Wood: Hawfinch, Redpoll (TyttGP twitter)
 * Guy Lodge Farm: 2 Mediterranean Gull 2nd-winter 14:48-15:15 hrs & 1st-winter 16:06-16:15 hrs in pig field viewed from Whitewebbs Lane, 100-200 Common Gull including many immatures, adult Black-headed Gull wearing yellow darvic ring (Robert Callf)
 * Hackney Marshes: c20 Redwing and c20 Fieldfare over at 11:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Higham's Park Lake: Firecrest, 4 Goldcrest, Coal Tit, 20 Shoveler, pr Gadwall, c20 Fieldfare, c50 Redwing (Joe Dickens)
 * Hogsmill Open Space: 1+ Common Snipe, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Grey Wagtail, 1-2 Little Egret and 10+ Fieldfare with Redwings (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Ingrebourne Valley: 2 Grey Partridge, 2 Dunlin reservoir ice, Jack Snipe, Woodcock (Shaun Harvey/Paul Hawkins et al via Twitter)
 * Isle of Dogs: Thames Ferry St to Millennium Dr - Shelduck, Teal, 7 Great Crested Grebes, 135 Fieldfare N, Meadow Pipit, 3 Redwings; Goldcrest singing East Ferry Road (Sean Huggins)
 * Islington N1: 40+ Redwing, Fieldfare, Mistle Thrush, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Goldfinch, 5 Long-tailed Tit in St Paul's Park (Allan Stewart)
 * Kentish Town: 4 Fieldfare, 10 Redwing, 3 Siskin, 1 Blackcap feeding at Sanderson Close; nixed flock of Fieldfare and Redwing c20 birds feeding on small tree opposite Fire Station on Highgate Road (Frank Nugent).
 * Lamorbey Park: Egyptian Goose, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, 12+ Fieldfare, 20+ Redwing, 5 Jackdaw, Siskin (Ian Stewart)
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 Bittern, Goldeneye, Dunlin, 9 Pintail (Shailesh Patel); 2 Bittern - N shore of lake, 2 Dunlin, 520+ Herring Gull - far more than usual and no sign of the large dark-bodied pale-headed Herring type seen yesterday (J.Wilczur, S.Woolfenden, P.Pentek); 4 Dunlin on sheltered lagoon feeding at the edge of the ice [one with some dark belly markings from yesterday not present], 1 ad Yellow-legged Gull, 20 Fieldfare on E bund, 4+ Redwing, one colour-ringed Herring Gull, 4+ Water Rail seen by others (Martin Honey, Angus Innes, Wendy Newnham etc.) HGull recovery map
 * Mad Bess Woods: 8 Hawfinch in vicinity of Scout field 09:45 (Richard Francis)
 * Margravine Cemetery: 2 Fieldfare, 2 Mistle Thrush, 35+ Redwing (Nathalie Mahieu, John Boorman)
 * Mudchute Farm: 7 Fieldfares, 25 Redwing, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Sean Huggins)
 * Northolt & Greenford CP: 6 Egyptian Geese, 6 Fieldfare low W, 10 Redwing, Goldcrest, 3 Greenfinch (Neil Anderson)
 * Pimlico Gardens: Great Crested Grebe downriver, 140 Cormorant, 2 Yellow-legged Gull 2cy, 8 Fieldfare W (N P Senior)
 * Pinner: 4 Song Thrush, 1 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing and 12+ Blackbird on lawn, 1 very aggressive female Blackcap guarding feeders (Richard Francis)
