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Monday 1st May
 * KGV Reservoir: 4 Black Tern, Dunlin, 10 Common Sandpiper (Neville Smith).
 * Pinner: Red Kite low over Pinn Way/St Martin's Approach at 10:15 (Frank Nugent).

Sunday 30th April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: 43 sp. between 07:50-10:15 incl. 4 Swift, 1 Peregrine, Whitethroat (cricket scrub), 7+ Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, 4 Grey Heron, Kestrel, 5 Cormorant (Sam Jones)
 * Barking Bay: Hobby, Marsh Harrier cream crown East, 8 Oystercatcher, 2 Common Snipe, 2 Grey Plover, 4 Ringed Plover, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Whimbrel, 5 Bar-tailed Godwit East, 1 Sanderling, 1 Caspian Gull 2cy, 35 Arctic Tern East/North, 30 Common Tern, 2 Black Tern downriver, 6 Swift, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 3 Whinchat, 4 Wheatear all leucorhoa types, 6 Whitethroat, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 4 Sedge Warbler (Nick Senior)
 * Beddington Farmlands: Turtle Dove (BirdGuides)
 * Brent Reservoir: Greenshank on mud, Turnstone until 10:52 when flew off, 3 Common Sandpiiper, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Lapwing, 2 Snipe, 4 Common Tern, 10 Swift, Garden Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Sparrowhawk (Brent Birders). Still Greenshank, 2 Common Snipe and at least 1 Little Ringed Plover to 16:45 (at least). Single House Martin over (Des McKenzie).
 * Brookmill Park: Little Egret, 2 Blackcap (Conrad Ellam)
 * Chislehurst Commons: 8 Blackcap, 6 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 5 Goldcrest, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Jay, 2 Grey Wagtail, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Cormorant, 29 Canada Goose, 13 Coot, 1 Greylag Goose, 83 Mallard, 1 Mandarin, 8 Moorhen, 7 Tufted Duck - 12.00-14.00 (Jamie Fletcher)
 * Enfield Lock: Hobby east over Government Row at 09:30 (Martin Shepherd)
 * Greenwich Park: 1 Common Whitethroat, 1 Hobby over, 1 Swift, 2 Swallows through, Little Egret south (Joe Beale)
 * Hampstead Heath: 1 Lesser Whitethroat and 6 Whitethroats in cricket pitch hedge, Parliament Hill Fields. 1 reeling Grasshopper Warbler at top of second hedge behind the Hill (Francis Tusa) Also 2 Wheatears on the cricket pitch and Little Egret over the hill at 0830, 2 Swallows N too (Pete Mantle)
 * Harold Hill, Boxhill Road: House Martin, 2 Martin sp.over NW, Common Buzzard high over NE at 12:30.
 * Hawkwood Estate: 1 Whitethroat, 3 Swallow (Jamie Fletcher)
 * Kensington Gardens: Male Red-crested Pochard, Common Sandpiper on shingle in front of rabbit paddock, Yellow Wagtail north 06:16, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Garden Warbler near Magazine, 10 Blackcap (Des McKenzie).
 * Lamorbey Park: Pair Mute Swan, 3 Pair Tufted Duck , Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goldcrest , 3 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 4 Goldfinch, Greenfinch (Mike Amos).
 * Gunpowder Park: 3 Garden Warbler, 3 Willow Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat (Neville Smith).
 * Hilfield Park Reservoir: 2 Slavonian Grebes still present at 5.20 p.m. from viewing platform off Hogg Lane. Also 10+ Swifts, Swallows, 1 Sedge Warbler & 1 Whitethroat (Simon West)
 * Island Barn Reservoir: 30+ Swifts, 3 Arctic Tern, 1 Whimbrel and 1 reeling Grasshopper Warbler still (am) (Chris Turner)
 * KGV Reservoir 2-3 Arctic Tern 2 Avocet north basin, Bar-tailed Godwit south basin, adult Little Gull south basin, 5 Common Sandpiper, 5 Wheatear, 5+ Yellow Wagtail (Neville Smith). Female Whinchat, north basin west side, at 11:50 (Martin Shepherd) also pm, 1 Grey Plover(summer plumage), 1 Greenshank, 1 Kittiwake clip (Tony Clancy, Andrew Middleton)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 pairs Shelduck, 2m Shoveler, m Wigeon, 2 pairs Teal, m Mandarin, Hobby, 2 Buzzard, adult pale morph Arctic Skua flew E 08.50, Yellow-legged Gull 1st winter, 3 Common Tern, 2 Snipe, Jack Snipe, 2 Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 9 Swift, m Ring Ouzel, Stonechat, Greenland Wheatear, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 4 Swallow N, Willow Warbler, m House Sparrow and on adjacent Playing Fields 58 Stock Dove, Whitethroat. (R.Kaye, M.Andrews); 3 Caspian Gull - all 2cy, Mediterranean Gull 2cy briefly (J.Wilczur); 2 adult Mediterranean Gull flew SE (Ian Bradshaw); 82 species for the day.
 * Palmers Green, N13: Hobby flew W over River Avenue at 11:28 (Katy McGilvray)
 * Rainham Marshes: 3 Oystercatcher, 17 Ringed Plover, 3 Grey Plover, Curlew Sandpiper, 4 Dunlin, 3 Ruff, 2 Snipe, 4 Black-tailed Godwit, 8 Bar-tailed Godwit, 3 Whimbrel, 9 Common Sandpiper, Spotted Redshank, 4 Greenshank, 3 Mediterranean Gull, 12 Arctic Terns, 6 Swifts, Yellow Wagtail, 5 Whinchat, 7 Wheatears, Lesser Whitethroat (Sean Huggins); Little Tern downriver @10:40 (record shot here), Ring Ouzel (Dante Shepherd) 19 singing cetti's Warbler, 36 singing Common Whitethroat, 23 singing Reed Warbler, 35 singing Sedge Warbler, 5 Gadwall, 9 Swallow, 2 Hobby, 48 Shelduck, 4 Stock Dove, Ring-necked Parakeet, 2 singing Grasshopper Warbler, Singing Willow Warbler, singing Chiffchaff, singing Lesser Whitethroat, 7 Oystercatcher, 5 Whimbrel, 5 Common Sandpiper, 18 Swift, at least 9 Wheatear, 27+ Arctic Tern, 104 Common Tern, 3 Kestrel, 2 Greenshank, 9 Bar-tailed Godwit, 3 Grey Plover, 14 Dunlin, 14 Ringed Plover, 20 Shoveler, 13+ Teal, 2 Stonechat, 19 Tufted Duck, 5 Reed Bunting, 6 Ruff, Spotted Redshank, at least 9 Whinchat, 5 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Pochard, 2 Marsh Harrier, Wigeon, 2 Great Crested Grebes, 3 Sand Martin, 2 Common Scoter, Peregrine, Curlew Sandpiper, Med Gull, Sanderling, 2 Common Gull, Turnstone (Samuel Levy, Dante Shepherd et al) Still waiting for final report, but 90 Species seen as of 16:00.
 * Richmond Park: 1m Wheatear, 5 Skylark, 1 Swallow, Whitethroat, 2 Reed Bunting (A. Bayley)
 * Rotherhithe: Stave Hill: 4 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap, 2 pair Collared Dove, pair Mistle Thrush  Canada Water: pair Great Crested Grebe with young on back, 3 singing Reed Warbler  Surrey Water: pair Egyptian Geese with 7 young, Common Tern, House Martin, Hobby (heading N at 1pm) , Peregrine (Richard Page-Jones)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: 2 Garden Warbler, Cetti's Warbler (Neville Smith).
 * Staines Moor: 4 Whinchat (2m), 6 Wheatear (3m), all in NW corner, 2 Grasshopper Warbler reeling in SE sedge marshes, one showing very well, 1 Common Swift, 1 Little Egret, 2 Shelduck, 1 Red Kite, 1 Sparrowhawk (f), 1 Common Buzzard, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Willow Warbler, num. Common Whitethroat, sev. Sedge Warbler, 2 Redshank (Colne), sev. Stock Dove (Iain Darbyshire).
 * Surbiton allotments: Raven pm (M Ellis)
 * Teddington: 2 Common Sandpiper on riverbank opposite downstream end of Trowlock Island 0930 (Mike Foster)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: m Ring Ouzel, Wheatear, 2 Buzzard, 4 Swallow, Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Whitethroat, 8 Skylark, (G Westley ). Hobby (Jim Fell)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: Grasshopper Warbler still, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, 9 singing Whitethroat, 7 Swallow, 2 Linnet, Bullfinch, 11 Rook, Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, drake Mandarin plus usual numbers of Blackcap & Chiffchaff (John Colmans)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: Temminck's Stint, drake Garganey, 6 Little Ringed Plover, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper. (Tyttenhanger Birders)
 * Vanbrugh Park SE3: 2 Swift, Wheatear flew up from a garden lawn! (Joe Beale)
 * Vanbrugh Pits SE3: singing Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, Chiffchaff nest building, Song Thrush nest building (Joe Beale)
 * Vincent Square SW1: Wheatear male leucorhoa type early on, 1 Swift over (NP Senior)
 * Walthamstow Marsh: No sign Whinchat on bomb crater field at 14:00; 2 Wheatears and 30+ Stock Doves on rear paddocks.(Quentin Given)
 * Wandsworth Common: Hobby over at 09.05, 2 Swift, brood of Egyptian Geese now apparently down to 2 (8 were present on 27th) (Nick Rutter)
 * Wanstead Flats: 2 Whinchat, 7 Wheatear, 2 Rook, Swift, Sand Martin, 7 Swallow, 2 Willow Warbler, 5 Yellow Wagtail, 3 pairs of Meadow Pipit, 4 Skylark (Wanstead Birders)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Common Tern, 7 Swift, Little Egret (Chris Farthing) Woodberry Wetlands first annual patchcount takes place on Sunday May 7th 2017. To help, just turn up during open hours 09:00-16:30, or contact nlegall@wildlondon.org.uk to join in any time from 06:00-18:00. Sightings can be posted here or on twitter with hashtag #WWPC17. Our target is 60 species.

Saturday 29th April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Whinchat male filter beds [tel:0950-1015 0950-1015] only, also up to 5 Greenland Wheatear, possibly two pairs cricket pitches and perimeter, male filter beds, Willow Warbler m conservation area, Yellow Wagtail SW 0850, Common Whitethroat m (APOG Birders)
 * Barnes, Lonsdale Road Reservoir: m Teal, 3 pairs Pochard, Little Grebe, pair Common Tern, 3 Collared Dove adjacent street, 5 Reed Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, 6 Blackcap, Cetti's Warbler, all warblers singing. (R.Kaye)
 * Brent Reservoir: Annual dawn-to-dusk Spring Bird Count — 75 species by 5pm, including Cuckoo (first since 2010), 10 Common Tern, 3 Lapwing, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Common Buzzard, 10 Swift, 2 Sand Martin, Swallow, 2 Wheatear, Garden Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Cetti's Warbler, Willow Warbler (Brent Birders)
 * Brunel University, Uxbridge: 4 Buzzard, 4 Red Kite. (Roger Dewey)
 * Canons Farm/Banstead Woods: 2 Garden Warbler, 3 Wheatear, 2 Red-legged Partridge, 2 Little Owl, 13 Swallow, 1 Grey Heron, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Mistle Thrush (CFBWBG)
 * Cornmill Gardens, Lewisham: Little Egret feeding in the River Ravensbourne at 15:00 (Frank Nugent).
 * Dartford Heath: Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 6 Whitethroat, 12 Blackcap, 11 Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
 * Fairlop Waters: 2 Wheatear, 2 Yellow Wagtail, Garden Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Snipe, Little Egret. (Alan Thomas/ Neil Twyford)
 * East Dulwich, Dunstans Road: Garden Warbler in back garden (Martin Stevens)
 * Enfield Lock: SPOONBILL 2015 seen from KGV Reservoir north bank. Picked up flying low from the east over Enfield Island Village. Went down and out of view in either knights pits or relief channel, trying to relocate now (Neville Smith).
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - 5 Stock Dove, 5 Starling, Goldcrest. Also 3 Lesser Black Backed Gulls N 17:05, Common Buzzard N 17:15, 2 Stock Dove N 17:20. (Samuel Levy)
 * Fryent Country Park: Wheatear (female) in horse paddocks, 2 Swift (Joe Taylor)
 * Gallions Reach: Whinchat, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Mediterranean Gulls (KJM)
 * Greenwich Park: 1, possibly 2 Willow Warblers, Blackcaps, 1 Garden Warbler, 40+ Herring Gull over, 3-4 Lesser Black-backed Gull over, 1 Black-headed Gull over (Joe Beale)
 * Kelsey Park, Beckenham: 2 Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, 4 Song Thrush, 3 Nuthatch, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Goldcrest, 81 Mallard, 19 Moorhen, 46 Canada Goose, 12 Mandarin, 42 Coot, 32 Grey Heron (at least 13 active nests within heronry), 10 Tufted Duck, 1 Mute Swan, 2 Egyptian Goose, 1 Cormorant, 12 Greylag Goose, 1 Bar-Headed Goose x Greylag Goose, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Pied Wagtail - 08.15-10.00 (Jamie Fletcher)
 * KGV Reservoir: Oystercatcher, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Kittiwake [0700-1100] at least on the south basin, 4 Yellow Wagtail, 8 Wheatear, 4 Yellow Wagtail through, 9 Swift, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Sedge warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 4 Lesser whitethroat, 2 Garden Warbler (Neville Smith). Also two Arctic Terns on south basin around midday and a Yellowhammer west. (Sean Huggins) Kittiwake still on south basin 1900 (Neville Smith).
 * Limehouse E14: 2 Common Sandpiper (Paul Hyland)
 * London Wetland Centre: Little Egret SW, Glaucous Gull juv, Caspian Gull 1st winter, 2 Yellow legged Gull 1st and 2nd winter, 4ad Mediterranean Gulls SE, 3 Snipe, Jack Snipe, 4 Common Sandpiper, 2 Swift, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Willow Warbler, (R.Kaye, W.Newnham) m Ring Ouzel found by a German guy who is a regular visitor at about 9 am. 1 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 10 Reed Warbler, 3 Sedge Warbler, 5 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Greenshank, 2f Sparrowhawk, 1 Peregrine all on (or from) E side of reserve (Martin Honey)
 * North Finchley,allotments Summers Lane: 2 Little Egret, 1 Buzzard over, singing Lesser Whitethroat (Tony Clancy)
 * Pinner, Lloyd Court. Resident crow's ten year territorial reign is on the verge of ending. Being assailed on all sides by younger birds. The noise. (Richard Francis).
 * Richmond Park: m Ring Ouzel - paddocks (H.Bradshaw); f Redstart (M.Lewis); 2 Hobby, ad m Peregrine - missing central tail feather, Red Kite, 2 Common Tern, 29 Sand Martin - parties passing through, 8 Meadow Pipit, 7 Wheatear, 4m Garden Warbler - Spring Bird Count morning only - 70 species (Richmond Park Bird Group); 1 male Whinchat (Frank Nugent); Ring Ouzel still present N side of paddocks 18.00 (J.Wilczur, P.Redmond); Final species total 72.
 * South Harrow (Ravenswood Crescent): Sparrowhawk (m) hunting sparrows (Tim Rymer).
 * Stanmore Country Park (HA7): Whitethroat (Shailesh Patel)
 * Trent Park: 2 male Mandarin Duck, 4 Tufted Duck 2m 2f lower lake, Tawny Owl 14:00 hrs, 4 singing male Common Whitethroat (Robert Callf)
 * Tyttenhanger GP: fem Black Redstart, male Whinchat, drake Garganey, Caspian Gull (early morn), Marsh Harrier, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, 3 Swift, (Tyttenhanger Birders)
 * Walthamstow: AWPW5 17:00 update; 78 species. Pr. Shoveler East Warwick, 1 Snipe No.1, possibly 2 Oystercatchers moving between reservoirs and Waterworks NR. 6 Common Sands, 1 LRP across reservoirs, a few Great Black-backed Gulls on No. 5, 2 Arctic Terns, 6 Common Terns through, 6 Jackdaws South, singing Goldcrest No.5, Pr. Swallow riding stables, 2 Wheatears back paddocks, 4 on reservoirs, 3 Willow Warblers on reservoirs, m Whinchat on Bomb crater field, Yellow Wagtail over, f Pied Flycatcher on central path between Res. 1, 2 & 3. Buzzard N. of Lockwood. Kingfisher on Waterworks NR. (Walthamstow Birders) Walthamstow, Low Hall Playing Fields (AWPW5): 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 11 Linnet, 1 Mistle Thrush, 1 House Martin, 8 Whitethroat, 3 Pied Wagtail, 1 Stock Dove, 1 Greenfinch. (Daniel Whitelegg) Sorry no new species for the count this year. 2 Wheatear still on the rear paddocks at 1700 plus 44 Stock Dove, the most I've seen here for a while. Lesser Whitethroat singing along the path W of the paddocks (Alastair Dent)
 * Wanstead Flats: 5 Wheatear, Sedge Warbler, Common Sandpiper still on Alex, Yellow Wagtail (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: Willow Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, Sparrowhawk (Wanstead Birders)
 * Vanbrugh Pits SE3: singing Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Chiffchaffs, Blackcap (Joe Beale)

Friday 28th April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: 1 Swallow NW 07:08 (Bob Watts); 07:55-10:49: 47 species including 4 Swallow, 2 House Martin and Sand Martin Wood Green Reservoir, male Common Whitethroat singing pavilion car park, female Linnet briefly on W perimeter of cricket pitches, Jackdaw flew W (Dominic Mitchell)
 * Bankside SE1: Garden Warbler, 2 Common Whitethroat in birch trees at Tate Modern (Simon Fogg)
 * Barking Bay: c.60 Shelduck, 4 Gadwall, 8 Oystercatcher, 1 Grey Plover ad summer plumage, 1 Ringed Plover, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Whimbrel upriver, 2 Redshank, 4 Common Sandpiper, 1 Caspian Gull 2cy, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, c.125 Black-headed Gull, 1 Common Gull 2cy, 28 Common Tern, 11 singing Skylark, c.30 Sand Martin, 38 Barn Swallow N/NW, 17 singing Meadow Pipit, 11 Yellow Wagtail E/N, 9 Wheatear, 1 Whinchat male, 7 Common Whitethroat, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 10 Reed Warbler, 2 Sedge Warbler, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 8 Linnet; nearby Wood Warbler along Breach Lane RM9 - brief bursts of song (N P Senior)
 * Bentley Priory NR, Stanmore, Middx: Garden Warbler singing, Goldcrest singing, Grey Wagtail feeding young, 4 Common Buzzards (Bob Husband & Brian Hunter)
 * Brent Reservoir: 1 Green Sandpiper on N pool late pm (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Clerkenwell, Spa Fields: Pair of House Sparrows (Francis O'Sullivan)
 * Crossness: Linnets, Goldfinch, Oystercatcher, Common Gull, Shelduck, Reed Bunting, Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Swallows, Blackcap [m], Chaffinch, Common Sandpiper, Gadwall [m/fm], Grey Heron, Redshank, Stock Dove, Kestrel [m], Lapwing, Whinchat [m], Reed Warbler, 7 Wheatear, Greylag geese, Pochard [m/fm], Skylark, Little Grebe, Whimbrel, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, Common Terns, Cetti's Warbler (John Bushell/Ron Turner)
 * Danson Park: Wood Warbler (the 200th species reported for London this year) singing in oak by playground (RBA); 5 Stock Dove, 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 3 Egyptian Goose, 2 Grey Heron (Tim Rymer).
 * Eastcote (Field End Recreation Ground): Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, Green Woodpecker (Tim Rymer).
 * Eastcote (Roxbourne Park): Grey Wagtail, Little Egret, 3 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff (Tim Rymer).


 * Hilly Fields Lewisham: 2 Blackcap, Chiffchaff, singing Song Thrush, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker (Tom Moulton/Sue Gore/Judith Simmons)
 * Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens: 2 Swallow N, 14 Blackcap, Garden Warbler Education Centre, Cetti's Warbler west of Serpentine Bridge singing sporadically, 1 Willow Warbler (N P Senior)
 * Island Barn Reservoir: Red-rumped Swallow still — over the reservoir and over trees on Molesey Heath till 8.20 at least (Chris Turner); not seen 10:00 to 13:00 but 2 Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Garden Warbler heard, 5 Common Tern, 6+ Swift (Nick S and 4 others)
 * Kentish Town: Arctic Street, 2 m Grey Wagtails fighting on neighbour's roof, presumably local breeders (Pete Mantle)
 * KGV Reservoir (lots of flies!): M Ring Ouzel still present as per 25-26/04/17 on Central Causeway (looking a bit poorly), 1 Little Tern, 3 Arctic Tern & 5 Common Tern on S. Basin, also pair Great Black-backed Gulls & 2 House Martins among the Swallows & Sand Martins 13.20 - 13.40 (Davey Leach); Kittiwake dropped in between 1805-18:40 off South (Neville Smith).
 * Kidbrook Station [A102]: Raven [harassed by Carrion Crow] (John Bushell Ron Turner)
 * London Wetland Centre: female Black Redstart, 2 Swift, 10 House Martin, 20+ Sand Martin, Sedge Warbler, 2 Little Ringed Plover, pair of Shelduck, 3 Redshank (Shailesh Patel); 2 pairs Shelduck, 2m 1f Shoveler, m Kestrel, Hobby, 3 Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, Red Kite, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Jack Snipe, 2 Snipe, 2nd winter Yellow-legged Gull, ad Mediterranean Gull SE, 150 Herring Gull, 35 Lesser Black-backed Gull - including an intermedius, 10 Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Common Tern, 16 Yellow Wagtail - moving through in parties, Lesser Whitethroat, Hairy Dragonfly (R.Kaye, J.Wilczur, M.Honey) As an afterthought I totalled the species recorded today- which didn't include five of the "usuals"- and it came to 74 species (JW). nvb
 * Mile End Park: Common Whitethroat m singing where present last year (Bob Watts).
 * New Addington/Layhams Farm: Early BBS count — Ring Ouzel being chased by 2 male Blackbirds (another new species for my BBS counts), 8 Whitethroats, 1 Bullfinch, 3 Linnets, 9 Skylarks (observer?).
 * Richmond Park: Common Sandpiper, 2 Red Kite, Buzzard, 2 Common Tern, 2 Pied Wagtail, Wheatear (Friday Group)
 * Question: do I send descriptions of Goshawk & White Stork (both under 80 records) to the Middlesex recorder, or the rarities recorder? - I have to ask as something went a bit wrong last time. Thanks (JR) Please send them to Middlesex recorder and, if you're sending them electronically, copy in the chair of the rarities panel. Thanks (John Archer). Thank you John - I am rather 'old school' about these things - I will post them after the bank holiday (JR)
 *  Question: How do I send photos to this site? (Mavis Pilbeam)  ''there is 'add photo' option on the edit page Mavis (Dan Pinkham)
 * Staines Reservoirs; 3 ad Little Gull, 3 Oystercatcher, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 5, Dunlin, 3 Black-necked Grebe (Twitter); Arctic Tern (BirdGuides); 1 Bar-tailed Godwit W bank N basin, 1 Whimbrel over, 4 Arctic Tern, 4 Mediterranean Gull, 2 Northern Wheatear, in evening (Dave Morris per FJM)
 * Staines Moor: 2 Hobby, 2 Little Egret, 2 Heron, 3 Garden Warbler, 3 Green Woodpecker, 10 Reed Bunting, 4 Sedge Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler, 4 Redshank, 3 Lapwing (Thomas Gibson)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: Sandwich Tern, 8 Mediterranean Gull, Whimbrel, Common Sandpiper, Turnstone, 2 Cuckoo, 2 Nightingale, 13 Cetti's Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, Garden Warbler, 8 Lesser Whitethroat, Raven (Andrew Self); 2 Marsh Harrier, 2 Shoveler, 8 Gadwall, Water Rail (heard), 9 Shelduck, 2 Oystercatcher, Great Spotted Woodpecker (drumming), 2 Little Egret, Stonechat, Mute Swan, House Martin, 2 Wall Butterfly, 3 Common Carder Bumble Bee Bombus Pascuorum (Roger Keith)
 * Twickenham: Common Tern flying eastwards, 2 Mandarin, 5 m Red-crested Pochard, Grey Wagtail, Black Swan on Thames (Simon Worsfold)
 * Victoria Park: Red-crested Pochard 6m 2f on West Lake (Bob Watts); Common Sandpiper on West Lake 16.05-16.20 (Jan Dobbie)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 2 Wheatear on rear paddocks at 0930 (Alastair Dent)

Thursday 27th April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Common Whitethroat m singing NW corner of cricket pitches 0645, 2 Swallow, 2 House Martin Wood Green Res 1800 (Bob Watts); Greenland Wheatear m in front of cricket scrub and western perimeter for half an hour late am (Bruce Carson per Bob Watts).
 * Bankside SE1: Willow Warbler, Garden Warbler in birch trees at east end of Tate Modern (Simon Fogg)
 * Brent Reservoir: Common Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Cetti's Warbler (East Marsh), Common Snipe (North Marsh) (Francis O'Sullivan)
 * Canons Farm/Banstead Woods: 1 Hobby, 1 Red Kite, 1 Willow Warbler, 3 Swallows (CFBWBG).
 * Cassiobury Park: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Red Kite, Stock Dove, Nuthatch (Simon Worsfold)
 * Chessington (KT9): Little Egret perched in tree at bottom of my garden 14.50 to 16.10 (definitely a garden first for me!) (Nigel Jackman)
 * Crossness: Did not bother to mention today, among the normal species likely, a large movement off terns off Dagenham Docks Ford Works, seen with 10X40 bins from this side. Mostly Common, I reckon 100-200 at midday and continue 1 hours at least. Tried all my life so far to ID Artic. So Farn Islands! (Patrick English)


