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Tuesday 3rd April 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Wheatear playing fields, 3m Chiffchaff (APOG Birders)
 * Amwell NR: 3 Red-breasted Merganser 2m f Gt Hardmead L fr viewpt briefly 0730-0740 (Barry Reed tweets)
 * Canons Farm: 4 Red Kite, 2 Chiffchaff, 4 Fieldfare, 2 Brambling, 80 Linnet, 8 Yellowhammer (Steve Gale tweet)
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - M Blackcap (Samuel Levy)
 * Gallions Reach: Male Black Redstart (Kevin J McManus)
 * Gunpowder Park: Raven 13:20 battling Common Buzzard above Avey Lane area (Neville Smith).
 * Highgate Woods: Hawfinch in group of 4 finch sp. in oak canopy 12.15 (Jo Edwards)
 * Lee Valley, Seventy Acres Lake: 2 Egyptian Goose, 20+ Shoveler, 6+ Pochard, Peregrine Falcon, 1-2 Swallow, 4+ singing Chiffchaff, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 4+ Reed Bunting (Simon Papps)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Shelduck, 4 Pintail, 2 Jack Snipe, 7 Snipe, 5 Redshank, 6 Sand Martin, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap (WWT website); 5 Chiffchaff, 9 Sand Martin, 1 Swallow, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 1 'Commic' Tern (probably Common but very distant across main lake) (Martin Honey et al.)
 * Queen Mother Reservoir: Curlew 0630-0930 on gravel works to east side then N, also Oystercatcher over (Andy Tomczynski via Berks BN); ad Greenshank [Ldn fos] on north bank then SSE 0755 (Derek Barker via Berks BN)
 * Rainham RSPB: Great Egret still, 3 Common Tern (Howard Vaughan tweet); 2 Wheatear, Swallow, 7 Ruff, 3 Marsh Harrier, 2 Common Buzzard (James Hudson)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon - Sat. Park only n visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Ruislip Woods: 5+ Hawfinch close to bridle path heading north from Forestreet/Salisbury Rd entrance 10:00 (Richard Francis)
 * St James's Park: 2 singing Blackcap (Frank Nugent)
 * Stocker's Lake: Osprey circling lake 1320 (Herts BN)
 * Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 2 Egyptian Geese, 3 Mandarin Duck, 12 Teal, 2 Pheasant, Sparrowhawk, 6 Common Buzzard, 28 Black-headed Gull, 18 Stock Dove, Kestrel, 22 Rook, House Martin hawking insects over Cricket Pavilion, 6 Singing Chiffchaff, f Blackcap, 113 Starling, 4 Pied Wagtail, Meadow Pipit, 9+ Hawfinch (4 Darlands, 5+ path to Laurel Pond), Bullfinch, Linnet. (Samuel Levy)
 * Tower Hamlets cemetery Park: Blackcap male singing near entrance am, also Goldcrest singing Sanctuary Wood pm (Bob Watts)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: 5 Red-crested Pochard, Green Sandpiper, 4 Sand Martin, 2 Wheatear, LITTLE BUNTING still (David Bradshaw tweet)
 * Wanstead Flats: f Ring Ouzel late morning (Birdguides, 2nd earliest record), Redwing, 7 Song Thrush, Swallow, 4-5 singing Chiffchaff, Siskin, 4 Linnet, 20+ Greenfinch, Reed Bunting, Peregrine Falcon, Kestrel, 2-3 Sparrowhawk, Little Owl, 10 + Meadow Pipit (maybe up to 5 singing birds), 9 Skylark, 6 Shoveler, 2 Pochard, Little Grebe, 30  Herring Gull, 7 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Black-headed Gull, Common Gull (all appearing to have moved on over the weekend) (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: 5 singing Chiffchaff, singing Blackcap, 2 Coal Tit, Shoveler, Little Grebe, 2-3 Sparrowhawk, Kestrel (Nick Croft)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 2 Water Rail, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, 8 Shoveler, 3 Lesser Redpoll, Reed Bunting (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)

Monday 2nd April 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Red Kite drifting east 17.15 (Brian Milligan)
 * Brent Reservoir: Egyptian Goose, 60+ Tufted Duck, 15 Pochard, 5 Common Snipe, Peregrine, Kingfisher, 3 Sand Martin, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting M&F (Roy Beddard); pair of Coal Tits from garden conifers came to tree by muddy path to hide (A, Verrall)
 * Brookmill Park: Singing Blackcap, singing Willow Warbler (Conrad Ellam)
 * Bushy Park: 4+ Chiffchaff, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, 4 Song Thrush (Ian R Watson)
 * Canons Farm: Female Merlin (Roy Weller per KJM)
 * Coopers Green GPs: Stanborough GP - Little Ringed Plover, 5 Green Sandpiper, m Wheatear (Steven Pearce via Herts BC)
 * Crayford Marshes: Common Buzzard, 2 Chiffchaff, Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Oystercatcher, 4 Cetti's Warbler, Little Egret, 38 Redshank, 28 Wigeon, 40 Teal (Kev Jarvis)
 * Eltham Park North: singing Blackcap, Stock Dove, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker (Tim Rymer)
 * Ewell: 4 Swallow se over dw fitness 12.55, also 1 Common Buzzard (Neil Batten).
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - M Blackcap (Samuel Levy)
 * Greenford UB6: m Blackcap in front garden trying to get on feeders (Neil Anderson)
 * Hilfield Park Reservoir: Avocet - in centre of res and still there at 15.45, m Commom Scoter 2cy still (Tony Blake); 1 Swallow, 13 Sand Martin (Lee Evans via Twitter) AV's post combined w/ TB's
 * Kentish Town, NW5: Peregrine over E at 18:10 (Frank Nugent).
 * KGV Res: 3 Wheatear, 2 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 12 Sand Martin, 2 Green Sandpiper, male Smew, 7 Goosander, 10+ Goldeneye (A.Middleton)
 * Leyton E15: Hawfinch Drapers Field 0930 (Stephen Harris tweet)
 * London Wetland Centre: Little Ringed Plover, 5 Redshank, 3 Siskin, 3 Jack Snipe, 6 Snipe, 2 Shelduck, 2 Pintail (WWT website); 6 Jack Snipe, 5 Sand Martin, f Goldeneye (Oscar Dewhurst)
 * Northaw Great Wood: 4 Marsh Tit, c6 Brambling, c7 Hawfinch (per Herts BC)
 * Oxleas Woods: Treecreeper, 3 Chiffchaff, 7 Goldcrest, Kestrel, 3 Nuthatch, 3 Stock Dove, 6 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 7 Jay, Song Thrush, Cormorant over south (Tim Rymer)
 * Rainham RSPB Reserve: Great White Egret, Ruff, Barn Owl (Bob Husband & NW London RSPB Group)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon - Sat. Park only in visitors parking bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Ruislip Woods (Mad Bess Wood): 2 Hawfinch (m&f) at 13.00 feeding in leaf litter just north of Hillingdon Trail between the car park and trail. Showed extremely well for 5 mins. (Matthew J. Bradbury)
 * Sevenoaks NR: Sand Martin, 3 Swallow, Willow Warbler, 6 Lesser Redpoll, 12 Siskin (Barry Wright tweet); Egyptian Goose, Shelduck, Blackcap (Matthew Bournat tweet)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: Curlew 10:00, Wheatear, Treecreeper (singing 15:50), Pintail (drake18:00) (Neville Smith).
 * Shrewsbury Park, SE18: Chiffchaff, Nuthatch, Kestrel, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Tim Rymer)
 * Staines Moor: Red Kite, Chiffchaff (Jon Agar)
 * Staines Reservoir: AMERICAN HORNED LARK, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Meadow Pipit, 2 Shelduck (Shailesh Patel); 2 Black-necked Grebe, 3 Little Ringed Plover, White Wagtail (Dom Pia tweet). Please note suspicious behaviour at Staines Res Sunday PM, I and another birder were approached by two fairly well dressed lads 15 to 17 years old who asked us to "tie their shoelaces for them, as they couldn't do it themselves". A little unnerving but not threatening, refused and they left. Not sure if it was an attempted mugging or a happy slapping type prank but be warned. (Gordon Shaw) Updated please contact Surrey Police and try to get a photo if you see them.
 * Stanstead Abbotts Lakes - N lake: 2 Swallow (Jane Free via Herts BC)
 * Tooting: 1 Swallow (D.Peers)
 * Totteridge Valley: 10 Hawfinch, 1 Lapwing, 4 Pheasant, 1 Chiffchaff. High water levels in Valley very muddy. (T.Clancy, B.Dawton, G. Crabtree)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs and Willows Farm: fishing lake - Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Sand Martin, 2 Swallow; willows fm - Barnacle Goose, 5 Egyptian Goose (per Herts BN); [pm] main gp - Little Ringed Plover, 3+ Snipe, 10+ Sand Martin, Chiffchaff, 20+ Fieldfare; fishing lake - Oystercatcher (Rupert Evershed tweet)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING still, Osprey N then W at c08.50, 4 Wheatear, Rock Pipit, Little Ringed Plover, 3 Green Sandpipers, 5 Red-crested Pochard 4m f (Paul Whiteman/Stuart Fisher/David Bradshaw)
 * Wandsworth Common: Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 2 singing Chiffchaff, 3 Siskin, Jackdaw, Greenfinch, 12 Shoveler (Nick Rutter)
 * Wanstead: nice Male Blackcap singing in garden Nightingale_Lane at about 7.59 (Geoff Gram)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 2 Jack Snipe, Water Rail, Snipe, 3 Lesser Redpoll (Tony Butler)

Sunday 1st April 2018

 * Addlestone: Osprey at quarry then N 0945 (BirdGuides)
 * Antill Road E3: female Sparrowhawk predates Starling in back garden (Harry Harrison)
 * Beckton Creekside NR: 25 Redshank, singing Willow Warbler, 8 Chiffchaff, Grey Wagtail (Shaun Harvey tweet)
 * Bramblehall Wood: 200 Hawfinch still (Steve Gale tweet)
 * Brent Reservoir: 8 Common Snipe, Red Kite, Peregrine, 4 Cetti's Warbler, pr Reed Bunting (Roy Beddard, Andrew Verrall, Magnus Andersson) 2 m.Nuthatch,one in churchyard responding to bird further away(Francis O'Sullivan)
 * Brookmill Park: Little Egret, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush, singing Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
 * Bushy Park: Chiffchaff, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker (Ian R Watson)
 * Canons Park, Edgware, HA8: Firecrest - 12.15 & 13.25 Canons Drive end of The Spinney, Treecreeper, Nuthatch pair building mud nest hole (Bob Husband & NW London RSPB Group)
 * Collier Row: Green Woodpecker 'yaffling' from tree at 8:30 (G J Francis)
 * Colney Heath: Yellowhammer in fields by Roestock (Steven Pearce via Herts BC) TL207060
 * Crayford Marshes: 2 Wheatear, Common Buzzard, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Curlew, 2 Oystercatcher, 5 Dunlin, Mediterranean Gull, 8 Skylark, 6 Meadow Pipit, 33 Wigeon, 6 Gadwall, 30 Teal (Kev Jarvis); Great to see you Kev. All I can add of note - 2 Snipe, Little Owl and male Reed Bunting (Ralph Todd)
 * Fairlop Waters: south workings 1 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Common Snipe, 2 Lapwing, 1 Reed Bunting, 25 Teal, 2 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, Little Grebe (Steve Bacon)
 * Finchley: garden N3 - Tawny Owl calling 21:35 (Samuel Levy)
 * Greenwich Ecology Park: Little Grebe, Kestrel, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Reed Bunting (John Bushell, Conrad Ellam & Richard Green)
 * Hampstead Heath: Wheatear m on running track, 6 Siskins E (Pete Mantle)
 * Hilfield Park Reservoir: m Common Scoter 2cy still, Goldeneye, 2 Sand Martin (Tony Blake via Herts BC)
 * Holyfield Park Farm: Pink-footed Goose still in field east of farm (Lol Cumming tweet)
 * Isle of Dogs: Yellow-legged Gull 3cy Thames shore at Saunders Ness (Sean Huggins)
 * Juniper Bottom: 8 Hawfinch (Steve Gale tweet)
 * Lodge Hill: 17 Hawfinch (Steve Gale tweet)
 * London Wetland Centre: male Wheatear, 2 Shelduck, 2 Pintail, 3 Jack Snipe, 5 Snipe, 5 Redshank, 3 Chiffchaff, Water Pipit & Rock Pipit wader scrape, 3 Siskin (WWT website); 6 Jack Snipe, 7 Common Snipe, Willow Warbler, Meadow Pipit on marsh, 3 Blackcap (Oscar Dewhurst)
 * Mad Bess Woods: 20+ Hawfinch in middle of site 09:40 (Richard Francis)
 * Mardyke, Stifford-Aveley; incl f Red-crested Pochard, 40 Gadwall, 59 Teal, 2 Buzzard, Water Rail, 55 Black-headed Gull, Kingfisher, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Treecreeper, 55 Redwing, Grey Wagtail, 3 Lesser Redpoll, Siskin, Reed Bunting (Alan Shearman per ELBF FB)
 * Mickleham Downs: 1 Hawfinch (Steve Gale tweet)
 * Morden Hall Park: Kingfisher, 4 Grey Wagtail, Little Egret, 2 Sparrowhawk in display flight, Kestrel, Peregrine, 3+ Chiffchaff (Morden Hall Park Nature Group)
 * Newton Park West: Grey Wagtail, Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Tim Rymer)
 * Oxleas Wood:7Nuthatch,4Treecreeper,3Chiffchaff,5Stockdove,5Jackdaw,6Greatspottedwoodpecker 2CommonBuzzard(pr),7Goldcrest,2Kestrel(fm),Coaltit,2Greenwoodpecker,3Goldfinch,2Mallard(pr) Sparrowhawke(fm),(Ron Turner)
 * Pimlico Gardens: Caspian Gull 3cy late aft (N P Senior)
 * Priest Hill: singing Blackcap, 3 Meadow Pipit (Neil Batten)
 * Purfleet: 12 Shelduck, 18 Gadwall, 72 Wigeon, 23 Teal, ad m Marsh Harrier, Avocet, 6 Oystercatcher, 2 Curlew, 42 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Snipe, ad Kittiwake, Yellow-legged Gull, 23 Fieldfare, Stonechat, m Wheatear (Fraser Simpson tweet)
 * Pymmes Park, Edmonton: 2 Nuthatch (A.Middleton)
 * Rainham RSPB: 400 Wigeon, 32 Pintail, Great Egret aveley marsh still, 6 Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, 6 Marsh Harrier 3m 3f, 2 Buzzard, m Wheatear, Avocet, 2 Oystercatcher, Little Ringed Plover, 6 Curlew, 50 Black-tailed Godwit, 12 Ruff, Jack Snipe, 19 Snipe, 9 Dunlin, Barn Owl, Short-eared Owl, 2 Kestrel, f Peregrine, 6 Bearded Tit, 3m Chiffchaff, Water Pipit (per ELBF FB)
 * Raynes Park: garden - Grey Heron over E at 1515 - 3rd in 2 days quite unusual for Coombe Ln (P. Redmond)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. No parking charges on bank holidays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Richmond Hill: 3 Red Kite and 1 Buzzard in thermals (Hugh Bradshaw)
 * Richmond Park: m Wheatear (H.Bradshaw); 2m Skylark, 17 Meadow Pipit, 2 Stonechat, 32 Redwing, no sign of yesterday's Redpoll flock - all Holly Lodge area (J.Wilczur); 12 Lesser Redpoll still in Hawthorn Valley late am (Franko J Maroevic); 2 Wheatear, 1 Snipe between Spankers Hill Wood and White Lodge, 1 Red Kite (Peter Carlill)
 * River Brent, Greenford: 2 Teal, 2 Red Kites circling 11:05, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest. TQ1481 (Phil Belman)
 * Roxbourne Park: 2 Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, Song Thrush (Tim Rymer) [new site for LNHS gazetteer TQ121874]
 * Ruislip Woods: 33+ Hawfinch 25+ adjacent to car park north of 'The Waters Meet' 09:10 & 8+ betw Fore St & Wiltshire Ln 10:05 (Richard Francis) Is this The Waters Edge by the Lido please?
 * Sewardstone Marsh: Blackcap, drake Pintail on Pattypool mead at 09:20 (Martin Shepherd)
 * Shrewsbury Park: 20+ Lesser Redpoll, singing Chiffchaff, 3 Stock Dove, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, 4 Jay, Goldcrest, 4 Song Thrush, Nuthatch (Tim Rymer)
 * Staines Reservoir: AMERICAN HORNED LARK causeway still [south basin eastern end] (Dom Pia tweet); also 2 Black-necked Grebe still, Wheatear (Dave Carlsson tweet); 7 Goldeneye, Little Ringed Plover, Common Tern [Ldn foy], Swallow (Jim Sweetland tweet)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: 3 Teal, 8 Pheasant, Buzzard, f Sparrowhawk, m Kestrel, 6 Snipe, 6 Stock Dove, 4 Skylark, 2 Wheatear pr, Chiffchaff, 2 Reed Bunting (Neil Anderson)
 * Thames Barrier Park: Curlew and 2 Oystercatcher feeding (Frank Nugent)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: f Garganey still at Darlands, 2 Hawfinch, 4 Lesser Redpoll on usual feeder, 5 singing Chiffchaff, 15 Rook, 9 Teal, Kestrel (John Colmans); Belmont Farm - 26 Canada Geese, 2 Mandarin Duck, 2 Red-legged Partridge, 4 Pheasant, 3 Cormorant, 2 Sparrowhawk, 11 Stock Dove, Nuthatch, Song Thrush, 3 Mistle Thrush, 7 Starling, 3 Pied Wagtail (Samuel Levy)
 * Trent Park: 3 Mandarin Duck 2m f, 2 Eurasian Teal m f upper lake, m Common Pochard, 3 Tufted Duck 2m f, 3 singing Chiffchaff, Nuthatch, 2 Raven flew SE over Rough Lot calling and tussling, one returned NW calling having seen off the other 13:36 (Robert Callf)
 * Copped Hall: 2 Red Kite, 7 Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 15 Skylark, 14 Linnet, 28 Yellowhammer, 5 Fieldfare, 2 Green Woodpecker; 5 Hares (Chris Baldwin)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: 2 Little Ringed Plover main gp (Alan Gardiner tweet); also 4 Buzzard, Willow Warbler tytt'r fm (Rick Flesher tweet)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING still, Willow Warbler, 3 Green Sandpipers, 7 Goldeneye (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Wood Farm, Stanmore: Raven W calling 10.05, 4 Linnet, Red Kite, Mandarin over (Tony Blake) TQ168934
 * Wormwood Scrubs: Woodcock flushed from grassland (Paul Thomas tweet)
 * Yeading Brook Meadows: 5 Pheasant, 3 Red Kite incl 2 together, f Kestrel, Little Owl, singing Skylark, 36+ Meadow Pipit, singing Chiffchaff, 8 Greenfinch (Neil Anderson)

Saturday 31st March 2018

 * Amwell NR: 2ad Kittiwake S singly 1800-1900 (Laurence Drummond via Herts BC)
 * Batchworth Lake: 8 Red-crested Pochard 7m f (Herts BN)
 * Beckton Creekside NR: Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff, Sparrowhawk, 4 Oystercatcher, 30 Redshank, 20 Shelduck, Black-tailed Godwit, mixed Gulls including Yellow-legged Gull (Charlie Clark) [New site for LNHS gazetteer’’ TQ450827] It has been described as Creekmouth previously but I suppose this is more accurate for the west side of the Roding [SH] Y - it turns out either name will do because the LNHS gazetteer's grid ref for 'Creekmouth' is practically the same as the above Yes, the same area as Creekmouth just on the west bank of the Roding, thought it worth noting that there’s a small nature reserve as I hadn’t previously seen that mentioned in here. Charlie
 * Betchworth Quarry: 4+ ['small group'] Hawfinch still (David Stubbs tweet)
 * Brent Reservoir: male Blackcap, 2 Siskin SE, 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Cetti’s Warbler, Greenfinch, male Reed Bunting, 8 Meadow Pipit W, 3 Common Snipe, Greylag Goose x farm hybrid on raft (Magnus Andersson); only some of above incl. very white farm Greylag (Roy Beddard, Andrew Verrall)
 * Bury Lake: 11 Red-crested Pochard 9m 2f (Herts BN)
 * Chingford: WHITE STORK circling overhead 3pm WS with metal ring above left knee ('presumed escape') landed 0650 (Tom Speller tweet) on Norton Green nr Stevenage, Herts (ca. 20 miles north of this sighting) on April Fools Day...
 * Chingford, Hatch Wood: 5 Hawfinch in woods by Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge (Louis Freeland-Haynes)
 * Coopers Green GPs: Stanborough GP - 3 Mandarin 2m f, 2 Redshank, 6+ Green Sandpiper (Steven Pearce via Herts BC) TL215110
 * Crayford Marshes: 3 Common Sandpiper, Blackcap, Oystercatcher, 40 Redshank, 4 Dunlin, 6 Skylark, 4 Meadow Pipit, 30 Wigeon, 25 Teal, 8 Shoveler (Kev Jarvis)
 * East India Dock: 2 Little Ringed Plover feeding on the island, 18 Teal, 8 Shelduck, Cetti's Warbler (Frank Nugent)
 * Elstree Village: 2 Red Kite, 3 Buzzard, 6 Greenfinch (Allan Stewart)
 * Greenwich Peninsula: 2 Shelduck, 2 Little Ringed Plover (Mike Paice)
 * Heathrow: behind Polar Pk - 3 singing Skylark (Wendy Marks)
 * Highgate: Red Kite N over Parkland Walk and Claremont Rd N6 18:45 (Duncan Chapman)
 * Hilfield Park Reservoir: m Common Scoter 2cy still (Tony Blake tweet); ad Kittiwake (per Joan Thompson tweet / Herts BN)
 * Home Park, Hampton Court Palace: Wheatear feeding on the banks of Long Water (Mark Wardman)
 * Island Barn Res: male Wheatear and House Martin (Chris Turner)
 * Kentish Town: Chiffchaff feeding in ash tree on Gaisford St 1700 (Pete Mantle)
 * Kew Gardens: 3 Greylag, 5 pr Egyptian Geese & 4 goslings, pr Mandarin, 2 m Shoveler, m Gadwall, 3 Little Grebe, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Grey Wagtail collecting nest material, 3 singing Mistle Thrush, Chiffchaff (Neil Anderson/K. Bull)
 * Lamorbey Park: 12 Tufted Duck, Sparrowhawk, 3 Herring Gull over, 2 Stock Dove, Green Woodpecker, 3 Song Thrush, 1 singing Chiffchaff, 2 singing Goldcrest, Nuthatch, 3 Jay (Mike Amos)
 * London Wetland Centre: 3 Shelduck, 6 Pintail, Goldeneye, 4 Snipe, 6 Redshank, 2 Sand Martin, 2 Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap (WWT website); 2 Iceland Gull - 3cy same as 29th and 2cy, probable Glaucous/Herring hybrid 'Viking' Gull 2cy, 3 Yellow-legged Gull - adult and two 3cy, ad Lesser Black-backed Gull - intermedius, 350+ Herring Gull (S.Fogg, R.Arnfield, W.Newnham, J.Wilczur); Rock Pipit - littoralis same as 29th, f Wheatear (many observers); 3 Jack Snipe (Martin Honey, B. Page)
 * Mayflower Park Wetlands: 1 Reed Bunting, Coot on nest and 1 singing Chiffchaff (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Mill Hill East Station: Little Egret E 07:00 (Samuel Levy)
 * Navestock: pair of Red Kite (Colin Jupp, A.Middleton)
 * Oxleas Wood:Treecreeper,2Nuthatch,2Stockdove,10Goldcrest,CommonBuzzard(pr),2Chiffchaff Greenwoodpecker.Kestrel(fm),Goldfinch,Mallard(pr)(Ron Turner)
 * Pimlico Gardens: Kittiwake 2cy E, Yellow-legged Gull 2cy, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls intermedius ads, ‘viking’ Gull 2cy presumably the Barnes bird (N P Senior)
 * Queen Mary Res: Brent Goose, Firecrest (Steve Chastell tweet)
 * Queen Mother Reservoir: pr Common Scoter 0645-0730 then S, 1w Kittiwake briefly 0645 then SW (Andy Tomczynski via Berks BN)
 * Rainham RSPB: Dark-bellied Brent Goose on river betw Aveley Bay & Coldharbour Pt am (BirdGuides); f Garganey (Dominic Mitchell per ELBF FB); Great Egret still (Howard Vaughan, John Richardson et al per ELBF FB); also 2 Marsh Harrier, 2 Avocet, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Curlew, 80 Black-tailed Godwit, 12 Ruff, 18 Dunlin, 15 Snipe, Spotted Redshank, 2 Peregrine (per ELBF FB) note addition of Whimbrel on ELBF chatgroup yesterday 30th, is it first of yr for London ? Y! - good spot, thx for heads-up...That's great, now I want to see one (agv)
 * Raynes Park: 1 Blackcap f, 2 Grey Heron over SE 0845 and 1226, 2 Goldcrest, 2 Coal Tit (P. Redmond)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Richmond Park: Mealy Redpoll, 55+ Lesser Redpoll - Hawthorn Valley (J.Wilczur)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: male Merlin sat up in large Hawthorn for 25 minutes then N towards Gunpowder Pk 12:01 (Neville Smith)
 * St Paul's Cray (The Brook): 2 Little Egret, 1 Grey Wagtail (Jack Headley)
 * Shrewsbury Park: 20+ Lesser Redpoll, Chiffchaff, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Nuthatch, Kestrel, 3 Jay, Green Woodpecker, Song Thrush, 2 Goldcrest, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Tim Rymer)
 * Southall: 2 Red Kite circling 16:35 TQ1280 (Phil Belman)
 * Staines Reservoir: pr Common Scoter N basin, 2 Black-necked Grebe still S basin, 3 Little Ringed Plover S basin, AMERICAN HORNED LARK causeway still [west end] (Oscar Dewhurst / Stewart Reid tweet)
 * Stratford, Olympic Park: 4 Peregrine over Stratford, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Gadwall (Stuart Fisher)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: 3+ Hawfinch in Grosvenor pond area, Chiffchaff (Jim Fell)
 * Thames Barrier Park: Curlew and 2 Oystercatcher feeding (Frank Nugent)
 * The Mores, Brentwood: f Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Colin Jupp, A.Middleton)
 * Totteridge Valley: Belmont Farm - 22 Canada Geese, Cormorant, Grey Heron, 3 Common Buzzard, 16 Stock Dove, 2 Kestrel, Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Goldcrest, Mistle Thrush, 11 Starling, 3 Pied Wagtail (Samuel Levy); also 7 Hawfinch and singing Chiffchaff (Nigel Taylor)
 * Trent Park: 3 Mandarin Duck 2m f upper lake, f Teal upper lake, 2 Common Pochard m f lower lake, 7 Tufted Duck 4m 3f, Common Buzzard, m Kestrel, 3 Goldcrest, 3 Coal Tit, m Nuthatch, 13 Goldfinch (Robert Callf); also 2 Common Buzzard, Chiffchaff, Kestrel, 5 Mandarin 4m f, Nuthatch, m Pochard, 2 Redwing, 16 Siskin in trees on N side of lower lake, Song Thrush, 4 Teal 2m 2f, 7 Tufted Duck as above (Pete Lowman)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: Kittiwake 1w main gp 1645-1730 then S (John Yates per Herts BC / TyttGP tweet); also Little Ringed Plover, 3 Snipe, 2 Redshank, 2 Sand Martin all on main gp (per Herts BC)
 * Walpole Park: Sparrowhawk, 2 drumming Great Spotted Woodpecker, pr Stock Dove, pr Nuthatch, 3 pr Mistle Thrush [1 pr nest building], 4 Redwing (Neil Anderson)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 10 Fieldfare, 3 Redwing, 2 Pied Wagtail (Jon Agar)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING still for 72nd day and now singing, Willow Warbler singing, Brambling (Walthamstow Birders) xeno-canto weblink to LB song recorded by David Darrell-Lambert
 * Wanstead Park: m Wheatear (Tony Brown tweet)
 * West Kilburn: back gdn - m Blackcap singing (Francis O'Sullivan)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Water Rail, Snipe, 3 Teal, 8 Shoveler, 4 Lesser Redpoll, 3 Reed Bunting, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)
 * Worcester Park: 1 Little Egret on brook, 1 Song Thrush and 1 Lesser Black-Backed Gull on horse field (Isaiah Rowe)

Friday 30th March 2018

 * Brent Reservoir: Little Egret W, 3 Shelduck, female Goshawk (MA & AGV) 09:35 circling W gained height after causing major upset for crows and large gulls, 15 Common Snipe, 2 Fieldfare, Redwing, early House Martin [Ldn foy — and Brent's earliest ever by 6 days] flying low E seen from 4 metres in front of new boardwalk just over small silver birch calling, 5 singing Chiffchaff; 4 Cetti's Warbler (Magnus Andersson, Andrew Verrall, Tony Donetti) Our annual report for 2017 can now be downloaded from our website.
 * Brookmill Park: Peregrine, 2 Kingfisher, 2 Stock Dove, Song Thrush (Conrad Ellam)
 * Buckland: 2 Hawfinch high NW c0825 (Wes Attridge tweet)
 * Bury Lake: 5 Sand Martin am (Chris Sharp tweet)
 * Canons Farm & Banstead Woods: m Wheatear, Hawfinch (per CFBW BG)
 * Crayford Marshes: Water Pipit, Wheatear, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Blackcap, Chiffchaff, 5 Cetti's Warbler, Yellow-legged Gull, 37 Redshank, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Little Egret (Kev Jarvis)
 * Coopers Green GPs: Stanborough GP - 5+ Green Sandpiper, 2 Redshank (Steven Pearce via Herts BC)
 * Dollis Brook, Holders Hill: Little Egret (Samuel Levy)
 * Finchley: garden N3 - m Blackcap, 5 Stock Dove (Samuel Levy)
 * Fulham: Sparrowhawk back to eat remains of feral pigeon in our garden
 * Heathrow: behind Polar Pk - male Pheasant (Wendy Marks)
 * Holyfield Park Farm: Pink-footed Goose in stubble field west of farm, 2 Skylark singing, 4 Red-legged Partridge, 1 Buzzard, 5 Linnet, 1 Barnacle/Canada Goose hybrid (Daniel Whitelegg)
 * Ingrebourne Valley: pr Egyptian Goose, 4 Water Rail, Peregrine, 3 Chiffchaff, singing Blackcap, 3 Bullfinch, 2 Siskin (Dave Morrison tweet)
 * Isle of Dogs: 11 Egyptian Geese on Thames shore opp Cutty Sark (Sean Huggins)
 * Ladywell: Willow Warbler front gardens Ermine Rd (Keith Chambers)
 * London Wetland Centre: Iceland Gull 2cy main lake then NW am, Rock Pipit - Scandinavian littoralis, 2 Jack Snipe incl 1 off NE, 1 singing Willow Warbler (Oscar Dewhurst); 2 Shelduck, 6 Pintail, 9 Snipe, 7 Redshank wader scrape, Mediterranean Gull grazing marsh but flew off before 9.30, 4 Chiffchaff (WWT website); Goldeneye f (Caroline Gray); 1 Water Rail, 1 Green Sandpipier (Shailesh Patel)
 * Mad Bess Wood: 6+ Hawfinch by car park and just across the road 09:50 (Richard Francis)
 * Notting Hill: Ladbroke Sq Gardens [private communal] and trees in adjoining roads incl Kensington Park Rd - 2 singing Blackcaps first for year (Angus Innes)
 * Rainham RSPB: Great Egret again early-am (Howard Vaughan tweet); Spotted Redshank, Water Pipit - Stone Barges (Hugh & Ian Bradshaw); 10+ Shelduck, 30+ Wigeon, 4 Teal, pr Pintail butts hide, 6+ Little Egret, Great Egret Aveley Marsh fr VC, Marsh Harrier, Knot, 6 Ruff target pools, 2 Snipe butts hide, Whimbrel [Ldn foy] fr butts hide, Curlew, 10+ Redshank, Barn Owl, c6 Cetti's Warbler a few singing, Blackcap singing; Northern Water Vole (Thomas Gilbert via EBwS BN); also 2 Avocet, 25 Golden Plover, 2 Curlew, 60 Black-tailed Godwit, Jack Snipe, 25 Snipe, 70 Redshank, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Chiffchaff, 3 Water Pipit (per ELBF FB)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. No parking charges on bank holidays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Ruislip Woods: 10+ Hawfinch in area from Fore St entrance to close to the Lido boundary down from Wiltshire Ln 10:25-10:35 (Richard Francis)
 * Southall: f Blackcap on feeders [same wintering individual as 22 Feb] TQ1280 (Phil Belman)
 * Sydenham Hill Wood: 6 Nuthatch (Ray Trev)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: 5+ Teal, 8+ m Pheasant, 2 Kestrel [male displaying], 2 Lapwing, 5 Snipe, 17+ Stock Dove, 4-5 Skylark, 21 Meadow Pipit, 2 Redwing, 2 singing Chiffchaff, Rook, 5 Reed Bunting (Neil Anderson); Hawfinch by Grosvenor pond, also Chiffchaff (Jim Fell)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 6 Canada Geese, 5 Teal, 3 Cormorant, Common Buzzard, 2 Coot, 60 Common Gull, 14 Stock Dove, Kestrel, 22 Rook, Coal Tit, 2 Nuthatch, 5 singing Chiffchaff, 6 Fieldfare, 11 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, 780+ Starling 700+ Folly Fm & 80+ Frith Riding Stables, Meadow Pipit, 3 Bullfinch, 12 Lesser Redpoll (Samuel Levy)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: fishing lake - Oystercatcher, 5 Egyptian Goose, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 10 Redwing; main gp - Little Ringed Plover, 3 Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 2 Redshank, Kingfisher, 3 Ring-necked Parakeet, c100 Fieldfare, 3 Chiffchaff; also Green Sandpiper on north pit by A414layby (TyttGP tweet)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING showing well am, 3 Goosander, 6 Goldeneye, 2 Sand Martins, 298 Cormorant [149 occupied nests], 13 Shelduck, 4 Pheasant m 3f (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: Hawfinch old sewage works 1030 (Rob Sheldon tweet)
 * Wimbledon Common: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker female calling and drumming from Inner Windmill Rd 8-9am (Ben Chapple, Mark Wardman, Louis Freeland-Haynes)
 * Yeading Brook Meadows: 6m Pheasant together by brook [big surge in numbers locally- maybe a release from shooting club but thought they only used clays], Buzzard on spoil heap, 2 Red Kite together, f Kestrel, Little Owl, pr Stock Dove, singing Skylark, 4 Redwing, c12 Greenfinch (Neil Anderson) I agree about the increase in pheasants I had one in my garden, who is releasing them and why. [Jim Fell]

