December 2020

Bird of the Month: Wonderful wintering Whitefronts

European White-fronted Goose at the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain, Hyde Park, 2nd December 2020 (© Magnus Andersson 2020) — since few birders bother uploading images to this wiki any more, I have nicked one of Magnus’s wonderful photographs to illustrate this piece

According to Andrew Self’s scholarly Birds of London, the White-fronted Goose is no more than a scarce winter visitor in the London area — an assessment confirmed by the archive pages of this wiki. Small flocks of the European race (as the BTO calls it, although you may prefer Russian, Eurasian or Siberian race) are sometimes seen over London on their way from their breeding sites in northern Russia and Scandinavia to their wintering grounds in the windswept wetlands and estuaries of England’s south coast. Only rarely does the odd bird decide to drop into London for a while before moving on.

But this year Whitefronts have excelled themselves. The season’s first London birds, reported at five sites on the last day of November, turned out to be the vanguard of an unprecedented influx into the capital. Although the individuals in Regent’s Park and South Norwood on 31st Nov were not spotted again, the others all hung around into December, with the two at London Wetland Centre hopping over the fence to Barn Elms Playing Fields until the 9th, the Walthamstow Wetlands bird moving to Walthamstow Marshes until the 12th, and the Wanstead Flats bird heroically staying put right through into 2021, joined by a second bird from 18th Dec.

Fresh arrivals during the month included a wacky Whitefront that weirdly spent 11 days hanging around the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park, while on the 5th a quartet of geese briefly graced the nearby Round Pond in Kensington Gardens. Just outside the LNHS Inner London area, four WFGs were at Clapham Common from the 4th to Christmas Eve — sometimes seen on the boating lake, but mainly in a grassy area that had been fenced off for reseeding.

With geese also lingering at several other London area sites, December’s Whitefronts allowed legions of aviphiles to add the species to their 2020 London lists. A flock of up to 22 birds (mainly juveniles) could be seen at Holyfield Farm for the whole month, while single birds were seen more than once at Burgess Park, Cornmill Meadows, Crayford Marshes, Netherhall GP and Richmond Park. There were also one-off sightings of up to three birds at 10 other sites.

Other anatids

Whitefronts were not the only anatids of interest in December. (I wish my laptop’s spellcheckery wouldn’t keep changing “anatids” to “antacids”.) Three Tundra Bean Goose were at Laleham from the 19th through into the new year (sharing their field with three Whitefronts on the 19th), a juvenile Dark-bellied Brent Goose was seen at Crayford Marshes on four dates and two Barnacle Goose were at Rainham Marshes for much of the month.

An adult female Ring-necked Duck was reported at Ashley Pit in the Lee Valley on the 11th but was not seen again. (There were up to about 30 known RNDs in the British Isles mid-month, but there were no more records from the London area.) Scaup were seen briefly at King George V Reservoir and Staines Reservoir. In Hyde Park, a drake Goldeneye, first reported on 27th Nov, remained on the Serpentine throughout December. Away from Inner London, Goldeneye were also reported from several other sites.

As for sawbills, the Lee Valley’s resident redhead Smew was joined by a drake towards the end of the month, but no other Smew were reported in London. The month’s sole Red-breasted Merganser was at Staines Reservoir on the 19th. Goosander, however, were recorded at 14 sites.

Other water-loving birds

• A Great Northern Diver seen at Staines Reservoir on three mid-month dates was presumably the bird that was first recorded on 20th November.
• After disappearing for the whole of November, the Hall Marsh Scrape/Cornmill Meadows Cattle Egret was reported several times during December.
• The only records of Great Egret this month were one by the lake at Weald Country Park on the 3rd and another (or perhaps the same bird?) that briefly visited Walthamstow Wetlands on the following day.
• A Common Crane dropped in to roost at Rainham Marshes on the afternoon of the 23rd.
• As in November, only one Jack Snipe was recorded this month: a bird was found at Woodberry Wetlands on the 2nd and then seen again on the 31st.

Ringed gulls

Gulls ringed on the Continent have continued to show up in London. On various dates the Black-headed Gull flock in Broomfield Park included birds ringed in The Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Lithuania. A Polish-ringed BHG was in Rotherhithe on the 25th, and on the 30th ringed BHGs from both Sweden and Poland were in Kensington Gardens. Meanwhile, the Polish-ringed Mediterranean Gull that has taken a liking to Greenhill Park in Barnet was reported there throughout December.

(A colour-ringed Great Black-backed Gull reported at Swanscombe Marsh on the 30th was ringed locally, I suspect, since its letter-letter-number-letter code, WF5T, follows the same format as the North Thames Gull Group’s notorious leucistic Herring Gull, SH1T).    

Passerines

• The Walthamstow Wetlands Yellow-browed Warbler, first recorded on 19th Nov, was last reported on 7th Dec. Others were reported from Molesey Heath (1st, 31st) and Beddington Farmlands (31st).
• A Siberian Chiffchaff seen and heard at Walthamstow Marshes (5th–7th) was presumably the “possible” reported on 26th Nov.
• The month’s only Black Redstart were birds seen at Holyfield Farm (5th & 6th) and near Erith Pier (14th & 27th).
• On 2nd Dec, two Mealy Redpoll were seen with a flock of Lesser Redpoll at Kenwood.  
• Common Crossbill were reported from Trent Park on three occasions, in parties of five, four and ten.

And finally . . .

When I compiled the November highlights I assumed that December’s Bird of the Month would be London’s first ever DARK-EYED JUNCO, photographed on 1st Dec in a Chiswick garden where it had apparently been lurking for a few days. But I have had to junk the Junco. Why? Because it is hard to justify celebrity status when its location was (understandably) kept secret and the bird was not reported again (so far as I have seen).

Over the years there have been only about 40 UK records of this New World sparrow. But a few birds have overwintered, so London’s debutante may still be skulking somewhere in the W4 postcode area, with its precise whereabouts known only to a privileged few. If it is still around, perhaps it will eventually be allowed to show itself to the capital’s twitchers — hopefully a highlight of a happier new year for London birders.

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

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Thursday 31st December 2020

• Alexandra Park: 90+ Redwing, 3 Egyptian Goose, 2 Greylag Goose, 3 Peregrine included a new female, 6 Pochard, 32 Greenfinch roosted Boating Lake (APOG Birders)
• Beddington Farmlands: Yellow-browed Warbler showed well at 1600 in first ivy covered tree, c30 m south of turning to south hide (Balham Birder)
• Brookmill Park: Little Egret, Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 12 Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
• Foots Cray Meadows: 4-6 Egyptian Goose, 4 Gadwall, 12 Tufted Duck, 6 Little Grebe, Little Egret, 2 Grey Heron, Kestrel, Water Rail, 2 Common Gull, Grey Wagtail, Pied Wagtail, 30+ Redwing, Cetti's Warbler showing v well S of Five Arches Bridge, 10+ Goldcrest, Nuthatch, 4 Siskin (Jack Headley)
• Hampstead Heath: 100 Lesser Redpoll, 20 Greenfinch, 2 Goldcrest (Jamie Cedar)
• Hilfield Park Reservoir: Yellow-legged Gull [adult in roost] (Tony Blake)
• Holyfield Hall Farm: 22 Eurasian White-fronted Goose, 10 Egyptian Goose (Simon Papps)
• Ladywell Fields: Sparrowhawk, Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay (Keith Chambers)
• Laleham: 3 Tundra Bean Goose still in field N of B376 half a mile E of village. Park only in layby for childrens play area near Abbey Drive (Franko J Maroevic)
• Lamorbey, Sidcup DA15 : m Blackcap from my window [a first record] in tree with 2 Dunnocks , 3 Redwing, Jay (Mike Amos)
• Lamorbey Park: Greylag Goose, 4+ Egyptian Goose, 2 Teal, 4 Tufted Duck, m Mandarin on main lake, Little Grebe, 2 Cormorant, f Kingfisher, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 60+ Redwing, 10+ Goldcrest, Siskin (Ian Stewart/Mike Amos)
• Molesey Heath: Yellow-browed Warbler still, Water Rail, 4 Teal, Chiffchaff (heard), 5+ Goldcrest, Redwing, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker (Spencer Neal)
• Northolt & Greenford CP: 6 Cormorant [3 over], Grey Heron, Red Kite, Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel m & f, Common Snipe, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 20+ Meadow Pipit, 50+ Redwing (Neil Anderson/Kathryn Bull)
• Pinner, HA5: 4 Redwing, 3 Goldfinch , Pied Wagtail, 2 distinct thriving colonies of House Sparrows in local park which centre on large bramble bushes that have become established over the last four years since the local council stopped cutting back to the park’s boundary fences (Nigel Barratt)
• Queen Elizabeth Park: 4 Gadwall, 3 Little Grebe, 4 Little Egret, Grey Heron, 6 House Sparrow, 2 Siskin (Harry Harrison)
• Rainham Marshes: 4 Caspian Gull [all 1w] (Thomas Miller)
• Rainham Aveley Bay / Wennington: 36 Avocet , 12 Dunlin, Common Buzzard, Marsh Harrier, Stonechat, 200 + Fieldfare (Steve Bacon)
• Riddlesdown Common: 2 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, Kestrel, m Stonechat, 2 Meadow Pipit (Derek Kelly)
• Rotherhithe: Black Swan still on Greenland Dock, 23 Tufted Duck (Richard Bonser)
• Seventy Acres Lake: 2 Smew m f, Peregrine Falcon (Simon Papps)
• Sidcup DA15: male Blackcap, 20+ Redwing in garden, Grey Wagtail over, Peregrine (Ian Stewart)
• Staines Moor: Little Egret, 7 Water Pipit, 7 Stonechat, 2 Dartford Warbler, Chiffchaff (C Lamsdell); Goosander, Green Sandpiper, c30 Fieldfare, Redwing, Red Kite, 2 Buzzards, Kestrel, 2 Short eared Owl, Barn Owl (Andrew Peel/Toni Menezes)
• Thamesmead: 2 Yellow-legged Gulls [both 2w] off Greenhaven Drive (Richard Bonser/Jamie Partridge/Dante Shepherd)
• Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 3 Mandarin, 5 Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 53 Redwing, 26 Fieldfare, 4 Bullfinch, 2 House Sparrow (John Colmans)
• Trent Park: 14 Canada Goose, 14 Mandarin Duck 8m 6f, m Eurasian Teal, f Tufted Duck, 19 Black-headed Gull, 2m Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Pied Wagtail Old Golf Course, 8 Blackbird, 2 Song Thrush, 7 Redwing, 2 Goldcrest, 12 Great Tit, Nuthatch, Treecreeper (Robert Callf)
• Wandle Park, Colliers Wood: Little Egret (Keith Bates)
• Wanstead Flats: White-fronted Goose, 15 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, 11 Fieldfare, 18+ Redwing, 3 Stonechat, 22 Redpoll, Meadow Pipit (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: 2 Goosander, 16 Teal, 27 Redwing (Wanstead Birders)
• Woodberry Wetlands: Jack Snipe, 8 Common Snipe, Water Rail, Kingfisher, Coal Tit, 6 Teal (Chris Farthing)

Wednesday 30th December 2020

• Abney Park Cemetery: male Tawny Owl calling 2024 (Garry James)
• Alexandra Park: Fieldfare, 35+ Redwing, 2 Egyptian Goose pair, 2m Shoveler, 3+ Pochard, 2 Peregrine - a new unringed female as the Dutch ringed female has been seen with another male at Charing X Hospital (APOG Birders)
• Alperton "Grand Union Canal HA0": 13+ Cormorant, 2 Greylag Goose, Moorhen, 2 Mute Swan (Barry Wilson)
• Battersea Park: 60 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, 4 Pochard, Goldcrest, Mistle Thrush, 2 Redwing (Samuel Levy & Daniel Whitelegg)
• Bostall Heath, the RB of Greenwich: c20 Redwing (Mike Robinson)
• Boxer's Lake: 2 Cormorant, 8 Grey Heron back at nests, 2 Mute Swan, Greylag Goose, m Common Pochard, 10 Tufted Duck 4m 6f, Common Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, 10+ Redwing, m Chaffinch (Robert Callf)
• Bushy Park: Egyptian Goose brood at Triss's Pond down to 4, 6 Gadwall, Grey Wagtail, 2 Nuthatch, 3480 small gulls flew West over the park presumably to SW London reservoirs between 1525-1615 (Spencer Neal)
• Cowley Business Park nr Uxbridge: Kingfisher along R. Frays (Roger Dewey)
• Crayford Marshes: Short-eared Owl mobbed by crow 1545, also 36 Avocet at mouth of creek 1430, also Grey Plover, Dunlin, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Wigeon, Gadwall, Teal, 6 Stonechat, good numbers of Fieldfare & Redwing (Gus Wilson); also 7 Corn Bunting at mouth of creek on Dartford Marshes side 1430-1445, plus further Stonechats and, along the cycle track through the Marshes, 3 Cetti's Warbler and 1 Blackcap (Tom Stuart)
• Dagenham Chase: 15 Lapwing, 24 Wigeon, 40 Gadwall, 38 Shoveler, 30 Teal, 9 Tufted Duck, 2 Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe, 150 + Redwing, Bullfinch, 2 Sparrowhawk (Steve Bacon)
• Hampstead Heath: Red Kite, 5 Siskin (Reuben Braddock)
• Hilfield Park Reservoir: 2 Mediterranean Gull [ad and 2nd winter], Great Black-backed Gull [2nd or 3rd winter], Goosander [female type], 35 Wigeon (Tony Blake)
• Hyde Park: Goldeneye still at East end of Serpentine (Samuel Levy & Daniel Whitelegg)
• Kensington Gardens: 80 Common Gulls, metal-ringed Black-headed Gull from Sweden & colour-ringed from Poland, Black Swan (Samuel Levy & Daniel Whitelegg)
• Lamorbey Park, Sidcup: Little Grebe, Little Egret, 3-4 Egyptian Goose , 4 Cormorant, Grey Heron, 4 Tufted Duck m, Green Woodpecker, Sparrowhawk (Mike Amos), m Gadwall, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Coal Tit, 2 Nuthatch, 13 Redwing, 4 Fieldfare (Ralph and Brenda Todd); 2 Teal m f, Greylag Goose (Mike Amos); Peregrine, f Kingfisher showing and fishing well, 30+ Redwing (Ian Stewart)
• Lonsdale Road Reservoir, Barnes: 70 Teal, 9 Shoveler, adult Great Black-backed Gull eating a Common Carp on a raft, Water Rail, Kingfisher, 26 Redwing, Cetti's Warbler (R Kaye)
• New Cross, Barriedale Allotments: 6 Redwing, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Keith Chambers)
• Rayners Lane, HA2: m Blackcap in garden (Tim Rymer)
• Sidcup DA15: Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, 10+ Redwing, m Blackcap, Goldcrest, Coal Tit in garden (Ian Stewart)
• St James's Park: Little Grebe (Samuel Levy & Daniel Whitelegg)
• Swanscombe Marsh”13.30-17.00 outgoing tide, Botany Meadow/Marsh & Broadness”: 5 Great Black-backed Gull [inc CR WF5T], 2 Shelduck, Peregrine [atop Thames pylon], Raven, 5 Red-legged Partridge, Meadow Pipit, 4 Grey Heron, c100 Redwing, c25 Fieldfare, 13 Cormorant, 5 Common Gull, Stonechat m, 27 Linnet, 7 Redshank, 2 Cetti's Warbler h, 47 Greylag Goose, Mute Swan (Roger Keith)
• Wandle Park, Colliers Wood: 2 Little Egret (Keith Bates)
• Wanstead Flats: Mediterranean Gull, 2 White-fronted Goose, 15 Shoveler, 5 Gadwall, 4 Stonechat, 17 Fieldfare, 28 Redwing, 2 singing Mistle Thrush, singing Song Thrush, 2 Meadow Pipit, 6 Pied Wagtail (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: Grey Heron, 8 Teal, 8 Shoveler, Buzzard, 2 Green Woodpecker, drumming Great Spotted Woodpecker, 25 Redwing, Song Thrush, Coal Tit, Nuthatch (Harry Harrison); m Goosander, 11 Shoveler, Siskin, 5 Nuthatch (Rob Sheldon et al)
• Watermeadows Open Space: 3 Mute Swan, 2 Egyptian Goose pair, m Tufted Duck, 8 Little Grebe, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Kingfisher, 3 Goldcrest, 3 Siskin (Jack Headley)
• Westminster: Peregrine with prey flew over Westminster bridge 1400 (Samuel Levy & Daniel Whitelegg)