 * Dollis Brook, Holders Hill: 2 Grey Wagtail, singing Chiffchaff (Samuel Levy)
 * Eastcote (Abbotsbury Gardens): Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Goldfinch, 15 House Sparrow (Jon Ridge)
 * Eastcote (Field End Recreation Ground): Common Whitethroat, Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Song Thrush (Tim Rymer).
 * East India Dock NR: 2 Jackdaw north, 2 Swallow, Blackcap, 4+ Reed Warbler (Paul Hyland)
 * Greenwich Peninsula: Whitethroat (male), Linnet 4, Ecology Park Little Grebe 2 adults, 3 young, Common Tern 10, Sand Martin, Blackcap (male), Reed Warbler 2, Willow Warbler 1 (Richard Green, John Bushall)
 * Hyde Park / Kensington Gardens: 12 singing Blackcap and singles of Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler and Chiffchaff; Hobby Hyde Park 12:08 (Des McKenzie-Twitter)
 * Island Barn Reservoir: Red-rumped Swallow with c. 100 Swallow, c. 40 House Martin @15:30–15:40 (Dave Harris via Twitter)
 * Rainham Marshes RSPB: Canada Goose, Little Grebe, Greylag Goose, Ruff, Sand Martin, Swift, Swallow, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Reed Bunting, Redshank, Shelduck, Mallard, Curlew, Marsh Harrier, Carrion Crow, Coot, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Black-headed Gull, House Sparrow, Woodpigeon, Linnet (BirdGuides)
 * Richmond Park: Red Kite, Wheatear, 12 Swallow (RP Birders)
 * Staines Reservoir: 3 Black-necked Grebe, 2 Whimbrel, 1 on W side of S basin & 1 on W side of N basin along with 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 1 ad Little Gull on S basin, 1 Northern Wheatear, 30 Swallow, 20 Sand Martin (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Wanstead Flats: Common Sandpiper still on Alex, Sedge Warbler (Jub), 2 Willow Warbler, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 10 Whitethroat, 8 Swallow, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 2 Grey Wagtail, Meadow Pipit, 2 Wheatear, Skylark, 3 Linnet (Wanstead Birders)

Wednesday 26th April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Little Egret NE 0645, 2+ Swallows Wood Green Res (Bob Watts)
 * Brent Reservoir: 2 singing Cetti's Warbler (both E Marsh), Sedge Warbler (+ lots of Chiff/Bcap/ReedW), Common Sandpiper, Kestrel, 17 Swallow, 5 House Martin, Egyptian Goose, Black Swan (Andrew Haynes); as above but 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Swift, 21 Swallow, 7 House Martin, 2 Sand Martin (Andrew Verrall); 2 Little Ringed Plover (E Marsh) (Francis O'Sullivan)
 * Brookmill Park: 2 Mute Swan, Song Thrush, 2 singing Blackcap (Conrad Ellam)
 * Canons Farm: 1 Raven, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Wheatear, 1+ Red Kite, 4 Red-legged Partridges, 2 Canada Geese, 4 Swallows (CFBWBG).
 * Crouch End (N8 9HH): Little Egret over west at 1415 (Sam Jones)
 * Eastcote (Abbotsbury Gardens): Linnet over at 14:22 - very scarce here now, bred nearby in 1979 (Jon Ridge) I had two on Field End Recreation Ground last year, feeding with Starlings. Lots of ground feeding birds there this week, so worth a look (Tim Rymer). Thanks Tim, I have always thought the site was underrated (JR)
 * Greenwich Ecology Park: Little Grebe, Kestrel, 7 Common Tern, Reed Warbler, Chiffchaff (John Bushell)
 * Hampstead Heath, 2 Black-headed Gulls SW over Pryors Field 0800 (Pete Mantle); 2 Barn Swallow over Model Boating Pond (Will Hitchins)
 * Hemans Estate-Stockwell: pr House Sparrows building nest in ceiling of old brick shelter due for demolition, hole only recently appeared (Michael Mac)
 * Hyde Park: Common Swift flying west over Serpentine at 13:37 during rain shower (James Hudson)
 * KGV Reservoir: N. Basin: 1 Adult Little Gull, S. Basin: M Ring Ouzel showing well in same spot as yesterday on N Bank in sheltered area with 3 Wheatear (2 M, 1 Fem.), Yellow Wagtail (m Blue-headed race) on E Bank near sailing club, 2 Arctic Tern, 4 Common Tern, 5 Swift over, 12+ Swallow, 55+ Sand Martin (Davey Leach)
 * Lewisham: Little Egret flew past Tescos, towards Brookmill Park, early afternoon (Conrad Ellam)
 * Limehouse E14: Little Egret north over Thames 18.50 (Paul Hyland)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Little Ringed Plover, Wheatear (male), Peregrine, 3 Shelduck, 7 Swallow, 5 House Martin, 7 Reed Warbler, 3 Sedge Warbler, 4 Redshank (website); m Wigeon, m Shoveler, m Mandarin, 5 Snipe, Heron one high NW, Buzzard SW, Yellow Wagtail, 3 Greenland Wheatear including one seen to drop like a stone onto marsh from great height (R.Kaye); 9 Reed Warbler (E side reserve only), 2 (?3) Yellow Wagtail, 20+ House Martin, at least 7 Redshank, 2m 1f Shelduck, 2 Chiffchaff (E side reserve) (Martin Honey)
 * Richmond Park: at least 30 Swallows over Lower Pen Pond at 18.30; a few House Martins with them (Stefan Czapski)
 * Sanderstead: 2 Redwing during BBS count this morning! An unexpected addition to the list. (John Birkett)
 * South Lodge Farm, Enfield: male Northern Wheatear showing characteristics of 'Greenland race' (Robert Callf)
 * Oxleas Wood: Blackcaps (m/fm), Chiffchaffs, Goldcrest, Jackdaws, Stock Doves, Hobby, 3 Green Woodpecker (1pair), Goldfinch, Kestrel (fm), Treecreeper, Nuthatch (Ron Turner)
 * Sutcliffe Park: 4 Tufted Duck, 2 Reed Warbler, Blackcap, Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill (NW7): Sparrowhawk, 2 Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush, 20+ Ring-necked Parakeet, Collared Dove, 4 singing Chiffchaff, 2 Goldfinch (Samuel Levy)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: Willow Warbler m singing from hawthorn at west end of Railway Grove 0800, Common Whitethroat m singing from Scrapyard Meadow 1245 (Bob Watts)
 * Tyttenhanger GP: 09:12 Caspian Gull ln bay where power lines cross fishing lake, 6 Little Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Common Tern, Lesser Whitethroat, Red Kite, Buzzard (S Blake)
 * Walton Reservoirs: Juv Iceland Gull and 1 Black-tailed Godwit this evening (Chris Turner and Chris Wilko)
 * Wanstead Flats: Common Sandpiper still on Alex, m Wheatear, 5 Skylark, 3 Meadow Pipit, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Swallow, Common Gull, 4 Gadwall, 4 Little Grebe (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: Peregrine (Sean Kerrigan), 2 Stock Dove, Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, Swallow, 2 Teal, 3 Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Coal Tit, 4 Whitethroat (Nick Croft)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 2 Shelduck, 2 Swallow, 2 House Martin (Chris Farthing)

Tuesday 25th April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Common Whitethroat singing southern perimeter cricket pitch 0640 - at last! 6 Swallow, 3 House Martin 1815 Wood Green Res (Bob Watts)
 * Beddington Farmlands: 1 Iceland Gull (2cy), 1 Caspian Gull (2cy), 13 Mediterranean Gull, 6 Wheatear, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Redshank, 1 Red Kite (BFBG).
 * Brookmill Park: Song Thrush, Blackcap pair nest building (Conrad Ellam)
 * Burgess Park: 3 House Martin, 3 m Blackcap (Michael Mac)
 * Canons Farm: 5 Wheatears, 1 Meadow Pipit, 2 Canada Geese, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 6 Swallows, Willow Warbler, Little Owl (CFBWBG).
 * Carshalton (SPJS field) 2 Sand Martin N 1240 (reported by my sister) (Arjun Dutta)
 * Crossness NR (East Paddock): 10 (at least) Wheatear (Mike Robinson)
 * Hampstead Heath: Whitethroat singing from scrub west of Hedge 2, also 2 Shoveler on High 1, 2 Woodpigeons and 2 Stock Doves S (Pete Mantle)
 * KGV Reservoir: 1 Male Ring Ouzel on Central Causeway briefly drinking on N slope of S Basin, 2 Common Sandpiper on N Basin opposite, 4 Arctic Tern & 4 Common Tern Feeding on S Basin, 3 House Martin, 12+ Swallow, 50+ Sand Martin, Male Sparrowhawk, Green Woodpecker. 1.15 - 1.50pm (Davey Leach)
 * Ladywell Fields: Mandarin pair, Little Egret (Conrad Ellam)
 * London Wetland Centre: pr Shelduck, 3 Mandarin, Wigeon, Buzzard SW, Oystercatcher, 4 Snipe, Glaucous Gull juv, Caspian Gull 1st winter, 9 Yellow Wagtail (R.Kaye)
 * Pinner (HA5): Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Long-tailed Tit & Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Pinner Park Farm: 1m Yellow Wagtail, 2+ Swallow, 1 Fieldfare (Michael Hammond)
 * Plumstead: 14 House Martin North at 6pm (Gus Wilson)
 * Richmond Park; 1 Whinchat, 2 Wheatear - all the Bog (Hugh Bradshaw)
 * RSPB Rainham Marshes: Ring Ouzel​ (BirdGuides); 8 Arctic Terns up river at 08:30, 5 Wheatear, Green Woodpecker, 17 Black-tailed Godwit, Snipe, 1 Whimbrel, 1 Common Sandpiper,  30+ Sand Martin through at 13:15, 2 Kestrel, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 1 Cuckoo, 1 Corn Bunting  (John & Janet Cadera). NB. Thieves operate in car park. Still no sign of stolen birders rucksack containing Zeiss 10x40B binoculars & Canon digital camera, field guides & irreplaceable notebooks etc. Essex Police say they have limited resources!


 * Tooley St: Red Kite SW at 15:12 (Paul Whiteman)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 2 Swallow, Lapwing, Lesser Whitethroat, 12 Common Whitethroat, 25 Chiffchaff, 18 Blackcap, Treecreeper, Nuthatch, 4 Rook, Linnet, Reed Bunting, 3 Stock Dove, 2 Meadow Pipit, Little Egret (Simon Worsfold)
 * Trent Park: singing male Lesser Whitethroat S edge of Williams Wood and 1 Common Whitethroat here also (Robert Callf)
 * Tyttenhanger GP: Iceland Gull, Caspian Gull, 11 little Ringed Plover, Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, Red Kite, 2 Buzzard (Tyttenhanger Birders)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs (S): 50+ Sand Martins on East Warwick, plus 1 m Wheatear, 1 Grey Wagtail; 5 House Martins on No 3; 2 m Wheatears on No 4 (Quentin Given); also 50+ House Martins over the Warwicks, 1 Swallow, 10 singing Reed Warblers, 3 Sedge Warblers, 3 Whitethroat, Common Sandpiper, Kestrel (Lol Bodini).
 * Wanstead Flats: Common Sandpiper, Willow Warbler, 11 Whitethroat, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, Swallow, House Martin, Grey Wagtail, 3 Meadow Pipit, 3 Skylark, Kestrel, 2 Gadwall, 4 Little Grebe, Linnet (Bob Vaughan/Nick Croft); Hobby, m Wheatear, Red Kite, Common Sandpiper still on Alex at 18:40 (Tony Brown)
 * Wanstead Park: Reed Warbler, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Whitethroat, 3 Reed Bunting, 2 singing Stock Dove, Little Egret (Nick Croft)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Great White Egret over NE at 09:00, Common Sandpiper, 2 Shelduck, 5 Swallow (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)
 * Gordon Hill EN2: Red Kite, over railway station 10:40am (Micky Orme)

Monday 24th April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Lesser Whitethroat m singing briefly 0645 from NW perimeter playing fields - site year first (Bob Watts). Wryneck flushed from ground near brambles at western edge of open area within wooded lower slopes, just NW of Cricket Scrub by rough track which runs diagonally NW from main E-W tarmac path across park up to upper E-W path (Alan Gibson per Dominic Mitchell); no further sign by 1230 (Ian Lycett per Bob Watts); no further sign by 1830 but 4 Swallows, House Martin Wood Green Res (Bob Watts); still no sign 1900-2000 but 9+ Swallows, 2 Pochard (m+f) and 3 Tufted Duck (2m1f) on Wood Green Res (Sam Jones).
 * Bankside SE1: Lesser Whitethroat m singing briefly 06.50 at east end of Tate Modern. (Simon Fogg)
 * Brent Reservoir: Hobby NE 13.05 stopped to chase 5 House Martins feeding, 27 Swallow N, male Peregrine, Common Sandpiper, 3 Reed Warbler, 2 Cetti's Warbler (Andrew Verrall)
 * Brookmill Park: 2 Stock Dove, Song Thrush, 2 Blackcap (Conrad Ellam)
 * Dollis Brook, Holders Hill: Mistle Thrush, 2 Singing Chiffchaff, 2 Stock Dove (Samuel Levy)
 * Canons Farm: 2 Sand Martins, 2 Greylag Geese, 1 Wheatear, 2 Red-legged Partridges, 2 Canada Geese, 1 Meadow Pipit, 8 Whitethroats (CFBWBG).
 * East India Dock Basin: Lesser Whitethroat singing, Reed Warbler singing, Blackcap singing, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Shelduck (John Archer)
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - 6 Stock Dove, 3 Starling; also interesting bird through W 16:50, Most Likely Pale Morph Common Buzzard; also 16 Stock Dove S (Samuel Levy)
 * Leg o' Mutton Nature Reserve: Tufted Duck pair, drake Pochard, Little Grebe, Cetti's Warbler, 4 Reed Warbler, 3 Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 Oystercatcher, 1 Dunlin, 2 Common Tern, 9 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Common Sandpiper, 5 Redshank, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Shelduck, 4 Snipe, 8 Reed Warbler, 2 Sedge Warbler (WWT website) 1m 1f Wheatear, 1f Sparrowhawk (via Martin Honey)
 * Oxleas Wood: Chiffchaffs, Blackcaps (m/fm), Common Buzzard, 5 Hobby (3 together AM, 2 together PM), Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker (pair), Jackdaws, Nuthatch, 4 Song Thrush, 4 Goldcrest, Coal Tit, Goldfinch, Mallard (m) (John Bushell, Ron Turner)
 * Pinner (HA5): Red Kite north-west at 16:07 & 4 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Rainham RSPB: singing Corn Bunting, 2 Whinchat, 7 Wheatear, 2 m Stonechat, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, Swift (first on site), 2 House Martin, Cuckoo, 2 Common Sandpiper, Ruff, 20+ Black-tailed Godwit, Snipe, 10 Dunlin, 4 Whimbrel, 2 Ringed Plover, 5 Little Ringed Plover, 12 Common Tern, 2 Marsh Harrier (Andy Tweed/Nick Croft/Russ Sherriff)
 * Regent's Park: Pied Flycatcher fem (Twitter)
 * Richmond Park: 1 Whinchat and 1 male Wheatear (both Sawyer's Hill) (Hugh Bradshaw)
 * Staines Moor: At 5pm, 2 Nightingale singing, 2 Sedge Warblers singing, Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler sub singing, Green Sandpiper (Nick Baker)
 * Staines Reservoirs: At 16.30, 6 Black Tern, 1 Little Tern, 6+ Arctic Terns (Twitter); 47 Common Tern, 5 Whimbrel, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Black-necked Grebe, 3 Little Gull, 1 Greenshank, 30+Swift, hundreds of Sand and House Martin and Swallows (Nick Baker and other birders); 300+ Sand Martin, 50+ Swallow (Peter Alfrey)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: 3 Arctic Tern upriver, 6 Common Tern, 2 male Marsh Harrier, 4 Mediterranean Gull, Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Cuckoo singing, Tree Pipit on river wall, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, 13 Cetti's Warbler, 18 Reed Warbler, Raven (Andrew Self)
 * Totteridge Valley: Female Shoveler on sheep wash pond 16:30 (2nd Valley Rec), 6 Swallow up over Ridgeway for much of the day (Samuel Levy)
 * Town Park, Enfield: 22 Coot 3 pairs and 3 broods of 7, 5 and 4 chicks - brood of seven 15 days old (Robert Callf)
 * Trent Park: 5 Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, Kestrel, Cormorant, 4 Common Whitethroat, 3 m Mandarin, Common Buzzard ( Pete Lowman).
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs no 4 +5: 2 Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat by Channel, 6 Common Whitethroat, 3 Reed Warbler, singing Willow Warbler, Peregrine, 6 Swift, 6 Sand Martin, 3 Swallow (Simon Worsfold); 2 Yellow Wagtail over south, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 1Meadow Pipit (Jamie Partridge); Ruff on East Warwick island 16.10 at least (TeRNSorg twitter)
 * Wanstead Flats: Common Sandpiper, Wheatear, 2 Willow Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, 7 Whitethroat, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 4 Skylark, 4 Swallow, Sparrowhawk, 6 Gadwall (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: Cetti's Warbler still (Simon Raper)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Little Ringed Plover, 4 Red-crested Pochard 2m2f, Diver sp over NE at 06:40, another unknown but suspected to be GND from length (Chris Farthing)

Sunday 23rd April 2017

 * Alexandra Palace: Buzzard high W, Peregrine N, Swallow N (brief skywatch from above P/P course), 6 Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff, Great Crested Grebe on filter beds looking in poor nick (seems to be oiled)- 11:00 (Sam Jones)
 * Beddington Farmlands: Wheatear, 5 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5 Lapwing, Sparrowhawk, lots of Sedge Warbler and Reed Warbler, Reed Bunting, 2 Singing Lesser Whitethroat (LNHS Bird group); also at least 5 Common Whitethroat, 1 Ring Ouzel, 4 Swallow and 5 Cetti's Warbler - pics here (Arjun Dutta)
 * Brent Reservoir: 3 Red Kite over, Wheatear, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Swift (Brent Birders)
 * Bromley (Hook Farm Road): Little Owls showing well on and around dead tree at back of allotments. Also, Red Kite at bottom of Westerham Hill nr Biggin Hill. (A Skinner)
 * Canons Farm/Banstead Woods: Black Redstart, 2 Wheatears, 2 Red-legged Partridges, 7 Swallows, 9 Whitethroats, Willow Warbler, Mistle Thrush (CFBWBG).
 * Cornmill Meadows: Cuckoo calling at 11:45, 2 Redshank, 7 Sedge Warbler (Martin Shepherd)
 * Crayford Marshes: 7 Whimbrel at mouth of River Darent (Mike Amos); also 4 Bar-tailed Godwit, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Redshank, 2 Dunlin, 3 Wheatears, 4+ Cetti's Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler. Ring Ouzel in same place at 1pm and at leaat 4 Wheatears in same fields (Gus Wilson)
 * Fairlop Waters: 1 Whimbrel, Wheatear, Sedge Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Grey Wagtail, Shelduck (Alan Thomas/Neil Twyford)
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - Great Spotted Woodpecker, Stock Dove. Also 50+ Stock Dove through South between 19:10- 19:45, hunting Hobby through South 19:15, Jay, 3 Starling, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls N 1940, Swallow N 19:55 (Samuel Levy)
 * Fryent Country Park: Red Kite, Hobby, 4 Swallow, House Martin, 8 House Sparrow (Joe Taylor)
 * Greenwich: 2nd-winter Yellow-legged Gull, 10 Great Black-backed Gulls and 4 Oystercatchers on mud by O2 early evening (Richard Bonser, Martin Hallam)
 * Hale End Allotments E17: 3 Swift, 1 Swallow (Daniel Whitelegg)
 * Hampstead Heath: Treecreeper, Blackcap (Callum Farrell-Morris​)
 * Island Barn Reservoir: 1 Arctic Tern, 1 adult Little Gull, 1 Northern Wheatear, 10 Swift and all the expected Warblers (Chris Turner and Chris Wilko)
 * Kensington Gardens: Hobby west, 10 Stock Dove, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper, 3 Sedge Warbler, 1 Cetti's Warbler - Long Water, Reed Warbler, 7 Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Willow Warbler (N P Senior)
 * King George V Res: 1 female Ring Ouzel South West corner by Elder bushes, 11 Wheatear, 2 Arctic Tern, 10 Swift, 1 Little Gull (Tony Clancy); male Ring Ouzel south-west corner of South Basin 1800 (Neville Smith).
 * Lamorbey Park: Male Ring Ouzel briefly in top of tall pine before being flushed by Parakeet and flew off SE 09.05 probable first site record, Whitethroat (Ian Stewart
 * London Wetland Centre: 1m Ring Ouzel, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover 3 Wheatear, 3 Shelduck, 7 Reed Warbler, 2 Sedge Warbler, 2 Peregrine, 4 Swallow (WWT website)
 * Long Lane Pasture, Finchley N3: male Ring Ouzel pm (Andrew Haynes)
 * Lonsdale Road Reservoir: 3-4 Reed Warbler, 4-5 Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, 3 Cetti's Warbler; Playing Fields: 3 Wheatear (2f,1m) (David Jeffreys)
 * Mudchute: Grasshopper Warbler reeling 7.30am at east end of the higher path that runs parallel to Globe Rope Walk (Sean Huggins)
 * New River Walk Broxbourne: 1m American Wood Duck 14:30 (Sue Barry)
 * New River Walk, Islington N1: 1m Blackcap (Allan Stewart).
 * Oxleas Wood: Goldcrest, BlackCaps (m/fm), 2 Kestrel (m), Sparrowhawk, Hobby, Common Buzzard, Jackdaws, Nuthatch, Treecreeper, 4 Song Thrush, Stock Dove (pair), Coal Tit, Chiffchaffs, 2 Willow Warbler, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker (2 pairs), Green Woodpecker (m), Swallow, 5 Mallard (Ron Turner)
 * Pinner (HA5): 2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Stock Dove, Coal Tit, 2 Pied Wagtail & 5 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Richmond Park: 4 Wheatear (2m, 2f), horse paddock near Holly Lodge (Philip Briggs); 9.00am - 9.45am 3 Wheatear 2m 1f Lawn Field ( R Dunne); m Sedge Warbler (S.Read per JW).
 * RSPB Rainham Marshes: 7 Bar-tailed Godwit, 15 Black-tailed Godwit, 12+ Whimbrel, 4 Ruff, 2 Avocet, 1 Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Snipe, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 5 Mediterranean Gull, 6 Swallow, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Whinchat (pic here), 3 Stonechat, 10+ Wheatear, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, 4 Lesser Whitethroat (Dante Shepherd); 2 Whinchats Rainham West Marsh at 7.30pm (Ian Bradshaw)
 * Staines Moor: 2 Little Egret, Grasshopper Warbler (C. Lamsdell)
 * Staines Reservoir: 1 Whimbrel, 1 Greenshank, both on W bank of S basin till late am at least.1 Oystercatcher, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Black-necked Grebe, 1 on N basin unusual, 1 Great Northern Diver early am only, 7 Little Gull, 1 Arctic Tern, 30 Common Tern, 2 Northern Wheatear, 1 on W bank of S basin, 40 Swift high up (Franko J Maroevic); 9 Little Gull (C. Lamsdell)
 * Tooting Commons: Swallow north over lake at 07:45, Willow Warbler (Bedford Wood), 14 Blackcap (13m,1f), 9 Chiffchaff, 2 Egyptian Goose (James Hudson)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: still 2 reeling Grasshopper Warbler plus singing Sedge Warbler (briefly) and singing Lesser Whitethroat, plus singing Whitethroat (8), Blackcap (8) and Chiffchaff (12); also Grey Wagtail m, Common Buzzard, Little Egret, 5 Teal and 4 Swallow (John Colmans); also (Belmont Farm End), 17 Stock Dove, 9 Swallow, Collared Dove, 5 Canada Geese, 2 Common Buzzard, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 7 Goldfinch, 7 Mallard, 2 Moorhen, Pied Wagtail, Egyptian Goose, singing Chiffchaff, 4 Starling, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Kestrel, Red-legged Partridge (Samuel Levy); also 2 Skylark over, 3 Red-legged Partridge, Whitethroat, Kestrel and Buzzard at Highwood Hill this morning (Ian Ellis)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Greenshank still on No 5, 4 Little Ringed Plover, 6 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Wheatear, I Buzzard (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Walton Reservoirs: Whimbrel, Greenshank, juv Glaucous Gull (Chris Turner and Chris Wilko)
 * Wanstead Flats: Woodlark, 6 Skylark, Garden Warbler, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 7 Whitethroat, 3 Willow Warbler, 5 Wheatear, Tree Pipit, Yellow Wagtail, 3 pairs of Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, Hobby, Peregrine Falcon, 3 Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel, 10 Swallow, 6 Sand Martin, Linnet, 4 Gadwall (Wanstead Birders)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 2(m/f) Little Grebe, 2(m/f) Great Crested Grebe courting, 8(4m,4f) Gadwall, 2 Shelduck, Cetti's Warbler (2 bursts of song near Vols Office), 8+ Reed Warblers (singing, one seen), 2 Starlings, 2 Coots feeding 5 very young chicks venturing off nest near Vols Office. (Mavis Pilbeam)