Thursday 29th March 2018

 * Barking Bay: 110 Shelduck, 35 Teal, 7 Oystercatcher, 2 Avocet, Little Ringed Plover, 9 Curlew, 16 Redshank, 4 Black-tailed Godwit, Iceland Gull 2cy upriver, 4 Skylark singing, 5 'alba' Wagtail N, 18 Meadow Pipit, 1 Rock Pipit, Stonechat, 16 Linnet (N P Senior)
 * Brent Reservoir: Little Egret behind dam, 16 Common Snipe, 2 singing Chiffchaff (Andrew Self); 2 more Little Egrets Staples Corner River Brent, later am 4 singing Chiffchaff, singing Blackcap and 4 Mistle Thrush (Simon Worsfold, Andrew Verrall)
 * Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries SE4: Mandarin Duck [patch tick], Mallard, f Sparrowhawk, Jay, Song Thrush, Goldcrest - dawn chorus walk (Tom Moulton et al)
 * Brookmill Park: Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, female Blackcap, Firecrest, 2 Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
 * Bury Lake: 5 Sand Martin am (Chris Sharp tweet); 7 Red-crested Pochard 6m f, Chiffchaff (Charlie Ramsay via Herts BC)
 * Crayford Marshes: Little Egret, 48 Redshank, 4 Cetti's Warbler, 9 Linnet, 5 Skylark, Chiffchaff, 4 Fieldfare (Kev Jarvis)
 * Friday Lake: Pink-footed Goose am (BirdGuides)
 * Fulham: Sparrowhawk eating pigeon in our garden 1600
 * Hampstead Heath: Parliament Hill - 3 Hawfinches SE at 1030, 4 Chaffinches SE (Pete Mantle)
 * Harrow: Peregrine over Morrison's (TQ149881) 14.20 (Alex Massey) Posted again as previous entry seems to have disappeared. AM.
 * Heathrow: Red Kite. (Adam Cheeseman)
 * Horsenden Hill: 4 singing Chiffchaffs, 10+ Jays, 10 Jackdaw over in group, 2 Nuthatch in wood (Martin Smith)
 * Isleworth: Thornbury Pk - Red Kite SE at 10:50 (K Beddow)
 * Lippit's Hill: Raven over and calling at 9.30am (Ken Murray)
 * London Wetland Centre: Rock Pipit - Scandanavian littoralis, 2 Caspian Gull - 3cy & 2cy, 2 Yellow-legged Gull - adult & 3cy, 6 Redshank (J.Wilczur, S.Woolfenden); Iceland Gull 3cy (S.Fogg); 5 Jack Snipe, 2 Pintail m f, 3 Reed Bunting (Martin Honey, P. Knox, etc.); also 11 Snipe, 2 Sand Martin, 2 Willow Warbler, 7 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 2 Meadow Pipit (WWT website)
 * Millfields E5: Peregrine on pylon, 2 Stock Dove & 2 Collared Dove in orchard at 09:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Primrose Hill: 6 Red-crested Pochard 5m f NE from Regent's Pk L 0830, 12 Woodpigeon N, 3 Jackdaw NW, 2 Meadow Pipit NW, Chaffinch E, 12 Siskin E 0910 - vismig 0710-0910
 * Rainham: summer plumaged Water Pipit near Aveley bay (J.murray)
 * RSPB Rainham Marshes: 5 singing Chiffchaff, 7 Pied Wagtail, 2 Oystercatcher, 5 Great Crested Grebe, 53 Shelduck, 4 Ring-necked Parakeet, 399 Wigeon, 48 Gadwall, 60 Teal, 11 Cetti's Warblers, 25 Common Snipe, 4 Ruff, 9 Linnet, 16 Reed Bunting, 11 Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 42 Tufted Duck, 9 Little Egret, 4 Marsh Harrier 2f 2m [inc f flying in off Thames and heading N], 57 Coot, 103 Shoveler, 18 Pintail, 5 Dunlin, 2 Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, Barn Owl, 4 Little Grebe, 22 Pochard, 2 Eygptian Geese, 3 Common Buzzard, Golden Plover, Stock Dove, m Peregrine (Samuel Levy); Osprey [Ldn foy] W then N 1010, Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Avocet (Samuel Levy and Howard Vaughan); Great White Egret still on target pools pm (BirdGuides); also Red Kite, Barn Owl, pr Peregrine, pr Grey Wagtail, Water Pipit (per ELBF FB)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. No parking charges on bank holidays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Scotsbridge Mill: Little Egret, Water Rail, 2 Chiffchaff (Geoff Lapworth via Herts BC)
 * Staines Reservoirs: AMERICAN HORNED LARK still on S basin causeway mid am despite grass cutting (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Stocker's Lake: 3 Red-crested Pochard 2m f, pr Goldeneye, Little Egret, 2 Oystercatcher, Kingfisher, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff (Geoff Lapworth via Herts BC)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Jay, 12 Greylag Goose, 5 Shelduck, 5 Linnet, 6 Skylark, 2 Buzzard, 1 Marsh Harrier m, 10 Turnstone, 32 Redshank, 1 Curlew, 2 Shoveler, 18 Gadwall, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Long-tailed Tit, 5 Reed Bunting, 1 Kestrel, 2 Oystercatcher, 11 Teal, 1 Little Egret, 3 Cetti's Warbler h, 8 Meadow Pipit (Roger Keith)
 * Totteridge Valley: north end of footpath from Laurel Farm Pond Totteridge Green N20 - 3 Hawfinch, distant Raven with Common Buzzard [also a another pair soaring] being mobbed by crows over Ellern Mede Farm (Bob Husband, Tony Clancy et al.)
 * Trent Park: 2 Grey Heron incl leucistic individual, 2 Mandarin Duck pr, 4 Eurasian Teal 2m 2f, 2 Common Pochard m f, 4 Tufted Duck 2m 2f, 4 adult summer Common Gull flew S, Goldcrest, 2 prs Long-tailed Tit nest building (4 prs in total so far), 3 male Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper, 8 Goldfinch, 5 f Siskin feeding in alders upper lake (Robert Callf)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING still around seed tray (Walthamstow Birders); Scandinavian Rock Pipit feeding along western edge of No.4 reservoir (BirdGuides)
 * Wandsworth Common: 2 singing Blackcap, 2 singing Chiffchaff, 4 Siskin (Nick Rutter)
 * Wanstead Flats: Rook, 16+ Meadow Pipit, 5 singing Skylark, 2 Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Little Owl, 8 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, 2 Pochard, Little Egret, Linnet (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: Red Kite (Rob Sheldon)
 * Woodford Green: Siskin and Blackcap, also Hawfinch over at 11.55am and Sparrowhawk displaying at 12.10 (Ken Murray)

Wednesday 28th March 2018

 * Amwell NR: 3 Swallow N by 1620 (Jane Free tweet); c10 Sand Martin incl 5 feeding over Gt Hardmead L eve'g, 2 Swallow, Hawfinch over by 1905 (Ron Cousins tweet)
 * Brent Reservoir: Redshank, Cetti’s Warbler (Steve Blake); 6 Snipe, 3 Cetti's Warbler (Andrew Self)
 * Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries: 2 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goldcrest (Keith Chambers)
 * Brookmill Park: singing Firecrest (Mike Paice)
 * Crayford Marshes: Barn Owl, male Marsh Harrier, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 5 singing Skylark (Ian Stewart)
 * Danson Park: 2m Chiffcchaff (Chris Gibbard tweet)
 * Dollis Brook: 1 Kingfisher, 2 Grey Wagtail, Treecreeper, Green Woodpecker calling repeatedly (Mark Fairless); pm, 2 Grey Wagtail, Treecreeper. (Samuel Levy & Toby Levy)
 * Eastcote: 2 Little Egret along Cheney Fields 11:00 (Richard Francis)
 * Epping Forest, Debden Green: 2 Nuthatch, 2 Hawfinch (Simon Papps)
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - M Blackcap, 5 Stock Dove, singing Goldcrest (Samuel Levy)
 * Freezywater Elliotts field allotments: Marsh Tit calling persistently feeding in poplar (Brian Dawton)
 * Friday Lake: red-head Smew still (John Murray)
 * Grovelands Park: Great Crested Grebe, 2 Mute Swan pr, male Common Pochard, 13 Tufted Duck 7m 6f, Song Thrush singing, Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Goldcrest pr nest building, 4 singing male Nuthatch, 2 Jackdaw pr nest building (Robert Callf)
 * Hall Marsh Scrape: Redshank (John Murray)
 * KGV Reservoir: 15 Goosander, m Smew, m Scaup, Green Sandpiper, 9 Sand Martin, Rock Pipit, Cetti’s Warbler (Neville Smith)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Jack Snipe, 20+ Snipe, Water Pipit, 4 Redshank, 2 Shelduck, 4 Pintail, 4 Sand Martin, 2 singing Chiffchaff (WWT website); 4 Jack Snipe, 1 Iceland Gull marsh pm, 1 singing Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 6 Redshank (M. Honey et al.)
 * Mad Bess Wood: 30+ Hawfinch spread throughout wood 10:00-10:30 (Richard Francis)
 * Middlesex Filter Beds: 12 Redwing on the ground, Peregrine on Millfields pylon, Greylag Goose on R. Lea (unusual here) 09:00 - 10:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Rainham RSPB: Great Egret ouzel_field in rain 1010 (Howard Vaughan tweet); still present purfleet scrape 1815 viewable fr riverwall (HV tweet); also 5 Little Egret, 3 Marsh Harrier, 2 Oystercatcher, 62 Golden Plover, 3 Curlew, 70 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Ruff, 20 Dunlin, 30 Snipe (per ELBF FB)
 * Raynes Park: Garden - Coal Tit, 2 Siskin (m&f) on sunflower heart feeders (never seen before actually in the garden) (P. Redmond)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon - Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Ruislip Woods: 6 Hawfinch between Fore Street & Wiltshire Lane 10:50 (Richard Francis)
 * Stanborough Lakes: 15 Sand Martin & 10 Swallow’’’ over sailing lake 1715 (Drew Lyness tweet)
 * Stave Hill: 2 Chiffchaff singing (John Cadera)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING still around seed tray this afternoon, Oystercatcher, 2 Goosander and 2 Goldeneye on Lockwood, 5 Fieldfare (David Bradshaw)
 * Wanstead Flats: Woodcock, 14 Meadow Pipit (Nick Croft/Bob Vaughan)

Tuesday 27th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Eurasian Teal, drake Wood Green Res, duck Conservation Pond, 3 Great Crested Grebe (APOG Birders)
 * Amwell: Swallow through 17:15 (William Bishop tweet)
 * Beddington Farmlands: 5 Sand Martin (Twitter)
 * Brent Reservoir: 27 Common Snipe, male Reed Bunting, 3 Cetti’s Warbler, sub-ad Great Black-backed Gull, Meadow Pipit, Greenfinch, 7 Redwing, 3 Greylag Goose (Brent Birders)
 * Brookmill Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush, 2 Redwing, Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam) late pm 1 Sparrowhawk feeding, 1 singing Firecrest, 2 Goldcrest, 1 Kingfisher, 1 bat (Mike Paice)
 * Clayhall: Buzzard circling over houses (Brandon Anderson)
 * Crayford Marshes: Avocet, 2 Common Sandpiper, 4 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 10 Fieldfare, 9 Dunlin, 6 Cetti's Warbler, 38 Wigeon, 40 Teal. (Kev Jarvis)
 * Dollis Brook: Finchley Tennis Club - Viaduct: 2 Kingfisher, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker calling, 5 Nuthatch, 2 Goldcrest, 4 Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush, 3 poss 4 Grey Wagtail (Samuel Levy)
 * East Barnet: private gdn - m Blackap, Greenfinch, 3 Goldfinch, Coal Tit, Song Thrush, Ring-necked Parakeet, House Sparrow, 2 Collared Dove (Pete Lowman)
 * Finchley: garden N3 - Blackcap m f, 5 Stock Dove, singing Goldcrest, 30+ Siskin E 12:00 (Samuel Levy)
 * Hampstead: Red kite west over the Whitestone Pond and round over Golders Hill. Mandarin pairs back on Kenwood Lake and pond behind Heath House/Spaniards Lane. (Jo Edwards)
 * Islington: Linnet NW at 1400 (Pete Mantle)
 * Ladywell Fields: Drake Mandarin, 2 Stock Dove, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Song Thrush, Nuthatch (Conrad Ellam)
 * King George V Reservoir: c6 hirundines over eastern side nr flood relief channel [driving so cannot say spp] (Brian Dawton); littoralis Rock Pipit (A.Middleton) RP clip
 * London Wetland Centre: 4 Jack Snipe, 20+ Snipe, 2 Pintail, 4 Redshank, was 6 Siskin, Peregrine, 2 singing Chiffchaff, 3 Shelduck, Coal Tit (WWT website); also Water Pipit, Sand Martin later (Rob Sheldon tweet); male Wheatear (WWT website)
 * Oxleas Wood: 3 Common Buzzard, 3 Nuthatch, 7 Goldcrest, ChiffChaff, 3 Jackdaw, 2 Mistle Thrush, 3 Treecreeper, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, Grey Heron (Ron Turner)
 * Rainham RSPB: f Sparrowhawk, pr Marsh Harrier, 39 Golden Plover, 3 Ruff, 2m Chiffchaff, 2 Redwing (Howard Vaughan, Ryan Woodcock per ELBF FB)
 * Raynes Park: Garden - 1 Coal Tit singing, Goldcrest in pear tree - I believe a pair is setting up home in next door conifer (P. Redmond)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon - Sat. Park only in visitors bays. No DNA ID Yet. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Stanborough Lakes: 2 Swallow [Ldn foy] over fishing lake (John Coleman via Herts BC)
 * Trent Park: Little Grebe lower lake, male Mandarin Duck, 7 Tufted Duck 4m 3f, 2 Chiffchaff rival males Williams Wd, Treecreeper (Robert Callf); also 2 Common Buzzard, Kestrel, 4 Teal 2m 2f, 3m Mandarin, leucistic Grey Heron, 2 Pochard m f (Pete Lowman)
 * Walthamstow Wetlands: LITTLE BUNTING, Red Kite, 12 Goldeneye, Green Sandpiper, 3 Goosander (Walthamstow Birders); Lockwood Reservoir - 1 m Goosander, 1 pr Goldeneye, 1 Kestrel (Quentin Given)
 * Wandsworth Common: Willow Warbler (Surrey BN)
 * Wanstead Flats: 20+ Meadow Pipit, 4 singing Skylark, Common Buzzard, displaying Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 3 Pochard, 5 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, 3 Stock Dove, 2 singing Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, m Blackcap, Little Owl (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park: 5 Chiffchaff, Water Rail, Kingfisher, pr of Great Crested Grebe, 4 Little Grebe, 7 Teal, 7 Shoveler, 8 Stock Dove, pr of Coal Tit (Nick Croft)
 * Wimbledon Common: 12+ Lesser Redpoll, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Kestrel (m & f) Hookhamslade Pond (Les Evans-Hill)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 2 Lesser Redpoll, 2 Reed Bunting, 2 Shelduck, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 3 Teal, 6 Shoveler (Chris Farthing)
 * Wandsworth Common: singing Willow Warbler, 2 Chiffchaffs, 1 Redwing (Neil Stocks)

Monday 26th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Little Grebe Wood Green Res, Eurasian Teal pair Conservation Pond, 65+ Redwing N by 0650, 2 Chiffchaff Lower Slopes (APOG Birders)
 * Barn Elms Playing Fields, Barnes: 3 Mandarin including pair prospecting in a blasted oak, Peregrine, 4 Kestrel including display, 2 Sparrowhawk including display, 13 Buzzard N/NW/SW, 4 migrant Grey Heron SE, 2CY Mediterranean Gull SW, quite heavy Black-headed Gull passage W, 2 Rook NW/NE, 50 Redwing NW/SW, 19 Meadow Pipit N, Chiffchaff. (R.Kaye)
 * Barn Hill/Fryent Country Park: Woodcock flushed from thick leaf litter near top of hill, flew across path into thick trees, very close, Linnet E, last visited Site 1960 (Andrew Verrall)
 * Bentley Priory: 1 Woodcock in conifers by deer park 08:10, 5 Hawfinch Herriots Wd 08:20 (Richard Francis)
 * Bookham Common: Mealy Redpoll on gdn fdr (per Surrey BN)
 * Bramblehall Wood: 275 Hawfinch (Steve Gale)
 * Brent Reservoir: Dump only, 17 Redwing N, 1 Meadow Pipit S, Chiffchaff singing Dump, m Sparrowhawk (Andrew Verrall); 20+ Common Snipe, 1 Redshank (Andrew Haynes).
 * Brookmill Park: Firecrest, 2 Kingfisher (m & f) Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush (Conrad Ellam)
 * Buckland: Hawfinch over late-am (BirdGuides)
 * Chobham Common: Woodlark, Woodcock, Red Kite, 3 Common Buzzards displaying, 2 pr Stonechat, singing Chiffchaff (Michael Mac) outside LNHS recording area
 * Croxley Common Moor: Water Rail on R Glade (Geoff Lapworth via Herts BC)
 * Crayford Marshes: BLACK KITE flew very low SW over creek & landfill from Dartford marshes mid-am, 2 Common Sandpiper, 5 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Oystercatcher, 12 Fieldfare, Chiffchaff (Kev Jarvis); Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Yellow-legged Gull near ad, 5+ singing Skylark (Ian Stewart)
 * Crossness: 700 Teal, 100 Shelduck, 60 Gadwall, 16 Shoveler, 12 Wigeon, Little Egret, 40 Redshank, 4 Lapwing, 2 Snipe, Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Fieldfare, 5 Cetti's Warbler, Linnet (Conrad Ellam)
 * East India Dock Basin: Red Kite W 12:35, Common Buzzard drifted N 2:45, 2 Shelduck, 43 Teal, Cetti's Warbler singing (John Archer)
 * Epping: 2 Hawfinch Swaines Grn (BirdGuides)
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - M Blackcap, 5 Stock Dove, 3 Common Buzzard SE/S 11:54 - 12:15, Sparrowhawk (Samuel Levy)
 * Greenford: 5 Redwing NE 07.00 Beechwood Ave (Neil Anderson)
 * Greenwich Park: Coal Tit, 30 Redwing at deer park (Mike Paice)
 * Hampstead Heath: Short-eared Owl mobbed by crow then climbing high up into the sky 9am Sandy Heath (Klemens Felder)
 * Ingrebourne Valley: Hawfinch W 8.38am over viewing area, 4 Green Sandpiper (Shaun Harvey tweet)
 * KGV Reservoir: Avocet 08:20 (Martin Shepherd), M. Smew & M. Scaup still S Basin, 7 Goosander (3 Males), 19 Goldeneye (8 Males), 4 Teal, 5 Shovelor, Pr. Grey Wagtail but no sign of Avocet (or any waders unless were in N Basin NE Corner which didn't have time to check), Signing Blackcap. 1-2 pm (Davey Leach). Avocet was on N Basin NE corner by 09:00 (Martin Shepherd)
 * Ladywell Fields: Mandarin pair (Anita Gwynn); 2 Red Kite soaring then drifted SW & N, Sparrowhawk, 11 Redwing, 6 Mistle Thrush, 2 Song Thrush, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goldcrest (Keith Chambers)
 * Lee Valley, Friday Lake: red-head Smew, 2 Goosander (just to E on Horsemill Stream), Sparrowhawk (Simon Papps)
 * London Wetland Centre: 6 Jack Snipe, 25+ Snipe, 4 Redshank, 3 Dunlin, Stonechat, 2 Shelduck, 3 singing Chiffchaff, Kestrel, Coal Tit, Mediterranean Gull N, Water Pipit coming into summer plumage, Sand Martin, 4 Pintail; 2 Brimstone (WWT website)
 * Monken Hadley Common: Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, male Kestrel, 4 Stock Dove 2 prs, 3 Green Woodpecker, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Mistle Thrush pr, male Goldcrest singing, 5 singing Coal Tit, 2 Long-tailed Tit nest building in gorse, 12 Nuthatch 8m 4f, Treecreeper, 2 Goldfinch, Comma (Robert Callf)
 * Oxleas Wood: 3 Greyheron, 3 CommonBuzzard, 4 Greenwoodpecker, 2 Chaffinch (fm),2 Sparrowhawke (m/fm] 5 Jackdaw, 8 Goldfinch, Kestrel, Firecrest, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Treeceeper, Mallard (pair), 9 Goldcrest, 6 Stock Dove, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Ron Turner)
 * Panshanger Park: Raven calling from top of pine TL290133 ((Murray Brown via Herts BC)
 * Peckham Rye Park: 2 Little Owl (Tom Smith)
 * Primrose Hill: 13 Black-headed Gull, 2 Common Gull, 6 Herring Gull all E/NE, 4 Stock Dove NW, 14 Woodpigeon NW, Collared Dove SSW 0755, 12 Starling NE, 89 Redwing 41 N/E & 48 feeding, 11 Meadow Pipit most NW, 5 Chaffinch N, 3 Greenfinch N/NW, 3 Linnet WNW 0845 - vismig 0650-0850; 20-25 White-fronted Goose arr'd from WSW zigzagged once then NE/E 1200 [seen again 20min later over Rainham RSPB], Buzzard SW 1330, Ring Ouzel perched briefly atop lime tree behind viewpt then NW/N 1345 (Twitter)
 * Rainham Marshes: Springtime day but 25 Russian White-fronted Goose high E at 12.20 was a surprise (Howard Vaughan via Twitter); a smart Caspian Gull to brighten up Monday morning. Second-calendar-year was one of at least two on my census on the Inner Thames in east London last Friday (Dominic Mitchell tweet); juv Iceland Gull, imm f Peregrine (Howard Vaughan, Andy Tweed per ELBF FB); 2 Sand Martin (Andy Tweed per ELBF FB); also 2 Marsh Harrier 2m 3f, 4 Buzzard, 3 Avocet, 8 Oystercatcher 4pr, 3 Golden Plover, Curlew, 6 Black-tailed Godwit, 15 Dunlin, 4 Snipe, 2 Common Sandpiper, 54 Redshank, Spotted Redshank, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, Sandwich Tern, m Peregrine, 250 Feral Pigeon, pr Stock Dove, 6 Bearded Tit, 2m Chiffchaff, pr Blackcap (per ELBF FB)
 * Regent’s Park: 2 Woodcock, 3 Common Buzzard, Peregrine (Tony Duckett, Magnus Andersson)
 * Richmond Park: 22+ Common Buzzard - a few locals and others approaching from E/SE and moving on W/NW, Red Kite, Peregrine, 3 Sparrowhawk, 3 Common Snipe, 5 Gadwall, 6 Stock Dove high W, 60+ Meadow Pipit moving NW/N/NE, 2 Stonechat, 24 Redwing, Chiffchaff, Linnet over, 8 Reed Bunting (J.Wilczur et al); Red Admiral Butterfly, Water Rail (h), 2 Woodcock, Chiffchaff singing softly at 19:20 (different to earlier bird), 15+ Greylag Geese over at 19:47, 4 Little Owl, Tawny Owl, Soprano Pipistrelle Bat (P. Redmond)
 * Sanderstead: kettle of 7 Buzzard 1115 (John Birkett tweet)
 * South Kensington: Natural History Museum Wildlife Garden: 2 Common Buzzards, 1 Sparrowhawk over at lunchtime, also pr Long-tailed tits nest-building (Joe Beale)
 * Staines Reservoir: 7 Goldeneye, Red Kite, 2 Oystercatcher, AMERICAN HORNED LARK (Jim Sweetland tweet)
 * The Withey Beds LNR: Woodcock, Chiffchaff (Joan Thompson via Herts BC)
 * Totteridge Valley: Raven soaring with 5 Common Buzzard 11:30-11:45 (Frank Nugent); f Garganey still on smaller pond SE of Darlands, 6 singing Chiffchaff, 5 Redwing, f Reed Bunting, pair Red-legged Partridge, 4 Rook, 6 Teal, pair Egyptian Goose, pair Mandarin, c150 Common Gull, 3 Buzzard but sadly not the Raven (John Colmans); 46 Hawfinch (Tony Clancy, Nicola Goldsmith, Frank Nugent, Samuel Levy); f Garganey back at Darlands Lake pm, 22 Rook, 2 Nuthatch, 5 singing Chiffchaff, 5 Goldcrest, 48 Stock Dove, 4 Lapwing, Sparrowhawk, Comon Buzzard, 3 Meadow Pipit N, 15 Teal, 120+ Common Gull, m Blackcap, 2 Redwing (Samuel Levy, Nicola Goldsmith); 3 Siskin, 60+ Redwing in Owl_Field, Little Owl, 2 Red Kite over together (FN).
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: Blackcap singing near entrance 0745, Goldcrest (Bob Watts)
 * Trent Park: 4 Mandarin Duck 3m 1f, 4 Eurasian Teal 3m 1f, 3 Common Pochard 1m 2f, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker incl pr copulating, 2 Grey Wagtail pr water outlet, 30+ Redwing, 2 Chiffchaff, male Nuthatch (Robert Callf)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: main gp - 4 Wigeon 3m f, Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, Redshank, Chiffchaff; fishing lake - 4 Wigeon 2m 2f, Oystercatcher; tytt'r fm - 6+ Tree Sparrow, 2 Yellowhammer; also Barnacle Goose, Red Kite, 3 Buzzard, Little Owl am (Tyttenhanger Birders)
 * Verulamium Lake: Little Grebe (Rupert Evershed tweet)
 * Verulamium Park: Woodcock flushed nr waterfalls by Fighting Cocks pub 1155, Chiffchaff (Rupert Evershed via Herts BC)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 1 Water Rail on Coppermill Stream 30m east of marina showing well at 9.30 (Quentin Given)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING regularly around seed tray, Scaup still on No 4, Buzzard, Green Sandpiper overflow, 3 Sand Martin N, 6 Goldeneye, 17 Shelduck (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Wanstead Flats: fem type Marsh Harrier, 3 Common Buzzard, 2 Spaarrowhawk, Kestrel, 2 Little Owl, 3 Rook, Sand Martin, 2 singing Chiffchaff, 20+ Meadow Pipit (some movement through), 5 Skylark, 4 Pochard, 3 Mistle Thrush, 2 Stock Dove (Nick Croft/Simon Raper/Bob Vaughan et al)
 * Wanstead Park: Woodcock, 4 Siskin, 1-2 Redpoll, 2 singing Goldcrest, 4-5 Nuthatch, Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 5 Redwing, 15+ Stock Dove, Little Grebe, 7 Teal, Coal Tit, 6 Chiffchaff (Nick Croft/Simon Raper)
 * Wimbledon Common: female Lesser Spotted Woodpecker seen and once heard calling at c.09:00 in same area given by LE-H last week, also Trecreeper, Nuthatch and several [presumed] Lesser Redpoll heard over (Bill Haines).
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 1 Water Rail in reed beds viewed eastwards from boardwalk; f Blackcap on woodland walk feeders (Quentin Given); Chiffchaff (Dave Porritt)
 * Woodoaks Farm: m Wheatear still on rubble heap (Geoff Lapworth via Herts BC)
 * Worcester Park: Garden KT4- 2m Blackcap together at 08:38 and Sparrowhawk afternoon (Isaiah Rowe)

Sunday 25th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Egyptian Goose, 2 Greylag Wood Green Res, 4 Linnet near filter beds with a flock of 17 finches possibly Linnets SE, 4 Meadow Pipit N 1130, Eurasian Teal drake Conservation Pond (APOG Birders)
 * Amwell NR: Common Buzzard pair mating, 2 drake Pintail, 4 Goldeneye m 3f (Bob Husband & Mike Cawthorne)
 * Beckton Creekmouth NR: 2juv Iceland Gull am (Shaun Harvey tweet)
 * Banstead Woods: Hawfinch coneyboro hill (BirdGuides)
 * Brent Reservoir: Little Ringed Plover in & later flew off calling, Redshank, 2 Lapwing, 18 Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Red Kite, 2 Common Buzzards, m Peregrine, m/f Sparrowhawks, 92+ Black-headed Gull East, 1st-winter Mediterranean Gull on water, 3 Chiffchaff, 4 Cetti's Warbler; vismig - 2 Meadow Pipit N, Grey Wagtail NE, 2 Fieldfare, 6 Redwing, 115 Chaffinch, 4 Siskin, 3 Linnet, 12 Goldfinch - all finches E (Brent Birders); Neasden RG - Willow Warbler singing (Francis O'Sullivan)
 * Broadwater Lake: 100+ Tufted Duck, pr Gadwall, pr Goldeneye, pr wigeon 4 Shoveler, 4 Pochard Great Crested Grebe,Buzzard low over lake, Red Kite mobbed by crows.(Nigel Barratt)
 * Clapham Common: incl 5 House Sparrow (Kabir Kaul tweet)
 * Crayford Marshes: 2 first-winter Caspian Gulls 11am-1.30pm two at Viridor recycling centre and one of these in fields along Bob Dunn Way (Richard Bonser, Andrew Lawson, Mick Southcott); 4 Avocet, Short-eared Owl, Barn Owl (Ian Stewart); also Little Grebe, Curlew, 8 Black-tailed Godwit, 5+ Skylark, 6 Meadow Pipit, Rock Pipit (Donna Zimmer tweet)
 * East India Dock:  Little Ringed Plover flew in at 15:50 feeding on the island thereafter, Cetti's Warbler, 41 Teal, 6 Shelduck, 2 Oystercatcher flew over then E along Thames (Frank Nugent)
 * Gallions Reach: Little Ringed Plover, Sandwich Tern (Kevin J McManus)
 * Garden Wood: 4 Hawfinch still TL195047, 1+ Siskin (Rupert Evershed via Herts BC)
 * Hampstead Heath: Woodcock flying over Wood Pond at 0930, 100+ Redwings, 20 Shoveler (Pete Mantle, David Darrell-Lambert); Cormorant over Hampstead Ponds 1530 (Michael Thain); Hawfinch by stock pond (BirdGuides)
 * Hilfield Park Reservoir: Common Scoter still, Goldeneye, 2 Chiffchaff, Blackcap subsong (Tony Blake via Herts BC)
 * Hooley: Common Buzzard over fields (Keith Chambers)
 * Kentish Town: Common Buzzard drifting W from 13:10 (Frank Nugent); Blackcap singing this afternoon on Gaisford Street (Pete Mantle)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Redshank, 5 Jack Snipe, 8 Snipe, Buzzard, 4 Pintail, Redwing, 3 Chiffchaff (WWT website); 3 Dunlin, 2 Sand Martin (Louis Freeland-Haynes); 4 Redshank, 5 Dunlin, 1 Water Pipit, 4 Shelduck, 1 Redwing & 1 Willow Warbler [Ldn foy] singing (Shailesh Patel); also 5 Dunlin (WWT website)
 * Lonsdale Road Reservoir, Barnes: m Shelduck, 9 Teal, 5 Gadwall, 3 Shoveler, 16 Tufted Duck, 4pairs Pochard, 6 Egyptian Goose, 10 active Heron nests, Water Rail, 3CY Yellow-legged Gull, Rook flew SW, 2 Chiffchaff singing, Cetti's Warbler singing. (R.Kaye) do Tawny Owls still breed here? (Michael Mac)
 * Millfields E5: Peregrine on pylon at 10:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Morden Hall Park: 2 Egyptian Goose with 6 goslings, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker m&f, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Grey Wagtail m&f, 2 Reed Bunting m&f, 1 Greenfinch singing, 1 Chaffinch f, 3 Cormorant, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Kestrel m, 2 Mistle Thrush (Matthew J Bradbury); 2 Water Rail h (Arjun Dutta tweet)
 * Oxleas Woods: 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Nuthatch, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Song Thrush, Grey Heron, 6 Jay (Tim Rymer)
 * Panshanger Park: Chiffchaff, 120 Redwing (Allan Burrows)
 * Pimlico Gardens: 1900 Black-headed Gulls East am 2nd phase clear out, Mediterranean Gull ad East, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (N P Senior)
 * Purfleet: m Marsh Harrier, 4 Avocet, 3 Oystercatcher, 11 Curlew, Bar-tailed Godwit, Knot, ad Kittiwake, Caspian Gull 3cy, 2 Barn Owl (Fraser Simpson tweet)
 * Putney Heath: 2 Chiffchaff & 1m/1f Kestrel (Les Evans-Hill)
 * Rainham RSPB: Bittern (Colin Sheilds per ELBF FB); m Wheatear (Tracey Tann per ELBF FB); 20 Pintail, 4 Common Scoter, 4 Great Crested Grebe, Sparrowhawk, 2 Marsh Harrier, Red Kite, 4 Buzzard, 4 Avocet, 3 Oystercatcher, 15 Golden Plover, 11 Curlew, Bar-tailed Godwit, 8 Black-tailed Godwit, Knot, 5 Ruff, 60 Dunlin, 15 Snipe, ad Kittiwake, 3cy Caspian Gull, 2 Barn Owl, 2 Kestrel, Peregrine, Raven, Bearded Tit, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Redwing, Stonechat (per ELBF FB)
 * Ranelagh Gardens: White Wagtail male, 5 Pied Wagtail, 8 Meadow Pipit N, Nuthatch, Chiffchaff (N P Senior)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. 1 Blackcap male singing, 2 Lesser Redpoll. No parking charges apply Sun. (Ian Jones, Franko J Maroevic) Has the sub-species of the Eastern Lesser Whitethroat been established yet?
 * Richmond Park: m Ring Ouzel [Ldn foy] Holly Lodge paddocks c0930, 1 m Linnet, 10 Lesser Redpoll (H.Bradshaw); no sign RO 11-11:30am (J.Murray)
 * Staines Reservoir: 2 Black-necked Grebe, Black-tailed Godwit on tern_raft early-am then N (Dom Pia tweet)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: 7 Teal, 2 Greylag over, record 9 m Pheasant 2&4&1 & 2h, 2 Buzzard together, Peregrine hunting over grass mounds & perched on ground, 2 Kestrel, 7 Snipe, 2 Lapwing, c20 Stock Dove 9 in field & rest pairs, Kingfisher, 5 Skylark 3 singing, 5 Meadow Pipit over, 2 Goldcrest, singing Chiffchaff, 2 Redwing, Nuthatch, Rook over, 8 Jay, 3 singing Reed Bunting (Neil Anderson)
 * Totteridge Valley/ Belmont Farm: Greylag, 18 Canada Geese, 2 Egyptian Geese,3 Pheasant, Common Buzzard, 10 Black-headed Gull, 35 Common Gull, 24 Stock Dove, 2 Collared Dove, 40+ Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush, 35+ Starling, Grey Wagtail, 8 Pied Wagtail, 20 Meadow Pipit E, 11 Goldfinch E, 3 Chaffinch E, 1 Siskin SE, Cormorant N (Samuel Levy)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: f Garganey, Siskin,18 Teal, 150+ Common Gulls in one flock in sheep fields (Ian Bradshaw)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs and Willows Farm: main gp - Little Egret, Water Rail, Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 2 Redshank, Peregrine, 5+ Chiffchaff, 9 Fieldfare, c40 Redwing, 8+ Tree Sparrow, Yellowhammer; willows fm - Little Owl, 20+ Fieldfare, c50 Redwing; willows fm lake - Oystercatcher (Rupert Evershed via Herts BC/Twitter)
 * Verulamium Park: 4 Egyptian Goose 2pr, Raven N toward Childwickbury, Chiffchaff (Dan Fletcher via Herts BC)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: c20 Fieldfare, c20 Redwing rear paddocks, 1 Kestrel (f) Bomb Crater Field 10:30 - 11:30 (Alastair Dent). m Wheatear (Jo Wheeler via Twitter).
 * Walthamsow Reservoirs: Little Bunting still, pr Goldeneye WW, pr Lockwood, pr Goosander, Banbury (W'stow Birders)
 * Wandsworth Common: 10 Meadow Pipit and 18 Chaffinch flying over east; 5 Redwing, 12 Shoveler, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Jackdaw, Sparrowhawk (Nick Rutter)
 * Wanstead Flats: Red Kite, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 3 Little Owl, 12+ Meadow Pipit, c8 Skylark, Reed Bunting, Linnet, Redpoll, 4-5 singing Chiffchaff, 6+ Redwing, 4 Pochard, 2 Gadwall, Little Grebe (Nick Croft/Bob Vaughan)
 * Wimbledon Common: 1 Treecreeper, 1m Brambling, 1 Woodcock & 3 Buzzard circling, Thatched Cottage; 1f Sparrowhawk, Bluegate Pond; 1 Chiffchaff, Memorial Ride (Les & Angela Evans-Hill)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Jack Snipe, 3 Snipe, 2 Lesser Redpoll, Water Rail, 3 Reed Bunting, 2 Shelduck, Blackcap, 2 Teal, 6 Shoveler (Chris Farthing)
 * Woodoaks Farm: m Wheatear still (Geoff Lapworth via Herts BC); Corn Bunting (Richard Ness via Herts BC)
 * Yeading Brook Meadows: 5 Teal, m Pheasant, 2 Red Kite, Buzzard, pr Stock Dove, 2 singing Skylark, Meadow Pipit, singing Chiffchaff (Neil Anderson)