Tuesday 29th December 2020

• Alexandra Park: Fieldfare, 10+ Redwing, 2 Egyptian Goose pair, Little Egret, 2 Peregrine (APOG Birders)
• Bowyer’s Water "Lee Valley" : m Smew (Mark Worsey and Ian Bradshaw)
• Brookmill Park: Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 6 Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
• Bushy Park: Pochard, 5 Gadwall, Stonechat, Egyptian Goose brood number nine now at 5 small goslings, 2000+ Black-headed Gulls flew West over the park 1540-1610, presumably to roost at South West London reservoirs, they were already flying over when I arrived so actual numbers higher (Spencer Neal)
• Crayford: 3 Caspian Gull [1st-winters] on Jolly Farmers, ad Mediterranean Gull, 3 Yellow-legged Gull [3rd-winter, 2x 1st-winters] (Richard Bonser/Andrew Lawson/Jamie Partridge/Dante Shepherd)
• Crossness NR: 2 Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 2 Marsh Harrier m f, 2 Pied Wagtail, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Stonechat 2m 2f, 8 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Water Rail, Redwing, 5 Pochard, 4 Teal, 3 Grey Heron, 5 Linnet, 5 Greylag Goose, 23 Canada Goose (Bernie Weight). Thames and foreshore incoming to high tide, 76 Shoveler, 27 Shelduck, 15 Redshank, c50 Lapwing, 40 Gadwall, 6 Wigeon, 10 Dunlin, 3 Cormorant, c50 Black-tailed Godwit flock being attacked by the 2 local Peregrine, c500 plus Teal, 2 Greylag Goose (Bernie Weight)
• East Barnet "Belmont OS": 2 Blackcap m f in private garden (Bob Husband per RM Callf)
• Eastcote, Roxbourne Park: c50 Redwing, 2 Little Egret, 3 Nuthatch, 3 Song Thrush, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 6 Jay, 3 Coal Tit (Tim Rymer)
• Enfield area "private access": 3 Red Kite, 2 Common Buzzard, 3 Meadow Pipit, Fieldfare, 2 Stonechat pr (Robert Callf)
• Greenhill Gardens, Barnet: 2 Egyptian Goose pr (Bob Husband per RM Callf)
• Hall Marsh Scrape "Lee Valley": Cattle Egret (Mark Worsey & Ian Bradshaw)
• Hanwell "River Brent": Grey Heron, 2 Mallard pr, 3 Moorhen (Barry Wilson)
• Hilfield Park Reservoir: Peregrine, 4 Great Black-backed Gull [1 x 2nd or 3rd winter; 3x adult - very scarce in roost here, suggesting there has been some movement, perhaps linked to weather] (Tony Blake)
• Holyfield Lake: 4 Goosander 3m f, 19+ Russian White-fronted Geese on hillside field behind dairy (Mark Worsey & Ian Bradshaw)
• Lamorbey Park: 4+ Egyptian Goose, m Teal, Little Grebe, 2 Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, f Kingfisher showing v well, c50 Redwing (Ian Stewart)
• Lavender Hill Cemetery: 6 Long-tailed Tit, 5 Jay (Robert Callf)
• Perivale Park: 4 Teal 2pr [pr each on Brent & Costons Brook], Grey Heron, 38 Common Gull, Grey Wagtail, f Stonechat, 12+ Redwing, 2 Reed Bunting m & f, 37+ Linnet, 20+ Goldfinch, 6+ Chaffinch (Neil Anderson)
• Putney Heath: c20 Lesser Redpoll, Inner Park Ride (Les Evans-Hill)
• Queen Mary Reservoir: f Goosander, 44 Wigeon, gull roost distant (Franko J Maroevic)
• Rainham Marshes: 5 Caspian Gull [adult, 3rd-winter, 3x 1st-winter] on landfill (Jamie Partridge/Dante Shepherd)
• Ravenor Park, Greenford: 2 Red Kite together, 2 Green Woodpecker, 10 Redwing, Coal Tit (Neil Anderson)
• Sevenoaks WR: redhead Goosander, Little Egret, 60 Lapwing, Peregrine (Richard Bonser)
• Southmere Lake: 3 Pochard, 2 Gadwall, c50 Tufted Duck (John Archer)
• Swanscombe Marsh”1430-1630 Botany meadow / Marsh & river”: Marsh Harrier [m into roost], 2 Raven, Water Rail, c100 Redwing, c25 Fieldfare, c50 Starling, 5 Meadow Pipit, 2 Stonechat pr, Mute Swan [Botany Meadow], 47 Greylag Goose, 4 Cetti's Warbler (Roger Keith)
• Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 5 Mandarin Duck, 56 Redwing, 7 Fieldfare, 20 Pied Wagtail, 7 Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail (John Colmans) 7 Mute Swan [circling distantly over long pond then appeared to drop - Site Record count by a country mile], 5 Mandarin Duck, 2 Teal, Coot [Long Pond], 19 Black-headed Gull, 64 Common Gull, 2 Grey Heron, Common Buzzard, Barn Owl, 3 Little Owl, 3 Tawny Owl, 40 Rook, 7 Goldcrest, 5 Song Thrush, 119 Redwing, 14 Blackbird, Fieldfare, 3 Lesser Redpoll, 5 Bullfinch (Samuel Levy)
• Wanstead Flats: 2 White-fronted Goose [Alex], 1w Mediterranean Gull [Jub], 30+ Redpoll, 50+ Redwing, 2 singing Song Thrush, 2 Stonechat, 5 Meadow Pipit, Pochard, 14 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: No sign m Goosander, a few Redwing, and a number of Siskin (James Heal)
• Watermeadows Open Space: 2 Mute Swan, 3 Tufted Duck 2m f, 5 Little Grebe, Little Egret, Grey Wagtail, 80+ Redwing, m Blackcap, 4 Goldcrest, 2 Siskin (Jack Headley)

Monday 28th December 2020

• Alexandra Park: 9 Egyptian Goose [6 Wood Green Res, 3 Boating Lake, site record], m Peregrine, 50+ Redwing, 5 Pochard (APOG Birders)
• Barnes Railway Bridge: The regularly returning wintering adult Yellow-legged Gull (R Kaye)
• Barnes Village Pond: 65 Tufted Duck, Pochard, Mandarin Duck (R Kaye)
• Battersea Park Lake: 46 Shoveler, 4 Common Gull [sports track], Great Black-backed Gull [river], 7 Goldfinch, 2 Tawny Owl, Sparrowhawk (Battersea Birder)
• Brent Reservoir: Mistle Thrush [defending ivy berries against Redwing], 30 Redwing, Goosander, Cetti's Warbler, 3 Little Egret, 2 Grey Wagtail, 3 Snipe (Francis O'Sullivan)
• Brookmill Park: Kingfisher, singing Song Thrush (Conrad Ellam)
• Broomfield Park: imm Grey Heron, 4m Northern Shoveler, 13 Tufted Duck 6m 7f, Black-headed Gull w/ metal ring Nos HA24.238 from Lithuania & 3726.091 from Netherlands, ad Common Gull, ad Lesser Black-backed Gull, Pied Wagtail, f Blackbird, 7 Redwing, 3 Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit, 2 Nuthatch, 11 Greenfinch pre-roost gathering 1538, 5 Goldfinch (Robert Callf)
• Crayford: 4 Caspian Gull [3rd-winter, 3x 1st-winters], 70+ Great Black-backed Gull on Jolly Farmers (Richard Bonser/Andrew Lawson/Jamie Partridge)
• Eastcote, Roxbourne Park: Sparrowhawk, Little Egret, Grey Wagtail, c20 Redwing, Mistle Thrush, 3 Song Thrush, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Nuthatch, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goldcrest, Moorhen, Collared Dove, Chaffinch (Tim Rymer)
• Greenford to Ealing Hospital "Brent corridor": 6 Teal, 6 Mandarin Duck, 2 Grey Heron, Red Kite, Water Rail [Boles Meadow], 5 Stock Dove, 7 singing Song Thrush, 12+ Redwing, 4 Chaffinch (Neil Anderson)
• Honor Oak Crematorium: 18 Redwing in grounds (Keith Chambers)
• Rotherhithe: Black Swan still on Greenland Dock (Richard Bonser)
• RSPB Rainham Marshes: 360 Greylag Goose, 2 Barnacle Goose, 2 Egyptian Goose, 62 Shelduck, 183 Shoveler, 97 Gadwall, 763 Wigeon, 60 Pintail, 251 Teal, 28 Pochard, 20 Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, 5 Water Rail, 22 Avocet, 2000 Lapwing, 6 Curlew, 173 Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 1000 Dunlin, 16 Common Snipe, 59 Redshank, 50 Common Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Little Egret, 7 Marsh Harrier together over silt lagoons inc 3 males, Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, Kestrel, 14 Jackdaw, 10 Rook, Raven, Bearded Tit, 2 Chiffchaff, 23 Cetti's Warbler, 11 Song Thrush, 80 Redwing, 18 Blackbird, 120 Fieldfare, 11 Stonechat, 22 Meadow Pipit, 7 Water Pipit, 7 Rock Pipit (Samuel Levy et al)
• Staines Moor: 2 Short-eared Owl, Barn Owl, 3 Water Pipit, 8 Stonechat, 2 Little Grebe, 3 Little Egret, 2+ Red Kite, 18 Skylark (Iain Darbyshire)
• Theobalds Park Farm: 46 Golden Plover (Adam Wilson)
• Wanstead Flats: 2 White-fronted Goose, Mediterranean Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 4 Stonechat, 30 Redwing, 30+ Redpoll. 3 Meadow Pipit, Pochard, 6 Gadwall, 20+ Shoveler (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: m Goosander, 12 Gadwall, 8 Shoveler, Teal, 11 Tufted Duck, 2 Pochard, Little Egret, 2 Redwing (Wanstead Birders)
• Warren Farm, Hanwell: Red Kite, Green Woodpecker, Skylark, 26 Meadow Pipit, 2 Stonechat pr, 12 Redwing (Neil Anderson)
• Worcester Park: Little Egret (Bob Smith)
• Watermeadows Open Space: 3 Mute Swan, 2 Egyptian Goose pair, 8 Little Grebe, Common Buzzard W, 2 Kestrel, Water Rail calling on upper river, Kingfisher, Goldcrest (Jack Headley)

Sunday 27th December 2020

• Barnet Gate, Brent Lodge Farm: Kestrel, 12 Meadow Pipit, Fieldfare (Samuel Levy)
• Barnet: Red Kite at roof top height over Mays Lane at Junction with Connaught Road (Samuel & Toby Levy)
• Bowyer's Water: 2 Goosander (Simon Papps)
• Brent Reservoir: m Goosander, 18 Snipe (Andrew Self)
• Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries: Kestrel, 7 Fieldfare, 35 Redwing, 6 Siskin, Greenfinch, Green Woodpecker, 2 Nuthatch, Coal Tit (Keith Chambers)
• Brookmill Park: Kingfisher (Conrad Ellam)
• Dagenham Chase: 3 Snipe, 4 Little Egret, 2 Cormorant, 2 Grey Heron, 18 Lapwing, 35 Wigeon, 58 Gadwall, 46 Shoveler, 38 Teal, 2 f Sparrowhawk, 150 Redwing, 2 Kingfisher (Steve Bacon)
• Eastcote, Roxbourne Park: Sparrowhawk flying up the brook, c40 Redwing, Chiffchaff, Grey Wagtail, 2 Green Woodpecker, Nuthatch, 7 Collared Dove, 2 Greenfinch, Song Thrush, Chaffinch (Tim Rymer)
• Erith off Corinthian Manorway: 300 Black-tailed Godwit, 25 Redshank, Black Redstart, 25 Linnet, 700 Dunlin [Rainham Barges roost] (George Kalli)
• Finsbury Park: Green Woodpecker (Ann Feltham)
• Gillespie Park, N5: Sparrowhawk flying across pond (Ann Feltham)
• Greenhill Gardens, Barnet: 11 Northern Shoveler 6m 5f, ad Mediterranean Gull w/ red darvic PTJ9, Redwing, 4 Siskin (Bob Husband per RM Callf)
• Grovelands Park: Great Crested Grebe, 5 Cormorant, 2 Mute Swan inc male w/ orange darvic 4EIT, Greylag Goose, 7 Egyptian Goose, 8 Mandarin Duck 6m 2f, m Northern Shoveler, 24 Tufted Duck 14m 10f, m Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard flew N, 3 Common Gull 2ad 2nd-w, 2+ Stock Dove, 22 Woodpigeon feeding on acorns, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Blackbird m 2f, 30+ Redwing, 3 Goldcrest inc one singing male, Nuthatch, 2 Jay (Robert Callf)
• Hilfield Park Reservoir: f Goldeneye, Kingfisher, 5 Teal, 7 Wigeon, Rook [over, west, site scarcity] (Tony Blake)
• Laleham: 3 Tundra Bean Goose still in field N of B376 half a mile E of village. Park only in childrens play area layby, near Abbey Drive (Franko J Maroevic)
• Lamorbey Park, Sidcup: Little Egret, Kingfisher f perched nr golfers bridge, Egyptian Goose, Sparrowhawk, Lesser Black-backed Gull on school field earlier, several Redwing (Mike Amos)
• Netherhall GP: juv White-fronted Goose (Adam Wilson)
• Northolt & Greenford CP: Red Kite, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Meadow Pipit, 6 Pied Wagtail, 10+ Redwing, Goldcrest, 2f Chaffinch (Neil Anderson)
• Perivale "Grand Union Canal": 2 Greylag Goose, Grey Heron, 2 Mute Swan, Redwing (Barry Wilson)
• Plaistow E13: Kestrel pursuing a small flock of Goldfinch above Greengate (Matthew Cunningham)
• Totteridge Valley, Long Pond: Coot, Cormorant, 6 Canada Goose, 30 Redwing (Samuel Levy)
• Wanstead Flats: 2 White-fronted Goose, 35 Redpoll, 2 Reed Bunting, 2 Stonechat, 6+ Redwing, 3 Meadow Pipit (Wanstead Birders)
• Queen Mary Reservoir: 45 Wigeon, 95 Great Crested Grebe, 2 1st w Caspian Gull, 3 1st w Yellow-legged Gull in roost (Franko J Maroevic)

Saturday 26th December 2020

• Bowyer's Water: 3 Goosander [2m, 1f] (Simon Papps)
• Brent Reservoir: m Goosander, 28 Snipe, 75 Redwing, 3 Cetti's Warbler (Andrew Self)
• Chislehurst Common: Cormorant, c50 Redwing, 20+ Goldcrest, 5 Firecrest (Ian Stewart)
• Crayford: 2 Caspian Gull on Jolly Farmers (Richard Bonser/Thomas Miller)
• East Barnet "Belmont OS": m Blackcap in private garden (Bob Husband per RM Callf)
• Eastcote, Field End Rec: Green Woodpecker, Meadow Pipit, Jackdaw, Pied Wagtail (Tim Rymer)
• Eastcote, Roxbourne Park: 50-60 Redwing, Little Egret, Grey Wagtail, 4 Nuthatch, Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush, Goldcrest, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Coal Tit, Jay, Greenfinch (Tim Rymer)
• Enfield area "private access": Woodcock flushed 1504, Common Snipe flushed 1450 (Robert Callf)
• Hall Marsh: Cattle Egret, 2 Little Egret, 2 Common Snipe, 10+ Siskin (Simon Papps)
• Hilfield Park Reservoir: Mediterranean Gull [ad in roost], Goldeneye f, 12 Teal (Tony Blake)
• Holyfield Hall Farm: 20+ Eurasian White-fronted Goose, 10+ Fieldfare (Simon Papps)
• Kemnal Woods BR7: Firecrest showing well by White House, 40+ Redwing, Siskin (Ian Stewart)
• Lake Farm Country Park, Hayes: 50 Redwing, 4 Fieldfare, 2 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, Bullfinch, Reed Bunting (Dave Morris per FJM)
• Laleham: 3 Tundra Bean Goose still in field half a mile E of village late pm, park only in layby near childrens play area near Abbey Drive. (Franko J Maroevic)
• Lamorbey Park, Sidcup : Red Kite over Dell mobbed by Crows 1110 also Little Grebe, Cormorant over, 6 Common Gull, 2 Herring Gull , c50 Black-headed Gull , c50 Canada Goose, 3 Egyptian Goose, 6 Tufted Duck m, 30+ Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush pr, Coal Tit (Mike Amos); Little Egret, Peregrine, Grey Wagtail, Siskin (Ian Stewart)
• Margravine Cemetery: 54+ Redwing, 2 Peregrine Falcon (Nathalie Mahieu)
• Middlesex Filter Beds: Firecrest (Jon Agar)
• Perivale Park: 5 Teal [adjacent R. Brent], Red Kite, 2 Kestrel, 25 Common Gull, Great Spotted Woodpecker, f Stonechat, Chiffchaff, f Reed Bunting, c25 Linnet, 30+ Goldfinch, 2f Chaffinch (Neil Anderson/Kathryn Bull)
• Pinner, HA5: 3 Redwing, 3 Goldfinch (Nigel Barratt)
• Ponders End: Red Kite over Ponders End lake flying S (Quentin Given)
• Queen Mary Reservoir: 586 Common Gull prior to roost but more arriving, 3 1st-w Yellow-legged Gull, 55 Lesser Black-backed Gull (Franko J Maroevic)
• Ravenor Park, Greenford: 2 Red Kite, Green Woodpecker, 2 Mistle Thrush pr (Neil Anderson/Kathryn Bull)
• Rotherhithe: 2nd-winter Yellow-legged Gull, 44 Cormorant and 26 Tufted Duck on Greenland Dock, 6 Great Black-backed Gulls (Richard Bonser)
• Seventy Acres Lake: f Smew, 3 Water Rail, Cetti's Warbler (Simon Papps)
• Southfields, SW18: m Sparrowhawk caught a Redwing in my back garden, just feet from where I was standing [two new garden ticks as the Redwing was still alive when it was eventually carried off partly plucked] (Martin Honey)
• Swanscombe Marsh “1030-1145 Botany meadow/Marsh”: c500 Fieldfare, c500 Redwing [at least, large influx of winter Thrushes], Sparrowhawk, Goldcrest, 2 Shelduck, 2 Peregrine [atop Thames pylon], 36 Greylag Goose (Roger Keith)
• Thamesmead: 2nd-winter Mediterranean Gull and near-adult Yellow-legged Gull Greenhaven Drive (Richard Bonser)
• Trent Park: 9 Mandarin Duck, m Eurasian Teal, 2 Northern Shoveler pr, 3 Common Pochard m 2f, f Tufted Duck, 24+ Black-headed Gull, Goldcrest, 5 Long-tailed Tit, Treecreeper, 10 Common Crossbill flew over Old Golf Course & alighted in western hemlock Camlet Hill 1314-1320 (Robert Callf)
• Wanstead Flats: 37 Redwing, 5 Fieldfare, Mistle Thrush, 35 Lesser Redpoll, Reed Bunting (Harry Harrison), sub ad Caspian Gull on Jubilee, 2 White-fronted Goose still [avoiding the masses by Alex], 15+ Shoveler, 8 Gadwall, m Pochard, 20+ Tufted Duck, 16 Fieldfare, 10+ Redwing, 2 Stonechat pr [by Cat & Dog], 5 Meadow Pipit, Sparrowhawk (Nick Croft)
• Walthamstow Marshes: c10 Snipe flushed by a dog loose in bomb crater field, Peregrine, Chiffchaff, 4 Little Egret (Bryan Waters)
• Watermeadows Open Space: 6+ Little Grebe, Little Egret, 2 Kingfisher, 6 Siskin (Jack Headley)
• Worcester Park: Little Egret, Peregrine (Bob Smith)