Saturday 22nd April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Sedge Warbler singing briefly 1002 Conservation Pond, also 4 Swallows from 0900 Wood Green Res, joined by 3 Sand Martin, 2 House Martins brought down by drizzle but Martins moved on 1015 (Dominic Mitchell, Gareth. Richards, Bob Watts)
 * Amwell: Arctic Tern (BirdGuides)
 * Barking Bay: 90 Shelduck, 4 Gadwall, 10 Teal, 8 Grey Heron East, 6 Oystercatcher, Little Ringed Plover pair displaying, 3 Dunlin downriver, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Redshank, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 10 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Whimbrel East, c.320 Black-headed Gull, 3 Mediterranean Gull 2 adults downriver then high NE and a 2cy lingering, 1 Little Gull adult downriver 1 Caspian Gull 2cy, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 210 Common Tern 50 local and 160 downriver, 4 Arctic Tern downriver, 12 Skylark, c.50 Sand Martin, 14 Meadow Pipit, 1 Yellow Wagtail East, 5 Wheatear 3 leucorhoa, 2 Blackcap, 13 Whitethroat, 4 Sedge Warbler, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 8 Reed Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, c.15 Linnet; Common Seal (N P Senior)
 * Battersea Park: Red Kite 3pm heading NW, pr Mandarin, f Sparrowhawk (Michael Mac)
 * Brent Reservoir NR: Whimbrel, 6 Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2 Lapwing, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Tern, 2 Arctic Tern, Peregrine, 2 Swift, 30 Swallow, 20 Sand Martin, 3 House Martin, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Cetti's Warbler (Brent Birders)
 * Crayford and Dartford Marshes:   Ring Ouzel still in same area 5pm. Also 3 Whimbrel, 2 Swallow, Chiffchaff, Common Buzzard south, 2 Oystercatcher. Hobby seen by others present but not me. (Gus Wilson)
 * Crossness: 2 Mediterranean Gull, 1 second-winter Yellow-legged Gull, c30 Common Tern, 1 Whimbrel, 2 Common Sandpiper, c20 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Dunlin, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Swallow (Rich Bonser, John Archer, Dante Shepherd)
 * Dollis Brook: Totteridge Station - Barnet - 2 singing Chiffchaff, 2 Mistle Thrush, 4 Starling. (Samuel Levy)
 * Ewell - 3 common buzzard circled low over village drifting north to Stoneleigh/Nonsuch 14:20 (Colin Manville)Mediterranean
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - 3 Stock Dove, 3 Starling, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay. (Samuel Levy)
 * Finchley (Glebelands): m Wheatear on Bishopswood bowling green between at least 13:00 - 17:30 (Ian Ellis)
 * Gallions Reach: Marsh Harrier, 2 Mediterranean gull (KJMcmanus)
 * Greenwich Ecology Park 7 Common Turn 1 Little Grebe 1 Reedwarbler 1 House Martin 1 Sand Martin 2 House Sparrow [John Bushell]
 * King George V Res: 2 Common Tern, 3 Arctic Tern, 2 Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Whimbrel (Twitter)
 * London Wetland Centre, Barnes, WWT: 2 Ruff reported early, flew off after Peregrine put up birds, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 5 + Redshank, 5 Common Snipe, I Jack Snipe, Glaucous Gull, Swift, House Martin, Sand Martin and Swallow, Pr Wheatear, singing Blackcap, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Cettis, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler and Reed Bunting, 1m Yellow Wagtail, Common Buzzard over, Tern sp in off river but identity not confirmed (possible Sandwich) - Brimstone, Speckled Wood, White and Holly Blue Butterflies (per Angus Innes/Martin Honey);
 * Oxleas Wood Mallard[with young] Blackcaps[m/fm] Chiffchaffs Kestrel[m/fm] 3 Songthrush Stockdove[pair] Swallow Willow Warbler Chaffinch[m/fm] Coaltit Jackdaws Goldfinch Nuthatch Goldcrest Greatspottedwoodpecker Greenwoodpeckers[calling] [Ron Turner]
 * Priest Hill, Ewell: 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Common Whitethroat, 2 Blackcap, 1 Chiffchaff, 25 Stock Dove, 13 Ring -necked Parakeet, 1 Swallow n (Neil Batten)
 * Rainham Marshes: 3 Great Crested Grebes, Marsh Harrier, Common Buzzard, Hobby, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Grey Plover, 4 Ruff, 4 Whimbrel, 2 Avocets, 2 Snipe, 2 Mediterranean Gulls (ads), 2 Sandwich Terns, 4 Common Terns, Grasshopper Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Grey Wagtail, 3 Wheatears (Sean Huggins)
 * Rotherhithe: Stave Hill: 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, pair Jay, pair Mistle Thrush: Canada Water: Pair Great Crested Grebe on nest witth 5 eggs, female Whitethroat in bushes at shopping centre end: Surrey Water: 3 House Martin, Eygyptian Goose with 7 young, Sparrowhawk (Richard Page-Jones) Reed Warbler singing Russia Dock Woodland early evng (Rich Bonser)
 * Roxeth Recreation Ground: Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat (Michael Robinson)
 * Stokes Field (Thames Ditton, KT7): 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Bullfinch, 3 Swallow (Billy Dykes)
 * Thamesmead: 1 first-winter Caspian Gull, 2 first-winter Yellow-legged Gull (Rich Bonser, Dante Shepherd)
 * Trent Park: Tawny Owl perched in full view 14:09 - it must be struggling to find enough food in the dry conditions, 2 singing male Common Whitethroat possibly a third (Robert Callf)
 * Tufnell Park (Tube): Ring Ouzel over NNW C1215 (F Tusa)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Pair Peregrine on pylon, 3 singing Cetti's Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Reed Warbler, 4 Blackcap, House Martins and 2-3 Swallow over no 4, Sand Martins and 5-6 Swifts over no 5, m Reed Bunting bushes by no 2, pair Stock Dove, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper and Greenshank on no 5 reservoir (Harringay Birder); also Common Tern over path to no 4 reservoir (David Bradshaw) Greenshank, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Sand Martin, 3 Greater Black Backed Gull at 19:30. (Daniel Whitelegg)
 * Wanstead Flats: 2 Green Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover (both flying over Alex) (Tony Brown) Nightingale singing in Motorcycle Copse (at least till 17:20 and the first singing bird since 2009), 2 Tree Pipit, 10 Meadow Pipit, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Wheatear, 16 Sand Martin, 10+ Swallow, 4 Willow Warbler, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 7 + Whitethroat, Hobby, 4 Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel, Buzzard, 4 Gadwall, 4 Little Grebe, Common Gull, 5 Skylark, 2 Linnet, Little Egret (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: Cetti's Warbler (possibly 2 singing birds), Reed Warbler, 4 Whitethroat, 4 Little Egret, pr of Great Crested Grebe, Gadwall (James Heal/Bob Vaughan)
 * West Finchley Station: 2 Collared Dove, Lesser Black-backed Gull (Samuel Levy)
 * Tyttenhanger GP: 4 Bar-tailed Godwit, 4 Little Ringed Plover, Ringed Plover, Cuckoo. 2 Tree Sparrow, Yellow Wagtail, Yellowhammer. (Tyttenhanger Birders)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: [site closed today for a function] 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Shelduck, probable Red-Breasted Merganser NE at 08:55 then flock of 42 unidentified waders over E at 09:05, golden plovers? (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)
 * Woolwich Common: 3 Common Whitethroat, 4 Blackcap,, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, pair of Jays. (Gus Wilson)

Friday 21st April 2017

 * Brookmill Park: 2 Stock Dove, Song Thrush, Blackcap, Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
 * Belmont Open Space, Cockfosters, Herts. EN4: Willow Warbler singing (Bob Husband)
 * Crayford and Dartford Marshes: Drake Wigeon in Darent, seemed to have an injured wing, Little Egret, Common Buzzard, male Marsh Harrier, Kestrel, Peregrine, Oystercatcher, 2 Lapwing, 2 Common Sandpiper, 27 Swallow, 3 House Martin, 2 Sand Martin, 5 Wheatear, 10 Reed Warbler, 2 Sedge Warbler, 13 Cetti's Warbler, 11 Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Reed Bunting (Conrad Ellam); didn't see the Ring Ouzel but I only walked through the southern part of Crayford Marhes and I don't know where the saltings are; Ring Ouzel still present in` same area. The saltings is the area east of Erith Yacht Club along the foreshore and the bird is on the fields nearest to the industrial estate (on the landward side of the Thames path), usually behind the hedgerow. Also in this area female Wheatear and Lesser Whitethroat, Corn Bunting singing along Cray creek where also male Marsh Harrier, Lesser Whitethroat, Little Ringed Plover heard plus a Whimbrel on the saltings (Ian Stewart); I had a Whimbel over, thanks for reminding me (Conrad Ellam)
 * Danson Park: 8 House Martin, Swallows, Hobby, Stock Dove (pairs), Goldfinch, Blackcaps (m/fm), Jackdaws, Collared Dove (pair), Great CrestedGrebe (pair 1 young), Little Grebe, Tufted Ducks, 2 Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail (pair), Sparrowhawk (pair), Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Reed Warbler, Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush (pair), Goldcrest, Heron (pair 2 young), Cormorant, Stock Doves (Ron Turner)
 * Dollis Brook: Gordon Road Allotments - Finchley Tennis Club - 2 singing Chiffchaff, singing Blackcap, singing Garden Warbler 16:15 on footpath leading down to the bridge from Brent Way, seen breifly before lost to the North (Samuel Levy)
 * Eastcote (Field End Road): Grey Wagtail over (Jon Ridge)
 * Gallions Reach: Little Tern downriver at 12.00, 7 Whimbrel - East (KJMcmanus)
 * Greenwich Ecology Park: 4 Common Tern, 2 House Martins, 1 Little Grebe, 1Swallow, 1 Pied Wagtail, 1 Reed Warbler (John Bushell)
 * Hampstead Heath: Generally quiet but 50+ Meadow Pipits N late morning (incl. 2 groups of c.20 birds) last few weeks generally ones and twos (Pete Mantle)
 * Hampton: 1 Pied Flycatcher sang briefly in my front garden 6.40 AM, could not be relocated later despite searching (Gordon Shaw)
 * Harold Park Farm, Nazeing: 16 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Wheatear, 6 Yellowhammer, 2 Red Kite, Common Buzzard, 20 Linnet, 24 House Sparrow, 3 Red-legged Partridge, 12 Lapwing, Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat, 4 Swallow (Martin Shepherd)
 * Ladywell Fields: Nuthatch, singing Song Thrush, 2 Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Grey Wagtail, 2 Jay (Tom Moulton/Sue Gore/Judith Simmons)
 * Lake Farm CP: 3 Wheatear, 5 Common Whitethroat, Willow Warbler (Stuart Fisher)
 * King George V Res: at least 2 Swift among multitude hirundines (Brian Dawton)
 * DSC08063.jpg London Wetland Centre: Glaucous Gull 2cy, Caspian Gull 2cy, Yellow-legged Gull 4cy, 355 Herring Gull, 50 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Shelduck, 3m Yellow Wagtail, m Ring Ouzel still, 3m Sedge Warbler, 40 Starling, 70 Crow (J. Wilczur); 1 Common Tern, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Wheatear male, 1 Common Snipe (Mat Hare); Glaucous Gull, Ring Ouzel, 40+ Sand Martin, 4 Little Ringed Plover and Willow Warbler (Shailesh Patel)* Mile End Park: Willow Warbler m singing (Bob Watts)
 * Rainham Marshes RSPB: Little Tern downriver over Thames c1230 viewed from Ferry Lane being mobbed by 2 Black-headed Gulls, then 2 Arctic Terns upriver, Eurasian Whimbrel, Corn Bunting, 4 Northern Wheatears, 2 Lesser Whitethroats, c. 16 Common Whitethroats (Dominic Mitchell); 2 Black Tern, Arctic Tern (BirdGuides), m Merlin, 3 Arctic Tern, 7 Common Tern, Ruff, 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Knot, 4 Dunlin, 4 Whimbrel, 2 Avocet, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Corn Bunting, 7 Wheatear, 2 Grasshopper Warbler (RSPB)
 * Richmond Park: 2 Buzzard, 1 Red Kite, 3 Reed Bunting, 7 Skylark, 1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Stonechat, 2 Wheatear (Friday Group).
 * Rotherhithe: 1 Sand Martin over Lavender Pond (John & Janet Cadera)
 * St James's Park: Reed Warbler in the reedbed between Horse Guards Parade and the Cafe (Frank Nugent).
 * Swanscombe Marsh: 4 reeling Grasshopper Warblers, 2 male Marsh Harrier, Little Egret, Greenshank, Curlew, 13 Oystercatcher, 10 Mediterranean Gull [8 adult & 2 2nd-summer], 13 Swallow, Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, 16 Cett's Warbler, 2 Raven (Andrew Self); 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Willow Warbler, Nightingale (heard), 14 Mediterranean Gull, Wheatear, 3 Common Whitethroat, Wall Butterfly (Roger Keith)
 * Tooting Commons: Willow Warbler singing at south end of lake close to fox log (James Hudson)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: Common Whitethroat m singing Scrapyard Meadow (Bob Watts).
 * Trent Park: 5 Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, 4 Common Whitethroat, Stock Dove, m Mandarin, 2 Swallow, m Kestrel, Cormorant. (Pete Lowman).
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Greenshank, 2 Little Ringed Plover and 2 Common Sandpipers on No 5; 2 Common Sandpipers on Lockwood; 5 Wheatears (including 3 on the filterbeds), c50 Meadow Pipits going north in small parties late morning as at Hampstead Heath (Walthamstow Birders).
 * Wanstead Flats: Ring Ouzel, f Redstart, 2 Wheatear, 10 Meadow Pipit, 4 Skylark, 2 Gadwall, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Swallow (Nick Croft/Simon Worsfold)
 * Willesden Green: 2 European Bee-eater flew over garden. "Can someone update time and direction of sighting, thanks FJM"(Andrew Benbow-Twitter) Said east on RBA (per Bob Watts) [these are the ones broadcast as being over Wembley]
 * Woodberry Wetlands: m Peregrine, 4 Shelduck, 2 Willow Warbler, 12 Reed Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting (Chris Farthing)
 * Wormwood Scrubs: 2 Whitethroat (Charlie Farrell)

Thursday 20th April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: no sign Common Redstart around cricket scrub, Linnet east 0635 (Bob Watts). Male and female Kestrel mating by reservoir 1900 (Brian Milligan)
 * Bromley-by-Bow: Black Kite soaring over West Ham/Stratford at around 1.00pm, clearly dark overall, triangular tail shape, clearly bowed wings whilst soaring, at first thought Marsh Harrier but observed bird for several minutes before it drifted NW (Stuart Fisher)
 * Brookmill Park: 2 Stock Dove, Song Thrush, Blackcap (Conrad Ellam)
 * Crayford Marshes: (11.15am) M Ring Ouzel in field details as per Ian Stewart yesterday. Also 6 Cetti's Warblers, Chiffchaff, Skylark. (E. Brown, P Graham)
 * Crossness: 8 Cetti's Warbler, 7 Reed Warbler, 4 Common Whitethroat, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Barn Swallow, several Linnet, 1 Kestrel, 1 Lapwing; 1 Little Grebe, 2 pairs of Common Pochard and several Tufted Duck on marsh dykes; 26 Black-tailed Godwits, 100 Common Teal, 63 Gadwall and 40 Shelduck on the Thames; Water Vole in ditch just outside Protected Area (Patrick English)
 * Danson Park: Heron (pair with two young on nest), Blackbird (pair with 3 fully fledged young), 3 Song Thrush, 5 Egyptian Geese, Jackdaws, Goldcrest, Blackcaps (m/fm), Chiffchaffs, 5 Swallow, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Chaffinch, Little Grebe (2 pairs), Peregrine Falcon 3, Sparrowhawk (1 pair), Great Crested Grebe pair (1 young), Pied Wagtail, Tufted Duck (John Bushell, Ron Turner)
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - Starling, Stock Dove, Collared Dove. (Samuel Levy)
 * Gallions Reach: Osprey, Swift (KJMcmanus)
 * Hale End Rd Allotments E17: 3m Blackcap. (Daniel Whitelegg)
 * Hampstead Heath: 3 Swallows N, late morning + fledged juv. Robin and juv. Song Thrush (Pete Mantle). 6.30pm Tawny Owl in scrub just up from Sanctuary Pond. (MHill)
 * Ingrebourne Valley: Wheatear, 2 Grey Partridge, Red-legged Partridge, 4 Lapwing, 4 Yellowhammer, 6 Willow Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 5 Buzzard, Common Tern, Swallow, Sand Martin, Cuckoo reported (Dante Shepherd/Nick Croft)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2prs Shelduck, Mandarin, 4 Wigeon, Moorhen with all yellow bill and legs, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Jack Snipe, juv Glaucous Gull, ad Rook lingering, 2 Yellow Wagtail E/SE, m Wheatear, m Ring Ouzel, 3 Swallow N. (R.Kaye) 2nd Jack Snipe in same area as above, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Stock Dove, 1 Common Snipe (Martin Honey et al.)
 * Regent's Park: Hawfinch 6:46 (Birdguides)
 * River Cray, Orpington: 1 Song Thrush, 3 Mistle Thrush, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Little Egret, 1 Coot, 4 Moorhen, 1 Common Gull, 3 Jay, 4 Blackcap - 12.10-12.40 (Jamie Fletcher)
 * RSPB Rainham Marshes: Cuckoo early am (HTV)
 * Staines Reservoir : Great Northern Diver showing well on North Basin at 11:15, plus c6 Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, 3 Common Swift (Simon Worsfold & Bob Martin)
 * The Priory Gardens, Orpington: 8 Mistle Thrush, 5 Goldcrest, 7 Moorhen, 1 Blackcap, 3 Song Thrush, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Egyptian Goose, 25 Coot, 47 Mallard, 33 Canada Goose, 16 Greylag Goose, 2 Little Grebe - 11.25-12.05 (Jamie Fletcher)
 * Totteridge Valley: 3 Common Whitethroat, 8 Blackcap, 6 Chiffchaff, Grasshopper Warbler singing briefly, 2 Lapwing, 3 Swallow, Stock Dove, Mandarin, 2 Coal Tit (Simon Worsfold)
 * Wanstead Flats: 3 Willow Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Whitethroat, Wheatear, 3 Swallow, Reed Bunting, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 3 Meadow Pipit, 3 Skylark (Nick Croft/Bob Vaughan)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Common Sandpiper, Snipe, Peregrine, Sparrowhawk, 2 Shelduck, 2 Egyptian Geese, 8 Reed Warbler (Chris Farthing)
 * Woodlands Farm: 9 singing Blackcap, 4 singing Chiffchaff, Kestrel, Stock Dove (Conrad Ellam)
 * Woolwich Common: Common Whitethroat, 3 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)

Wednesday 19th April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Common Redstart male Rose Garden and vicinity [tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:0840-0930 0840-0930] 0840-0930] 0840-0930] 0840-0930] 0840-0930] 0840-0930] 0840-0930] 0840-0930] at least, also Common Buzzard NW 1056, 2 Greylag Goose, Linnet, hybrid Pochard x Tufted Duck Boating Lake (Dominic Mitchell, Gareth Richards per Bob Watts); Common Redstart male still showing well 1215 at bottom of pitch and putt course (Bruce Carson); presumed same bird briefly Cricket Scrub 2000 flew into oak (Bob Watts)
 * Barking Bay: c90 Shelduck, 10 Teal, 2 Gadwall, 3 Common Snipe, 1 Grey Plover 1st summer, 4 Common Sandpiper, 6 Oystercatcher, 9 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, 16 Whimbrel East (4,10,2), 2 Caspian Gull both 2cy, Iceland Gull 2cy, c. 55 Common Tern, 11 Skylark, 15 Sand Martin, 8 singing Meadow Pipit, Common Redstart male at the entrance to The Gores, 9 Whitethroat, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Reed Warbler, 2 Sedge Warbler, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 14 Linnet (N.P. Senior)
 * Barnes, Lonsdale Road Reservoir: pr Mute Swan with nest, m Teal, m Gadwall, pr Shoveler, 2 prs Pochard, 4 Stock Dove with aggression seen between them and Ring necked Parakeets on a black poplar with many holes, Cetti's Warbler singing, 2 Reed Warbler singing, Willow Warbler singing. Is it possible that the powers that be at this site could be persuaded NOT to raise the water level, which is now dropping to reveal a nice muddy margin, invaluable to passage and breeding birds alike. (R.Kaye)
 * Brent Reservoir: pair of Egyptian Goose with 7 goslings, 2 Common Buzzard together S 12:45, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Swallow N, 6 Chiffchaff, 10 Blackcap, 2 Reed Warbler, 2 Cetti's Warbler (Steve Leeke, Andrew Verrall)
 * Bushy Park: Chiffchaff (calling), Green Woodpecker, 2 Mandarin Duck, Mistle Thrush, 2 Shelduck, 2 Skylark, 3 Song Thrush,5 Stock Dove, 2 Stonechat (Ian R Watson)
 * Crayford Marshes: Male Ring Ouzel inland of saltings on field near ind est, 10+ Wheatear, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, m Wigeon, 2 Buzzard, Kestrel, 2 Oystercatcher, Little Ringed Plover, 3 Lapwing, 3 Redshank, 5+ Skylark, 6+ Swallow, 4+ Blackcap, 15+ Whitethroat, 8+ Cetti's Warbler, 3 Reed Warbler, 4+ Chiffchaff, Jay, 2 Corn Bunting (Ian Stewart)
 * East India Dock NR: Reed Warbler (eastern reeds), Reed Bunting, 3 Little Ringed Plover, Mistle Thrush (riverside lawn nr East India Dock DLR), 2 Arctic Tern (north), 1 Common Tern (east), 2 Blackcap (m f), Chiffchaff, Shelduck (Paul Hyland)
 * Fishers Green: Garden Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, Lapwing, Redshank, Common Buzzard, Rook (Simon Worsfold)
 * Forty Hall CP: male Bullfinch on ground next to dandelion (Robert Callf)
 * Greenwich Ecology Park: 2 Little Grebe, 2 Common Tern, 2 Sand Martin, Blackcap m 3 Reed Warbler (John Bushell)
 * Ham Lands: m Redstart early-am (nature_kate twitter)
 * Holloway N7: Loose flock of 25+ Waxwings alighted briefly in triangle of trees at junction of Camden and Caledonian Rd at 08.10 hrs before flying off NW (towards the Heath?). At 09.15hrs, approx 10+ birds returned to the tall Lime tree at the same location (D.Jordan)
 * Home Park: 54 Egyptian Goose (incl. one family of 11 goslings), 4 Green Woodpecker, 4 Pheasant, 11 Sand Martin, 2 Skylark (Nigel Jackman)
 * Kentish Town: 3 Common Buzzard soaring together over Harmood Street at 1400 drifted W (Pete Mantle)
 * Kew Gardens: Red Kite over c 1700 flying slowly towards West (John Tate)
 * Lake Farm Country Park, Hayes: 1 Ring Ouzel male till 07.20 when flushed by a dog walker (Dave Morris)
 * Lincoln's Inn Fields WC2: singing Willow Warbler, Mistle Thrush feeding young in nest, singing Chaffinch (Hugh Bradshaw)
 * London Wetland Centre: 6 singing Cetti's Warbler, 8 Reed Warbler, 11 Blackcap (incl. 1f), 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 7 Redshank, 4 Shelduck, 1 Glaucous Gull, 1 Common Tern, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Common Snipe, 1 Jack Snipe, 1 Peregrine on Ch X, 1 Song Thrush, a few Swallows and House Martins and lots of Sand Martins gathering nesting material, 1 Tufted X Pochard hybrid (Martin Honey); 1 Caspian Gull, 1 Ring Ouzel (Marc McL)
 * Oxleas Wood: Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Chiffchaff, Blackcap (m/fm), Common Buzzardm Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Jackdaw, Nuthatch (pair), Stock Dove, Coal Tit, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goldcrest (Ron Turner)
 * Pinner (HA5): White Stork north-west/north over the house at 17:25 - picked up over Ruislip later (Jon Ridge)
 * Richmond Park: Lapwing - Upper Pen Pond, 1+ Red Kite, 4 Wheatear, Reed Warbler, Linnet over (M.Lewis, J.Wilczur); Yesterday - 8 Waxwing at a small pool just N of entrance road to White Ash Lodge (J.Pearce per JW)
 * RSPB Rainham Marshes: 13 Singing Whitethroat, 16 Singing Reed Warbler, 40 Singing Sedge Warbler, 20 Reed Bunting, 78 Shelduck, 27 Singing Cetti's Warbler, 5 Little Egret, 12 Swallow, Willow Warbler, 3 Singing Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 25 Gadwall, 3 Blackcap, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, Rock Pipit, 9 Oystercatcher, Common Tern, Arctic Tern, 4 Common Buzzard, 4 Kestrel, 5 Wheatear, 4 Hobby, 4 Marsh Harrier, 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Avocet, 2 Stonechat, 27 Tufted Duck, 58 Shoveler, 2 Pheasant, 6 Rook, Ruff, 2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 5 Singing Chiffchaff, Barn Owl, 16 Pochard, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Green Shank, 6 Wigeon, 2 Pintail, Common Snipe, 2 Whimbrel. 80+ Species in total. Also Stoat in front of Ken Barret. (Samuel Levy + Nick Croft + Dante Shepherd) Short-eared Owl, Dunlin, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Sand Martin. (Dante Shepherd + Nick Croft)
 * Ruislip: White Stork over at approx 1740 headed north (M.Powlesland per WM)
 * St.Pauls: Red Kite over drifting East at 10.55. (Ken Murray)
 * Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 2 Grasshopper Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Common Whitethroat, many Blackcap and Chiffchaff, 1 Common Buzzard, 4 Swallow( Tony Clancy) also 2 Little Egret, 6 Teal, Mandarin, Sparrowhawk, 3 Bullfinch, Lapwing plus five species of butterfly (John Colmans, Bob Husband, Fay Broom, Marian)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: Whimbrel main pit on sandspit 1130, 7 Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 2 Oystercatcher, Common Tern, Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, Yellowhammer, 2 Tree Sparrow. (Alan Gardiner/S Blake)
 * Wallington Garden: 1 Buzzard over, 3 Goldcrest, 1 Blackcap (Arjun Dutta) any final opinions on the possible Merlin last week? small male Peregrine? Thanks (AD) Peregrine (anon) I can't see how you can judge the size from these photos. (JR) But these pictures seem Peregrine. Good ID practise all the same.
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Whimbrel over east at 7:15am. 2 Little Ringed Plover and 2 Common Sandpiper on rapidly refilling No. 5, Rook north, Yellow Wagtail, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Linnet, 2 Common Swift, c10 Sand Martin, Sparrowhawk on Lockwood, Green Sandpiper on relief channel, singing Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 3 Kestrel, 2 Peregrine, 5 Common Buzzard (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Wembley Park: Hobby this evening (Joe Taylor)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Snipe, 4 Shelduck, 8 House Martin (Chris Farthing)
 * Wormwood Scrubs: 1 Swallow, m Kestrel, 1 Whitethroat, 6 Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff (Charlie Farrell)