Saturday 24th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: M Blackcap Grove, 2 Chiffchaff, Fieldfare, 40+ Redwing, 3 Great Crested Grebe, 6 Pochard, Eurasian Teal pair Conservation Pond (APOG Birders)
 * Arable Fields Enclosing Lilly's Wood, Orpington: 6 skylark, 2 meadow pipit, 4 common pheasant, 1 carrion crow, 1 magpie, 1 roe deer buck. 06.15-07.45. (Jamie Fletcher).
 * Brent Reservoir: 24 Snipe, Meadow Pipit, 2 Cetti's Warbler (Andrew Self); Reeves' Muntjac buck behind main hide 0905 (Andrew Haynes)
 * Brookmill Park: Firecrest showing well in conifers and holly next to pond, Redwing (Keith Chambers)
 * Crayford Marshes: adult Caspian Gull at Viridor recycling centre (Andrew Lawson)
 * Creekmouth: Iceland Gull juv on sewage works pools 12.20pm-15.30pm, also 2 Curlew, 7 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Chiffchaff (Sean Huggins, Richard Bonser)
 * Eastcote: 2 Hawfinch in Yew tree next to The Gardens Cafe 07:50 (Richard Francis)
 * Fairlop Waters: 2 Skylark, Chiffchaff, 3 Fieldfare, 7 Redwing, pr Bullfinch, 10+ Greenfinch, 2 Lesser Redpoll (Twitter)
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - M Blackcap, f Siskin (Samuel Levy)
 * Gallions Reach: m Mandarin chased by 4 gulls, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Curlew, 7 Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 23 Redshank, Iceland Gull juv, Yellow-legged Gull, Kingfisher (Dave Morrison w/ Paul Hawkins tweet)
 * Holyfield Hall Farm: Pink-footed Goose today and yesterday (roosted on Seventy Acres Lake yesterday) (Adam Wilson)
 * Holmethorpe SPs: Little Gull ad Mercers L 1435 (BirdGuides)
 * Lamorbey Park: 3 Egyptian Goose, 8 Tufted Duck, 3 Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Chiffchaff singing one seen well, 6+ Goldcrest, Coal Tit, Jay , Jackdaw, c30 Carrion Crow (Mike Amos)
 * Lilly's Wood, Orpington: 27 Blackbird, 3 Dunnock, 80 Woodpigeon, 1 Collared Dove, 7 Song Thrush, 39 Great Tit, 7 Goldcrest, 3 Coal Tit, 10 Robin, 43 Ring-Necked Parakeets, 15 Wren, 2 Greenfinch, 9 Chaffinch, 4 Jay, 46 Blue Tit, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Carrion Crow, 1 Magpie, 4 Nuthatch. 06.15-07.45. (Jamie Fletcher)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Shelduck, Little Grebe, 2 Jack Snipe, 2 Redshank, 27 Fieldfare W, 13 Redwing, 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Meadow Pipit NW (WWT website)
 * Pinner (The Croft): 12 Goldfinch, 3 Greenfinch, Green Woodpecker, 10+ Redwings (Nigel Barratt)
 * Rainham Marshes: 3 Water Rail, 2 Avocet, Little Ringed Plover, 70 Dunlin, Spotted Redshank, 3 Short-eared Owl, Peregrine, 2 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Corn Bunting (per ELBF FB)
 * Raynes Park: Gardens - Goldcrest pr, Dunnock pr, 5 Siskin briefly in distant Alders (P. Redmond)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. 1 Blackcap female early am. Free parking on Sun. (Sue Hennings, Franko J Maroevic)
 * Richmond Park: new brood 8 Egyptian Goslings - Pembroke Lodge, 14 Pochard, 2 Kestrel, 73 Common Gull, singing Skylark, Meadow Pipit over, 10+ Redwing, 6 Reed Bunting (2 singing) (Neil Anderson)
 * River Lea (by Markfield Park): 7 Red-crested Pochard 6m f (Richard Hack)
 * Ruislip Woods: 4 Hawfinch at bottom of path down from Wiltshire Lane entrance 08:10 (Richard Francis)
 * South Weald Cricket Ground: Hawfinch N am (BirdGuides)
 * Staines Reservoir: 2 Black-necked Grebe, 2 Oystercatcher (Dom Pia tweet)
 * Thamesmead: 18 Pochard on Southmere (Richard Bonser)
 * Totteridge Valley: 35+ Hawfinch in oaks to right of path leading towards the Folly Brook from Laurel Farm Pond 12:50-13:10, also Firecrest and 6 Lesser Redpoll; f Garganey also still at Darlands Lake (Ian Ellis, Tony Clancy, Simon Worsfold).
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: 2 Firecrest still at Horse Chestnut Glade (Frank Nugent).
 * Trent Park: 2 Grey Heron incl leucistic individual, 4 Eurasian Teal 2m 2f, 3 Common Pochard 1m 2f, 5 Tufted Duck 3m 2f, Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, f Kestrel, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Long-tailed Tit with complete nest (second nest here this week), 3 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper, 10+ Chaffinch (Robert Callf)
 * Verulamium Lake: c18 Grey Heron [c9 nests] (St Albans RSPB tweet); 2 Red Kite pr over (Dan Fletcher via Herts BC)
 * Verulamium Park: 2 Egyptian Goose, Raven S 1130 (Dan Fletcher via Herts BC)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: No sign of Bluethroat so far this morning but LITTLE BUNTING and Scaup still (David Bradshaw‏ tweet)
 * Wanstead Flats: Great White Egret N over Alex, Rook, 8 Meadow Pipit 3 singing, 7+ Skylark, 2 Reed Bunting, Common Buzzard, Kestrel, 2 Little Owl, 8 Pochard, 2 Gadwall, 4 Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush, sub-song Blackcap, 2-3 Chiffchaff, 20+ Greenfinch (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: 50+ Redwing, 2 Chiffchaff, Little Grebe, Little Grebe (Nick Croft)
 * Waterworks Nature Reserve: 2 Redpoll (Marcus Mitchell)
 * West Hyde: Red Kite, m Yellowhammer (Chris Sharp tweet)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 6 Red-crested Pochard, all drakes, Great Black-backed Gull, Snipe, Kestrel, Water Rail, 3 Reed Bunting, 2 Shelduck, Blackcap (Chris Farthing)
 * Woodoaks Farm: m Wheatear still on rubble pile (Chris Sharp tweet)
 * Wormwood Scrubs: c20 Redwing, 3 Song Thrush, Green Woodpecker, 2 Canada Geese (Charlie Farrell)

Friday 23rd March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Chiffchaff singing between Conservation Area & Pond, also Eurasian Teal pair (Bob Watts)
 * Batchworth Lake: m Chiffchaff (Anna Marett via Herts BC)
 * Bethnal Green, Bishops Way E2: 1 Sparrowhawk feeding in garden near Victoria Park 0815 (Di Jones).
 * Boxer's Lake, Enfield: 4 Grey Heron and 3 occupied nests, 2 Egyptian Goose, 4 Shoveler 2m 2f, male Common Pochard, 8 Tufted Duck 4m 4f, 13 Black-headed Gull, 2 Song Thrush, Redwing, male Nuthatch singing, male Chaffinch (Robert Callf)
 * Brockwell Park: Little Grebe middle pond (Tom Pollard tweet)
 * Brookmill Park: 1 Little Egret, 2 Kingfishers (pr), 1 Stock Dove, 1 Redwing, 1 Songthrush, 1 Mistle Thrush, 1 Goldcrest (Mike Paice)
 * Coursers Farm: Green Sandpiper on restored workings TL196034, c6 Yellowhammer TL200051 (Alan Gardiner via Herts BC)
 * Eastcote: 1 Hawfinch in Yew tree next to Garden Cafe 08:10 (Richard Francis)
 * Eastcote (Field End Rec): Chiffchaff, Stock Dove, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Greenfinch, Collared Dove, Song Thrush, 25 Black-headed Gull, 45 Common Gull (Tim Rymer)
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - M Blackcap (Samuel Levy)
 * Fulham Reach (Thames): 42 Cormorant (tight flotilla at high tide) (Nathalie Mahieu)
 * Garden Wood: 2+ Hawfinch still (TyttGP tweet)
 * Greenford B'dway: fairly high Buzzard mobbed by 3 Crows (Neil Anderson)
 * Greenwich Maze Hill: m Blackcap singing from platform 2 Maze Hill Stn (Richard Green tweet)
 * Kensington Gardens: Chiffchaff singing (Des McKenzie tweet)
 * London Wetland Centre: 1f Goldeneye, 5-6 Jack Snipe [probably 6], 2 singing Chiffchaff (Martin Honey); 1 Water Pipit (Shailesh Patel); Marsh Harrier f again am (Mike Wheeler, Nick S, M Lewis et al); also Little Grebe, Sand Martin N, 3 Chiffchaff, Blackcap (WWT website)
 * KGV Reservoir: m Smew s basin nw cnr, 18 Goldeneye 5m, 9 Goosander 5m, 1 Dunlin, pr Grey Wagtail, pr Buzzard, Meadow Pipit, Kestrel, Siskin NE calling. 1-2pm (Davey Leach)
 * Millwall Docks: Shag juv still on pontoon by sailing club (Twitter)
 * Oakwood Park: 2 Stock Dove pr, Collared Dove, f Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush, 13 Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush pr nest building (Robert Callf)
 * Pinner (The Croft): 5 Goldfinch, 2 Redwing, Long-tailed Tit, Ring-necked Parakeet (Nigel Barratt)
 * Rainham RSPB: ad Ring-billed Gull briefly 11:10 on grassy slope nr stone barges car park then flew towards river Same as Thames Barrier Park individual?, juv Iceland Gull, 2+ first-winter Caspian Gulls, 5 Yellow-legged Gulls (Dominic Mitchell); Spotted Redshank (Andy Tweed per ELBF FB); also Pintail, 3 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Marsh Harrier, 2 Water Rail, Avocet, 2 Oystercatcher, 9 Golden Plover, 5 Curlew, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Ruff, 70 Dunlin, 6 Snipe, Redshank, Barn Owl, Green Woodpecker, 2 Kestrel, 2 Peregrine, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, Meadow Pipit (per ELBF FB)
 * Raynes Park: 2 Greylag Goose east over Coombe Lane garden 0815 (P. Redmond)
 * Richmond: 'eastern' Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues, 1 Coal Tit, Common Buzzard N 12.25. Parking charges apply Mon - Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Dr Peter Gasson, Franko J Maroevic)
 * Richmond Park: 2 Gadwall, 3 Shoveler, 4 Great Crested Grebe, 5 Buzzard, 55 Common Gull, 2 Pied Wagtail, 3 Stonechat (Friday Group)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: 3m Chiffchaff (Allan Meadows via Herts BC)
 * Staines Reservoir: 2 Black-necked Grebe, 3 Little Ringed Plover, Redshank, Mediterranean Gull 1w, no sign of Horned Lark (Roger Morton tweet)
 * Stoneleigh KT17: 160 Herring Gull ne in 2 flocks of roughly equal size a.m. (Neil Batten)
 * Thames Barrier Park: Curlew feeding (Frank Nugent).
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: Common Buzzard drifting E 11:24, Red Kite drifting W then u-turned and headed back E 11:26 (Samuel Levy)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: f Garganey still, 15 Teal, 70+ Common Gull, 2 Redwing, 2 Bullfinch, Cormorant, Barn Owl, Sparrowhawk, 2 Mandarin Duck, pale morph Common Buzzard, 3 Little Owl, 18 Canada Geese, m Wheatear feeding on path to Long Pond, Tawny Owl hooting (Totteridge Valley Birders & Brent Birders)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: 2 Firecrest still Horse Chestnut Glade, also 2 Redwing north 0745 (Bob Watts)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs and Willows Farm: main gp - Little Egret, Water Rail, 3+ Chiffchaff, 2 Tree Sparrow; fishing lake - Oystercatcher, 4+ Fieldfare; tytt'r fm - 1+ Fieldfare, c10 Redwing, 12+ Tree Sparrow; willows fm - Barnacle Goose, Little Owl (TyttGP tweet)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: Cetti's Warbler (Jo Wheeler tweet)
 * Walthamstow Wetlands: LITTLE BUNTING still between Engine Rooms and East Warwick until 8.50 at least coming to the seeded area regularly and being seen well, plus a pair of Goldeneye [Lockwood] and an Oystercatcher through over No 1 at 8.30 am (David Callahan, David Bradshaw, David Darrel-Lambert); WHITE-SPOTTED BLUETHROAT West Warwick from 1215 until dusk (David Bradshaw et al); plus Peregrine, pair Goldeneye and Scaup still on No 4 (David Callahan); also Red Kite over W 12.30 and pr Goosander N over Lockwood at dusk (Lol Bodini)
 * Wanstead Flats: 7+ Skylark, 5 Meadow Pipit (2 singing), 2 Reed Bunting (1 singing), Redwing, 2 singing Chiffchaff, 3 Sparrowhawk, m Kestrel, Little Owl, 2 Gadwall, 8 Shoveler, 2 Pochard (Nick Croft)
 * Wimbledon Common: 1 Greater spotted woodpecker, 1 lesser redpoll at Queensmere
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 3 Snipe, 2 Peregrine, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 2 Water Rail, 3 Reed Bunting, 2 Shelduck, 2 Blackcap, 2 Lesser Redpoll, 4 Redwing (Chris Farthing)
 * Woodoaks Farm: m Wheatear on rubble heap (Geoff Lapworth via Herts BC)

Thursday 22nd March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Eurasian Teal pair still Conservation Pond, Meadow Pipit N 1730 (Bob Watts); Chiffchaff singing by cycle path/South Slope 9.10 (Greg Smith)
 * Betchworth Quarry 4+ Hawfinch TQ207518 (BirdGuides)
 * Brookmill Park: singing Firecrest by pond very vocal, Kingfisher (Mike Paice)
 * Cassiobury Park: 2m Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Lee Evans tweet)
 * Clerkenwell: Peregrine prob female soaring over Old St/Goswell Road area 13:30 (Dan Fletcher)
 * Dagenham Chase LNR:‏ Cuckoo [Ldn foy] calling north side of slack (Twitter)
 * Dollis Brook, Holders Hill: 6+ Meadow Pipit N 06:59, 2 Grey Wagtail, Mandarin Duck downstream 07:03 (Samuel Levy)
 * East India Dock Basin NR: 17 Shelduck, 3 Avocet 6pm (Tom Speller tweet)
 * Eastcote: Field End Rd RG - 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Greenfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 11 Common Gull, 18 Black-headed Gull, Coal Tit, 2 Song Thrush (Tim Rymer)
 * Forest Hill: Station - Red Kite W at 12.09 hrs, 2 Grey Wagtails on W H Smith's roof 12.54 hrs and 2 Peregrines 15.27 hrs (Paul Moss)
 * Forty Hall CP: Little Egret, 46 Black-headed Gull, 2 Treecreeper (Robert Callf)
 * Frays Valley LNR: & Frays Farm Meadows - Jack Snipe, 9 Common Snipe, Pr. Mandarin and a Lesser Redpoll. (John Edwards)
 * Greenford: Beechwood Ave - 20+ Redwing dropped into back gardens 7.00 (Neil Anderson)
 * Gunnersbury Triangle NR: pr Goldcrest, 4 Jay 2pr (Neil Anderson)
 * Guy Lodge Farm: Red Kite, Mediterranean Gull first-winter until 14:22 at least, 8 Common Gull incl 7 first-winter, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull (Robert Callf)
 * Hilfield Park Reservoir: 5 Black-necked Grebe, 3m Chiffchaff (Lee Evans via Herts BC)
 * Hilly Fields Park, Enfield: m Kestrel, 3 Stock Dove, 2 singing Song Thrush, singing Mistle Thrush, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper incl singing male (Robert Callf) There is another Hilly Fields in London, so do not amend - R Callf
 * Hyde Park: 2+ Sparrowhawks - attempted blackbird catch at 8.30am. At 10.10am a pair were displaying high across the park, Peregrine 10.10am flying high passed the sparrowhawks heading south west (Malachi Yarker)
 * Island Barn Reservoir: Red-throated Diver [Ldn foy] (BirdGuides)
 * Juniper Top: 52 Hawfinch 12.30 (Dave Peers)
 * KGV Reservoir: ad Little Gull n basin inflow 6.45am, 11 Goosander 6m, 18 Goldeneye 7m, 2 Great Black-backed Gulls, 1 Fieldfare, 1 singing Blackcap, 2 singing Chiffchaff, pr Grey Wagtail, pr Buzzard, pr Kestrel, 1 Meadow Pipit, Green Woodpecker, f Sparrowhawk 6.15-7.45am (Davey Leach)
 * London Wetland Centre: 6 Pintail, 7 Common Snipe and 6 Jack Snipe 5 wader scrape & 1 grazing marsh, 2 singing Chiffchaff, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming, 2 Little Egret, 1 Redshank, 4 singing Cetti's Warbler, 4 Mute Swan 2 pairs nest building (Martin Honey); 2 Shelduck, Goldeneye, f Marsh Harrier - same bird as yesterday - flew out of reedbed then back down 1500, Peregrine, Water Pipit (WWT website)
 * Millwall Docks: Shag juv still 9.15am on pontoon by sailing club (Sean Huggins)
 * Natural History Museum: Peregrine over 1200 (Sam Jones)
 * Rainham RSPB: 3 Marsh Harrier, 2 Oystercatcher, 12 Golden Plover, 7 Curlew, Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, Knot, 2 Ruff, 45 Dunlin, 6 Snipe, 3 Bearded Tit, Water Pipit (per ELBF FB)
 * Regent's Park: Black Redstart [area 28] 15:00 (Magnus Andersson)
 * Richmond Park: 2 Mute Swan nesting pair, 2 Gadwall pair, 10 Pochard 6m 4f, 2 Great Crested Grebe displaying pair, 20+ Grey Heron 10 nesting pairs an increase from last year [Battersea Park herons have decreased could it be because for 2 years e motor racing event was held for 2 weeks in the summer?] (Michael Mac); 2 Water Rail heard, Common Snipe, 43 Common Gull all Pen Ponds, 7+ Buzzard, 15 Collared Dove, Skylark singing Lawn Field, 2 Grey Wagtail pair, 100+ Redwing (J.Wilczur); 2m Stonechat (P.Redmond)
 * Staines Moor: Little Egret, 2 Red Kite, Buzzard, 8 Lapwing, 2 Chiffchaff, 11 Redwing, 2 Water Pipit (Jim Sweetland tweet)
 * Staines Reservoirs: AMERICAN HORNED LARK on south side of causeway, 3 Little Ringed Plovers (John Reid); m Scaup n basin, 7 Little Ringed Plover, Redshank (Do Pia tweet)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: PURPLE SANDPIPER still near red lighthouse (Steven Robinson)
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: 2m Pied Wagtail, Mistle Thrush, 19 Redwing N 07:29 (Samuel Levy)
 * Tooting Commons: 1 Firecrest north end of Bedford Wood, 1 Greenfinch (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: f Firecrest still in ivy & holly south of Laurel Pond, f Garganey back at Darlands, 20 Redwing incl 1 singing, Mistle Thrush, 2 Common Buzzard (Tony Clancy)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: 2 Firecrest still nr entrance to Horse Chestnut Glade 1315, also Goldcrest (Bob Watts, Mark Fairless)
 * Trent Park: Cormorant, 4 Goldfinch, Green Woodpecker, 8 Mandarin 6m 2f, 4 Pochard 2m 2f, 30 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, 3 Teal 2m f, 5 Tufted Duck 3m 2f (Pete Lowman)
 * Walthamstow Wetlands: LITTLE BUNTING still until 8.45 at least, with 3 Reed Buntings and 35+ Linnet, plus drake Scaup, Green Sandpiper, Common Redshank, pair Goosander, 3 Kingfishers, 2 Common Chiffchaffs all Lockwood and area (David Callahan, Jamie Partridge, David Bradshaw); Lockwood pm - pr Oystercatcher, pr Goldeneye, pr Shelduck (Lol Bodini)
 * Wanstead Flats: Redpoll, 11 Meadow Pipit, 7+ Skylark, singing Chiffchaff, 7 Song Thrush, 2 Mistle Thrush, 3 Stock Dove, 3 Little Owl, Kestrel (Nick Croft) Where abouts did you see the owls? Thanks
 * Wanstead Park: Red Kite, 2 Siskin, 10+ Redwing, 7 Teal, Nuthatch, 4 Stock Dove, 2 singing Chiffchaff (Nick Croft)
 * Wimbledon Common: Woodcock (R.Kaye); Pied Wagtail, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Great Tit, Goldfinch (Rob Campbell)
 * Wood Green: Common Buzzard circling east over Birdwatch office at 11 am (David Callahan, Ian Lycett, Josh Jones).
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 5 Snipe, 2 Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, Water Rail, 3 Reed Bunting, 2 Shelduck, Blackcap, 2 Teal, Chiffchaff, 2 Lesser Redpoll, Redwing - 51 spp. total [highest this year] (Chris Farthing).
 * Worcester Park: garden KT4- 1m Blackcap still and a regular Goldcrest (Isaiah Rowe)

Wednesday 21st March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: M Blackcap singing Grove, 30+ Redwing (APOG Birders)
 * Amwell NR: Pink-footed Goose again 0800 (Phil Ball per Amwell Birding tweet); Woodcock fr viewpt (Roland Power via Herts BC)
 * Brent Reservoir: Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, 24 Common Snipe, Woodcock flushed between hides, Peregrine pair circling to great height over South Bank, 2 Sparrowhawk, 3 Cetti's Warbler (Magnus Andersson, Simon Worsfold, Andrew Verrall)
 * Broxbourne Woods: Woodcock flushed, 15+ Nuthatches, 1 Coal Tit; also day-flying Pipistrelle sp at 12.30 over field N of woods (Quentin Given) What No Treecreepers? R Callf No, I was looking out for them too [Quentin Given] Perhaps you need to listen out for them - you normally hear them before you see them - R Callf
 * Chislehurst Common: area - Mandarin drake Chislehurst Pond still (Eric Brown)
 * Copped Hall: 4 Sparrowhawk, 9 Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, Common Whitethroat singing, 2 Mistle Thrush, 3 Skylark, Corn Bunting, 24 Yellowhammer, 2 Bullfinch, 13 Red-legged Partridge, 9 Redwing; also 11 Hares (Chris Baldwin)
 * Cranford CP: resident pair Kestrels mating, 2 Common Buzzard, 8+ Ring-necked Parakeets 4+ pr mating, pair Song Thrush, 3 Goldfinch, male Tufted Duck over - rare sight for Cranford, pair Long-tailed Tits nest building; first Comma of the year (Wendy Marks)
 * Dollis Brook, Holders Hill: Grey Wagtail, 2 Goldcrest, Coal Tit, 3 Mandarin Duck up stream 1300; also Red Admiral (Samuel Levy)
 * Eastcote: Field End Rd RG - 5+ Greenfinch, 4 Black-headed Gull, Common Gull (Tim Rymer)
 * Elstree Village: Red Kite, 4 Buzzard (Allan Stewart)
 * Enfield: area EN2 - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker showed well but briefly, 4 Hawfinch 2 singing males (Connor Rand)
 * Ewell Village: Blackcap singing briefly near Bourne Hall (Neil Batten)
 * Figges Marsh: 156 Black-headed Gull, 47 Common Gull, 2 Herring Gull (James Hudson)
 * Finchley: garden N3 - Red-legged Partridge [3rd garden record], 4 Stock Dove, m Blackcap (Samuel Levy)
 * Foxberry Wood SW of Pratts Bottom: c40 Brambling in trees by game strip (Ian Stewart)
 * Friday Lake: red-head Smew still 16:00 (Andrew Self)
 * Grays Riverside: PURPLE SANDPIPER off Wouldham Rd late-pm again (David Darrell-Lambert tweet)
 * Greenwich Park: Sparrowhawk f, 7 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Nuthatch (Ray Crouch); also 1 Common Buzzard over, 6 Redwings still (Joe Beale)
 * Hyde Park: Woodcock landed in lookout Lodge briefly before being flushed by attacking song birds. It then retreated under a nearby Yew before flying west. (Malachi Yarker)
 * KGV Reservoir: 1 m Smew still s basin, 1 Red Kite drifting N 1pm, Green Sandpiper, 18 Goldeneye 6m, pr Goosander, 20 Shoveler, 12 Teal, 4 Little Grebe, Green Woodpecker, 6+ Buzzards, 3+ Kestrels, Sparrowhawk, pr Grey Wagtail, 1 Meadow Pipit 1-2pm (Davey Leach); Pintail female ((Neville Smith)
 * Ladywell Fields: Sparrowhawk, 4 Redwing, 3 Mandarin, 3 Mistle Thrush, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Nuthatch, Goldcrest, Green Woodpecker calling, Song Thrush (Tom Moulton/Sue Gore/Judith Simmons)
 * Lamorbey Park: 10 Canada Geese, 5 Egyptian Geese, Little Grebe, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Nuthatch, Goldcrest, 8 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Stock Dove; Red Admiral my first butterfly at Lamorbey this year (Eric Brown)
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 male Brambling, Jack Snipe, 4 Snipe, 3 Shelduck, 8 Pintail, Little Egret, Chiffchaff, Water Rail (WWT website); 1 Bittern N shore main lake, 1 Marsh Harrier, 12 Common Snipe, 5 Jack Snipe (Martin Honey, W. Newnham etc.)
 * London Zoo: Red-crested Pochard 5 4m 1f on Regents Canal (Sam Jones)
 * Mayflower Park Wetlands: Coot sitting on nest, 1 Grey Heron and a single Redwing (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Millwall Docks: Shag juv 0910 on pontoon by sailing club (Sean Huggins tweet); still 1145 (Tom Bell per Simon Worsfold tweet); still by sailing club 1310 (Ton Speller tweet)
 * Pinner: Tawny Owl calling Lloyd Court 05:30 (Richard Francis)
 * Pinner (The Croft): 4 Goldfinch, male Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Coal Tit, 1 Redwing, Ring-necked Parakeet, 10+ Black-headed Gulls (Nigel Barratt)
 * Primrose Hill: little action early-am - 5 Black-headed Gull E/NE, Chiffchaff site-foy, 3 Meadow Pipit over, 3 Chaffinch W - vismig 06:05-08:05; 20+ Redwing still (Twitter)
 * Regent's Park: 2 Woodcock leaf yd wd at northeast cnr [area 40] (Twitter)
 * Rainham RSPB: Guillemot [Ldn foy] winter plumage drifted on Thames upriver at noon, also m Marsh Harrier over rspb reserve (John Murray); also 2 Little Egret, Red Kite, 3 Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, 8 Avocet, Oystercatcher, 7 Curlew, Bar-tailed Godwit, 35 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Ruff, 60 Dunlin, 22 Snipe, Water Pipit (per ELBF FB)
 * Rayners Lane: garden - male Blackcap (Tim Rymer)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon-Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Bob Husband, Franko J Maroevic)
 * Richmond Park: c20 Lesser Redpoll - Hawthorn Valley (M.Lewis)
 * Ruislip Woods: Mad Bess & Bayhurst - 40+ Hawfinch 08:20-09:45 - see map marked red star on map, Woodcock flushed 09:25 marked blue star (Richard Francis)
 * St James's Park: Common Snipe (Frank Nugent)
 * Stanborough Lakes: 3 Red Kite over fishing lake (John Colmans via Herts BC)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: PURPLE SANDPIPER still present on the rocks by the lighthouse at Broadness, 100 Common Redshank, 8 Turnstone and 4 Dunlin also (John Edwards, Richard Middleton)
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: m Siskin, Nuthatch, 2 Goldcrest (Samuel Levy)
 * Tooting Commons: 1 Woodcock (Will Rose, twitter); 1 Teal (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: f Garganey still present at Darlands sleeping in sunshine, also Woodcock, 3 Buzzard, Kestrel, Little Egret, 20 Redwing, 2 Redpoll at Darlands, 2 Meadow Pipit, 7 Teal (John Colmans); 13 Canada Geese, 2 Mandarin Duck, f Garganey had moved to the small pond south of Darlands Lake this afternoon, 15 Teal, Grey Heron, 3 Sparrowhawk, 3 Common Buzzard, 2 Lapwing, 5 Woodcock, Common Snipe N at dusk, 6 Black-headed Gulls, 62 Common Gull, 61 Stock Dove, Barn Owl, 12 Rook, 3 Coal Tit, 2 Goldcrest, f Firecrest still in hedgerow just down from laurel farm pond, Fieldfare, 29 Redwing, Song Thrush, 39 Starling, 3 Hawfinch, 2 Bullfinch, 2 Siskin (Totteridge Valley Birders) TVB
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: 2 Firecrest male still 0750 near entrance to Horse Chestnut Glade and very vocal with male and female present 1230, no Goldcrests seen for about a week (Bob Watts) On March 16th I went through loads of Goldcrest habitat (looking for Firecrests) on the South side of Barnes Common and found just a single Goldcrest. Rather shocking. [R.Kaye]
 * Trent Park: 2 Mandarin Duck pr, 5 Eurasian Teal 3m 2f, 4 Common Pochard 2m 2f, 2 Tufted Duck m f, Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, 2f Kestrel, 2 Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Long-tailed Tit pr nest building, 2m Nuthatch Rough Lot, 2 Treecreeper incl singing male Nature Trail; Orange Underwing/Light Orange Underwing (Robert Callf); 2 Common Buzzard, Kestrel, 2m Teal, 4 Pochard 2m 2f, 4 Tufted Duck 2m 2f, 20 Redwing, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Woodcock in flight over field ne of Water Garden (Pete Lowman)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs and Willows Farm: main gp - Little Egret, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Chiffchaff; willows fm l Oystercatcher; also c7 Tree Sparrow incl 3 at tytt'r fm (Alan Gardiner via Herts BC)
 * Walthamstow Marsh: 2 Cettis Warbler along Coppermill Stream, Kestrel, 4 Meadow Pipit, 3 Linnet in rear paddocks; 8 Redwing, 1 Fieldfare and 2 Mistle Thrush in front paddocks (Jan Dobbie)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING still, m Scaup, Dunlin, Snipe, 6 Shelduck, 2 Redwing, 2 Chiffchaff, 1f Goldcrest, 6 Reed Bunting, 6 Stock Dove, 1m Kestrel (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Wanstead Flats: Woodcock, 7 Meadow Pipit 2 singing, 6 Skylark, singing Chiffchaff, Reed Bunting, 3 Sparrowhawk, 2 Gadwall, 7 Shoveler, 3 Little Owl (Nick Croft/Bob Vaughan)
 * Wanstead Park: 2 Redpoll, Siskin, Linnet, 3 Nuthatch, 2 Goldcrest, Firecrest h, singing Chiffchaff, m Blackcap, 11 Stock Dove, Coal Tit, 45 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, 7 Teal, Sparrowhawk, Little Grebe (Nick Croft)
 * Waterworks NR: 2 Chiffchaff one singing, 1 Shoveler, 1 Pochard, 26 Teal (20 in Flood Relief Channel), 2 Green Woodpecker, Sparrowhawk (Jan Dobbie)
 * Wimbledon Common: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker drumming 6.45am Inner Windmill Road (Les Evans-Hill); LSW also heard very briefly in wood by White Cottage 08.00, also in that general area of the Common - 4 Buzzard, 3 Sparrowhawk, Red Kite, 2 Woodcock, 2 Lesser Redpoll, 2 Siskin (R.Kaye)
 * Worcester Park: garden KT4- 1 Peregrine thermaling over from 15:55 (Isaiah Rowe)

