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Friday 15th May 2020

• Abbeville Road - Clapham: Kestrel hunting over the church (Alex Bayley)
• Alexandra Park: 2 Common Whitethroat, Peregrine, m Sparrowhawk carrying Starling SE (APOG Birders)
• Brent Reservoir: singing Garden Warbler in shrike field (Andrew Self)
• Bushy Park: 2 Common Whitethroat, Little Egret, new Egyptian Goose brood of 6 small yng at heron pond, Swallow, 2 Swift (Spencer Neal) Cetti's Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Great-Spotted Woodpecker, Greenfinch, 4 Green Woodpecker, 2 Kestrel, 4 Mistle Thrush, 4 Reed Bunting, 4 Skylark, 2 Song Thrush, Shelduck, Swift, 2 Treecreeper , 2 Whitethroat (Ian R Watson)
• Crewdson Road-Stockwell: Swift went into nest...1st observation this season (Michael Mac)
• Fulham Broadway: House Sparrow (heard Vanston Pl opposite church) (Nathalie Mahieu)
• Fulham Reach Thames: 6 Tufted Duck, Coot, Gadwall (Nathalie Mahieu)
• Greenford "UB6": Peregrine low over garden 07.10, Red Kite, 7+ Swift (Neil Anderson}
• Hampstead Heath. 2 Reed Warbler in reeds at north end of Boating Pond (Liz Valentine) 2 Common Whitethroat. City Corporation depressingly using a hedgecutter vehicle to remove vegetation at the side of pathways on the grounds that the odd bramble or stem might overhang the path. No regard to nesting birds in the hedges and woodland verges being pruned (Matt Evans)
• Harold Park Farm, Nazeing: f Northern Wheatear 0720, f Greenland Wheatear 0930, Cuckoo 0715 (Martin Shepherd)
• Northolt & Greenford CP: 3 Red Kite {2 quartering low with c6 Herring Gull over adjoining back gardens}, Swift, Grey Wagtail collecting insects {Birch Wood stream}, 9 Blackcap, 2 Common Whitethroat Lesser Whitethroat, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Reed Warbler (Neil Anderson)
• Staines Moor: Northern Wheatear, 4 Lapwing on ground, Peregrine, Red Kite, 2 Common Buzzard, 20+ Blackcap, 10 Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Cettis Warbler, 30 + Linnet, 6 Reed Bunting, 8 Meadow Pipit, 6 Skylark, 3 Pheasant, 2 Common Tern, plus many other usual birds (Nick Baker)
• Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: Garden Warbler, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 9 Comnmon Whitethroat, 13 Chiffchaff, 19 Blackcap, Lapwing, 6 Rook, 5 House Martin, pair Coot, 5 singing Goldcrest, also Muntjac(John Colmans)
• {Virginia Water. Marginally outside the formal area for records, but there was a first summer male Common Scoter there with a Tufted Duck male, c. 12 noon from the South path about half way down (T. Donegan, B. Huertas, Lucas DH). Also a Hobby over.}

