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Saturday 9th November 2019

• Greenwich Ecology Park:  Jack Snipe, Teal f, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Song Thrush
• London Wetland Centre: Goldeneye, 2 Water Rail h, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Reed Bunting (WWT website)
• Lonsdale Road Reservoir: 2 Shelduck, 4 Shoveler, 2 Tufted Duck, 1 Sparrowhawk male, 1 Cettis Warbler heard only at N end, 3 Goldcrest, 10 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Chaffinch, 1 Reed Bunting male flew out of N reed bed then N early am. (Franko J Maroevic)
• Middlesex Filter Beds: Cetti's Warbler singing by pond (Alastair Dent)
• South Lodge Farm: 17 Black-headed Gull, Common Gull, 17 Pied Wagtail (Robert Callf)
• Teddington: 2 Little Grebe in Trowlock back channel at 11.30 (Mike Foster)
• Trent Park: 3 Mandarin Duck 2m f, 2m Eurasian Teal, m Northern Shoveler, 4 Common Pochard 2m 2f, 4f Tufted Duck, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goldcrest, Treecreeper, f Bullfinch (Robert Callf)

The Brook BR5: 6 Little Grebe, 2 Egyptian Goose, 2+ calling Goldcrest, Kingfisher, Little Egret, Redwing, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Jack Headley)

• Walthamstow Marshes: 23 Pied Wagtail, 5 Canada Goose, Kestrel, Stonechat (m) (Jon Agar)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: Common Sandpiper, 3 Goldeneye, first two Shelduck of autumn (David Bradshaw)

Friday 8th November 2019

• Amwell NR "gull roost 1500-1630": Caspian Gull nr-ad yellow-ringed x307, 8 Yellow-legged Gull [2 ad] 4w [2 3w] 2w [2 1w] gt hardmead lake (Laurence Drummond tweet); Caspian Gull 1w goalposts 1620 (Ron Cousins tweet)
• Brookmill Park: Little Egret, Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
• Gallions Reach "0845-1045": Pintail, Common Scoter, Kingfisher, 12 Redwing (Gary James via EBwS blog)
• Greenwich Ecology Park: Water Rail (John Bushell)
• Headley Heath "evening thrush roost": 100 Fieldfare, 1100 Redwing (Steve Gale tweet)
• London Wetland Centre: Pintail, Goldeneye, 2 Common Snipe, 2 Stonechat, Water Pipit (WWT website) 2 Bittern, 2 Shelduck, 1 Sparrowhawk (took a Snipe from wader scrape) 2 Water Pipit (Martin Honey et al)
• Nork Park "Surrey": 2+ Firecrest in gdn 1255 (Dave Lewis via Surrey BN)
• Panshanger Park: Woodcock, Common Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail (Murray Brown via Herts BC)
• Police Pit "Lee Valley immediately S of Seventy Acres Lake": 2 Red Kite N, first-winter Mediterranean Gull patrolling Lee Navigation with 5 Black-headed Gull, also Cetti's Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, 2 Siskin (Simon Papps)
• Primrose Hill "vismig 0705-0920": Cormorant S, 26 Woodpigeon S, Collared Dove W, Magpie high S, Rook S, Skylark NE, 10 Fieldfare NW, Meadow Pipit NW, 48 Chaffinch W, 2 Linnet S, 2 Reed Bunting W (Twitter)
• Purfleet "R Thames": incl 31 Avocet, 3 Golden Plover, Grey Plover, 451 Lapwing, 7 Curlew, 6 Black-tailed Godwit, 254 Dunlin, 4 Redshank, 3 Yellow-legged Gull, 36 Fieldfare early-am (Fraser Simpson blog)
• Queen Mother Reservoir "permit only": Water Pipit briefly on s bank in fog 1000 (Peter Newbound via Berks BN)
• Rainham Marshes: 26 Avocet, 40 Redshank, 4 Curlew, Ruff, 2 Little Egret, 2 Mute Swan, 2 Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, Barn Owl, 4 Water Pipit, 5 Rock Pipit, 4 Stonechat, 33 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, Brambling (Andrew Self); also incl 50 Shoveler, 10 Gadwall, 250 Wigeon, 4 Pochard, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Little Egret, Marsh Harrier, 10 Meadow Pipit (Alan Wilkinson via eBird)
• Richmond "Terrace Gardens": 2 calling Chiffchaff, Little Grebe nearby on Thames (Des McKenzie)
• Rye Meads RSPB: Bittern showing well fr gadwall_hide 1120 (RSPB tweet); incl 36 Shoveler, 42 Gadwall, Wigeon, 60 Teal, 32 Tufted Duck, 6 Little Grebe, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Little Egret, 8 Cormorant, Common Buzzard, Water Rail, 46 Lapwing, 12 Common Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 45 Common Gull, Kestrel, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 6 Goldcrest, 3 Redwing, Grey Wagtail, 9 Chaffinch, Brambling, 2 Linnet, Yellowhammer, Reed Bunting (Rob Martin via eBird)
• Stoneleigh Station "KT17": 1 Blackcap singing quietly [fow], 20 Redwing W, 41 Ring-necked Parakeet (Neil Batten)
• Swanscombe Marsh “09.15-12.00 outgoing tide": 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Reed Bunting f, 4 Stonechat 2prs, 24 Greylag Goose, 7 Canada Goose, 5 Cetti's Warbler 4h, 1 Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 2 Meadow Pipit, 8+ Long-tailed Tit river, 13 Lapwing, 27 Teal, 1 Little Egret, 65 Redshank, 3 Turnstone, 48 Mallard, 2 Common Snipe, 7 Cormorant, 1 Great Black-backed Gull [assumed usual ringed bird on Broadness Lighthouse but ring becoming very faded] (Roger Keith)
• Tyttenhanger GPs and Willows Farm: Wigeon, f Goldeneye, 2 Little Egret, Water Rail, Green Sandpiper, Kingfisher, c20 Tree Sparrow, 1+ Brambling maize field by willows fm lake, 9 Siskin am (TyttGP tweet); White Wagtail willows fm c/p (Rupert Evershed tweet)
• Walthamstow Marshes: 2f Stonechat 1 on Leyton marsh 1 on boardwalk, Meadow Pipit on rear paddocks (JW Davies)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: Common Snipe, 2 Water Rail, Peregrine, Kingfisher, 65 Starlings went to roost in No1 reedbed (Daniel Whitelegg)
• Wandle Park, Croydon: Kingfisher on pond am then left via river (Sue Henning via Croydon Birders)
• Waring Park, Sidcup "09:30": m Peregrine with a Starling in talons flies to usual local site. Later off NE (Patrick English)
• Wilcox Close, Stockwell: 12 House Sparrows eating seed on bare soil (Michael Mac)
• Wormwood Scrubs: 15 Redwing, 2 Stonechat, 1 Mistle Thrush, 8 Meadow Pipit (Charlie Farrell)