Tuesday 20th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Fieldfare, singing Blackcap Grove, m Eurasian Teal Conservation Pond (APOG Birders)
 * Ashford Tesco near Staines Res: 1+ House Sparrow chirping in bushes on WORLD SPARROW DAY (Michael Mac)
 * Bedfont Lakes CP: low hunting Buzzard seen from adjacent road (Neil Anderson)
 * Bentley Priory: Little Egret on Old Lodge Common 1:45 (Richard Francis)
 * Bramblehall Wood: 550 Hawfinch (Steve Gale)
 * Brent Reservoir: Little Egret behind dam (Andrew Self)
 * Brockley NR: Sparrowhawk f (Keith Chambers)
 * Chessington: m Pheasant strolled through front drives 12.00pm in Kelvin Grove KT9 (Nigel Jackman)
 * Hampstead Heath: Common Buzzard NE over High No.1 1300 (Pete Mantle)
 * Hanger Lane: Kestrel by North Circular (Neil Anderson)
 * Horsenden Hill: Woodcock flushed by ranger (Martin Smith)
 * Kensal Green: pr Coal Tit on my feeders, Jay (Charlie Farrell)
 * KGV Reservoir: 1 Sand Martin flying over N 7am, m Smew & m Scaup still on s basin, 2 singing Chiffchaff, pr Goosander, 12 Goldeneye 3m, pr Kestrel, m Sparrowhawk, Goldcrest, pr Buzzard (Davey Leach)
 * London Wetland Centre: 1f Peregrine on Ch. X. Hospital, 6 Common Snipe and 3 Jack Snipe wader scrape, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Little Egret, 4 Pintail, 2 Shelduck, 1 Chiffchaff [new arrival - feeding frantically] (Martin Honey & B. Page); also Goldeneye still, Water Rail, 2 Siskin (WWT website)
 * Middlehill Wood: 85 Hawfinch (Steve Gale)
 * Middlesex Filter Beds: Kingfisher, Siskin (James Palmer)
 * Millfields E5: Peregrine feeding on prey on electric pylon 2.45pm, 2 Kestrel m seen - also f reported, 30+ Common Gull (Ernest Thomason)
 * Millwall Docks: Shag juv still on pontoons by sailing club 9.10am (Sean Huggins); still c3pm (Simon Worsfold tweet)
 * Pinner: Tawny Owl very vocal 07:30 Lloyd Court (Richard Francis)
 * Rainham RSPB: 3 Short-eared Owl (Andy Tweed per ELBF FB)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still (John Rowland tweet)
 * Ruislip Woods: 4+ Hawfinch in vicinity of Fore St/Salisbury Rd entrance 08:15 (Richard Francis)
 * Staines Moor: 1 Jack Snipe, 2 Redshank, 2 Water Pipit all along Colne, 1 Treecreeper old railway, 1-3 Red Kite, 1 Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 4+ Meadow Pipit now singing & displaying, singing Skylark (Lee Dingain)
 * Staines Reservoir: 7 Goldeneye, 2 Black-necked Grebe, 3 Little Ringed Plover, Mediterranean Gull, AMERICAN HORNED LARK (Jim Sweetland tweet); also 4 Little Ringed Plover, Redshank (Dom Pia tweet)
 * Stave Hill: Kingfisher on Downtown Pond am, 4 Redwing, Great Spotted Woodpecker (John & Janet Cadera); Water Rail on Downtown Pond pm (Richard Page-Jones)
 * Stratford: Common Buzzard over the old shopping centre (Nick Croft)
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: 15 Redwing E 08:20 (Samuel Levy)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: f Garganey still present at Darlands Lake (lee Evans tweet); still present at 5.30pm but then flew off N calling with 3 Teal [1 Teal came back 2 minutes later so all probably came back], Firecrest in back gardens by entrance off Michelham Down, 2 Fieldfare N, 18 Redwing (Davey Leach)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: Mmle Firecrest still in holly at entrance to Horse Chestnut Glade 0750 and 1300 in nearby ivy (Bob Watts)
 * Town Park, Enfield: Cormorant, 3 Shoveler 2m f Carr's Basin, 16 Tufted Duck 9m 7f, Sparrowhawk, 3 Stock Dove, male Nuthatch singing (Robert Callf)
 * Trent Park: 3 Eurasian Teal 2m f upper lake, 7 Tufted Duck 4m 3f, Common Buzzard, 3 male Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Raven circled Williams Wood mobbed by Carrion Crow then flew off N 13:56-13:58 (Robert Callf)
 * Uxbridge: 2 Rook feeding on grass verge of Uxbridge Rd Hatch End between roundabouts 02:00 (Richard Francis)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: incl Coppermill Ln - 2 Water Rail, Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, Cetti’s Warbler, Song Thrush (HarringayBirder tweet)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING still but only showed briefly once by 2pm, Scaup on No 4, Dunlin and 2 Goosander on Lockwood early, 1w Yellow-legged Gull, 12 Goldeneye (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Wandle Park: Green Sandpiper (John Birkett tweet)
 * Wanstead Flats: f Stonechat, 3 Mistle Thrush, 3 Redwing, 9 Fieldfare, 9 Meadow Pipit 1 singing, 5 Skylark 3 singing, 13 Greenfinch, 1 Teal, 7 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park: 2 Common Buzzard, 2-3 Sparrowhawk, 2 m Peregrine, Fieldfare, 10 Redwing, 2 singing Chiffchaff, 6 Teal, 12 Shoveler, 5 Pochard, 12 Tufted Duck, 2 Water Rail, 2 Siskin (Nick Croft/Mike Messenger)
 * Wimbledon Common: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Inner Windmill Rd drumming, 2 Greylag overflying the Plain (Les Evans-Hill) Hi Les, on what section of the IWR did you hear (see?) the LSW? Thanks I see/hear it regularly at gridref TQ229719 [LE-H]
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 5 Snipe, 2 Reed Bunting, 2 Shelduck, 2 Blackcap, 2 Teal (Chris Farthing)
 * Woodford Green: Hawfinch atop distant forest tree 7.55am, f Blackcap, Siskin and flyover Little Egret (Ken Murray)

Monday 19th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: 15+ Linnet Filter Beds, Meadow Pipit, Eurasian Teal pair Conservation Pond, c30 Ring-necked Parakeet south to roost 1740, drake Tufted x Pochard Boating Lake (APOG Birders)
 * Colliers Wood: 1 Chiffchaff along the river probably a successful local overwinterer (Keith Bates)
 * Cowley: [UB8] 1 Common Buzzard mobbed by 3 Carrion Crows 16.30 (Roger Dewey)
 * East Barnet: Pymmes Brook at West Walk - 3 Grey Wagtail 2m f together displaying (Robert Callf)
 * East India Dock Basin: 3 Avocets roosting on island in Basin 13.50 (John Archer) Twitter pic
 * Eastcote: Field End Rec - 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Greenfinch, Jay, 35 Black-headed Gull, 5 Common Gull (Tim Rymer)
 * Finsbury Park: pr Egyptian Goose, 3 Red-Crested Pochard 2m f, 14 Shoveler 7pr, 2 Fieldfare, c20 Redwing (HarringayBirder tweet)
 * Fulham Reach: 3 Shelduck (Nathalie Mahieu)
 * Grays Riverside: Caspian Gull 1w (BirdGuides); PURPLE SANDPIPER off Wouldham Rd again 1740 (David Darrell-Lambert tweet)
 * Hall Marsh Scrape: 1 Siberian Chiffchaff calling frequently along stream behind main hide (J.Murray)
 * Holyfield Lake: 7 Goosander 2m 5f, 2 Oystercatcher on island behind the weir (Mike Oakland)
 * Hyde Park: 10 Redwing, Jay, 4 Gadwalls (Koel Ko)
 * Leyton, Orient Way Recycling Centre: Glaucous Gull (JW Davies)
 * London Wetland Centre: Iceland Gull, 2m Common Scoter still present 17:00 (R Dunne et al); also 1 Peregrine, 5 Common Snipe, 5 Jack Snipe (Martin Honey); Short-eared Owl SW 15.40, Caspian Gull 2cy - same as yesterday, Yellow-legged Gull 2cy - different to yesterday (J.Wilczur et al); ringtail Hen Harrier [Ldn foy] E over marsh 1330 (BirdGuides/WWT); also 3 Shelduck, Goldeneye still, Chiffchaff sheltered lagoon, 7 Fieldfare, 3 Meadow Pipit, 7 Siskin [some singing] wildside (WWT website)
 * Margravine Cemetery: Redwing, Mistle Thrush (Nathalie Mahieu)
 * Middlesex Filter Beds: 1 Kingfisher on River Lea (Ernest Thomason)
 * Morden Hall Park: Jack Snipe, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 5 Meadow Pipit, 6+ Teal, Siskin, Chiffchaff (Nick Rutter)
 * Muswell Hill: male Siskin on seed feeder in back garden (BJS)
 * Oak Hill Woods: Treecreeper (Robert Callf)
 * Rainham RSPB: Grey Plover, Jack Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Yellow-legged Gull (Andy Tweed per ELBF FB); 5 Marsh Harrier, 4 Curlew, f Kestrel, 2 Skylark, f Blackcap (Tom Bell per ELBF FB)
 * Pinner (The Croft): pr Chaffinch, 6 Goldfinch, Ring-necked Parakeet, 10+ Black-headed Gull (Nigel Barratt)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon-Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * St Pancras Int'l Stn: dead m Kingfisher - apparent skylight casualty (Ian Carpenter tweet)
 * Staines Reservoirs: AMERICAN HORNED LARK still on causeway, 1 Brent Goose on S basin early am, 1 Kittiwake, 2 Dunlin through by 09.00, 6 Little Ringed Plover (Dave Morris per FJM)
 * St Paul's Cray (The Brook): 5 Tufted Duck, 4 Little Egret, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull (Jack Headley via Twitter)
 * Sevenoaks Wildfowl Reserve:1 Egyptian Goose, 1 Shelduck, 4 Snipe, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Chiffchaff including brief outbursts of song, 1 Coal Tit, 7 Goldfinch (Jack Headley via Twitter)
 * Swanley Park: Teal m, 11 Shoveler [site high] 7m 4f, Coot, 2 Greylag, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Herring Gulls, Common Gulls and Black-headed Gulls, Green Woodpecker, 5 Mistle Thrush, Redwings (Andy Meaton)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: ad Little Gull (Andrew Middleton tweet)
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: 29 Fieldfare N, Common Buzzard W, 2 Goldcrest, Sparrowhawk, 2 Pied Wagtail, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Lesser Redpoll near Med Centre feeders (Samuel Levy)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: male Firecrest Sanctuary Wood 0745 very vocal (Bob Watts)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: f Garganey still at Darlands Lake (per Geoffrey W Trigg on London Birding FB page)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Barn Owl flushed off side of Lockwood at 9-40am (Mike Messenger); LITTLE BUNTING still but only seen once by 3pm, Scaup on No 4, 12 Goldeneye (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Wanstead Flats: 500-600 Common Gull, 100+ Black-headed Gull, 13 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 14 Herring Gull, 2 Pochard, 4 Gadwall, 13 Shoveler, 32 Egyptian Goose, 36 Mute Swan, Little Grebe [WeBs]; Common Buzzard, 7 Fieldfare (Nick Croft)
 * Wimbledon Common: 2 Reed Bunting Bluegate Pond (Les Evans-Hill)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Water Rail, 2 Reed Bunting, 2 Shelduck, Sparrowhawk, 6 Redwing, m Blackcap, Mediterranean Gull on West Reservoir (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)
 * Woodford Bridge: Woodcock in garden backing onto small wooded area and park 17:15 (Charlie & Hilary Musker)

Sunday 18th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Eurasian Teal pair still Conservation Pond, Little Grebe Wood Green Res (foy), 20+ Linnet circled filter beds then east, Meadow Pipit, 2 Fieldfare north, 20+ Redwing, Tufted x Pochard drake Boating Lake (APOG Birders). Peregrine with prey (Blackbird?) taken to TV mast 10.30 (Greg Smith)
 * Banstead Woods: Mediterranean gull N over hither field 11:00 (Ian Ward per CFBW BG); 2 Hawfinch above holly ln car park cTQ272582 at 11:40 (Steve Gale tweet)
 * Battersea Park Lakes: WeBS count highlights Water Rail (where was the water rail? Michael Mac (on the far bank opposite the sub-tropical gardens, at about 08:30 - NR) Thanks at least I know it wasn't in the reed areas), 2 Mandarin, 4 Common Pochard, 14 Shoveler, 19 Tufted Duck, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Little Grebe; Sparrowhawk over (Nick Rutter)
 * Brent Reservoir: Knot briefly fr main hide 0930, Redshank, 16 Snipe, Meadow Pipit, Chiffchaff, Reed Bunting, Peregrine, Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard (Brent Birders/BirdGuides)
 * Cassiobury Park: 4 Mandarin, Little Egret am (Chris Sharp tweet)
 * Chingford: 4 Sand Martin by Costco on river lee navigation (Allan Stewart)
 * Crayford Marshes: adult-type Kumlien's Gull on Jolly Farmers early a'noon before flying towards recycling centre (Richard Bonser, Andrew Lawson, Jamie Partridge, Dante Shepherd, Mick Southcott)
 * Creekmouth: 2 juvenile Iceland Gulls, 3 Caspian Gulls [3rd-winter & two 2nd-winters], adult Mediterranean Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gulls [adult & 3rd-winter & two 1st-winters], 12+ Black-tailed Godwits, 25+ Redwing, 20 Fieldfare (Richard Bonser, Jamie Partridge, Dante Shepherd)
 * Eagle Pond: Caspian Gull 3w still, Nuthatch (Dan Barrett)
 * Ellenbrook Fields: Snipe over (Steven Pearce via Herts BC)
 * Fairlop Waters: 1 Jack Snipe, 2 Common Snipe, 17 Lapwing, 2 Wigeon, 33 Teal, 16 Shoveler, 38 Gadwall, 8 Pochard, 51 Tufted Duck, 4 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Cormorant, 7 Grey Heron, 2 Egyptian Goose, 50 Skylark, 1 Common Buzzard (Steve Bacon)
 * Forty Hall CP: 8 Mandarin Duck 6m 2f, Common Buzzard, 84 Black-headed Gull, 2 Common Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, male Kingfisher, Goldcrest, Treecreeper (Robert Callf)
 * Fulham Reach: foreshore - Redshank, 16 Common Gull, 50 Eurasian Teal, Coot, 14 Gadwall, 2 Tufted Duck, 16 Cormorant (Nathalie Mahieu)
 * Garden Wood: 4 Hawfinch still over f/p (Dan Fletcher via Herts BC) TL195047
 * Grays Riverside: PURPLE SANDPIPER off Wouldham Rd late-pm (David Darrell-Lambert tweet)
 * Guy Lodge Farm, Enfield: male Kestrel, female Stonechat, 27 Fieldfare, 15 Redwing (Robert Callf)
 * Highfield Park: m Goosander E 1250, Fieldfare, c10 Redwing, 16+ Yellowhammer park edge (Rupert Evershed via Herts BC/Twitter)
 * Hilfield Park Reservoir: 1 Goldeneye, 115 Common Gull, 660 Black-headed Gull, 5 Chiffchaff, 7+ Meadow Pipit (Tony Blake)
 * Holmethorpe SPs: Sanderling mercers w pit (BirdGuides) TQ301523
 * Horsenden Hill: Redshank [presumed site-1st] (David Howdon tweet)
 * Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens: 45 Common Gull, 2 Little Owl, Rock Pipit littoralis Round Pond, 63 Blackbirds, 2 Continental Song Thrush, 2 Redwing, 3 Fieldfare East, Stonechat (N P Senior)
 * Ingrebourne Valley: 4 Red-crested Pochard, Hawfinch (Paul Hawkins w/ Dave Morrison via Twitter)
 * King George V Reservoir: Slavonian Grebe still, Little Gull am (BirdGuides)
 * Leyton, Jubilee Park: Mediterranean Gull (JW Davies)
 * Little Woodcote: Red-legged Partridge, Green Woodpecker, Meadow Pipit, 4 Greenfinch (Arjun Dutta tweet)
 * London Wetland Centre: 3 Jack Snipe, 5 Snipe, 2 Shelduck, 6 Pintail, Goldeneye, Redshank, Water Pipit, 3 Sand Martin (WWT website); 2 Caspian Gull 4cy 2cy, Yellow-legged Gull 2cy (J.Wilczur et al)
 * Millfields E5: Peregrine with prey on the sub-station pylon at 13:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Millwall Docks: Shag 2cy on pontoon by sailing club until 3pm when it flew towards Canary Wharf, Mediterranean Gull ad summer briefly 8.30am (Sean Huggins); Shag back by 14:00 (Nick Croft et al)
 * Munden Estate: Woodcock, 11 Snipe, Water Rail, Chiffchaff (Tony Bates via Herts BC)
 * Oxleas Woods: Firecrest 14.27 hrs caught on garden CCTV also Song Thrush SE9 1YG (John Reid)
 * Pimlico Gardens: 3 Yellow-legged Gulls 2 2cy ad, Caspian Gull 2cy, Skylark W (N P Senior)
 * Queen Mary Reservoir: 351 Common Gull (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Queen Mother Reservoir: 2 Little Ringed Plover & 650 Black-headed Gull 0930 (Peter Newbound via Berks BN)
 * Rainham Marshes: 3 White-fronted Goose onto marsh 08.30 w/ 80 Greylags (Howard Vaughan tweet); 3 Ringed Plover and Avocet (Richard Bonser, Jamie Partridge, Dante Shepherd); 3 Golden Plover, Grey Plover, 5 Curlew, Knot, Ruff, Jack Snipe over nr VC, Water Pipit fr butts hide (Oliver Simms tweets); also 80 Greylags, 3 Russian White-fronted Goose 08.30, 3 Marsh Harrier, 2 Oystercatcher, 17 Golden Plover, 17 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Ruff, 60 Dunlin, 8 Jack Snipe, 12 Snipe, pr Peregrine, 27 Skylark95 Fieldfare, 40 Redwing, 4 Song Thrush, 32 Meadow Pipit, Water Pipit, Rock Pipit (per ELBF FB)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. No parking charges on Sun, 1 Blackcap female (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: Little Gull briefly fr draper hide c1100 (Alan Harris via Herts BC)
 * Shrewsbury Park, SE18: 3 Nuthatch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Kestrel (Tim Rymer)
 * Southall: F Blackcap on feeders (same individual as 22 Feb) TQ1280 (Phil Belman) (Software issue again? This entry would _appear_ to have been edited out by Andrew S in his revision a short time ago?) Sometimes posts seem to dissapear after posting I think this is a glitch in software not editing? MM)
 * Staines Moor: Tufted Duck [unusual here], Goosander, Little Egret, Dunlin, 2 Redshank, Lesser Black-backed Gull (APSM FB per Lee Dingain tweet)
 * Staines Reservoir: AMERICAN HORNED LARK still, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Dunlin, 2 Redshank, 2 Black-necked Grebe (Dominic Pia, Neil Hilton, Franko J Maroevic); also from WeBS - 2 Shelduck, 6 Goldeneye, 221 Wigeon, Ringed Plover, 6 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Redshank, Sand Martin, Rock Pipit (Allan Goddard tweet)
 * Stave Hill: Firecrest pm (Richard Page-Jones tweet)
 * Stratford, Olympic Park area: Sandwich Tern S low south along Lea, 1st w Glaucous Gull at gull roost south of Greenway, Rock Pipit with 32 Meadow Pipit at N end, 2 singing Cetti's Warblers, Peregrine (Stuart Fisher)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: Purple Sandpiper still present on rocks by red lighthouse, 30 Redshank, 12 Dunlin, 4 Turnstone, 2 Oystercatcher (Steve Bacon); plus 2 Little Gull, 4 Common Snipe, Marsh Harrier, Peregrine, 6 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Skylark, 15 Meadow Pipit, 1 Water Pipit (Andrew Middleton) no request to leave shore path by patrol, walked from Swanscombe end.
 * Theydon Bois, Blunts Farm: Red-legged Partridge, c15 Common Snipe, 6 Lapwing, 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel (Joe Dickens)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: Garganey f still, Wheatear folly farm fr f/p to long pond, 4 Hawfinch (Tony Clancy/BirdGuides); Belmont Farm - m Firecrest still, 4 Common Buzzard, Red Kite, 45 Canada Geese, 2 Mandarin Duck, 22 Black-headed Gulls, 12 Common Gull, 16 Stock Dove, f Peregrine, 12 Fieldfare, 22 Redwing, 4 Starling, Grey Wagtail, Greenfinch (Samuel Levy); m Goosander Darlands L (Lee Evans tweet)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: 11+ Teal, 2 m Pheasant together, Little Egret, Buzzard, 2 Red Kite, Sparrowhawk put up flock 30+ Stock Dove in field, 3 Snipe, drumming Great-spotted Woodpecker, site record 55+ Skylark (mobile feeding flock 50+), 50+ Meadow Pipit, 6 Redwing, 2 Rook, notable flock 10 Jay (1 bizarrely imitating Canada Goose!), 4 Reed Bunting, Lesser Redpoll, 6 Linnet (Neil Anderson)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: Chiffchaff, 4+ Tree Sparrow, f Yellowhammer nr feeders, 33 Fieldfare, 4 Redwing, Lesser Redpoll (Dan Fletcher via Herts BC)
 * Walton Res (Knight & Bessborough): Grey Plover, Kittiwake ad (BirdGuides)
 * Wanstead Flats: 8 Skylark, 5 Meadow Pipit, 70+ Redwing, 2 Fieldfare, 3 Pochard, 4 Gadwall, 10+ Shoveler, 2 Little Grebe, Reed Bunting (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park: Hawfinch flew into cemetery, Siskin, 40+ Redwing, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Water Rail, 2 Teal, 14+ Shoveler, 2 Pochard, 3 Little Grebe (Nick Croft)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 2 Snipe, Water Rail, 2 Reed Bunting, 2 Shelduck, 2 Lesser Redpoll, Sparrowhawk, 2 Redwing (Chris Farthing)
 * Yeading Brook Meadows: m Pheasant, 2 Red Kite (possibly same birds as Ten Acre Wood but quite a few local birds now so may be different), f Kestrel, 2 Pied Wagtail, 2 Fieldfare, 5 Redwing (Neil Anderson)

Saturday 17th March 2018

 * RFI: How late can records be added so that they are still transferred to the LNHS database, please? (JW) Current month only, please send earlier records direct to LNHS, AS) Thanks
 * Alexandra Park: Eurasian Teal pair still Conservation Pond, Aythya hybrid Boating Lake, 2 Greylag Wood Green Res, f Pochard New River, Common Gull flock down to c30, several Redwing (APOG Birders)
 * Amwell NR: ad Kittiwake N over Gt Hardmead L 1335 (Alan Harris via Herts BC)
 * Battersea Park: 25 Redwing briefly then vanished, 2 Mandarin, 3 Gadwall, 5 Shoveler (Michael Mac)
 * Beddington Farmlands: Stone Curlew over am [Ldn foy], 3 Golden Plover (RBA/BirdGuides)
 * Brent Cross: Little Egret on river by shopping centre 11:30 (Allan Stewart)
 * Brent Reservoir: Little Egret, 15 Common Snipe, Water Rail, Egyptian Goose, 2 adult Great Black-backed Gull, 20 Redwing incl 5S, Cetti's Warbler (Andrew Self, Andrew Verrall)
 * Canons Farm: Golden Plover over (CFBE BG tweet)
 * Chandler's Cross: Raven over M25 (Phil Saunders tweet)
 * Copped Hall: 18 Linnet, 50+ Yellowhammer, 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel (Chris Baldwin)
 * Creekmouth: Hawfinch NNE, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Oystercatcher (Jamie Partridge)
 * Crossness: 4 Avocet, 2 Curlew, 20 Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Dunlin, 4 Wigeon, 22 Shoveler, c200 Teal and Yellow-legged Gull 3w (Richard Bonser)
 * Ealing W13: 2 Blackcap m f gdn am [1st of the winter/spring] (Bill Haines)
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - M Blackcap, 3 Stock Dove (Samuel Levy)
 * Frays Farm Meadows LWT: Barn Owl 6.15am (Dan Pinkham)
 * Golders Hill Park: 40+ Redwings near NW entrance on less snowy ground (James Levy)
 * Hartley, Kent: 2 Hawfinch over (BirdGuides)
 * Ingrebourne Valley: Hawfinch flew into small wood behind seat on hill c1645 (Shaun Harvey tweet)
 * Isle of Dogs: 8 Egyptian Geese on Thames shore near Island Gardens, Yellow-legged Gull 3cy at Masthouse Terrace Pier (Sean Huggins)
 * Ladywell Fields: 3 Mandarin Duck 2m f, 81 Black-headed Gull with a few larger gulls, 14 Redwing, 3 Mistle Thrush, c30 Goldfinch, Stock Dove, Grey Wagtail, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker one drumming (Keith Chambers)
 * Lamorbey Park: 2 Egyptian Goose, c20 Canada Goose, 4 Tufted Duck , 4 Song Thrush (Mike Amos).
 * Lee Valley, Friday Lake: red-head Smew, 14 Pochard, 32 Tufted Duck, 60 Fieldfare north, singing Chiffchaff, Bullfinch (Simon Papps)
 * Lee Valley, Hall Marsh: male Shelduck, 9 Shoveler, Redshank, imm Peregrine Falcon, 50+ Siskin (in adjacent Waltham Abbey Woods (Simon Papps)
 * London Wetland Centre: 4 Jack Snipe, 1 Dunlin, 1 Redshank, 1 f Sparrowhawk (Martin Honey et al.); 2 Little Egret, Water Pipit (Andrew Self); also Shelduck, 6 Snipe, 3 Sand Martin, Coal Tit, 12 Redwing (WWT website)
 * Lonsdale Rd Res (part of WeBS): pr Shelduck, 4 Shoveler, 6 Teal, 8 Pochard (Neil Anderson)
 * Millfields E5: Peregrine flew in with prey 12:35 (Alastair Dent)
 * Millwall Docks: Shag 2cy still 8.30am fishing halfway along Millwall Outer Dock (Sean Huggins); still there on pontooons by sailing club 3.15pm (Richard Bonser)
 * Rainham Marshes: 2 Sandwich Tern [Ldn foy] on whimbrel_posts pm (Howard Vaughan tweet); also 40 Pintail, 4 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Marsh Harrier, 4 Avocet, 2 Oystercatcher, 15 Golden Plover, 7 Curlew, 52 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Ruff, 85 Dunlin, 2 Jack Snipe, 4 Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 21 Redshank, 6ad Little Gull, ad Mediterranean Gull, 6 Cetti’s Warblers, 2 Blackcap, 40 Redwing, 2 Water Pipit, 2 Rock Pipit (per ELBF FB)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon - Sat 10 to 16.30. Park only in visitors bays. Alley access from alongside 90 Selwyn Avenue and view second garden on right with feeders beyond first corner. Any visitors needing help viewing gardens, can call me on 07767 370555 (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Richmond Park: Red Kite, 20+ Siskin (RPBG)
 * Romford: Dark-bellied Brent Goose, Oystercatcher, ad Mediterranean Gull over Ardleigh Grn am (Paul Hawkins tweet)
 * Rye Meads: Little Ringed Plover S (Alan Harris via Herts BC)
 * Sevenoaks Wildfowl Reserve: 11 Wigeon, 1 Black-tailed Godwit very close fr Tyler hide, 1 Little Gull adult skimming along water seen fr bench betw Tyler & Eric Sutton hides. Only 1 bird seen at that time with 3 other observers compared to the 5 seen by Matthew Bournat earlier in the day. (Jack Headley via Twitter); 4 Little Gull [all ad wp] East Lake 1430 (James King tweet); also Shelduck, Pintail, Dunlin (Matthew Bournat tweet)
 * Staines Reservoir: 2 Black-necked Grebe, 2 Oystercatcher, Redshank (Dom Pia tweet)
 * Strand on the Green, W4: Pair Grey Wagtail, Egyptian goose standing next to it's decapitated parter - the head floating nearby (Catherine Beazley) Who or what done it? I once saw a Grey lag sit by its dead partner in the water but it still had its head (Michael Mac) There were 5 Egyptian Geese in this area when I passed c8.30 doing WeBS & a lot of fighting between them. Wonder with all this going on one could have accidentally got decapitated by an oar as the boats rely on the birds getting out of the way? (Neil Anderson)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: PURPLE SANDPIPER 15:00, 3 Little Gull, 12 Black-tailed Godwit, 15 Turnstone, 10 Dunlin, 8 Redshank (Phil Rhodes & Neville Smith) Ref yesterday's comments, are parts of this site now inaccessible, including the favoured location of the Purple Sandpiper? Signs don't say 'trespassers will be prosecuted' go at your own risk but I doubt if you will be arrested [Michael Mac]. Yes, most of the marsh is private and there are security patrols, however you can see a lot from the public footpaths but unfortunately not the Purple Sandpiper [Andrew Self] Why haven't they fenced it off then, it's been there for long enough. If you're worried say your dog ran off. Legal corner: you can’t be prosecuted for simple trespass as it’s not a criminal offence. So you can’t be arrested either. It is however a civil offence and the landowner or his or her agents can ask you - and if that fails, force you to leave. They could also sue you for trespass to property but obviously that’s rather unlikely - HarringayBirder I've been to private areas before at Broadness the only time I saw patrol the bloke just ignored me, its possible they have had a lot of vandalism recently, hence the red signs [Michael Mac]
 * Thamesmead: 15 Pochard on Southmere (Richard Bonser)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 1 Hawfinch behind sub-station off Burtonhole Ln footpath, also 5 Siskin, Lesser Redpoll over owl_field, 7 Teal, Bullfinch, 5 Stock Dove, 2 Linnet, 40 Redwing, 6 Fieldfare, 2 Goldcrest, no sign of Garganey am (Simon Worsfold)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: main gp - 3 Chiffchaff, 5+ Tree Sparrow (Andrew Steele via Herts BC)
 * Wallington Garden: Common Snipe W 10:15 [finally a wader], 100+ Herring Gull S, 25 Common Gull N, 7 Black-headed Gull, 5 Fieldfare S (Arjun Dutta)
 * Walthamstow Marsh: Woodlark c09:00 flew round calling a few times appeared to land NE of the boardwalk on the South marsh south of the railway line. Possibly flew from Bomb Crater field so may return there. Very wet and muddy. (Paul Whiteman); 14 Redwing, 8 Fieldfare rear paddocks, 2 Kestrel m f, 1 Meadow Pipit Bomb Crater Field (Alastair Dent)
 * Walthamstow Res: Bar-tailed Godwit e warwick am (TR per PW)
 * Wanstead Flats: 1w Mediterranean Gull, Common Snipe (Tony Brown); a few Redwing and Fieldfare north (Rob Sheldon); no sign Med Gull after 11:00, Common Buzzard, 28 Redwing, 4 Meadow Pipit, 2 Skylark, 10 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, 2 Pochard, m Pheasant reported flushed from enclosure (Nick Croft)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Snipe, Water Rail, 2+ Reed Bunting, 2 Shelduck, 4 Lesser Redpoll. Recent large rise in water level makes finding Snipe spp. difficult. Even more difficult for birds who now find their nests are under water. (Chris Farthing)
 * Worcester Park: Garden KT4- 2 Mallard N, 2 finch sp over and 2 Canada Goose later (Isaiah Rowe)