Friday 25th December 2020 🎄

• Alexandra Park: Snipe 0753 over boating Lake, 2 Red Kite W, 30+ Redwing, 4 Egyptian Goose (APOG Birders)
• Barnet Gate, Brent Lodge Farm: 60 Redwing, 3 Fieldfare, 3 Meadow Pipit (Samuel Levy)
• Berrylands, River Hogsmill: Kingfisher, 3 drumming Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Nuthatch, c15 Redwing, singing Coal Tit (Nick Tanner)
• Bushy Park: Little Egret, Pochard, 10 Gadwall, Great Crested Grebe, Egyptian Goose brood number nine down to 10 small goslings (Spencer Neal)
• Eastcote, Roxbourne Park: c30 Redwing, Grey Wagtail, 2 Nuthatch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Coal Tit (Tim Rymer)
• Foots Cray Meadows: Red Kite circling North Cray Road 1300 (Jack Headley)
• Hollies, Sidcup: Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Redwing, 2 Coal Tit, Goldcrest (Eric Brown)
• Northolt & Greenford CP: 5 Red Kite [3 together with gulls over canal, another spooked c200 gulls on Rectory fields but snatched small item from turf], Sparrowhawk, 35 Common Gull, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 6 Pied Wagtail, 12 Redwing, 4 Mistle Thrush [2 singing], singing Song Thrush, 7 Chaffinch {2 Fox by scrape attracting the Mallard} (Neil Anderson/Kathryn Bull)
• Perivale "near Central Line platform": Jay (Barry Wilson)
• Pinner,HA5: 7 Redwing, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Sparrowhawk (Nigel Barratt)
• Rotherhithe: 2nd-winter Yellow-legged Gull, Black Swan and Polish-ringed Black-headed Gull Greenland Dock (Richard Bonser)
• Southgate Chase Allotments: f Blackcap 1315 (Robert Callf)
• Tottenham Marshes: Common Buzzard, Peregrine Falcon [on pylon] 1400 (Adam Hudson ADH)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: Water Rail [Darlands], Woodcock [over Darlands towards Folly Farm], 17 Mandarin Duck, 2 Teal, 4 Grey Heron, Tawny Owl, 50 Rook, 8 Goldcrest, 61 Redwing, 26 Fieldfare, Meadow Pipit, Cormorant (Samuel Levy)
• Twickenham: Red Kite over Strawberry Hill golf course (Mike Foster)
• Walthamstow Marshes: 3 Stonechat, 2 Egyptian Geese, Meadow Pipit (Alastair Dent)
• Wanstead Flats: 2 White-fronted Goose, 1w Caspian Gull (or hybrid), 2 Stonechat, 11 Fieldfare, 10+ Redwing, Meadow Pipit, 10+ Shoveler, 4 Gadwall, 30+ Redpoll (Wanstead Birders)
• Woodberry Wetlands: Great Black-backed Gull, Common Snipe, 8 Teal, Grey Wagtail, 3 Redwing, Chiffchaff, 2+ Cetti's Warbler, 28 Gadwall (Chris Farthing)
• Whitton, Duke of Northumberland River: Kingfisher, m Blackcap (Iain Darbyshire)
• Woodford Green: Great Spotted Woodpecker heard drumming, c30 Redwing low and North 1030, Little Egret over 1112,Sparrowhawk high 1115, Woodcock flushed from ground 1322 and f Blackcap at 1555 (Ken Murray)

Thursday 24th December 2020

• Ashley Pit: 7 Goosander 6m f (Simon Papps)
• Alexandra Park: Common Buzzard E, 4 Egyptian Goose two pairs, 14 Redwing (APOG Birders)
• Bowyers Water: 2 Goosander m f, 3 Little Egret (Sean Huggins)
• Boxer's Lake: 8 Grey Heron inc birds calling [courtship & display] & carrying twigs [nest-building], 2 Mute Swan pr inc male w/ orange darvic ring 4DQC, 2 Egyptian Goose pr, 7 Tufted Duck, Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit, Jay (Robert Callf)
• Brent Reservoir: Goosander still by bridge, 45 Robin (Andrew Self)
• Bushy Park: Kingfisher, Egyptian Goose brood of 11 still, Pochard, 5 Gadwall, Kestrel, Great Crested Grebe, Mandarin Duck (Spencer Neal)
• Clapham Common: 2 White-fronted Goose in fenced off area near boating lake (Balham Birder)
• Greenford "UB6": Red Kite several times low over garden (Neil Anderson)
• Greenhill Gardens: Mediterranean Gull 1400 (Allan Stewart)
• Hall Marsh Scrape: Cattle Egret, 3 Little Egret (Sean Huggins)
• Holyfield Hall Farm: 22 White-fronted Goose, 10 Egyptian Geese, 2 Shelduck, 2 Red Kite, 4 Buzzard, Peregrine, 30 Skylark, 2 Song Thrush, Meadow Pipit, 4 Fieldfare, 5 Redwing, 5 Chaffinch (Sean Huggins)
• Laleham: 3 Tundra Bean Goose w/ 2 Greylag Goose N of B376 to E of village (Simon Cumming)
• Lamorbey, Sidcup DA15 : 2 Redwing in birches at bottom of my garden (Mike Amos)
• Lonsdale Drive, EN2 "Glenbrook wetlands": Grey Wagtail (Robert Callf)
• Mayflower Park: Water Rail (CJ Northwood per Bob Smith)
• Northolt Aerodrome: Red Kite (Neil Anderson)
• Perivale Park: Red Kite, Kestrel, c20 Common Gulls, Lesser Black-backed Gull (Andrew Peel/Toni Menezes)
• Pinner, HA5: 5 Redwing, Coal Tit, Lesser Black-backed Gull (Nigel Barratt)
• Rotherhithe: 2nd-winter Yellow-legged Gull Greenland Dock, Goldcrest, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker Russia Dock Woodland (Richard Bonser)
• Ruislip Lido/Woods: 5 Shoveler, 15 Pochard, Little Egret, Red Kite {8 Mottled Umber & 3 Winter Moth by security light} (Neil Anderson)
• Swanscombe Marsh “1400-1600” : c300 Redwing, c200 Fieldfare, c200 Starling, 2 Raven, 4 Mute Swan, Marsh Harrier [m into roost], 2 Kingfisher, Peregrine [atop Thames pylon], 65 Greylag Goose, 3 Chiffchaff (Roger Keith)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 2 Raven cronking over Northern edge of Finchley Golf Club being mobbed by Carrion Crows, 8 Mandarin Duck, m Firecrest [Oakfields], Teal, 41 Stock Dove, 26 Black-headed Gull, 173 Common Gull, Sparrowhawk, Red Kite, Kestrel, 2 Rook, 2 Coal Tit, 5 Goldcrest, Nuthatch, Mistle Thrush, 165 Redwing, 2 Fieldfare, 4 Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 2 Bullfinch, Siskin (Samuel Levy et al)
• Wandsworth Common: adult Mediterranean Gull (Nick Rutter)
• Watermeadows Open Space: 8 Little Grebe, Little Egret, Kingfisher, 2 Goldcrest (Jack Headley)

Wednesday 23rd December 2020

• Alexandra Park: m Peregrine, 8 Pochard, 3 Redwing, 2 Egyptian Goose pr (APOG Birders)
• Bickley "garden": 20+ Redwing, 15 Goldfinch, Goldcrest (Jon Mills)
• Bushy Park: new brood of 11 Egyptian Goose goslings, this is the 9th brood within the park walls this year, there have been at least 62 goslings this year with so far 16 from 3 broods making it to adulthood; also 2 Stonechat, Pochard, 5 Gadwall (Spencer Neal)
• Clapham Common: 4 White-fronted Goose still (Nick Rutter)
• Enfield area "private access": 2 Stonechat pr (Robert Callf)
• Forty Hall CP: ad Black-headed Gull w/ Russian metal ring, Kingfisher, 10+ Redwing, Mistle Thrush singing, m Firecrest feeding in holly & rhododendron 0957-1006 & 1009-1010 (Robert Callf)
• Hollyoak Wood Park, Sidcup: 22 Redwing, Little Egret, 2 Canada Goose, 12 Long-tailed Tit (Eric Brown)
• Lamorbey, Sidcup DA15: 2 Egyptian Goose flew E over my garden (Mike Amos)
• Mayflower Park: 8 Redpoll (CJ Northwood per Bob Smith)
• Pinner: m Firecrest still present (Richard Francis)
• Rainham Marshes: 6 Caspian Gull [adult, 3rd-winter, 4x 1st-winter] on the River Thames near landfill (Richard Bonser/Thomas Miller/Jamie Partridge/Dante Shepherd); Common Crane arrived to roost landing near Shooting Butts Hide at 1550 (Fraser Simpson)
• Thames Barrier: Caspian Gull [2w], Rock Pipit [site-foy], 24 Teal, 3 Great Crested Grebe (Ian Ellis)
• Twickenham, “The Rough”: Chiffchaff (Iain Darbyshire)
• Wandle Meadow Nature Park "Colliers Wood": Kingfisher (Keith Bates)
• Wanstead Flats: 2 White-fronted Goose (James Palmer)
• Whitewebbs Park: 3 Cormorant, 8 Mandarin Duck 5m 3f, 36 Black-headed Gull, 4 Goldcrest, 17+ Great Tit inc flock of fourteen, Nuthatch (Robert Callf)
• Worcester Park: Little Egret, Peregrine (Bob Smith)
• Watermeadows Open Space: m Shoveler present for 2nd day, 2 Gadwall pr, 3 Tufted Duck, 6 Little Grebe, Little Egret (Jack Headley)

Tuesday 22nd December 2020

• Alexandra Park: 85+ Redwing, 2 Fieldfare, 3 Pochard (APOG Birders)
• Alperton "Grand Union Canal HA0": 15 Cormorant, 2 Mute Swan, Pied Wagtail (Barry Wilson)
• Brook Farm Open Space: 16 Black-headed Gull, 24 Common Gull, Kingfisher, Mistle Thrush, 30 Redwing (Samuel Levy)
• Dollis Valley Greenwalk "N of Totteridge": Fieldfare, Redwing, Little Egret, Buzzard, Goldcrest, Collared Dove (Mark Mulrooney)
• Finchley "Garden N3": m Blackcap (Samuel Levy)
• Foots Cray Meadows: 7m Song Thrush singing, Grey Wagtail, Water Rail, 6 Little Grebe, 2 Egyptian Goose, 11 Tufted Duck, 2 Gadwall, Canada Goose, 2 Jay, 8 Common Gull, c100 Black-headed Gull (Bernie Weight)
• Greenwich: 2 Shelduck east past Cutty Sark 1530 (Karen Bonser)
• Hall Marsh: Cattle Egret, 6 Little Egret, 40+ Lapwing (Simon Papps)
• Holyfield Hall Farm: 11 Eurasian White-fronted Goose, 2 Shelduck (Simon Papps)
• Pinner, Lloyd Court 1305-1430: m Firecrest in garden (Richard Francis)
• Putney Heath: 7 Lesser Redpoll, Ladies Mile (Les Evans-Hill)
• Sidcup: f Sparrowhawk sitting on ridge tiles of house in Maple Leaf Drive for at least half hour (Eric Brown)
• Staines Moor: Peregrine, 5 Water Pipit, Dartford Warbler (Chris Lamsdell)
• Thamesmead: 2 Yellow-legged Gulls [both 2cy] Greenhaven Drive, fem Pochard, 45 Tufted Duck, 223 Coot Southmere (Richard Bonser)
• Trent Park: 17 Canada Goose, 18 Mandarin Duck, 3 Northern Shoveler m 2f, m Common Pochard, 3f Tufted Duck, 37 Black-headed Gull, Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Wren, 6 Blackbird, Redwing, 5 Goldcrest, 3 Long-tailed Tit, 11+ Blue Tit, 4 Great Tit, 2 Nuthatch, 3 Treeceeper, m Chaffinch (Robert Callf)
• Watermeadows Open Space: 2 Egyptian Goose W, m Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, 3 Tufted Duck 2m f, 6 Little Grebe, Little Egret, f Kestrel, Kingfisher, 60+ Redwing, 4 Goldcrest, 8 Siskin (Jack Headley)

Monday 21st December 2020

• Barnet Gate: 30 Meadow Pipit feeding w/ 15 Pied Wagtail on Old Elizabethan's Playing Fields, May's Lane (Allan Stewart)
• Broomfield Park: 2 Corrmorant flew over, imm Grey Heron, 2 Egyptian Goose pr, m Northern Shoveler, 13 Tufted Duck 6m 7f, 22 Moorhen, 61+ Black-headed Gull inc one w/ red darvic P.1 from Netherlands, ad Common Gull, ad Herring Gull, 5 Ring-necked Parakeet, 2 Mistle Thrush, Goldcrest, 60+ Starling, 31 Greenfinch pre-roost gathering at 1537, 8 Goldfinch (Robert Callf)
• Clapham Common: 4 White-fronted Goose still (Alan Wilkinson)
• Dartford Marshes: 2 Egyptian Goose, f Pochard, 2 Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, 5 Common Sandpiper, 3 Yellow-legged Gull, 4 Water Pipit, 2 Rock Pipit, 6 Stonechat, 600+ Fieldfare, 100+ Redwing, Goldcrest (Jack Headley)
• Devonshire Road SE23: Great Spotted Woodpecker calling, Jay landed in a front garden (Paul Francis)
• KGV Res: 7 Goosander, c10 Goldeneye, Scaup, Green Sandpiper, Red Kite, Buzzard (A Middleton) Thanks, I think lockdown is getting to me Me too! Where is KGV reservoir? Staines?
• Laleham: 3 Tundra Bean Geese north of Staines Road east of Laleham village at 13:00 at least, directions as Saturday (RBA)
• Richmond Bridge Estate "East Twickenham": Common Buzzard low over the buildings being mobbed by a Crow & c10 Parakeet, c30 Goldfinch feeding in a large London Plane (Neil Anderson)
• Rotherhithe: Black Swan still Greenland Dock (Richard Bonser)
• Southwark Park: 9 Shoveler (Richard Bonser)
• Sidcup: Peregrine swooping repeatedly into the ledges of a tall building (Patrick English)
• Woodford Green: 3 Greenfinch 2m f [first in the garden for 2 years] (Steve Howey)
• Wanstead Flats: 2 White-fronted Goose, 2 Mediterranean Gull [Both 1w on Jubilee], 25 Redpoll, 2 Meadow Pipit, 2 Stonechat, 54 Redwing, 2 Goldcrest, 1-2 Peregrine Falcon, Pochard, 15+ Shoveler (Wanstead Birders)