Thursday 7th November 2019

• Foots Cray Meadows: m Teal, 4 Gadwall, f Tufted Duck, 3 Egyptian Geese, 4 Little Grebe, Little Egret, Water Rail h between Five Arches and Penny-farthing Bridge, 2 Kingfishers chasing each other by playground (Harry Halstead)
• Greenwich Ecology Park: Mandarin f on outer lake (John Bushell)
• Hackney Marshes: c15 Redwing over, 4 Pied Wagtail on cricket squares (Alastair Dent)
• Hilfield Park Reservoir "permit only": BLACK-BELLIED DIPPER 1450 on dam which is partially visible from Hogg Lane viewing platform TQ161963 reached by public footpath (per Joan Thompson tweet/BirdGuides); Dipper seen 1445-1455 only (Steve Murray [sole observer] per Lee Evans tweet); no further sign of Dipper by 1610 (Herts BN tweet); incl 23 Shoveler, 14 Gadwall, 9 Pochard, 95 Tufted Duck, f Goldeneye, 8 Little Grebe, 12 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Grey Heron, 6 Cormorant, 35 Common Gull, 87 Herring Gull incl 17 ssp argentatus, 68 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Pied Wagtail (Lee Evans via BirdTrack/Herts BC)
• Hounslow Heath: f Bullfinch (Andy Roberts)
• London Wetland Centre: 2 Shelduck, f Goldeneye, 2 Bittern, 5 Common Snipe, Kingfisher, 6 Chiffchaff, 7 Fieldfare, 31 Redwing, 2 Water Pipit (WWT website)
• Margravine Cemetery: c100 Redwing SW 9.45am (Nathalie Mahieu)
• Purfleet "R Thames": incl 23 Wigeon, 29 Avocet, 427 Lapwing, 7 Curlew, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 90 Dunlin, 14 Stock Dove, Rock Pipit (Fraser Simpson blog)
• Pymmes Park: 3 Little Grebe, 3 Greylag Goose, 6 Egyptian Goose, 10 Northern Shoveler 5m 5f, 4 Tufted Duck 3f m, Mediterranean Gull regular returning adult with yellow darvic ring 1310-1320 at least, 8 Common Gull incl two 1st-w, Grey Wagtail, 2 Redwing over (Robert Callf)
• Rainham Marshes: Short-eared Owl still 1625 (BirdGuides)
• Ruislip Lido: 18-20 Little Egret marsh and east bank, c12 Pochard, c12 Shoveler, 5 Grey Heron (Martin Smith)
• South Norwood CP: 3 Tawny Owl 2m f (John Hughes via Croydon Birders)
• South Norwood Lake: Kingfisher (Gavin Hawgood via Croydon Birders)
• Southgate "Chase Rd/Charter Way, N14": 3 Woodpigeon ad feeding two fledglings (Robert Callf)
• Staines Reservoir: 5 Black-necked Grebe [3 north basin 2 south basin], Dunlin (Dom Pia tweet)
• Stocker's Lake: 8 Wigeon, 7 Goldeneye, 5 Common Gull (Geoff Lapworth via Herts BC)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: f Goldeneye, Stonechat, Lapwing (David Bradshaw)
• Wandle Park, Colliers Wood: 2 Little Egret (Keith Bates)