Thursday 14th May 2020

• Alexandra Park: 2 Swallow, Little Egret N, Common Buzzard NE, Peregrine, m Common Whitethroat (APOG Birders)
• Brookmill Park: Little Egret, Song Thrush, 3 singing Blackcap (Conrad Ellam)  Hi Conrad could you give any tips or advice about seeing the Kingfisher? We have been trying to spot it for a while now but haven’t seen one for about a year here (Dan Stephens) The Kingfisher has been elusive recently, I've only seen it twice this month and only once in April. All three sightings were glimpses as it flew past. Hopefully it will be more obliging later in the year, in the meantime its a question of luck (Conrad Ellam)
• Bushy Park: 3 Common Whitethroat, Shelduck, 4 Swallow, 4 Swift, Reed Bunting, 9 Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Kestrel, 4 Skylark, 5 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Spencer Neal)
• Cockfosters "Chalk Lne, EN4": 4 House Sparrow f & 3juv (Robert Callf)
• Covert Way LNR: m Lesser Whitethroat singing, m Common Whitethroat singing, m Blackcap singing, Chiffchaff singing (Robert Callf)
• Cray Valley BR5: 2 Gadwall, 5+ Common Buzzard, 20+ Swift, Kingfisher, 12+ House Martin, singing Cetti's Warbler, 1+ singing Reed Warbler, 3 Common Whitethroat, 2 Bullfinch. 44 species in Cray Valley today (Jack Headley)
• Frays Farm Meadows LWT: Grasshopper Warbler still as previously (Dan Pinkham)
• Greenford "UB6": 2-3 Red Kite, 2+ Swift over garden (Neil Anderson)
• Greenford to Hanwell Zoo "Brent corridor": m Mandarin, Grey Heron, 6 Stock Dove, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, 11 Blackcap, 3 Common Whitethroat, 3 Chiffchaff, singing Goldcrest {m Banded Demoiselle} {Neil Anderson)
• Hampstead Heath: probable f Wheatear but very distant, Reed Warbler, 2 Common Whitethroat (Reuben Braddock)
• Ladywell Fields: Kingfisher, Blackcap (Tom Moulton)
• Lamorbey Park "Sidcup" : Tufted Duck pr, Grey Wagtail, 2 Pied Wagtail, 2 singing Blackcap (Mike Amos)
• Mile End Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 House Martin, 2 singing Blackcap (Harry Harrison)
• Pinner HA5: Red Kite harried by crow, Coal Tit , Goldfinch (Nigel Barratt)
• Rainham "Thames Riverside": Little Gull ad flew east 0810, 8 Common Tern, Spoonbill distantly on Target Pools view only from river wall, 2 Corn Bunting on south side of 'greened tip mound' , 1 Hobby , 100+ Swift (Steve Bacon) 2 Cuckoos together on local reserve south of A13 (Patrick Parrinder)
• Richmond, Selwyn Avenue: 2 Hobby together overhead 1800 (Franko J Maroevic)
• Richmond Park: Grey Wagtail pair, 2 Pied Wagtail pairs, large numbers of House Martins (Alex Westenberger)
• Sidcup: "The Hollies": Blackcap 2m 1f, Chiffchaff, Stock Dove, Buzzard [performed barrel-rolls and flew upside down to escape attention from mobbing crow], Peregrine, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Swift [descended to 10ft to feed over newly cut grass], Herring Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull (Eric Brown).Hi Eric. Can you tell me where "The Hollies" is? Is this it: https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Hollies+Countryside+Club/@51.440268,0.0968693,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x47d8aeadf5a8eec3:0xecd479e336655b5e!8m2!3d51.440268!4d0.099058. Thanks, Mike Edwards
• Thames Barrier: Common Buzzard, Great Crested Grebe, 55 Black-headed Gull, 2 Common Gull, 2 Great Black-backed Gull (Ian Ellis)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 15 Blackcap, 13 Chiffchaff, Peregrine, Goldcrest, 4 Swallow, 6 House Martin, Nuthatch, 38 Stock Dove, 22 Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Mistle Thrush, 7 Swift, Common Buzzard, Bullfinch, 2 Coot, 2 Mandarin Duck & 4 ducklings, 32 Rook, Kestrel, 3 Lapwing, 2 Pied Wagtail, Little Owl (Samuel Levy)
• Watermeadows Open Space: 2 Greylag Goose, 2 Egyptian Goose, 2 Swallow S, 2 Grey Wagtail, 5 singing Blackcap, singing Chiffchaff (Jack Headley)
• Jeffreys Road-Stockwell: c40 House Sparrows along road, some at nests.Bumper year here (Michael Mac)