 * Purfleet: 8 Pintail, 19 Avocet, 10 Oystercatcher, 4 Grey Plover, 4 Bar-tailed Godwit, 49 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Knot, 647 Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Peregrine, 1 Rock Pipit (Fraser Simpson)
 * Putney Heath: 3 Common Gull Kingsmere (Les Evans-Hill)
 * Rainham Marshes: 40+ Pintail, 400+ Wigeon, 4+ Marsh Harrier, 7 Oystercatcher, 6+ Avocet, Ringed Plover, 9-10 Grey Plover, Sanderling on frozen Target Pool, 450+ Dunlin, Ruff, 120+ Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, 4 Curlew, Barn Owl, 2 male Bearded Tit, Cetti's Warbler, 30+ Fieldfare, 4 Stonechat, 300+ Starling, 1-2 Water Pipit, 8+ Rock Pipit (Simon Papps and Simon Satchell); foreshore - 2 Grey Plover, Bar-tailed Godwit, Knot, 2 Ruff, 8 Jack Snipe, 4 Little Gull, 2 Water Pipit (Howard Vaughan via Twitter)
 * Ravenor Park: Stock Dove [my first ever in park living 20 years here though K Bull thought she saw one a couple of weeks back], 5 Redwing (Neil Anderson)
 * Ruislip Woods NNR and Ruislip Lido: 9+ Hawfinch 3+ Fore St area 10:10 & 3+ down from Wiltshire Ln 10:00 & 3+ in woods up from Poors Field close to Waters Meet cafe 09:25 (Richard Francis); 6 Hawfinch at Wiltshire Ln area 12:40-13:00 (John & Janet Cadera); 3 Dunlin at lido (Alex Liddle via Twitter)
 * Russia Dock Woodland: Woodcock flushed in from undergrowth near entrance to Stave Hill 8.45am (Richard Bonser)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: incl Dunlin fr gadwall_hide (RSPB twitter)
 * St Paul's Cray (The Brook): 2 Kingfisher, 1 Little Egret, 1 Goldcrest, Fieldfare and Redwing (Jack Headley via Twitter)
 * Sevenoaks WR: Shelduck, 3 Pintail 2m f, Black-necked Grebe still, Sparrowhawk, Dunlin, 20 Fieldfare, 25 Redwing, 3 Redpoll, 100 Siskin (per Susanna Clerici via Kent OS)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: incl relief channel - 40+ Gadwall, 40+ Teal, 4 Goosander, Little Egret, 3 Water Rail, 27+ Lapwing, Ruff, 5 Dunlin, 6 Snipe, Stonechat, Meadow Pipit, Siskin (Neville Smith via Twitter)
 * Sidcup (Wyncham Stream & River Shuttle): 2 Little Egret, Green Sandpiper still near Annandale Rd but not usually visible from road, 3+ Snipe, Kingfisher, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2+ Fieldfare, 20+ Redwing, Coal Tit; also in vicinity 20+ Redwing and 20+ Fieldfare on uncovered grass at King Georges Park, 3 Fieldfare and a Mistle Thrush in my garden (Ian Stewart);
 * Staines Moor: 9 Dunlin still (per Lee Dingain via Twitter)
 * Staines Reservoir: AMERICAN HORNED LARK still W end of causeway, 1 Red Kite over, 3 Dunlin, also 1 Fieldfare on causeway (Billy Dykes); m Scaup n basin, ad Mediterranean Gull (Dom Pia via Twitter)
 * Stave Hill: 8 Fieldfare, 30+ Redwing (Richard Bonser)
 * Streatham Common: 15 Redwing, 5 Fieldfare (OSL) [full name pls?]