Tuesday 18th April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Swallow Wood Green Res, Willow Warbler 0740, White Wagtail 1740 Wood Green Res (Bob Watts)
 * Bow Creek: 1 Cetti's Warbler (Charlie Farrell)
 * Brent Reservoir: Whimbrel on mud in East Marsh (Steve Leeke per Roy Beddard) also Common Snipe and 2 Little Ringed Plovers.
 * Brookmill Park: Little Egret, 3 Blackcap, House Sparrow (Conrad Ellam)
 * Church House Gardens, Bromley: 2 Blackcap, 4 Goldcrest, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Grey Wagtail, 15 Mallard, 11 Moorhen (4 on nests), 2 Coot (1 on nest), 1 Nuthatch, 2 Song Thrush - 11.15-12.00 (Jamie Fletcher)
 * East India Dock Basin: 2 Little Ringed Plover, pr Gadwall, Shelduck (Charlie Farrell)
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - 2 Starling, 2 Jay, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Swallow N 12:25. (Samuel Levy
 * Fryent Country Park: 2 Gadwall, Common Buzzard, Common Snipe, Swift, 10 Meadow Pipit, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 House Sparrow (Joe Taylor)
 * KGV Res: Black Tern & 10  Arctic Tern 0800, 2 Common Tern, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Wheatear m&f, Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler (Neville Smith via Twitter) 9 Arctic Tern on S Basin, 1 Yellow Wagtail and singing Lesser Whitethroat by Overflow at 4.15pm. (Davey Leach)
 * Molesey Heath: Possible Iberian Chiffchaff still singing in copse at NE end early morning (RBA) RBA are putting this out as an Iberian Chiffchaff, not possible. I am hearing from site that it is a mixed singing Chiffchaff. Is there anyone prepared to give an informed opinion on the sonogram and/or video/audio recording as to what this actually is? (confused of Walthamstow). There is recording on xeno canto and clip on You Tube; both sound convincing. Also responded today to Iberian Chiffchaff playback. The one I had at Broxbourne, on the 8th, and the Barnes (Steve Bacon also heard that singing) bird didn't have the chiffy flourish (on xeno canto) at the end, interesting! (Nick Croft) The song in the field today varied - soemtimes it sounded very good, while at other times it did it sort of backwards, with the trill followed by the chiff-chiff bit, rather than starting with a few chiffs and ending with the trill. There were also short snatches of Willow Warbler-like song coming from the area it was singing from, but I'm not sure it was the bird - there might have been a Willow Warbler in there too. It definitely responded to playback of Iberian Chiffchaff song by coming closer, looking around, singing more loudly and consistently singing the typical Iberian Chiffchaff-type song rather than any variations. In appaearnce, the face pattern looks fine, with a prominent supercilium, and I thought the wing projection looked longer than on a typical chiff, but it shows hardly any yellow. I guess detailed analysis of the sonogram will settle it, but in the meantime I think it's worth seeing (John Archer). Snatches of Willow Warb song are a good indicator of ICC according to the BB article. This bird does do so. Thanks for all the feedback, I've had time to check Xeno-Canto compare the video and audio of this bird, I'm afraid it wasn't quite ticking the boxes for me. Now I see RBA are putting it out as Chiffchaff or hybrid. (Less confused of Walthamstow); Stone Curlew nr old Field Common GP early-am but not since (per Surrey BC)
 * Priest Hill: Red Kite S 1150, f Redstart (Steve Gale via Twitter)
 * Rainham RSPB: Missing rucksack  containing Zeiss binoculars, digital camera and fieldguides, stolen from car park yesterday. If you have any information please ring the police or Rainham RSPB ([tel:01708&#x20;[tel:899840&#x20;[tel:01708&#x20;[tel:899840&#x20;[tel:01708&#x20;[tel:899840&#x20;[tel:01708&#x20;[tel:899840&#x20;01708 899840 01708] 899840] 01708] 899840] 01708] 899840] 01708] 899840]) Lots of singing Sedge, Reed and Cetti's Warblers, several Common Whitethroat, a few Chiffchaff, plenty of Redshank, Lapwings with chicks, Skylarks singing, small flocks of Sand Martin with a few Swallows, 3 different Marsh Harrier incl. 1m, 1 Greenshank but the best sighting of the day was a Stoat swimming across to one of the islands in front of the Ken Barrett hide (Martin Honey & B. Page)
 * Richmond Park: Ring Ouzel briefly at 7.45am in bracken patch north of Holly Lodge, then flew north into trees on northern edge of Park (Hugh Bradshaw) 2m Ring Ouzel - briefly in treetops just w of Isabella Plantation at 08.30 probably different to above bird (J.Few per JW); m Lesser Whitethroat - N side of paddocks (M.Lewis per JW)
 * Royal Victoria Gardens: Singing Willow Warbler (Conrad Ellam)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: 19 Arctic Tern north-east at 07:45, Yellow Wagtail north-east, Willow Warbler, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Common Whitethroat, 2 Cetti's Warbler (Martin Shepherd)
 * Staines Reservoirs: 29 Arctic Tern on S basin mid am till midday at least.1 Great Northern Diver, full summer plumage on N basin, 30 Common Tern commuting between KG VI Res and here mid am.1 Dunlin 1 Little Ringed Plover (Dave Morris, Lee Evans per FJM); Black-necked Grebe, South Basin, western shore 5pm (Mike Wheeler)
 * Stanwell Moor: 1 Grasshopper Warbler still reeling near approach board walk to Staines Moor. (Dave Morris per FJM)
 * Thames Barrier Park: 13 Arctic Tern downriver 2.15, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, Swallow W, 1 Willow Warbler, Whitethroat (N.P.Senior)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: 2m Willow Warblers singing (Bob Watts)
 * Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 43 Stock Dove, 3 Rook (in 'Cow' Field), 5 Common Buzzard, 2 Green Woodpecker, 5 Coot + 4 Tufted Duck (on Long Pond), 5 Swallow, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Lesser Black Backed Gulls, Herring Gull, 2 Lapwing, 10 Singing Chiffchaff, Whitethroat (in 'Owl' field), Grey Heron, 2 Little Egret, 8 Teal + 2 Mandarin Ducks (Darlands Lake). Also Muntjac (Samuel levy) Sedge Warbler in hedge by horse stables Partingdale Lane (Tony Clancy)
 * Victoria Embankment Gardens (WC2N): Willow Warbler singing, 2+ male Blackcap singing. (Graeme Spinks)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 2 Shelduck, 2 Shoveler, Peregrine, Coal Tit, 2 Willow Warbler, 3 Reed Warbler, Swallow (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 2 islandica Black-tailed Godwits, Dunlin, Little Ringed Plover No 5, 2 Common Sandpipers Lockwood (Jamie Partridge) pic
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: on bank of River Lea adjacent to East Warwick and opposite Kessock Close N17 9PW - first family of 5 Coot chicks. (Quentin Given)
 * Wanstead Flats: Wheatear, 4 Willow Warbler, 5 Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Swallow, 10 Meadow Pipit,4 Skylark, 4 Gadwall, Kestrel (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: Cetti's Warbler still by Roding, Reed Warbler, 3 WillowWarbler, 2 Whitethroat,  Little Egret, 5 Stock Dove, Little Grebe (Wanstead Birders)
 * Woolwich Ferry: Sandwich Tern downriver 12.20, 4 Common Tern flying around ferry area 1.00pm (Conrad Ellam)

Monday 17th April 2017

 * Brent Reservoir: 2 Little Ringed Plover, 14 Swallow, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Reed Warbler, 16 Blackcap, 2 Common Whitethroat, 2 Willow Warbler, 11 Chiffchaff (Brent Birders)
 * Bushy Park: Great Crested Grebe (Ian R Watson)
 * Chelsea Bridge: 2 Oystercatcher East, Yellow-legged Gull 4cy on barges, 2 Grey Wagtail, 4 House Martin west (Nick Senior)
 * Crayford Marshes (Landfill): 7 Common Whitethroat, 2 Wheatear, Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff, 3 Greenfinch, 25 Linnet, 2 Meadow Pipit, 2 Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting, 4 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Pheasant, 8 Jackdaw, Song Thrush, 15 Skylark, 3 Willow Warbler (Donna Zimmer)
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - 2 Starling, Jay, 3 Stock Dove (Samuel Levy)
 * Hampstead Heath: Common Sandpiper on the Men's Pond this morning, also 5 singing Willow Warblers (Pete Mantle)
 * Hounslow: Red Kite over junction of Staines Road and Wellington Road, c. 17:00 (Iain Darbyshire).
 * KGV Reservoir: drake Pintail, 2 Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 2 Whimbrel 0710 left and went north up the valley. 4 Common Tern, 29+ House Martin, 80+ Swallow, 40+ Sand Martin, 3 Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear male, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, 6 Linnet, Reed Bunting (Neville Smith); female Wheatear, female Pintail, female Goldeneye (Sean Huggins)
 * London Wetland Centre: >6 Yellow Wagtail, Ring Ouzel, Reed Warbler, Blackcap, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Oystercatcher, Pochard, Sand Martin, Swallow (Dan Keel); 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Ringed Plover, 1 Common Sandpiper (Louis Freeland-Haynes); 3 Wheatear, last few Wigeon (3 males noted), pair Shelduck (Mat Hare) BTW Where/when was the Oystercatcher? Didn't hear mention of it from anyone around the site (Mat Hare)
 * Molesey Heath: Possible Iberian Chiffchaff still. singing from copse by River Mole at north-eastern edge of the common. Access not possible from east of the River Mole as construction work being carried out by Thames Water (Chris Turner) Has this been confirmed now? Could you give access and/or parking arrangements please. Park in Approach Rd. Go thro black gates & veer left towards large copse/sailing club. Bird gets either side of river (DMH). Other side of river is totally out of bounds as construction site. Thanks.
 * Priest Hill: Grasshopper Warbler h 06:55-07:20, 4 Redstart m 3f (Steve Gale via Twitter)
 * Rainham RSPB: Bar-tailed Godwit on river early-am (BirdGuides), 2 Dunlin, 2 Avocet, 5 Snipe, 2 Whimbrel, 4 Curlew, 3 Oystercatcher, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Short-eared Owl, 3 Marsh Harrier, 3 Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 2 Wheatear, pr of Stonechat, 3 Bearded Tit, 3 Grasshopper Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Pintail, 4 Wigeon, 3 House Martin and c. 100 hirundine in mixed flock (Nick Croft)
 * Ranelagh Gardens: Common Buzzard N, 2 Yellow Wagtail briefly, 3 Willow Warbler, 1 Blackcap, 4 Linnet NW (Nick Senior)
 * Richmond Park: Common Redstart male (P. Redmond) 2 Common Tern, House Martin, 18 Sand Martin, 5 Swallow (J. Wilczur); 1 Wheatear, 3 Stock Dove, 2 Kestrel (David Simpson). 20+ swallow high over Pen Ponds c 6pm (John Tate)
 * Ruxley GP: m Pied Flycatcher (BirdGuides)
 * Staines Reservoir: no sign Red-necked Grebe 8am, Little Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, 2 Whimbrel, 2 Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 3 Arctic Tern (Dominic Pia via Twitter)
 * Stanwell Moor: Grasshopper Warbler reeling and showing intermittently. From Hithermoor Rd end - in large willows to the right directly before wooden Boardwalk (Catherine Beazley); Hi Catherine, sounds to me like this is actually on Stanwell Moor? (Lee Dingain) You're right Lee - thanks (CB) Kingfisher along Colne at north end, Cetti's Warbler (Iain Darbyshire) Iain - please change your sightings to Staines moor if not Stanwell - thanks (CB)
 * Stoneleigh KT17, The Glade: 3 Willow Warbler, 1 Swallow nw, 2 Sparrowhawk, 1 Pied Wagtail (Neil Batten)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: 2 singing Nightingale, 2 Mediterranean Gull, Marsh Harrier, Common Buzzard, 3 Peregrine, 2 Little Egret, Curlew, Stonechat, 6 Swallow, 17 Cetti's Warbler, 5 Reed Warbler, 5 Sedge Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Common Whitethroat, 5 Willow Warbler, Bearded Tit, 2 Raven (Andrew Self, John & Janet Cadera)
 * Totteridge Valley: Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Common Whitethroat, Willow Warbler (Simon Worsfold): as above but definitely 2 Grasshopper Warblers reeling simultaneously about 10.30, also 2 Teal at Darlands and 5 Jays together, plus 19 singing Chiffchaff and 12 singing Blackcap (John Colmans) SOMEONE DELETED MY SIGHTINGS, AGAIN??? (SL) Same as above, 24 singing Chiffchaff, 4 Willow Warbler, 27 Stock Dove, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Pheasant, 2 Goldcrest, 3 Little Egret, 6 Canada Geese, 2 Lapwing, 6 Swallow, Meadow Pipit, 4 House Sparrow, 3 Rook, 8 Teal, 2 Common Buzzard, 3 Pied Wagtail, Kestrel, drake Goosander 10:50 flew downstream along Folly Brook towards Darlands Lake, spent 2 hours trying to relocate it around Darlands Lake, before my hunger getting the better of me and heading home... (Samuel Levy)
 * Rotherhithe: 4 singing Willow Warblers and 10+ singing Chiffchaffs Russia Dock Woodland (Richard Bonser)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: HOODED CROW S over main pit toward Willows Fm fields - 2 observers per Herts BN] c0855 (Ricky Flesher via Twitter); no sign 10:00-11:30 (Ian Bennell via Twitter)
 * Trent Park: 5 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap, Sparrowhawk, m Mandarin, 5 Tufted Duck 4m 1f, 2G S Woodpecker, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Grn Woodpecker, m Kestrel, 14 Stock Dove, 2 Pied Wagtail, Mute Swan, Cormorant, Common Whitethroat, Herring Gull.( Pete Lowman).
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 2 Common Terns, Wheatear, 2 Swift, 40 House Martin, 20 Swallow, 1 Oystercatcher, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpipers, 3 Peregrines in view at same time (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Wanstead Flats: 2 Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 3 Willow Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Swallow, 4 Meadow Piipit, 5 Skylark, Sparrowhawk, 2 Gadwall, 2 Pochard (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler (Wanstead Birders)
 * Yeading Valley (Minet Country Park): 1 Northern Wheatear, 1 Barn Swallow, 18 Blackcap, 14 Chiffchaff, 4 Whitethroat, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Kingfisher, 1 Kestrel, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Little Egret, 18 Linnet, 1 Little Owl (Dave Bookless)

Sunday 16th April 2017

 * Barbican EC2: 1 Swallow n, 1 Peregrine, 1 Cormorant, 3 Goldfinch (Neil Batten)
 * Brent Reservoir: 5 Little Ringed Plover, Little Egret, Common Buzzard at 09:25, Common Swift, 3 Swallow, 2 Sand Martin, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Common Whitethroat, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler (Andrew Self), above plus 2 Lapwing, 24 Swallow (Roy Beddard, Bob Husband, NW London RSPB Group)
 * Bushy Park: 2 Chiffchaff, Green Woodpecker, Greenfinch, 2 Mandarin Duck, 3 Meadow Pipit, Nuthatch, Song Thrush, Sparrowhawk, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Swallow. (Ian R Watson)
 * Chelsea Bridge: Caspian Gull 2cy on barges East of bridge (N.P.Senior)
 * Cricklewood - Dicey Avenue: Male Common Redstart being harassed by a Robin near the bird feeders. 10.15am. Nigel Biggs and Thom Shannon.
 * CrossneWaters:3 Swifts over main lake this evng. ss: LBell)e sser Whitethroat singing, 60+ Common Tern, 12 Swallow NW, 4 House Martin N, 17 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Oystercatcher (John Archer). Common Sandpiper, Reed Warbler (Conrad Ellam) 75+ Common Tern, 39 Swallow W, 1 Little Ringed Plover (Rich Bonser, Dante Shepherd)
 * Fairlop Waters:3 Swifts over main lake this evng.(Alan Bell)
 * Finchley: Garden N3: 1 Singing Blackcap 17:00. (Samuel Levy)
 * Foots Cray Meadows: 1 Willow Warbler, 14 Chiffchaff, 7 Blackcap, 3 Swallow, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Jay, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Pied Wagtail, 36 Mallard, 14 Coot, 5 Moorhen, 9 Tufted Duck, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 2 Mute Swan, 7 Black-Headed Gull, 3 Common Gull - 15.30-16.40 (Jamie Fletcher) Egyptian Goose, 2 Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kingfisher, 6 Swallow, 2 Grey Wagtail, 10+ Blackcap, 10+ Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Nuthatch, 3+ Linnet, pair Bullfinch (Ian Stewart, Jack Headley)
 * Gunpowder Park: 2 Little Grebe, Red Kite over, 5 Skylark, 1 Swallow, 1 Song Thrush, pair Blackcap, 1 Reed Warbler, 2 Willow Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 5+ House Sparrows, pair Bullfinch (Harry Harrison)
 * Hampstead Heath: m Wheatear feeding on mown lawn west of bandstand (Pete Mantle)
 * Kentish Town: Little Egret over low W at 15:15, 9 Swallow N plus Peregrine (Frank Nugent).
 * London Wetland Centre: m Redstart, m Ring Ouzel, Wheatear, 2 Ringed Plover, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 2 Peregrine (1N, 1 circling), Buzzard W, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Willow Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler, 3 House Martin, 2 Swallow, 2 Shelduck (pair) (Oscar Dewhurst).
 * Middlesex Filter Beds: Willow Warbler singing at 1200 (Alastair Dent)
 * Oakwood (Bramley Road, N14): Pair Mistle Thrush feeding 4 large chicks in nest (NY) (Robert Callf)
 * Pinner (HA5): Swallow north, Linnet over, Grey Heron, singing Goldcrest, Coal Tit & 2 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Regent's Park/Primrose Hill: pr Gadwall NW, Little Egret low W, Buzzard NNE, Hobby foy NW, 14 Swallow W/NW, 3 House Martin foy WNW, 11 Meadow Pipit NW, 10 Linnet NW - vismig 10:00-12:30, also 5m Willow Warbler (Twitter)
 * Queen's Wood, Wood Vale (private garden): Willow Warbler, Blackcap, in full voice (Matt Evans)
 * Ranelagh Gardens: Hobby NW, 4 Stock Dove, 2 Swift W, Blackcap (N.P.Senior)
 * Richmond Park: m Lesser Whitethroat - N side Holly Lodge paddocks (M.Lewis)
 * Rotherhithe: 3 Yellow-legged Gulls (adult and 2nd-winter of Hilton Hotel early a'noon and 1st-winter off Greenland Pier early evening) (Rich Bonser and Dante Shepherd)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: Cetti's Warbler south of Godwin Close, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Common Whitethroat (Martin Shepherd)
 * Staines Reservoirs: Red-necked Grebe - summer plumage found early am near causeway by unknown observer. Please add your name if you read this post, thanks. Still on E side of S basin mostly out beyond turbulent water from aeration pipes.early pm. 2 Arctic Tern on S basin mostly distant. 2 Common Tern, 1 Black-necked Grebe, SW corner of S basin. (Franko J. Maroevic)
 * Thamesmead: 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull on the river, 15 Sand Martin, 2 House Martin and 1 Swallow Thamesmere early a'noon (Rich Bonser, Dante Shepherd)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: Common Whitethroat just N of paddocks, Sedge Warbler singing N of boardwalk, Kestrel (f) Bomb Crater Field, 6+ Sand Martin near black bridge/Leyton Marsh at 1000 (Alastair Dent)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Grey Plover on No 5, 2 Swift, 6 House Martin, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Lesser Whitethroats (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Wanstead Flats: Sand Martin, 2 Swallow, 3 Willow Warbler, Whitethroat, 2 Teal, Pochard (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park:  Cetti;s Warbler, 4 Willow Warbler, 2 Whithethroat, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Little Egret (Wanstead Birders)

Saturday 15th April 2017

 * Barnes, Barn Elms Playing Fields and Beverley Brook: Egyptian Goose 2 pairs, plus an adult on a nest in a large hole in a Plane tree in the Copse, m Pochard, m Mandarin, Sparrowhawk pair displaying, Caspian Gull 1st winter, 18 Stock Dove, 3 Willow Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Linnet S (R.Kaye)
 * Bexleyheath - The Warren - 7 Stock Dove (3 pairs), 2 Jay, 3 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap (Ralph Todd)
 * Brent Reservoir: Common Swift, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 15 Swallow, 20 Sand Martin, House Martin, Wheatear, 3 Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, 3 Willow Warbler, 2 Cetti's Warbler (Andrew Self, Andrew Verrall)
 * Brookmill Park: Mute Swan pair, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
 * East Sheen Common SW14: 4m Willow Warbler (J.Wilczur)
 * Enfield Lock: Red Kite high west over house at 13:30 (Martin Shepherd)
 * Frays Farm LWT: Grasshopper Warbler, 3 Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler, 2 Bullfinch, Kestrel, Buzzard (Dan Pinkham)
 * Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park: Little Grebe, Sand Martin 3, House Martin 2, Swallow 1, Sedge Warbler 1. (John Bushall)
 * Ham, Richmond: Common Sandpiper on riverbank opposite Eel Pie Island 1200, often seen Spring and Autumn, never Summer or Winter (Mike Foster)
 * Hogsmill STW Nature Reserve: Shelduck, 3 Pochard, 19 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 17 Stock Dove, 2 Swallow NW, 3 Sand Martin, Cetti's Warbler, Willow Warbler (Andrew Skotnicki)
 * KGV Reservoir: east side, mid afternoon; 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Redshank, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Common Tern, 4 Common Buzzard (Martin Shepherd) Goldeneye, Oystercatcher, Reed Warbler, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Reed Bunting (Neville Smith).
 * Lee Valley, Cornmill Meadows: 2 Redshank, 1 drake Mandarin (Mike Oakland)
 * Lee Valley, Fishers Green Island: 1 Nightingale (Mike Oakland)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Ringed Plover, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 4 House Martin, 1 Snipe, 1 Peregrine, 3 Reed Warbler, 4 Shelduck (2 pairs), 1 Common Snipe (Oscar Dewhurst); Glaucous Gull 2cy, Caspian Gull 2cy, Jack Snipe, 8 Egyptian Goose - 2 broods of 3 & 1, 4 Teal - 2 pairs, Common Sandpiper, 7 Redshank, 21 Lapwing, Kingfisher, m Pied Wagtail, 7m Willow Warbler, 4m Reed Bunting (J.Wilczur, W.Newnham) 1 Sedge Warbler, 3 Swallows heading N (Martin Honey)
 * Island Barn Reservoir: 60+ Swallow, 3 House Martin, 15 Sand Martin, (Chris Turner)
 * Morden Hall Park: Common Redstart (female near north-west corner), at least 4 Willow Warbler singing, Cetti's Warbler (Nick Rutter)
 * Pinner (HA5): Red Kite north at 17:10, Coal Tit & 2 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Rainham, Stone Barges: 1 Sandwich Tern 1 Arctic Tern 10 Common Tern (Neville Smith). Grasshopper Warbler, Willow Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Ringed Plover, 2 Avocet, Dunlin, 2 Oystercatcher, Sparrowhawk, Raven, 5 Wheatear, 3 Stonechat, House Martin (Nick Croft)
 * Regent's Park: Ring Ouzel briefly at 6:30am (Dante Shepherd)
 * Richmond Park: Common Swift over Upper Pen Ponds (P. Redmond); 3 Wheatear (S.Woolfenden)
 * Ruislip: Red Kite dropping one on the Con club, bird of the day (Dan Pinkham )
 * Staines Reservoirs: Great Northern Diver, full summer plumage, on far side of north basin late morning. (John Edwards); First Common Swifts present this morning (Twitter); 2 Great Northern Divers at 2 pm, the Summer plumage bird mentioned above and a darker transitional plumage bird which flew off south. (Jim Fell). GND still at 6:00, Black-necked Grebe, 3 Swallow, 2 Goldeneye, Oystercatcher (Nick Croft)
 * Staines Moor: 6+ swallows, Lesser Whitethroat. (Jim Fell).
 * Teddington: 2 Swallow flying NE (Ian R Watson)
 * Tooting Bec Common: 2 Swallow W, 2+ Willow Warbler, 1 Little Owl, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Jackdaw (Alan Wilkinson). Where was the Little Owl seen? (AD). Little Owl often in large oaks at TQ2928672518, but hard to see now as trees are leafing (AW). Any more thoughts on your possible Merlin? (JR) With those being the only few pictures I'm leaving it down to you experts to decide, as I can't tell! (AD)
 * Trent Park: 6 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, Red Kite, 2 Common Buzzard, Cormorant, Mute Swan, Willow Warbler, 4 Swallow, 6 Stock Dove, Pied Wagtail, Mistle Thrush, Linnet, 2 Red-legged Partridge, LBB Gull. ( Pete Lowman).
 * Victoria Park: Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe, 4 Egyptian Geese,7 Red Crested Pochards, 2 Stock Dove, 7 House Martin, 5 Mistle Thrush, 2 Song Thrush, 5 Blackcap, 3 House Sparrows (Harry Harrison)
 * Wallington Garden: 2 Swallow through, 2 Common Buzzard, 1 Sparrowhawk, another raptor high over but no clear views (Arjun Dutta)
 * Walthamstow: AWPW5 is being held on Saturday 29th April, all welcome Details here. (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: Riding Stables rear paddocks, m Wheatear flushed by hunting Kestrel, Whitethroat, 3 Blackcap 16.50 to 17.15 (Jan Dobbie)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 1f Wheatear, 1 Whitethroat, 3 Reed Warbler, 2 Sedge Warbler, 5 Blackcap, 2m Reed Bunting, 1 House Martin, 2 Swallow, 22 Sand Martin, 19 Pochard, 2 Grey Wagtail, 1 Peregrine, 13 prs of Great Crested Grebe, 1 3cy Greater Black Backed Gull - E&W Warwick. 7m Gadwall - No1. (Daniel Whitelegg)
 * Wanstead Flats: Ring Ouzel (Tony Brown), 2 Wheatear (Rob Sheldon), 4 Willow Warbler, 2 Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: Cetti's Warbler still by Roding (Bob Vaughan/Tony Brown/Tim Harris)
 * Walton Reservoirs: 1 Black-necked Grebe, 2 Sedge Warbler. (Chris Turner)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Peregrine, 2 Shelduck, 3 Red-crested Pochard, 2 Shoveler, Swallow, 4 Willow Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting (Chris Farthing)

Friday 14th April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Swallow, 3 Willow Warbler, 7 Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, 3 Meadow Pipit (Sam Jones)