Wednesday 13th May 2020

• Alexandra Park: 2 Swallow, Little Egret, 2 Greylag Goose (APOG Birders)
• Beddington Farm: c70 Swifts, 2 Swallow (Michael Mac)
• Brent Reservoir: 3 Common Sandpiper north marsh (Andrew Self) 100 - 150 Swift, 2 Egyptian Geese, 26 Gadwall, 4 Pochard, Little Grebe, 4 Stock Dove, 4 Common Sandpiper, Black-headed Gull, 5 Common Tern, 25 Cormorant, Kestrel, 7 Reed Warbler, 4 Swallow, 10 House Martin, Cetti's Warbler, 16 Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Greenfinch. (Samuel Levy)
• Bushy Park: 3 Mandarin Duck small yng ducklings led by their mother across lime avenue to overflow pond nr hampton gate, Common Whitethroat, Swallow, Kestrel, Nuthatch, 2 Reed Bunting, 4 Skylark, 8 Blackcap, 8 Chiffchaff, 6 Green Woodpecker, 2 Red-crested Pochard, Great Crested Grebe (Spencer Neal)
• Gillespie Park, Highbury: Red Kite west, Peregrine, Sparrowhawk, Whitethroat (David Bradshaw)
• Grovelands Park: 2 Great Crested Grebe pr incubating, m Mute Swan, 3 Greylag Goose, m Egyptian Goose, m Common Pochard, 2 Tufted Duck pr, 10 Stock Dove together, 2 Green Woodpecker, ad m Grey Wagtail, 3+ Treecreeper ad feeding 2juvs [FL], 12ad Starling (Robert Callf)
• Gutteridge Wood: Little Egret (Barry Wilson)
• Hampstead Heath: Crossbill flew N 0631 [London FOY?] (Jamie Cedar)
• Harold Park Farm, Nazeing: 3 Northern Wheatear, Mistle Thrush, 10 Red-legged Partridge, 7 Linnet, 12 House Sparrow, 8 local Swallow (Martin Shepherd)
• Hemans Estate Community Garden: pr Great Tits feeding young in box on dried mealworms, c8 House Sparrows eating same, Goldfinch. All eating 160g dried meal worms a day, £1 per 100g from Poundland but RSPB £4 100g in Sainsburys (Michael Mac) 900g for £6.50 in Wilko....500g for £5 now ,just checked (MM) Yes, but if you get the 900g box for £6.50, it works out cheaper per unit weight...I've bought what you mention last year in a bag, yesterday shelf was marked £5 for 500g-but sold out.
• Mitcham Common: 17 Swift some very low down, enter Hobby, Swallow, Willow Warbler, 3 singing Greenfinch, only 2 singing Whitethroat {Speckled Wood} (Michael Mac)
• Northolt & Greenford CP: 3 Red Kite [1 very high], Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 7 Swift, 10 Blackcap, 3 Common Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, m Reed Bunting, 2 Linnet pr (Neil Anderson/Kathryn Bull)
• Oaks Golf Course "Banstead": 2 Firecrest, 4 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Song Thrush (Arjun Dutta)
• Oakwood Park: 2 Nuthatch pr still feeding yng in nest hole [NY] {Small White} (Robert Callf)
• Perivale: Red Kite low over garden [UB6]; Horsenden Hill East: Kestrel, Kingfisher, 2 Reed warblers, Reed Bunting, Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Swift, Greenfinch, Song Thrush (Andrew Peel/Toni Menezes)
• Pinner Lloyd Court: 20+ Magpies together, some pictured, fledged Starlings and Blackbird (Richard Francis)

  

• Southgate "Ivy Rd Rec Grnd": 17ad Starling - still awaiting the first juvs (Robert Callf)
• Wandsworth Common: Hobby circling over at 1600 (Nick Rutter)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: Hobby, c200 Swift, c100 House Martin, 2 Common Sandpiper, 5 Common Tern, 3 Lesser Whitethroat (Walthamstow Birders)
• Winchmore Hill "Houndsden Gutter, N21": 3 Grey Wagtail pr & juv [FL], 2 Mistle Thrush pr (Robert Callf)