 * Ten Acre Wood area: Peregrine, Snipe, 50+ Meadow Pipit, 16 Fieldfare, Red Kite, 3 Skylark (Deiniol Owen)
 * Thamesmead: Caspian Gull 2nd-winter or German muck coming to bread on ice at Thamesmere late morning, also Croatian-ringed Black-headed Gull (Richard Bonser, Dante Shepherd)
 * Tooting Commons: Firecrest c50yd in from Tooting Bec Rd east of railway track w/ a few Goldcrest, 20 Redwing on common (Ian McDonald via Twitter)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs and Willows Farm: main gp - Caspian Gull 2w; fishing lake - Little Grebe, Dunlin, 6+ Snipe; tytt'r fm - 7 Tree Sparrow; willow fm - c1000 Woodpigeon, Little Owl (TyttGP twitter)
 * Upminster: c15 Fieldfares in our garden holly bush
 * Wandle Meadow Nature Park: 1 Snipe broken up ice minor pond, 3 Redwing, 2 Coot very unusual here (Keith Bates); also 2 Lapwing still, Fieldfare, 12+ Redwing (Mark Bravery via Twitter)
 * Wanstead Flats: Woodcock & Stonechat cat & dog pond (Tony Brown & Rob Sheldon via Twitter/blog)
 * Wanstead Park: Hawfinch temple/chalet wd (Tony Brown via Twitter/blog)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Red-crested Pochard, 3 Snipe, 3 Lesser Redpoll, 3 Teal, 2 Shelduck, 18 Fieldfare (Chris Farthing)
 * Worcester Park: 10 Fieldfare, 1 Lapwing on horse fields (Bob Smith)

Friday 2nd March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: 52 Tufted Duck, 11 Pochard, 15+ Redwing, Fieldfare, no sign Shoveler (Bob Watts)
 * Amwell NR: Gt Hardmead L - 13 Pintail 7m 6f, 2 Smew, Dunlin (per Herts BN)
 * Battersea Park Lake: Lapwing on ice near Hepworth Sculpture at midday, 27 Shoveler, 9 Mallard, 7 Tufted Duck, no Gadwall 1st time ever but 80 per cent ice, 3 Great Crested Grebes, 8 Common, 10 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 150 Black-headed Gulls, f Sparrowhawk, 30 Grey Heron 15 nests down 50 per cent in 10 years 1 dead hanging near a nest perhaps caught by fishing line (Michael Mac)
 * Beddington Farmlands: 1 Ruff, 3 Golden Plover, 100+ Lapwing, 3 Jack Snipe, 7 Shelduck, 2 Dartford Warbler, 1 Peregrine (BFBG, Peter Alfrey)
 * Brent Reservoir: Drake Pintail by rafts, 1 Lapwing E, 25 Fieldfare, 8 Redwing, 3 Water Rail seen together, 2 ad Great Black-backed Gull, Cetti’s Warbler, Norwegian-ringed Black-headed Gull, lots of Woodcock tracks in the snow around the reserve (Magnus Andersson, Andrew Verrall)
 * Brockwell Park: 1 Fieldfare, 9 House Sparrow, 15 Starling. Pond (50% frozen over): 159 Black-headed Gull, 5 Common Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull (Tony Stones).
 * Brookmill Park: 3 Teal, 15 Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * Collier Row: 1 Redwing in garden at 8:45 (G J Francis)
 * Cornmill Meadows: Grey Plover NNE at 10:50 (Martin Shepherd)
 * Cowley: gdn in Church Rd - Woodcock photographed on trail camera 13.37 (Alex Randall)
 * Crossness: 200 Teal, 40 Shoveler, 20 Gadwall, 3 Wigeon, 5 Lapwing, 2 Knot, 200 Dunlin, 5 Redshank, 4 Common Snipe, 1 Black-tailed Godwit (Conrad Ellam)
 * Finchley: garden N3 - m Blackcap, 3 Stock Dove 15-20 Greenfinch, 20-25 Chaffinch, Redwing (Samuel Levy)
 * Foots Cray Meadows: Jack Snipe between Five Arches Bridge and Public Footbridge near playground, also 4 Little Grebe, 3 Little Egret, 4-5 Teal, 2 Shoveler, 8+ Common Snipe, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Canada Goose, 2 Egyptian Goose, 1 Grey Wagtail, 4+ Common Gull, 2 Mute Swan and Green Woodpecker (Jack Headley via Twitter); Woodcock flew from Riverside Road pumping station area, 5 Snipe, Jack Snipe showed very well staying perfectly still in Cray just W of playground c13.30, 3 Egyptian Geese, 2-3 Gadwall, 2-4 Shoveler including a pair initially on Cray E of Five Arches, 6+ Tufted Duck, 3 Little Grebe, 2 Little Egret, 2 Water Rail, Kingfisher, Skylark, Grey Wagtail, Cetti’s Warbler showed well at lake prob 2nd bird seen by Jack, Goldcrest, Jay (Ian Stewart)