 * Barking Bay: 106 Shelduck, 21 Teal, 2 Gadwall, 8 Oystercatchers, 4 Snipe, 2 Ringed Plover, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Common Sandpiper, 58 Common Tern, 2 Caspian Gull both 2cy, 3 Yellow-legged Gull all 2cy, 220 Black-headed Gull, 3 Common Gull, 11 Skylark, 8 Meadow Pipit, 21 Sand Martin, 4 Swallow, 7 Wheatear (3 leucorhoa), 5 Whitethroat, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Sedge Warbler, 3 Reed Warbler, 20 Linnet, 4 Reed Bunting; Common Seal (Nick Senior)
 * Brent Reservoir: 5 Little Ringed Plover, Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 12 Meadow Pipit over, 24 Swallow, 2 Sand Martin, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler, 19 Blackcap, 15 Chiffchaff, 2 Willow Warbler (Brent Birders). 13.25 Amazing views of hunting immature Peregrine Falcon in front of main hide. Black Swan still by bridge, Grey Heron with nesting twig in North Marsh. (Bob Husband)
 * Bushy Park: Blackcap, 7 Chiffchaff, Great Spotted Woodpecker female, 8+ Green Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, 3 Skylark singing, 7 Song Thrush, 2 Stock Dove, Willow Warbler (Mat Hare)
 * Cranford CP: 5 Swallows over together, Common Buzzard, c10 singing Blackcaps, 17 Blackbirds, 4 ChiffChaff, 3 Skylark, Meadow Pipit (Wendy Marks)
 * Crossness: Sedge Warbler, 3 Reed Wabler, Whitethroat, 41+ Common Tern, 2 Swallow NW, 5 Sand Martin N, Little Ringed Plover, Snipe, 44 Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Oystercatcher (John Archer).
 * Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park: Little Grebe, Common Tern 3,Sand Martin 5, House Martin 2. Swallow 1, Willow Warbler 1. Chiffchaff1, Blackcap 1 (male), Mistle thrush 1. (Richard Green, John Bushel)
 * Greenwich Peninsula: Linnet 4 Meantime nursery (Richard Green)
 * Hampstead Heath: Pair of Teal on High No.1 this morning (Pete Mantle)
 * Hogsmill STW Nature Reserve: pair Pochard, Snipe, 16 Lesser Black-backed Gull (13 W/SW), 21 Stock Dove, pair Grey Wagtail, 2 Sand Martin W, Swallow W, 2 Willow Warbler, Cetti's Warbler,
 * KGV Reservoir: 2 Mandarin till 0710, 5 Shelduck, 2 Lapwing, Red Kite, 4 Buzzard, 2 Common Tern, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 5 House Martin, 8+ Swallow, 3 Meadow Pipit, Reed Bunting (Neville Smith).2 Dunlin, 1Little Ringed Plover (Tony Clancy)
 * Leyton, Jubilee Park: singing Lesser Whitethroat, Jackdaw, Willow Warbler (Stuart Fisher)
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 Glaucous Gull, 2 Ringed Plover, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 2 House Martin, 1 Swallow, 4 Willow Warbler, 1 Great Black-backed Gull and 20+ Sand Martin (Shailesh Patel)
 * Monken Hadley Common, Barnet: Nuthatch, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, pair Mandarin Duck + at least one other male, drumming Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 calling Green Woodpecker, Tree Creeper, Grey Wagtail, (Bob Husband)
 * Richmond Park: 8 Waxwing - briefly in treetop by Holly Lodge entrance road, m Lesser Whitethroat, male Redstart (in small hawthorn enclosures on Sawyer's Hill south of Conduit Wood) (Hugh Bradshaw); Common Tern,15 Swallow, 3 Sand Martin, 17 Meadow Pipit - most NW, Reed Warbler, 2m Whitethroat, Willow Warbler - Hawthorn Valley (Steve Woolfenden); Red Kite, House Martin (Friday Group).
 * Ruislip Lido/Poors Field: pr Greylag (unusual here), 2 pr Teal (LNR), Red Kite, f Sparrowhawk, 10 Black-headed Gull by rafts, 6 Swallow, 2 House Martin, singing Willow Warbler, 10 singing Blackcap, 5 singing Chiffchaff (Neil Anderson/K. Bull)
 * Staines Moor: 3 Red Kite, Hobby hunting, Kestrel, 3 Pheasant, Redshank, 2 Shelduck over, 2 Egyptian Geese over, 6+ Willow Warbler, 10+Chiffchaff, 8+ Blackcap, 6 Cettis Warbler, 2 Sedge Warbler (all warblers singing), 10+ Skylark, 30+ Meadow Pipit, 10 Swallow, 2 House Martin, Great Spotted and Green Woodpecker, 20+ Linnet, 6+ Reed Bunting (Nick Baker )
 * Staines Reservoir: am: Yellow Wagtail, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Common Tern, 8 Shelduck (Nick Baker and other birders) Great Northern Diver summer plumage from 17.55 - 18.30 when flew back to KG VI Res. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Stanwell Moor: 1 Nightingale singing by public footpath 200 M, S of village before corner of KG VI Res. (Jim Sweetland per FJM)
 * Stratford, Olympic Park: 2 singing Willow Warbler, singing Reed Warbler, 2 Gadwall (Stuart Fisher)
 * Ten Acre Wood Area: 2 m Wheatear, Skylark, 3 Little Ringed Plover, c25 Meadow Pipit, Common Snipe, Swallow, 2 Blackcap, 3 Lapwing, 3 m Reed Bunting, Common Whitethroat, Kingfisher (Deiniol Owen) Also 3 Pheasant (1 seen, 2 heard), 3 Little Egret (pr over + 1 on brook), Buzzard, Kestrel, 4+ Lapwing, 30 Meadow Pipit, 2 more Swallow, 5 Whitethroat, 5 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, 8+ Rook over, 5 Reed Bunting, 6+ Skylark, 2 Linnet (Neil Anderson/G. Westley)
 * Thamesmere West Lake: 5+ Sand Martin over Morrison's car park (John Archer)
 * Three Mills: 2 Egyptian Geese with five very small young (Sean Huggins)
 * Totteridge Valley: Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting, 2 Bullfinch (owl field); Grey Wagtail, 2 Mandarin, 3 Coot, Greenfinch (Long Pond); also Little Owl & Buzzard (Ian Ellis).
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 6 Sand Martin, 2 Reed Bunting, one unidentified long tailed raptor circling (Jon Agar) Marsh Harrier? One has been spotted in the area recently. Lesser Whitethroat singing near paddocks, 2 House Martin (Stuart Fisher)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs, No5: Oystercatcher, 4 Little Ringed Plover; (E/W Warwick) Whitethroat, 2 Reed Warblers, c20 Swallows, c15 Sand Martins, pr Peregrines (Walthamstow Birders).
 * Wanstead Flats:  2 Common Snipe, Lesser Whitehtroat, 4 Willow Warbler, 3 Linnet, 30+ Meadow Pipit through north, 3 Grey Wagtail south, Peregrine Falcon, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 10 Swallow west (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: Cetti's Warbler briefly by Roding (James Heal), 2 Common Whitethroat, 3 Willow Warbler, 2 Little Egret, Coal Tit, Grey Wagtail,  Little Grebe (Nick Croft)
 * West Putney, Huntingfield Road: Raven SW 10.40, Ring Ouzel low SW 15.35, 8 Linnet N/W (R.Kaye)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Snipe, 4 Shelduck, 9 Shoveler 6m3f, 2+ Reed Warbler, 3 Willow Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)
 * Yeading Brook Meadows: Little Owl, Common Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, 10 Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Swallow N, 2 Little Egret, Skylark, m Kestrel (Nigel Dodd)

Thursday 13th April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Willow Warbler singing middle platform adjacent Wood Green Res 0745(Bob Watts)
 * Amwell HWT: Drake Garganey still but elusive west of White Hide, 5 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, 3 Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 2 Sedge Warbler (Nick Croft/Adam Winstanley)
 * Battersea Park: 3 Swallow W, 1 Willow Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 7 Blackcap, 1 Firecrest - male singing 50 yards south of art gallery, 6 Goldcrest singing (Nick Senior)
 * Brent Reservoir : 2 Bullfinch, Sedge Warbler, 2 Willow Warbler, 22 Blackcap, 19 Chiffchaff, Reed Bunting, 2 Singing Cetti's Warbler (Simon Worsfold), 2 Lttle Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, 5 Swallows (Brent Birders)
 * Brookmill Park: Little Egret with plumes, 2 Greenfinch 1830 (Mike Paice)
 * Crayford Marshes Marsh Harrier (male), 10 Skylark, 3 Wheatear 5 Cetti's Warbler, 5 Common Whitethroat, 5 Greenfinch, 1 Reed Bunting (male), Corn Bunting (Ralph Todd).
 * Creekmouth: 1 first-winter Caspian Gull, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Redshank, 4 Oystercatcher, 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 3 Whitethroat, 2 Willow Warbler, 1 Yellow Wagtail (Dante Shepherd, Dave Morrison)
 * Crossness 72 Gadwall, 43 Teal, 7 Pochard, skylark, 7 Cetti's Warbler, Sedge Warbler, 3 Reed Warbler, Common Seal (Ralph Todd)
 * East Sheen Common: late news - Firecrest on March 21st & 22nd (J.Savage per JW)
 * Enfield Chase: Tawny Owl freshly dead - eyes still intact, checked legs for metal ring - none present, on path near Little Beechill Wood TQ 289 992 (Robert Callf) Is there a road near by as I once found one by a lane dying and that had fractured skull seemed to have been hit by a car (Michael Mac)
 * Erith - Corinthian Manorway Foreshore - 88 Black-tailed Godwits (Ralph Todd)
 * Fairlop Waters:male Whinchat still this evening on 9 hole golf course.(Alan Bell)
 * Fisher's Green: Nightingale, 2 Sedge Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Willow Warbler, 10 Swallow, Buzzard (Nick Croft)
 * Fryent Country Park: Peregrine, 4 Willow Warbler, 2 Bullfinch, 2 Linnet, 5 Meadow Pipit (Joe Taylor)
 * Gidea Park: 2 Ring Ouzel over (BirdGuides)
 * Gunpowder Park: Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler, Willow Warbler, 10 Skylark, 2 Meadow Pipit, 2 Bullfinch, 2m Reed Bunting (Neville Smith).
 * Hampstead Heath: m Stonechat, f Reed Bunting and Linnet all in newly laid hedges uphill from Bandstand this morning c. 0900 (Pete Mantle)
 * Leatherhead: 1 Red Kite and 1 Common Buzzard circling over J9, M25 at 12:50 (Neil Batten)
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 Curlew, 4 Redshank, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 6 Blackcap singing, 5 Chiffchaff singing, 9 Willow Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1m 1f Shelduck, c.60 Sand Martin, 2cy Glaucous Gull (Martin Honey); 2 Ringed Plover - main lake, 3 Yellow Wagtail (R Dunne) 4 Yellow Wagtail at 14.25, 2 Jack Snipe, 1 Common Snipe (Martin Honey). Also m Ring Ouzel off towpath/site northern boundary (Marc MacMillan via Twitter).
 * Monken Hadley Common, Barnet: Singing Willow Warbler, drumming Great Spotted Woodpecker(s), singing Goldcrest, singing Nuthatch, singing Blackcap & a Roe Deer (Bob Husband)
 * Petersham Meadows: no sign of any Egrets with cattle (J.Wilczur et al)
 * Rammey Marsh: Common Redstart male showing well left of main path on the upper marsh 100m from M25 also singing Skylark (Neville Smith).
 * Ranelagh Gardens; Wheatear - male probably leucorhoa but at the smaller end of the size range for this form, 2 Blackcap singing, 1 Willow Warbler singing (Nick Senior)
 * Richmond Park: CATTLE EGRET Upper Pen Pond island till 09.20, then flew off and appeared to drop down near Oak Lodge(Jan Wilczur); no further sign of Egret by 10.30, 2 Meadow Pipit, 2m Willow Warbler- Beverley Brook (JW) f Redstart - briefly near Pen Ponds car park (M.Howard per JW); Little Owl, m Wheatear, m Whitethroat - Holly Lodge area, 12-12.30 (Mike Wheeler)
 * Riddlesdown: Grasshopper Warbler reeling at 07:35, but not present at 17:00. (John Birkett)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: 2 Shelduck, House Martin with 20+ Sand Martin, 5 Swallow hawking in paddocks, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Sedge Warbler reported by MS, 3 Bullfinch (Neville Smith).
 * Staines Reservoir: Great Northern Diver still, 7 Little Gull (BirdGuides), 1 Sandwich Tern, 2 Common Tern, 3 Oystercatcher (pics of diver here ) (Peter Alfrey, Rob Innes, Nick Gardner)
 * Streatham Common Rookery: Pied flycatcher, 10am (Ben Nicholson)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: 3 adult Mediterranean Gull, Whimbrel upriver, 6 Turnstone, 2 Swallow, 18 Cetti's Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Common Whitethroat, 8 Blackcap, 4 Willow Warbler, 7 Chiffchaff, Bearded Tit, Raven (Andrew Self)
 * Totteridge Valley: 4 Stock Dove, 2 Nuthatch, 3 Pied Wagtail, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Common Buzzard, 3 Collared Dove, Green Woodpecker, Pheasant, Egyptain Goose, 3 Canada Geese, 4 House Sparrow (where public footpath meets belmont childrens farm road) 13:00 but not seen after 14:00, Swallow, 3 Mistle Thrush. (Samuel Levy)
 * Victoria Embankment Gardens in the shadow of Cleopatra's Needle: singing Blackcap 2pm (Mavis Pilbeam)
 * Wallington Garden: 1 Merlin/Peregrine/Hobby drifted SW in overcast conditions at 4:52pm. Also 1 Swallow and about 500 of the Beddington Farm Gulls over. Silhouette pics (terrible) here (Arjun Dutta) - I don't think that it is a Peregrine (800-1000g), as they are roughly twenty times heavier than your initial thought of a Swift (50g) & the photos show that the bird in question is not long enough in the wing to be a Hobby, so what does that leave? - well done AD - I think it's a Merlin - ask yourself why others refuse to comment? - It's either because they don't know, or lack the temerity to stick their necks out (JR) A shame that the conditions were so grey, and I couldn't get any better shots. (AD) I think this is a Peregrine - the tail is too short for Merlin and clearly rounded at the end in some of the shots. And isn't there a hint of white cheeks in a couple of the photos? Male Peregrines can somethimes look remarkably small (John Archer) A Merlin weighs on average, about 200 grams - a Peregrine is five times the size (JR) This bird is definitely not a Merlin. (Anon) FWIW, at this late stage and just to show I do have the temerity despite the risk of being castigated for incorrectly ID'ing a bird from a fuzzy photo- which happened to a friend of mine to a distressing degree- I shall venture to agree with JA that the photo shows a Peregrine and probably a male. I couldn't comment sooner as the link didn't work for me at the time (J.Wilczur).
 * Wanstead Flats: 2 Sand Martin, House Martin, 4 Willow Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat, 4 Linnet, 4 Meadow Pipit, 3 Skylark, Wheatear, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel (Nick Croft/Marco Johnson/Bob Vaughan)
 * Wanstead Park: 3 Willow Warbler, Whitethroat,2 Linnet, Little Egret (Nick Croft)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Snipe, Great Black-backed Gull, 3 Willow Warbler, 3+ Reed Warbler, 8 Shoveler 5m3f (Chris Farthing)

Wednesday 12th April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: 2 Greylag Goose (Bob Watts); 2 Kestrel, Willow Warbler, 7+ Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff (Sam Jones)
 * Amwell NR: 1 m Garganey feeding near viewpoint, 1 Swallow (Quentin Given)
 * Brayside Farm, Enfield: 3 male Northern Wheatear viewable from Flash Lane (Robert Callf)
 * Brent Reservoir: singing Sedge Warbler, calling Willow Warbler, 2 singing Cetti's Warbler, lots of singing Chiffs & B’caps, singing Goldcrest, Black Swan, Greylag, Little Ringed Plover, Field Vole, Green-veined White (Andrew Haynes); Common Buzzard N 14:00, also 3 Swallow N (Andrew Verrall); male Common Redstart near the dump in small oak at around 13,30, singing Cetti's Warbler (Stuart Fisher)
 * Bushy Park: Chiffchaff, 4 Green Woodpecker, 2 Nuthatch, 7 Shelduck, 2 Skylark, Song Thrush, 5 Stock Dove (Ian R Watson)
 * Creekmouth: 4 Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 4 Oystercatcher, 7 Gadwall, 10+ Teal, 8 Shelduck, 3 Common Tern, 10+ Swallow, 6 Sand Martin, 2 Common Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, 5 Cetti's Warbler, Grey Wagtail, Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel (Nick Croft)
 * Dollis Brook: Barnet - Totteridge Station, 2 singing Blackcap, Mistle Thrush (Samuel Levy)
 * Dollis Brook: Finchley Tennis Club - Finchley Golf Course: Nuthatch, Chiffchaff, Blackcap (Samuel levy)
 * Enfield Freezywater Elliotts field allotments red kite over (Brian Dawton )
 * Ewell, Hogsmill Open Space: 1 Little Egret 18:40 (Neil Batten)
 * Fairlop Waters:male Whinchat this evening.(Mike Messenger)
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - Common Buzzard S 13:35, 3 Stock Dove, 4 Starlings, Collared Dove 16:25 NW. (Samuel Levy)
 * Fishers Green: Nightingale singing 100yards west of Bittern hide (Neville Smith).
 * Greenwich Peninsula: Southern Park Willow Warbler. Meantime Nursery Stock Dove Mistle Thrush Ecology Park Little Grebe, Common Tern 4, Willow Warbler 1, Chiffchaff 1, Blackcap (male), Sand Martin 3 (Richard Green, John Bushall)
 * Hall Marsh Scrape: 2 Redshank, Mediterranean Gull 0755 adult circling overhead and headed North. Cetti's Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler (Neville Smith).
 * Holyfield farm: 2 Red-legged Partridge, 6 Common Buzzard, Hobby, 2 Oystercatcher, 1 Snipe, 2 Skylark singing, 3 Swallow, Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Meadow Pipit, 15+ Linnet (Neville Smith).
 * Kensington Gardens: singing Blackcap Flower Walk (Martin Honey)
 * Lavender Hill Cemetery, Enfield: 2 Treecreeper nest building (Robert Callf)
 * Leatherhead, Common Meadow: 1 Little Egret, 1 Red Kite, 1 Common Buzzard, 1 Stock Dove, 1 singing Grey Wagtail, 5 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap, 1 Pheasant (Neil Batten)
 * Leatherhead Station: 1 singing Willow Warbler 08:40 1 Red Kite w 18:15 and 2 Stock Dove n (Neil Batten)
 * London Wetland Centre: 8 Yellow Wagtail, m Wheatear, 2 Swallow, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 5 Redshank, 2 Snipe, 3 Willow Warbler, 10+ Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Reed Warbler (WWT Website); also Glaucous Gull 2cy, Red Kite W, Sparrowhawk, House Martin, Kingfisher (Oscar Dewhurst).
 * Monken Hadley Common, Barnet: Pair Common Buzzard, Tree Creeper, 2 singing Nuthatch, 5 (2 males + 3) Mandarin Ducks, drumming Great Spotted Woodpecker, calling Green Woodpecker, singing Willow Warbler, singing Chiffchaff, 2 singing Blackcaps, singing Goldcrest, and a Muntjac Deer. (Bob Husband, Mike Cawthorne, Pete Lowman)
 * Pinner (HA5): Sand Martin north, Linnet over, 5 Goldfinch, singing Goldcrest, 2 Coal Tit & 3 Pied Wagtail (Jon Ridge)
 * Primrose Hill: Yellow Wagtail W then NW 0620 (Twitter)
 * Regent's Park: 3 pairs of Mistle Thrush spread out along northern perimeter of park (John Colmans)
 * Richmond Park: 1 male Redstart (Holly Lodge -north side on fencing), 3 Wheatear, 2 Whitethroat, 2 Willow Warbler, 1 Red Kite, 1 Swallow (Hugh Bradshaw); Wheatear, 2m Willow Warbler - Pond Slade so different to above (S. Read per JW)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: 2 Little Ringed Plover from Gadwall Hide (Quentin Given)
 * Seventy Acres Lake: Sparrowhawk, 6 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Sedge Warbler, 3 Reed Warbler, 4 Willow Warbler singing, 3 Reed Bunting (Neville Smith).
 * St James's Park: 4 Swallow feeding briefly then NW, Collared Dove W, 3 singing Blackcap, Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, Great Crested Grebe with 4 chicks (Frank Nugent).
 * Southwark Park: 2 Little Grebe, 2 Willow Warbler, 3 Blackcap, Goldcrest, 1 Stock Dove (John Cadera)
 * Stave Hill: 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goldcrest, 2 Willow Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff singing, 4 Blackcap, pair Stock Dove, Greenfinch, Long Tailed Tit, Goldcrest (John Cadera)
 * Tooting Commons: Willow Warbler heard close to tennis hut (James Hudson)
 * Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 24 Stock Dove, 2 Meadow Pipit, 3 Mistle Thrush, 5 House Sparrow, 6 Swallow, House Martin N 17:15, 3 Lesser Black Backed Gull, 9+ Singing Chiffchaff, Red Kite, 6 Teal, Drake Mandarin on Darlands Lake, Reed Bunting, 7 Herring Gull, Grasshopper Warbler Singing in 'Owl' field 19:00, Blackcap, Redwing 19:45 on Cricket fields near nurseries. (Totteridge Valley Birders)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Little Ringed Plover, Reed Warbler, 2 Peregrine, 4 Shelduck, 5 Red-crested Pochard, Coal Tit, Reed Bunting, 2 Grey Wagtail, Willow Warbler (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler); also 5 Shoveler (James Palmer)

Tuesday 11th April 2017

 * Barnes Riverside Pond: singing Cetti's Warbler, Willow Warbler + Chiffchaff (Neil Anderson)
 * Blackfen: 4 Common Buzzards together (Patrick English)
 * Brent Reservoir: Green Sandpiper, 3 singing Willow Warbler, 26 Blackcap, 14 Chiffchaff, 2 Greylag Goose, Black Swan (Brent Birders); Common Buzzard over 09:10, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Willow Warbler between dump and bowling green, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Grey Wagtail, 4 Little Grebe (Simon Worsfold); Common Buzzard over at 14:48, 2 Swallows (Andrew Self)
 * Bushy Park: 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Green Woodpecker, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Song Thrush (Ian R Watson) 3 barn swallow 1 buzzard (Evan Landy)
 * Dollis Brook: Barnet - Totteridge Station, 3 Singing Willow Warbler, Mistle Thrush. (Samuel Levy)
 * Dollis Brook: Finchley Tennis Club - Finchley Golf Club, Nuthatch, 2 Wren, Chiffchaff. (Samuel Levy)
 * Fairlop Waters:Red Kite,Lesser Whitethroat,2 singing Sedge Wblrs,4 Yellow Wagtails,2 House Martins.(Alan Bell)
 * Fryent Country Park: Red Kite, 2 Common Buzzard, 4 Willow Warbler, 7 Meadow Pipit (Joe Taylor)
 * Gunpowder Park: 2 Common Buzzard, Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Singing Willow Warbler (Neville Smith).
 * Hornchurch: Buzzard, circling low over fields south of Park Farm Road at 9:45 (G J Francis)
 * N11 Tunnel Gdns: Raven, being mobbed by crows (Sheila Warbus)
 * Leatherhead, Randalls Way: 2 Common Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 Chiffchaff (Neil Batten)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Little Ringed Plover, 7 Redshank, 3 Snipe, 2 Willow Warbler, 6 Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff, 1 Reed Warbler and 4 Shelduck (WWT website) 5 singing Willow Warbler, several male Reed Bunting, distant Buzzard S of reserve, Sparrowhawk over, 60+ Sand Martin (Martin Honey)
 * Morden Hall Park: 1 Cetti's Warbler in Boardwalk area singing and calling but mobile (poor record shot on my blog A Wandle on the Wildside), 2 Mistle Thrush, 4 Chiffchaff, 7 Blackcap, Mallard with 6 ducklings, Grey Wagtail, 2 Little Grebe (Arjun Dutta)
 * Netherhouse Farm: Red-Legged Partridge, Lesser Whitethroat, 1 singing Willow Warbler, 3 Bullfinch (Neville Smith).Stonechat male, Red Kite(Tony Clancy)
 * Northolt: Common Buzzard heading NW 13:25 (Deiniol Owen)
 * Primrose Hill: Swallow N, Willow Warbler, 2 Meadow Pipit N/NW, 3 Linnet over (Twitter)
 * Rainham RSPB: Red Kite, 20 Buzzard, 6 Marsh Harrier, 4 Sparrowhawk, Raven, 28 Curlew, Whimbrel, 3 Little Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, 5 Snipe, 3 Yellow wagtail, 23 Common Tern, 11 Black-tailed Godwit, Short-eared Owl, 2 Barn Owl, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Whitethroat, 12 Chiffchaff, 4 Willow Warbler, 4 Reed Warbler, 12 Sedge warbler, 40 Sand Martin, 2 House Martin, Swallow, pr Great Crested Grebe, 5 Wheatear, pr Stonechat (ELBF)
 * Richmond Park, Holly Lodge: Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, (all singing), 3 Swallow, Wheatear (m), 2 Meadow Pipit, Common Buzzard (Nick Baker). Whitethroat (Richard Goodman)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: 6 Shelduck, 3 Lapwing, Curlew circled low over marsh 0923hrs headed of low East, Cetti's warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, 2 singing Willow Warbler, 2 Bullfinch (Neville Smith).
 * Staines Reservoirs: 1 Great Northern Diver summer plumage on S basin till 10.20 then onto KG VI Res (Ken Purdey per FJM)
 * Thamesmead: Cetti's Warbler 2, Reed Warbler 1 all herd singing by the lake next to Morrison's Car Park. (Richard Green)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: singing Common Whitethroat, 19 singing Chiffchaff, 12 singing Blackcap, Swallow, Lapwing, Red Kite, 6 Common Buzzard (four in air together),5 Teal, 4 Mandarin at Totteridge Long Ponds then flew, 3 Coot (John Colmans) 2 Mistle Thrush, 4 Goldfinch, 7 Stock Dove, 3 Common Buzzard, Lapwing, 3 Swallow, Pied Wagtail, Pheasant, 2 Goldcrest, 2 Singing Chiffchaff. (Samuel Levy)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: Linnet west (Bob Watts)
 * Trent Park: 2 Willow Warbler singing (1 Old Golf Course, 1 Shaws Wood) (Robert Callf)
 * Tufnell Park 2 Goldcrests close up and singing in Foxham Gardens park. so tiny - could they have been this year's young? (Mavis Pilbeam) young don't have colour on the head (Anon) - Goldcrests usually lay their first clutch at the beginning of April & juvenile male birds do not use full song until they are at least of first-winter in age - it is unlikely they are this years young, but always a super sight :) (JR)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 2 Oystercatcher, Skylark, 2 singing Reed Warblers, 3 Whitethroats (Jamie Partridge, David Bradshaw)
 * Walton Reservoir: 1 1st year Little Gull (Chris Turner)
 * Wanstead Flats: Red Kite, pr of Peregrine Falcon, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 3 Willow Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Reed Bunting, pr of Linnet, 3 Gadwall (Wanstead Birders)
 * Whitton, TW2: Red Kite over Kneller Hall, 12pm, a first for Whitton for me (Iain Darbyshire).
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Marsh Harrier chased NW by crows at 8:15am, 2 Peregrine, 5 Shoveler, 2 Willow Warbler, Coal Tit, 2 Stock Dove (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)