Friday 16th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Common Buzzard, pair Eurasian Teal Conservation Pond, Greylag Wood Green Res, Chiffchaff Blandford, 20+ Linnet Filter Beds, 20+ Redwing, 62 Common Gull on flooded playing fields 1740 [record high this winter]; Small Tortoiseshell, Brimstone (APOG Birders)
 * Bayfordbury: 2 Raven TL315103 (Ian Flack via Herts BC)
 * Boxer's Lake, Enfield: 4 adult Grey Heron - two birds sitting on nests and a pair displaying and copulating on third nest, 2 Egyptian Goose pr, 2 Mandarin Duck pr, 2 Shoveler pr, 9 Tufted Duck 6m 3f, 26 Black-headed Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull; male Brimstone & Red Admiral nearby (Robert Callf)
 * Brent Reservoir: Little Egret, 17 Snipe; Comma (Andrew Self)
 * Brookmill Park: Firecrest in Leylandii next to pond, Kingfisher, Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * Broxbourne Woods: 9-10 Hawfinch Broxbourne Common still (Laurence Drummond via Herts BC)
 * Bushy Park: not 100 per cent sure but I think a Goshawk flew over at 1200. Flew in straight line, flap flap flap glide, repeated until it disappeared; much bigger than sparrowhawk, almost buzzard size, fanned tail but wingtips swept back not splayed out (Mike Foster)
 * Dollis Brook, Holders Hill: 2 Little Egret Upstream 06:52, Song Thrush, 2 Goldcrest, 2 Grey Wagtail (Samuel Levy)
 * Finchley: Garden N3 - Tawny Owl calling 05:40 & 21:00, also 3+ Stock Dove (Samuel Levy) SL - fyi the original deletion of the SDs record was due to a Wikia software malf'n
 * Garden Wood: 3+ Hawfinch still (TyttGP tweet)
 * Hayes, Middx: Fremantle Way - low Buzzard, 1-2 Red Kite, 4 large distant unidentified raptors in thermal [had no bins] 11.30ish, singing Mistle Thrush (Neil Anderson)
 * Hall Place (Crayford): 2 Grey Wagtail, 4 Heron, Goldcrest, 5 Chaffinch, 20+ Redwing, Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush, Coal Tit, 2 Kestrel, Sparrowhawk (Ron Turner) Is this the Gardens pls Ron?
 * Highgate: Common Buzzard N over the station at c1030 (Pete Mantle)
 * Iver Heath: 66 Red Kite and 3 Common Buzzard (C Lamsdell)
 * Kensington Gardens: 1 Chiffchaff singing by Long Water, Little Owl in large Lime nr Henry Moore sculpture, Red Kite over c11:00 - via another observer [Canadian birder on holiday] (Bill Haines)
 * King George V Reservoir: Slavonian Grebe am (BirdGuides)
 * Kingston-upon-Thanes: raptor movement south - 2 Red Kite, 2 Peregrine, Sparrowhawk and 7+ Buzzards 1200-1300. Thanks to Jan W for the text. (P Pentek)
 * Lea Valley - Netherhall/Glen Faba: 2 Goosander 1m 1f, 16 Wigeon, 2 Gadwall, 23 Pochard, White-fronted Goose, 2 Egyptian Goose with 4 goslings, 4 Chiffchaff singing, 4 Cetti's Warbler 1 seen & 3 more singing (Nigel May)
 * London Wetland Centre: [why was my earlier post removed] 5-6 Sand Martin over nest bank [4 more late pm], 4 Jack Snipe, 2 Shelduck, 13 Pintail, 1f Sparrowhawk, 2 Little Egret, 1 Redshank (Martin Honey & P. Knox); also Goldeneye, 12 Snipe, Chiffchaff, Water Pipit, 4 Siskin (WWT website) MH - thx for flagging this fiendish software issue, seen before but never this bad (7x today). Details on all the (inadvertent) deletions are now with the site administrator.
 * London Zoo: 3 Buzzard kettling over at 1330, also 3 Jackdaw (Sam Jones)
 * Lower Morden: Mediterranean Gull 1st winter on rugby pitch - patch tick (Bob Smith)
 * Middlesex Filter Beds: 2 Kingfisher chasing upriver, singing Goldcrest, singing Chiffchaff 11:30-12:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Millfields E5: Peregrine on sub-station pylon at 08:45, singing Stock Dove in the orchard (Alastair Dent)
 * Millwall Docks: Shag [Ldn foy] 2cy on jetty in front of sailing club 9.30am (Sean Huggins) record restored after s/w glitch
 * Natural History Museum: 1 Red Kite, 3 Common Buzzards, 1 Peregrine, Grey Wagtail over 1-3pm (Joe Beale)
 * Pinner (The Croft): Red Kite over at 12.15 (Nigel Barratt)
 * Primrose Hill: raptor day - 2 Red Kite foy S 1320, 9 Buzzard 7S & 2WSW 1130-1330, 7 Black-headed Gull NE, 57 Stock Dove & 71 Woodpigeon N/NW, 13 Starling NE 1000, Redwing N, 16 Meadow Pipit NW, Linnet foy NE 1135 (Twitter)
 * Rainham Marsh: 15 Fieldfare (James Palmer); 13 Buzzard, Little Ringed Plover h, 2m Wheatear, 2 Water Pipit (Howard Vaughan tweet); Short-eared Owl chased by gulls across river (Twitter); 30 Kittiwake high E 1300 (Mark Phillips per ELBF FB); also 3 Little Egret, 3 Marsh Harrier, Bittern 1430, 2 Oystercatcher, 19 Golden Plover, 4 Curlew, 60 Dunlin, 17 Snipe, Chiffchaff, 15 Fieldfare, 2 Rock Pipit (per ELBF FB)
 * Rayners Lane: Sparrowhawk Alexandra Ave (Tim Rymer)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. 1 Blackcap singing late pm. 2 Coal Tit. Parking charges apply Mon - Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Paul Harvey, Franko J Maroevic)
 * Richmond Park: Chiffchaff singing 10:05 (P. Redmond); m Wheatear briefly, Little Grebe (J.Few, B.Atherton); 2 Sand Martin (Friday Bird Group); 13+ Common Buzzard - several heading S & SE and a few locals, 3 Red Kite (J.Wilczur); 3+ Peregrine (JW, S.Read); 21 Greylag (SR)
 * Ruislip Woods: 30+ Hawfinch in section of woods north of the Reservoir Rd car park 08:15 (Richard Francis)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: 2 Shelduck still, 2 Green Sandpiper, Redshank fr gadwall_hide, m Chiffchaff (Herts BN); 6 Shelduck 4 fr draper & 2 fr gadwall_hide, 54 Shoveler, 49 Gadwall, 85 Teal, 21 Pochard, Redshank, 3 Green Sandpiper 2 fr draper & 1 fr gadwall_hide m Chiffchaff 1600-1700 (Murray Orchard tweet)
 * Sidcup: Police Station - pr Peregrines copulating, seen from train (Michael Mac)
 * Staines Reservoirs: AMERICAN HORNED LARK still on causeway bank of S basin early pm near second alcove, 2 Black-necked Grebe on S basin near causeway, 1 Little Ringed Plover on N basin per other observers (Paul Harvey, Franko J Maroevic)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: PURPLE SANDPIPER on rocks by Broadness light at 11am, 15 Turnstone, 6 Dunlin, 45+ Redshank, Avocet, Oystercatcher, Curlew, 8 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Raven, 2 Marsh Harrier, Bearded Tit (Balham Birder); PSandpiper still here 14:45. Since I was last here new big red signs say no public entry to this area, 3 Ravens, pr Stonechat, f Garganey at small lake in quarry bottom of hill from village flew off with 3 male Wigeon (Michael Mac) Thought those signs were new Nick Croft]; locals living in small boats, sheds said they can drive in and out. Told us base-jumpers are using the highest pylon to jump from, with 1 death so far. Security with 3 dogs have warned one birder off. [Andrew Verrall, Magnus Andersson] Thanks for information/I think the area should be a nature reserve, if they build on it will be a crime [Michael Mac]
 * Swanscombe: Train Station - House Sparrow chirping in ivy (Michael Mac)
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: 6 Common Buzzard drifting slowly NE 09:50-10:55, 2 Sparrowhawk NE 10:45 (Samuel Levy)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: f Garganey still, 14 Teal, 3 Common Buzzard, 10 Common Gull, 4 Black-headed Gull, 11 Stock Dove, Collared Dove, 3 Little Owl, 9 Rook, Goldcrest, f Firecrest in Ivy and Holly bushes just South of Laurel Farm Pond, 40 Fieldfare, 5 Redwing, 50+ Starling, 17 Meadow Pipit, 11 Siskin (Samuel Levy). Also 4 Siskin feeding in Alders NW side of Darland's Lake, Nuthatch calling, Brimstone Butterfly fields west side of footpath to Totteridge Church (Bob Husband, Fay Broom, Luis Jarero)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: 2m Firecrest in holly and cuttings at entrance to Horse Chestnut Glade, also 2 Goldcrest, Coal Tit; Brimstone (Bob Watts)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: main gp - 2nd Oystercatcher arrived, 3+ Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Redshank, Sand Martin NE; fishing lake - Kingfisher R Colne; also 3+ Red Kite, 5 Chiffchaff (TyttGP tweet/Herts BC)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING still showing at regular intervals in usual place, m Wheatear [betw engine hse & e warwick cTQ347888 am], Dunlin, 4 Green Sandpipers in relief channel, Red Kite, 2 Common Buzzard, pr Peregrine, Rook, 2 Jackdaw (Walthamstow Birders); Scaup and 8 Goldeneye (Dave Morrison) From which viewpoint can the Green Sandpipers in the Flood Relief Channel be seen? [James Palmer]
 * Wanstead Flats: 2-3 m Wheatear, f Stonechat, 2 Fieldfare, up to 14 Common Buzzard, 3 Sparrowhawk, Peregrine Falcon, 2 Kestrel, Little Owl, 1-3 Rook, 2 Redpoll, 3 Linnet, signing Chiffchaff, 4 Meadow Pipit 1-2 on territory, 6 Skylark, 2 Little Grebe (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: singing Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Little Grebe, Sparrowhawk, 14 Shoveler, 10 Teal (Nick Croft)
 * West Putney, Huntingfield Road, SW15: m Goshawk NW 14.05, 2 Red Kite (R.Kaye)
 * Worcester Park: Fieldfare, 2 Little Egrets on horse fields (Bob Smith)
 * Yeading Brook Meadows: small area east of Yeading Ln only - Grey Heron & Little Egret feeding on frogs, low Buzzard (Neil Anderson)

Thursday 15th March 2018

 * Barnes Common: Chiffchaff singing (R.Kaye)
 * Bayhurst Wood: 8 Hawfinch close to car park 09:20 (Richard Francis)
 * Bramblehall Wood: Updated count for yesterday. If anybody is planning on visiting, it is imperative to arrive as early as possible and get down to the fence line to enable a clear view of the woodland edge and the sky above. The Hawfinches can have moved on by 08.00hrs, but all is not lost - they are now easy to see at Juniper Bottom and Juniper Top throughout the morning [Steve Gale]
 * Brent Reservoir: 3 Green Sandpiper, 21 Common Snipe, Sheldrake, Chiffchaff, Reed Bunting, 3 Cetti’s Warbler, 2 Bullfinch, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 3 Water Rail (Magnus Andersson)
 * Brookmill Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker, Redwing, Song Thrush, Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
 * Dollis Brook, Holders Hill: Goldcrest, Mandarin Duck down stream 0706 (Samuel Levy)
 * Hayes Town, Middx: 3 Red Kite over 11.50 (Wendy Marks)
 * Hornchurch: 4+ Coot h over after dark (Paul Hawkins tweet)
 * Juniper Bottom: 250+ Hawfinch (Steve Gale)
 * Juniper Top: 66 Hawfinch (Steve Gale)
 * Lodge Hill: 24 Hawfinch (Steve Gale) [new site for LNHS gazetteer’’ TQ179522]
 * London Wetland Centre: Shelduck, 8 Pintail, Goldeneye, m Pheasant, Little Egret, 2 Jack Snipe, 8 Common Snipe, Redshank, Chiffchaff singing wildside, 10 Redwing, m House Sparrow entrance bank (WWT website); Bittern fr WWF hide 12.45 (Mike Wheeler)
 * Mad Bess Wood: 10 Hawfinch at northern edge 09:30 (Richard Francis)
 * Mayflower Park: Redpoll (Danny Ramsay, Bob Smith)
 * Morden Cemetery: Little Owl in first poplar inside small gate by Joseph Hood Park is best spot recently (Bob Smith)
 * Oxleas Wood: 2 Coal Tit, 7 Jackdaw, 3 Common Buzzard, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 8 Goldcrest, 3 Firecrest, Stock Dove, 3 Nuthatch, Sparrowhawk, Chaffinch, Green Woodpecker, Tawny Owl, Grey Heron (Ron Turner)
 * Rainham RSPB: 3 Marsh Harrier, 13 Avocet, 33 Golden Plover, 2 Curlew, 4 Ruff, 4 Yellow-legged Gull, Water Pipit (RSPB via ELBF FB)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon-Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Ruislip Woods: 16+ Hawfinch 2 by Poors Field 09:40 & 10+ down from Wiltshire Ln 09:50 & 4+ nr Fore St/Salisbury Rd entrance 10:00 (Richard Francis)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: Redsnak flew in to Meads 0945 (Tim Hill via Herts BC)
 * Staines Moor: pm - Red Kite, Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 2 Chiffchaff singing on and off, 2 Cetti's Warblers, 2 Bullfinch, 20 Linnet, 30+ Meadow Pipit, Water Pipit, 15+ Skylark, 2 Little Grebe, 4 Green Woodpecker, Snipe, 4 Pheasant (Nick Baker)
 * Staines Reservoir: Black-necked Grebe, Redshank, 3 Little Gull south basin am (Jim Sweetland tweet); 2 Black-necked Grebe, 4 Little Gull [2 ad 2 first-winter], AMERICAN HORNED LARK still (Dom Pia tweet)
 * Stocker's Lake: 2 Goldeneye, Kingfisher, 2 Cetti's Warbler (David Neal via Herts BC)
 * Stoneleigh: Station KT17 - 100 Herring Gull ne, 8 Ring-necked Parakeet (Neil Batten)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: PURPLE SANDPIPER still at lighthouse (Nick Croft tweet); 7  Turnstone, 20+ Dunlin, 30+ Redshank, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Lapwing, Marsh Harrier, Rock Pipit (Nick Croft/Marco Johnson)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: no sign of Garganey am, 3 Teal, 8 Siskin, Treecreeper, Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Lesser Redpoll, 2 Bullfinch (Simon Worsfold); f Garganey still pm, 3 Hawfinch, 2 Common Buzzard (Tony Clancy) Reed Bunting, 5 Bullfinch, Kingfisher, 1 Siskin (Ian Ellis)
 * Trent Park: 15 Mandarin Duck 11m 4f lower lake, 4 Tufted Duck 2m 2f, 8 Moorhen, 3 Green Woodpecker, f Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Redwing, Nuthatch, Treecreeper singing, f Siskin, m Bullfinch (Robert Callf)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 1 Little Egret, 2 Egyptian Geese on rear paddocks (Alastair Dent)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: Little Ringed Plover on East Warwick am and 2 Sand Martins on Lockwood (Paul Whiteman); LITTLE BUNTING still (David Bradshaw tweet)
 * Worcester Park: garden KT4 - 2 male Blackcaps fed briefly together on feeders (Isaiah Rowe)

Wednesday 14th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Chiffchaf singing New River, pair Eurasian Teal still Conservation Pond, 3 Linnet in filter beds, no sign Shoveler (APOG Birders)
 * Ashurst Rough: 2 Hawfinch, 2 Bullfinch (Jon Agar) [new site for LNHS gazetteer’’ TQ184521]
 * Bow Creek NR: 2 Redshank, Common Sandpiper (Paul Hyland)
 * Bramblehall Wood: 10 Hawfinch, Buzzard (Jon Agar); 400+ Hawfinch (Nicholas Reynard)
 * Brent Reservoir: 1 Shelduck, 98 Tufted Duck, 10 Pochard, 14 Common Snipe, 1 Common Buzzard, 2 Cetti's Warbler (Roy Beddard)
 * Brook Farm, Upminster: 4 Buzzard, Jack Snipe, Sand Martin, 18 Redwing, Wheatear (Alan Shearman per ELBF FB)
 * Bushy Park: m Lesser Spotted Woodpecker in waterhouse pltn (Thelma Caine/Paul Spencer/Surbiton BC per Glen Maddison tweet)
 * Canons Farm: 35 Skylark; 2 Brimstone (Geoff Barter via CFBW blog)
 * Crossness: 20 Shelduck, 300 Teal, 50 Gadwall, 30 Shoveler, 20 Wigeon, Little Egret, Peregrine, Kestrel, 8 Lapwing, 21 Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, 10 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Reed Bunting (Conrad Ellam)
 * Dollis Brook, Holders Hill: 2 Goldcrest, 2 Coal Tit, 4 Greenfinch, Grey Wagtail (Samuel Levy)
 * East Barnet: private gdn - Red Kite over, Blackcap, Coal Tit, Collared Doves, 3 House Sparrow, 6 Goldfinch (Pete Lowman)
 * East India Dock NR: 15 Siskin feeding in alders on Orchard Wharf boundary then flew east [my first here], 2 Egyptian Geese, Cetti's Warbler, 3 Shelduck (Paul Hyland)
 * Elephant & Castle: Peregrine flying around high up alarming pigeons gulls & crows (Neil Anderson)
 * Figges Marsh: 29 Common Gull, 114 Black-headed Gull (James Hudson)
 * Forty Hall CP: Cormorant, 32 Black-headed Gull, first-winter Common Gull, 4 Mistle Thrush 2 prs, Treecreeper, 2 Goldfinch, 2 Siskin pr feeding in alder (Robert Callf)
 * Golders Green NW11: f Blackcap in garden (James Levy)
 * Greenwich Park: Sparrowhawk f (Ray Crouch)
 * Guy Lodge Farm: 13 Common Gull incl three first-winter, 2 ad Lesser Black-backed Gull, singing male Greenfinch (Robert Callf)
 * Hackney: Common Buzzard drifted high NW over Coopersale Rd 1340 (Pete Mantle)
 * Hampstead Heath: Merlin NW over Highgate No.1 at 0925, pr Sparrowhawks displaying here too, 20 Redwings N (Pete Mantle)
 * Iver Heath: 42 Red Kite and Raven (Chris Lamsdell)
 * KGV Reservoir: m Smew s basin nw cnr, 4 Goosander, 14 Goldeneye 6m, 6 Shoveler 3pr, 14 Teal, pr Grey Wagtail, pr Sparrowhawk displaying, 2 Buzzards, f Peregrine 12.30-1.30pm (Davey Leach)
 * Ladywell Fields: 3 Mandarin Duck 2m f, 22 Redwing, 3 Mistle Thrush, 35 Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Chaffinch, Grey Wagtail, 4 Stock Dove feeding on ground w/ Woodpigeon flock (Keith Chambers)
 * Lavender Hill Cemetery: 8 Redwing (Robert Callf)
 * London Road Cemetery (CR4): 26 Redwing (James Hudson)
 * London Wetland Centre: 3 Shelduck, 9 Pintail, 2 Little Grebe, Bittern, Little Egret, 3 Red Kite E, Jack Snipe, Redshank, 2 Fieldfare, 14 Redwing, Water Pipit, 4 Siskin (WWT website); singing Chiffchaff sheltered lagoon, 2 Red Kite S over site, 10 Common Snipe, 2 Jack Snipe wader scrape (Martin Honey); also earlier Common Snipe walking past Jack Snipe and Blackcap male sub-song, fem Goldeneye (Andrew Verrall)
 * London Zoo: 2 Mandarin Duck on Regents Canal (Sam Jones)
 * Mayesbrook Park: Buzzard, Skylark, Long-tailed Tits still nest-building (Alan Shearman tweet)
 * Motspur Park: Common Buzzard soaring (Bob Smith)
 * Muswell Hill: Blackcap singing in the garden - first of the year (Brian Milligan)
 * North Finchley: Blackcap in song in local garden (John Colmans)
 * Oxleas Wood;4Greatspottedwoodpecker,Treecreeper,Coaltit,6Goldcrest,Buzzard,7Firecrest,Kestrel(m)(Ron Turner)
 * Pinner (The Croft): 1 Redwing only, 2 Goldfinch (Nigel Barratt)
 * Putney Heath: north of the A3 - 2 Firecrest singing and both showing superbly. One just W of Green Man Pub the other just E of Scio Pond (R.Kaye); 3 Mandarin Duck 2m f on Scio Pond, both Firecrests still in place pm - many thanks to R. Kaye (Nick Baker); 7 Lesser Redpoll north of Windmill Rd (Les Evans-Hill)
 * Rainham Marshes: 15 Avocet Aveley Bay; on reserve - 200+ Wigeon still, 2 Marsh Harrier ad f & ad m, 2+ Buzzard, 4 Curlew, 31 Golden Plover, 2+ Ruff, c60 Dunlin, 4+ Cetti's Warbler singing (Matt Palmer); also incl 15 Pochard, 2 Little Egret, 7 Cormorant, Sparrowhawk, 4 Marsh Harrier, 2 Water Rail, 16 Avocet, 4 Oystercatcher, 600 Lapwing, 31 Golden Plover, 29 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Ruff, 3 Snipe, 20 Redshank, 63 Common Gull, 2 juv Great Black-backed Gull, Barn Owl, Kestrel, 22m Skylark, 5 Bearded Tit, 5 Cetti’s Warbler, f Blackcap, 13m Meadow Pipit (per ELBF FB)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues, 1 Coal Tit. Parking charges apply Mon - Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Ruislip Woods: Red Kite W 16:00 (James Levy)
 * Southall: Red Kite over 11:45 (Phil Belman) TQ1280
 * Staines Reservoir: Black-necked Grebe s basin, Redshank, AMERICAN HORNED LARK s basin causeway bank still (Dom Pia tweet)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: PURPLE SANDPIPER still on platform at end of jetty am (David Bradshaw tweet); roosting at high tide on the platform at the base of the light tower along with 13 Turnstone; also my first Brimstone of the year (Matt Palmer)
 * Theydon Mount: 4 Buzzard, 90 Fieldfare (Barry Jones per ELBF FB)
 * Tooting Common: Firecrest Bedford Wood (James Hudson)
 * Tottenham Marshes: Sand Martin am (Jerry Hoare tweet)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: c800 Common Gull two separate flocks, 3 Buzzard, 9 Rook, 4 Teal, Coot on Totteridge Long Pond, Meadow Pipit, 2 Siskin, 3 Greenfinch (John Colmans); also 32 Canada Geese, 2 Mandarin Duck, 14 Teal, f Garganey at Darlands Lake feeding with Teal 16:00-17:45 at least - bird has possibly been present since 20th Feb and last seen before this 7th March, 2 Common Buzzard, 5 Lapwing, 3 Woodcock cow field, 32 Black-headed Gull, 780+ Common Gull, 34 Stock Dove, 3 Little Owl, 2 Kestrel, 600+ Jackdaw into roost, 4 Rook, 3 Coal Tit, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper, 4 Goldcrest, 6 Fieldfare, 40 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, 39+ Starling, 5 Pied Wagtail, Hawfinch perched in tree nr substation then flew towards Partingdale Ln, 7 Bullfinch; also Red Admiral (Samuel Levy); Barn Owl owl_field 18:06 (Samuel Levy & Simon Worsfold) Pics of Garganeyhere
 * Trent Park: Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, Redwing, 2 Goldcrest, 3 Tufted Duck m 2f, 4 Mandarin 2m 2f, Song Thrush, Lesser Black-backed Gull (Pete Lowman)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING still around seed tray 0930, Dunlin on Lockwood, 2 Sand Martin, littoralis Rock Pipit on Lockwood pm (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Wimbledon Common: 2 Sparrowhawk 1m Thatched Cottage 1f Memorial Ride, 1m Kestrel Thatched Cottage, 7 Lesser Redpoll nr Jubilee Ride late pm (Les Evans-Hill)
 * Wimbledon Park Lake: 4 Black Swan Apparently turned up or illegally released there this morning, not re-found this afternoon, so possibly free-flying. Any other sightings? [request from Phil Belman, info and photos on Friends of Wimbledon Park Facebook page] Were they teenagers, with eyes still brown and black-tipped flight feathers? There has recently been a roving gang of 4 young Black Swans in Kensington Gardens and later St James's Park, where I thought they had settled, bringing the total there to 9, but they may have got the wanderlust again. -- Ralph Hancock - Ralph, that's really helpful, the photos don't show the flight feathers although the eyes look fully coloured but highly likely the same four. [PB] I saw what sounds like these four (they were definitely black swans, but not as black as one I have seen on the Serpentine) on Sunday 11 at about 5pm swimming up the Thames on the Middlesex side at what is now optimistically called Fulham Reach.
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 5 Snipe, Water Rail, 2+ Reed Bunting, 2 Shelduck (Chris Farthing)
 * Worcester Park: Little Egret on horse field (Bob Smith)

Tuesday 13th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: 3 Shoveler 2m f Wood Green Res 0640, Chifchaff middle platform adjacent to Wood Green Res, Eurasian Teal pair still Conservation Pond 1740 (APOG Birders)
 * Barn Elms Playing Fields: 2 Shelduck E, 5 Wigeon E, 8 Buzzard, 3 Red Kite together, resident m Peregrine chased off a juv f interloper, 2 Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 3 Snipe E, 500+ Black-headed Gull light passage E all morning, 20 Redwing, Fieldfare, 2 Song Thrush dropped in, Nuthatch, Siskin S (R.Kaye)
 * Belhus Woods CP: incl 20 Shoveler, 20 Gadwall, 4 Wigeon, 18 Teal, 20 Pochard, 45 Tufted Duck, 5 Little Grebe, 4 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Grey Heron, 26 Cormorant, Water Rail, Jack Snipe, Curlew, Kingfisher, 6 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 11 Green Woodpecker, 16 Jackdaw, Coal Tit, Cetti's Warbler, Firecrest, 4 Goldcrest, Treecreeper, 14 Redwing, 13 Song Thrush, 2 Mistle Thrush, Meadow Pipit, 4 Bullfinch, 6 Greenfinch, 10 Lesser Redpoll, 182 Siskin, Reed Bunting (Alan Shearman per ELBF FB)
 * Bramblehall Wood: 600+ Hawfinch [national record per Lee Evans] (Steve Gale) cTQ186528
 * Brookmill Park: Little Egret, Kingfisher, Song Thrush, 5 Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * Chiswell Green: 10 Buzzard thermalling over village 1230 (Alan Gardiner tweet)
 * Dollis Brook, Holders Hill: 2 Little Egret, 2 Grey Wagtail, Fieldfare, 2 Coal Tit (Samuel Levy)
 * Finchley: garden N3 - 2 Sparrowhawk f & m, Stock Dove, Cormorant SE 1715; Avenue Tennis Club - 80+ Redwing through E at dusk with more through calling over head once dark (Samuel Levy)
 * Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens: 5 Mandarin 3 m, 6 Pied Wagtail Parade Ground, 198 Redwing 38 nr Round Pond and 160 sth end of Parade Ground, Sand Martin E (N P Senior)
 * Juniper Bottom: 120 Hawfinch (Steve Gale)
 * KGV Reservoir: s basin - pr Scaup still present but no sign of Smew or Merganser, 12 Goldeneye, pr Goosander, Green Sandpiper, Kestrel m, Sparrowhawk 1.00-1.40pm (Davey Leach); 18 Goosander, Smew, Peregrine, 3 Kestrel, Green Sandpiper, Redshank, Dunlin, Cetti’s Warbler, Chiffchaff, 29 Linnet, Reed Bunting (Neville Smith) Would someone be able to confirm the access for this site? Is a permit still required? Thanks Click the site link above for permit instructions (last updated Sep 2016 - OUT OF DATE INFO).
 * Leatherhead Station: 1 Common Buzzard circling overhead 13:00 drifted off E. Appeared to be missing some tail feathers (Neil Batten)
 * Lloyd Park, Walthamstow: 18 Common Gull, 31 Black-headed Gull, 1 Grey Heron 2nd summer, 14 Starling (Daniel Whitelegg)
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 Bittern se corner main lake, 1 Sand Martin over reservoir lagoon, 2 Jack Snipe wader scrape, 1 Goldeneye main lake, 1 Little Egret, 1m Stonechat, 10 Pintail, 2 Shelduck (Martin Honey)
 * Maida Vale: Brimstone midday in back garden on Greville Place (Pete Mantle)
 * Mayflower Park: Peregrine (Bill Reid per Bob Smith)
 * Mickleham Downs: 46 Hawfinch (Steve Gale)
 * Oxleas Wood: 7 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush, 2 Nuthatch, Common Buzzard, 4 Stock Dove, Kestrel m, 14 Goldcrest, Firecrest, 7 Redpoll, 8 Goldfinch (Ron Turner)
 * Panshanger: 1+ Hawfinch flying toward Cole Green Ln farm buildings (Anders Gray via Herts BC)
 * Pinner: pr Tawny Owl calling 05:00 (Richard Francis)
 * Pinner (The Croft): 2 Coal Tit, 2 Goldfinch, Chaffinch, 20+ Redwing (Nigel Barratt)
 * Ponders End Lake: Little Ringed Plover, 1st winter Mediterranean Gull (Neville Smith)
 * Primrose Hill: 11 Skylark in loose flock NE 0640 [last spring none was seen here], also 28 Black-headed Gull NE, Stock Dove NW, 35 Woodpigeon N, 2 Starling high NE, 33 Redwing incl 15 N 0725, Pied Wagtail E, 3 Meadow Pipit NW - vismig 0610-0810 (Twitter)
 * Regent's Park: Buzzard foy W 13305, 10+ Common Gull still, 300+ Redwing on deck incl 16)+ on Gloucester Grn [areas 26 & 27] (Twitter)
 * Rainham RSPB: juv Iceland Gull on stone barges early am (J.Murray); Short-eared Owl over river (BirdGuides); 128 Kittiwake downriver in 3 flocks 87 & 37 & 4 12:00-12:30 (Howard Vaughan, Simren Soor, Andy Tweed, Jill Smith via ELBF FB); 4 Marsh Harrier, 11 Buzzard, 35 Avocet, 33 Golden Plover, 4 Curlew, Bar-tailed Godwit, 30 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Ruff, 40 Dunlin, 8 Snipe, 22 Great Black-backed Gull, 5 Yellow-legged Gull, Baltic-type Lesser Black-backed Gull, f Blackcap, m Chiffchaff, 12 Siskin (Howard Vaughan et al via ELBF FB)
 * Rammey Marsh: Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 30+ Redwing, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush, Pheasant, Long-tailed Tit, Jay; Muntjac (Geoff Gram)
 * Ravenor Park, Greenford: c120 Redwing c90 on ground rest in trees & some sub-song, c20 House Sparrow (Neil Anderson)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon-Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Dr Eric Barnes, Franko J Maroevic)
 * Richmond Park: 3+ Buzzard, 4 Grey Wagtail (RPBG); 710 Starling - in a flock counted from a photo (P.Redmond)
 * Royal Albert Dock: Black-necked Grebe nr Cyprus DLR w/ 6 Great Crested Grebe (Richard Hack)
 * Ruislip Woods: 10+ Hawfinch 5+ vicinity of Fore St/Salisbury Rd 08:15 & 5+ down from Wiltshire Ln 08:30 (Richard Francis)
 * Staines Moor: Red Kite, Buzzard, Cetti's Warbler (Robert Martin tweet)
 * Stanwell Moor: 3 Red Kite, Little Egret, Lapwing, Common Snipe, Cetti's Warbler, 20 Redwing (Robert Martin tweet)
 * Stocker's Lake: Cetti's Warbler calling, Chiffchaff brief song (Anna Marett via Herts BC)
 * Swanley Park: Kingfisher [site first ever], Cormorant, 3 Greylag, Shoveler, Coot, Green Woodpecker, Greenfinch (Andy Meaton)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: PURPLE SANDPIPER, 2 Oystercatcher, 42 Redshank, 6 Turnstone, 4 Dunlin, Raven, Stonechat, Grey Wagtail, 3 Cetti’s Warbler, Skylark, 2 Reed Bunting, 2 Shelduck, 5 Pochard, 5 Water Rail, Marsh Harrier, Kestrel (Magnus Andersson, Simon Worsfold); also up to 11 Turnstone (Dominic Mitchell tweet)
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: 9 Common Buzzard N 11:50-12:50, also Sparrowhawk N 11:40, 8 Chaffinch & 3 Goldfinch W 12:15, 6 Redwing (Samuel Levy)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: 3 Firecest 2m f 1000 in holly and cuttings nr entrance to Horse Chestnut Glade (John Archer, Bob Watts)
 * Trent Park: 10 Common Buzzard, Kestrel, Goldfinch, 5 Tufted Duck 3m 2f, 4 Pochard 3m 1f, Song Thrush, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Stock Dove (Pete Lowman); 3 Tawny Owl 2m hooting 18:30-18:45 & f calling from Animal Rescue Centre (Robert Callf)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING still showing occasionally around seed tray, first Sand Martin, 4 Rooks, 2 Goosander, 7+ Goldeneye, 1 Lapwing (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Wanstead Flats: 2-4 Rook [2 probables E over Manor Park], Lapwing, Common Buzzard, 3 Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel, 23 Meadow Pipit, 5 Skylark, Little Owl, 2 Stock Dove, 15 Shoveler, Teal, 300+ Black-headed Gull E (Nick Croft); Latimer Road E7 [just south of Flats] - minimum 15 House Sparrows (Harry Harrison)
 * Wanstead Park: Woodcock, 2 Water Rail, Red Kite, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, singing Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest, Treecreeper, 2 Nuthatch, 10 Redwing, Fieldfare, Redpoll, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 35 Shoveler, 15 Teal, Little Grebe, 4 Stock Dove (Nick Croft)
 * Wimbledon Common: nr windmill - 1+ Lesser Spotted Woodpecker [drumming], 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Treecreeper, 25+ Redwing, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 30+ Siskin, 4 Lesser Redpoll, 2 Rook over (Nick Baker) Hi Nick, can you confirm the time of the LSW record? Thanks Just after midday, between the golf course and the windmill, in birch trees just off one of the main rides.
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 5 Snipe, Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Reed Bunting, 2 Shelduck, Teal, Lesser Redpoll, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk (Chris Farthing); 2 m Blackcap on Woodland trail feeders (Jan Dobbie)
 * Worcester Park: 1 Little Egret, 2 displaying Sparrowhawks (Bob Smith)
 * Wormley Wood: Marsh Tit seen & h calling, 2m Brambling & 4 Hawfinch all in Old Grove TL318059 (Murray Orchard via Herts BC)

Monday 12th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: 3 Shoveler 2m f still Wood Green Res, also singing Chiffchaff foy 0645, 4 Shoveler 3m f 1735, also Eurasian Teal still NE corner Conservation Pond, 16 Tufted Duck Wood Green Res (Bob Watts)
 * Bayhurst Woods: 4 Hawfinch near pond 09:25 (Richard Francis)
 * Beddington Farmlands: Wheatear [Ldn foy] am (BirdGuides)
 * Brook Farm, Upminster: ad Spoonbill [Rainham bird] E 1358 (Alan Shearman per ELBF FB)
 * Brookmill Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * Broomfield Park, Palmers Green: Cormorant, 3 Egyptian Goose, 6 Shoveler 4m 2f, 22 Tufted Duck 11m 11f, 10+ Moorhen, 16 Coot, 134+ Black-headed Gull, 4 ad Common Gull, imm Herring Gull, Mistle Thrush, 50+ Starling, 2 Greenfinch pr (Robert Callf)
 * Dollis Brook, Holders Hill: 2 Grey Wagtail, Little Egret (Samuel Levy)
 * Fairlop Waters: Pink-footed Goose nr entrance w/ Greylags, 2 Curlew and 9 Golden Plover over [the former seemed to land nearby], 2 Bullfinch (Joe Dickens)
 * Fulham: m Pheasant (Alice Webster)
 * London Wetland Centre: Redshank, 3 Dunlin over 1300, Little Egret, 14 Common Snipe, Jack Snipe, 4 Red-crested Pochard, 3 Mandarin Duck, 3 Shelduck, 8 Redwing, 11 Fieldfare (WWT website); also 12+ Pintail, 2 Bittern, 4 Jack Snipe, 2 Redshank, Mediterranean Gull (Chris White tweet)
 * Mayflower Park: 2 Goldcrests (Bob Smith)
 * Rainham RSPB: ad Spoonbill fsp 0900 then E up Mardyke Valley 1347 (Howard Vaughan tweets); no sign at 4pm, possible Iceland Gull 1st winter on wennington marsh but distant, female Marsh Harrier there & 14 Avocet in Aveley bay (J.Murray); also 40 Pintail, 4 Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, 2 Water Rail, 27 Avocet, 33 Golden Plover, 4 Curlew, 60 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Ruff, 5 Dunlin, 20 Snipe, 8 Stock Dove, 2 Kestrel, 3 Cetti’s Warbler, 4 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Water Pipit, 2 Greenfinch (per ELBF FB)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues, 2 Lesser Redpoll. Parking charges apply Mon-Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Rickmansworth: Cetti's Warbler singing nr R Colne at pt of 'sheep' island TQ052941 (Paul Ward via Herts BC)
 * Ruislip Wood: 1 Hawfinch at Fore St/Salisbury Rd entrance 10:05 (Richard Francis)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: pr Kingfisher (Pat Heery tweet)
 * The Ridgeway, Mill Hill: really oddly a Bittern has just flown low over Mill Hill school heading West towards Mill Hill Broadway having come from the direction of Darlands Lake 14:44 (Samuel Levy) Please stop changing my post. [SL] Commiserations re the troll SL; happens to the best of us. Superb record btw.
 * Tooting Common: Firecrest still on east side of Bedford Wood approx 51.435437 -0.140520 [TQ293723] (Balham Birder)
 * Trent Park: 2m Teal 1 upper lake & 1 lower lake, 4 Mandarin 3m f, 4 Pochard 2m 2f, 4 Tufted Duck m 3f, Kestrel, Song Thrush, 6 Goldfinch (Pete Lowman)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: Redshank main gp 09:30-09:40 (Steve Blake tweet)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING around seed tray at 10:15, Green Sandpiper, 5 Goldeneye, no sign of Scaup on No 4 am (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Wanstead Flats: 2 Rook, 4 singing Skylark, 7 Meadow Pipit 1 singing, 2 Grey Wagtail, 7 Redwing 1 singing, 12 Song Thrush 5 singing, 3 Mistle Thrush, Kestrel, Common Buzzard, White-cheeked Turaco, 15 Shoveler, 3 Gadwall, 4 Pochard, 2 Little Grebe, 23+ Greenfinch, m Reed Bunting, 2 Stock Dove, 3 Little Owl (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park: 8 Siskin, 16 Teal, 17 Shoveler, Pochard, Little Grebe, Little Egret (Nick Croft)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Jack Snipe, 4 Snipe, singing Water Rail, 2 Reed Bunting, 2 Shelduck, 2 Teal, 8 Shoveler (Chris Farthing)
 * Worcester Park: 2 Egyptian Geese on fields - flew off north, Little Egret (Bob Smith)