 * Gallions Reach: Buzzard, 16 Lapwing, Ringed Plover, Curlew, 9 Black-tailed Godwit, Jack Snipe, 14 Snipe, Dunlin, 33 Redshank, 4 Chiffchaff, Stonechat, Rock Pipit, 2 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper (Dave Morrison via Twitter)
 * Garden Wood: 5+ Hawfinch still (per TyttGP twitter)
 * Greenford: 2 Fieldfare, 1 Redwing, 1 Song Thrush and 3 Blackbirds in back garden, also Coal Tit on feeders (David Pierrepont)
 * Greenwich Ecology Park: 2 Little Grebe, Water Rail, 2 Common Snipe, Grey Wagtail, 40 Goldfinch; 2 Teal & 3 Lapwing on Thames foreshore (John Bushell); 5 Common Snipe, Jack Snipe (Pat Lipsombe)
 * Greenwich Peninsular: 1 adult Little Gull upriver 15:05, 2 Dunlin, 1 Snipe, 5 Lapwing, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Shelduck, 1 Shoveler, 5 Wigeon, 12 Gadwall, 1 Rock Pipit (Dante Shepherd, Samuel Levy) LG pic here
 * Gunpowder Park: Golden Plover on ploughed area at 12:05 (Martin Shepherd)
 * Hogsmill Open Space: 1 Water Rail, 3+ Common Snipe, 1 Little Egret, 1 Grey Wagtail and only 3+ Redwings (Isaiah Rowe)
 * King George V Reservoir: 1 Lapwing south along flood relief channel 16.20, Goosander pair on channel, Kestrel, Redwing, Fieldfare through and over all day in small bands including 25 birds south at 16.45 (Christopher Wright)
 * Ladywell Fields: Common Snipe feeding in river near hospital, Fieldfare, 6 Redwing, Song Thrush, Black Redstart on rocks by bridge across to hospital, 41 Goldfinch in a flock of 35 and another of 6 15.00-17.00 (Keith Chambers)
 * Lamorbey Park: drake Gadwall, 5+ Teal, Fieldfare (Mike Amos); 8 Teal lower lake with the Gadwall, Pied Wagtail, Redwing, Fieldfare, Nuthatch (Ian Stewart)
 * Leyton, Jubilee Park: 3 Common Snipe, 10+ Teal, Grey Wagtail, Goldcrest, Kestrel, 25+ Redwing, 5 Fieldfare, Song Thrush, Lapwing over south (JW Davies)
 * London Wetland Centre: Mediterranean Gull ad - full hood, Yellow-legged Gull 2cy, 3 Dunlin still (J.Wilczur); at one stage one of the Dunlin was on the grass less than 2 feet in front of Dulverton hide window, plus 3 Pintail 2m f [main lake and reservoir lagoon] and a Robin in Peacock hide sheltering from the weather (Martin Honey & P. Knox)
 * Lower Morden: 2 Little Egrets on Pyl Brook (Bob Smith)
 * Mayflower Park Wetlands: 2 Reed Buntings and 1 Little Egret over, presumably same individual on brook (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Mill Hill: 2 Fieldfare in garden NW7 (S Blake)
 * Millwall Docks: Pochard, 55 Tufted Ducks (Sean Huggins)
 * Pinner (The Croft Park) 15+ Goldfinch 2 Long tailed Tit 2 Coal Tit
 * Redbridge: 2 Fieldfare in Avondale Cresc IG4 at 1700 a first for me in this location (Malcolm Hibberd)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon-Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * St Paul's Cray: 3 Lapwing over Normanhurst Road and Common Snipe down the Brook (Jack Headley Via Twitter)
 * Sevenoaks WR: Shelduck, 3 Pintail, Black-necked Grebe still, Dunlin, 2 Great Black-backed Gull (Matthew Bournat via Twitter)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: incl relief channel - f Sparrowhawk, 3 Shoveler, 50+ Gadwall, 7 Wigeon, 50+ Teal, 2 Goosander, 14 Lapwing, 12 Dunlin, 3 Snipe, 100+ Fieldfare, f Stonechat, 3 Meadow Pipit (Neville Smith via Twitter)