Wednesday 6th November 2019

• Alexandra Park: Brambling N, 43 Chaffinch N, Linnet S, 6 Meadow Pipit, 3 Skylark, Reed Bunting, Siskin, 5 Fieldfare W, 4 Redwing, 5 Starling NE, 3 Jackdaw, 2 Chiffchaff, Peregrine, 5 Pochard, 4 Common Gull (APOG Birders)
• Beddington Farmlands: incl 50 Gadwall, 200 Teal, 7 Pochard, 24 Tufted Duck, 8 Little Grebe, 5 Grey Heron, 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Water Rail, 17 Lapwing, 10 Common Snipe, 3 Green Sandpiper, 6 Skylark, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Fieldfare, 6 Stonechat, 10 Meadow Pipit, 3 Water Pipit, 80 Linnet, 20 Reed Bunting early-am (Peter Alfrey via eBird)
• Brent Reservoir: "North Marsh" 2 Common Snipe, "East Marsh" Black-necked Grebe still, 9+ Little Grebe, 11 Common Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Little Egret (Steve Blake)
• Brookmill Park: Kingfisher (Conrad Ellam)
• Broomfield Park: Little Grebe, imm Grey Heron, m Mute Swan with orange darvic 4DQC, 10 Northern Shoveler, 6 Tufted Duck 5m f, Black-headed Gull - yellow darvic-ringed from Czech Republic 2BKT & white darvic-ringed Dutch L-Y and metal-ringed on right tibia from Latvia S6 59 0 possibly only partially read, Collared Dove, Song Thrush, 2 Chaffinch, 15 Greenfinch, 5 Goldfinch (Robert Callf)
• Chiswell Green: Brambling gdn (Alan Gardiner via Herts BC)
• Crayford: Brent Goose, 10 Ringed Plover (James Palmer)
• Crossness NR: 3 Barn Owl, 2 Peregrine, 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, Little Egret, Marsh Harrier, Grey Heron, 16 Cetti's Warbler, 6 Reed Bunting, Water Rail, Stonechat, 6 Shoveler, Kingfisher, Song Thrush, 2 Chiffchaff, 7 Pochard, 9 Gadwall, 9 Long-tailed Tit, 37 Canada Goose, 4 Greylag Goose, 2 Chaffinch (Bernie Weight); "Thames & Foreshore" 37 Shoveler, Little Egret, 3 Grey Heron, 93 Lapwing, 54 Shelduck, c300 Teal, Grey Wagtail, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 32 Cormorant, 7 Wigeon, 24 Gadwall, c600 Black-headed Gull, 2 Herring Gull, 4 Great Black-backed Gull, Chiffchaff, Curlew, c50 Dunlin (Bernie Weight)
• Danson Park: 5 Tufted Ducks m 4f (Harry Halstead)
• Ellenbrook Fields: 2 Stonechat 1 nr mound 1 central grazing area (Steve Pearce via Herts BC)
• Hampstead Heath "Parliament Hill": 68 Fieldfare NW, 52 Redwing NW, Song Thrush NW, 5 Meadow Pipit, 105 Starling WNW, 110 Woodpigeon SW, 2 Common Gull S, Linnet S, 38 Chaffinch NW, 5 Greenfinch, 18 Goldfinch (Pete Mantle, Reuben Braddock)
• Headley Heath: c1400 Redwing into evg roost (Steve Gale tweet)
• Hilfield Park Reservoir: 2 Goosander, 2 Goldeneye, 1 ad Mediterranean Gull, 1 Kingfisher, no sign of yesterday's Great White Egret (Tony Blake)
• London Wetland Centre: 2 Goldeneye still, 2 Stonechat, Fieldfare, 3 Meadow Pipit, Jack Snipe grazing marsh, 4 Common Snipe, 67 Wigeon, Siskin S (WWT website); Bittern, 2 Pintail, Lesser Redpoll (Alan Wilkinson)
• Lower Clapton "E5": Peregrine over, Coal Tit in Powerscroft Rd trees (Alastair Dent)
• Margravine Cemetery: Song Thrush (Nathalie Mahieu)
• Mill Wood "Essex": Hawfinch W 1055 (BirdGuides)
• Mudchute Park: 3 Monk Parakeet flew over western edge pm (Dominic Mitchell via eBird)
• Primrose Hill "am vismig from 0655": incl 7 Egyptian Goose S, 456 Woodpigeon, juv Rook SW 1145, 2 Skylark S/SW, 55 Fieldfare, 40 Redwing, Song Thrush, 51 Starling, 63 Chaffinch, Bullfinch NE 0720, 4 Greenfinch W, 20 Linnet most NW [localised small movement of unknown origin], Redpoll NE, 10 Siskin S/SE, Reed Bunting W (Twitter)
• Purfleet "R Thames": incl Dark-bellied Brent Goose, 4 Wigeon, 2 Common Buzzard, 367 Lapwing, Grey Plover, 2 Curlew, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 57 Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 56 Redshank, 2 Yellow-legged Gull early-am (Fraser Simpson blog)
• Rainham Marshes: incl 2 Barn Owl, Short-eared Owl hunting by aveley bay and over wennington (Howard Vaughan/Ian Plume via RSPB/Friends blogs); also incl 10 Pintail, 250 Dunlin, 20 Common Snipe, 80 Redshank, 4 Chiffchaff, 6 Stonechat, 4 Reed Bunting (Chris Farthing via BirdTrack)
• Rye Meads NR: 2 Little Egret, 8+ Common Snipe fr gadwall_hide, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3ad Great Black-backed Gull fr draper hide, f Merlin landed briefly by draper hide then flew over HMWT meadow late-am, Bearded Tit h opp draper hide again 0915, m Stonechat fr draper (Allan Meadows via Herts BC/Twitter)
• Sevenoaks WR: incl 385 Greylag, 10 Shoveler, 8 Gadwall, 30 Teal, 50 Pochard, 70 Tufted Duck, 3 Little Grebe, 18 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Little Egret, Red Kite, 2 Common Buzzard, 50 Lapwing, 2 Common Snipe, Kestrel, 140 Jackdaw, Treecreeper (via BirdTrack)
• Sewardstone Marsh: Siberian Chiffchaff seen very well at 07:20 in small Willow/Sallow from relief channel bridge with thin wingbar prominent, 4 drake Goosander (Martin Shepherd)
• Southall: Red Kite over 11.18 and 12.50, Sparrowhawk m (Phil Belman)
• Staines Moor: Water Pipit by R Colne nr fallen willow (Lee Ridley tweet)
• Staines Reservoir: Long-tailed Duck still, 4 Goldeneye, 8 Black-necked Grebe, Rock Pipit am (Jim Sweetland tweet)
• Stoneleigh Station "KT17": 1 Meadow Pipit W, 3 Pied Wagtail, 25 Ring-necked Parakeet am (Neil Batten)
• Tyttenhanger GPs and Willows Farm: incl f Goldeneye main gp still nr scrape fr causeway, 5+ Water Rail h, 53 Lapwing over, 2 Redshank circled main gp 1200, Yellowhammer over willows fm (Rupert Evershed via Herts BC/Twitter)
• Walthamstow Marshes "Leyton Marsh/paddocks/Lammas Meadow/Bomb Crater Field": 2 Meadow Pipit, m Kestrel, c35 Linnet, c15 Goldfinch, c10 Pied Wagtail, singing Cetti's Warbler, Jackdaw E (Alastair Dent)
• Wanstead Flats: 9 Fieldfare, 5 Mistle Thrush, 3 Stonechat, 11 Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 3 Skylark, 6 Chaffinch, 2 Linnet, Reed Bunting, 2 Little Owl, Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Common Snipe, 7 Teal, 3 Gadwall, 6 Shoveler, 200+ Common Gull (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: 4 Water Rail, 2 Little Egret, 4 Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, f Pochard, 65 Gadwall, 17 Shoveler, 4 Teal, 7 Fieldfare, 4 Goldcrest (Wanstead Birders)
• Woodford Green: Song Thrush, Goldcrest, 3 Chaffinch, Little Egret, and c50 Wood Pigeon NEast by 8.30 am and a superbly lit Woodcock East at 9.36am. (Ken Murray)
• Woodoaks Farm: m Stonechat, 20+ Linnet (Geoff Lapworth via Twitter)
• Worcester Park: Little Egret on horse fields (Bill Reid per Bob Smith)