Sunday 20th December 2020

• Alexandra Park: 5 ad Great Black-backed Gull [4 N 0913, 1 SE 0945] record group and day totals, 10 Fieldfare, 165 Redwing mostly W/SW, Common Buzzard (APOG Birders)
• Alperton "Grand Union Canal HA0": 5 Cormorant, 2 Greylag Goose, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Mute Swan (Barry Wilson)
• Brent Reservoir: m Goosander by bridge, 24 Snipe, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 76 Redwing (Andrew Self); 5 Lesser Redpoll (Mark Mulrooney).
• Brockley Cemetery: Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Keith Chambers)
• Erith Pier: adult Yellow-legged Gull, 250 Dunlin (Richard Bonser)
• Grovelands Park: Great Crested Grebe, 2 Mute Swan pr, Greylag Goose, 4 Mandarin Duck 2m 2f, 2 Northern Shoveler pr, 14 Tufted Duck 11m 3f, 70+ Black-headed Gull, 5 ad Common Gull inc one w/ white darvic JJ358 from Norway, ad Lesser Black-backed Gull, 5 Herring Gull ad 4imm, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker inc three together, Grey Wagtail, 30+ Redwing, 5 Goldcrest, 15 Long-tailed Tit, Nuthatch singing (Robert Callf)
• Laleham: 3 Tundra Bean Geese north of Staines Road east of Laleham village. Same details as yesterday. No White-fronts present (Adam Cheeseman)
• Margravine Cemetery: c40 Redwing, 10 Goldfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker (David Jeffreys)
• Northolt & Greenford CP: 2 Red Kite, Kestrel, 3 Redwing (Kathryn Bull)
• Paddington: Male Peregrine Falcon on Hilton Metropole ledges AM (Des McKenzie)
• Pinner, HA5: 8 Redwing, Red Kite, Coal Tit, f Great Spotted Woodpecker (Nigel Barratt)
• Rotherhithe: 2nd-winter Yellow-legged Gull, Black Swan, 35 Tufted Duck on Greenland Dock (Richard & Rosie Bonser)
• Southfields "SW18": m Blackcap in the back garden, first of the winter (Martin Honey)
• Staines Moor: Dartford Warbler & 8 Water Pipit (Chris Lamsdell); Green Sandpiper (M Buckley); Short-eared Owl, Barn Owl, m Goosander over, f Sparrowhawk, 3 Little Egret, 2 Red Kite, Little Grebe, 40+ Fieldfare, 30+ Redwing (Iain Darbyshire)
• Ten Acre Wood area: 2 Egyptian Goose pr over, 6 Little Egret feeding in paddock [record site count by one], Kestrel mobbing perched Common Buzzard, Water Rail calling, 3 Common Snipe, 6-8 Skylark, c30 Meadow Pipit, m Stonechat, 120+ Redwing, 2 Fieldfare (Neil Anderson)
• Thamesmead: 1st-winter Caspian Gull off Greenhaven Drive [same bird as at Erith Pier 15 Nov and 13 Dec], 3 Yellow-legged Gulls (Richard Bonser)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: Woodcock [Cow Field], 14 Canada Geese [very low count compared to normal for time of year], 17 Mandarin Duck, 26 Common Gull, 2 Grey Heron, Sparrowhawk, 5 Little Owl, 2 Tawny Owl, 30 Rook, 6 Goldcrest, 162 Redwing, 2 Fieldfare, Bullfinch (Samuel Levy)
• 'Uxbridge Road, Hatch End, Harrow': Rook on grass verge (Kabir Kaul)
• Victoria Park: Nuthatch, 2 Redwing (Harry Harrison)
• Wanstead Flats: 2 White-fronted Goose, Mediterranean Gull [1w at Jubilee], 20+ Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, Pochard, 2 Stonechat pr, 5+ Redwing, 7 Fieldfare, 6+ Meadow Pipit, Buzzard, Reed Bunting (Wanstead Birders)
• Watermeadows Open Space: 2 Egyptian Goose pr, 3 Gadwall, 7 Little Grebe, 4 Goldcrest (Jack Headley)
• Yeading Brook Meadows: Grey Heron, 3 Red Kite [pr together], 1-2 Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 129 Common Gull, c40 Redwing, m Greenfinch (Neil Anderson)

Saturday 19th December 2020

• Alexandra Park: 50+ Redwing, Peregrine (APOG Birders)
• Boston Manor Park: 2 Mandarin Duck m f, 2 Mute Swan, 4 Tufted Duck 2m 2f, m Shoveler (Barry Wilson)

• Brent Reservoir: m Goosander by bridge, 32 Snipe, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 40 Redwing (Andrew Self)

• Broadwater Lake: Firecrest along canal bank just S of Blackjacks Mill between rain, f/imm Goosander on river (Dan Pinkham); 2 female Goosander on Broadwater & single Yellow-legged Gull (Chirs Lamsdell)
• Brookmill Park: Chiffchaff, Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
• Clapham Common: 4 White-fronted Goose still, Peregrine (Nick Rutter)
• Crayford Marshes: juv Dark-bellied Brent Goose still, 2 Egyptian Goose, 2 Little Egret, m Marsh Harrier, Water Rail calling, Grey Plover, 600+ Lapwing, 180+ Dunlin, Curlew, 5 Common Sandpiper, 7 Skylark, 3 Water Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 6 Stonechat, 500+ Fieldfare, 150+ Redwing, 4 Cetti's Warbler singing, 3 Reed Bunting (Jack Headley)
• Erith Pier: 1st-winter Caspian Gull on jetty late a'noon (Richard Bonser, Jamie Partridge)
• Greenhill Gardens, Barnet: ad Mediterranean Gull w/ red darvic PTJ9 (Bob Husband per RM Callf); Med Gull flew in at 1158 till 1210 at least, 8 Shoveler, 5 Tufted Duck, 2 Goldcrest, Nuthatch, 4 Redwing, Grey Wagtail, 14 Siskin (Samuel Levy)
• Grovelands Park: Great Crested Grebe, 9 Cormorant, Grey Heron, 2 Mute Swan pr inc male w/ orange darvic 4EIT, Greylag Goose, 9 Egyptian Goose, 8 Mandarin Duck 4m 4f, m Northern Shoveler, 12 Tufted Duck 9m 3f, m Sparrowhawk, 47 Black-headed Gull, 5 Common Gull inc one w/ white darvic JJ358 from Norway, Lesser Black-backed Gull, 4 Stock Dove, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, 2+ Redwing, Goldcrest, Jay, Chaffinch, 2 Goldfinch (Robert Callf)
• Hilfield Park Reservoir: 2 Mediterranean Gull 1CY and ad (Tony Blake)
• Laleham: 3 Tundra Bean Goose, 3 Russian White-fronted Goose in field N of B376, half a mile E of village. Park only in children's play area layby near Abbey Drive and walk 200 yards E along road. Please do not enter field or go beyond brick hut. Birds are wary (Franko J Maroevic)
• Lewisham: Blackcap singing in Smead Way garden (John Archer)
• Perivale Park: Grey Heron, 1-2 Red Kite, imm m Sparrowhawk posing on log by river, 3 Kestrel together, singing Stock Dove, 55 Common Gull, Grey Wagtail, f Stonechat [site 1st], 3 Redwing, 2m Reed Bunting, 21+ Linnet, 12 Goldfinch, 5 Chaffinch (Neil Anderson/Kathryn Bull)
• Pinner, HA5: 12 Redwing eating holly berries (Nigel Barratt)
• Southgate "Wynchgate, N14": m Goldcrest singing 1455 (Robert Callf)
• Staines Reservoirs: Great Northern Diver, f Scaup, 2 Black-necked Grebe all on north basin (Tim Rymer); f Red-breasted Merganser early pm (Iain Darbyshire)
• Rainham Marshes: 2 Barnacle Goose, 3 Ruff, 1 Dunlin, 5 Snipe, 6 Curlew, 2 Black-tailed Godwits, Marsh Harrier, Peregrine, 26 Fieldfare, 4 Redwing, 2 Stonechat, 15 Meadow Pipit, 4 Skylark, 2 Rock Pipit, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Chiffchaff (Sean Huggins)
• Sydenham Hill Wood: Buzzard (Steven Robinson)
• Wanstead Flats: White-fronted Goose, 2 Mediterranean Gull [1w on Jubilee], 3 Pochard, 6 Gadwall, 40+ Redwing, 2 Fieldfare, 4 Song Thrush, 2 Stonechat pr, 4 Meadow Pipit, Coal Tit (Wanstead Birders)

Friday 18th December 2020

• Alexandra Park: 202 Redwing mostly W/SW, 2 Egyptian Goose pair, 2m Shoveler, 5 Pochard, escaped Canary Grove works yard (APOG Birders)
• Bickley "garden": 60+ Redwing landed briefly in trees in neighbouring gardens. 5 Greenfinch, Coal Tit (Jon Mills)
• Brent Reservoir: m Goosander by bridge, flock of Siskin, Teal, Shoveler, Pochard, Gadwall (Mark Mulrooney)
• Brookmil Park: Singing Song Thrush, Blackcap m (Conrad Ellam)
• Crayford Marshes: juv Dark-bellied Brent Goose, 2 Little Grebe, Little Egret, 11 Avocet, 140+ Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Common Sandpiper, 3 Yellow-legged Gull, Water Pipit, Rock Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 4 Stonechat, 300+ Fieldfare, 100+ Redwing, 2 Cetti's Warbler singing, 500+ Starling (Jack Headley)
• Erith Pier: 2 Yellow-legged Gulls [adult & 2cy] (Richard Bonser)
• Northolt & Greenford CP: 2 Cormorant, 2 Grey Heron, 3 Red Kite, m Sparrowhawk, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Meadow Pipit, 35 Pied Wagtail feeding on Rectory fields, c50 Redwing, 3 Fieldfare, pre-roost group c500 Starling, f Greenfinch (Neil Anderson/Kathryn Bull)
• Peckham Rye Park SE22: Great Spotted Woodpecker calling, Song Thrush singing (Paul Francis)
• Pinner, HA5: 10 Redwing, f Blackcap, Goldcrest (Sean Moore)
• Richmond Park: 50 Lesser Redpoll (RPFBG)
• Rotherhithe: 2nd-winter Yellow-legged Gull Greenland Dock (Richard Bonser)
• RSPB Rainham Marshes: 283 Greylag, 2 Barnacle Geese, 415 Canada Geese, 5 Egyptian Geese, 21 Shelduck, 417 Shoveler, 108 Gadwall, 762 Wigeon, 43 Pintail, 362 Teal, 27 Pochard, 24 Tufted Duck, 2 Water Rail, 96 Coot, 24 Avocet, 1600 Lapwing, 8 Curlew, 140 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Ruff, 2 Dunlin, 9 Common Snipe, 7 Redshank, 47 Common Gull, 2 1st w Caspian Gull, 3 Grey Heron, 3 Marsh Harrier, Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel, Peregrine, 15 Jackdaw, 4 Rook, Raven, 2 Bearded Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, 17 Cetti's Warbler, Blackcap, 140 Redwing, 90 Fieldfare, 4 Water Pipit, 2 Rock Pipit, Greenfinch (Samuel Levy)
• Staines Moor: Water Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 18 Fieldfare, 5 Redwing, Green Sandpiper again in field with horses on approach track from Stanwell Moor (Iain Darbyshire)
• Thamesmead: 3 Yellow-legged Gulls [3cy, 2x 2cy] Greenhaven Drive (Richard Bonser)
• Wanstead Flats: 2 White-fronted Goose, 11 Shoveler, 5 Gadwall, 4 Meadow Pipit, pr Stonechat, 10+ Redwing, 20-30 Redpoll, Linnet (Wanstead Birders)

Thursday 17th December 2020

• Alexandra Park: 180+ Redwing, 13 Fieldfare S, Egyptian Goose pair flew to Boating Lake, 2m Shoveler, 140+ Woodpigeon NE, Little Egret (APOG Birders)
• Brent Reservoir: m Goosander by bridge, Egyptian Goose, Sparrowhawk (Shailesh Patel)
• Dartford Marshes: Short-eared Owl, 26 Avocet, 5 Greylag Goose, 4 Shoveler, 8 Gadwall, 41 Wigeon, 36 Mallard, 70 Teal, 3 Tufted Duck, 4 Little Grebe, 2 Great Crested Grebe, Oystercatcher, 500+ Lapwing [over River Thames], 2 Black-tailed Godwit, Snipe, Great Black-backed Gull, Little Egret, Buzzard, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Kestrel, 3 Chiffchaff [feeding in bulrushes with tit flock], 8 Cetti's Warbler, 162 Redwing, 140 Fieldfare, 4 Stonechat, Grey Wagtail, 5 Pied Wagtail, 11 Meadow Pipit, 7 Linnet, 33 Goldfinch (Tom Stewart)
• Finchley "Garden N3": 2 Collared Dove, 45 Redwing (Samuel Levy)
• Greenhills Gardens, Barnet: ad Mediterranean Gull w/ red darvic PTJ9 (Bob Husband per RM Callf)
• Hall Marsh: Cattle Egret, 4 Little Egret, 30+ Lapwing (Simon Papps)
• Hampstead Heath "Highgate Ponds": Little Grebe, Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail, 160 Redwing, 10 Mandarin (Reuben Braddock)
• Holyfield Hall Farm: 22 Eurasian White-fronted Goose, 100+ Fieldfare, 50+ Redwing (Simon Papps)
• Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens: No sign of recent adult White-fronted Goose am, Goldeneye still at east end of Serpentine [sometimes elusive], 12 Gadwall, male Red-crested Pochard, 369 Coot, Kingfisher [Long Water] (Des McKenzie).
• Northolt & Greenford CP: 2 Red Kite, Kestrel, Green Woodpecker, 5 Redwing, Chiffchaff (Kathryn Bull)
• Oakwood "Bramley Rd, N14": 15+ Redwing, Blue Tit (Robert Callf)
• Osterley Park "Middle Lake": 11 Egyptian Goose incl 5 juv, 3 m Great Crested Grebe, 6 Northern Shoveler 4m 2f, m Teal (Barry Wilson)
• Pinner, HA5: 40+ Redwing (Nigel Barratt)
• Pymmes Park: 3 Little Grebe, 4 first-winter Mute Swan, Greylag Goose, 2 Egyptian Goose pr, 7 Northern Shoveler 6m f, 18 Tufted Duck 7m 11f, 10 Collared Dove together on island 1430, m Song Thrush singing, 2 Redwing, Goldcrest, 4+ Long-tailed Tit, 5 Great Tit inc singing male, 2 Nuthatch, 19+ Starling, 4 House Sparrow, 2 Chaffinch pr - inc male w/ diseased right foot, 3+ Greenfinch, 3 Goldfinch (Robert Callf)
• Richmond Park: 3 Shoveler, 6 Pochard, Little Grebe, Common Buzzard, Peregrine, Kestrel, 75 Common Gull, 7 Meadow Pipit, 35 Redwing, 3 Stonechat, 2 Dartford Warbler [separate locations. Another one or probably two individuals in other locations seen by Phil Pentek], 5 Greenfinch (Neil Anderson); 5 Lesser Redpoll (Isabella Plantation - in silver birches on edges - Tim Vine); 5 Buzzard, ad female Peregrine with pigeon prey, Water Rail heard, 13 Stonechat (J Wilczur); Lesser Redpoll male in Hawthorn Valley, 2 Dartford Warbler in and near cattle enclosure, pair of Greenfinch, 6 Kestrel, Sparrowhawk (RPFBG)
• Rotherhithe: 41 Cormorant Greenland Dock (Richard Bonser)
• Ruislip Gardens "Yeading Brook": Little Egret (Barry Wilson)
• Rushett Farm, Chessington: 4 Yellowhammer, 2 Reed Bunting, 13 Skylark, 70 Fieldfare and minimum 200 Redwings (Isaiah Rowe)
• Sutcliffe Park: At least 1 Water Rail, probably 2, calling by the boardwalk, Green Woodpecker, Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam & Martin Hallam)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: Water Rail alarm calling at Darlands, 17 Mandarin Duck, 2 Teal, 35 Stock Dove, 29 Common Gull, 11 Black-headed Gull, Cormorant, 2 Sparrowhawk, 3 Common Buzzard, Little Owl, Kestrel, Peregrine, 18 Rook, 2 Coal Tit, 8 Goldcrest, 10 Nuthatch, 34 Starling, 3 Mistle Thrush, 9 Song Thrush, 215 Redwing, 16 Blackbird, 7 Fieldfare, Grey Wagtail, 3 Pied Wagtail, 2 Meadow Pipit, 5 Bullfinch, Greenfinch, 2 Siskin [Peacock Butterfly] (Samuel Levy)
• Victoria Park: Four Thrush species by children's playground, Song Thrush, 2 Blackbird, 3 Mistle Thrush, 6 Redwing (Harry Harrison)
• Watermeadows Open Space: 2 Egyptian Goose pair, 10 Little Grebe, Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, Kingfisher, 9+ Redwing, Chiffchaff (Jack Headley)
• Wimbledon Common: 3 Buzzard over western woods (J Wilczur)