Sunday 11th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: 3 Shoveler 2m f, c15 Tufted Duck, 1 Sparrowhawk m WG Res, 119 Carrion Crow Cricket Pitch [never counted these beasts before - wonder what the high could be] (Sam Jones), pair of Teal still on Conservation Pond [shy], Treecreeper near east entrance to park (Greg Smith)
 * Amwell NR: Gt Hardmead L - Pink-footed Goose roosted again on island fr viewpt then N 0715 (Ron Cousins tweet); 3 Pintail still TL378128 (Mike Ilett via Herts BC)
 * Barnes Common: 4 Treecreepers together (Mike Hildesley)
 * Battersea Reach: Spoonbill [Ldn foy] low upriver 0610 - seen fr Chelsea side (Dave Morrison tweet) See also entries for London Wetland Centre and Brent Res, below.
 * Bentley Priory: 2 Hawfinch 1 from northern perimeter of Spring Meadow in trees in grounds of mansion TQ154931 & 1 at southern end of Spring Meadow TQ153927 (Tony Blake)
 * Brent Reservoir: Spoonbill East & North Marsh 12:43-17:25, Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Lapwing, 24 Snipe (Magnus Andersson via Twitter); Spoonbill still 1435 but out of view (Andrew Self via Twitter); roosting North Marsh 15:10 (MA tweet); back in East Marsh 16:00 (Andrew Self); flew off SW 17:25 (MA tweet); 100+ Redwing woods near fields, ringed 1st-winter Common Gull from Baltic coast of Germany; male Reeves's Muntjac (MA); also 1 Shelduck, 2 Siskin over, 3 Lesser Redpoll, 4 Lapwing (LNHS Walk)
 * Broadwater GP: 9 Egyptian Goose, 3 Red-crested Pochard, 2 Goosander, 1 Oystercatcher (Chris Lamsdell)
 * Broxbourne Woods: 15+ Hawfinch Broxbourne Common area 1420 (David Jordan via Herts BC)
 * Charing Cross Hospital: 3 Peregrine Falcon [1 intruder chased off E at 9:27 - mating at 9:43 when male returned - public site] (Nathalie Mahieu, Ruth Savery, John Boorman)
 * Colney Heath: Water Rail at Park Corner TL194059 (Clive Harding via Herts BC)
 * Coopers Green GPs - Stanborough GP: 2 Red Kite, Green Sandpiper (Steven Pearce via Herts BC)
 * Crayford Marshes: 1st-winter Caspian Gull and presumed Caspian/Herring Gull 2nd-winter [ringed as a 1st-winter Caspian Gull at Pitsea in March 2017] at Jolly Farmers/recycling centre and a Mediterranean x Black-headed Gull hybrid (Richard Bonser, Dante Shepherd)
 * Fairlop Waters: Pink-footed Goose again on par 3 course, 2 Reed Bunting, 1 Red-legged Partridge, 1 Little Owl, 1 Kestrel (Steve Bacon)
 * Greenford UB6: Red Kite over my garden (Neil Anderson)
 * Hackney Marshes: Old River Lea 1 Chiffchaff, pair Goldcrest displaying (Jan Dobbie)
 * Haste Hill Golf Club, Northwood: 1m Lesser Spotted Woodpecker briefly drumming and calling by public footpath north of golf course at TQ09179041 (Michael Hammond)
 * Home Park: Skylark singing by Rick Pond, plus 20 Redwing, also 3 Skylark by The Pavilion (Mike Foster) MF - many thx for your post, slightly edited. As explained here, the LNHS exports data from this page in 'comma-separated values' (CSV) file-format, which is why the 'period' has been replaced with a 'comma'.
 * KGV Reservoir: Greylag, 4 Shelduck, m Smew, 8 Goosander, m Red-breasted Merganser, pr Scaup, 10 Goldeneye, 5 Wigeon, m Pintail, Little Egret, 2 Red Kite, 3 Buzzard, Lapwing, Curlew then N, Oystercatcher, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Redshank, Kestrel, Peregrine, Skylark, Mistle Thrush, 2 Chiffchaff, 8 Meadow Pipit, 8 Linnet, Reed Bunting (Neville Smith per ELBF FB)
 * London Wetland Centre: Spoonbill 08:30-12:05 then NE, Bittern, Little Egret, Avocet main lake pm, 3 Jack Snipe, Redshank, Mediterranean Gull, Water Pipit (WWT website); f Brambling (Bob Waller via Surrey BN)
 * Mayflower Park Wetlands: 2 Reed Buntings, 20+ Redwing and 4+ Chaffinches (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Middlesex Filter Beds: Sparrowhawk, Peregrine on Millfields sub-station pylon 17.15 (Jan Dobbie)
 * Morden Hall Park: 3 Teal, Little Egret, Water Rail, pr Kestrel mating, Chiffchaff, 2 Grey Wagtail (Arjun Dutta tweet)
 * Panshanger Park: Chiffchaff singing (Murray Brown via Herts BC)
 * Pinner HA5: 1m Tawny Owl hooting at 0300 (Michael Hammond)
 * Potters Crouch: singing Yellowhammer (Alan Gardiner via Herts BC) TL117053
 * Putney Heath: 3 Snipe Ladies Mile/Inner Park Ride (Les Evans-Hill)
 * Rainham RSPB: 100+ Shoveler, c1000 Wigeon, 35 Gadwall, 225+ Teal, 40+ Pintail, 24 Pochard, 40 Tufted Duck, 4 Little Grebe, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Little Egret, 3 Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, Water Rail h, 27 Avocet, 2 Curlew, 24 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Ruff flying upriver, 34 Dunlin, 4 Snipe, 30+ Redshank, Peregrine, 15+ Skylark, 7 Cetti's Warbler, Stonechat, Water Pipit, 2 Rock Pipit, 10 Reed Bunting (Simon Satchell via EBwS BN)
 * Raynes Park: Tawny Owl heard hooting in garden 1.05am (P. Redmond)
 * Ruislip Woods: 2 Hawfinch halfway from Wiltshire Ln entrance towards the lake, 20+ Redwing Fore St, many Great Spotted Woodpeckers drumming 1 seen (Barbara and Jarek Francik)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: 2 Black-tailed Godwit E over Toll Rd 0850 (Toby Spall via Herts BC); Curlew 09:00-13:00 at least & Spotted Redshank [Ldn foy] 10:05-12:55 then NW both fr gadwall_hide (Toby Spall/Emily Leonard/William Last via Herts BC/Twitter)
 * St Paul's Cray (The Brook): 4 Tufted Duck, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Goldfinch, Goldcrest calling (Jack Headley via Twitter)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: Pattypool Mead - calling Curlew E from KGV reservoir north basin at 07:30 (Martin Shepherd); 2 Black-tailed Godwit 10:00-12:25 at least (Neville Smith)
 * Staines Reservoir: Scaup distant on s basin, 8 Goldeneye, Black-necked Grebe, 2 Oystercatcher, Dunlin, American Horned Lark not seen but prob still on causeway bank (Dominic Pia vtweet); AMERICAN HORNED LARK causeway still (Tony Sweetland via Twitter); also 2 Redshank at the east end of the north basin and a Grey Plover circling over the east end of the south basin at 11:00 (Nick Rutter)
 * Stanstead Abbotts Lakes - N lake: 2 Oystercatcher (Jane Free via Herts BC)
 * Stocker's Lake: 2 Water Rail (Chris Sharp via Herts BC)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: 11 Turnstone, PURPLE SANDPIPER still 12:35pm, also Jack Snipe, 2 Marsh Harriers, adult Mediterranean Gull, Yellow-legged Gull and Rock Pipit (Barry Wright, Bob Watts, Dominic Mitchell, Dante Shepherd, Richard Bonser)
 * Ten Acre Wood area: 20 Teal, 4m Pheasant 3 seen, Little Egret, 2 Buzzard feeding on ground, Kestrel, 2 tumbling Lapwing, 2 Golden Plover [1st record on deck - 1 previous Jan record of small flock over], 2 Snipe, Jack Snipe, 1-2 Woodcock 2 flight views, 10 Stock Dove, 6+ Skylark 3 singing, 29 Meadow Pipit 5 on site & rest high S 17&6&1, 6 Redwing, 2 Reed Bunting 1 singing, 9 Chaffinch low E (Neil Anderson)
 * The Commons LNR: 2 Marsh Tit, 2 Lesser Redpoll, Siskin (Keith Smith per Herts BC)
 * Thorndon CP: s section - Kestrel, pr Skylark m singing Old Thorndon Pastures area, 4+ Fieldfare, 50+ Redwing, 4 Mistle Thrush 2pr, Goldcrest singing, m Greenfinch, 4 Goldfinch, 6+ Yellowhammer some singing OTP area; n section - m Lesser Spotted Woodpecker drumming Childerditch Wd, 4 Mistle Thrush 2pr, m Greenfinch (Andrew Cox via EBwS BN)
 * Tooting Commons: Firecrest, Red Admiral Bedford Woods (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Totteridge Valley, Belmont Farm: 34 Canada Geese, 2 Farmyards, Egyptian Goose, Sparrowhawk, 8 Common Buzzard mainly N 09:50-15:00, 21 Black-headed Gull, 42 Common Gull, 18 Stock Dove, 2 Kestrel, Nuthatch, m Firecrest singing behind show pens 16:00, 9 Fieldfare, 86 Redwing, 3 Mistle Thrush, 62 Starling, 2 Grey Wagtail, Pied Wagtail, 5 Pheasant 2m 3f (Samuel Levy)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: main gp - 1+ Green Sandpiper, 12+ Tree Sparrow, 1+ Lesser Redpoll, Yellowhammer; fishing lake - Oystercatcher (Andrew Steele via Herts BC)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 4 Stonechat all f-type [2 Bomb Crater Field & 2 Leyton Marsh], c150 Starlings, 4 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing, 20 Linnet, m Kestrel paddocks 11:00-12:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING still but again an infrequent visitor to the seed tray am, Scaup on No 4 and 2 Green Sandpipers on Lockwood (David Bradshaw, Ian Bradshaw, Jeff Humm)
 * Wanstead Flats: m Stonechat, 50+ Redwing, 13 Fieldfare, 8 singing Skylark 5 singing, 6 Meadow Pipit, Sparrowhawk, 4 Gadwall, 12 Shoveler, 5 Pochard, Little Grebe, 2 Little Owl, 2 Reed Bunting (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: 20 Teal, 14 Shoveler, f Pochard, 2 Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe, Little Egret, Goldcrest (Nick Croft)
 * Watercress LNR: wintering Chiffchaff, 12+ Redwing, c10 Lesser Redpoll, 3+ Siskin (Alan Gardiner via Herts BC)
 * Waterworks NR: 7 Gadwall, 2 Teal, 3 Shoveler, f Pochard, Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, 4 Greenfinch 1 singing, Kingfisher (Jan Dobbie)
 * Wimbledon Common: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Inner Windmill Road (Les Evans-Hill & Paul Cox) Hi Les and Paul, I saw a female at 7:45am between Springwell Cottage  and White Cottage, could it be the same bird? I thought I might have heard another one calling [Colin Williams] Catherine Beazley photographed a male today, posted on Twitter; excellent views of LSW from Inner Windmill road late am, 14 Lesser Redpoll with 1 Siskin, c30 Redwing (S.Nicholls & C.Beazley) Many thanks all, the Wimbledon and Putney Commons Wildlife and Conservation Committee of which I'm a member meets this Tuesday, I'll make comment of the LSW sightings with which I'm very encouraged and grateful [LEH]
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 2 Jack Snipe, 7 Snipe, Water Rail, 2 Reed Bunting, 2 Shelduck, 4 Lesser Redpoll, 5 Teal, 6 Shoveler, mixed flock of c60 winter thrushes northbound (Chris Farthing)
 * Worcester Park: 1-2 Little Egret 1 on horse field with 30+ Black-headed Gulls and a probable second flew over and landed in brook on Green Ln (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Yeading Brook Meadows: 2 Red Kite [1 here & 2nd bird over Willow Tree Rbt mobbed by Crow], 2 Little Owl together, 2 singing Skylark, Meadow Pipit, c20 Redwing, m Bullfinch; 300+ Common Frog & much spawn (Neil Anderson)

Saturday 10th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Stonechat male southern perimeter playing fields from 1040, Linnet south 0940, pair Eurasian Teal Conservation Pond (APOG Birders); female Kestrel actively hunting in grass adjacent to Conservation Pond (Greg Smith)
 * Amwell NR: Gt Hardmead L - 2 Egyptian Goose, rh Smew still, 2 Oystercatcher on island opp viewpt (William Bishop via Herts BC)
 * Beckton Sewage Works: 3 Egyptian Goose, 4 Oystercatcher, 14 Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 4 Chiffchaff calling (Dave Morrison tweet)
 * Brent Reservoir: Shelduck, 11 Little Grebe, 22 Common Snipe, Water Rail, 3 Redwing, 3 Cetti's Warbler (Roy Beddard, Andrew Verrall)
 * Brook Farm, Upminster: 2 Sand Martin [Ldn foy] over fishing lake, also incl Cetti's Warbler, Grey Wagtail (Alan Shearman per ELBF FB/RBA)
 * Broxbourne Woods: Raven over, 20+ Hawfinch into roost pm (Laurence Drummond via Herts BC)
 * Bushy Park: 2 Goldcrest, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 3 Long-tailed Tit, Meadow Pipit, 3 Mistle Thrush, Red Kite 9.30am circling low mobbed by crow briefly before drifting NW, 4 Redwing, Reed Bunting, 3 Skylark, 2 Song Thrush, Stonechat, Treecreeper (Ian R Watson)
 * Canada Water: Sparrowhawk over the station at 10:30 (John & Janet Cadera)
 * Cassiobury Park: Little Owl (Chris Sharp tweet); Nuthatch (Alex Liddle tweet)
 * Crayford Marshes: pair Shoveler, 2 Shelduck, male Marsh Harrier over landfill, Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 2 Skylark, 2 Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler singing (Mike Amos)
 * Dulwich Park: pair Shoveler, 4 Jackdaw, 100 Redwing, Nuthatch (Graeme Wright)
 * Fairlop Waters: Pink-footed Goose, Pintail (Neil Twyford/Alan Bell)
 * Feltham: Peregrine over St Giles Hotel 14.15 (Andy Roberts)
 * Gallions Reach: 3 Egyptian Goose, 4 Oystercatcher, 14 Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 4 Chiffchaff (Dave Morrison via Twitter)
 * Greenwich Peninsula: Oystercatcher, Stonechat m, Chiffchaff, Linnet (Richard Green, John Bushall)
 * Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park: 2 Little Grebe, 2 Redwing (Richard Green, John Bushall)
 * Hackney Marshes: 11 Stock Dove on meadow outside filter beds 11:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Hilly Fields: 57 Redwing, 54 Black-headed Gull (Keith Chambers); 2 Mandarin (Graeme Wright)
 * Hogsmill Open Space: 5 Little Egrets 3 on river and a pair flying around calling loudly [my highest count for this year/winter season], 1 Kingfisher at bourne hall, 6 Grey Wagtail, 2 Nuthatches, 1 Grey Heron over, 20+ Redwing still and 1 Sparrowhawk (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Ingrebourne Valley: 2 Grey Partridge, 45 Lapwing, Chiffchaff, 2m Stonechat, Grey Wagtail, Bullfinch (Paul Hawkins via ELBF FB)
 * KGV Reservoir: [permit only] 2 Greylag, 2 Shelduck, 15 Shoveler, 13 Wigeon, Smew, 9 Goosander, m Red-breasted Merganser still, 3 Pheasant 2f m, Little Egret, Dunlin, Redshank, 2 Lapwing, Curlew N 0655, Great Black-backed Gull 1w, 3 Skylark NE 0810, 2 Chiffchaff, Mistle Thrush, 2 Reed Bunting (Neville Smith)
 * Limehouse: 4 House Sparrows on the tree next to Regent's Canal nr Commercial Rd bridge (Roman Werpachowski)
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 Curlew, 1 Goldeneye and 1 Bittern main lake, 13 Pintail across site, 3 Shelduck, 10 Common Snipe, 15 Fieldfare [per website] and 4+ Redwing, 4 Stonechat m 3f grazing marsh (Martin Honey, A. Innes, W. Newnham)
 * Lucy Warren Open Space: Hawfinch, f Bullfinch (Phil Aylen tweet)
 * Maple Cross: 9+ Brambling & 6+ Yellowhammer field hedge est of housing estate nr Hornhill Rd (Chris Bessant via Herts BC) TQ025924
 * Mad Bess Wood: 7 Northern Lapwing W, 8+ Hawfinch at TQ07588964, 1 pipistrelle sp. feeding at noon (Michael Hammond, Michael Robinson)
 * Middlesex Filter Beds: Firecrest singing strongly in scrub along the river at 18:00, Peregrine on Millfields sub-station pylon (Alastair Dent); Chiffchaff (Ernest Thomason)
 * Northolt & Greenford CP: Egyptian Goose, Sparrowhawk, Snipe, 2 Redwing, 3 Mistle Thrush (Neil Anderson)
 * Primrose Hill: Meadow Pipit fos NW 0630 (Twitter)
 * Rainham RSPB: Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, 22 Avocet, 6 Oystercatcher, 46 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Ruff, 152 Dunlin, 15 Redshank, Barn Owl, 3 Kestrel, Peregrine, 4 Stonechat (Alan Shearman per ELBF FB)
 * Ravenor Park, Greenford: 60+ Redwing feeding on the turf, pr Mistle Thrush (Neil Anderson)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues, also 5 Lesser Redpoll, 1 Chaffinch, 5 Goldfinch. Parking charges apply Mon-Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * St John's Wood Church Gdns LNR: Treecreeper, House Sparrow (Kabir Kaul via Twitter)
 * St Paul's Cray (The Brook): 1 Little Egret, 2 Tufted Duck, 6 Canada Goose. (Jack Headley)
 * Scotsbridge Mill: 2 Little Egret, 3 Water Rail, Snipe (Geoff Lapworth via Herts BC)
 * South Hampstead: Green Woodpecker calling West End Ln NW6 1230 (Michael Thain)
 * Stocker's Lake: m Scaup (Chris Sutton tweet); 6 Egyptian Goose, 9 Red-crested Pochard 7m 2f, 6 Goldeneye 3pr (Geoff Lapworth via Herts BC)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: PURPLE SANDPIPER, 2 Marsh Harrier, 3 Dunlin, 2 Turnstone, 5 Stonechat, 40 Fieldfare N, 14 Cetti's Warbler, Blackcap, 2 Raven, 40 Linnet (Andrew Self)
 * Teddington: Red Kite over Bushy Park, NPL then N 0945 (Mike Foster)
 * Ten Acre Wood Area: Woodcock flying up & down the brook, Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, 2 Greylag Geese over, 3 Stonechat, Reed Bunting, Lapwing, 2 Skylark, 5 Meadow Pipit, 15 Linnet (Nigel Dodd)
 * Tooting Commons: Firecrest still Bedford Wd northeast corner 0930 (Peter White via Twitter)
 * Tyttenhanger Farm: 16 Tree Sparrow (Steve Blake via Herts BC)
 * Tottenham Marsh: 4 Stonechat, 2 Reed Bunting, Chiffchaff (A.Middleton)
 * Trent Park: Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Little Grebe lower [westernmost] lake, 6 Mandarin 3m 3f, 5 Pochard 3m 2f, Song Thrush, 1+ Stock Dove, 3 Tufted Duck m 2f (Pete Lowman)
 * Walthamstow Marsh: 30 Redwing at Riding School (Rhys Evans)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING still but elusive today - only seen briefly around seed tray a couple of times up to 1pm, Scaup on No 4, Green Sandpiper on overflow (Walthamstow Birders); LB showed on bush and by seeds c3.30pm (A.Middleton); 3 Goldeneye, 2 Stock Dove, 4 Greenfinch, 2 Shelduck (Rhys Evans)
 * Wanstead Flats: Common Snipe, Peregrine Falcon, Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 6 Skylark, 6 Meadow Pipit, 7-10 Linnet, 10+ Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, 3 Pochard, 2 Little Owl (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: Firecrest, 11 Goldcrest, Chiffchaff, 7 Coal Tit, 4 Nuthatch, 8 Stock Dove, 10+ Redwing, 2 Sparrowhawk, Little Egret, Water Rail, Kingfisher, 2 Reed Bunting, 35 Shoveler, 11 Teal, 3 Pochard, 18 Tufted Duck, 2 Little Grebe. Great Crested Grebe (Wanstead Birders)
 * Waterworks Nature Reserve: 1 Bullfinch my first here, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Greenfinch, 1 Kingfisher, 4juv Mute Swans, 1 Peregrine, 3 Reed Bunting, 1 Water Rail (Marcus Mitchell)
 * Wimbledon Common: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 1 seen & possibly a 2nd heard drumming (Les Evans-Hill) Hi Les, where on the common did you see the LSW? Thanks Inner Windmill Rd again as per 5 March sighting [LEH]
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Jack Snipe, 3 Snipe, Peregrine, 2 Reed Bunting, 6 Shoveler (Chris Farthing)
 * Woodoaks Farm: 3 Yellowhammer nr farm bldgs TQ032931 (Chris Bessant via Herts BC)
 * Yeading Brook Meadows: 2 Teal, 2 Little Egret, Kestrel, 70 Common Gull on playing fields and 9 Pied Wagtail amongst them, 2 Skylark, Meadow Pipit, pr Bullfinch, Chiffchaff (Nigel Dodd)

Friday 9th March 2018
NB Rye Meads RSPB is now open again on Fridays 9am-5pm.
 * Alexandra Park: Eurasian Teal pair still present 0650 Conservation Pond (Bob Watts)
 * Basinghall Street EC2: male Black Redstart singing roof of Davy’s bar 08:20 & 09:55 then on Guildhall roof 11:33 (N P Senior)
 * Berwick Glades: 50 Fieldfare, 2 Yellowhammer (James Palmer)
 * Brookmill Park: Peregrine, Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 6 Redwing, Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
 * Broxbourne Woods: Danemead Wd - 10+ Brambling w/ 200+ Chaffinch, 5+ Hawfinch 3 in trees opp start of boardwalk & 2 over, 40+ Siskin (Anders Gray via Herts BC)
 * Bushy Park: 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Green Woodpecker, 3 Mistle Thrush, 4 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, Treecreeper (Ian R Watson)
 * Crayford (Jolly Farmers): 1w Glaucous Gull amongst huge numbers of other gulls, 6-7 Linnets, 3 Pied Wagtail, Sparrowhawk and a leucistic Herring Gull (Jack Headley via Twitter)
 * Crossness: 70 Shelduck, 500 Teal, 40 Shoveler, 40 Gadwall, 15 Wigeon, Peregrine, Kestrel, Pheasant, 50 Lapwing, 120 Dunlin, 25 Redshank, 12 Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 50 Fieldfare, 20 Redwing, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Goldcrest, 2 Linnet (Conrad Ellam)
 * Dollis Brook: Barnet Lane - 60+ Ring-necked Parakeets, Little Egret (Samuel Levy)
 * Epping: 172 Pied Wagtail Epping High St roosting in trees outside post office still (Roger Emmens via EBwS BN)
 * Finchley: garden N3 - Tawny Owl calling 0600, m Blackcap, 4 Stock Dove (Samuel Levy)
 * Golders Hill Park: 60+ Redwing in communal song on central slope (James Levy)
 * Garden Wood: Woodcock (TyttGP tweet)
 * Hilly Fields: 8 Redwing (Keith Chambers)
 * Hyde Park: pair of Peregrine perched high on the north face of the Peninsular Tower of Knightsbridge Barracks am (Dave Jordan)
 * Isle of Dogs: Yellow-legged Gull 3w Saunders Ness (Sean Huggins)
 * KGV Reservoir: m Red-breasted Merganser, m Smew & m Scaup all still s basin, Water Pipit on c. causeway then S towards sailing club, 4 Goosander 2pr, 28 Goldeneye 13m, pr Grey Wagtail, 6 Shoveler, 24+ Teal, Green Woodpecker, Meadow Pipit, Kestrel f 1-2pm (Davey Leach)
 * London Wetland Centre: 3 Shelduck, 9 Pintail, Goldeneye, 3 Bittern, 5 Snipe, 7 Fieldfare, 2 Siskin (WWT website); 5 Jack Snipe, 1 Redwing (Shailesh Patel); 1 Water Pipit, 2+ Siskin (Mike Wheeler et al)
 * Mayflower Park: 180 Redwings 50 into and 130 N (Bob Smith)
 * Middlesex Filter Beds: Firecrest in holm oak along river (Ernest Thomason)
 * Millfields: 2 Egyptian Goose, Common Gull (Ernest Thomason)
 * Northaw Great Wood: 2 Marsh Tit, 8 Hawfinch central ride (per Herts BC)
 * Pinner: Lloyd Court - Tawny Owl calling 3 or 4 times per minute for over an hour from 03:30, a record 23 Blackbirds on back lawn at 06:30 (Richard Francis)
 * Pinner (The Croft): 40+ Redwing, 2 Goldcrest, Ring-necked Parakeet, 6 Goldfinch, Chaffinch and Long-tailed Tit (Nigel Barratt)
 * Queen Mother Reservoir: Short-eared Owl circling & drifting high E toward Heathrow 10:30-10:40 (Peter Newbound via Berks BN/BirdGuides)
 * Rainham RSPB: 32 Pintail, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Sparrowhawk, 5 Marsh Harrier, 14 Avocet, 2 Oystercatcher, 700 Lapwing, 33 Golden Plover, 5 Curlew, 153 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Ruff, 300 Dunlin, 2 Snipe, 2 Barn Owl,2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, Bearded Tit, Cetti's Warbler, f Blackcap, Fieldfare, 4 Stonechat, Meadow Pipit, Rock Pipit (per ELBF FB)
 * Regent's Park: f Stonechat in Triangle Pen, Water Rail, Siskin over N (Magnus Andersson)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon - Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic); As reliable as death and taxes (JW) What, the bird or the parking charges? Both! [My favourite subjects death, taxes and parking.] Ironic.. Young Swiss couple visited today Raphael & Ameline from Lausanne and saw it, with no penalty charge, asssuming parking was free!. Phew. [FJM]
 * Richmond Park: 3 Buzzard, c36 Common Gull, pr Egyptian Geese with 9 goslings, Gadwall, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Pochard, 1 Red Kite, 9 Reed Bunting, 3 Stonechat, Water Rail heard (Friday Bird Group); 10+ Siskin m&f, 4 Mistle Thrush 2pr, 5 Tawny Owl 1 seen 4 heard (P. Redmond)
 * Ruislip Woods: 3 Hawfinch showing well near to Wiltshire Lane entrance 10:45 (Richard Francis) Congratulations to the two other birders who also saw these birds (Richard & Weldon, surnames unknown) Sorry for the confusion [RF]
 * Sevenoaks WR: incl monthly transect - Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, 6 Stock Dove, f Lesser Spotted Woodpecker on alders at lakeshore nr tyler hide, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker incl 1 nr LSW, Green Woodpecker, 4 Coal Tit, 13 Long-tailed Tit incl nest fr slingsby hide, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Treecreeper, 10 Redwing, 3 Song Thrush, 5 Mistle Thrush, 7 Lesser Redpoll, 23 Siskin (Susanna Clerici via Kent OS)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: Pink-footed Goose NE across Pattypool Mead at 09:50 (Martin Shepherd)
 * Sidcup (Haddon Grove Shuttle Riverway footpath): 3 Grey Wagtail between Willersley Avenue Bridge and Environment Agency culvert, 2 Mistle Thrush, Redwing, Green Woodpecker (Eric Brown)
 * South Norwood CP: Hawfinch 0820 (John Hughes per John Birkett tweet)
 * Spa Fields: Mistle Thrush (Francis O'Sullivan)
 * Staines Reservoir: m Scaup, Black-necked Grebe, 2 Redshank, AMERICAN HORNED LARK still (Allan Goddard via Twitter)
 * Swanscombe Marsh: 1 PURPLE SANDPIPER [Ldn foy], m Bearded Tit, 3 Stonechat, 24 Lapwing, 3 Linnet, 1 Skylark, 18 Gadwall, 12 Teal, 2 Oystercatcher, 1 Shelduck, 15 Redshank, 5 Dunlin, 9 Turnstone, 11 Greylag Goose, 3 Canada Goose, 1 Kestrel, 1 Reed Bunting, 3 Cetti's Warbler 2 h 1 seen 9.30-13.30 (Roger Keith) Where was the Sandpiper? Did it fly off?
 * Tooting Commons: Firecrest still in Bedford Woods (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Totteridge Valley: Long Pond - 2 Coot, 2 Canada Geese, 2 Moorhen, 2 Mallard; Belmont Farm - 30 Canada Geese, 2 'farmyard' geese, 2 Greylag, Kestrel (Samuel Levy)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: Firecrest  male still Horse Chestnut Glade 1300, also 6+ Goldcrest, 6 Redwing, Coal Tit heard (Bob Watts)
 * Trent Park: 7 Mandarin Duck 4m 3f lower lake, 3 Eurasian Teal 1m 2f upper lake - flew off, 3 Common Pochard 1m 2f lower lake, 4 Tufted Duck 2m 2f, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Nuthatch, Treecreeper, 10+ Chaffinch Rough Lot, Hawfinch seen in flight near obelisk 13:45 and later perched up in tree nearby edge of Rough Lot 13:57 (Robert Callf)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: Little Ringed Plover [Ldn foy] circled main pit then S 1005, also Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, 5 Snipe, Great Black-backed Gull, 40+ Linnet, 9 Siskin (TyttGP tweet)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING showing well & regularly early-am but still no sign of Serin (Paul Watts via Twitter); Ringed Plover landed East Warwick island at 15:35 (Chris Farthing)
 * Wanstead Flats: Redpoll, 6 Skylark, 3 Meadow Pipit [one singing on territory], 13 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, 2 Pochard, 3 Redwing (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park: Treecreeper, 20 Teal, 14 Shoveler, 2 Pochard, Little Grebe, Water Rail, Kingfisher, Common Buzzard, Kestrel, 7 Fieldfare, 5 Redwing (Nick Croft)
 * Westbourne Park: Grand Union Canal - 2 Peregrine (Francis O'Sullivan)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 3 Jack Snipe, 5 Snipe, Water Rail, 2 Reed Bunting, 2 Shelduck, 4 Teal, 5 Shoveler (Chris Farthing)

Thursday 8th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: pair Eurasian Teal Conservation Pond 1730 (Bob Watts)
 * Amwell NR: Pink-footed Goose on island fr viewpt 0615 [roosted overnight] then NW 0645, Woodcock (Ron Cousins/Phil Ball via Twitter); 2 Oystercatcher on Grt Hardmead L island 0600 then S toward Stanstead Abbotts, 3 Hawfinch W from Easneye Wd over Gt Hardmead L 1645 (William Bishop via Herts BC)
 * Bayhurst Wood: 15+ Hawfinch nr car park 09:45 (Richard Francis)
 * Brent Reservoir: Shelduck, 2 ad Great Black-backed Gull, 3 Common Snipe (Andrew Haynes); Little Egret behind dam late afternoon (Andrew Self)
 * Brookmill Park: Kingfisher, Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * Bumble's Green, near Nazeing: Red Kite over road at 14:15 near entrance to Harold Park Farm (Martin Shepherd)
 * Canons Farm: 2 Stonechat m f reads bottom (Duncan Jennings and Ian Magness via CFBW blog)
 * Finchley: garden N3 - m Blackcap, 2 Stock Dove (Samuel Levy)
 * Forty Hall CP: 6 Mandarin Duck 4m 2f, m Sparrowhawk, m Kestrel, 68 Black-headed Gull, 3 Common Gull adult and 2 first-winter, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2 Mistle Thrush pr, Goldcrest singing (Robert Callf)
 * Forty Hall Farm, Enfield: 100+ Redwing (Robert Callf)
 * Greenwich Ecology Park: f Goldeneye still, f Teal, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Siskin (Richard Green, John Bushall)
 * Greenwich Peninsula: River - 2 Oystercatcher, 5 Teal; Central Park - c15 Redwing, c10 Chaffinch (Richard Green, John Bushall)
 * Guy Lodge Farm: Mediterranean Gull 1st-winter until 13:30 at least in pig field, 22+ Common Gull incl at least 10 1st-winter, 14+ Lesser Black-backed Gull, 4 Stock Dove, 3 Rook (Robert Callf)
 * Kingston-upon-Thames: Black Swan at confluence of R Thames and R Hogsmill by Charter Quay (Nigel Jackman)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Shelduck, 2 Black-tailed Godwit grazing marsh pm, 13 Snipe, 4 Jack Snipe & Redshank scrape, 8 Fieldfare, 11 Siskin (WWT website); 1 Bittern, 3 Pintail, Peregrine (Shailesh Patel); also Curlew main lake fr dulverton hide 1430, Blackcap (WWT website)
 * Munden Estate: Snipe, Green Sandpiper TL134000, Raven (Tony Bates via Herts BC)
 * Petersham Meadows: Kestrel hunting overhead at 17.45 (P. Redmond)
 * Pinner (The Croft Park): 25+ Redwing, Red Kite low at 10.10am (Nigel Barratt)
 * Pinner Memorial Park: Mistle Thrush, 50+ Redwing, 2 Goldcrest, Long-tailed Tit, 4 Goldfinch (Nigel Barratt)
 * Rainham Marshes: Red Kite over Wennington Marshes 0945 (Fraser Simpson); Bittern, 2 Little Egret, 5 Marsh Harrier, 3 Buzzard, 6 Curlew, 120 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Ruff (per ELBF FB)
 * Ravenor Park, Greenford: low flying Buzzard being mobbed by numerous Crows 06.45, Red Kite just above my roof 15.45 & towards the park just to east of my house (Neil Anderson)
 * Richmond Park: a pleasant walk in blustery conditions. The only birds of note were 1m Great Spotted Woodpecker and 1 Treecreeper [always nice to see] (Martin Honey & B. Page); 13 Woodcock - in survey at dusk (R.P. Bird Group)
 * Ruislip Woods: 9+ Hawfinch 6+ down from Wiltshire Ln entrance 10:05 & 3 at Fore St/Salisbury Rd entrance 10:15 (Richard Francis)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: 5 Black-tailed Godwit fr gadwall_hide (Vicky Buckel via Herts BC)
 * St Paul's Cray (The Brook): 2 Kingfishers calling but not seen, Goldfinch, Little Egret, Grey Wagtail (Jack Headley via Twitter)
 * Sanderstead Plantation: 1st migrant Chiffchaff pm (John Birkett via Twitter)
 * Sevenoaks WR: Bsr-tailed Godwit, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Bullfinch (per Susanna Clerici via Kent OS)
 * Staines Moor: 2 Red Kite, Buzzard, 12+ Skylark, 2 Water Pipit (Robert Martin tweet)
 * Stanwell Moor: Little Egret, 15 Lapwing, Cetti's Warbler, 15 Redwing, 2 Bullfinch m f (Robert Martin tweet)
 * Stocker's Lake; 9 Red-crested Pochard 6m 3f, 5 Goldeneye 3m 2f, Little Egret (Geoff Lapworth via Herts BC)
 * Trent Park: 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Mandarin in flight, Mistle Thrush, 3 Pochard m 2f, Song Thrush, 3 Teal m 2f upper lake, 5 Tufted Duck 2m 3f (Pete Lowman)
 * Turnford Marsh GPs: 3 Goosander m 2f ashley pit (Paula Moore via Herts BC)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING on and off am, SERIN only seen first thing this morning as far as we hear [flew S 0830 per Lee Evans] (Walthamstow Birders); drake Scaup, 4 Goldeneye, 2 Shelduck, 3 Lapwing, 2 Peregrine, Fieldfare (Tom Jordan)
 * Wanstead Flats: 2 Skylark, Meadow Pipit, 9 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, 2 Teal, Little Owl (Wanstead Birders)
 * Wanstead Park: 30+ Redwing, 30+ Fieldfare, 5 Siskin, 18 Teal, 46 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 2 Little Grebe, 5 Stock Dove, Nuthatch (Nick Croft); Nuthatch, 5 Stock Dove, 2 Goldcrest in Bush Wood (Tim Harris)
 * Whitewebbs Park: 20 Mandarin Duck 13m 7f ornamental pond, 2 Shoveler m & f (Robert Callf)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Jack Snipe, 2 Snipe, Water Rail, Peregrine, 3 Reed Bunting, Coal Tit (Chris Farthing)