Tuesday 12th May 2020

• Alexandra Park: Garden Warbler singing from near Redston Pond, Sand Martin, 4 Swallow, 20+ Swift, Common Buzzard E, pair Pochard, 2m Common Whitethroat, Peregrine (APOG Birders)
• Barham Park, Wembley: 2 Swallow, 5 Swift, Blackcap and Chiffchaff (Shailesh Patel)
• Brent Reservoir: 2 Common Sandpiper north marsh (Andrew Self)
• Brockley “SE4”: Peregrine high over towards Brookmill Park (D Stephens)
• Bromley "BR2": Greenfinch m - first seen in garden since early August 2019 (Martin Draper)
• Brookmill Park: Kingfisher, Stock Dove, Song Thrush, 2 Blackcap (Conrad Elam) Hi Conrad could you give any tips or advice about seeing the Kingfisher? We have been trying to spot it for a while now but haven’t seen one for about a year here (Dan Stephens)
• Bushy Park: Common Whitethroat (Spencer Neal) Cetti's Warbler, 4 Chaffinch, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Greenfinch, 2 Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, 5 Mistle Thrush, 3 Reed Bunting, 4 Skylark, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Swallow (Ian R Watson)
• Crayford Rough: 28 species incl Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, 14 Swift, 2 Chiffchaff, 11 Blackcap, 3 Garden Warbler, 12 Whitethroat, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Bullfinch, 2 Greenfinch {Green Hairstreak} (Ralph Todd)
• Crossness NR seen or heard : 12 Cetti`s Warbler, 18 Reed Warbler, 7 Whitethroat, 3 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, Cuckoo, 12 Swift, 4 Grey Heron, Peregrine, 2 Kestrel, 3 Lapwing, Skylark, 2 Song Thrush, 9 Pochard, 11 Tufted Duck,2 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, 12 Greylag Goose & 29 young, 6 Canada Goose & 6 young, 4 Reed Bunting, 4 Little Grebe, 4 Linnet, Cormorant, 2 Water Vole, (Bernie Weight) Thames & Foreshore low tide : 51 Shelduck, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 6 Mute Swan, Oystercatcher, 48 Gadwall, 2 Whitethroat, 2 Reed Warbler, Great Black-backed Gull, c 350 Black-headed Gull (Bernie Weight)
• Dollis Brook/Frith Manor: 2 Common Buzzard, 6 - 8 House Martin, 2 Swift, 2 Blackcap, Mistle Thrush {Muntjac} (John Colmans)
• Finchley "Garden N3": 10+ Swift (Samuel Levy)
• Gunpowder Park: Buzzard, 4 Swift, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Skylark, 3 Song Thrush, Blackcap, singing Reed Warbler, singing Willow Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, 10 House Sparrow (Harry Harrison)
• Gutteridge / Ten Acre Woods: Nightingale, 2 Cuckoo, Whitethroat, Swallow, Reed Bunting, Kestrel, Buzzard, Red Kite (Jim Fell)
• Hampstead Heath: Parliament Hill, Garden Warbler briefly at 0700, 2 Yellow Wagtails over (Pete Mantle/Jamie Cedar)
• Middlesex Filter Beds: 2 Reed Warblers singing in the beds, Little Egret on river, Common Tern flew S down Lee Navigation (Alastair Dent)
• Mudchute Farm: Garden Warbler, 8 Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Sean Huggins)
• Oakwood Park: m Tawny Owl hooting 0010, 5 Swift, m Pied Wagtail, 2 Nuthatch pr feeding yng in nest hole, 13+ Jackdaw, f Chaffinch carrying white hair [nesting material], 2 Goldfinch pr {Small Heath} (Robert Callf)
• Perivale Park: Red Kite high E, 2 Swift, Grey Wagtail (R. Brent), Pied Wagtail, 4 Common Whitethroat, 7 Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff {Cinnamon Bug} (Neil Anderson/Kathryn Bull)
• Richmond Park: 3 Red Kite, 6+ Buzzard, 12 Black-headed Gull - 6 pairs five of which nest-building, 0 Common Terns, 16 Greylag - 4 pairs and two broods of 5 & 3 young (J Wilczur/ S Woolfenden/ P Pentek/ H Bradshaw)
• Rotherhithe: Common Tern, Common Gull, Black-headed Gull, Blackcap (Richard Bonser)
• Russia Dock Woodland: Collared Dove, 20 House Sparrow, 3 Chiffchaff, 8 Blackcap (Richard Bonser)
• Seventy Acres Lake: imm m Marsh Harrier at 0800, Hobby, 20+ House Martin, Cuckoo, 3+ Garden Warbler (Simon Papps)
• Sewardstone Marsh: Shelduck, Buzzard, Kestrel, 2 Lapwing over, 25+ Swift, 4 Sand Martin, 3 Song Thrush, Garden warbler, 2 Blackcap, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 12+ House Sparrow, 8 Greenfinch. (Harry Harrison) c350 Swift, 250 House Martin, 50 Swallow, 30 [non-resident] Sand Martin between 0705 and 0745 over relief channel/KGV Reservoir north east bank (Martin Shepherd)
• Sidcup "The Hollies": Chiffchaff singing, 4 Blackcap singing, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Peregrine, 4 Stock Dove, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Coal Tit, Long-tailed Tit (Eric Brown)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 16 Blackcap, 16 Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest, Bullfinch, 2 Nuthatch, 21 Stock Dove, 2 Treecreeper, Collared Dove, 6 Swallow, Little Owl, 28 Common Whitethroat, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, Pied Wagtail, 32 Rook, 3 Lapwing, 2 Tufted Duck [Long Pond], 4 Common Buzzard, 2 Linnet, 2 Mistle Thrush, Willow Warbler, Grey Heron, 2 Mandarin Duck & 4 ducklings, 2 Coot, 19 Swift. (Samuel Levy)
• Wandsworth: 2 House Martin past Northcote Road (Mark H)
• West Harrow: Grey Heron over 0830 - my FOY locally, 2 Buzzard thermalling 1040-1045 - one mobbed by Peregrine & Herring Gull. Whilst watching the raptors a passing Blackbird relieved itself all over my bins - the highs and lows of lockdown birding! (Alex Massey)
• West Putney, SW15 from loft: 2 Shelduck NE, 2cy Shag E downriver cutting off the Barnes loop 1115, 6 Buzzard, 2 Red Kite, juv Peregrine, Kestrel, Song Thrush NW my first for lockdown (R Kaye)