Wednesday 16th December 2020

• Alexandra Park: ad Mediterranean Gull 1005-1142 when flew high N, w/ yellow darvic ring 2H72 ringed in Essex seen Pymmes Park 13th January 2019 [First seen in Pymmes Park on 20th December 2017 & last time in January & February 2020], 111 Redwing, 5 Fieldfare, Skylark N, Egyptian Goose, Little Egret, 2 Peregrine m caught Goldfinch (APOG Birders)
• Barnet Gate, Brentlodge Farm: Skylark, 5 Redwing, 7 Fieldfare (Samuel Levy)
• Burgess Park, Southwark: 3 Northern Shoveler m 2f, 2 Great Crested Grebe (Peter Reed)
• Duncan's Wood "Enfield Chase": 11 Chaffinch (Robert Callf)
• Greenhill Gardens, Barnet: 11 Northern Shoveler 9m 2f, Mediterranean Gull, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Nuthatch (James Palmer); ad Mediterranean Gull w/ red darvic PTJ9 still 1050-1115, Finnish metal ringed Black-headed Gull [If anyone is able to obtain the full number please let me know the bird flew off before I could read it all], 12 Shoveler [8m, 4f so suspect 13 on site], 2 Goldcrest, 17 Redwing, 7 Siskin (Samuel Levy)
• Holyfield Hall Farm: 22 [8 adult & 14 juv] White-fronted Goose (Adam Wilson)
• Lamorbey Park, Sidcup: 7 Egyptian Geese, 12 Canada Geese, Greylag Goose, Grey Heron, 2 Stock Dove, 5 Tufted Ducks, f Kingfisher, Firecrest, Peregrine (Eric Brown)
• Netherhall GP: juv White-fronted Goose (Adam Wilson)
• Perivale "near Central Line platform": Kestrel (Barry Wilson)
• Rainham Wennington Marsh: 2 Barnacle Goose, 2 Marsh Harrier, f Kestrel, 2 Stonechat (Steve Bacon)
• Southgate Chase Allotments: f Blackcap, 4 Long-tailed Tit, Coal Tit, 3 Blue Tit, f Chaffinch (Robert Callf)
• Swanscombe Marsh “08.30-12.20 incoming tide”: 3 Cetti's Warbler [heard], Kestrel, Raven, 26 Mallard [23 river r], 23 Gadwall r, 3 Teal r, 2 Meadow Pipit, 9 Stonechat [5m], 37 Greylag Goose, Kingfisher, 5 Shoveler [3m], Little Egret, Skylark, 2 Coot, 3 Tufted Duck [2m], 2 Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, 2 Common Sandpiper r, 4 Little Grebe, Grey Heron, c50 Redwing, c50 Fieldfare, 2 Song Thrush [heard], 3 Great Black-backed Gull [inc CR WF5T] (Roger Keith/Paul Larkin)
• Totteridge "Darlands Lake": 18 Mandarin Duck displaying at dusk in the rain (Tony Clancy)
• Trent Park: 11 Mandarin Duck 7m 4f, m Northern Shoveler, 2m Common Pochard, 3 Tufted Duck m 2f, Red Kite, 4 Common Buzzard, Green Woodpecker, m Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush, 20+ Redwing, 5 Goldcrest, 5 Long-tailed Tit, Coal Tit, 6 Siskin, 4 Common Crossbill inc birds seen perched (Robert Callf./Bob Husband/Pete Lowman)
• Victoria Park:" west lake" 2 Red-crested Pochard, 5 Gadwall, 4 Great Crested Grebe, 6 Shoveler. East lake - Shoveler, 2 Gadwall. 2 Nuthatch near Old English Garden. 27 Common Gull, Mistle Thrush, 5 Pied Wagtail on cricket pitch (JW Davies)
• Wandle Park, Colliers Wood: Little Egret (Keith Bates)
• West Wickham BR4: Sparrowhawk, 190+ Redwing mostly NE (Jack Headley)
• Woodford Green: 2 Little Egret, c150 Redwing, Firecrest, 2 Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush, Starling, m Sparrowhawk by 1540 (Ken Murray)

Tuesday 15th December 2020

• Alexandra Park: 539+ Redwing mostly W/SW, 15 Fieldfare, imm Great Black-backed Gull [2nd of the year] E 0935, 2 Peregrine, 2m Shoveler, 4 Pochard 2 prs (APOG Birders)
• Bickley "garden": 15 Redwing (Jon Mills)
• Bowyer's Water: 5 Goosander 4m f displaying, 12 Shoveler incl leucistic f, Yellow-legged Gull, f Bullfinch (Simon Papps)
• Brent Reservoir "North": 9 Cormorant, m Goosander, 2 Grey Heron, 30+ Mute Swan, 15 Shoveler 11m 4f, 60+ Tufted Duck (Barry Wilson)
• Brookmill Park: Little Egret, 2 Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
• Broomfield Park: imm Grey Heron, 3m Northern Shoveler, 5 Tufted Duck 2m 3f, Sparrowhawk, 13 Moorhen [fed from the hand from member of public], 69+ Black-headed Gull inc yellow darvic 2BKT from Czech Republic & metal-ringed bird from Lithuania - HA24.238, Common Gull, 2 Stock Dove, Grey Wagtail, 2 Redwing, Mistle Thrush, 3 Great Tit inc two singing males, 14 Greenfinch pre-roost gathering 1535 (Robert Callf)
• Bushy Park: 5+ Lesser Redpoll, c15 Siskin (Spencer Neal) Whereabouts in the park have you been seeing these Spencer? Thanks, Mark W, Waterhouse Plantation/ Woodland Garden,- of the two big woodland gardens next to each other it is the west one (the Pheasantry Plantation being the east one), my best views of Lesser Redpoll have been on the silver birches, Spencer
• Crossness NR: Peregrine, Buzzard, Kestrel, Green Woodpecker, Kingfisher, 3 Pheasant, 3 Stonechat, 3 Meadow Pipit, Song Thrush, 10 Cetti's Warbler, Water Rail [heard], 4 Teal, 7 Pochard, 6 Shoveler, 17+ Pied Wagtail, Little Grebe, 3 Grey Heron, 4 Long-tailed Tit, 9 Greylag Goose (Bernie Weight). Thames and Foreshore, incoming too high tide: 74 Shoveler, 62 Shelduck, c150 Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, Great Crested Grebe, 68 Redshank, c450 Teal, 3 Grey Heron, 48 Gadwall, 4 Wigeon, c150 Dunlin, 19 Greylag Goose, Grey Wagtail, 9 Cormorant, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, c300 Black-headed Gull, Cetti`s Warbler, 65 Lapwing (Bernie Weight)
• Dartford Marshes: 5 Corn Bunting, 160 Wigeon, 130 Redshank, ad Yellow legged Gull, 100+ Fieldfare, Snipe (Phil Thompson)
• Hall Marsh: Cattle Egret, 5 Little Egret (Simon Papps)
• The Hollies, Sidcup: Redwing, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Eric Brown)
• Holyfield Hall Farm: 14 Egyptian Goose, 7 Skylark, 40+ Fieldfare, 20+ Redwing, f Stonechat, 2 Yellowhammer (Simon Papps)
• Holyfield Lake: Eurasian White-fronted Goose, m Goosander (Simon Papps)
• Horton Country Park: 200 Redwing (Bob Smith)
• North Met Pit: f Goldeneye, 35+ Tufted Duck, 10+ Common Pochard, 2 Water Rail, 2 Siskin (Simon Papps)
• Richmond Park: 100 Redwing (Dave Peers); 30 Siskin feeding in tops of trees in Isabella Plantation (Rose Chapman); Dartford Warbler (Jon Reeves)
• Seventy Acres Lake: Peregrine Falcon, 2 Water Rail, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, 180+ Starling (Simon Papps)
• Trent Park: 5 Common Crossbill feeding in Rough Lot nr Obelisk 1230 (Eugene Dillon-Hopper per RM Callf)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: Woodcock [Folly Farm], Barn Owl still, 13 Mandarin Duck, 2 Teal, 69 Common Gull, 2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Grey Heron, Red Kite, Common Buzzard, 4 Little Owl, Peregrine over Darlands, 30 Rook, 8 Goldcrest, 14 Starling, 4 Mistle Thrush, 8 Song Thrush, 326 Redwing, 11 Blackbird, 28 Fieldfare, Pied Wagtail, 3 Meadow Pipit, 5 Bullfinch, 2 Greenfinch, 3 Siskin, Reed Bunting [Owl Field] (Samuel Levy)
• Victoria Park: 10 Redwing (Harry Harrison)

Monday 14th December 2020

• Erith "Thames Foreshore off Corinthian Manorway": 2 Rock Pipit and upstream, on a silo in the Erith Docks area, Black Redstart (Mike Robinson)
• Enfield area "private access": Little Grebe, 2 Red Kite 1052, Sparrowhawk, f Kestrel, 35+ Stock Dove, 3 Collared Dove, 3 Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 30+ Pied Wagtail, 3 Fieldfare, Redwing (Robert Callf)
• Greenhill Gardens, Barnet: ad Mediterranean Gull w/ red darvic PTJ9 1115-1235, 7 Northern Shoveler 6m f (Bob Husband per RM Callf)
• Ladywell Fields: Kingfisher (Tom Moulton)
• Rayners Lane: Red Kite (Barry Wilson)
• Richmond Park: Lawn Field: m Dartford Warbler, 6 Stonechat, 5 Meadow Pipit, 12 Redwing (Nick Baker)
• Seventy Acres Lake: Bittern, 3 Water Rail, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 55+ Redwing, 2 Fieldfare, 180+ Starling (Simon Papps)
• Southgate Chase Allotments: 2 Blackcap m f, Coal Tit, 9 Starling, m Chaffinch (Robert Callf)
• Southwark Park: Peregrine, 2 Stock Dove, 10 Shoveler, 2 Coal Tit (John & Janet Cadera/ Richard Page-Jones)
• Trent Park: 2 Cormorant, 17 Mandarin Duck 10m 7f, 2m Northern Shoveler, 12 Mallard, 2m Common Pochard, 2f Tufted Duck, 2 Ring-necked Parakeet, Song Thrush, 7 Redwing, 4 Goldcrest, 9 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Coal Tit, Treecreeper (Robert Callf)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 15 Mandarin Duck, 2 Teal, 8 Black-headed Gull, 56 Common Gull, 2 Red Kite, 2 Common Buzzard, Little Owl, 16 Goldcrest, Treecreeper, 19 Starling, Mistle Thrush, 5 Song Thrush, 230 Redwing, 7 Blackbird, 26 Fieldfare, 2 Pied Wagtail, 2 Meadow Pipit, 4 Bullfinch, 4 Greenfinch (Samuel Levy)
• West Dulwich "garden": 40+ Redwing, m Blackcap, m Sparrowhawk (Paul Collins)

Sunday 13th December 2020

• Alexandra Park: 63+ Redwing, Chiffchaff, WEBS: 489 Black-headed Gull, 23 Common Gull, 2 Herring Gull, m Shoveler, 6 Pochard, leucistic Egyptian Goose, 33 Canada Goose, 24 Coot, 18 Moorhen, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 28 Tufted Duck, 33 Mallard, 5 Mallard hybrids, 4 Cormorant, Grey Heron (APOG Birders)
• Brent Reservoir: m Goosander by bridge (Andrew Self); Goosander still this pm, also Peregrine (Tim Rymer)
• Broadwater Lake: m Goosander, 3 Goldeneye, Water Rail all on river (Dan Pinkham)
• Clapham Common: 4 White-fronted Geese still in enclosed/re-seeded area, 2 Common Gull, Pied Wagtail, pr Egyptian Geese with 10 young still downy at Eagle Pond (Michael Mac)
• Hilfield Park Reservoir: f Goldeneye, 19 Pochard, 2 Shoveler (Tony Blake)
• Millwall Docks: Little Grebe, 2 Great Crested Grebe, Tufted Duck, 20 Mallard, 32 Coot, 3 Moorhen, 10 Canada Goose, 2 Mute Swan, 4 Cormorant, 320 Black-headed Gull, 3 Common Gull, 43 Herring Gull (Sean Huggins)
• Southgate Chase Allotments: 2 Goldcrest, 2 Long-tailed Tit, Jay (Robert Callf)
• Sevenoaks WR: 4 Egyptian Goose, 6 Mandarin 4m 2f, 2f Goosander, 5 Little Grebe, 2 Little Egret, 53 Lapwing, 8+ Redwing, 3 Chiffchaff, 4 Treecreeper, 15+ Siskin (Jack Headley)
• Staines Reservoirs: 7 Black-necked Grebe including a flock of 6, which flew off together mid pm, 5 Goldeneye, 2 Water Pipit along causeway (Franko J Maroevic)
• Ten Acre Wood area: 43 Teal [site record count], Red Kite, 52 Common Gull [horse field], 4 Common Snipe, 4 Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Skylark, 3 Meadow Pipit, c120 Redwing, 3 Fieldfare, 21 Goldfinch (Neil Anderson)
• Wood Farm, Stanmore: Peregrine, c50 Redwing, c30 Redpoll (Tony Blake)
• Yeading Brook Meadows: c110 Common Gull, Kestrel, Grey Wagtail, c100 Redwing, 7 Fieldfare (Nigel Dodd)
• Watermeadows Open Space: 4 Little Grebe, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 10 Redwing, 2 Goldcrest (Jack Headley)
• West Dulwich “garden”: m Blackcap, 40+ Redwing, Goldcrest, Coal Tit, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Paul Collins)

Saturday 12th December 2020

• Alexandra Park: 53 Redwing, 30+ Fieldfare, Meadow Pipit W, Egyptian Goose, Tawny Owl heard CW (APOG Birders)
• Alperton "One Tree Hill HA0": Kestrel (Barry Wilson)
• Ashley Pit: 2 Goosander, 30+ Tufted Duck, 5+ Siskin [no sign of yesterday's f Ring-necked Duck] (Simon Papps); 11 [4 male] Goosander (Adam Wilson)
• Brent Reservoir: m Goosander by bridge, 75 Redwing, 5 Fieldfare, 6 Cetti's Warbler (Andrew Self)
• Brookmill Park: 2 Little Egret, Kingfisher, Stock Dove (Conrad Ellam)
• Bushy Park: 6+ Lesser Redpoll, 15 Siskin, 26 Redwing, 4 Shoveler, 10 Gadwall, 15 Mandarin Duck, Nuthatch (Spencer Neal)
• Clapham Common: 4 White-fronted Geese still in usual location 1540 (Nick Esse)
• Crayford Marshes: Russian White-fronted Goose still with 25 Greylag Goose and 2 Canada Goose, 6 Gadwall, 3 Shoveler, c30 Teal, c40 Wigeon, Common Sandpiper flew down Darent Creek, 200+ Fieldfare, c500 Starling, 2 Stonechat pr (Mike Amos); Russian White-fronted Goose still 1225, juv Dark-bellied Brent Goose, 2 Little Egret, 2 Kestrel, 10 Avocet, Grey Plover, 60+ Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 4 Common Sandpiper, Yellow-legged Gull with red coloured ring, Short-eared Owl, 2 Water Pipit, 2 Grey Wagtail, 5 Stonechat, 400+ Fieldfare, 40+ Redwing (Jack Headley)
• Enfield area "private access": 3 Little Grebe 2ad & juv, Little Egret, 2 Skylark, Meadow Pipit, 2 Pied Wagtail, 13 Fieldfare, 50+ Redwing, Goldcrest, 2 Treecreeper, 6 Chaffinch, 2 Greenfinch, Goldfinch (Robert Callf)
• Epping Forest: 4 Goosander 2m 2f on Connaught Water, 50 Redwing, Nuthatch (Jon Agar)
• Erith Pier: 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull (Richard Bonser/Jack Wylson)
• Fairlop Waters: White-fronted Goose, 18 Golden Plover, Kingfisher, Little Owl, Sparrowhawk, 150+ Redwing, 150+ Fieldfare, Chiffchaff (Alan Thomas/Neil Twyford)
• Greenford "UB6": Red Kite over garden (Neil Anderson)
• Hampstead Heath: Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk (Dan C) Full name please?
• Hilfield Park Reservoir: Mediterranean Gull [1cy] in roost (Tony Blake)
• Hillingdon: Red Kite chasing Common Buzzard (Nigel Barratt)
• Horsenden Hill: Flock of 50 Redwing north (Martin Smith)
• Ingrebourne Valley: f Merlin, Peregrine, 2 Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 2 Marsh Harrier m f, c100 Redwing, c50 Fieldfare, 2 Water Rail heard (Andrew Gouldstone)
• Iver Heath: 30+ Redwing, Common Buzzard, 4 Red Kite ( Nigel Barratt)
• Leyton Flats: 20+ Redwing, 11 Lesser Redpoll, 8 Tufted Duck, 4 Common Pochard, 2 Goldcrest, 2 Northern Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, 2 Great Crested Grebe, Common Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Common Kestrel, Chiffchaff (Matt Williams)
• London Wetland Centre: Bittern, f Goldeneye (Shailesh Patel)
• Lonsdale Rd Res [part of WeBS]: 2 Shelduck pr, 4 Egyptian Geese 2pr, 38 Teal, 5 Shoveler, 14 Common Gull (Neil Anderson)
• North Finchley: 10 Redwing NE over house (John Colmans)
• Northolt: Kestrel, Common Buzzard (Nigel Barratt)
• Rotherhithe: Black Swan and 37 Cormorant Greenland Dock, 2nd-winter Yellow-legged Gull Greenland Pier (Richard Bonser)
• Seventy Acres Lake: f/imm Smew, 20+ Common Pochard, 15+ Tufted Duck, 10+ Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler, Kingfisher (Simon Papps)
• Staines Moor: Short-eared Owl at c1615-1630, Barn Owl, f Goosander, Chiffchaff, Cetti’s Warbler, 40+ each of Fieldfare & Redwing, 15+ Skylark, 6 Stonechat, 3 Kestrel, 2 Red Kite, 2 Little Egret (Iain Darbyshire & other observers)
• Thamesmead: 2 Yellow-legged Gull [2cy & 1cy] off Greenhaven Drive (Richard Bonser/Jack Wylson)
• Trent Park: 2 Cormorant, m Northern Shoveler, 2m Common Pochard, 7 Tufted Duck m 6f lower lake, 20+ Redwing, f Bullfinch [my 1st of the yr - numbers have 'fallen off a cliff' this year in the Enfield area - 110th species for the year] (Robert Callf)
• Wandsworth Common: ad Mediterranean Gull (Nick Rutter)
• Walthamstow Marshes: White-fronted Goose w/ 2 Egyptian Goose, 2 Stonechat [all Bombcrater Field] (Jon Agar)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: Great Black-backed Gull (Jon Agar)
• Wanstead Flats: Song Thrush, 20 Lesser Redpoll, 12 Linnet, 2 Reed Bunting (Harry Harrison)
• Watermeadows Open Space: 2 Egyptian Goose pr, 4 Little Grebe, Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, Kingfisher, 37 Redwing, Goldcrest (Jack Headley)
• Woolwich: 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull King Henry's Wharf (Richard Bonser/Jack Wylson)