 * Sidcup (Wyncham Stream & River Shuttle): 2 Little Egret, Green Sandpiper in Wyncham near Annandale Road, 3+ Snipe, Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming, Meadow Pipit very close on river bank in Hollyoak Wood Park, Grey Wagtail, 10+ Redwing, 4 Fieldfare, Goldcrest, Siskin (Ian Stewart)
 * Snaresbrook: Caspian Gull 3w (Charlie Clark)
 * Southgate: Dalrymple Close N14 - male Blackcap, 5 Fieldfare, 20+ Redwing (Robert Callf)
 * Springwell Lake: pr Mandarin, Great Egret, 2 Water Rail, 2 Snipe all in stream; 4 Goldeneye on lake (Paul Lewis via Twitter)
 * Staines Moor: 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 9 Dunlin, 1 Jack Snipe, 3 Snipe, 1 Redshank, 22+ Lapwing, 3 Water Pipit, 1 Water Rail, 1 Wigeon, 4 Little Grebe all the above along the Colne; also 1 Woodcock, 1 Peregrine, 20+ Skylark, 4 Stonechat, 9 Gadwall, 2-3 Kestrel (Lee Dingain)
 * Staines Reservoir: 3 Dunlin n basin causeway bank, 2 Skylark causeway, AMERICAN NORNED LARK still w end (Dom Pia via Twitter)
 * Stanwell Moor: Snipe (Dom Pia via Twitter)
 * Tooting Common: 35+ Redwing, 7 Shoveler 4m 3f (James Hudson)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: Rock Pipit on causeway nr pylon briefly am (Andrew Steele via Twitter); fishing lake - 3+ Snipe, ad Mediterranean Gull; main gp - Snipe, Caspian Gull (per TyttGP twitter)
 * Upminster: 2 Fieldfares have returned
 * Walthamstow: King Edward Rd gdn E17 - 2 Fieldfare [a first in my back garden], 2 Mistle Thrush (Caroline Nash)
 * Walthamstow Forest: 2 Nuthatch, 4 Redwing, 1 Goldcrest (Hannah Whitelegg)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 2 Pintail E [a first for me here], f Stonechat on Leyton Marsh, 2 Egyptian Geese on rear paddocks, 3 Redwing in trees by front paddocks 09:30-10:30 otherwise almost completely birdless at this end of the marshes (Alastair Dent)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING still in favoured bush but very elusive, 8 Reed Bunting, 47 Shoveler in feeding whirlpool, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Water Rail heard, 1m Pheasant, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Grey Wagtail, 6 Redwing (Daniel Whitelegg) Site will be closed for the weekend
 * Wandle Meadow Nature Park: 2 Snipe flushed from fringe of snowed up grassy area adjacent to the Sewage Pumping Station, 2 Redwing only, 2 Coot very unusual here (Keith Bates)
 * Wanstead: Nightingale_Ln - Goldcrest, male Blackcap, goldfinches, blue tit, blackbird, starling, dunnock all in garden at diff times, redwings over and feeding in nearby garden; p.m in garden - Fieldfare, robin, wren, great tit, collared dove (G. Gram)
 * Wanstead Flats: Lapwing, 4 Meadow Pipit, 4 Fieldfare, 3 Redwing, Kestrel, 2 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park: Hawfinch again behind temple in yew plantation, 3 Siskin, 3 Lapwing 2 down and eemingly out of it on the bank of the Roding, 4 Teal, 28 Shoveler, Snipe, 40+ Redwing, 10 Fieldfare, Nuthatch, Coal Tit (Nick Croft/Simon Raper)
 * Wembley, Sainsbury's: m Pied Wagtail - along the fruit and veg aisle (M.Wilczur)
 * West Putney, Huntingfield Road, SW15: Little Gull, 3 W 16.40, 6 W 16.50 (R.Kaye)
 * Woodford Green: 2 Tawny Owls emerged from roost tree, the returning Fieldfare from yesterday at 6.20 am and still present at 10.30am, male Sparrowhawk beneath feeders, 2 Song Thrush and 10 Siskin + 2 Goldfinch also 3 Chaffinch. (Ken Murray)
 * Woodford Green: Fieldfare feasting on apple segment; a first in my garden (Steve Howey).