Wednesday 7th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: drake Shoveler Wood Green Res, Treecreeper just south of Conservation Pond (Bruce Carson per Bob Watts)
 * Balham: Peregrine adult S 3:30 pm (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Brookmill Park: Little Egret, Kingfisher, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 12 Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * Bushy Park: 3 Lesser Redpoll in the Woodland Gardens (Billy Dykes)
 * Dagenham Chase: Hawfinch still (Vincenzo Halley-Frame per ELBF FB); seen c1600 pre-roost for 3rd day (Alan Shearman blog)
 * Darlands Lake: f Garganey [Ldn foy; poss'y present since 20 Feb] (per Samuel Levy)
 * Eastcote: Field End RG - Greenfinch, 2 Song Thrush, 30 Black-headed Gull, 30 Common Gull (Tim Rymer)
 * Field Common GP: area - Dunlin feeding in flooded paddock south of gp (Mark Davis via Surrey BN) TQ128671
 * Finchley: garden N3 - m Blackcap, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Samuel Levy)
 * Foots Cray Meadows: Egyptian Goose, 7 Tufted Duck, 2+ Little Grebe, 2 Little Egret, Kingfisher, Green Woodpecker, 10+ Redwing, Chiffchaff [pale looking bird], 4+ Goldcrest (Ian Stewart)
 * Greenwich Ecology Park: f Goldeneye on outer lake, Jack Snipe, 2 Little Grebes, Goldcrest, Grey Wagtail, Chiffchaff (John Bushell per Conrad Ella via Birding Ldn FB)
 * Hainault: 4 Grey Wagtail (Steve Bacon per ELBF FB)
 * Hertingfordbury: Hawfinch calling in treetops Hertingfordbury Mill (Laurence Drummond via Herts BC)
 * Ladywell Fields: c30 Redwing (Dom Ison)
 * Leatherhead Station & Randalls Way: 1 singing Siskin briefly in Station car park 09:00, 5 Common Buzzard circling to the northeast 13:45 (Neil Batten)
 * Lippitts Hill: Common Buzzard, drumming Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 drumming, Green Woodpecker, singing Song Thrush (Simon Papps)
 * Little Britain Lake: brief afternoon visit - 2 Common Buzzard, c4 Red Kite, 1 male Mandarin, 1 Great Crested Grebe, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Roger Dewey)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Shelduck, 76 Wigeon, 10 Pintail, Goldeneye, Bittern, 167 Cormorant, Red Kite SW, 3 Jack Snipe, Dunlin, 14 Snipe, 6 Fieldfare, 11 Redwing (WWT website)
 * Maple Cross: 12 Brambling TQ024924 [Hornhill Rd end of hedge] & 3+ Yellowhammer field-hedge west of estate (Chris Bessant via Herts BC)
 * Middlesex Filter Beds: 3 Goldcrest, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Green Woodpecker; 8 Stock Dove just outside on Hackney Marshes meadow, Peregrine on Millfields sub-station pylon 08:45-09:45 (Alastair Dent)
 * Pimlico Gardens: Yellow-legged Gull ad (N P Senior)
 * Pinner (The Croft): 3 Goldfinch, 2 Greenfinch, m Chaffinch, 2 Long-tailed Tit, Redwing (Nigel Barratt)
 * Rainham RSPB: 40 Pintail, 2 Little Egret, 5 Marsh Harrier, 2 Buzzard, 15 Avocet, 31 Golden Plover, 7 Curlew, 80 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Ruff, 400 Dunlin, 7 Snipe, 21 Redshank, m Peregrine, f Blackcap, Fieldfare (Howard Vaughan via RSPB)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon-Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic)j
 * Richmond Park: 20 Redwing, Buzzard, Pintail, 2 Woodcock (P Pentek et al)
 * Ruislip Woods: 10 Hawfinch down from Wiltshire Ln entrance 09:10 (Richard Francis). Seen again in same area later at 12:30, plus 1 in Copse Wd area, also 3 Bullfinch 2m f, 5+ Siskin in Mad Bess Wood, 2 Red Kite, Common Buzzard, 4 Mistle Thrush, 2 Song Thrush, Redwing, Stock Dove, 4 Teal, 3+ Great Spotted Woodpecker [much drumming], 6+ Nuthatch, 3 Ring-necked Parakeet (Caroline Nash)
 * Ruxley GPs: (permit only) - 20+ Gadwall, 5+ Shoveler, 2 Teal, 4 Pochard, c100 Tufted Duck, 4 Little Grebe, 4 Great Crested Grebe, Green Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, Cetti’s Warbler, 3+ Goldcrest, 2-3 Lesser Redpoll, 1+ Bullfinch (Ian Stewart)
 * St Paul's Cray: Pleasance Rd - 21 Jackdaw 2 flocks flying over - presumed going to roost - combined total in separate flocks twenty then a single bird over. (The Brook): 1 Kingfisher, 8-9 Redwing, 4 Long-tailed Tits and 4 Canada Goose (Jack Headley via Twitter)
 * Sevenoaks WR: 2 Water Rail fr tyler & willow hides, Black-necked Grebe, Black-tailed Godwit fr sutton hide, 15 Snipe (per Susanna Clerici via Kent OS)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: Pattypool Mead - Ruff at 08:30 third day. Flew N at 08:40 (Martin Shepherd)
 * Sidcup (York Avenue): Common Buzzard flew in large semi-circle from NE to NW, Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, 2 male Blackcap, Chiffchaff through gardens, Goldcrest, 2 Coal Tit, Jay, 2 Jackdaw (Ian Stewart)
 * Springfield Park: nr Walthamstow Wetlands - 10 House Sparrows on feeders and outside houses on Lingwood Rd, 3 Mistle Thrush (Michael Mac)
 * Staines Moor: 2 Water Pipit on R.Colne by the old fallen Willow - one bird carrying a BTO ring on the right leg, Green Sandpiper & Common Redshank on one of the flood pools, plus 3 Common Snipe, only one Stonechat; along path from Hithermoor Ln to moor, 100 Redwing & 100 Fieldfare in Black Poplars in grounds of KG VI Res. The Redwings were all in sub song which accompanied by the 'chacking' of the Fieldfares resulted in a lovely cacophony. They are soon to depart north no doubt. (John Edwards); 2 Dunlin 1330 (DJ Cox via Surrey BN); Ruff N, with 70+ Lapwing, 3 Buzzard, Red Kite, 156 Woodpigeon, 2 Reed Bunting, 4 Stonechat, 2 Kestrel (Samuel and Ephraim Perfect)
 * Staines Reservoir: AMERICAN HORNED LARK still causeway midpoint (Dom Pia via Twitter); Black-tailed Godwit n basin e bank 1200 (DJ Cox via Surrey BN); Black-necked Grebe S basin, 10 Goldeneye, Redshank, 2 Dunlin, 126 Lapwing, 2 Shelduck, Kestrel, 20 Shoveler (Samuel and Ephraim Perfect)
 * Stanwell Moor: Redshank, Jack Snipe (Chris Lamsdell)
 * Stanborough Lakes: 47 Ring-necked Parakeet eve roost in c/p tall trees (Trevor Chapman via Herts BC)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 2 'farmyard' geese, 33 Canada Geese, 2 Mandarin Duck, 14 Teal, 2 Common Buzzard, 164 Common Gull, 62 Stock Dove, 2 Collared Dove, Barn Owl hunting in owl_field, Kestrel, 2 Peregrine at Frith Riding Stables, 13 Rook, Nuthatch, 4 Goldcrest, 62 Fieldfare, 88 Redwing, 3 Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Meadow Pipit, Hawfinch flushed from bottom of old gropper field near folly brook (Samuel Levy)
 * Trent Park: 2 male Eurasian Teal upper lake - no sign of female, 3 Common Pochard 2m 1f lower lake, 5 Tufted Duck 2m 3f, 2 Treecreeper Rough Lot (Robert Callf)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: main gp - Curlew then N 0955, Ruff 1125-1135 then S; fishing lake - Oystercatcher still (Steve Blake via Herts BC)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 7+ Snipe (J-P Elmes)
 * Walthamstow Wetlands: SERIN, 50m from LITTLE BUNTING both a few hundred metres south of the Engine House. Ser'n still present 13:30 at least (Paul Whiteman, Dave Bradshaw et. al.); Serin briefly 1445 w/ Linnet flock in tall trees sw of engine house then N over café (Magnus Andersson/Harringay Birder tweets); Little Bunting and Serin still present c15:00 (James Palmer); LB again briefly 1520 (Magnus Andersson tweet); Scaup, Common Sandpiper, Wigeon, first Skylark of year N (Walthamstow Birders)
 * Woodoaks Farm: m Stonechat along main track in brambles (Geoff Lapworth via Herts BC)
 * Worcester Park: Peregrine male on pylons, 60 Redwings (Bob Smith)

Tuesday 6th March 2018

 * Amwell NR: Redshank in front of viewing pt (Herts BN)
 * Brent Reservoir: Black-tailed Godwit & Stonechat on Neasden Rec 15:35, 2 Dunlin, 2 Green Sandpiper, 11 Snipe, 8 Lapwing, 2 Shelduck East Marsh (Andrew Self)
 * Dollis Brook, Holders Hill: 5 Redwing, Peregrine low over holders hill circus/roundabout chasing pr Mallard 07:05 (Samuel Levy)
 * Eastcote: Field End RG - 14 Fieldfare, 7 Redwing, 3 Song Thrush, Green Woodpecker (Tim Rymer)
 * Essendon: 10+ Hawfinch 8+ in hornbeams at end of Hanbury Ln TL271087 & 2 over school lane 0840 (Laurence Drummond via Herts BC)
 * Finchley: garden N3 - m Blackcap, 3 Stock Dove, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Redwing (Samuel Levy)
 * Finsbury Park: 30+ Redwing, 7 Red-crested Pochard 6m f (Ann Feltham)
 * Friday Lake: red-head Smew still on; Mink (J.Murray)
 * Golders Hill Park: 2 Fieldfares E (James Levy)
 * Hampstead Heath: 100+ Redwing, 2 Goldcrest, 5 Mandarin Duck, 3 Egyptian Goose, Kestrel Kenwood Pond; 2 Nuthatch, 2 Coal Tit, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker all on feeders Bird Sanctuary Pond; 200+ Redwing by bandstand, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Mistle Thrush, 5 Goldfinch, pair Great Crested Grebe Men's Swimming Pond (Allan Stewart)
 * Hertford Heath: 2 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard (Jon Agar)
 * Holyfield Lake: northern end in river by weir a dead Barn Owl - informed an employee of the water board who fished it out (J-P Elmes)
 * Hyde Park: 22 Lapwing E 11:20, Peregrine (John & Janet Cadera)
 * King George V Reservoir: m Red-breasted Merganser [Ldn foy] n basin n end, m Smew, 12 Goosander, 28 Goldeneye, 5 Wigeon, 8 Dunlin, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Lapwing, Stonechat, 6 Buzzard, 3 Peregrine scrapping, 25 Fieldfare, 40 Redwing (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)
 * Lamorbey Park: pair Teal, 4 Tufted Duck, 2 Little Grebe summer plumage, Peregrine, 2 Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Pied Wagtail, 2 Mistle Thrush, 3+ Redwing, 4+ Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Jay, Jackdaw (Ian Stewart)
 * Leytonstone: Woodcock flushed from bushes to the north of A14 Bush Road (Roger Orwin)
 * Little Beechill Wood: 4 Common Buzzard overhead 12:50 (Robert Callf)
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 Bittern SE corner main lake but flew into middle of reed bed at 13.40, 5 Jack Snipe wader scrape, 1 Dunlin grazing marsh, 21 Common Snipe grazing marsh and wader scrape (Martin Honey); Yellow-legged Gull 2cy - different to last week's, 290+ Herring Gull, 20 Ring-necked Parakeet feeding on sallow catkins (J.Wilczur); 16 Redwing, 3 Fieldfare west bank with sheep 13:00, 6+ Stonechat Wildside 14:30 (Sue Barry); also 4 Shelduck, 190 Lapwing, 6 Dunlin, Caspian Gull 3cy, 19 Fieldfare, 2 Brambling, Redpoll E (WWT website)
 * Motspur Park: Peregrine gas holder, 3 Goldcrests & 25 Redwing wood (Bob Smith)
 * Primrose Hill: 50 Woodpigeon N, 34 Redwing, Grey Wagtail site-foy NNE 0740 (Twitter)
 * Rainham RSPB: 2 Little Egret, 4 Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, 17 Avocet, 3 Oystercatcher, 14 Golden Plover, 7 Curlew, Bar-tailed Godwit, 140 Black-tailed Godwit, Turnstone, 4 Ruff, 600 Dunlin, 3 Snipe, 12 Redshank, f Blackcap, Fieldfare (per ELBF FB)
 * Regent's Park: wintering m Water Rail still in rail ditch [area 2], no sign wintering m Firecrest hanover grn (area 4), migrant m Stonechat foy triangular pen [area 36] 0955 (area 36)
 * Richmond Park: Red Kite NW 1130 (Sula Riedlinger tweet); 11 Woodcock - emerged from a wood at dusk (RPBG)
 * St Albans: 2 Hawfinch over Jerome Dr am (George Moreton tweet)
 * Scotsbridge Mill: Water Rail river bend before f/b 14.45 (Ralph Darvill via Herts BC)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: Pattypool Mead - Ruff at 07:50 flew N at 08:00. Unsure if this was the same bird as yesterday or another migrant (Martin Shepherd)
 * Southall: 4+ Red Kites over 10:30-11:40 (Phil Belman) TQ1280
 * Staines Reservoir: Black-necked Grebe & AMERICAN HORNED LARK still (Mark Bravery tweet)
 * Stocker's Lake: 10 Red-crested Pochard, Oystercatcher (Steve Carter via Herts BC); m Lesser Spotted Woodpecker drumming (Herts BN); 2f Smew fr shover_hide still am, Cetti's Warbler newt_pond (Gordon Cox tweet); 2 Smew still pm (David Hutchinson tweet); 4 Goldeneye 2pr (Geoff Lapworth)
 * Thorndon CP: n section - 2 Buzzard, 4 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper, 60+ Fieldfare, 2 Hawfinch Childerditch Wd, 15 Lesser Redpoll (Andrew Cox via EBwS BN)
 * Tooting Commons: 1 Firecrest in Bedford Woods, also 1 Sparrowhawk, 20+ Redwing (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Trent Park: Little Egret perched up over Merryhills Brook nr bridle path, 3 Eurasian Teal 2m 1f upper lake, 4 Common Pochard 2m 2f lower lake, 4 Tufted Duck 3m 1f, 2 singing Coal Tit, 2 Nuthatch, Treecreeper (Robert Callf); 6 Tufted Duck 3m 3f, 6 Mandarin 4m 2f, 2 Song Thrush, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, 4 Pochard 2m f, no sign of Teal on upper lake late pm (Pete Lowman)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: Oystercatcher main gp (Terry Smith via Herts BC)
 * Verulamium Park: Little Egret, 2+ Siskin (Andrew Steele via Herts BC)
 * Walthamstow Wetlands: SERIN with Linnet flock & LITTLE BUNTING still (Jamie Partridge/David Bradshaw via Twitter); Serin seen twice before 0830 but not thereafter (Lee Evans tweet); Serin not seen again between 9:30 and 3:30pm, Scaup still on No 4, Knot and Redshank on Lockwood, 2 Goosander early, Stonechat (Walthamstow Birders) Serin pics here
 * Wanstead Flats: 3 Stonechat, 6 Skylark 3 singers, 3 Meadow Pipit, Rook, Redwing, Reed Bunting, 14 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, 2 Teal, 18 Tufted Duck, Pochard, Kestrel (Niick Croft/Wren Group)
 * Wanstead Park: 13 Teal, 12 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, 2 Pochard, Water Rail, Little Grebe, 16 Redwing, 4 Fieldfare, 6 Song Thrush, Nuthatch, Treecreeper, 3 Coal Tit, 3 Goldcrest, Siskin, Reed Bunting, 4 Stock Dove, Sparrowhawk, Buzzard (Nick Croft/Wren Group)
 * Westbourne Park: Red Kite E over tube station 09:30 (Charlie Farrell)
 * William Girling Reservoir: relief channel - Dunlin, 2 Green Sandpiper, 5 Little Egret, Shelduck, 25 Teal (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)
 * Wimbledon Common: 3 Fieldfare & 12 Redwing on the Plain (Les Evans-Hill)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: 4 Snipe, 5 Teal, 2 Shelduck, 8 Shoveler, 3 Lesser Redpoll, 2+ Reed Bunting (Chris Farthing)
 * Worcester Park: Meadow Pipit, male Stonechat on horse fields (Bob Smith)

Monday 5th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Woodcock flew south from Cricket Scrub (Gerry Rawcliffe per Bob Watts)
 * Amwell Nature Reserve: 42 Lapwing, 4 Pintail, Yellow-legged Gull (Jon Agar); rh Smew still fr gladwin hide (Frances Hurst via Herts BC)
 * Belvedere, River Thames: foreshore - incl. 7 Black-tailed Godwit, 7 Dunlin, 8 Gadwall, 4 Lapwing, 3 Meadow Pipit, an Oystercatcher, 5 Redshank and 3 Ringed Plover (Mike Robinson)
 * Betchworth Hills: 11 Hawfinch (Steve Gale tweet) [new site for LNHS gazetteer’’ TQ207519]
 * Betchworth Quarry: 8-10 Hawfinch lower wooded section (David Stubbs via Twitter)
 * Bramblehall Wood: still 325+ Hawfinch mainly moved up to Ashurst Rough (Steve Gale)
 * Brent Reservoir: 2 Shelduck, 5 Snipe, 4 Dunlin, 1 Cetti's Warbler (Andrew Haynes). 11 Snipe, 2 Cetti's Warbler (incl. one singing just on the NE side of Cool Oak Bridge), 1 Skylark (dam), 1 Little Egret (N. Marsh), male Sparrowhawk, Lithuanian-ringed Common Gull, Finnish-ringed Black-headed Gull and colour-ringed Coot [that isn't one of mine from the London Royal Parks - possibly from Hilfield Park Res] - all North Marsh (Bill Haines)
 * Brockwell Park: dead Lapwing, c20 Redwing (Tom Pollard via Twitter)
 * Brookmill Park: Little Egret, Kingfisher, 3 Redwing, Goldcrest, Coal Tit (Conrad Ellam)
 * Broxbourne: 2 Raven NE (Phil Blatcher via Herts BC)
 * Broxbournre Woods: female Bullfinch (Jon Agar)
 * Burgess Park: 7 Siskin, 20 Redwing (Phil Laurie)
 * Canons Farm: Lapwing infront george, 150 Fieldfare, 30 Redwing, migrant m Stonechat reads bottom (Ian Magness via CFBW blog)
 * Colliers Wood: 1 Kingfisher, 2 Chiffchaff presumed overwinterers (Keith Bates)
 * Coursers Farm: 2+ Tree Sparrow [private land TL201036] (Alan Gardiner via Herts BC)
 * Crayford Marshes: 20+ Shelduck, 16+ Gadwall, 4 Pintail 2 pairs at Darent mouth, c40 Wigeon, c100 Teal, 3 Little Grebe, Buzzard, 2+ Avocet, c200 Lapwing, Turnstone at saltings, c600 Dunlin a conservative estimate, Common Sandpiper, 30+ Redshank, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, ad Mediterranean Gull flew downriver along Thames, 2 Green Woodpecker, 6+ singing Skylark, Water Pipit at saltings but very elusive, Rock Pipit, 5+ Meadow Pipit, 6 Pied Wagtail, 4 Stonechat, 4 Song Thrush, 50+ Fieldfare, 30+ Redwing, 3 Cetti’s Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 4 Goldcrest, 3 Jay, 1+ Rook, 2 Greenfinch, 2 Reed Bunting singing, Corn Bunting singing along Darent creek (Ian Stewart)
 * East India Dock Basin: 11 Shelduck, Cetti's Warbler (Paul Hyland)
 * Eastcote: 2 Hawfinch Eastcote Cricket Club 09:10 (Richard Francis); Field End RG - 3 Greenfinch, Green Woodpecker, Fieldfare, 2 Song Thrush (Tim Rymer)
 * Ellenbrook Fields: Round Wd - 2+ Hawfinch feeding in leaf litter w/ Chaffinches (Rupert Evershed tweet) TL200091
 * Erith Reach: foreshore - incl. 1 Avocet, 15 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Curlew, 4 Gadwall, a Grey Wagtail, a Rock Pipit, 36 Redshank and 70+ Teal (Mike Robinson) Little Egret and Lapwing (Charlie Clark)
 * Fairlop Waters: Woodcock, Stonechat, Common Buzzard (Joe and Alexander Dickens)
 * Greenwich Park: 2 Sparrowhawk m f (Ray Crouch)
 * Gunpowder Park: area - c25 Lapwing in field opp main entrance (Tony Brown tweet)
 * Hampstead Garden Suburb: Sheridan Walk - 2 Lapwings E 0945 and Peregrine W 1013 (Pete Mantle)
 * Hampstead Heath: 200+ Redwing feeding around bandstand, 5 Egyptian Goose on ponds, pair Great Crested Grebe on Men's Swimming pond, male Siskin with 5 Goldfinch, 7 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Green Woodpecker, 2 Coal Tit on feeders, Nuthatch on feeders Bird Sanctuary Pond (Allan Stewart)
 * Hilly Fields: c40 Redwing (Tom Moulton)
 * Holmethorpe SPs: pr Ruddy Shelduck Water Colour lagoons am (Gordon Hay per Dave Harris via Twitter)
 * Hook: Little Egret flew low across back garden (Nigel Jackman) TQ179653
 * Lee Valley, Friday Lake: red-head Smew (Mike Oakland)
 * Lee Valley, Holyfield Lake: Oystercatcher, Marsh Tit (Mike Oakland)
 * Little Britain Lake, Cowley, Uxbridge: 5 Mandarin Duck 3m 2f, 6 Red Kite together, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Little Egret, c18 Grey Heron c9 occupied nests, Shoveler, Gadwall (Roger Dewey)
 * London Wetland Centre: 3 Shelduck including 2 looking in new shelduck_box on wader scrape, 16 Pintail, 3 Bittern, 175 Lapwing, Curlew, Dunlin, 2 Jack Snipe, 11 Redwing, 6 Fieldfare, Yellow-legged Gull, 5 Siskin (WWT website/Simon Fogg)
 * Olympic Park: 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Egyptian Goose, 2 Gadwall (Marcin Kempa)
 * Pinner (The Croft): flock of 20+ Goldfinch feeding in trees by play area (Nigel Barratt)
 * Rainham Marshes RSPB: 16+ Shelduck, 5 Pintail, 2 Marsh Harrier, 6 Golden Plover, 2 Curlew, 14+ Black-tailed Godwit, 40+ Dunlin, 5 Common Snipe, Kestrel Skylark, 4 Stonechat, 3-4 Meadow Pipit, Fieldfare (Jack Headley via Twitter); Pink-footed Goose [Ldn foy] (Andy Tweed per ELBF FB); ad Mediterranean Gull (Ian Stewart per ELBF FB); also 3 Marsh Harrier, 15 Avocet, 19 Golden Plover, Bar-tailed Godwit, 125 Black-tailed Godwit, 600 Dunlin, 6 Redshank, 4 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush (per ELBF FB)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon - Sat. Park only in visitor bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Richmond Park: several dozen Redwing, Tawny Owl, Red Kite, Stonechat 2m 2f, 2 Kestrel, Shoveler pr, Gadwall pr, Great Crested Grebe, Song Thrush, Woodcock (P. Redmond)
 * Ruislip Woods: 10 Hawfinch down from Wiltshire Lane entrance 10:10 (Richard Francis)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: Dunlin still fr gadwall_hide 1000 (Alan Gardiner via Herts BC)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: Pattypool Mead - Ruff feeding on edge of flooded area at 08:00 (Martin Shepherd)
 * Staines Moor: R.Colne from A30 to 2nd bridge - 1 Water Pipit, 4 Dunlin 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Redshank, 2 Common Snipe, 2 Wigeon, 2 Teal 07:45-09:15 (Alastair Dent); 5 Buzzard, 2 Red Kite, 1 Chiffchaff (Peter Carlill); also Little Egret, 3 Red Kite, 40 Lapwing, 2 Stonechat, Grey Wagtail (Robert Martin via Twitter)
 * Staines Reservoir: s basin - Black-necked Grebe; n basin - m Scaup, Oystercatcher, 3 Dunlin, Redshank (Dom Pia via Twitter)
 * Stocker's Lake: 2 red-head Smew still present - view from the screen or from shoveler_hide (John Edwards)
 * Surbiton Filter Beds: 3 Gadwall, 9 Lapwing, 2 Shoveler, 2 Wigeon (Nigel Jackman)
 * Telegraph Hill Park, New Coss: 27 Redwing, 2 Chaffinch m f, 30+ House Sparrow (Keith Chambers)
 * Tooting Bec Common: Bedford Wood - 1 Treecreeper, 1 Nuthatch, 30+ Redwing (Nick Moll); 1 Little Owl (Alan Wilkinson)
 * Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park: Firecrest male and 2 Coal Tit Horse Chestnut Glade 0800, 5+ Goldcrest, 12 Goldfinch (Bob Watts)
 * Town Park, Enfield: 3 Shoveler 2m 1f, 7 Tufted Duck 4m 3f, 46 Black-headed Gull, imm Herring Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 61 Redwing (Robert Callf)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs and Willows Farm: main gp - Dunlin, 3 Green Sandpiper, Caspian Gull 2w late-pm, 142 Lesser Black-backed Gull, m Stonechat; fishing lake - Oystercatcher; willows fm - 2 Red Kite, 4 Buzzard, Little Owl (TyttGP twitter)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: male Stonechat, 2 Water Rail (Richard Hack)
 * Walthamstow Wetlands: LITTLE BUNTING still around seed tray with Reed Buntings & Linnets, Knot, Redshank, Dunlin and Green Sandpiper on Lockwood pm, Buzzard over (Terry Rawlings, David Bradshaw, Lol Bodini); SERIN [from 10 Feb] seen briefly from LB viewing spot in tree with Linnets, Peregrine (James Hudson)
 * Wanstead Flats: 5 Skylark, 2 Meadow Pipit, Stonechat, 7 Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Stock Dove, Goldcrest, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon, 6 Shoveler, Gadwall, 400+ Common Gull, 100+ Black-headed Gull, 15+ Herring Gull, 15 Greenfinch, 2 Reed Bunting (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park: Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 90+ Redwing, 50+ Fieldfare, 3 Mistle Thrush, 6 Song Thrush, 2 Goldcrest, Treecreeper, Nuthatch, Coal Tit, Little Grebe, 2 Pochard, 20+ Shoveler, 5 Teal, 9 Stock Dove, Kingfisher (Nick Croft)
 * Weald CP: Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 4 Buzzard, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Green Woodpecker, 6 Treecreeper, 2 Nuthatch, 15 Siskin, 10 Chaffinch, Greenfinch, 15 Goldfinch, Water Rail, 4 Moorhen, 2 Coot, 2 Coal Tit, 10 Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush, 8 Song Thrush (Martin Jordan per ELBF FB)
 * Whitewebbs Golf Course: Mediterranean Gull 1st-winter 09:43-09:47 (Robert Callf)
 * Whitewebbs Park: 3 Treecreeper, 2 Hawfinch perched together, possibly a third seen briefly in flight 08:15 (Robert Callf)
 * Wimbledon Common: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 1 seen drumming 06:45 adjacent to Inner Windmill Rd, before being moved on by a Great Spotted Woodpecker (Les and Angela Evans-Hill)
 * Wimbledon Village: Blackcap f, Firecrest (Hugh Nicholson)
 * Winchmore Hill: The Green, N21 - 10 Redwing (Robert Callf)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Dunlin, Snipe, 6+ Teal, 2 Shelduck, Great Black-backed Gull, 2+ Reed Bunting (Chris Farthing)