Friday 11th December 2020

• Alexandra Park: 14 Redwing, 2 Peregrine, Meadow Pipit S (APOG Birders)
• Ashley Pit: ad f Ring-necked Duck, m Pintail, 11 Goosander 6m 5f (Simon Papps)
• Bowyer's Water: ad Yellow-legged Gull (Simon Papps)
• Bromley Common: 2 Nuthatch, 4 Redpoll, m Bullfinch (Jack Headley)
• Bushy Park: 3 Lesser Redpoll, 7 Siskin, Little Egret (Spencer Neal)
• Charing Cross Hospital: 2 Peregrine Falcon [resident male and possible new mate] (Nathalie Mahieu)
• Hall Marsh: Cattle Egret, 3 Little Egret (Simon Papps)
• Holyfield Hall Farm: 20+ Eurasian White-fronted Goose [distant, close to B194 road], 7+ Egyptian Goose, Shelduck, m Peregrine, Grey Wagtail (Simon Papps)
• Horsenden Hill: Kestrel (Barry Wilson)
• Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens: ad White-fronted Goose [Round Pond[, 1w male Goldeneye [east end of Serpentine - can be elusive], Kingfisher [Long Water], 18 Gadwall, 6 Shoveler, 28 Pochard, 9 Cormorant, Green Woodpecker, 9 Redwing, Nuthatch, singing Treecreeper, 9 Jackdaw (Des McKenzie)
• Margravine Cemetery: Herring Gull (Nathalie Mahieu)
• Northolt & Greenford CP: 2 Cormorant [1 perched on A40 street light], 2 Red Kite, Kestrel, 60+ Common Gull, Great spotted Woodpecker, 23 Pied Wagtail, 3 Meadow Pipit, Chiffchaff, 19 Redwing, Fieldfare, 3 Mistle Thrush, 3 Chaffinch (Neil Anderson/Kathryn Bull)
• Pinner, HA5: 5 Redwing (Nigel Barratt); 11 Redwing, Red Kite, Green Woodpecker (Sean Moore)
• Richmond Park: Dartford Warbler m - Lawn Field, 50+ Common Gull (S Woolfenden, J Wilczur); Dartford Warbler at Sawyers Hill, Buzzard, Chiffchaff, 100+ Redwing, 3 Reed Bunting,10 Siskin, 7 Stonechat, juv. Russian White-fronted Goose on golf course (Friday Bird Group)
• RSPB Rainham Marshes: 373 Greylag, 2 Barnacle Geese, 257 Canada Geese, 6 Mute Swan, 46 Shelduck, 370 Shoveler, 75 Gadwall, 681 Wigeon, 75 Mallard, 46 Pintail, 630 Teal, 14 Pochard, 15 Tufted Duck, 5 Water Rail, 64 Coot, 39 Avocet, 1654 Lapwing, 7 Curlew, 139 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Ruff, 856 Dunlin, 24 Common Snipe, 172 Redshank, 35 Common Gull, 8 Grey Heron, Little Egret, 5 Marsh Harrier, 2 Common Buzzard, Kingfisher, 2 Peregrine, 2 Ring-necked Parakeet, Jay, 15 Jackdaw, Rook, Raven, Bearded Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, 22 Cetti's Warbler, 6 Song Thrush, 14 Redwing, 7 Blackbird, 17 Fieldfare, 13 Stonechat, 40 Meadow Pipit, 4 Water Pipit, 6 Rock Pipit, Greenfinch, Corn Bunting (Samuel Levy et al)
• Scadbury Park: Treecreeper, 10 Redwing, 10 Lesser Redpoll, 20 Siskin (Conrad Ellam)
• Staines Moor: am: 2 Raven flying E, Little Egret, 22 Teal, 3 Kestrel, Red Kite, 30+ Fieldfare, 20+ Redwing, 5 Stonechat (Nick Baker)
• Staines Reservoir: Great Northern Diver (Dan Hollands)
• Walthamstow Marshes: White-fronted Goose on River Lea then flew N towards Walthamstow Wetlands, 2 Fieldfare, 3+ Chiffchaff, f/imm Stonechat, 15 Meadow Pipit (Reuben Braddock)
• Wanstead Flats: White-fronted Goose [day 12], Stonechat, c 35 Fieldfare east, 5 Song Thrush, 4 Meadow Pipit [3 east], 40+ Goldfinch (Wanstead Birders)
• Waterlow Park: m Shoveler (James Palmer)
• Victoria Park, Hackney: Nuthatch, Stock Dove, 5 Red-crested Pochard on main lake 4m f (Adam Winstanley)
• Worcester Park: Little Egret on horse fields (Bob Smith)

Thursday 10th December 2020

• Alexandra Park: White-fronted Goose flew in from E dropped, circled then high N 0805, also 12+ Redwing, Peregrine (Bob Watts) Redpoll, 2-3 Tawny Owls calling early evening (APOG Birders)
• Brookmill Park: Kingfisher (Tom Moulton) Little Egret (Conrad Ellam)
• Bushy Park: c25 Siskin at 2pm, 2 Fieldfare, Kingfisher, 6 Stonechat, 2 Goldcrest, Treecreeper, 8 Gadwall, Little Egret, 4 Shoveler (Spencer Neal)
• Clapham Common: 4 White-fronted Geese still in fenced off reseed area by boating lake 1130, 260+ Starling, 18 Common Gull. 60+ Common Gull & 40+ Starling N side of common. 7 Cormorant, 2 Egyptian Geese & m Northern Shoveler, Mount Pond (Tony Stones)
• Connaught Water, Epping: 6 Gosander three prs (J-P Elmes)
• Cowley, Uxbridge: m Sparrowhawk perched on garden fence (Roger Dewey)
• Crayford Marshes: White-fronted Goose still with Greylag Goose flock in first field south of Moat Lane, 4 Rock Pipits along creek & foreshore, adult Yellow-legged Gull, Marsh Harrier, 4 Common Sandpiper along creek, 250 Fieldfare, 200 Redwing, m Sparrowhawk, 10 Lapwing, 45 Dunlin, Little Egret, Stonechat (Nick Upton)
• Crossness NR: 2 Peregrine, Buzzard, Kingfisher, 2 Stonechat (pair), 6 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing, 5 Cetti`s Warbler, 8 Teal, 2 Gadwall, 2 Heron, 6 Long-tailed Tit, Chaffinch, 15 Canada Goose, 17 Greylag Goose. (Bernie Weight). Thames and Foreshore low tide, 101 Shoveler, 58 Shelduck, 2 Heron, Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, Curlew, Great Crested Grebe, 5 Wigeon, 66 Gadwall, 4 Black-tailed Godwit, 54 Redshank, 75 Lapwing, 41 Cormorant, 2 Dunlin, c 500 Teal, 6 Great Black-backed Gull, 14 Lesser Black-backed Gull, Common Gull, 4 Herring Gull, Yellow Legged Gull, c800 Black-headed Gull (Bernie Weight)
• Dartford Marshes: Short-eared Owl, Buzzard, 5 Bearded Tit, Chiffchaff, juv Brent Goose, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Curlew, 4 Golden Plover, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Little Egret in roost, Water Rail, ad Yellow-legged Gull, 50 Fieldfare (Phil Thompson)
• Enfield "Glenbrook, EN2": Little Egret (Robert Callf)
• Enfield Town "Church St, EN2": 36 Greenfinch pre-roost gathering at 1513 [a good urban winter roost count?] (Robert Callf)
• Fairlop Waters: 12 Golden Plover, 25 Teal, Shoveler, 71 Lapwing, 24 Gadwall, Common Pochard, 5 Siskin, 2 Kestrel, 150 Redwing, 10 Fieldfare (Steve Bacon)
• Foots Cray Meadows: Water Rail calling just upstream of River Cray before lake 12 noon, 4 Little Grebe at this location (Patrick English)
• Gillespie Park LNR, Highbury: Lesser Redpoll feeding in silver birch (David Bradshaw)
• Greenhill Gardens, Barnet: ad Mediterranean Gull with red darvic ring PTJ9 at 1045 on park lake (Bob Husband)
• Holyfield Hall Farm, Lea Valley Park: 22 White-fronted Goose (A Middleton)
• Hyde Park: Russian White-fronted Goose still Diana Fountain, Goldeneye east end of Serpentine, Finnish ringed Black-headed Gull (Samuel Levy & Daniel Whitelegg)
• Pinner, HA5: Red Kite over low, 30+ Ring-necked Parakeets perched in low branches of tree ignoring close passers-by (Nigel Barratt)
• Regent's Park: 20 Shoveler, 11 Red-crested Pochard, 40 Pochard, 80 Tufted Duck (Samuel Levy & Daniel Whitelegg)
• Ruislip Gardens "Yeading Brook": Kingfisher, Little Egret (Barry Wilson)
• St James' Park: Finnish ringed Black-headed Gull (Samuel Levy & Daniel Whitelegg)
• Sydenham Hill Wood: 3 Firecrest in Holly north of Marker 2, c30 Redwing [including in Dulwich Wood] (Steven Robinson)
• Walthamstow Marshes: Russian White-fronted Goose still in middle of Bomb Crater Field, 6 Meadow Pipit nearby, Fieldfare by rear paddocks (Alastair Dent)
• Wandle Park, Colliers Wood: Little Egret (Keith Bates)

Wednesday 9th December 2020

• Alexandra Park: 4 Fieldfare, 52 Redwing, 2 Peregrine, 2 Egyptian Goose pr, 4 Pochard (APOG Birders)
• Barn Elms east playing field: 2 Russian White-fronted Geese still present with Canada Geese flock at 1420, view from Queen Elizabeth Walk, next to London Wetland Centre WWT (Mike Wheeler)
• Barnet Gate "Brent Lodge Farm": 5 Redwing, Goldcrest, Common Buzzard (Samuel Levy)
• Brixton "Rush Common, Brixton Hill": Song Thrush singing at dusk (Tony Stones)
• Chelsea Bridge Wharf: Grey Wagtail feeding along Sopwith Way by railway (Neil Anderson)
• East Dulwich SE22: juv f Sparrowhawk caught a male House Sparrow and spent 1 hr 40 mins in my garden eating it, bathing in the pond and perched in the hedge (Steven Robinson)
• Enfield area "private access": Little Owl heard calling 1637 (Robert Callf)
• Finsbury Park: 4 House Sparrow near boundary alongside Seven Sisters Road - my first in the Park since 1999 (James Palmer)
• Greenhill Gardens, Barnet: 5 Northern Shoveler 4m f, no sign of Med Gull at 1230 (Bob Husband per RM Callf); 7 Shoveler 6m f, 2 Siskin, 2 Common Gull, 2 Goldcrest, still no sign of Med Gull at 1450 (Samuel Levy)
• Hogsmill Open Space: Grey Wagtail, Little Egret, Song Thrush, Dunnock, Redwing, Great Spotted Woodpecker (C Harrison)
• London Wetland Centre: 2 Chiffchaff, m Pintail grazing marsh, 4 Lesser Redpoll sheltered lagoon, 6 Redwing near entrance and in Hollies along QE walk (Martin Honey/B Page/T Wright)
• Mayflower Park: Peregrine (Bob Smith)
• Pinner, HA5: 12 Redwing, 9 Goldfinch, Coal Tit (Nigel Barratt)
• Rotherhithe: Black Swan still on Greenland Dock (Karen Bonser)
• St Paul's Cray: Peregrine W over Kelsey Road c0830 (Jack Headley)
• Swanscombe Marsh “0830-1230 outgoing tide”: 3 Cetti's Warbler, 35 Greylag Goose, 72 Canada Goose, 45 Magpie, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Greenfinch, 2 Lapwing, c10 Redwing, 5 Fieldfare, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Peregrine [atop Thames pylon], Buzzard, 2 Dunlin, 12 Gadwall, 2 Common Sandpiper, Dartford Warbler, 32 Redshank, 5 Meadow Pipit, 5 Stonechat, Raven, Kestrel, Little Egret, 25 Teal, Wigeon, 5 Jackdaw (Roger Keith/Paul Larkin)
• Trent Park: 16 Canada Goose, 13 Mandarin Duck 7m 6f upper lake, 2m Eurasian Teal lower lake, 2m Common Pochard, Common Buzzard, f Kestrel, m Stock Dove singing, 2 Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3+ Redwing, 8 Goldcrest, 13+ Long-tailed Tit, Coal Tit, 2 Treecreeper, 2m Siskin (Robert Callf)
• Walthamstow Marshes: ad White-fronted Goose still, with 2 Egyptian Geese [Bomb Crater Field] (James Palmer)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: 5 Green Sandpiper, 2 Peregrine f with kill, 6 Little Egret, m Sparrowhawk (Walthamstow Birders)
• Wanstead Flats: White-fronted Goose [day 10], 9 Meadow Pipit, 10 Pied Wagtail, 35+ Redpoll, 5+ Linnet, 2 Stonechat, Mistle Thrush, 2 Song Thrush, Goldcrest, 16 Shoveler, 10 Gadwall, 19 Tufted Duck, Pochard, Little Grebe (Nick Croft)
• West Dulwich “garden”: m Blackcap in full song (Paul Collins)
• Woodberry Wetlands: 5 Common Snipe, 8 Teal, 2 Shoveler, 2 Peregrine, Sparrowhawk, Coal Tit (Chris Farthing)