Monday 10th April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Red Kite 1320 from Chocolate factory into park airspace (Dave Callahan per Bob Watts)
 * Blacklands, High Elms Country Park: 17 Blackcap, 12 Chiffchaff, 3 Bullfinch, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 4 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush, 6 Coal Tit, 2 Treecreeper, 6 Goldcrest, 4 Stock Dove, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Jay - 08.00-09.40 (Jamie Fletcher)
 * Brockwell Park: 2 Willow Warbler, 4 singing Blackcap, Nuthatch, 20 House Sparrows some at nests, 2 Pr Stock Dove, f Sparrowhawk, Mute Swan on nest not bred here for long time, if ever? (Michael Mac)
 * Bushy Park: 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Grey Heron (juv), 2 Mandarin Duck, 2 Nuthatch, Song Thrush, Whitethroat  (Ian R Watson)
 * Cuckoo Wood, High Elms Country Park: 3 Blackcap, 14 Chiffchaff, 4 Coal Tit, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Siskin, 6 Goldcrest, 2 Common Buzzard, 4 Nuthatch, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Jay - 09.40-11.25 (Jamie Fletcher)
 * Dollis Brook: Barnet - Totteridge Station - Mistle Thrush, 5 Singing Blackcap, 2 Singing Chiffchaff. (Samuel Levy)
 * Fairlop Waters: Swallow x House Martin hybrid over main lake this evng with Swallows & Sand Martins,House Martin,Lesser Whitethroat,Yellow Wagtail.(Alan Bell)
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - 5 Stock Dove, 2 Starling, 17:05 very odd record of a Sand Martin through very low before heading North (Samuel Levy)
 * Gunpowder Park: 2 Common Buzzard, 8 singing Skylark, 1 Common Whitethroat, 3 singing Willow Warbler, 4 Bullfinch (Neville Smith).
 * Hale End Road Allotments E17: 6 Linnets (Daniel Whitelegg)
 * Lee Valley, Bowyers Water: Common Buzzard, Swallow, 2 singing Willow Warbler (Simon Papps)
 * Lee Valley, Seventy Acres Lake: Red Kite, singing Cetti's Warbler, 2 singing Reed Warbler, 2 singing Sedge Warbler, 4 singing Willow Warbler, 4 Reed Bunting (Simon Papps)
 * Little Britain Iver/Cowley: 3 Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush, 2 Common Terns, 4 Blackcaps, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Gadwall, 14 Greylags, Great Black-backed Gull, Little Egret, Grey Herons, 3 Ring-necked Parakeets, Red Kite over, 2 Stock Doves.(Sue Giddens)
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 Bearded Tit (male), 2 Swallow, 1 Reed Warbler, 10 Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, 4 Willow Warbler, 8 Redshank, 4 Snipe, 2 Shelduck (WWT Website); also Greenshank, Sedge Warbler, Little Ringed Plover, House Martin, 2 Buzzard NW, Peregrine, Willow Warbler, 2 Linnet S (Oscar Dewhurst)
 * Monken Hadley Common, Barnet: Calling Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, singing Goldcrest, 3 singing Nuthatch, 4 singing Blackcap, singing Chiffchaff, briefly singing Willow Warbler, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, pair + 5 Mandarin Ducks, drumming Great Spotted Woodpecker, calling Green Woodpecker (Bob Husband & Mike Cawthorne)
 * Rainham Marshes: 2 Hobby (BirdGuides)
 * Regent's Park: 2 Wheatear (one a male Greenland with 8 primaries visible - pic here), 1 Sedge Warbler, 3 Willow Warbler (Regent's Park Birders)
 * Richmond Park: 2 Shelduck flew N, 4 Red Kite, 8+ Buzzard, 4m Skylark - around centre of park, f Pied Wagtail, 5 Wheatear - in flight by Pen Ponds, 5m Reed Bunting - by Pen Ponds, Linnet over (J.Wilczur); 30+ Sand Martin - Pen Ponds early morning, Meadow Pipit, 2m Willow Warbler (M.Lewis, S.Read).
 * Sewardstone Marsh: 3 Lapwing, Common Snipe, c24 Sand Martin East side of Reservoir with 3 House Martin, 6 Swallow, Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Common Whitethroat, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Bullfinch, (m) Reed Bunting (Neville Smith).
 * St James's Park: singing Blackcap, Grey Wagtail (Andrew Self)
 * St Pauls Cray: pleasance road 1 willow warbler heard singing walking up the road and saw it rushed to get my binoculars but it had gone (Jack headley)
 * Staines Reservoirs: 1 Slavonian Grebe summer plumage on S basin but mobile. 2 Sandwich Tern over 07.20. 2 Mediterranean Gulls adults, then onto KG VI Reservoir, 2 Black-tailed Godwits 08.52 over, 1 Curlew flew N 08.20, 1 Little Gull, 1 White Wagtail, 1 Swallow. (Dave Morris per FJM)
 * Stoneleigh Station KT17: 2 singing Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff (Neil Batten)
 * Trent Park: singing male Willow Warbler Old Golf Course (Robert Callf)
 * Trent Park Equestrian Centre: 2 male Barn Swallow (Robert Callf)
 * Trent Park: 2 Nuthatch, 2 Mistle Thrush, 18 Jackdaw, 4 Starling, 4 Blackcap, 2 Song Thrush, 2 G S Woodpecker, Greenfinch, Common Buzzard, Mute Swan, 2 m Mandarin, 3 Chiffchaff, Orange Tip. ( Pete Lowman).
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs : Peregrine, 4 Blackcap, Reed Bunting and Cetti's Warbler calling, Common Sandpiper on no 5 (Simon Worsfold) Male Wheatear, Common Whitethroat, 8 Sand Martin, 2 Redwing, 2 Meadow Pipit all over N (Jamie Partridge); c. 40 Sand Martin hawking over Warwick Reservoir West at 6pm; 4 Little Ringed Plover at north end of Reservoir no 5 at 7pm (Harringay Birder)
 * Wanstead Flats: Kestrel, 2 Meadow Pipit, Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, Skylark, 3 Linnet, 2 Gadwall, Little Grebe 1-2pm (Simon Worsfold) Common Redstart, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Swallow, 3 Pochard, Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, singing Reed Bunting, Grey Wagtail (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: 3 Little Ringed Plover on Heronry mud (still there at 18:00) and a park first, Common Whitethroat, 2 Willow Warbler, Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 2 Teal, 2 Gadwall, pr of Great Crested Grebe (Wanstead Birders)
 * Waterworks NR: Reed Warbler, 20 Sand Martin, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk (Chris Farthing)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Snipe, 5 Red-crested Pochard 4m1f (Chris Farthing)
 * Woodlands Stables E4: 2 Swallows (Harry Harrison)

Sunday 9th April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: 3 Fieldfare north over filter beds 0950, Linnet west 1010 (Bob Watts)
 * Brent Reservoir: 2 Green Sandpiper, Lapwing, Cetti's Warbler, Peregrine, 24 singing Blackcap, 8 singing Chiffchaff (Brent Birders)
 * Bromley (Hook Farm Road): Little Owls (presumed M&F) showing well on and around large dead tree at back of allotment, at least 7th year at this site. (Andrew Skinner)
 * Brookmill Park: Cormorant over, singing Song Thrush, 2 Blackcap singing male & female, singing Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
 * Broxbourne Station: no sign of yesterdays potential Iberian Chiffchaff (singing at around 5:00pm on Saturday) after 2 hours of waiting, will try again during the week, but if its anything like the Barnes' bird I wont hold my breath (Nick Croft)
 * Bushy Park: 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, 2 Mandarin Duck, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper (Ian R Watson)
 * Crayford: Braeburn Park LWT Nature Reserve, up from Station, widespread Chiffchaff and Blackcaps. Several singing Linnets and Greenfinches, a Comon Whitethroat sub song and a Lesser Whitethroat singing. Bullfinch m persistant song and observed, 2pm. (Patrick English)
 * Crayford Marshes Common Whitethroat 4 Reedbunting[m/fm]10 plus Linnet 2 Wheatear[m/fm] Meadow Pipit Goldfinch Greenfinch Chaffinch Gadwall[pair] Redshank Shellduck[pair] Kestrel Sparrowhawk Common Buzzard Peregrine Falcon [pair] Rook Stockdove Jackdaw Cettis Warbler Chiffchaff 3 Swallow Skylark Heron [John Bushell Ron Turner]
 * East Molesey (Hampton court way near playing fields) 2 Swallow (Ian R Watson)
 * Fairlop Waters:singing Lesser Whitethroat just south of main lake this evng,male Wheatear,male Yellow Wagtail,Little Egret,2 Swallows.(Alan Bell)
 * Fort Road, Box Hill: 1 Firecrest (pic here), 3 Red Kite, 20+ Buzzard (including 10 together at the same time), 2 Peregrine, 5 Kestrel (all together at the same time), 1 Rook (Dante Shepherd)
 * Friern Barnet- Glebelands allotment: 1 singing Whitethroat, Willow Warblers in Coppetts Wood, 3 + Chiffchaff (Paul Angus)
 * Fryent Country Park: 4 Common Buzzard, 3 Sparrowhawk, 2 Swallow, 3 Meadow Pipit (Joe Taylor) DO NOT post details of nesting by scarce breeding birds (those included in Schedule 1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, as amended). Any such reports will be removed; please submit them instead to the appropriate LNHS bird recorder.
 * Finchley: Garden N3: 5 Stock Dove, 2 Sparrowhawk over 15:05 NE, and 15:55 E. (Samuel Levy)
 * Hampstead Heath: 5 Stock Doves SW this morning (2+3) and 4 Sparrowhawks displaying over Parliament Hill (Pete Mantle)
 * Hillingdon: 1 Nuthatch, St John the Baptist Churchyard. (Roger Dewey)
 * Hogsmill Water Treatment Works: pair Shelduck, 7 Little Grebe, Little Egret S, Snipe, Cetti's Warbler, Willow Warbler, 4 Linnet (Andrew Skotnicki)
 * Holloway: 15+ Waxwings (https://twitter.com/SimonWest26/status/851152891524128769) on Hornsey Rd v.briefly (7.20-7.25) by Spanish Deli before flying off over Holloway Rd (Simon West)
 * KGV Reservoir: Pintail drake S/E corner of North basin, 7 Little Gull South basin till 0900, 2 Common Tern straight through South 0806. 3 Sandwich Tern one stayed for 20 mins departed and met 2 others, all 3 headed South 0850. Wheatear (f) causeway/west, 2 Cetti's Warbler (heard), Willow Warbler (Neville Smith).
 * Lloyd Park E17: 1 Cormorant (1st I've ever seen here). (Daniel Whitelegg)
 * London Wetland Centre:  1 Red-legged Partridge, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Reed Warbler, 3 Snipe, 6 Redshank, 9 Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Willow Warbler, 1 Peregrine (WWT Website)
 * Paddington old cemetery: 3 greenfinch, 4 mistle thrush, 2 goldfinch, 1 great tit, 2 magpie (Callum Farrell-Morris)
 * Primrose Hill: 3 Buzzard (E 1225 & NW 1310 & N 1420), f Peregrine S 1155, Rook N 1125, Willow Warbler, Meadow Pipit NW 0645 (Twitter)
 * Pymmes Park: 2 Mandarin (first I have seen here) (James Palmer)
 * Regent's Park: Nuthatch singing Leaf Yard Wood (area 41) 11:00 (Twitter)
 * Richmond Park: 1 male Ring Ouzel, 1 Whitethroat (gorse enclosures) 2 Wheatears (Holly Lodge) (Hugh Bradshaw); Peregrine, 6 Linnet over (S.Woolfenden).
 * Roding Valley Meadows EWT: 2 Common Swift ('NKh' per ELBF Facebook)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: Lesser Whitethroat at 08:30, pair of Reed Bunting, pair of Sparrowhawk (Martin Shepherd)
 * Shrewsbury Park, SE18: 2 Stock Dove courting, 10+ Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Green Woodpecker (Tim Rymer).
 * Staines Reservoirs: 2 Mediterranean Gulls adults 09.20 on N basin, 1 Sandwich Tern over 09.17. 1 Black-necked Grebe S basin. (Franko J Maroevic Bob Warden) 12.30-13.30 2 Common Tern, 1 Sand Martin thru East, plus 6 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, 3 Sparrowhawk (Oliver Metcalf)
 * Stoneleigh Broadway & The Glade KT17: 4 Sparrowhawk, 13 Herring Gull, 1 adult Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 singing Goldcrest (Neil Batten)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: 4 Pheasant heard, pr Buzzard, 3 Red Kite low over aerodrome buildings 10.20ish, 4 Kestrel (pr together), 8 Lapwing, 3 Little Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, c12 Stock Dove, 7 Skylark, 4 Meadow Pipit, 2 m Wheatear together, Treecreeper, singing Sedge Warbler, 2 Whitethroat ( 1 briefly singing), 11 Blackcap, 8 Chiffchaff, 9 Rook ( birds back + forth), c7 Reed Bunting, 3 Linnet, pr Bullfinch (Neil Anderson)
 * Tooting Commons: 2 Willow Warbler, 17 Blackcap (16m,1f), 15 Chiffchaff (inc at least 2 ringed birds), Cormorant (flyover) (James Hudson)
 * Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 12 Stock Dove, 2 Swallow, 5 Lapwing, Red-legged Partridge, 5 Pied Wagtail, Willow Warbler, Little Owl, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Reed Buntings (Heard only), 5+ Blackcap, Collarded Dove, 6 Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Herring Gull, 4 Teal, Grey Heron, 4 Bullfinch, Coal Tit, 5+ Chiffchaff. (Samuel Levy, Simon Worsfold, John Colmans, Ian Ellis - Totteridge Valley Birders)
 * Town Park, Enfield: 9 Coot pair with seven chicks (Robert Callf)
 * Walthamstow: Siberian Chiffchaff singing from gardens right next to S end of Banbury Reservoir, early am (Stuart Fisher)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Wheatear on No 4, 2 Little Ringed Plovers and a Green Sand on No 5 (David Bradshaw) Whitethroat singing between Warwicks (Pete Lambert) Little Egret feeding in river lee by Banbury Reservoir (Allan Stewart) 2 Little Tern on No 4 briefly at c. 16:50 (Pete Lambert via Twitter) 3 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpipers, 1 Green Sandpipers - No5. 1 Snipe, 1 Cettis Warbler, 2 Peregrine - No1. All at 17:30. (Daniel Whitelegg)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Little Egret (over S 1030), Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 5+Shoveler, 1 Pochard, 6 Gadwall (Sam Jones)
 * Worcester Park: male Ring Ouzel 0800 in horse field west to cemetery(Bob Smith)

Saturday 8th April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Little Egret north over Rose Garden 1030, Grey Wagtail collecting food Boating Lake but just one m Pochard there (Bob Watts)
 * Barn Elms playing fields, SW13: Red-legged Partridge - called from eastern car park this evening then flew into Barnes Wetlands overflow car park (J.Wilczur)
 * Brent Reservoir: 5 Swallow, Common Buzzard at 12:15, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 18 Blackcap, Willow Warbler, 11 Chiffchaff, Linnet (Brent Birders)
 * Brent Valley Golf Course, Hanwell: Green Sandpiper (Simon Fogg)
 * Fairlop Waters:singing Whitethroat this afternoon.(Alan Bell)
 * Fryent Country Park: Goshawk pair in display flight at c.10:15 then headed SW (Joe Taylor). Did you get any photos? No it wasn't possible, but I'll submit a description... (JT),Red Kite at 15:45 heading N(Victor Mraz)
 * Greenwich Peninsula: Common Tern seen on buoy on the river (John Bushall)
 * Grove Allotments N4 Blackcaps, Chaffinch, Chiffchaff, Goldfinch, Green Woodpecker, Mistle Thrush, Nuthatch, Song Thrush. (billy bookcase)
 * Hampstead Heath: 3 Cormorant, 18 Tufted Duck, 3 Great Crested Grebe, 4 Stock Dove, Coal Tit, m Blackcap, 2 singing Chiffchaff, Drake Mandarin Duck, 4 Greenfinch, 2 Northern Wheatear flycatching from the tops of trees on Parliament Hill, Meadow Pipit, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Kestrel, 2 Shoveler, Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, 2 Eygptian Geese (with 2 Goslings), 2 Gadwall, 2 Goldcrest. (Samuel Levy)
 * Hogsmill Water Treatment Works: 32 Canada Goose, pair Shoveler, 20 Teal, 7 Grey Heron, 13 Moorhen, Little Egret, Buzzard S, Sparrowhawk, Lapwing, Snipe, 204 Woodpigeon, Skylark W, Cetti's Warbler, 14 Blackcap, 8 Chiffchaff, 6 Linnet (including pair collecting nesting material - 1st evidence of breeding on the site since the 1980s) (Andrew Skotnicki and John Gale)
 * Holloway: still 19 Waxwings on Hornsey Rd at 7-30 this morning but not many berries left (David Bradshaw)
 * Hounslow Heath: 2 Buzzard, f Kestrel, singing Willow Warbler, 10+ Blackcap, 10+ Chiffchaff, 9 species butterfly including 11 Orange Tip (1 female) (Neil Anderson)
 * Lilly's Wood, Chelsfield: 7 Blackcap, 2 Bullfinch (pair), 13 Chiffchaff, 5 Goldcrest, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Mistle Thrush, 4 Nuthatch, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Treecreeper - 08.15-09.45 (Jamie Fletcher)
 * London Wetland Centre: Red-legged Partridge (WWT Website) m Bearded Tit, Glaucous Gull 2cy, Caspian Gull 2cy - same as on 5th, Red Kite S, Buzzard E, Little Egret SW, Green Sandpiper, 2f Pintail, 15 Wigeon, 18 Lapwing, 140 Herring Gull, Kingfisher (Oscar Dewhurst, Jan Wilczur, Steve Woolfenden). 2 Red Kite (over v high at 13:30 ish), m Sparrowhawk, Rook (edge of wader scrape with Crows mid afternoon), Mediterranean Gull (adult with BH Gulls main lake), Reed Warbler (heard only nr Wildside Hide). 6+ Brimstone, 4 Orange Tip, 1 Green-veined White and 1 Holly Blue Butterflies (Charlie Farrell) SOMEONE ALSO DELETED MY POST FROM THIS AFTERNOON (as follows, from memory)! 1 Red-legged Partridge, 1 Mediterranean Gull reservoir lagoon, 2 Red Kite S over sheltered lagoon, 2 Buzzard, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 singing Reed Warbler, 4 Common Snipe, small group of Green Longhorn moths - Adela reamurella (Martin Honey) 5 redshank (Fernley Symons)
 * Pinner (HA5): 3 Sparrowhawk, Green Woodpecker, Coal Tit, singing Goldcrest, Jackdaw, 2 Pied Wagtail & 6 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Primrose Hill: Cuckoo low W toward reservoir 1540 - appeared to land at eastern fenceline but not relocated. Equal-earliest ever here - prev'y 2011, also 5 Buzzard (S 1340 & NE 1345 & NW 1600 & 2 NW 1710), 2 Meadow Pipit NW, Linnet h over (Twitter)
 * Ranelagh Gardens: Red Kite W, 3 Meadow Pipit, Wheatear, Willow Warbler; Yellow-legged Gull W along the Thames (Nick Senior)
 * Staines Res: c35 Great Crested Grebe, 14 Shelduck, pr Mediterranean Gull (adult with 2nd S), 1st Y Little Gull (Neil Anderson) 3 Little gull at 11.45am (Jim Fell) n.b. the flies mentioned yesterday "do not bite", they are there at this time every year, and have been for at least 50 years. The swifts love them when they arrive. (Jim Fell)
 * Swanley park : Common Redstart top car park, 9 am. Tawny Owl (Andy Meaton)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: 1 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Swallow, 1 Buzzard, 2 Rooks, 8 Meadow Pipit, 6 Skylark, 2 Reed Bunting ( G Westley ). 3 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Snipe, Common Whitethroat, 3 Lapwing, 3 Chiffchaff, Tawny Owl heard at 11:15 (Deiniol Owen & Clara Lowbridge)
 * Thorney CP: Swallow over, 2 Canada Geese, Grey Heron, 4 Blackcaps, Song Thrush, 4 Chiffchaff, 3 Great Crested Grebes. (Sue Giddens)
 * Tooting Bec Common: 2 Buzzard E at 13:25, Little Owl, Blackcap, Chiffchaff (Alan Wilkinson).
 * Totteridge Valley: SOMEONE HAS DELETED MY POST FROM LUNCHTIME :( m Wheatear at Owl field was the highlight (Ian Ellis) ​I hope it stays around for tomorrow (SL)
 * Trent Park: 2 Red-legged Partridge, 4 Stock Dove, 3 Pheasant, m Kestrel, 5 Blackcap, 8 Chiffchaff, Nuthatch, Green Woodpecker, Sparrowhawk, 11 Mandarin 9m 2f, Mute Swan, pair Tufted Duck, Common Buzzard, 4 Peacock butterfly, 3 Small Tortoiseshell, 3 Orange Tip. ( Pete Lowman).
 * Twickenham: Red Kite circling Heath Road 1430 (Mike Foster)
 * Walthamstow E17: 1 Hobby circling over back garden. (Daniel Whitelegg)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 1 Sand Martin over River Lea 18.55, also 3 Red Crested Pochard on pond in Springfield Park 17.30 ish (Fyfe Dangerfield)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 2 Green Sandpipers, 2 Common Sandpipers, 1 Little Ringed Plover, White Wagtail, 8 Buzzards including five in air together, 1 Swallow (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Wembley Park: Red Kite (Joe Taylor)
 * West Putney, Huntingfield Road: Red Kite S at 13.45, 3 Buzzard at 12.55, 2 Linnet NW (R.Kaye, J.Wilczur)
 * Wormwood Scrubs: m Kestrel, 7 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap (Charlie Farrell)
 * Yeading Brook Meadows: Swallow feeding over the playing field, Kingfisher, Red Kite over at 10:25 [it or another over opp direction  at 14:10], Common Buzzard, Kestrel, 2 Skylark, 1 Meadow Pipit, 3 Little Egret [two over and one on the brook], Linnet over, 9 butterfly sp (Frank Nugent).

Friday 7th April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Blackcap, Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, Kestrel, Grey Heron flying over (G Sawtell). Willow Warbler top field near Go Ape (Alan Gibson per Bob Watts)
 * Brent Reservoir: Single Oystercatcher on 3 rafts, flew in 14.45, Snipe, male Peregrine, 2 Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, 10 Blackcap, 2 Cetti's Warbler (Andrew Verrall)
 * Crayford Marshes: Little Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Mute Swan, 6 Shelduck, 4 Wigeon, c10 Gadwall, c20 Teal, 2 Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, Kestrel, 4 Pheasant, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Lapwing (upriver) ,Snipe, 2 Redshank, 3 Sand Martin, Swallow, c40 Meadow Pipits, several singing Skylarks, 2+Blackcap, several Chiffchaff,Willow Warbler, Corn Bunting (Mike Amos).
 * Crossness: 100 Black-tailed Godwit, 20 Redshank, 2 Oytercatcher, 2 Lapwing, 50 Gadwall, 35 Teal, 8 Tufted Duck, 6 Shoveler, 4 Pochard, Reed Warbler, 7 Cetti's Warbler, 5 Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff, 6 Linnet, Lots of butterflies, 8 species including Green Hairstreak (Conrad Ellam)
 * Dartmouth Park, NW5: c.20 Waxwing flying north over Dartmouth Park Road, NW5, at 15:00; and then c.5 Waxwing heading back south at 15:30 (my flat is on the direct line between Holloway/Hornsey Road and Highgate No. 1 pond) (Tim Blackburn)
 * Edgwarebury Farm : Little Owl, Swallow, 7 Linnet, Blackcap, 2 Goldcrest (Simon Worsfold)
 * Ellenbrook Fields: Short-eared Owl 1840 (John Yates via Herts BC)
 * Fairlop Waters: 5 Willow Warbler, 9 Blackcap, 6 Chiffchaff, Kestrel, Skylark, 2 Missle Thrush, Pheasant, Meadow Pipit, Buzzard calling (Simon Worsfold)
 * Gunpowder Park: Green Sandpiper attempted to land at Osier Marsh, 4 Skylark, 2 Meadow Pipit, 3 Willow Warbler, 5 Bullfinch, 5 Linnet, 2 Reed Bunting (am) (Neville Smith).
 * Ham Lands, Richmond: 2 Sparrowhawk crossing Thames towards Strawberry Hill, 1800 (Mike Foster)
 * Hogsmill STW Nature Reserve: 2 Greylag Goose E, 17 Canada Goose, 5 Cormorant over, Snipe, 61 Black-headed Gull, 2 Swallow N, Cetti's Warbler, 4 Blackcap (Andrew Skotnicki)
 * Holloway by Spanish Deli on Hornsey Road. No sign of Waxwings at [tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:[tel:0715-0730 0715-0730] 0715-0730] 0715-0730] 0715-0730] 0715-0730] 0715-0730] 0715-0730] 0715-0730] 0715-0730] 0715-0730] 0715-0730] 0715-0730] 0715-0730] 0715-0730], but Peregrine still perching on top of Met University (Shane Enright) Flock of 20 Waxwings at 7 am (David Bradshaw) and 9 at 1pm (Lol Bodini) and flock of around 22 Waxwings in the tree by the deli at 3.45pm, eventually flying north (Jane Collett)
 * Leatherhead, Common Meadow: 5 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 1 Cormorant, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Nuthatch, 1 Orange Tip butterfly (Neil Batten)
 * London Wetland Centre: Sand Martin, 2 Shelduck, 2 Redshank, 4 Greylag Goose, 3 Snipe and 5 different species of butterflies Orange Tip, Brimstone, Peacock, Holly Blue and Speckled Wood (Shailesh Patel) Also 1 Small Tortoiseshell. 8 singing Blackcap, 6 singing Chiffchaff, 8 singing Cetti's warbler, 3m 1f Mandarin, 4m Reed Bunting, 1 Reed Warbler heard and seen in Wildside by main channel, 1 Red Kite flying N (assumed to be one of the birds seen in Putney), 1 Peregrine on Ch. X. Hospital, 1 2cy Glaucous Gull, 1m 1f Shelduck, 1 Sparrowhawk with prey (Starling), 8 Redshank, 4 terrapins (2 Red-eared and 2 Yellow-bellied Sliders) (Martin Honey). Where abouts is the best place to find both species of terrapins (Isaiah Rowe)? They are two subspecies of the same species. Today two were on the grazing marsh, one on the wader scrape and one in Wildside. There are usually lots of Red-eared at Lonsdale Road reservoir (aka Leg-o-Mutton) (Martin Honey)
 * Mayflower Park: Little Egret (Bob Smith)
 * Pinner (HA5): Nuthatch, Pied Wagtail, 4 Goldfinch & a Holly Blue - expected slightly more today & only six Wheatears through Portland (via PBO bird sightings) in the last three days (Jon Ridge)
 * Primrose Hill: Swallow N, 5 Meadow Pipit NW, 3 Linnet N 06:30-09:00; then 3 Swallow N, 9 Meadow Pipit N/NW, 2 Linnet N, 3 Siskin NW but no migrant raptors 11:00-13:30 (Twitter)
 * Purfleet Station: Great Spotted Woodpecker, 6 Linnet, 2 M Blackcap. (Samuel Levy)
 * Regent's Park: 1 Rook N, 2 Sedge Warbler, 12 Meadow Pipit, 1 Fieldfare, 5 Redwing (Regent's Park Birders)
 * Richmond Park: Little Owl in oaks next to Holly Lodge, Skylark over 12.20, Red Kite drifting north 13.10 (Peter Hart)
 * RSPB Rainham Marshes: Swallow, 38 Linnet, 11 Reed Bunting, 51+ Singing Cetti's Warbler, 44 Gadwall, 32 Skylark, Ring-necked Parakeet, 61 Shelduck, 2 M Blackcap, 82 Teal, 18 Meadow Pipit, 3 Oystercatcher, 5 Cormorant, 3 Marsh Harrier, 4 Pheasant, 6 Grey Heron, 109 Shoveler, 2 Common Snipe, 13 Pintail, Sedge Warbler, 8 Little Grebe, M Stonechat, 2 Kestrel, 9 Wigeon, 16 Pochard, 50 Tufted Duck, 4 Little Egret, 2 Great Crested Grebe 3 Pied Wagtail, Sand Martin, Common Buzzard, Water Rail, 2 Reed Warbler, Green Woodpecker, 2 Chiffchaff. (Samuel Levy) Water Pipit, 10 Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 3 Swallow, 3 Sand Martin, Ringed Plover, 10 Common Snipe (Nick Croft/Marco Johnson)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: 2 Swallow, 15 Sand Martin, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Willow Warbler, 3 Bullfinch (Neville Smith).
 * Southall: Red Kite over SW @ 13:15 (Bill Haines)
 * Staines Reservoir: Little Gull. Don't know how many as I didn't hang around because the millions of little black flies were really bad. (Tony Leppard)
 * Stoneleigh Station KT17: 2 Blackcap, 1 Chiffchaff a.m. (Neil Batten)
 * Tulse Hill: Red Kite moving west at 15.35 (Colin Brooks)
 * Walthamstow: AWPW5 The fifth Annual Walthamstow Patch Watch day will be running on Saturday 29th April, choose your spot, Walthamstow Reservoirs, Walthamstow/Leyton Marshes, Waterworks NR or try and do them all! Last year there was a cumulative total of 88 species recorded, can it be beaten? This will be the last bash before it's turned into a free for all theme park (NB this is not the view of ALL Walthamstow Birders). All birders welcome, share your news on the day here or via twitter. (W'stow Birders).
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 2 Common Sandpiper, 2+ Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Snipe (David Bradshaw, Lol Bodini, Jamie Partridge)
 * West Ham Station: 1 Swallow up over tracks just before station. (Samuel Levy)
 * West Putney, Huntingfield Road: 4 Buzzard, local birds sparring, 2 Red Kite NE and NW, Sparrowhawk high NE, Heron high N, Meadow Pipit 6 N/NW, 3 Linnet NW, Lesser Redpoll NW (R.Kaye, J.Wilczur)
 * Wormwood Scrubs: 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Wren, 2 Song Thrush, 5 Greenfinch, 2 Dunnock, 1 Kestrel or Sparrowhawk (Callum Farrell-Morris); 1 m Kestrel, 4 Blackcap singing, 3 Jay, 4 Linnet, 3 Meadow Pipit (Charlie Farrell)
 * Laleham Park: 1 Hobby (David Combes)