Tuesday 5th November 2019

• Alexandra Park: 27 Fieldfare S, 2 Redwing, 6 Chaffinch NE, 12 Starling W, 18 Common Gull, 5 Pochard, Chiffchaff, Peregrine, 7 Goldcrest (APOG Birders)
• Battersea Park: Nuthatch (only 2nd seen here in 10 years), 7 Goldfinch near Old English Garden. 2 GS Woodpecker. Lake - 29 Shoveler, 12 Gadwall, 6 Mandarin, 2 Egyptian Geese, 2 G C Grebe, 90 Black-headed Gull, 1 Lesser-black backed Gull (never a lot of large gulls here perhaps because not large areas of open banks like other 3 big Central London parks and water area smaller) (Michael Mac)
• Brent Reservoir: Hawfinch SW 08:05, Black-necked Grebe on main res (Andrew Self, Magnus Andersson)
• Chalk Wood, Swanley: Marsh Tit [seen earlier in Joydens Wood] (Ian Stewart per contributor) FYI Chalk Wood is in Sidcup, not Swanley Thx - the LNHS have named it wrong in their gazetteer, then [but at least their grid ref is correct]
• Crayford Marshes: Brambling in mixed finch flock nr confluence of Cray and Dart (Quentin Given)
• Foots Cray Meadows: m Teal, 4 Gadwall, 5 Little Grebe, Little Egret, Water Rail, Kingfisher (Conrad Ellam & Ian Stewart)
• Forty Hall CP: 7 Mandarin Duck 4m 3f, 89 Black-headed Gull incl Dutch white darvic ringed E4UN and Russian ringed PS15459 over MOSKVA, Herring Gull, Kingfisher, Mistle Thrush, 2 Goldcrest, Nuthatch (Robert Callf)
• Frogmore Lakes: Little Egret, 9 Cormorant, Kingfisher, Fieldfare (Alan Winn via BirdTrack)
• Grays Cemetery: 2 Coal Tit, Firecrest, 9 Goldcrest (Alan Shearman per ELBF FB)
• Harmondsworth Moor: incl 4 Pochard, 6 Tufted Duck, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, Treecreeper, 3 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, 3 Redpoll (Craig Brookes via BirdTrack)
• Hilfield Park Reservoir "permit only": Great Egret e bank (BirdGuides)
• Joydens Wood: Marsh Tit nr Parsonage Ln entrance [seen later in Chalk Wood] (Conrad Ellam) 
• London Wetland Centre: Bittern, 2 Goldeneye, 3 Common Snipe, Peregrine, Pintail, Water Pipit, 6 Fieldfare W, 11 Redwing SW (WWT website); also incl 2 Pintail, Stonechat, 2 Water Pipit (Sam Jones via eBird)
• Lonsdale Road Reservoir: 2 Cetti's Warbler h only. 1 at N end 1 at S end. (Franko J Maroevic)
• Mardyke Valley, Stifford-Aveley: incl 4 Teal, Sparrowhawk, 2 imm Common Buzzard, Water Rail, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 6 Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, 48 Jackdaw, 6 Cetti’s Warbler, Treecreeper, 56 Starling, 29 Blackbird, 4 Redwing, 12 Song Thrush, Reed Bunting (Alan Shearman per ELBF FB)
• Pinner "HA5": Green Woodpecker, 6 Greenfinch, 9 Goldfinch, Nuthatch, 12 Ring-necked Parakeet (Nigel Barratt)
• Purfleet "R Thames": incl 4 Gadwall, 208 Lapwing, 75 Dunlin, 3 Yellow-legged Gull, 7 Fieldfare (Fraser Simpson blog)
• Queen Mother Reservoir "permit only": Rock Pipit 1030 (Derek Barker & Peter Newbound via Berks BN); Snow Bunting [poss 1w-male] nr pier then the c/p 0730-0900 only (Derek Barker via Berks BN)
• Rainham Marshes: 3 Sparrowhawk 2f m, 2 Marsh Harrier, 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Barn Owl, Kingfisher, Coal Tit, 7 Fieldfare, 10 Redwing, 3 Firecrest 2 woodland 1 nr serin_mound, 5 Goldcrest, 3 Grey Wagtail (RSPB per ELBF FB/RSPB blog)
• Staines Reservoir: Long-tailed Duck f/imm s basin still am, 5 Black-necked Grebe, Water Pipit, 2 Rock Pipit (BirdGuides); also incl 4 Teal, 40 Pied Wagtail, 30 Meadow Pipit, Rock Pipit early-am (Thomas Gibson via eBird); 3 Common Scoter on N basin late am (Ken Purdey per FJM) I'm suprised to see that my ebird submissions got picked up on [Thomas Gibson] A marginal call to be sure, made to set a seasonal baseline for later comparison. [See also Beddington for 6 Nov.]
• Stoneleigh Station "KT17": 4 Redwing am (Neil Batten)
• The Brook "BR5": 170+ Black-headed Gull mainly in group with a few singles later all heading W, 8+ Little Grebe, Kingfisher, Little Egret, Grey Wagtail, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Jack Headley)
• Thorney Weir Lake "incl The Met lake": incl 2 Shoveler, 9 Gadwall, 10 Pochard, 63 Tufted Duck, 4 Great Crested Grebe, Grey Heron, Great Egret, 18 Cormorant, Kingfisher, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Grey Wagtail, 2 Linnet, 2 Siskin (Craig Brookes via BirdTrack)
• Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: Fieldfare, 42 Redwing, 4 Meadow Pipit, 16 Rook, Common Buzzard, 4 Teal, 120 Canada Goose (John Colmans)
• Tyttenhanger GPs: 50+ Linnet in maize field by willows fm lake (Steve Pearce tweet)
• Trent Park: 3 Goldfinch, 4m Pochard, Green Woodpecker (Pete Lowman)
• Worcester Park: Little Egret on horse fields (Bob Smith)