Tuesday 8th December 2020

• Alexandra Park: 8 Redwing, Fieldfare, 2 Egyptian Goose pr, 2 Shoveler, 2 Pochard, Tawny Owl near Boating Lake 1703, Blackcap gardens adjoining Grove (APOG Birders)
• Boston Manor Park: Cormorant, 3 Grey Heron, 7 Mandarin Duck 5m 2f, 7 Moorhen, 2 Mute Swan, 2m Shoveler, 2f Tufted Duck (Barry Wilson)
• Brookmill Park: Little Egret, Kingfisher (Conrad Ellam)
• Broomfield Park: imm Grey Heron, 35 Canada Goose inc three w/ metal rings read, 4 Egyptian Goose, 4m Northern Shoveler, 7 Tufted Duck 3m 4f, 11+ Moorhen, Black-headed Gull w/ white darvic L-Y & red darvic P.1 from The Netherlands, yellow darvic 2BKT from Czech Republic & metal ringed 3726091 from The Netherlands, ad Common Gull, 2 ad Lesser Black-backed Gull, f Nuthatch, 4 Greenfinch pre-roost gathering 1512, 6 Goldfinch feeding in birches (Robert Callf)
• Clapham Common: 4 White-fronted Geese still in large, fenced-off reseed area by boating lake at 1245 looking very settled, still present 1435 (Nick Esse) Also 69 Starling, 61 Black-headed Gull, 16 Common Gull, 11 Greylag Geese and 1 Pied Wagtail (Tony Stones). Mediterranean Gull by Eagle Pond, then on Mount Pond at 1500 (Nick Rutter); 2 Stock Dove (Nick Esse)
• Cranford CP: Kingfisher, Kestrel, c25 charm of Goldfinch, c10-15 Redwing overhead (Wendy Marks)
• Crayford Marsh: juv Brent Goose with Canada Geese [Moat Lane Meadows], f Marsh Harrier, Black-tailed Godwit, 200 Redwing, 150 Fieldfare, 2 Meadow Pipit, 2 Shoveler (Nick Upton) The White-fronted Goose, still present, is on the first field to south of Moat Lane- the field backs on to Slade Green rail depot
• Crossness NR : Buzzard,, Kestrel, 4 Stonechat 2 pairs, 3 Meadow pipit, 2 Gadwall, 7 Teal, Little Grebe, 7 Cetti`s Warbler, 2 Water Rail,39 Greylag Goose, 28 Canada Goose, 2 Pied Wagtail, (Bernie Weight). Thames and foreshore at low tide, 66Shelduck, 72 Shoveler, 2 Great Crested Grebe,2 Heron, Little Egret, 60 Lapwing, 25 Redshank, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Wigeon, c80 Gadwall, 29 Cormorant, c 400 Teal, 8 Great Black-backed Gull, 8 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 4 Herring Gull, Common Gull, C900 Black-headed Gull, (Bernie Weight).
• lDagenham Chase: 5 Common Snipe, Water Rail, 52 Lapwing. 32 Wigeon, 30 Shoveler, 34 Teal, 26 Gadwall, 5 Egyptian Goose, Kingfisher
• Foots Cray Meadows "Five Arches/River Cray": 2 Egyptian Goose, 10 Gadwall, 8 Tufted Duck, 45+ Coot, Little Egret, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler amongst 30 species recorded (Ralph Todd)
• Finchley "Garden N3": 16 Greenfinch, m Blackcap, 35 Redwing, 2 Mistle Thrush (Samuel Levy)
• Greenwich Park: Firecrest, Treecreeper, 5+Redwing woodland trail by Deer enclosure (Conrad Ellam & Tom Moulton)
• Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens: ad White-fronted Goose again at Diana Memorial 1140, 1w male Goldeneye still at east end of Serpentine, c50 Common Gull, Little Owl [mobbed by parakeets, Blackbirds and Nuthatch] in oak near Speke Monument flew to Swamp Cypress between path and Long Water 1215, vocal Kingfisher at Long Water adjacent to Peter Pan (Des McKenzie)
• Netherton Grove SW10: 18 Goldfinch in Himalayan Birch am (Des McKenzie)
• Paddington: f Peregrine Falcon gave good flight views in vicinity of Hilton Metropole just after 1300 (Des McKenzie)
• Pinner, HA5: Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker , m Blackcap, 4 Goldfinch, 3 Redwing, Coal Tit, Lesser Black-backed Gull (Nigel Barratt)
• Rayners Lane, HA2: f Blackcap, Goldcrest, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Coal Tit, Collared Dove in garden (Tim Rymer)
• Southwark Park: 3 m Teal [first since 2017 as far as we know], 10 Shoveler, Peregrine, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Coal Tit, Chaffinch, 30+ Goldfinch (John & Janet Cadera)
• Thames Barrier: Redshank [1st of year], 42 Shelduck, 28 Teal, Little Egret (Ian Ellis)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 7 Mandarin Duck, 4 Teal, 12 Black-headed Gull, 74 Common Gull, Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, Little Owl, 15 Rook, Chiffchaff [Substation], 5 Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch, 6 Starling, 15 Song Thrush, 267 Redwing, 17 Blackbird, 10 Fieldfare, Grey Wagtail, 3 Pied Wagtail, 4 Greenfinch, 32 Goldfinch, Reed Bunting [Owl Field] (Samuel Levy)
• Walthamstow Marshes: ad White-fronted Goose, 3 Meadow Pipit [both in Bomb Crater Field], Peregrine on Pylon near Paddocks, Fieldfare in rear paddocks. At least 6 Chiffchaff by bridge near paddocks, but no sign of Siberian Chiffchaff in brief visit this afternoon (Adam Winstanley)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: Lapwing, 2 Green Sandpiper, 10 Meadow Pipit, 4 Fieldfare, m Peregrine, 8 Shoveler, 2 Little Egret (Walthamstow Birders)
• Wanstead Flats: White-fronted Goose 9th day (Sean Tullah)

Monday 7th December 2020

• Aldenham Country Park: 22 Mute Swan, 2 Shoveler, 48 Gadwall, 6 Wigeon, 5 Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, 3 Great Crested Grebe, 10 Common Gull, 15 Redwing. Too foggy to see opposite side or the middle of the reservoir so duck numbers could have been much higher. Also visited Hilfield Park but all I could see was fog! (Samuel Levy) Found my first Wood Warbler at this site on 13th May 1986 - a singing male! Not seen one in the London area in a long while - R Callf
• Alexandra Park: Snipe, 25+ Redwing, Fieldfare, 7 Pochard, 2 Egyptian Goose pr (APOG Birders)
• Alperton "Grand Union Canal HA0": c50 Black-headed Gull, Cormorant, Grey Heron, 5 Moorhen, 4 Mute Swan (Barry Wilson)
• Boston Manor Park: Cormorant, Grey Heron, 2 Mandarin Duck m f, 5 Moorhen, 2 Mute Swan, 3m Shoveler, 2f Tufted Duck (Barry Wilson)
• Barn Elms Eastern Playing Field: 2 White-fronted Geese still (Shailesh Patel)
• Brent Cross: Common Whitethroat showing well in scrub by river next to road opposite entrance to shopping centre (Allan Stewart)
• Brookmill Park: Kingfisher, singing Song Thrush (Conrad Ellam)
• Clapham Common: 4 White-fronted Geese still usual place (Brixton Birder)
• Crayford Marsh- Moat Lane meadows: White-fronted Goose, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Snipe, 8 Lapwing, c300 Fieldfare, c100 Redwing (Ralph Todd)
• Crystal Palace: lower lakes in park: first Teal of the Winter (Nigel G Harris)
• Greenwich Park: 2 Firecrest (Joe Beale)
• Enfield area "private access": 2 Stonechat pr (Robert Callf)
• Enfield Town "St Paul's Centre": 103+ Feral Pigeon on roof (Robert Callf)
• Leyton: Kingfisher, in Dagenham Brook (James Blake)
• Richmond Park GC: 6 Egyptian Goose, Little Egret, 2 White-fronted Goose still present (Nigel Jackman)
• Staines Reservoir: 6 Black-necked Grebe, 5 on N basin, Goldeneye, 84 Wigeon, brief visit late pm (Franko J Maroevic)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: Yellow-browed Warbler, 2 Lapwing, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, Little Egret, 20 Linnet, 40 Goldfinch, Fieldfare, Song Thrush, 2 Kingfisher, Meadow Pipit, 5 Goldeneye, 3 Goosander, 5 Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Water Rail (Walthamstow Birders)
• Walthamstow Marshes: Siberian Chiffchaff on East side of overflow channel, by the bridge behind the paddocks (Rhys Evans)
• Waterworks NR: Firecrest briefly on Bed 14, Jay, 2 Sparrowhawk m f (Adam Winstanley)
• West Dulwich "garden": 3 Blackcap 2m f (Paul Collins)
• Woodford Green: Song Thrush, 3 Robin, 2 Nuthatch, Firecrest by 1000 (Ken Murray)

Sunday 6th December 2020

• Alexandra Park: 2 Egyptian Goose pair, Little Egret, 2m Shoveler (APOG Birders)
• Barn Elms Eastern Playing Field: 2 White-fronted Geese still (Andy Roberts)
• Boston Manor Park: Grey Heron, 2 Mandarin Duck m and f, 2 Mute Swan, 3m Shoveler, 5 Tufted Duck (Barry Wilson)
• Boxer's Lake: 2 Mute Swan pr, Greylag Goose, m Gadwall, m Northern Shoveler, 10 Tufted Duck 4m 6f, 11 Moorhen, 26 Black-headed Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 4 Herring Gull (Robert Callf)
• Bushy Park: Little Egret, 4 Stonechat, Fieldfare, Redwing, 7 Gadwall, 3 Shoveler, 3 Pochard, Little Owl heard, Tawny Owl heard, Treecreeper, Goldcrest, 12 Meadow Pipit, 1080 Woodpigeon flew NW from roost after dawn, 2 Kestrel, 6 Green Woodpecker, 5 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Spencer Neal)
• Clapham Common: 4 White-fronted Geese still (Jon Reeves)
• Cornmill Meadows, Lee Valley: 1 White-fronted Goose still, 1 Cattle Egret, 1 Water Rail, 20+ Siskin, 1 Stonechat, 1 Fieldfare (Marcus Hunt)
• Oakwood "Lonsdale Drive, EN2": singing m Stock Dove, m Grey Wagtail (Robert Callf)
• Finchley "Garden N3": m Blackcap on feeders (Samuel Levy)
• Hampstead Heath: Woodcock 1455 in Kenwood, 37 Mandarin Duck, 12 Redwing (Reuben Braddock)
• Hilfield Park Reservoir: f Goldeneye, Water Rail, 3 Skylark [NE], 19 Pochard, 6 Shoveler, 8 Teal (Tony Blake)
• Hollow Ponds, Leytonstone: 35 Redwings and 15 Redpoll (Roger Orwin)
• Holyfield Farm, Lea Valley: 16 White-fronted Geese still, f/Imm Black Redstart on Barn, Red Kite (Adam Winstanley); 17 Egyptian Goose, 2 Shelduck, 3 Common Gull (Ryan Richardson)
• London Wetland Centre: f Stonechat (Shailesh Patel)
• Oakwood Park: 2 Stock Dove inc singing male (Robert Callf)
• Pinner, HA5: Redwing, Goldcrest, Coal Tit, 5 Long-tailed Tit, 4 Goldfinch (Nigel Barratt)
• Pinner, HA5: 3 Redwing, Red Kite (Sean Moore)
• Queen Mary Reservoir: Water Pipit near tower at SW end mid am, Grey Wagtail, 30 Redwing, Fieldfare, 15 Blackbird, Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush, 55 Great Crested Grebe, Peregrine on end of causeway, Red Kite, Kestrel (Franko J Maroevic)
• Ten Acre Wood area: 4 Teal, 2 Pheasant, 1-2 Red Kite, Common Buzzard, Kestrel, Short-eared Owl, 6 Common Snipe, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Skylark, 150+ Redwing, 8 Fieldfare, 2 Stonechat pr, c20 Linnet, 21 Goldfinch (Neil Anderson)
• Thamesmead: 2cy Mediterranean Gull and 2 Yellow-legged Gulls [adult and 2cy] Greenhaven Drive (Richard Bonser)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 18 Mandarin Duck, Teal, 14 Black-headed Gull, 95 Common Gull, Grey Heron, 6 Little Owl, 29 Rook, 8 Goldcrest, Nuthatch, 11 Starling, 8 Song Thrush, 167 Redwing, Fieldfare, Meadow Pipit, 3 Lesser Redpoll (Samuel Levy)
• Slade Green: Russian White-fronted Goose w/ c25 Canada Geese in field south of the Manor House at end of Moat Lane 1145 (Gus Wilson)
• Staines Moor: Short-eared Owl, f Goosander, Kestrel, Buzzard, c20 Skylark, Grey Wagtail, Stonechat, Green Woodpecker, Stonechat, 2 Redwing, 3 Fieldfare, 4 Little Grebe (Andrew Peel/Toni Menezes/Shelagh Taylor)
• Syon Park "Garden": Cormorant, Egyptian Goose, 2 Gadwall m and f, Grey Heron, 2 Jay, 2 Mute Swan, 13 Tufted Duck 10m 3f (Barry Wilson)
• Yeading Brook meadows: 5 Red Kite [2 perched in oak, while 3 in air together at far end of meadows], 61 Common Gull, Kingfisher, 60+ Redwing, 2 Fieldfare, c10 Siskin feeding in birch with 2 Goldfinch, 7 Greenfinch (Neil Anderson)

Saturday 5th December 2020

• Barn Elms Eastern Playing Fields: 2 White-fronted Geese still. (Chris Turner).
• Alexandra Park: Kingfisher, 2 Egyptian Goose pair, 5 Pochard (APOG Birders)
• Boston Manor Park: 2 Mute Swan, 7 Shoveler 6m 1f, 6 Tufted Duck (Barry Wilson)
• Brentford "River Brent/Brentford Basin TW8": Cormorant, Grey Heron, Grey Wagtail, 2 Mute Swan, 6 Tufted Duck (Barry Wilson)
• Brent Reservoir: Common Buzzard, 26 Snipe, 4 Water Rail, 6 Cetti's Warbler, Tawny Owl (Andrew Self)
• Brookmill Park: Kingfisher (Conrad Ellam)
• Clapham Common: 4 White-fronted Geese still present by tree in fenced area and also on the boating pond, 6 Stock Dove (Mark H)
• Cornmill Meadows: Cattle Egret, White-fronted Goose, 40+ Siskin (Ryan Richardson)
• Gillespie Park LNR, Highbury: Woodcock again flying from rail line area to woodland at 0850 (David Bradshaw)
• Greenford "UB6": Red Kite low over garden (Neil Anderson)
• Greenhill Gardens, Barnet: ad Mediterranean Gull w/ red darvic PTJ9 at 1110 on park lake (Bob Husband)
• Greenwich Park: 2 Firecrest again near lake (Joe Beale)
• Hackney Marshes: 2 Firecrest in evergreens along river path (Alastair Dent)
• Hampstead Heath: Peregrine and Common Buzzard over at midday (Pete Mantle); Woodcock 1610 (Dave Porritt); 30 Lesser Redpoll (Jamie)
• Holloway Road: Red Kite over junction with St Johns Grove 1300 (Pete Mantle)
• Holyfield Farm "Lee Valley": f/imm Black Redstart, 22 Russian White-fronted Geese feeding in ploughed field (Hugh & Ian Bradshaw)
• Holyfield Lake: drake Goosander, pair of Goldeneye and f Pintail (Hugh & Ian Bradshaw)
• Hyde Park: could not find the White-fronted Goose but Goldeneye still present at eastern end of Serpentine [also two million joggers] (John Colmans) The White-front Goose was absent in the morning but four more flew into the Diana fountain enclosure later. (Ralph Hancock) 4 White-fronted Goose in the Round Pond at about 10am, 2 Peregrine at the Barracks (Rob Brazier)
• Lee Valley - Bowyers Water: Russian White-fronted Goose with Greylag Geese and male Brambling in crop field (Hugh & Ian Bradshaw)
• Pymmes Park: 2 Little Grebe, Grey Heron, 4 first-winter Mute Swan, m Eurasian Teal [my first site record?], 4 Northern Shoveler 2 ad m, first-winter m & f, 15 Tufted Duck 10m 5f, 7+ Moorhen, Common Gull, 2 Stock Dove, m Great Spotted Woodpecker, m Song Thrush singing, 2 Goldcrest, Jay (Robert Callf)
• Staines Moor: Short-eared Owl, f Goosander did a couple of circuits round the Moor, landed on Colne briefly, 2 Water Pipit, 2 Peregrine, 2+ Red Kite, 3 Cetti's Warbler, Grey Wagtail, 6 Stonechat, 5 Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 30+ Fieldfare, 40+ Redwing, 2 Little Egret (Iain Darbyshire)
• Staines Reservoir: Great Northern Diver, 1 Black Necked Grebe, Fieldfare (Sean Moore)
• Swanscombe Marsh “1345-1615” : c70 Fieldfare, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Raven, 8 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Stonechat 2m f, 2 Greylag Goose (Roger Keith)
• Syon Park "Garden": Green Woodpecker, Grey Heron, 2 Mute Swan, 16 Tufted Duck (Barry Wilson)
• Watermeadows Open Space: 2 Egyptian Goose pair, 6 Little Grebe, Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, Kingfisher, Chiffchaff calling, 2 Goldcrest, m Siskin (Jack Headley)
• Walthamstow Marshes: White-fronted Goose 1100 (G Howie); Siberian Chiffchaff [seen and heard calling this time, near the horse paddocks] 1400 (Rhys Evans)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: Yellow-browed Warbler still, Goosander, 4 Goldeneye, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Fieldfare, Wigeon (Walthamstow Birders)
• Woodford Green: 2 Common Buzzard inc one calling and doing partial display, 2 Little Egret over as well, c10 Redwing & 7 Goldfinch low and East, m Blackcap, 4 Long-tail Tit, Firecrest feeding in Holly and Ivy between 1400-1500 (Ken Murray)

Friday 4th December 2020

• Barn Elms Eastern Playing Field: 2 ad White-fronted Goose 1200 (R Kaye)
• Burgess Park: White-fronted Goose 0830 (Conrad Ellam)