Thursday 6th April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: 3 Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, Cormorant (P.c.sinensis) main reservoir, 2 Kestrel (Bruce Carson)
 * Beddington Farm: Glaucous Gull over tip (Twitter)
 * Brent Cross: Little Egret feeding in river by shopping centre at 06:30 (Allan Stewart)
 * Brookmill Park: Singing Blackcap, singing Chiffchaff, Comma, Speckled Wood, Orange Tip, Small White, Holly Blue (Conrad Ellam)
 * Chiswick: 2 Red Kite (SW), 3 Buzzard (2 SW, 1 SE), 1 Grey Heron (high SE), 1 Linnet (Oscar Dewhurst).
 * Cornmill Meadows: Sedge Warbler, 2 Redshank, Common Snipe, Common Buzzard, pair of Mandarin on river (Martin Shepherd)
 * Crayford Marshes: 5 Shelduck, 5 Wigeon, 6 Gadwall, 14 Teal, 2 Pheasant, Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, 3 Kestrel, 2 Oystercatcher, 15 Redshank, Green Woodpecker, 14 Skylark, 1 Swallow, 6 Meadow Pipit, 9 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 6 Chiffchaff, 11 House Sparrow, 9 Chaffinch, 7 Greenfinch, 3 Goldfinch, 11 Linnet (Ralph and Brenda Todd)
 * Crossness: 6-8 Cetti's Warblers, 2 Water Rails, most likely a pair, grunting softly to each other from Protected Area's reed-bed (Patrick English)
 * Eastcote (Field End Recreation Ground): 2 Swallow N 0745 (Tim Rymer).
 * Enfield Lock: Cuckoo south at 09:50 above Government Row heading towards KGV Reservoir (Martin Shepherd)
 * Ewell, Hogsmill Open Space: 1 Little Egret perched in trees near to railway 08:40 (Neil Batten)
 * Finsbury Park: 3 Shelducks flying N (Ian Bradshaw)
 * Wynell Road, Forest Hill: 1 Red Kite, 2 common seagulls mobbing Red Kite. 
 * Greenwich Peninsula: Shelduck 17, Peregrine 1, Chiffchaff 2, Linnet 4 (Richard Green, John Bushall)
 * Hogsmill SF: Raven NE at 07:52 (Nick Tanner). Hogsmill STW Nature Reserve: 2 Greylag Goose E, 15 Canada Goose, Shelduck, pair Shoveler, 6 Little Grebe, Snipe, 382 Herring Gull (376 E), 12 Lesser Black-backed Gull (9 W), 103 Ring-necked Parakeet (90 over), Cetti's Warbler (Andrew Skotnicki)
 * Holloway : 20+ Waxwing same site as yesterday 07.15 to 07.30 hrs at least and Peregrine on roof of University building (D.Jordan); 9.00 No sign of Waxwing, 2 Peregrine on University roof, one Peregrine launched a failed attack on a Pigeon then headed off west (Mark F); 12 Waxwings in tree next to the Spanish Deli at 11.45am (A. Winstanley); 36 back feeding at 6.30pm before flying north (David Bradshaw)
 * Highbury: 1 Barn Owl high over Blackstock Rd heading SW at 21:50 (Charlie Farrell)
 * Ingrebourne Valley: Female Redstart in small paddock this morning, 2 Jack Snipe per Russ Sherriff (Twitter); Jack Snipe still present in afternoon, 10 Common Snipe, 7 Green Sandpiper, 4 Lapwing, 2 Willow Warbler, 10+ Cetti's Warbler, Buzzard, 2 Sparrowhawk, 3 Water Rail (Nick Croft)
 * Little Britain Lake, Cowley, Uxbridge: 10-11 occupied Grey Heron nests, pair of Mandarin, 8 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff (Roger Dewey)
 * London Wetland Centre: 8 Redshank, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 12 singing Blackcap, 4 singing Willow Warbler, 5 singing Chiffchaff, 1 Yellow-bellied Slider (terrapin), 2m Orange-tip butterflies, 3 Speckled Wood, 1 Green-veined White, 1 Peacock butterfly (Martin Honey)
 * Mill Hill NW7: 2 Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk over town (Steve Blake)
 * Monken Hadley Common: fem Sparrowhawk calling and perched up, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Green Woodpecker, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2+ singing male Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff, 3 singing male Goldcrest, 6 Nuthatch, 3 Treecreeper incl a pair, Gorse Shieldbug (Robert Callf)
 * Oxleas Wood: 5 Nuthatch, 4 Blackcap (m), Goldcrest, 2 Coal Tit, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Stock Dove, 4 Jackdaw (2 pairs), 5 Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler (Ron Turner)
 * Pinner (HA5): Linnet over, Sparrowhawk, 2 Pied Wagtail, 4 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Primrose Hill: 2 Collared Dove N/W, Fieldfare briefly, 5 Meadow Pipit N/NW, 3 Linnet N 06:15-08:45; also 2 Swallow N, 10 Meadow Pipit NW & 3 Siskin NW early-pm (Twitter)
 * Regent's Park: 2 Yellow Wagtail N, 6 Meadow Pipit, 3 Willow Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Linnet, 2 Buzzard, 1 Peregrine (Regent's Park Birders); pr Jackdaw lining nest-hole Bandstand Is (area 7) - 1st breeding evidence for obs'r (Twitter)
 * South Harrow, Eastcote Avenue: Redwing heading west, pair of mating House Sparrows (Michael Robinson)
 * South Kensington Station: 2 Grey Wagtail on disused platform (Richard Woolley).
 * Staines Reservoir: 2 Little Gull, Little Ringed Plover, 1 Black-necked Grebe (summer plumage) (Simon Cumming) 3+ 1/w Little Gull, 1 ad Mediterranean Gull, 4 Goldeneye (1m3f), 4 Shelduck - 17:30 (Sam Jones)
 * Thames Barrier Park: 10 Shelduck, 15 Teal, 2 Common Buzzard W, Kestrel, Peregrine, Ringed Plover, 1 Caspian Gull 2cy, 1 Yellow-legged Gull 2cy, 3 Redwing N, 2 Meadow Pipit, 1 Blackcap, 1 Chiffchaff, 5 Linnet (Nick Senior)
 * Tooting Bec Common: 1 Buzzard over gardens beside Common (Alan Wilkinson).
 * Totteridge Valley: 3 Swallow over Belmont Children's Farm checking nesting sites. Also Green Woodpecker, 2 Goldfinch, 2 Ring-necked Parakeet, 2 Kestrel, 3 Canada Geese, 200+ Jackdaw, 50+ Carrion Crow, 3 Chaffinch, 2 M Pheasant, 2 Red-legged Partridge, 2 Starling, Pied Wagtail, Mistle Thush (Samuel Levy)
 * Wanstead Flats: 5 Meadow Pipit (including one carrying nesting material), Skylark, Willow Warbler, 2 Sparrowhawk, 17 Shoveler, Pochard (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park: Common Buzzard (Tim Harris)

Wednesday 5th April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Willow Warbler hedge opposite mid platform (Bob Watts). 4 Blackcap, 7 Chiffchaff, Coal Tit, 2 Grey Wagtail, Kestrel, Willow Warbler singing near Conservation pond (Bruce Carson)
 * Amwell NR: Kittiwake fr viewpt evg (BirdGuides)
 * Belsize Park: 1 Swallow flying NE at 18.05, towards Hampstead Heath direction (Kat).
 * Bow Creek Ecology Park: Lesser Whitethroat still, 2 Blackcap, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting 12.05 (Paul Hyland) Willow Warbler, male Blackcap. No sign of the Lesser Whitethroat at 12:30, where have you encountered it Paul? (Mark Wardman) From the wooden platform overlooking the south most pool. Calling deep in trees opposite then flew towards the platform and under the DLR (PH)
 * East India Dock NR: 4 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Gadwall (Paul Hyland)
 * Finsbury Park: Willow Warbler singing on island in boating lake (Ian Bradshaw)
 * Gallions Reach: Common Buzzard, 2 Swallow, 6 Sand Martin, Willow Warbler, Blackcap. (KJMcmanus)
 * Grovelands Park; 2 Great Crested Grebe pr incubating (ON), Cormorant, male Egyptian Goose, 7 Mandarin Duch 4m 3f, 19 Tufted Duck 11m 8f, 7 singing male Blackcap, 7 singing male Chiffchaff, 2 singing male Goldcrest, 6 Nuthatch 5m 1f (Robert Callf)
 * Gunpowder Park: 3 Willow Warbler (Tony Clancy)
 * Hampstead Heath: 35+ Waxwing feeding on buds below parliament hill above Highgate No 1 pond at 08:30. (Allan Stewart/Green Grandad) Snipe flushed just north of running track at 9.00, circled then flew high E ( Pete Mantle) 1 Swallow over fenced field above boating pond at 07:30 (Allan Stewart).
 * Hogsmill STW Nature Reserve: Greylag Goose NW, pair Shelduck, pair Shoveler, 5 Little Grebe, Sparrowhawk, Snipe, 16 Stock Dove, Cetti's Warbler (Andrew Skotnicki)
 * Holloway: 66 Waxwing at corner of Holloway and Hornsey Roads 07:15-07:40 (Tim Rymer)...Still around 10 at 9:00 settled in tall trees but occasionally coming down to feed on berries in lower trees on the other side of the road, seemed to be dropping a lot of the berries (Mark F, Andy, et al)
 * Hounslow: 1 Swallow over Maswell Park Health Centre (Iain Darbyshire)
 * King George V Reservoir: Little Gull, adult in transitional plumage with hint of pink flush, m Red-breasted Merganser flew in from William Girling Reservoir at 15:10, 9 Goldeneye 1m8f, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Buzzard, c75 Sand Martin, c5 House Martin, Kestrel, 8 Linnet (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)
 * Lamorbey Park: Singing Willow Warbler. Pair Great Crested Grebes, Grey Heron, Cormorant , Pair Tuftied Duck, drumming Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Nuthatch, 2 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Coal Tit, Singing Goldcrest ( Mike Amos).
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 Red-legged Partridge (Pictures WWT London Twitter), 1 Sedge Warbler, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 5 Redshank, 30+ Sand Martin, 4 Willow Warbler, 4 Snipe, 5+ Blackcap, 2 Shelduck, 4 Pintail (WWT Website); Glaucous Gull 2cy, 3 Caspian Gull - all 2cy, probable hybrid Yellow-legged Gull sub-ad - same as March 29th, 140 Herring Gull, Rook lingering, 2 Red Kite, 8 Buzzard - most NW, Collared Dove high N (J. Wilczur, R. Kaye) In response to an earlier request, two of the Caspians were unringed, one of these had been seen on March 15th, the legs of the third were obscured. Video of one bird was obtained (JW)
 * Palmers Green: Red Kite circling over Eaton Park Road at 10:38 then drifted SW (Katy McGilvray)
 * Primrose Hill: 3 Snipe foy, spooked by pr Kestrel, Black-headed Gull, Swallow, 6 Redwing, 34 Meadow Pipit, 2 Siskin all N/NW 06:25-08:55; also m Peregrine, Coal Tit briefly, Rook N pm, Linnet N 1000 (Twitter)
 * Rainham Marshes RSPB: Grasshopper Warbler (BirdGuides)
 * Regent's Park: 2 Rook N, 4 Buzzard, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Linnet, 1 Redwing, 1 Meadow Pipit (Regent's Park Birders)
 * Rickmansworth: 15 Waxwing on A4145 Tolpits Ln by rbt nr Moor Pk GC evg (BirdGuides)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: 3 Willow Warbler, many Blackcap and Chiffchaff (Tony Clancy). 10 House Martin high north east at 17:10 (Martin Shepherd)
 * Stave Hill: 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goldcrest, 1 Willow Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff singing, 2 Blackcap, Mistle Thrush, 1 Collared Dove, 1 Stock Dove, 4 Comma, 1m Brimstone, 4 Orange Tip, 1 Peacock, 1 Holly Blue, 8 Speckled Wood (John Cadera)
 * Sutcliffe Park: Common Snipe (Conrad Ellam)
 * Thames Barrier Park: 2 Oystercatcher, Caspian Gull (2cy unringed), 2 Yellow-legged Gull (2cy,3cy), 2 Common Tern, 2 Blackcap, Sedge Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 6 Linnet, 4 Greenfinch (Nick Senior)
 * Tooting Bec Common: 1 Buzzard, 1 Sparrowhawk  over gardens beside Common  (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: Lapwing, Red Kite, Common Buzzard, 15 singing Chiffchaff, 8 singing Blackcap, Bullfinch, 10 Teal, 4 Coot at Totteridge Long Pond: also Speckled Wood and Comma (John Colmans)- 4 Rook, Nuthatch(Simon Worsfold)
 * Tufnell Park: 2 singing Blackcap 09:00, Peregrine flyover 19:00, on Huddleston Road (Reuben Braddock)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs : 4 Sand Martin over Lockwood, Reed Bunting, Linnet, 3 Blackcap, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Peregrine (Simon Worsfold) 5 Little Ringed Plover on No 5, Goldeneye on East Warwick, 3 Snipe on - No 1, Reed Warbler, 1 Swallow, 1 Red Kite, 4+Buzzards (David Bradshaw, Paul Whiteman, Mike Messenger)
 * Wanstead Flats: 4 Sparrowhawk, 1 Common Buzzard over 4 times, 7 Meadow Pipit, 2 Grey Wagtail, 3 Willow Warbler, 5 Skylark, 2 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall, 3 + Linnet (1 singing) (Nick Croft/Marco Johnson)
 * Wanstead Park: Willow Warbler, Kestrel (Nick Croft/Marco Johnson)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 4 Red-crested Pochard, 3 Shoveler, 2 Snipe, Egyptian Goose, Willow Warbler, Grey Wagtail (Chris Farthing)

Tuesday 4th April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: 3 Greylag Geese landed on Wood Green Res 1750 (Bob Watts)
 * Barnes Waterside: singing Cetti's Warbler, Blackcap + 2 Chiffchaff (Neil Anderson)
 * Bow Creek Ecology Park: Lesser Whitethroat singing, (the earliest spring record is 04/04/1994 at Bushy Park - well done JA), Blackcap singing, Chiffchaff singing, Cetti's Warbler singing, 2 Oystercatcher, Song Thrush (John Archer)
 * Brent Reservoir: Snipe, Little Ringed Plover, Common Buzzard S 13:25, 11 Chiffchaff, 7 Blackcap, 2 Cetti's Warbler (Andrew Self, Andrew Verrall). North Side & North Marsh: 2 Willow Warbler, 13 Blackcap, 11 Chiffchaff, 2 Cetti's Wabler (probably same as above) - all singing, Siskin E, Grey Wagtail by Cool Oak Bridge (Bill Haines).
 * Brookmill Park: Singing Song Thrush, Blackcap pair, singing Chiffchaff, singing Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
 * Dartmouth Park, NW5: c. 30 Waxwings flew south over Croftdown Road at 17:25 (Tim Blackburn)
 * East India Dock Basin: Willow Warbler singing, Blackcap singing, 2 Gadwall, Shelduck, 11 Tufted Duck, 34 Teal (John Archer)
 * Fairlop Waters: male Yellow Wagtail, male White Wagtail, 3 Swallows, c.15 Sand Martins, Orange-tip, Green-veined White.(Alan Bell)
 * Gallions Reach: 5 Common Tern, 3 Wheatear (KJMcmanus)
 * Hampton Wick/Kingston: about 15 Sand Martin prospecting around marina and flats where they regularly nest, at 0930 (Mike Foster). 1 male Red Crested Pochard and 1 male Mandarin (Phil Davies).
 * Hampstead Heath: 1 male Wheatear on fence posts of field above boating pond at 17:30 (Allan Stewart).
 * Hogsmill STW Nature Reserve: Greylag Goose E, 23 Canada Goose, 2 Shelduck, 3 Shoveler, Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 77 Herring Gull (mainly E/SE), Cetti's Warbler (Andrew Skotnicki)
 * Holloway: 36 Waxwings again on Hornsey Road near junction with Holloway Road (in big tree next to Spanish Deli and feeding in trees opposite) at 7-45 before flying north (David Bradshaw)
 * KGV Reservoir: 2 Red-breasted Merganser (Neville Smith) No sign of mergs at 11:00. Adult Little Gull in afternoon, 2 Goldeneye, 30+ Sand Martin, Swallow, 4 Willow Warbler, 11 Meadow Pipit north, Yellow Wagtail, Redshank and Red Kite reported, 2 Buzzards (Nick Croft/Mike Messenger)
 * Lamorbey Park: Pair Great Crested Grebes, Pair Egyptian Goose, Pair Mute Swan, Pair Tufted Duck, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, Singing Goldcrest, 3 Singing Chiffchaff and 1 Blackcap in brief visit (Mike Amos).
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 Glaucous Gull - 2cy flew in at 11.15, 140 Herring Gull, 20 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 4 Pintail, 4 Shelduck - 2 prs, 5 Redshank, 6 Snipe, Kingfisher, 1 Swallow, 30+ Sand Martin, Meadow Pipit, 2 Willow Warbler, Blackcap, 83 Carrion Crow, 4 Reed Bunting (Oscar Dewhurst, Jan Wilczur). Willow Warbler (Shailesh Patel)
 * Mayflower Park: Peregrine Falcon, Barn Swallow north (Bob Smith)
 * Orsett Fen: f Ring Ouzel early-am (BirdGuides)
 * Philpot Lane City of London: 3 Greenfinch (1m & 2f) never seen here in 30 years (A La Pietra)
 * Pinner (HA5): Nuthatch & 4 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Pinner Park Farm: Fieldfare (Michael Hammond) - I left an apple for it yesterday - a longevity award! (JR)
 * Potters bar by M25 roundabout Hobby flying low and fast ( Brian Dawton )
 * Richmond Park: Red Kite, 2 Little Owl (James Palmer)
 * St James's Park: Blackcap singing (James Hudson)
 * Sevenoaks wildlife reserve: 4 Garganey, 4 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Magpie, 2 Common snipe, 2 Egyptian Goose with young, 1 Blue Tit, 1 Chiffchaff 1 song thrush (Jack Headley KOS reporter)
 * Staines Res: 5 Little Gull, 2 adult Mediterranean Gull, 1 Redshank, 5 LRP (Peter Alfrey) pics
 * Totteridge Valley : Mute Swan + Mandarin m on long pond of Totteridge Lane (Simon Worsfold)
 * Trent Park: 3 Mute Swan ( 2nd cy lower lake plus 2 flew over), 3 male Mandarin Duck, Common Buzzard, Kestrel, 7 Stock Dove, Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 male Blackcap, 4 Goldcrest incl pr nest building, 7 Coal Tit, 3 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper, 2 Lesser Redpoll (Robert Callf). Willow Warbler singing, pair Mandarin Duck Upper Lake, 4 male Mandarin Duck on Lime avenue pond, Cockfosters Road car park, 3 Common Buzzard, pair of Kestrels displaying over Ferny Hill Farm, 3 singing Chiffchaff (Bob Husband & Mike Cawthorne)
 * Upminster: Common Swift St Mary's Ln pm (BirdGuides)
 * Victoria Park: Blackcap, 2 Common Whitethroat, Chiffchaff (John and Mary Tate)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 11 Little Ringed Plover on res no 5 at 16.50 (TeRNSorg twitter); ca 15 Sand Martins just arrived on East Warwick 18:00 (Quentin Given).
 * Wanstead Flats: 2 Willow Warbler, Fieldfare, 5 Meadow Pipit, 3 singing Skylark, Linnet, Sparrowhawk, 3 Pochard, 6 Gadwall (Nick Croft/Bob Vaughan)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 6 Egyptian Geese, 2 Shelduck, Snipe, Great Black-backed Gull, Reed Bunting (Chris Farthing)