 * Worcester Park: Little Egret on Beverley Brook(Bob Smith) Garden, KT4: 1 Lapwing over at 11:15 (Isaiah Rowe)

Thursday 1st March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: 3 Shoveler Wood Green then Tunnel Res, 2 Wigeon briefly Wood Green Res, Lapwing (APOG Birders)
 * Amwell NR: Gt Hardmead L - m Pintail fr viewpt, 2 Dunlin on island fr viewpt then flew toward Sheepcote Fm L (Ron Cousins via Herts BC)
 * Banstead: 12 Lapwing near The Mint (Linda Mount via David Campbell)
 * Beddington Farmlands: 1 ad Kittiwake, 1 Avocet, 1 Knot, 1-2 Ruff, 19 Bar-tailed Godwit, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Grey Plover, 3 Dunlin, 2 Woodcock, 30+ Snipe, 3 Jack Snipe, 350+ Lapwing, 13 Golden Plover, 15 Pintail 7&8, 3 Wigeon, 1 Great Crested Grebe over, 1 Stonechat, 150+ Fieldfare, 30+ Redwing, 3 Skylark, 70+ Meadow Pipit, 1 Barn Owl (BFBG) Stunning views of migrants. Pics here
 * LBowyers Water: [70 per cent frozen] 80+ Wigeon, 35+ Shoveler, 70+ Tufted Duck, 90+ Coot, 250+ Black-headed Gull, 35+ Common Gull, 20+ Herring Gull 1 juv trying to swallow a tennis ball!, Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 3 Lapwing 1 on ice & 2 on frozen canal just to E, 3 Dunlin feeding in middle of lake on edge of ice 1 bird seeking shelter on ice under overhanging willow, 30+ Fieldfare mainly south, Bullfinch (Simon Papps)
 * Brent Reservoir: 14 Lapwing W, 29 Fieldfare S, 19 Redwing S (Andrew Verrall); Grey Plover SW 13:25, Woodcock flushed East Marsh 14:30, 2 Dunlin, 19 Lapwing SW, 12 Fieldfare S, Meadow Pipit on raft then S, 7 Water Rail, 39 Redwing, Great Black-backed Gull, 21 Pochard, Cetti’s Warbler (Magnus Andersson)
 * Brixton: Blenheim Gdns Estate - 5 Redwing SW 09.30, 1 Lapwing SW 10.00; Brixton Water Ln - 1 Lapwing and 3 Redwing SW 11.11 (Tony Stones)
 * Brockwell Park: 2 Fieldfare SW; on pond - 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 180 Black-headed Gull, 4 Common Gull (Tony Stones)
 * Brookmill Park: drake Teal, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Kingfisher, Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
 * Bushy Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, Mistle Thrush, 20+ Redwing (Ian R Watson)
 * Colliers Wood: 25+ Redwing now mainly in adjacent allotment, 1 Fieldfare, 2 Coot very unusual here (Keith Bates); If my posting of 52 Redwing here yesterday in Wandle Meadow Nature Park was deleted for being too minor in this hard weather, then please also delete this posting [Keith Bates] KB - To explain, for purposes of the monthly data-extraction (now imminent) it was moved last night, for greater accuracy (WMNP is in the LNHS Gazetteer). All such records gratefully received - thanks for yours.; Thanks for your diligence and for letting me know so promptly. That reason never occurred to me - too many things to think of in this modern world! In future, unless I hear otherwise from you, I'll keep Colliers Wood as a composite site and if there is anything of particular interest in WMNP, then I will gladly post it separately. [KB]
 * Coppetts Wood: Tawny Owl in flight at 15:00 (James Palmer)
 * Crouch End: 3 Lapwing 2N & 1W 12:40-13:00 (Sam Jones)
 * Dagenham Chase: Hawfinch in trees by west side of River Rom nr Bancroft Chase 1320 (Vincenzo Halley-Frame per ELBF FB/BirdGuides)
 * Danson Lake: 3 Lapwing W, Dunlin jetty (Chris Gibbard via Twitter)
 * Dollis Brook, Holders Hill: 11 Fieldfare & 3 Redwing S 07:29, 5 Mandarin Duck upstream 16:06. Brook frozen in places. (Samuel Levy)