• Clapham Common: 4 White-fronted Goose, 3 ad juv, adult Mediterranean Gull at 1200, in fenced off area near boating lake (Balham Birder - geese originally found by Nick Rutter)
• Cornmill Meadows: White-fronted Goose, male Stonechat (Adam Wilson)
• Dartford Marshes: Short-eared Owl, Little Owl, Kingfisher, Woodcock, Little Egret, 32 Avocet, 112+ Black-tailed Godwit, 90 Wigeon (Phil Thompson)
• Hackney Marshes: Peregrine on pylon by the filter beds (Alastair Dent)
• Hyde Park: ad White-fronted Goose still Diana Fountain area, 1st-w m Goldeneye (Neil Anderson) m Blackcap at The Dell (Des McKenzie)
• Meath Gardens: Chiffchaff (John Archer)
• Putney Heath: c15 Lesser Redpoll, Reed Bunting, Ladies Mile (Les Evans-Hill)
• Rainham Marshes: Brent Goose, 5 Marsh Harrier, Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, 18 Avocet, 3 Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Ruff, 2 Golden Plover, Raven (Andrew Self/John & Janet Cadera) juv White-fronted Goose N of Winter Pool mid-pm (Sean Huggins)
• Richmond Park: 2 White-fronted Goose - ad and juv Russian birds with Canada Geese on golf course viewable from park footpath by Beverley Brook c500 metres S of Roehampton Gate car park (P Pentek et al per J Wilczur)
• Trent Park: Cormorant, 10 Canada Goose, 13 Mandarin Duck 7m 6f, m Eurasian Teal, 2f Northern Shoveler, 3 Common Pochard 2m f, 2 Tufted Duck m f, 2 Kestrel m f, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Redwing, 3 Goldcrest, 4 Long-tailed Tit, Coal Tit, 17 Blue Tit inc fifteen together on ground Water Grdn, 3+ Great Tit, Nuthatch, 3 Treecreeper (Robert Callf)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 20 Mandarin Duck, 3 Teal, 30 Black-headed Gull, 103 Common Gull, 12 Goldcrest, m Firecrest [Oakfields], Mistle Thrush, 127 Redwing, Meadow Pipit, Bullfinch (Samuel Levy) Barn Owl, 2 Little Owl, Sparrowhawk, Buzzard (Tom Stewart)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: Great White Egret S at 1510 and landed briefly on Lockwood Res, 3f 2m Goldeneye, 3m 1f Goosander, 12 Meadow Pipit, 2 Fieldfare, 4 Grey Wagtail, 2 Kingfisher, 426 Coot, 232 Black-headed Gull, 66 Common Gull, 65 Cormorant, 8 Shoveler, 471 Tufted Duck, 72 Gadwall, 65 Pochard, 57 Mallard, 11 Teal, 43 Little Grebe, 34 Great Crested Grebe, 50 Moorhen (Walthamstow Birders)
• Wanstead Flats: White-fronted Goose [5th day], 96 Greylag Goose, 21 Shoveler, 6 Teal, 7 Gadwall, Pochard, 500+ Common Gull, ad Yellow-legged Gull, 15 Linnet, 7 Redpoll, 6 Pied Wagtail, Peregrine Falcon, 3 Redwing (Nick Croft)

Thursday 3nd December 2020

• Blackheath: 3 White-fronted Goose between church and A2 roundabout, Lewisham side, at dawn (Joe Beale); still at 1030 (Dusty Gedge per John Archer) Still present 1200 (Joe Beale/John Bushell/ Conrad Ellam) Still present 1245 (John Archer)
• Burgess Park: White-fronted Goose feeding with Greylags for second day (Steve Robinson, Dave Clark)
• Bushy Park: Little Egret (Spencer Neal)
• Dollis Brook, Finchley: 2 Little Egret near Fursbury Ave, 10 Goldcrest (Samuel Levy)
• Greenhill Grdns, Barnet: ad Mediterranean Gull w/ rd darvic PTJ9 at 1122 (Bob Husband)
• Hackney Marshes: 2 Kingfishers chasing upstream under the red bridge, 2 singing Song Thrush (Alastair Dent)
• Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens: No sign of recent White-fronted Goose1400-1530 but imm m Goldeneye remains at east end of Serpentine, 263 Greylag Goose, 128 Tufted Duck and 11 Gadwall. Feral Black Swan and Bar-headed Goose still present (Des McKenzie). White-fronted Goose at Diana Memorial Fountain until 1230 at least, also 3 Shoveler, 4 Pochard, Red-crested Pochard (Tom Stewart) still there at 1300 by fountain at the top.
• Millfields "E5": c60 Common Gull (Alastair Dent)
• Pinner, HA5: 6 Goldfinch, Pied Wagtail (Nigel Barratt)
• Staines Reservoirs: Water Pipit on causeway, 10+ Goldeneye, Little Grebe (Tim Rymer)
• Weald Park: Great White Egret beside lake (Colin Jupp per A Middleton - no corrections pls)
• Kentish Town : Blackcap at Gaisford Street this morning (Pete Mantle)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: 4 Goosander, 3 Goldeneye, Green Sandpiper (David Bradshaw)
• Woodford Green: 4 Chaffinch, 6 Goldfinch, 2 Nuthatch, Little Egret, Firecrest through by 1100 (Ken Murray)

Wednesday 2nd December 2020

• Alexandra Palace: 2 Goosander flew west at 0732 also 16 Fieldfare, Peregrine, 2 Egyptian Goose pair (Oliver Simms/Bob Watts/Bruce Carson)
• Bushy Park: 5 Redwing, c.20 Siskin, f Shoveler, Pochard, 5 Gadwall, Skylark, 3 Mandarin Duck, Nuthatch (Spencer Neal)
• Enfield area "private access": f Kestrel, 16 Fieldfare, 4+ Redwing, Mistle Thrush, 2 Jay, 8 Chaffinch, m Greenfinch, 2 Goldfinch, 4 Lesser Redpoll inc two males feeding in birches (Robert Callf)
• Finchley "Garden N3": m Blackcap singing and tacking furiously at 1610 (Samuel Levy)
• Greenhill Grdns, Barnet: ad Mediterranean Gull w/ red darvic PTJ9 at 1300 (Bob Husband per RM Callf)
• Gutteridge Wood "Yeading Brook": Little Egret (Barry Wilson)
• Hampstead Heath: 80 Lesser Redpoll (Jamie Cedar) 2 Mealy Redpoll with flock of Lesser in Kenwood, Kestrel, 30 Redwing, 12 Mandarin Duck (Samuel Levy)
• Holyfield Hall Farm: 21 White-fronted Goose at 1420 feeding just east of the green barn (Martin Shepherd)
• Hyde Park: White-fronted Goose at Diana Fountain still 0830 (Oliver Flory) Still present at 1210 associating with 3 Egyptian Geese (Balham Birder). Imm drake Goldeneye still present at E end of Serpentine at 11:30, though elusive (Bill Haines)
• KGV Res: m Scaup, 4 Goosander, 13 Goldeneye, Green Sandpiper, 10 Fieldfare, 8 Redwing, Chiffchaff, Siskin, 12 Meadow Pipit, 2 Grey Wagtail, 12 Linnet (Sean Huggins)
• London Wetland Centre: 2 Bittern main lake N+SE shore, Goldeneye, 2 Pintail, 2 Shelduck, 5 Redpoll, Water Pipit, 16 Mandarin Duck [Including one leucistic female], 6 Redwing, Kingfisher (WWT website) 8 Lesser Redpoll, 4 Siskin, 2 White-fronted Geese, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest, f Sparrowhawk, Water Rail heard (Martin Honey/T Wright)
• Perivale Park: 2f Teal, imm m Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Grey Wagtail, 3 Pied Wagtail, Redwing, m Reed Bunting, 30+ Linnet, 10+ Goldfinch, 2 Greenfinch, 3 Chaffinch (Neil Anderson) I wish people would stop hyphenating Great Spotted Woodpecker. It seems to be an annoying trend at present, with several guilty parties - R Callf
• Pinner, HA5: Green Woodpecker, Goldfinch, 2 Redwing (Nigel Barratt)
• Putney Heath: Dartford Warbler calling late pm, Ladies Mile (Les Evans-Hill)
• Rayners Lane: m Blackcap in garden (Tim Rymer)
• Ruislip Gardens "Yeading Brook": Little Egret (Barry Wilson)
• Swanscombe Marsh “1400-1530” : Chiffchaff, c40 Redwing, 4 Song Thrush, 5 Fieldfare, Dartford Warbler [Dave Clark had a fleeting probable yesterday], 2 Peregrine [atop Thames pylon], f Marsh Harrier [into Roost], 32 Greylag Goose [on river r], Gadwall r, 2 Coot, 2 Moorhen, Raven, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Water Rail (Roger Keith)
• Tooting Common: Pheasant, Mandarin Duck, 3 Shoveler (Alan Wilkinson)
• Trent Park: 5 Cormorant, Grey Heron, 13 Mandarin Duck 8m 5f upper lake, 2m Common Pochard, 3f Tufted Duck, Stock Dove singing, Green Woodpecker, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 14+ Redwing, 4 Goldcrest, Coal Tit, Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper, 3 Goldfinch (Robert Callf)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: White-fronted Goose, Yellow-browed Warbler, Peregrine, 2 Kingfisher, 3 Goosander, 4 Goldeneye, 3 Shelduck, 50 Gadwall, 7 Shoveler, 10 Teal, 16 Little Grebe in one group, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2 Grey Wagtail, 8 Little Egret, 4 Meadow Pipit, Chiffchaff, 2 Fieldfare, Water Rail, Green Woodpecker (Walthamstow Birders)
• Wanstead Flats: White-fronted Goose, 13 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall, Teal, 25 Tufted Duck, 2 Pochard, 3 Stonechat, 2 Redwing, 18 Meadow Pipit, 7 Chaffinch, 22 Redpoll (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: Water Rail, Little Egret, 26 Teal, 38 Gadwall, 11 Shoveler, 10 Redwing, 4 Song Thrush [inc 3 singing], 2 Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, 3 Stock Dove [inc one singing], 3 Chaffinch, 10 Siskin, 2 Goldcrest, 2 Kestrel, Sparrowhawk (Wanstead Birders)

Tuesday 1st December 2020

• Alexandra Park: 55+ Redwing, 17 Fieldfare, Redpoll W, 3 Chaffinch, Kingfisher, 2 Egyptian Goose pr (APOG Birders)
• Bexley "Black Prince": Green Sandpiper (Jack Headley)
• Boxer's Lake: 2 Grey Heron, 2 Mute Swan, 3 Northern Shoveler 2m f, 12 Tufted Duck 5m 7f, 11 Moorhen, first-winter Black-headed Gull caught on fishing tackle, second-winter Common Gull flew over, 2 Nuthatch (Robert Callf)
• Brookmill Park: Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush, 2 Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Coal Tit (Conrad Ellam)
• Bushy Park: 5 Stonechat, Shoveler, 5 Gadwall, Nuthatch, 4 Mistle Thrush, 2 Goldcrest (Spencer Neal). 12 Siskin, 7 Lesser Redpoll, 2 Nuthatch, Great Spotted Woodpecker (John Strachan)
• Chessington: Plum-headed Parakeet [first seen on 24th October] (Nigel Jackman)
• Cornmill Meadows: Cattle Egret, 2 Pintail, White-fronted Goose (Adam Wilson)
• Dartford Marshes: 2 Egyptian Goose, 3 Little Egret, m Marsh Harrier, Sparrowhawk, Water Rail calling, 80+ Dunlin, 30+ Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Curlew, 2 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper calling, 6 Water Pipit, 5 Stonechat, 400+ Fieldfare, 8+ Redwing (Jack Headley)
• Fulham Palace Meadows Allotments: Kestrel (Nathalie Mahieu)
• Greenford "UB6": Red Kite over garden (Neil Anderson)
• Greenford to Hanwell Zoo "Brent corridor": 5 Teal 3m 2f, 5 Mandarin 3m 2f, Red Kite, 2 Sparrowhawk m f [separate], singing Stock Dove, 2 Green Woodpecker [one bathing edge of river], 2 Mistle Thrush [one singing], 2 Goldcrest, 5 Chaffinch (Neil Anderson/Kathryn Bull)
• Greenhill Grdns, Barnet: ad Mediterranean Gull w/ red darvic ring PTJ9 at 1130-1230 (Bob Husband per RM Callf)
• Hammersmith "garden": DARK-EYED JUNCO imaged by Lucinda Dunk (Lee Evans twitter per RM Callf)
• Hampstead Heath: 15 Lesser Redpoll, 2 Siskin, Kingfisher (Samuel Levy & Jamie Cedar)
• Holyfield Lake: 16 White-fronted Geese, 2 Shelduck, 4 Chiffchaff, 35 Fieldfare, 60 Redwing (Adam Wilson)
• Hyde Park: ad 'albifrons' White-fronted Goose at Diana Memorial to 1435 at least, 1w male Goldeneye [east end of Serpentine], m Red-crested Pochard, Peregrine Falcon over toward Lancaster Gate (Des McKenzie)
• Hollies, Sidcup: Goldcrest, Jay, Chaffinch, 2 Redwing, Wren, Long-tailed Tit among 20 species seen (Eric Brown)
• KT19 garden: 2 Blackcap m f, Goldcrest (C Harrison)
• Mayflower Park: Kingfisher, 2 Redpoll (Mark Bravery per Bob Smith), Water Rail (Chris Northwood per Bob Smith)
• Morden Cemetery: Little Owl, Nuthatch, 15 Redwing (Bob Smith)
• Osterley Park "Middle Lake": 7 Egyptian Goose incl 5 juv, 3 Shoveler m, Tufted Duck f (Barry Wilson)
• Pinner,HA5: Red Kite, Redwing, Goldfinch, Lesser Black-backed Gull (Nigel Barratt)
• Richmond Park: Dartford Warbler, 3 Skylark, 12 Meadow Pipit, 2 Little Grebe, Buzzard, 500+ Woodpigeon- in woods (J Wilczur) Redpoll, 10+ Siskin (Bob Watts)
• South Harefield: 2 juv Red Kite in usual tree, Sparrowhawk, Pheasant, Common Buzzard, 2 Nuthatch, Tawny Owl calling by canal at 1600 (Wendy Marks)
• Stanmore: 14 White-fronted Geese heading NW at 11:10 (Richard Francis)
• Swanscombe Marsh “1330-1630 HT: 2 Raven, 2 Peregrine [atop Thames pylon], 6 Stonechat [3pr], 34 Greylag Goose, Wigeon [on river r], 13 Teal, 18 Gadwall r, 5 Linnet, 7 Redwing, 41 Mallard, Kestrel, 3 Common Gull, 5 Cormorant, Little Egret, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Great Black-backed Gull [CRWF5T] (Roger Keith)
• Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 8 Redwing, 10 Rook, 2 Greenfinch, Mistle Thrush, Cormorant, Common Buzzard, 3 Mandarin Duck, Teal (John Colmans) 9 Mandarin Duck, 2 Teal, 31 Stock Dove, 21 Black-headed Gull, 230 Common Gull, Grey Heron, 2 Red Kite, 3 Common Buzzard, Kingfisher [Long Pond], 22 Rook, 6 Coal Tit, 6 Goldcrest, 4 Nuthatch,12 Song Thrush, 178 Redwing, 18 Blackbird, 19 Fieldfare, Meadow Pipit, 3 Pied Wagtail, Bullfinch, Greenfinch, 2 Siskin (Samuel Levy)
• Uxbridge "by Swan & Bottle": Little Egret in usual large Willow, Kingfisher (Wendy Marks)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: Yellow-browed Warbler, White-fronted Goose [showing around High Maynard], Golden Plover, Firecrest (heard calling near YBW), 15+ Lapwing, Common Sandpiper, Goosander, 2m 2f Goldeneye, 2m 2f Shoveler, 16 Teal, Little Egret, 4 Stonechat, 2 Cettis Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 3 Meadow Pipit, 2 Kingfisher, Water Rail, Buzzard, Peregrine, Sparrowhawk (Walthamstow Birders)
• Wandle Park, Colliers Wood: 2 Little Egret (Keith Bates)
• Wanstead Flats: White-fronted Goose [showing ridiculously well by Alex], 13 Shoveler, 10 Gadwall, Teal, 2 Stonechat, 3 Mistle Thrush, 4 Song Thrush, Meadow Pipit, 13 Pied Wagtail, 40+ Redpoll, 11 Linnet, Skylark, 3 Buzzard, Kestrel (Wanstead Birders)
• Warren Farm, Ealing: 2 Peregrine pr, 2-3 Kestrel [one flying towards Peregrines], 2 Skylark, 19 Meadow Pipit, 5 Pied Wagtail, 2 Linnet, Greenfinch (Neil Anderson/Kathryn Bull)
• Watermeadows Open Space: 2 Egyptian Goose pr, 3 Gadwall, 8 Little Grebe, Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, m Great Spotted Woodpecker, Chiffchaff, Siskin (Jack Headley)