Monday 3rd April 2017

 * Bow Creek Ecology Park: 2 Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Cetti's Warbler (Paul Hyland)
 * Brookmill Park: Singing Blackcap (Conrad Ellam)
 * Bunhill Fields: Blackcap male, 4 Long-tailed Tits (Nick Senior)
 * Bushy Park: Chiffchaff (calling), Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Mandarin Duck, 2 Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush (Ian R Watson)
 * Croydon Trinity School: 1 swallow flew N 08:15 (Jo East)
 * East India Dock NR: 3 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Gadwall (Paul Hyland)
 * Finsbury Park: 2 Stock Doves in same tree, different hole to last years nest, Red-crested Pochard, 6+ Blackcap, 3+ Chiffchaff (Chris Farthing)
 * Greenwich Peninsula: Ring Ouzel 1 male, 4 Linnet. Seen on the waste ground behind the O2 and Intercontinental Hotel. (Richard Green)
 * Grovelands Park: Swallow hawking over the lake at 17:33 (Katy McGilvray)
 * Hadley Green (Barnet): m & f Ferruginous Duck (pictures here) on Old Fold Manor pond. (I followed up a report on RBA saying 2 birds were showing well at 11.00 a.m. I got there late evening & both were still present. Probable escapes? The female appeared unringed. I didn't see the legs of the male. While there neither bird flapped its wing so didn't see if they were pinioned). (Simon West) I visited on Apr 6th and they were still both present, and pinioned. Therefore definitely not escapes as they're still captive. (Adam Wilson)
 * Holloway: around 30 Waxwing feeding at 7-30 am on Hornsey Road near junction with Holloway Road in small trees outside London Met Uni. Plenty of berries left (David Bradshaw)
 * Hogsmill STW Nature Reserve: Shelduck, pair Shoveler, pair Pochard, Lapwing, Green Sandpiper, 62 Black-headed Gull, Great Black-backed Gull SE, 21 Stock Dove, Cetti's Warbler (Andrew Skotnicki)
 * Kingston Riverside : 8 Sand Martin +3 Red Crested Pochard (Simon Worsfold)
 * Lamorbey Park, Sidcup: 3 Egyptian Geese, Little Grebe, Coal Tit, Sparrowhawk circling, Peregrine, GS Woodpecker, 2 Blackcap (singing), Orange Tip, Speckled Wood (Eric Brown)
 * Little Britain: 4 Chiffchaff, Treecreeper, Nuthatch, Kingfisher along river, 2 Mandarins along river, 2 Red Kites, Buzzard, 2 Goldfinch, Mistle Thrush, 15+ Greylags, Dunnock, 4 Wrens, Grey Herons with the young ones heads now visible. Orangetip, Comma 2 large Whites. (Sue Giddens)
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 Glaucous Gull (2cy), 1 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Redshank, 4 Pintail, 30+ Sand Martin, 2 Shelduck, 2 Ruddy Duck, 5+ Blackcap singing, 5+ Chiffchaff singing (WWT Website) 6 Redshank, 1 Willow Warbler. Red Kite reported over W (Martin Honey); Rook high N at 10:15, 2 Water Pipits, Meadow Pipit (Josh Jones).
 * Morden Cemetery: Little Egret (Bob Smith, Bill Reid)
 * North Cray, Woollett Hall Farm : Skylark in full song. Widespread Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps. Several Linnets. Kestrel and Sparrowhawk. Orange-tip (Patrick English) This has been called Kelsey Park Farm for a number of years now Where exactly are you referring to? Upper College Farm/Kelsey Farm of west side of river or Kelseys Farm on North Cray Road? The F/P from Riverside Rd to Bexley Station. Should be a good habitat for migrants (Patrick English) Patrick - this is known by local people and birdwatchers as Upper College Farm - owned by Bexley Sand and Gravel although the Albany Park end fields are Kelseys Farm land. (Ralph Todd)
 * Parkland Walk N4 (between Mount Pleasant Villas and Crouch Hill) Greenfinch, Chaffinch, Goldfinches, several Chiffchaffs, 2 Blackcaps singing, MistleThrush, SongThrush, Nuthatch. (billy bookcase)
 * Pear Wood NR, Wood Lane, Stanmore, Middx: Red Kite, 3 Common Buzzard, male Sparrowhawk, M & F Kestrel, singing Goldcrest, singing Mistle Thrush, 2 singing Chiffchaff, 2 singing Blackcap, male Mandarin Duck on lake, 2 singing Nuthatch, (Bob Husband, Fay Broom, Brian Hunter)
 * Pinner (HA5): Red Kite south at 14:34, Nuthatch heard, Coal Tit, 2 Pied Wagtail & 5 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Regent's Park: 1 female Brambling (pic here), 1 Kittiwake N, 1 Marsh Harrier SW, 1 Red Kite NW, 7 Buzzard, 3 Peregrine, 8 Redwing, 3 Linnet, 2 Meadow Pipit, 1 Sedge Warbler, 10+ Blackcap, 8 Chiffchaff, 2 Reed Bunting (Regent's Park Birders)
 * Richmond Park: 6 Buzzard, 7 Sparrowhawk - 4f 3m (J.Wilczur); Red Kite, Swallow (R.Herbert)
 * St James's Park: Rook SW at 08:55, 3 Willow Warbler, 3 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff (Frank Nugent).
 * Southfields, SW18: Blackcap and Song Thrush singing in my garden (Martin Honey)
 * Staines Moor: Red Kite, 2 Buzzards, 4 Redshank, 2 Lapwing, 5 Cettis Warblers, 12 Blackcap, 8 ChiffChaff, Reed Warbler, 20+ Meadow Pipit, Water Pipit, 20+ Skylark, 12 Linnet, 6 Reed Bunting, Great Spotted and Green Woodpeckers (Nick Baker)
 * Staines Reservoir: 12 Shelduck, 3 Redshank, 2 Lapwing, Sanderling, 8 Meadow Pipit (Nick Baker)
 * Stocker's Lake: Hobby (BirdGuides)
 * Surbiton Filter Beds : 2 Sand Martin, Blackcap m, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, 2 Little Grebe (Simon Worsfold)
 * Town Park, Enfield: Red Kite over 16:15, Sparrowhawk, 4 Tufted Duck 2m 2f (Robert Callf)
 * Trent Park: 7 Common Buzzard, 4 Blackcap, 6 Chiffchaff, 2 pair of Tufted Duck, m Mandarin, Sparrowhawk, Nuthatch, 2 Skylark, Song Thrush, 12 Stock Dove, Pheasant, 2 Speckled Wood, Muntjac. ( Pete Lowman ).
 * Tyttenhanger GP (Herts): ♂ Wheatear, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Redshank, 1 Red Kite & good numbers of Sand martin, Swallow, Chiffchaff & Blackcaps (Simon West).
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 3 Red-crested Pochard, 1f Goldeneye, pr Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 4-5 singing Cetti's Warbler, 2 singing Blackcap, 1 Swallow, 3 Rook over (Walthamstow birders).
 * Wanstead Flats: The fog yielded nothing here. 6 Meadow Pipit, possibly 8 Skylark territories though not confirmed, 2 Redwing south, 2 Reed Bunting, Linnet, 2 Sparrowhawk, 8 Gadwall, 10 Shoveler, 15 Tufted Duck, 3 Pochard, 4 Little Grebe (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wembley Park: Red Kite, 2 Peregrine, 2 Common Buzzard, 3 Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel (Joe Taylor)
 * Willersley Avenue, Sidcup: Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, Swallow over (Eric Brown)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Oystercatcher over at 06:55, landed on boat on west reservoir, stayed about 20 mins then lost (foggy), Snipe, f Kingfisher (last visit was also a foggy day), 2 Shelduck, Sparrowhawk (Chris Farthing)

Sunday 2nd April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: Common Swift again over filter beds 1012-1014, low enough to confirm not pallid! Be interesting to know if this is the same bird I saw on Monday! Yet to see any hirundines on the patch. Also female Kingfisher Tunnel Res (Bob Watts) BW - earlier this morning Croydon Bleirders posted another sighting from yesterday
 * Brent Reservoir: Little Ringed Plover, 2 Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 6 Greylag Goose, Egyptian Goose, 2 Red Kite (1 E 09:07 & 1 N 09:50), 3 Cetti's Warbler, 12 Blackcap, 2 Willow Warbler, 15 Chiffchaff (Brent Birders); pair of Bullfinch (Francis O'Sullivan)
 * Chiswick: Fieldfare, Redwing and 6 Blackcaps at Chiswick House & Gardens early morning (Josh Jones)
 * Chiswick W4: 1 Buzzard S, 1 Peregrine SW, 4 Sparrowhawk, 1 Linnet N, 3 Meadow Pipit, 1 Grey Wagtail (Oscar Dewhurst).
 * Crossness: 2 Willow Warbler singing, 4 Chiffchaff singing, Swallow north, 8 House Martin, 3+ Sand Martin, 2 Common Tern, 12 Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Curlew, 6 Oystercatcher, 7 Meadow Pipit north, Littel Egret (John Archer)
 * Crystal Palace Park Ridge SE19: Wheatear, Willow Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap (Dave Clark)
 * Dartmouth Park, NW5: 20+ Waxwing in large tree between Boscastle Road & Grove Terrace at 10:10, then flew north (Tim Blackburn)
 * Dollis Brook: Fursby Allotments to Gordon Road Allotments - 8 Stock Dove, 12 Singing Wrens, 2 Jackdaw, 2 Lomg-tailed Tit, Chiffchaff, M Blackcap, 2 Teal, 7 Mallard, 6 Ring-necked Parakeets, Treecreeper, 2 Coal Tit, Drake Mandarin, Collared Dove, 2 Jay, Song Thrush. 23 Species seen (Samuel Levy)
 * Finsbury Park: 5 Blackcap including 1 female on south end of Parkland Walk, 3 Chiffchaff on island in park (G Sawtell)
 * Greenwich O2: adult Yellow-legged Gull and 2 Little Ringed Plovers (Richard Bonser, Jamie Partridge, Dante Shepherd, Martin Hallam, Dave Johnson)
 * Gunpowder Park: 2 Common Buzzards, Kestrel, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Teal, 2 Green Woodpeckers, 5 Skylarks, many singing Chiffchaffs, 2 Willow Warblers, 3 Song Thrush, pair Bullfinches (Harry Harrison)
 * Hampstead Heath: 30+ Waxwing still to the right of Highgate No1 pond, Kingfisher, 2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Gadwall, 9 Blackcap, 14 Chiffchaff, Coal Tit, Collared Dove (Oliver Simms) Saw my first Speckled Wood at the cricket pitch midday and 10 Meadow Pipits N (Pete Mantle)
 * Hammersmith: Glaucous Gull 2cy followed Women's Boat Race flotilla upriver & circled over Chiswick Eyot then N 1645 (Josh Jones)
 * Hillingdon: 1 Nuthatch, 1 Song Thrush at St John the Baptist churchyard (Roger Dewey)
 * Hogsmill STW Nature Reserve: 3 Shelduck, 37 Tufted Duck, 5 Cormorant over, Water Rail, Snipe, 45 Black-headed Gull, 13 Stock Dove, 5 Redwing E, Cetti's Warbler (probably the 1st record for Hogsmill SW) (Andrew Skotnicki)
 * Ingrebourne Valley: 5 Green Sandpiper, House Martin, 11 Blackcap, Yellowhammer (Dave Morrison via Twitter)
 * Lamorbey Park, Sidcup: 3 Egyptian Geese, Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, Peregrine, 4 Chiffchaffs, Goldcrest, Blackcap, Nuthatch, Song Thrush, 2 Jackdaw, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Pheasant - total 34 species; also Small Tortoiseshell, Brimstone, Holly Blue (Eric Brown)
 * Leatherhead, Common Meadow: 4 Common Buzzard together, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, Grey Wagtail, Little Egret on River Mole, Orange-tip butterflies (Frank Nugent).
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 Glaucous Gull (2cy), 1 Jack Snipe, 2 Common Snipe, 4 Pintail, 4 Redshank, 5+ Chiffchaff, 5+ Blackcap, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 30+ Sand Martin (WWT Website); Yellow Wagtail, Kingfisher (Simon Fogg)
 * Mudchute, Isle of Dogs: 2 Willow Warblers, 4 Blackcaps, 5 Chiffchaffs (Sean Huggins)
 * Oakwood Park: Common Buzzard, 4 Meadow Pipit N 13:03, Speckled Wood (Robert Callf)
 * Oxleas Wood: Common Buzzard, female Sparrowhawk, 5 Kestrel [1 pair and one group of 2 females and 1 male], 5 Goldcrest, 5 Nuthatch [2 Pairs and 1 single], Stock Dove [pair], Goldfinch, 8 Jackdaw [4 pairs], 2 Swallow, 3 Coal Tit, Green Woodpecker [pair], Great Spotted Woodpecker, 8 Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler (Ron Turner)
 * Pinner (Ashridge Gardens): Red Kite & Sparrowhawk over at 14:20 (Jon Ridge)
 * Pinner (HA5): 2 Red Kite south-west at 12:46 & north-west at 12:55, Sparrowhawk, 4 Meadow Pipit north, Coal Tit & 3 Goldfinch; also a Speckled Wood butterfly (Jon Ridge)
 * Pinner Park Farm: female Wheatear - they seem rather scarce right now - a chunky bird with warm colours - (no pattern in the scapulars indicates an adult), 3 Common Buzzard, 3 Sparrowhawk, male Kestrel, 2 Little Owl, singing Willow Warbler, 2 singing Chiffchaff, 2 Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Fieldfare, 7 Stock Dove & 48 Jackdaw (Jon Ridge)
 * Primrose Hill: 2 Swallow foy NW 0745, 16 Redwing briefly then N 0650, 13 Meadow Pipit N/NW 07:10-08:30, Linnet h over - vismig 06:15-08:45, also Egyptian Goose & Collared Dove S, 2 Peregrine over (Twitter)
 * Rainham RSPB: 3 Short-eared Owl on tip together, 4 Marsh Harrier, 6 Common Buzzard, Peregrine Falcon, Kestrel, Little Ringed Plover, Jack Snipe, 10 Common Snipe, Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Curlew, pr of Bearded Tit, 6 + Sedge Warbler, 20 + Cetti's Warbler, Swallow, Sand Martin, Raven, 3 Rook, Water Pipit, 6 Common Tern, 3 Stonechat (2 singing males), otter spraint identified by someone well versed in this kind of thing (Nick Croft)
 * Ranelagh Gardens: Tawny Owl, 2 Swallow N, Chiffchaff (Nick Senior)
 * Regent's Park: Little Owl calling fr cafe roof 0605, 2 Collared Dove SW 0905 (Twitter)
 * Richmond Park: Tawny Owl, 3 Kestrel (2m 1f), 3 Buzzard, 1 Sparrowhawk 1 Coal Tit; also 2 Brimstone, 1 Speckled Wood in the Park and an Orange-tip outside Ham Gate (Marc McLoughlin)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: 2m Sedge Warbler nr warbler_hide/north of scrape, m Reed Warbler by Ashby hide (Toby Spall via Herts BC)
 * Shrewsbury Park, SE18: 2 singing Blackcap, 10+ Chiffchaff, Green Woodpecker (Tim Rymer)
 * Springwell Lake: Reed Warbler singing 1105 (BirdGuides)
 * Staines Reservoir: Black-necked Grebe, Redshank, 2 Little Gull am (Dominic Pia via Twitter)
 * Stanstead Abbotts Lakes - N Lake: 2 Oystercatcher, Fieldfare, Sedge Warbler (Jane Free via Herts BC)
 * Stratford,Olympic Park: 2 Little Ringed Plover, Peregrine, Cetti's Warbler, Blackcap, 7 Sand Martin (Stuart Fisher)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: 4 Pheasant (2 m seen & 2 heard), 6 Greylag over, Red Kite, 4 Kestrel (pr together), 7 Lapwing, Snipe, 11 Stock Dove, 4 Skylark (2 singing), 5 Meadow Pipit, 16 Redwing (4N), 8 singing Blackcap, 11 singing Chiffchaff, 2 Rook, 3 Reed Bunting, 5 Linnet, 2 Bullfinch (Neil Anderson)
 * Thames Barrier Park: 2nd-winter Yellow-legged Gull early morning (Richard Bonser)
 * Tooting Commons: 2 Willow Warbler, 5 Blackcap (4m 1f), 14 Chiffchaff (including ringed bird still present around gorse bushes), 2 Redwing, 2 Shoveler (pair), Goldcrest singing, 4 Jackdaw, Sparrowhawk (male), 11 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Mistle Thrush, Cormorant (James Hudson); also Little Owl, Mute Swans attempting to drown Egyptian Goose gosling, and 2 Orange-tip butterflies (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Upminster: Hall: Swallow on wires at horse stables (Shaun Harvey via Twitter)
 * Wandsworth High Street: Swift species flew over car 1200 (Bob Smith)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: Yellow Wagtail rear paddocks (penultimate paddock heading N), 2 Stock Dove, 4 Linnet, 2 Mistle Thrush also on paddocks, Common Buzzard over Leyton Marsh, Kestrel (f) over Bomb Crater Field 10:00-11:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Goldeneye, Snipe on East Warwick; Redshank, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper on No 4; Meadow Pipit, Sand Martin on Lockwood (G Howie); Lockwood - Siberian Chiffchaff showing well and calling by access gate to perimeter path near Blackhorse Lane 2.50 (Stuart Fisher)
 * Wanstead Flats: Willow Warbler in SSSI (Marco Johnson)
 * West Hyde GP: m Tree Pipit west side - briefly displayed from oak tree 1220 (BirdGuides) TQ023906
 * Wimbledon Common: 5 Buzzard - together (J.Wilczur)
 * Woodoaks Farm, Maple Cross: f Black Redstart on fencing by Little_Owl orchard 1625 (Lee Evans via Twitter)
 * Yeading Brook meadows: Little Egret, Buzzard, pr Kestrel, 5 Meadow Pipit (2 briefly singing), 5 singing Blackcap, 7 singing Chiffchaff, singing Reed Bunting, 4 Small Tortoiseshell (Neil Anderson/K. Bull)

Saturday 1st April 2017

 * Alexandra Park: minimum of 10 Blackcaps and 6 Chiffchaffs singing (Bruce Carson, Greg Smith, Gareth Richards, Bob Watts)
 * Barking Outfall: 5 Common Tern upriver am (Dave Morrison via Twitter)
 * Bexleyheath: The Warren - 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Stock Dove, 3 Chiffchaff & 4 Blackcap singing (Ralph Todd)
 * Blackwall Beach: 3 Caspian Gull (2 3cy and 2cy from 11.15 NTGG colour ringed G0UT seen earlier at LWC), 2 Yellow-legged Gulls (2cy), 180 Herring Gull (Nick Senior)
 * Brent Reservoir: Drake Scaup, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 8 Sand Martins N, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 6 Blackcap, 2 Willow Warbler, 11 Chiffchaff (Brent Birders); 2 Buzzard (over Northern Marsh), Kingfisher, 2 Kestrel (Jon Agar)
 * Bushy Park: 2 Wheatear m & f, Treecreeper, many Chiffchaff (Evan Landy)
 * Bushy Park: Chiffchaff (calling), 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Mandarin Duck, Nuthatch, Redwing, 4 Shelduck, Song Thrush (Ian R Watson)
 * Chiswick: Swallow over Chiswick House mid-morning (Josh Jones)
 * Covent Garden: Grey Wagtail singing fr rooftop Keeley St/Wild St jn 1245 (Twitter) TQ305811
 * Crossness: 3 Common Tern downriver 12:30, 90 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Curlew, 6 Oystercatcher, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Lapwing, 2 Blckcap singing, 4 Chiffchaff, Buzzard, Little Egret, 8 Meadow Pipit north (John Archer).
 * Dollis Brook: Totteridge Station end - 6 Singing Male Chiffchaff (Samuel Levy)
 * Dulwich Park: 2 Willow Warbler, 3 Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, 4 Little Grebe, 6 Shoveler (Dave Clark)
 * Elephant & Castle: singing Willow Warbler off Harper Road in school grounds at midday (Richard Bonser)
 * Gallions Reach: Wheatear, Sand Martin (KJMcmanus)
 * Greenwich Ecology Park: Redstart [male], Little Grebe, Chiffchaff (John Bushell)
 * Hackney Marshes: 6 singing Blackcap 12:00-12:30 (Alastair Dent)
 * Haddon Grove, Sidcup: Little Egret, Grey Wagtail, Mistle Thrush, Chiffchaff, 2 Jay, Orange Tip butterfly (Eric Brown)
 * Hall Marsh: 2 Redshank, Snipe, Cetti's Warbler (Neville Smith via Twitter)
 * Hampstead Heath: 2 Willow Warblers singing, along with numerous Chiffchaff and Blackcap, 3m Greenfinch singing - colony above Vale of Health very active on the gorse (Jo Edwards); c20 Waxwings flycatching from trees at back of Highgate No.1 pond, 1 Willow Warbler Heath Extension (K Felder); c100 Waxwings c.4pm in sycamores near Highgate 1 Pond - later flew north, pair of Green Woodpeckers foraging for ants among crowds on Kite Hill, pair of Kingfishers far end of Nature Reserve Pond (i.e. near nesting bank), Chiffchaff calling (Mavis Pilbeam). Common Buzzard flying high over, Eastwards, at 12.55 and another also headed East on same path at 12.58 (Kat).
 * Harefield: Blackjacks Mill to Harefield Marina - 2 Willow Warbler one song switching, 2 Swallow, 2 Buzzard, Blackcaps (Dan Pinkham)
 * Highgate: Avenue Road - 14 Waxwings at 18:30 ( Duncan Chapman)
 * Hogsmill STW Nature Reserve: 5 Greylag Goose E, 3 Shelduck, 41 Tufted Duck, 6 Little Grebe, Buzzard S, Green Sandpiper, 17 Stock Dove, Willow Warbler (Andrew Skotnicki)
 * Hornsey: Common Buzzard north towards Alexandra Park 1354 (Bob Watts)
 * Ickenham Marsh: Grey Heron, Grey Wagtail, Sparrowhawk, Willow Warbler, 8 Chifffchaff, 7 Blackcap (Nigel Dodd)
 * Island Barn Res: 4 Oystercatcher, 2 Redshank, 1 Drk Scaup (Chris Turner)
 * KGV Res: 2 Sandwich Tern, Little Gull, 8 Sand Martin, 3 Swallow am (Neville Smith via Twitter)
 * Lamorbey Park: Little Grebe, 7 Tufted Duck, c10 Canada Goose, Egyptian Goose, Stock Dove, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, 2 Nuthatch (one on path briefly), 2 Goldcrest, 2 singing Chiffchaff (Mike Amos).
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 Goshawk flew S/SW c. 11am, 1 Caspian Gull (ringed - G0UT), 1 Little Egret, 5 Redshank, 4 Blackcap, 2 Pintail, 3 Shelduck, 2 Snipe, 2 Sparrowhawk, 16 Sand Martin, 2 Chiffchaff (Oscar Dewhurst); Iceland Gull 2cy drifted high west 15:28-15:34 then lost to view, Red Kite over at 14:30 (Josh Jones); Buzzard W, 3 Willow Warbler (WWT website); 6+ Redshank, Wheatear male, 4 Snipe, Peregrine perched on hospital, 2 Mandarin Duck (pair), 2 Pintail females (Mat Hare)
 * Lordship Rec, N17: House Martin west over at 5:10pm (Harringay Birder)
 * Lower Chingford: 8 Green Sandpiper, 20+ Sand Martin, Wheatear (James Palmer)
 * Mayflower Park: Little Grebe, Willow Warbler (Bob Smith, Bill Reid)
 * Mill Hill NW7: Blackcap singing in my garden for 1st time this year (more than a week earlier than usual) (Andrew Haynes).
 * Millfields E5: Common Buzzard circling high overhead at 1830 (Alastair Dent)
 * Norbury SW16: Swift over Croft Road at 6:20pm. First time seen here in April. 2nd earliest record of a Swift species in Croydon. (Croydon Birders)
 * North Finchley: Red Kite over my allotment (Tony Clancy)
 * Oxleas Wood: 4 Goldcrest, Firecrest, Coal Tit, 5 male Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Stock Dove, Jackdaw, Goldfinch, Sparrowhawk, 2 pairs of Kestrel, 2 drake Mallard (Ron Turner)
 * Pinner (HA5): Red Kite north at 13:02, pair of Pied Wagtail & 5 Goldfinch (Jon Ridge)
 * Pinner (Cannon Lane): Grey Wagtail over (Jon Ridge)
 * Pinner (Marsh Road): Sparrowhawk over (Jon Ridge)
 * Pinner (Red Lion Parade): Grey Wagtail over (Jon Ridge)
 * Pinner Park Farm: 4 Red Kite, 11 Common Buzzard - with double figure counts in the air simultaneously, Kestrel, 2 Little Owl, Great Black-backed Gull, Fieldfare, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Nuthatch, 8 Stock Dove & 106 Jackdaw (Jon Ridge)
 * Priest Hill: Sand Martin, 4 Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, 3 Blackcap (Steve Gale via Twitter) 3 Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 1 Sparrowhawk, 10 Meadow Pipit, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Pheasant 11:50 - 12:30 (Neil Batten)
 * Queen Mother Reservoir: Common Scoter still & 2 Raven 1000 - permit only (P Newbound via Berks BN)
 * Rainham Marshes: Wheatear, 2 Sedge Warblers, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Jack Snipe (Sean Huggins); 1 Linnet, 5 Bearded Tit, 5 Canada Geese, 1 Kestrel (Jack Headley)
 * Regent's Park: Sedge Warbler 7.00am (earliest record) in reeds by Boat House, also 1p Reed Buntings (Tony Duckett); also 2 Willow Warbler, 8 Meadow Pipit, 2 Sparrowhawk, 1 Peregrine (Dante Shepherd)
 * Richmond Park: 4 Greylag Goose - 2 pairs, 8 Pochard 5m 3f, 6 Great Created Grebe - 3 pairs, Red Kite, f Peregrine - perched, 2 Water Rail - heard, m Stonechat, Willow Warbler, 4m Reed Bunting (J.Wilczur); 5 House Martin (S.Woolfenden); m Stonechat - second bird (H.Bradshaw); Skylark above Attenborough Pond (R Dunne)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: 61 Gadwall, 44 Shoveler, 9 Pochard, Buzzard, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Kingfisher now incubating, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Grey Wagtail (Rye Meads online sightings board)
 * South Lodge Farm, Enfield: 7 Fieldfare, 2 Linnet (Robert Callf)
 * Staines Reservoirs: 2 Sandwich Tern W early-am (BirdGuides); (pm) 4 Little Gull (3 ad & 1 1st w), 2 Common Tern (Twitter); also Black-necked Grebe still, 7 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Redshank pm (Dominic Pia via Twitter)
 * Stratford, Olympic Park: m Wheatear N end, Red Kite over greenway, seen off by pr of Peregrines, 2 Cetti's Warblers, 2 Blackcap, 2 Teal (Stuart Fisher); 3 Swallow, 2 House Martin, Chiffchaff (P Kite & Jacky Foot)
 * Ten Acre Wood Area: Pr Buzzard, Red Kite landed in the wood, Kestrel, Nuthatch, Kingfisher, Little Ringed Plover, Lapwing, 5 Skylark, 10 Meadow Pipit, 4 Linnet, 5 Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff (Nigel Dodd)
 * Tooting Bec Common: Willow Warbler singing by lake, Chiffchaff, Speckled Wood (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Trent Park: 4 Common Pochard 3m 1f, 3 male Nuthatch, Orange Underwing (Robert Callf)
 * Tufnell Park: Mercers Rd N19 4PY Trees on pavement c20 Waxwings [reported 0655] (not an April fool), later pair of Goldcrests in cypress tree hedge Tufnell Park Playing Fields (Mavis Pilbeam)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: 1st House Martin this am, with Sand Martins and 2 Swallow (TyttGP twitter)
 * Upper College Farm: 3 singing Skylarks (Ralph Todd)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 4 Sand Martin over Leyton Marsh/canal N of black bridge at 11:00 (Alastair Dent); female Marsh Harrier circling in large kettle of Gulls at 17:20 (Paul Whiteman)
 * Wanstead Flats: 28 Meadow Pipits (most of these passing through north), 3 Skylark, 2 Swallow, 6 m Blackcap, 10 m Chiffchaff, 6 displaying Greenfinch, Linnet, Reed Bunting, 25 Shoveler, 8 Gadwall, 7 Black-headed Gull south, Kestrel (Nick Croft/Rob Sheldon)
 * Wanstead Park: 5 Little Grebe, pr of Great Crested Grebe, 20 Shoveler, 8 Teal, 2 Pochard, Common Buzzard, 10+ m Blackcap, 8+ m Chiffchaff, singing Goldcrest, 2 Meadow Pipit north, Common Gull north (Nick Croft/James Heal)
 * West Hyde: 2 Corn Bunting singing along track to gravel workings (C Sharp/P Frost/G Lapworth via Herts BC)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 2 Snipe, 2+ Willow Warbler, 2 Teal, 2 Shoveler, recently fledged Robin (Chris Farthing)

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