 * Finchley: garden N3 - m Blackcap, 2 Redwing (Samuel Levy)
 * Fishers Green: Fishers Grn Ln & car pk - 10 Egyptian Goose, 57 Greylag Goose, 115 Canada Goose, 5 Lapwing S, Kingfisher, 5 Meadow Pipit, Yellowhammer, 5 Lesser Redpoll, 2 Siskin, 5 Goldfinch (Simon Papps)
 * Friday Lake: [95 per cent frozen] red-head Smew, 10+ Wigeon, 3 Lapwing S, 2 Oystercatcher S, Common Snipe in overflow next to canal lock (Simon Papps)
 * Greenwich: Coal Tit (Ray Crouch)
 * Greenwich Peninsular: 2 adult Kittiwake upriver 15:52-15:58, 1 Golden Plover SW 12:25, 96 Lapwing SW 11:18-14:52, 2 Dunlin, 1 Redshank, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Wigeon, 12 Gadwall, 3 Rock Pipit, 40+ Fieldfare (Dante Shepherd, Richard Green) Pics here
 * Hackney Marshes: 10 Redwing thinly spread, 2 Goldcrests, 6 Shoveler on the river 08:00-09:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Hampstead Heath: single Lapwing landed on the (frozen) Vale of Health pond 1145. First I have ever seen on the Heath (Sash Tusa)
 * Heathrow: 58 Skylark, 4 Goldeneye, Green Sandpiper (Adam Cheeseman)
 * Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens: Dunlin [unusual here], Meadow Pipit (Ralph Hancock) Pictures on my blog
 * Islington: Mildmay - 2 Redwing, 2 Fieldfare (Jon Agar)
 * Islington, Emirates Stadium: Lapwing photographed on the pitch ahead of Arsenal v Man City (see 19.10 entry here)
 * Kentish Town: 8 Lapwing W over Kentish Town West station 0945 (Pete Mantle)
 * King George V Reservoir: Peregrine Falcon over south basin 14.40, Snipe on flood relief channel, Fieldfare prospecting on grass in between showers (Christopher Wright)
 * Ladywell Fields: 2 Common Snipe, Jack Snipe, 6 Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Song Thrush, 21 Goldfinch 18 of these in one flock, Grey Wagtail (Keith Chambers)
 * Leyton, Jubilee Park: Common Snipe, 7 Teal, 30+ Redwing, 8 Fieldfare, Great Spotted Woodpecker (JW Davies)
 * Leyton, Orient Way Recycling Centre: Glaucous Gull (JW Davies); GG still present 15:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * London Wetland Centre: Sparrowhawk f, Redwing and 2 Dunlin (Shailesh Patel); Avocet briefly, 3 Dunlin, Yellow-legged Gull 2cy (S.Woolfenden, J.Wilczur); Goldeneye, 7 Fieldfare, 40 Redwing, 10 Siskin (WWT website)
 * Lower Clapton: Fieldfare on ivy berries in garden at 07:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Maple Cross: private gdn - m Blackcap, 20+ Fieldfare, Redwing, 6 Brambling, 4 Yellowhammer (Chris Bessant via Herts BC)
 * Mayflower Park: wetlands - 1 lone Lapwing resting on ice by reeds (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Middlesex Filter Beds: 1 Firecrest m at edge of filter bed near platform over river bank, also 2 Goldcrest, 3 Fieldfare 17:00-17:30 (Alastair Dent)
 * North Sheen Rec: Lapwing [first sighting] 12.40 (Peter Hart)
 * Purfleet: 2 Pintail, 1 Avocet, 2 Grey Plover, 5 Golden Plover, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 66 Dunlin, 14 Snipe, ad Kittiwake, 250 Fieldfare, 14 Redwing (Fraser Simpson)
 * Rayners Lane: Lapwing W (Tim Rymer)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon-Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Richmond Park: Mediterranean Gull adult briefly - partial hood (J.Wilczur); Dunlin Upper Pen Pond (P.Pentek)
 * Rotherhithe: Dunlin and Woodcock in Russia Dock Woodland (Steve Cornish, Richard Page-Jones)