Monday 4th November 2019

• Alexandra Park: Linnet, 2 Meadow Pipit, 5 Jackdaw NE, Little Grebe, 6 Pochard 3m 3f, Kingfisher, 250+ Black-headed Gull, 6 Common Gull, Peregrine (APOG Birders)
• Amwell NR: 2f Goldeneye on gt hardmead lake (Steve Hughes via Herts BC)
• Arnos Park: Little Egret (James Palmer)
• Bookham Common: incl 11 Gadwall, 2 Bullfinch, Lesser Redpoll (Ruth Iredale via BirdTrack)
• Canons Farm: incl 22 Skylark, 3 Nuthatch, 17 Fieldfare, 5 Redwing, 2f Stonechat reads bottom, 2 Bullfinch, Yellowhammer, [Peafowl] (Geoff Barter via CFBW blog/Twitter)
• Bushy Park: f Tawny Owl calling at Blandford Gate 17.40 (Mike Foster)
• Dartford Marshes: 3 Water Pipit (BirdGuides)
• Forty Hall CP: Cormorant, 2 Mute Swan inc darvic ringed 4CZX, 4 Mandarin Duck 3m f, m Sparrowhawk, 54 Black-headed Gull inc Russian ringed bird PS15459 over MOSKVA, Kingfisher (Robert Callf)
• Guy Lodge Farm: Fieldfare, 2f Chaffinch, m Bullfinch - flew off high (Robert Callf)
• Hampstead Heath "Parliament Hill": 2 Fieldfares NW, Song Thrush NW, 10 Chaffinches NW, 2 Common Gulls W, 5 Meadow Pipits, 13 Shoveler on Highgate No.1, also Kingfisher, Redpoll both at Sanctuary Pond (Pete Mantle)
• Hogsmill Open Space: 2 Little Egrets, Kingfisher, 1+ Grey Wagtail, 4+ Redwings (Isaiah V. Rowe)
• London Wetland Centre: 7 Water Rail, Jack Snipe, 4 Skylark NW/SW, 4 Chiffchaff, 3 Stonechat, 2 Water Pipit (WWT website)
• Purfleet "R Thames": incl 169 Lapwing, Curlew, 48 Redshank, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, Kestrel, 8 Skylark, 51 Fieldfare, Stonechat, 4 Meadow Pipit (Fraser Simpson via eBird)
• Queen Mother Reservoir: incl 20 Tufted Suck, 13 Great Crested Grebe, Grey Heron, Cormorant, 2 Red Kite, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 6 Skylark, 35 Pied Wagtail, 23 Meadow Pipit (Peter Newbound via BirdTrack)
• Rainham Marshes: RICHARD'S PIPIT still on landfill path nr TQ533793 at 10:00 (Stan Brown per ELBF FB/via BirdGuides); Firecrest in woodland nr adventure playground (Ben Rumsby tweet); also 18 Avocet, 15 Ringed Plover, 5 Dunlin, 43 Redshank (Steve Bacon per ELBF FB); also incl 300 Wigeon, 2 Pintail, 250 Teal, m Marsh Harrier, 17 Common Snipe, 6m Cetti’s Warbler, Chiffchaff, 3 Goldcrest (Howard Vaughan, Louise Moss via ELBF FB); Barn Owl (Ian Plume per ELBF FB); 2 Water Pipit still along foreshore west of aveley bay but mobile am, also 4 Yellow-legged Gull (BirdGuides)
• Rye Meads RSPB: 21 Common Snipe 3 fr draper hide 18 fr gadwall_hide, 2 Green Sandpiper fr draper hide, 11 Common Gull fr gadwall_hide (Steve Hughes via Herts BC)
• St Albans: Little Stint h NW over gdn 1745 (Rupert Evershed tweet)
• St James's Park: Sparrowhawk (Ray Crouch)
• South Norwood Country Park: Brambling in scrub. First since 2013. (John Hughes per Croydon Birders)
• Staines Reservoir: fem/imm Long-tailed Duck still present diving frequently on south basin in northeast corner viewable fr east end of causeway, 5 Black-necked Grebe on N basin by tern_rafts. Very few other wildfowl for time of year (John Edwards); "1600hr" Long-tailed Duck still, 7 Black-necked Grebe (BirdGuides)
• Theobalds Park Farm: 16 Golden Plover (Brian Dawton)
• Walthamstow Marshes: Siskin, Chiffchaff, Peregrine Falcon, Water Rail, 4 Stonechat, 28 Linnet, Meadow Pipit, Cetti's Warbler (Graham Howie)
• Waterworks NR: 19 Gadwall, Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, Little Grebe (Graham Howie)
• Worcester Park "garden vismig 7:50-8:50": 1-2 Bullfinch 1S distant then 1N not long after [pos diff bird] second gdn record, also 2 Siskin 1 high NE 1S fos, 9 Redwing 4S 1N 4W, Blackbird SE, 9 Chaffinch 7W 2E, Meadow Pipit S, 49+ Starling W (Isaiah V. Rowe); Little Egret on horse fields (Bill Reid per Bob Smith)
• Wraysbury Reservoir "no public access": incl 2 Gadwall, 12 Great Crested Grebe, 5 Cormorant, Common Buzzard, 2 Common Snipe, Great Black-backed Gull, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, 2 Kestrel, 5 Skylark, 2 Redwing, Mistle Thrush, 3 Pied Wagtail, 2 Meadow Pipit, 16 Linnet (Craig Brookes via BirdTrack)