Sunday 4th March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Gadwall drake southern end of Wood Green Res - 1st since Autumn 2016, 90+ Redwing, 25+ Fieldfare (Bob Watts)
 * Amwell NR: Gt Hardmead L - 5m Pintail opp viewpt, 2rh Smew still south edge fr gladwin hide 1000, Snipe high S, 20+ Fieldfare E, Raven over viewpt (Murray Orchard via Herts BC); 3 Hawfinch over Gt Hardmead L (Barry Reed via Herts BC)
 * Beddington Farmlands: 1 Ruff, 1+ Golden Plover, 1 Mediterranean Gull, 2+ Dunlin, 3+ Water Pipit, 2 Stonechat, 20 Redwing, 50+ Fieldfare, 45+ Snipe, Little Egret, 30+ Meadow Pipit, 4 Wigeon, 60+ Lapwing, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Kestrel, Common Buzzard, 2 Song Thrush, 12 Shelduck, 2 Skylark, 20+ Linnet, 3 Reed Bunting, Water Rail the highlights of LNHS walk this morning (Arjun Dutta)
 * Borehamwood: 53 Fieldfare on Habs playing field (Alan Lewis).
 * Brent Reservoir: Dunlin on mud, 18 Snipe, 3 Lapwing, 130+ Tufted Duck, 32 Pochard, 2 Shelduck, Pintail, 4 Cetti's Warbler, 120 Redwing, 30 Fieldfare, 4 Siskin, 3 Redpoll (Andrew Self, Roy Beddard)
 * Brockwell Park: 120 Redwing, 2 Fieldfare, 2 Mistle Thrush, 3 Chaffinch, 1 Little Grebe upper pond (Matthew J. Bradbury)
 * Brookmill Park: 2 Kingfisher, 10 Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * Broxbourne Woods: 35+ Hawfinch flew in to roost 1345-1500 (Laurence Drummond via Herts BC)
 * Bow Creek: 39 Redshank, 2 Common Sandpiper (Dante Shepherd)
 * Bushy Park: 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, 4 Mistle Thrush, 60+ Redwing, Reed Bunting, Song Thrush, 2 Stonechat (Ian R Watson)
 * Crossness: Cormorant, 30 Shelduck, 4 Wigeon, Gadwall, 50 Teal, Mallard, 1 male Pintail, 30 Shoveler, 30 Lapwing, 400 Dunlin, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Curlew, 2 Skylark, 4 Pied Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler (George Kalli)
 * Enfield Lock: Cetti's Warbler singing at 09:00 in Government Row garden (Martin Shepherd)
 * Enfield Town: Red Kite circling 12:00 (Robert Callf)
 * Erith-Church Manorway: 2 Cormorant, 20 Shelduck, Gadwall, 20 Teal, Mallard, 1 Oystercatcher, 2 Avocet,100 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Curlew, 15 Redshank,1 Meadow Pipit, 1 Rock Pipit, Pied Wagtail, 1 Stonechat, 8 Fieldfare, 6 Redwing, 1 Mistle Thrush, 3 Long-tailed Tit, Goldfinch, 6 Linnet (George Kalli)
 * Fairlop Waters: no sign of Great Northern Diver, but Caspian Gull 2w perched on boats, 1 Dunlin on main island, 3 Pintail, Snipe & Little Owl seen (J.Murray)
 * Finchley: garden N3 - m Blackcap (Samuel Levy)
 * Garden Wood: 20+ Hawfinch (Rupert Evershed tweet)
 * Greenford Bridge to Hanwell Lodge (River Brent): 12 Teal, m Mandarin, Red Kite, f Sparrowhawk, 4 Stock Dove, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker chasing each other over field, 3 Green Woodpecker heard, Grey Wagtail, 2 Goldcrest, 113 Redwing 73 Churchfield Rec Ground, 8 Fieldfare golf course, 6 Mistle Thrush 4 Churchfield, 4 Greenfinch (Neil Anderson)
 * Greenway: Kestrel, 12 Fieldfare over, 40+ Redwing, 2 Goldcrest, 16 Linnet, 2 Teal [site first] (Harry Harrison)
 * Greenwich Peninsular: 1 Dunlin, 4 Gadwall, 4 Yellow-legged Gull (Dante Shepherd)
 * Gunpowder Park: 4 Common Snipe, 86 Fieldfare, 35 Redwing, 11 Skylark, 17 Meadow Pipit, Kestrel, 13 Lapwing over NE, Water Rail on River Lea relief channel (Martin Shepherd)
 * Guy Lodge Farm: 11 Northern Lapwing on field 08:45 (Robert Callf)
 * Hilfield Park Reservoir: Aythya hybrid - much like male Ferruginous Duck but yellowy eye and flanks contrasting with breast suggest not pure. In south east corner of res - viewable from Hogg Lane viewing platform, w/ 4 Pochard, Common Scoter still, 2 Dunlin E from dam 12pm, 15 Fieldfare N (Tony Blake)
 * Hilly Fields Park, Enfield: female Lesser Spotted Woodpecker singing (Robert Callf)
 * Hogsmill River: 1 Little Egret on Tolworth Court Farm side (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Hollow Pond: 2 Redpoll (Phil Aylen via Twitter)
 * Isle of Dogs: Yellow-legged Gull 2cy on Thames shore at Masthouse Terrace Pier (Sean Huggins)
 * KGV Res: 15 Shoveler, 30 Gadwall, 5 Wigeon, 50+ Teal, 3 Scaup, 23 Goldeneye, Smew, 4 Goosander, 4 Little Egret, Oystercatcher, 23 Lapwing, Grey Plover, 2 Ruff, 22 Dunlin, 3 Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 3 Skylark, Chiffchaff, Mistle Thrush, 3 Grey Wagtail, 12 Meadow Pipit, 40 Linnet, Reed Bunting (Neville Smith tweet)
 * Ladywell Fields: 28 Black-headed Gull on football pitches, Green Woodpecker, Kingfisher, 3 Fieldfare, 5 Redwing, Mistle Thrush, 3 Song Thrush singing, c50 Goldfinch, w/ Chaffinch m in one flock, Grey Wagtail 16.15-17.30 (Keith Chambers); 2 Snipe by R Ravensbourne am (Chris White tweet)
 * Lamorbey Park: Song Thrush, Nuthatch, Goldcrest (Mike Amos); Egyptian Goose, 16 Teal, 2 Little Grebe, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, 20+ Fieldfare, 10+ Redwing, 6+ Goldcrest, Nuthatch, Jay, 2 Jackdaw (Ian Stewart)
 * London Wetland Centre: 3 Bittern, 28 Fieldfare, 4 Redwing, 7 Pintail, 4 Shelduck, Kingfisher, 3 Water Rail, 3 Jack Snipe, Dunlin, Goldeneye (WWT website); 1 Curlew low over Dulverton Hide at 1530 (Keith Bates)
 * Lonsdale Road Reservoir (St Paul's Playing Fields): c85 Fieldfare, 65 Redwing (David Jeffreys)
 * Lynsters Farm: Barnacle Goose, Oystercatcher (Steve Carter via Herts BC)
 * Maple Lodge NR: 2 Snipe (Steve Carter via Herts BC)
 * Millfields E5: Peregrine on the sub-station pylon at 17:30 (Alastair Dent)
 * Morden Hall Park: 8 Teal 4+ pr, 2 Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, Lapwing, 60 Black-headed Gull, Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail (MHP NG tweet)
 * Mudchute Farm: 34 Redwing, 2 Fieldfare, 2 Great Spotted Woodpeckers 1 drumming, Goldcrest singing (Sean Huggins)
 * Osterley Park: 7 Common Gull, 2 Egyptian Goose, 2 Fieldfare, 3 Grey Heron, 20+ Jackdaw, Little Owl, 2 Mistle Thrush, Pied Wagtail, 70+ Redwing, 58+ Ring-necked Parakeet, 9 Shoveler, 5 Stock Dove (Richard Woolley).
 * Purfleet: 1 Dark-bellied Brent Goose, ad m Marsh Harrier, 27 Avocet, 1 Oystercatcher, 3 Grey Plover, 128 Lapwing, 7 Curlew, 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, 51 Black-tailed Godwit, 671 Dunlin, ad Mediterranean Gull, 52 Fieldfare (Fraser Simpson)
 * Putney Heath: 1 Woodcock Ladies Mile, 3 Greylag Geese, 20 Fieldfare and 30 Redwing (Adrian Podmore); possibly the same Woodcock E along Jubilee Ride/Capital Ring c10am (Les Evans-Hill)
 * Rainham RSPB: Dark-bellied Brent Goose, 15 Gadwall, 98 Wigeon, 4 Pintail, Little Grebe, 3 Marsh Harrier, Water Rail, 30 Avocet, 30 Avocet, Oystercatcher, 128 Lapwing, 3 Golden Plover, 3 Grey Plover, 7 Curlew, 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, 147 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Ruff, 671 Dunlin, 10 Snipe, Jack Snipe, 9 Redshank, ad Mediterranean Gull, Barn Owl, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, 2 Peregrine, Cetti's Warbler, Long-tailed Tit, Chiffchaff, 3f Blackcap, 52 Fieldfare, 5 Redwing, Song Thrush, 4 Stonechat, Meadow Pipit, 2 Water Pipit, 3 Bullfinch (per ELBF FB)
 * Ravenor Park: Sparrowhawk, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker calling, 40+ Redwing uttering sub-song from tall poplars, singing Goldcrest (Neil Anderson)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues, 1 Lesser Redpoll fem early am. No parking charges on Sundays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Ruislip Woods NNR and Ruislip Lido: Park Wood - 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker lots of drumming heard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 3 Stock Doves, 6 Redwing, 4 Ring-necked Parakeet, 2 Long-tailed Tit (Nigel Barratt); 30+ Hawfinch located on map marked with stars 9:05-10:10 (Richard Francis); Dunlin still at lido (Kabir Kaul via Twitter)
 * Sevenoaks WR: Shelduck, 20 Shoveler, 3 Pintail 2m f, 31 Pochard, 9 Little Grebe, 22 Great Crested Grebe, Black-necked Grebe still, Sparrowhawk, Red Kite, Water Rail, Black-tailed Godwit, 7 Snipe, 2 Coal Tit, Nuthatch, 20 Starling, 100 Fieldfare, 90 Redwing, 21 Goldfinch, 90 Siskin (per Susanna Clerici via Kent OS)
 * Sidcup: Lamorbey DA15 - c20 Fieldfare, Sparrowhawk W, adult Lesser Black-backed Gull E with c10 Herring Gulls (Mike Amos)
 * Sopwell: 2 Little Egret in R Ver (Alan Gardiner via Herts BC)
 * Springwell Lake: Great Egret still early-am but elusive (Paul Lewis via Twitter); 6 Goldeneye (Lee Evans via Twitter)
 * Staines Reservoir: Black-necked Grebe s/p, 3 Dunlin, AMERICAN HORNED LARK still mid-causeway south bank (Max Hellicar tweet); also Scaup, 2 Oystercatcher (per Dom Pia tweet)
 * Stocker's Lake: Barnacle Goose, m Red-crested Pochard, 17 Goldeneye, 18 Wigeon, 2rh Smew 1500 fr shoveler_hide then E (Lee Evans via Herts BC)
 * Teddington: Blackcap in tree (Mike Foster)
 * Thames Barrier Park: 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Curlew upriver 12:22, 4 Lapwing upriver, 1 Mediterranean Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Rock Pipit (Dante Shepherd)
 * Thames Lambeth-Chelsea Bridges: 12 Gadwall, Dunlin E, 2 Caspian Gull 2cy 4cy, 2 Yellow-legged Gull ad 2cy, 30 Goldfinch (N P Senior)
 * Tottenham Marshes: 2 Teal on River Lea, several Goldcrest.14:00 (Dave Nichols)
 * Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: Woodcock flushed from 'owl'_field, Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, 9 Teal, c55 Fieldfare, c35 Redwing, 5 Siskin (John Colmans); 4 Hawfinch nr power stn, Bullfinch, Meadow Pipit, Common Buzzard, House Sparrow, 80 Common Gull, 2 Rook (Simon Worsfold); Belmont Farm - 2 Greylag & 3 'farmyards', 45 Canada Geese, 7 Mandarin Duck, Sparrowhawk, 19 Stock Dove, 2 Collared Dove, Tawny Owl, Monk Parakeet of unknown origin came in with a flock of Ring-necked Parakeets to roost 16:22, Nuthatch, f/1stw Black Redstart on farm buildings at opening then flew to lambing shed, 27 Fieldfare, 134 Redwing, 9 Starling, 2 Grey Wagtail, Hawfinch perched briefly by show pens then flew E towards Darlands 12:15 (Samuel Levy)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs and Willows Farm: main gp - 3 Red Kite, Water Rail, Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Caspian Gull 2w still, 3 Lesser Redpoll; fishing lake - Little Egret, returning Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper; tytt'r fm - 8+ Tree Sparrow; willows fm - 2 Little Owl, 60+ Linnet feeding in c/p (Rupert Evershed via Herts BC)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: c80 Fieldfare and c60 Redwing on the paddocks, 1 Stonechat f on Leyton Marsh 10:00-11:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Walthamstow Wetlands: LITTLE BUNTING showing well by seed tray at 13:00 with Reed Buntings for 5 minutes, male Scaup and 4+ Goldeneye, 3 Shelduck over (Allan Stewart); c30 Linnets and one Redwing, 2 Goldcrest 15:00 (Dave Nichols); Redshank, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper and 7 Lapwing around Lockwood (David Bradshaw, Lol Bodini); also 6 Goldeneye (Mark Bravery tweet)
 * Walton Res (Knight & Bessborough): Kittiwake 1w am predated by crows (BirdGuides)
 * Wanstead Flats: 6 Skylark, 77 Fieldfare, 20 Meadow Pipit, Linnet, Stonechat (James Heal tweet)
 * Wanstead Park: 2 Water Rail, Woodcock, Common Snipe, 25 Fieldfare, 60 Redwing, Siskin (Wanstead Birders); also Sparrowhawk, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Coal Tit, 45 Fieldfare, 5 Chaffinch (James Heal tweet)
 * Whitewebbs Farm: Hawfinch perched up in tree (Robert Callf)
 * Whitewebbs Park: 28 Mandarin Duck 17m 11f ornamental pond, 2 Common Buzzard pr displaying overhead, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch, 3 Treecreeper incl two singing males (Robert Callf)
 * Wimbledon Common: 1 Skylark, 1 Reed Bunting female, 2 Meadow Pipits on the Plain (Adrian Podmore); presumed same Skylark as Adrian plus 1f Sparrowhawk, 1f Kestrel, 2 Snipe [AEH] on the Plain (Les and Angela Evans-Hill)
 * Worcester Park: Garden KT4- 1f Blackcap in hedge, first female since the autumn (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Woodoaks Farm: Ruff briefly in sheep field w/ Lapwing 1330 (Geoff Lapworth via Herts BC); Stonechat, Yellowhammer (Lee Evans via Herts BC)
 * Wormwood Scrubs: m Stonechat still (Paul Thomas via Twitter)

Saturday 3rd March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: Dunlin 0950 [Bob Watts] for a few minutes working its way along east bank of Wood Green Res at water's edge flying between rocks and bank [2nd record this century], also 60 Fieldfare, 15+ Redwing, 56 Tufted Duck, 11 Pochard, 1-2 Treecreeper (APOG Birders)
 * Belvedere Nuxley Road: 40 Redwing (Sarah Barry)
 * Bow Creek: 30 Redshank and 2 Common Sandpiper in the roost, c30 Teal, Peregrine, Kestrel (Frank Nugent)
 * Brent Reservoir: 2m Shelduck, m Pintail Main Hide, 4 Dunlin, 7 Common Snipe, 2 Egyptian Goose, 20+ Fieldfare, 40+ Redwing, 3 Water Rail seen, 3 Cetti’s Warbler, Meadow Pipit, Reed Bunting, Nuthatch, Woodcock flushed on south bank 14:55 - lots of tracks in the snow again (Brent Birders)
 * Brookmill Park: 2 Teal, Kingfisher, Fieldfare, 5 Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * Bushy Park: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker calling in Woodland Gardens adjacent to Dukes Head Passage (Gordon Shaw); 100 Redwing near SHAEF memorial (Mike Foster)
 * Bushy Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, 2 Kestrel, 25+ Meadow Pipit, 2 Redwing (Ian R Watson)
 * Chinbrook Meadows: Common Snipe, 8 Redwing (David Slater)
 * Colliers Wood: 1 Snipe riverside towards Plough Lane, 1 Fieldfare (Keith Bates) WMNP site recorded separately below [KB]
 * Cowley, Uxbridge: 1 male Blackcap in garden eating fatballs.(Roger Dewey)
 * Crossness: 3 Avocet, 2 Grey Plover, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, 500 Dunlin, drake Pintail, 12 Wigeon, 54 Shoveler, 69 Fieldfare, Skylark, male Black Redstart (Dante Shepherd, Richard Bonser)
 * Dulwich SG: 60+ Fieldfare (Harry Rutherford via Twitter) TQ328735
 * Ealing: garden W13 - Song Thrush in garden [very rare as a garden bird] briefly before being chased off by Blackbirds, 7 Woodpigeon [garden record], 3 Redwing in front garden yesterday (Bill Haines)
 * East India Dock: 9 Redshank on the island which later relocated to Bow Creek, 15 Shelduck, Little Egret, 13 Teal, Cetti's Warbler. 2 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing and 3 House Sparrow in the copse (Frank Nugent)
 * Fairlop Waters: 1 Great Northern Diver, Caspian Gull 2w, 1 Woodcock, 3 Pintail, 1 m Sparrowhawk, 20 Pochard, 32 Teal, 3 Shelduck, 15 Tufted Duck, 23 Shoveler (Steve Bacon)
 * Figges Marsh: adult Mediterranean Gull, 85+ Common Gull, adult Herring Gull, 9 Fieldfare (James Hudson) [new site for LNHS gazetteer’’ TQ280700]
 * Finchley: garden N3 - m Blackcap, Starling, Mistle Thrush, 10 Redwing, 2 Fieldfare, Song Thrush (Samuel Levy)
 * Foots Cray Meadows: 2 Little Grebe, 2 Little Egret, 2 Mute Swan, 2-3 Egyptian Goose, 4+ Tuftied Duck, Water Rail, 2+ Lapwing over, 2 Common Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Kingfisher, Green Woodpecker, 2+ Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming, Fieldfare, 2 Song Thrush, 6 Redwing, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Jay, 4+ Jackdaw, Greenfinch, 2 Goldfinch; no sign of the Jack Snipe or other cold weather movements in thorough search 10:00-14:00 (Mike Amos)
 * Forty Hall CP, Enfield: Little Egret along Turkey Brook (Robert Callf)
 * Fulham Reach: 2 Dunlin 9.30am by Hammersmith Bridge (Nathalie Mahieu, John Boorman)
 * Garden Wood: 1= Hawfinch, Lesser Redpoll (Steve Blake via Herts BC)
 * Guy Lodge Farm: 2 Mediterranean Gull 2nd-winter 14:48-15:15 hrs & 1st-winter 16:06-16:15 hrs in pig field viewed from Whitewebbs Lane, 100-200 Common Gull including many immatures, adult Black-headed Gull wearing yellow darvic ring (Robert Callf)
 * Hackney Marshes: c20 Redwing and c20 Fieldfare over at 11:00 (Alastair Dent)
 * Higham's Park Lake: Firecrest, 4 Goldcrest, Coal Tit, 20 Shoveler, pr Gadwall, c20 Fieldfare, c50 Redwing (Joe Dickens)
 * Hogsmill Open Space: 1+ Common Snipe, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Grey Wagtail, 1-2 Little Egret and 10+ Fieldfare with Redwings (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Ingrebourne Valley: 2 Grey Partridge, 2 Dunlin reservoir ice, Jack Snipe, Woodcock (Shaun Harvey/Paul Hawkins et al tweet)
 * Isle of Dogs: Thames Ferry St to Millennium Dr - Shelduck, Teal, 7 Great Crested Grebes, 135 Fieldfare N, Meadow Pipit, 3 Redwings; Goldcrest singing East Ferry Road (Sean Huggins)
 * Islington N1: 40+ Redwing, Fieldfare, Mistle Thrush, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Goldfinch, 5 Long-tailed Tit in St Paul's Park (Allan Stewart)
 * Kentish Town: 4 Fieldfare, 10 Redwing, 3 Siskin, 1 Blackcap feeding at Sanderson Close; nixed flock of Fieldfare and Redwing c20 birds feeding on small tree opposite Fire Station on Highgate Road (Frank Nugent).
 * King George V Reservoir: m Smew, 8 Goosander, 15+ Goldeneye, 26 Dunlin, 100+ Fieldfare (Neville Smith tweet)
 * Lamorbey Park: Egyptian Goose, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, 12+ Fieldfare, 20+ Redwing, 5 Jackdaw, Siskin (Ian Stewart)
 * London Wetland Centre: 1 Bittern, Goldeneye, Dunlin, 9 Pintail (Shailesh Patel); 2 Bittern - N shore of lake, 2 Dunlin, 520+ Herring Gull - far more than usual and no sign of the large dark-bodied pale-headed Herring type seen yesterday (J.Wilczur, S.Woolfenden, P.Pentek); 4 Dunlin on sheltered lagoon feeding at the edge of the ice [one with some dark belly markings from yesterday not present], 1 ad Yellow-legged Gull, 20 Fieldfare on E bund, 4+ Redwing, one colour-ringed Herring Gull, 4+ Water Rail seen by others (Martin Honey, Angus Innes, Wendy Newnham etc.) HGull recovery map
 * Mad Bess Woods: 8 Hawfinch in vicinity of Scout field 09:45 (Richard Francis)
 * Margravine Cemetery: 2 Fieldfare, 2 Mistle Thrush, 35+ Redwing (Nathalie Mahieu, John Boorman)
 * Mudchute Farm: 7 Fieldfares, 25 Redwing, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Sean Huggins)
 * Northolt & Greenford CP: 6 Egyptian Geese, 6 Fieldfare low W, 10 Redwing, Goldcrest, 3 Greenfinch (Neil Anderson)
 * Oxhey: Marsh Tit at gdn fdr w/ Lessers, f Blackcap (Jack Fearnside)
 * Pimlico Gardens: Great Crested Grebe downriver, 140 Cormorant, 2 Yellow-legged Gull 2cy, 8 Fieldfare W (N P Senior) [new site for LNHS gazetteer TQ296779]
 * Pinner: 4 Song Thrush, 1 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing and 12+ Blackbird on lawn, 1 very aggressive female Blackcap guarding feeders (Richard Francis)
 * Purfleet: 8 Pintail, 19 Avocet, 10 Oystercatcher, 4 Grey Plover, 4 Bar-tailed Godwit, 49 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Knot, 647 Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Peregrine, 1 Rock Pipit (Fraser Simpson)
 * Putney Heath: 3 Common Gull Kingsmere (Les Evans-Hill)
 * Queen Mother Reservoir: Ruff on north bank w/ BHGs 1030 then flew off (Peter Newbound via Berks BN)
 * Rainham Marshes: 40+ Pintail, 400+ Wigeon, 4+ Marsh Harrier, 6+ Avocet, 7 Oystercatcher, 9-10 Grey Plover, Ringed Plover, 4 Curlew, 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, 120+ Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, Sanderling on frozen Target Pool, 450+ Dunlin, Barn Owl, 2 male Bearded Tit, Cetti's Warbler, 30+ Fieldfare, 4 Stonechat, 300+ Starling, 1-2 Water Pipit, 8+ Rock Pipit (Simon Papps and Simon Satchell); foreshore - 2 Grey Plover, Bar-tailed Godwit, Knot, 2 Ruff, 8 Jack Snipe, 4 Little Gull, 2 Water Pipit (Howard Vaughan via Twitter); also 25 Shelduck, Great Crested Grebe, Sparrowhawk, 15 Avocet, 9 Oystercatcher, 500 Dunlin, 31 Redshank, Mediterranean Gull, Raven, 2 Kestrel, f Merlin, 5 Skylark, 32 Fieldfare, 3 Song Thrush, 6 Stonechat, 13 Meadow Pipit (per ELBF FB)
 * Ravenor Park: Stock Dove [my first ever in park living 20 years here though K Bull thought she saw one a couple of weeks back], 5 Redwing (Neil Anderson)
 * Richmond Park: 17 Teal (RPBG)
 * Ruislip Woods NNR and Ruislip Lido: 9+ Hawfinch 3+ Fore St area 10:10 & 3+ down from Wiltshire Ln 10:00 & 3+ in woods up from Poors Field close to Waters Meet cafe 09:25 (Richard Francis); 6 Hawfinch at Wiltshire Ln area 12:40-13:00 (John & Janet Cadera); 3 Dunlin at lido (Alex Liddle tweet)
 * Russia Dock Woodland: Woodcock flushed from undergrowth nr entrance to Stave Hill 8.45am (Richard Bonser)
 * Rye Meads RSPB: 2 Shelduck, Dunlin fr gadwall_hide, Green Sandpiper (Vicky Buckel via Herts BC)
 * St Paul's Cray (The Brook): 2 Kingfisher, 1 Little Egret, 1 Goldcrest, Fieldfare and Redwing (Jack Headley via Twitter)
 * Sevenoaks WR: Shelduck, 3 Pintail 2m f, Black-necked Grebe still, Sparrowhawk, Dunlin, 20 Fieldfare, 25 Redwing, 3 Redpoll, 100 Siskin (per Susanna Clerici via Kent OS)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: incl relief channel - 40+ Gadwall, 40+ Teal, 4 Goosander, Little Egret, 3 Water Rail, 27+ Lapwing, Ruff, 5 Dunlin, 6 Snipe, Stonechat, Meadow Pipit, Siskin (Neville Smith tweet)
 * Sidcup (Wyncham Stream & River Shuttle): 2 Little Egret, Green Sandpiper still near Annandale Rd but not usually visible from road, 3+ Snipe, Kingfisher, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2+ Fieldfare, 20+ Redwing, Coal Tit; also in vicinity 20+ Redwing and 20+ Fieldfare on uncovered grass at King Georges Park, 3 Fieldfare and a Mistle Thrush in my garden (Ian Stewart);
 * Staines Moor: 9 Dunlin still (per Lee Dingain tweet)
 * Staines Reservoir: AMERICAN HORNED LARK still w end of causeway, 1 Red Kite over, 3 Dunlin, also 1 Fieldfare on causeway (Billy Dykes); m Scaup n basin, ad Mediterranean Gull (Dom Pia tweet)
 * Stave Hill: 8 Fieldfare, 30+ Redwing (Richard Bonser)
 * Stocker's Lake: 4 Goldeneye, Little Egret, Snipe (Stephen Carter via Herts BC)
 * Streatham Common: 15 Redwing, 5 Fieldfare (OSL) [full name pls?]
 * Ten Acre Wood area: Peregrine, Snipe, 50+ Meadow Pipit, 16 Fieldfare, Red Kite, 3 Skylark (Deiniol Owen)
 * The Commons LNR: Marsh Tit, 4 Lesser Redpoll (Keith Smith per Herts BC)
 * Thamesmead: Caspian Gull 2nd-winter or German muck coming to bread on ice at Thamesmere late am, also Croatian-ringed Black-headed Gull (Richard Bonser, Dante Shepherd)
 * Tooting Commons: Firecrest c50yd in from Tooting Bec Rd east of railway track w/ a few Goldcrest, 20 Redwing on common (Ian McDonald tweet)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs and Willows Farm: main gp - Caspian Gull 2w; fishing lake - Little Grebe, Dunlin, 6+ Snipe; tytt'r fm - 7 Tree Sparrow; willows fm - c1000 Woodpigeon, Little Owl (Steve Blake per Herts BC); 2 Red Kite tytt'r fm (Chris Callum via Herts BC)
 * Upminster: c15 Fieldfares in our garden holly bush
 * Wandle Meadow Nature Park: 1 Snipe broken up ice minor pond, 3 Redwing, 2 Coot very unusual here (Keith Bates); also 2 Lapwing still, Fieldfare, 12+ Redwing (Mark Bravery tweet)
 * Wanstead Flats: Woodcock & Stonechat cat & dog pond (Tony Brown & Rob Sheldon tweet/blog)
 * Wanstead Park: Hawfinch temple/chalet wd (Tony Brown tweet/blog)
 * Watercress LNR: Water Rail, Snipe, c12 Lesser Redpoll, c8 Siskin (Chris Sharp via Herts BC)
 * Woodberry Wetlands: Red-crested Pochard, 3 Snipe, 3 Lesser Redpoll, 3 Teal, 2 Shelduck, 18 Fieldfare (Chris Farthing)
 * Worcester Park: 10 Fieldfare, 1 Lapwing on horse fields (Bob Smith)

Friday 2nd March 2018

 * Alexandra Park: 52 Tufted Duck, 11 Pochard, 15+ Redwing, Fieldfare, no sign Shoveler (Bob Watts)
 * Amwell NR: Gt Hardmead L - 13 Pintail 7m 6f, 2 Smew, Dunlin (per Herts BN)
 * Battersea Park Lake: Lapwing on ice nr Hepworth sculpture midday, 27 Shoveler, 9 Mallard, 7 Tufted Duck, no Gadwall 1st time ever but 80 per cent ice, 3 Great Crested Grebes, 8 Common, 10 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 150 Black-headed Gulls, f Sparrowhawk, 30 Grey Heron 15 nests down 50 per cent in 10 years 1 dead hanging near a nest perhaps caught by fishing line (Michael Mac)
 * Beddington Farmlands: 1 Ruff, 3 Golden Plover, 100+ Lapwing, 3 Jack Snipe, 7 Shelduck, 2 Dartford Warbler, 1 Peregrine (BFBG, Peter Alfrey)
 * Brent Reservoir: Drake Pintail by rafts, 1 Lapwing E, 25 Fieldfare, 8 Redwing, 3 Water Rail seen together, 2 ad Great Black-backed Gull, Cetti’s Warbler, Norwegian-ringed Black-headed Gull, lots of Woodcock tracks in the snow around the reserve (Magnus Andersson, Andrew Verrall)
 * Brockwell Park: 1 Fieldfare, 9 House Sparrow, 15 Starling. Pond (50% frozen over): 159 Black-headed Gull, 5 Common Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull (Tony Stones).
 * Brookmill Park: 3 Teal, 15 Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * Collier Row: 1 Redwing in garden at 8:45 (G J Francis)
 * Cornmill Meadows: Grey Plover NNE at 10:50 (Martin Shepherd)
 * Cowley: gdn in Church Rd - Woodcock photographed on trail camera 13.37 (Alex Randall)
 * Crossness: 200 Teal, 40 Shoveler, 20 Gadwall, 3 Wigeon, 5 Lapwing, 2 Knot, 200 Dunlin, 5 Redshank, 4 Common Snipe, 1 Black-tailed Godwit (Conrad Ellam)
 * Eagle Pond: Caspian Gull 3w (Charlie Clark)
 * Finchley: garden N3 - m Blackcap, 3 Stock Dove 15-20 Greenfinch, 20-25 Chaffinch, Redwing (Samuel Levy)
 * Foots Cray Meadows: Jack Snipe between Five Arches Bridge and Public Footbridge near playground, also 4 Little Grebe, 3 Little Egret, 4-5 Teal, 2 Shoveler, 8+ Common Snipe, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Canada Goose, 2 Egyptian Goose, 1 Grey Wagtail, 4+ Common Gull, 2 Mute Swan and Green Woodpecker (Jack Headley tweet); Woodcock flew from Riverside Road pumping station area, 5 Snipe, Jack Snipe showed very well staying perfectly still in Cray just W of playground c13.30, 3 Egyptian Geese, 2-3 Gadwall, 2-4 Shoveler including a pair initially on Cray E of Five Arches, 6+ Tufted Duck, 3 Little Grebe, 2 Little Egret, 2 Water Rail, Kingfisher, Skylark, Grey Wagtail, 1 Cetti’s Warbler showed well at lake prob 2nd bird seen by Jack, Goldcrest, Jay (Ian Stewart)
 * Gallions Reach: Buzzard, 16 Lapwing, Ringed Plover, Curlew, 9 Black-tailed Godwit, Jack Snipe, 14 Snipe, Dunlin, 33 Redshank, 4 Chiffchaff, Stonechat, Rock Pipit, 2 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper (Dave Morrison tweet)
 * Garden Wood: 5+ Hawfinch still (Rupert Evershed & Richard Coombes via Herts BC)
 * Greenford: 2 Fieldfare, 1 Redwing, 1 Song Thrush and 3 Blackbirds in back garden, also Coal Tit on feeders (David Pierrepont)
 * Greenwich Ecology Park: 2 Little Grebe, Water Rail, 2 Common Snipe, Grey Wagtail, 40 Goldfinch; 2 Teal & 3 Lapwing on Thames foreshore (John Bushell); 5 Common Snipe, Jack Snipe (Pat Lipsombe)
 * Greenwich Peninsular: 1 adult Little Gull upriver 15:05, 2 Dunlin, 1 Snipe, 5 Lapwing, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Shelduck, 1 Shoveler, 5 Wigeon, 12 Gadwall, 1 Rock Pipit (Dante Shepherd, Samuel Levy) LG pic here
 * Gunpowder Park: Golden Plover on ploughed area at 12:05 (Martin Shepherd)
 * Hogsmill Open Space: 1 Water Rail, 3+ Common Snipe, 1 Little Egret, 1 Grey Wagtail and only 3+ Redwings (Isaiah Rowe)
 * King George V Reservoir: 1 Lapwing south along flood relief channel 16.20, Goosander pair on channel, Kestrel, Redwing, Fieldfare through and over all day in small bands including 25 birds south at 16.45 (Christopher Wright)
 * Ladywell Fields: Common Snipe feeding in river near hospital, Fieldfare, 6 Redwing, Song Thrush, Black Redstart on rocks by bridge across to hospital, 41 Goldfinch in a flock of 35 and another of 6 15.00-17.00 (Keith Chambers)
 * Lamorbey Park: drake Gadwall, 5+ Teal, Fieldfare (Mike Amos); 8 Teal lower lake with the Gadwall, Pied Wagtail, Redwing, Fieldfare, Nuthatch (Ian Stewart)
 * Leyton, Jubilee Park: 3 Common Snipe, 10+ Teal, Grey Wagtail, Goldcrest, Kestrel, 25+ Redwing, 5 Fieldfare, Song Thrush, Lapwing over south (JW Davies)
 * London Wetland Centre: Mediterranean Gull ad - full hood, Yellow-legged Gull 2cy, 3 Dunlin still (J.Wilczur); at one stage one of the Dunlin was on the grass less than 2 feet in front of Dulverton hide window, plus 3 Pintail 2m f [main lake and reservoir lagoon] and a Robin in peacock_hide sheltering from the weather (Martin Honey & P. Knox)
 * Lower Morden: 2 Little Egrets on Pyl Brook (Bob Smith)
 * Mayflower Park Wetlands: 2 Reed Buntings and 1 Little Egret over, presumably same individual on brook (Isaiah Rowe)
 * Mill Hill: 2 Fieldfare in garden NW7 (S Blake)
 * Millwall Docks: Pochard, 55 Tufted Ducks (Sean Huggins)
 * Pinner (The Croft): 15+ Goldfinch, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Coal Tit (Nigel Barratt)
 * Rainham RSPB: 9 Pintail, 300 Wigeon, 2 Pochard, 2 Tufted Duck, 3 Marsh Harrier, Red Kite, Water Rail, 2 Avocet, 35 Lapwing, Golden Plover, 2 Grey Plover, Curlew, Bar-tailed Godwit, 6 Black-tailed Godwit, Knot, 3 Ruff, 120 Dunlin, 8 Jack Snipe, 26 Snipe, 9 Redshank, 10ad Little Gull, Barn Owl, 17 Skylark, Cetti’s Warbler, 300 Starling, 120 Fieldfare, 11 Blackbird, 27 Redwing, 6 Song Thrush, 4 Stonechat, 16 Meadow Pipit, 2 Water Pipit, 7 Rock Pipit, Bullfinch (per ELBF FB)
 * Redbridge: 2 Fieldfare in Avondale Cresc IG4 at 1700 a first for me in this location (Malcolm Hibberd)
 * Richmond: Eastern race Lesser Whitethroat still in back gardens of Selwyn & Pagoda Avenues. Parking charges apply Mon-Sat. Park only in visitors bays. (Franko J Maroevic)
 * Richmond Park; Lapwing in a car park (P.Redmond)
 * St Paul's Cray: 3 Lapwing over Normanhurst Road and Common Snipe down the Brook (Jack Headley Via Twitter)
 * Sevenoaks WR: Shelduck, 3 Pintail, Black-necked Grebe still, Dunlin, 2 Great Black-backed Gull (Matthew Bournat via Twitter)
 * Sewardstone Marsh: incl relief channel - f Sparrowhawk, 3 Shoveler, 50+ Gadwall, 7 Wigeon, 50+ Teal, 2 Goosander, 14 Lapwing, 12 Dunlin, 3 Snipe, 100+ Fieldfare, f Stonechat, 3 Meadow Pipit (Neville Smith tweet)
 * Sidcup: Wyncham Stream & R Shuttle - 2 Little Egret, Green Sandpiper in Wyncham nr Annandale Rd, 3+ Snipe, Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming, Meadow Pipit very close on river bank in Hollyoak Wood Park, Grey Wagtail, 10+ Redwing, 4 Fieldfare, Goldcrest, Siskin (Ian Stewart)
 * Southgate: Dalrymple Close N14 - male Blackcap, 5 Fieldfare, 20+ Redwing (Robert Callf)
 * Springwell Lake: pr Mandarin, Great Egret, 2 Water Rail, 2 Snipe all in stream; 4 Goldeneye on lake (Paul Lewis tweet)
 * Staines Moor: 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 9 Dunlin, 1 Jack Snipe, 3 Snipe, 1 Redshank, 22+ Lapwing, 3 Water Pipit, 1 Water Rail, 1 Wigeon, 4 Little Grebe all the above along the Colne; also 1 Woodcock, 1 Peregrine, 20+ Skylark, 4 Stonechat, 9 Gadwall, 2-3 Kestrel (Lee Dingain)
 * Staines Reservoir: 3 Dunlin n basin causeway bank, 2 Skylark causeway, AMERICAN NORNED LARK still w end (Dom Pia tweet)
 * Stanwell Moor: Snipe (Dom Pia tweet)
 * Sutton: Hawfinch (BirdGuides)
 * Tooting Common: 35+ Redwing, 7 Shoveler 4m 3f (James Hudson)
 * Tyttenhanger GPs: Rock Pipit on causeway nr pylon briefly am (Andrew Steele tweet); fishing lake - 3+ Snipe, ad wp Mediterranean Gull; main gp - Snipe, Caspian Gull (per TyttGP tweet)
 * Upminster: 2 Fieldfares have returned
 * Walthamstow: King Edward Rd gdn E17 - 2 Fieldfare [a first in my back garden], 2 Mistle Thrush (Caroline Nash)
 * Walthamstow Forest: 2 Nuthatch, 4 Redwing, 1 Goldcrest (Hannah Whitelegg)
 * Walthamstow Marshes: 2 Pintail E [a first for me here], f Stonechat on Leyton Marsh, 2 Egyptian Geese on rear paddocks, 3 Redwing in trees by front paddocks 09:30-10:30 otherwise almost completely birdless at this end of the marshes (Alastair Dent)
 * Walthamstow Reservoirs: LITTLE BUNTING still in favoured bush but very elusive, 8 Reed Bunting, 47 Shoveler in feeding whirlpool, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Water Rail heard, 1m Pheasant, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Grey Wagtail, 6 Redwing (Daniel Whitelegg) Site will be closed for the weekend
 * Wandle Meadow Nature Park: 2 Snipe flushed from fringe of snowed up grassy area adjacent to the Sewage Pumping Station, 2 Redwing only, 2 Coot very unusual here (Keith Bates)
 * Wanstead: Nightingale_Ln - Goldcrest, male Blackcap, goldfinches, blue tit, blackbird, starling, dunnock all in garden at diff times, redwings over and feeding in nearby garden; p.m in garden - Fieldfare, robin, wren, great tit, collared dove (G. Gram)
 * Wanstead Flats: Lapwing, 4 Meadow Pipit, 4 Fieldfare, 3 Redwing, Kestrel, 2 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park: Hawfinch again behind temple in yew plantation, 3 Siskin, 3 Lapwing 2 down and eemingly out of it on the bank of the Roding, 4 Teal, 28 Shoveler, Snipe, 40+ Redwing, 10 Fieldfare, Nuthatch, Coal Tit (Nick Croft/Simon Raper)
 * Wembley, Sainsbury's: m Pied Wagtail - along the fruit and veg aisle (M.Wilczur)
 * West Putney, Huntingfield Road, SW15: Little Gull, 3 W 16.40, 6 W 16.50 (R.Kaye)
 * Woodford Green: 2 Tawny Owls emerged from roost tree, the returning Fieldfare from yesterday at 6.20 am and still present at 10.30am, male Sparrowhawk beneath feeders, 2 Song Thrush, 10 Siskin, 2 Goldfinch, 3 Chaffinch (Ken Murray)
 * Woodford Green: Fieldfare feasting on apple segment; a first in my garden (Steve Howey).
 * Worcester Park: Little Egret on Beverley Brook(Bob Smith) Garden, KT4: 1 Lapwing over at 11:15 (Isaiah Rowe)

Thursday 1st March 2018

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

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