 * Ruislip Woods: 5+ Hawfinch again west of Poors Field nr Lido Car Park 09:50 (Richard Francis)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: 20 Bar-tailed Godwit [Ldn foy] N am (Alan Harris via Twitter); Dunlin sewage works, Woodcock nr warbler_hide (Alan Harris per RSPB)
 * St Paul's Cray (The Brook): 2 Kingfisher [R Cray] (Jack Headley via Twitter) TQ472692
 * Sidcup (York Avenue): 4 Golden Plover W, 69 Lapwing W & SW, 44 Fieldfare 44 W/SW & 4 in garden, 7+ Redwing, 5 Jackdaw (Ian Stewart)
 * South Norwood CP: 10 Lapwing, Jack Snipe, 2 Snipe (per John Birkett via Twitter)
 * Southgate: Dalrymple Close N14 - Kestrel hovering 07:35, Northern Lapwing over SW at 08:43, 4 Fieldfare, 10 Redwing, 2 male Blackcap together 07:50 (Robert Callf)
 * Southall: MBC industrial site - 2 Fieldfare feeding around grass (Neil Anderson); and 1 Fieldfare in gardens TQ1280 briefly (Phil Belman)
 * Southwark: Dickens Sq Pk SE1 - 3 Redwing (Richard Bonser)
 * Staines Reservoir: AMERICAN HORNED LARK causeway west end still (BirdGuides)
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: 17 Lapwing 7W 09:00 & 2W 09:26 & 1W 10:00 & 5W 11:32 & 1W 11:52 & 1W 12:11, 24 Redwing 15W 09:14 & 5W 09:42 & 2W 10:16 & 2W 11:33, 2 Great Black-backed Gulls low and E into Totteridge Valley 09:23 first here since 2011, 14 Fieldfare 8W 09:26 & 1W 09:43 & 5S 11:09, Pied Wagtail (Samuel Levy)
 * Tottenham Hale: 2 Goldcrests, 3 Redwing in Paddock, Greenfinches and Redwings in allotment hedge, 3 Redwings feeding along Mill Mead Road (Quentin Given)
 * Trent Park: f Kestrel, male Firecrest feeding low down in holly and laurel SW edge of Rough Lot 16:27 - 16:33 (Robert Callf)
 * Upminster: 2 Fieldfares
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING showed well by seed tray briefly. (J.Murray); 1 Grey Plover, 1 Knot [Ldn foy], 3 Woodcock, 3 Snipe, 2 Dunlin, 1 Oystercatcher, 7 Lapwing, 1m Scaup, 1m Pintail, 16 Wigeon, 6 Teal, 10 Goldeneye, 21 Shoveler, 15 Egyptian Geese, 50+ Greylag Geese, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Meadow Pipit, 2 Peregrine, 1 Jay, 10+ Redwing, 8 Fieldfare, 50+ Linnet, 6 Reed Bunting (Daniel Whitelegg) ; N.side - c50 Teal, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, drake Wigeon, 40+ Gadwall, 2 drake Goldeneye, 7 Meadow Pipit, 50+ Common Gull, Fieldfare (Lol Bodini) Site closed due to adverse weather.
 * Wandle Meadow Nature Park: 2 Lapwing, Meadow Pipit am (Mark Bravery via Twitter); Jack Snipe, 2 Snipe (per John Birkett via Twitter)
 * Wanstead Flats: 110 Lapwing, Woodcock, Common Snipe, 22 Fieldfare, 8 Redwing, 5 Meadow Pipit, 2 Skylark, Kestrel, Linnet, Shoveler (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park: Dunlin (first in park that I can recall) showing extremely well down to a few yards while feeding on the edge of Perch pond, 5 Snipe, 16 Lapwing, pr of Peregrine Falcon, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Water Rail, 5 Teal, 13 Shoveler, 30+ Fieldfare, 20+ Redwing, 2 Meadow Pipit, Little Grebe, Siskin (Wanstead Birders)
 * West Harrow: Lapwing w 15:47 - only my second here in eight years (Alex Massey)
 * West Thurrock Marshes: poss ad Bonaparte's Gull E (BirdGuides)
 * Wimbledon Common: m Sparrowhawk, day-flying Tawny Owl, f Kestrel (Les Evans-Hill via Twitter)
 * Woodford Green: c12 Siskin on niger feeder, 3 Chaffinch, 3 Song Thrush (never had 3 before), 2 Fieldfares feeding on impaled apples since 9am (one still present at 5pm....8 hours so far!!) and one Redwing. (Ken Murray)

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