Sunday 3rd November 2019

• Alexandra Park: 4 Fieldfare W (APOG Birders)
• Amwell NR: Goosander briefly fr viewpt then S 0955 (Ron Cousins tweet); Caspian Gull 2cy again in evg pre-roost (Barry Reed tweet); ad Caspian Gull, 2ad Yellow-legged Gull in roost (Laurence Drummond tweet); Caspian Gull 3w (Adam Wilson pic per Laurence Drummond tweet)
• Beddington Farmlands: incl Shelduck, 58 Shoveler, 2 Wigeon, 3 Pochard, 8 Cormorant, 4 Water Rail, 14 Lapwing, 13 Common Snipe, 4 Green Sandpiper, 7 Common Gull, 3 Kestrel, 8 Skylark, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Goldcrest, 4 Stonechat, 2 Tree Sparrow, 5 Grey Wagtail, 10 Meadow Pipit, 7 Water Pipit, 2 Rock Pipit, 50 Chaffinch, 2 Brambling, 10 Linnet, Lesser Redpoll, 8 Reed Bunting (BFBG blog)
• Brent Reservoir: Black-necked Grebe, 19 Common Snipe, Little Egret, 4 Cetti's Warbler (Brent Birders)
• Bushy Park: 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Green Woodpecker, 10+ Jay, Kingfisher, 10 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Meadow Pipit, 5 Mistle Thrush, 2 Song Thrush, 60+ Starling, 3 Stonechat (Ian R Watson)
• Coursers Farm: incl Red Kite, Common Buzzard, 2 Skylark, Fieldfare, Meadow Pipit, 4 Yellowhammer, Reed Bunting (via BirdTrack)
• Fetcham Mill Pond "Leatherhead": incl 2 Little Grebe, Little Egret, Common Gull, Nuthatch, Bullfinch (Ruth Iredale via BirdTrack)
• Foots Cray Meadows: 3 Grey Wagtail, Kingfisher, Little Egret, 6 Little Grebe, 5 Gadwall, 3 Egyptian Goose, 7 Tufted Duck, Mute Swan & 3 young, 45 Black-headed Gull (Bernie Weight)
• Greenford "UB6": Red Kite over roof tops (Neil Anderson)
• Greenwich Ecology Park: 2 Little Grebe, Water Rail, 3 Fieldfare, Song Thrush (John Bushell)
• London Wetland Centre: 2 Pintail, Bittern, Little Egret, Red Kite circled then NW, 6 Common Snipe, 2 Water Pipit, Redpoll wildside, 60+ Goldfinch, 2 Siskin sheltered lagoon (WWT website); also Yellow-legged Gull (per Surrey BC)
• Morden Hall Park: 4 [probable] Hawfinch SW, f Pheasant, Water Rails, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Little Grebe, 12+ Siskin, 7 Redwing, Fieldfare, Kestrel, singing Chiffchaff, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Song Thrush, 7 Chaffinch (Arjun Dutta, MHP Nature Group et al)
• Primrose Hill "skywatch 0640-1040": juv f Peregrine NW w/ prey, Skylark high N, 2 Blackbird, 5 Fieldfare, 4 Redwing, 16 Starling, 21 Chaffinch, Hawfinch high N 0740, Linnet, 16 Siskin (Twitter)
• Purfleet "R Thames": incl 8 Teal, Little Egret, 11 Golden Plover, 16 Dunlin, 42 Great Black-backed Gull, 3 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Skylark, 6 Fieldfare, 3 Stonechat, Rock Pipit, 2 Linnet, 2 Corn Bunting, Reed Bunting early-am (Fraser Simpson via eBird)
• Rainham Marshes: RICHARD'S PIPIT over calling & appeared to land nr entrance to landfill 0950 (Shaun Harvey tweet); also incl 88 Lapwing, 4 Dunlin, 4 Skylark, 7 Cetti's Warbler, Rock Pipit, Reed Bunting (Gavin Stewart via BirdTrack); also incl 2 Little Grebe, 7 Grey Heron, m Marsh Harrier, 2 Common Buzzard, 11 Avocet, 11 Curlew, 250 Black-tailed Godwit, 15 Common Snipe, 17 Redshank, Barn Owl, 2 Kestrel, Raven, 7 Redwing, 5 Stonechat, 2 Redwing, 5 Meadow Pipit, 2 Water Pipit (Bob Smith, Gavin Stewart, Fraser Simpson per ELBF FB)
• Rye Meads RSPB: incl 18 Common Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 5 Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff, 6 Redwing, Meadow Pipit am (Allan Meadows via eBird); c2 Bearded Tit seen & h 'pinging' from reedbed in front of draper hide, Swallow dropped in to drink then S (Allan Burrows via Herts BC)
• Sevenoaks WR: Yellow-browed Warbler [no further details] ('Anonymous' via BirdTrack)
• South Norwood CP: incl 5 Water Rail, Common Snipe, 5 Common Gull, Tawny Owl, 2 Kestrel, Chiffchaff, 2 Bullfinch (John Hughes via Croydon Birders); "0900-1200" also incl 2 Teal, Kingfisher, Siskin W (Rob Wyllie via Croydon Birders)
• Staines Reservoir: f/juv Long-tailed Duck still on s basin 09.20, 7+ Black-necked Grebes (Roger Morton); still present at 12.30 (Andy Roberts)
• Swanscombe Marsh “Botany Marsh 10.30-12.00”: 1 Sparrowhawk [mobbed by Fieldfares], 2 Kestrel [pr], 1 Marsh Harrier [fm type], 4 Bearded Tit [over W], 8 Fieldfare, 4 Cetti's Warbler [3 h], 2 Stonechat [pr], 3 Canada Goose, 13 Greylag Goose (Roger Keith)
• Teddington: 2 Redwing, Song Thrush am in back garden, Grey Heron pm at top of Oak tree in back garden chased away by Jackdaws (Ian R Watson)
• Ten Acre Wood area: 10 Teal, m Pheasant, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Common Snipe, 14 Common Gull paddock, Kingfisher, 4 Skylark, 7 Meadow Pipit, 2 Grey Wagtail 1 feeding on top of water trough, 3 Pied Wagtail, 2 Stonechat, 6 Redwing, 2 Rook low over, 2 Reed Bunting (Neil Anderson)
• The Brook "BR5": 5+ Little Grebe, Grey Wagtail (Jack Headley)
• Thorndon CP "s section": incl Kingfisher main lake, Raven (Andrew Cox via Essex BwS)
• Tyttenhanger GPs and Willows Farm: Great Egret S over willows fm lake 0900 (Rupert Evershed tweet); f Goldeneye main gp 1005 (Rick Flesher tweet); also 3 Little Egret, 2 Water Rail h main reedbed, 3 Common Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Owl, Kingfisher, 8 Redwing, 8 Tree Sparrow (TyttGP tweet)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: 3 Goldeneye, 2 Stonechat (Walthamstow Birders)
• Wanstead Flats: Yellowhammer, 5 Stonechat, Siskin, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Woodcock (Wanstead Birders)
• Woodberry Wetlands: Water Rail, 2 Peregrine, 4 Teal, Reed Bunting, Coal Tit, 12 Egyptian Geese (Chris Farthing)

Saturday 2nd November 2019

• Angerland Common, South Hatfield: m Stonechat in hedges nr cemetery TL222060 (Scott Chalmers via Herts BC)
• Banstead Woods: incl Woodcock, 74 Redwing (Ian Ward via CFBW blog)
• Brent Reservoir: 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull, 18 Snipe (Andrew Self); Black-necked Grebe back on main reservoir in Coot flock until c15:20 when it swam further out towards the Dam [not relocated since], also 8 Shoveler, 45 Teal, Grey Wagtail (Toby Mylett)
• Brook Farm, Upminster: incl Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 4 Goldcrest, 52 House Sparrow, Grey Wagtail, 17 Greenfinch, 2 Yellowhammer (Ruth Barnes via BirdTrack)
• Ellenbrook Fields: incl 6 Grey Partridge, 3 Kestrel, 8 Redwing, Linnet (Steven Brown via BirdTrack)
• Fisher's Green: 30 Shoveler, 25 Pochard, f Smew, 8 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Water Rail all fr bittern_watchpt, 2 Common Buzzard, Coal Tit, 4 Skylark, 2 Yellowhammer all fr longlands hide (LVRP volunteers per LVRP sightings blog)
• Highgate "Village": Peregrine high over 12pm (Jamie Cedar)
• London Wetland Centre: Pintail, Bittern, 2 Water Rail, Stonechat, Water Pipit (WWT website)
• Mayfair "Park Lane": m Pheasant on traffic island in middle of Park Ln opp Hilton Hotel midday (Charlie Farrell)
• Newgate Street nr Cuffley "Herts": incl 6 Red Kite, 2 Common Buzzard, 25 Skylark, Nuthatch, Fieldfare, Redwing, Grey Wagtail, 15 Pied Wagtail, 9 Meadow Pipit, 2 Linnet, 3 Yellowhammer (via BirdTrack)
• Purfleet "R Thames": incl 3 Wigeon, ad m Marsh Harrier, 180 Lapwing, 3 Dunlin, 2300 Black-headed Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, Peregrine (Fraser Simpson via eBird)
• Queen’s Wood "N6/N10": Common Buzzard SE 0745 (Matt Evans)
• Rainham RSPB: incl 11 Avocet, 14 Curlew, 320 Black-tailed Godwit (RSPB, Fraser Simpson via ELBF FB)
• River Brent "Brent Cross": Grey Heron flew NE 14:55 (Toby Mylett)
• Shrewsbury Park: Tawny Owl calling 0040 (Tim Rymer tweet)
• Staines Reservoir: no sign Long-tailed Duck, 2 Goldeneye, 2 Black-necked Grebe early-am (Dave Carlsson tweet)
• Stocker's Lake: 6 Wigeon, 6 Goldeneye m 5f, Cetti's Warbler causeway (Geoff Lapworth via Herts BC); also incl 6 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, 10 Wigeon, 10 Pochard, 20 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Little Egret, 40 Cormorant, 3 Red Kite, 7 Lapwing, 8 Common Gull, Kestrel, 100 Jackdaw, 6 Skylark, 3 Goldcrest, 6 Meadow Pipit, 50 Linnet (Naresh Satyan w/ Jack Fearnside via eBird)
• The Brook "BR5": Little Egret, 30+ Long-tailed Tit, 2+ Goldcrest, 2 Little Grebe (Jack Headley)
• Trent Park: Cormorant, 11 Mandarin Duck 6m 5f, 3 Eurasian Teal 2m f upper lake, m Common Pochard, m Goosander lower lake, 2 Common Buzzard, Song Thrush, Redwing, 2 Goldcrest (Robert Callf/Pete Lowman)
• Waterworks NR: 3 Common Snipe in bed 16 (Graham Howie)
• West Putney: Short-eared Owl N being mobbed by crows 08.30 (Rupert Kaye)

Friday 1st November 2019

• Belhus Woods CP: incl 16 Shoveler, 28 Gadwall, 6 Wigeon, 10 Teal, 18 Tufted Duck, 13 Pochard, 5 Little Grebe, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 12 Cormorant, 4 Water Rail, 4 Lapwing, 2 Common Snipe, Common Gull, Tawny Owl, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Green Woodpecker, Cetti’s Warbler, 32 Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper, 108 Starling, 23 Blackbird, Fieldfare, 9 Redwing, 2 Bullfinch, Siskin (Alan Shearman per ELBF FB)
• Brookmill Park: Kingfisher, Song Thrush, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
• Cely Woods: incl 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Green Woodpecker, 12 Goldcrest, 18 Blackbird, 12 Fieldfare, 26 Redwing, Meadow Pipit, Bullfinch, 8 Linnet, 3 Lesser Redpoll (Alan Shearman per ELBF FB)
• Crayford "Jolly Farmers": Caspian Gull 1w again (BirdGuides)
• Dagenham Chase: 11 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, 6 Wigeon, m Pochard, Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, 50 Lapwing, Fieldfare, 2 Pied Wagtail (Vincenzo Halley-Frame per ELBF FB)
• Greenwich Ecology Park: 2 Little Grebe, Water Rail, Grey Wagtail, 2 Song Thrush, Redwing, 3 Fieldfare, 3 Chiffchaff (John Bushell & Conrad Ellam)
• KGV Res: Hooded Merganser [the full-billed & full-crested bird of unknown origin] still at S end of S basin, 3 Goosander, 10 Goldeneye, 2 Wigeon, 16 Teal, 7 Grey Wagtails, 15 Linnet, 5 Meadow Pipits (Sean Huggins)
• London Wetland Centre: Bittern, Knot still, 4 Common Snipe, Peregrine, 3 Redwing W, 2 Meadow Pipit, Water Pipit, 4 Siskin (WWT website) Closing time is now 4:30pm until end of Jan.
• Panshanger Park: Little Egret, 2+ Common Snipe, Stonechat, 4+ Meadow Pipit, Linnet (Murray Brown via Herts BC)
• Purfleet "R Thames": incl 8 Shelduck, 2 Wigeon, 4 Teal, Little Egret, Avocet, 147 Lapwing, 9 Golden Plover, 2 Curlew, 52 Dunlin, 26 Redshank, 2 Common Gull, 32 Great Black-backed Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Fieldfare, Grey Wagtail early-am (Fraser Simpson via eBird)
• Rainham Marshes: Short-eared Owl aveley bay early-am briefly (Ben Rumsby); also Snow Bunting W (Bill Stallard, Ben Rumsby per ELBF FB); Dartford Warbler river wall nr VC 0730 (Ben Rumsby, Malcolm Rush per ELBF FB); 230 Wigeon, 6 Pintail, Great Crested Grebe, 2 Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, 3 Marsh Harrier, Common Buzzard, 20 Avocet, 14 Curlew, 300 Black-tailed Godwit, 70 Dunlin, 5 Common Gull, 145 Great Black-backed Gull, Caspian Gull 1cy, 5 Yellow-legged Gull, Barn Owl, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, 2 Kestrel, Peregrine, 12 Skylark, 4 Goldcrest, 12 Blackbird, 6 Fieldfare, 6 Redwing, 2 Stonechat, 3 Water Pipit still, 7 Rock Pipit (Ben Rumsby, Malcolm Rush, Patrick Hart, Bill Stallard, Howard Vaughan via ELBF FB) Rainham RSPB closing time is now 4:30pm until end of Jan.
• Rye Meads RSPB: incl 19 Common Snipe (Richard Wilson via eBird)
• South Norwood CP: Little Egret, 3 Water Rail (John Hughes via Croydon Birders)
• Staines Moor: incl Shoveler, Little Grebe, Little Egret, 3 Kestrel, 3 Rook, 6 Skylark, Chiffchaff, Redwing, Stonechat, 27 Meadow Pipit, 4 Water Pipit still (Callum Mckellar via eBird)
• Staines Reservoir: Long-tailed Duck fem type still on S basin till late am at least but elusive (Ken Purdey, Allan Goddard, Jim Sweetland per FJM); still present at 15.30 but can be elusive diving frequently, also 5 Black-necked Grebes on north basin (Roger Morton); 9 Black-necked Grebe incl 5 together on n basin (Lee Evans tweet); "s basin" also incl 40 Shoveler, 10 Gadwall, 35 Wigeon, Teal, 8 Tufted Duck, 2 Goldeneye, 12 Great Crested Grebe, 13 Skylark, 5 Pied Wagtail, 8 Meadow Pipit, Rock Pipit, 10 Linnet (Lee Evans via BirdTrack); "n basin" also incl 36 Shoveler, 30 Gadwall, 38 Wigeon, 25 Tufted Duck, 3 Goldeneye, 8 Great Crested Grebe, 4 Pied Wagtail, 8 Meadow Pipit (Lee Evans via BirdTrack)
• Stocker's Lake: incl f Goldeneye, Wigeon (Steve Carter via Herts BC)
• Stratford Olympic Park: Kingfisher, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Teal, 7 Gadwall, 10 Tufted Duck, 8 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Jay (Richard Harrison)
• Stratford Westfield: Woodcock flew past 7th floor office window 10.20 (Richard Harrison)
• Trent Park: 15 Long-tailed Tit flew out of Park near Oakwood Station presumably to roost site 1615 (Robert Callf); also m Goosander, Kestrel, 2 Mandarin m f (Pete Lowman)
• Wandle Park: Little Egret over, Redwing (Sue Henning via Croydon Birders)
• Wanstead Flats: Woodcock again near Long wood (Sean Kerrigan); 11 Meadow Pipit, Skylark, 3 Stonechat, 5 Mistle Thrush, 130+ Common Gull, 2 Teal, 9 Gadwall, 11 Shoveler, Goldcrest, Kestrel (Wanstead Birders)
• Wildhill "incl Woodside, Hatfield": incl 22 Gadwall, 3 Red Kite, 2 Common Buzzard, 44 Skylark, Treecreeper, 20 Redwing, 3 Yellowhammer (via BirdTrack)
• Woodoaks Farm: pr Stonechat (Lee Evans tweet)

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