Monday 11th May 2020

• Alexandra Park: 2 Swallow, House Martin, m Common Whitethroat, Peregrine, 12+ Swift, 2 Egyptian Geese SE (APOG Birders)
• Bushy Park: 30+ Swift (Paula Redmond)
• Clapham Common: Reed Warbler singing, Mount Pond. Very windy and cold! (Mark H)
• Cray Valley BR5: Cormorant N, f Kestrel, 30+ Swift, 3 Swallow, 4 House Martin, singing Cetti's Warbler, singing Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Bullfinch (Jack Headley)
• Finchley: Garden N3 - Coot over at 21:40 (Samuel Levy)
• Hollyoak Wood Park, Sidcup DA15: Cormorant NE, Little Egret towards Lamorbey, 2 Grey Wagtail, 4+ Blackcap 3m 1f, 2 Nuthatch pr with yng in nest (Ian Stewart)
• Mayflower Park: 2 Egyptian Geese with four goslings (Bob Smith)
• Palfrey Place-Stockwell: 30+ House Sparrows round feeders/shrubs, possible nest in tall shrub (Michael Mac)
• Pinner Lloyd Court: 16+ Starlings collecting food on back lawn, 3 with rings (Richard Francis)
• Pepys Park, Deptford: Song Thrush, Blackcap, 10 House Sparrow (Richard Bonser)
• Ravenor Park, Greenford: Red Kite, Green Woodpecker, pr Mistle Thrush, Blackcap, Chiffchaff (Neil Anderson/Kathryn Bull)
• Richmond Park: Short-eared Owl in flight - photographed (Sam ? per P.Redmond); Little Owl, m Stonechat - 6:30pm N of Lower Pen Pond (Tim Vine)
• Rotherhithe: 3 Black-headed Gull W, Peregrine over (Richard Bonser)
• St Paul's Cray: Common Buzzard circling Chapmans Ln early evening (Jack Headley)
• Thames Ditton: {Grey Seal feeding on perch 1447} (Paula Redmond)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 15 Chiffchaff, 16 Blackcap, Kestrel, 2 Goldcrest, 20 Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Bullfinch, 2 Coot, 2 Mandarin + 4 Ducklings, Grey Heron, Willow Warbler, 7 Swallow, 5 Stock Dove, 32 Rook, 3 Lapwing, 2 Pied Wagtail, Nuthatch, Greenfinch, Common Buzzard. (Samuel Levy)
• Trent Park: Egyptian Goose, 5m Mandarin Duck, Red Kite, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 singing m Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush carrying food, 6 Chiffchaff, 2 Long-tailed Tit pr still feeding yng in nest {f Small Copper} (Robert Callf)
• Walthamstow Marshes: Yellow Wagtail, Garden Warbler (Mark Wardman)

Sunday 10th May 2020

• Alexandra Park: 3 Red Kite, 3 Swallow E, 2 pairs Pochard, Peregrine (APOG Birders)
• Bermondsey: 2 Swift west at 0830 (John Cadera)
• Brent Reservoir: Common Sandpiper (Andrew Self)
• Brookmill Park: Stock Dove, 3 Blackcap (Conrad Ellam)
• Bushy Park: 2 Common Tern, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Common Whitethroat, Kestrel, 2 Swallows perched on the stockyard weathervane, 7 Swifts, 2 Greylag Geese, 2 Red-crested Pochard, Reed Bunting (Spencer Neal)
• Cray Valley BR5: 2 Tufted Duck S, Red Kite NW 1345, f Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, Black-headed Gull N, 30+ Swift, 16 Swallow [1 N & 15 SE], 2 singing Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 2+ Common Whitethroat, 2 Bullfinch (Jack Headley)
• Dartford Marsh: Hobby, Buzzard, 4 Lapwing, Common Sandpiper (Phil Thompson)
• Deptford: 2 Shelduck flew S over Deptford Creek 0600 (Richard Bonser)
• Denham Quarry: 2 pairs Great Crested Grebes, Common Tern, 3 Black-headed Gulls, lost count of all the Swallows, Swifts and House Martins skimming over the boating lake (Wendy Marks)
• Finchley: Garden N3 - Canada Geese over at 10:33 2nd garden record (Samuel Levy)
• Finsbury Park: Hobby flew low west at 0837 (Chris Farthing)
• Foots Cray Meadows: 4 Gadwall 3m&1f (Jack Headley)
• Greenford to Ealing Hospital "Brent corridor": m Mandarin, 2 Grey Heron, Red Kite, Kestrel, 11 Stock Dove, Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 12+ Swift, Swallow, 16 Blackcap, 4 Common Whitethroat, 8 Chiffchaff (Neil Anderson)
• Gutteridge Wood: Hobby, 2 Red Kite, Kestrel, Buzzard, Nuthatch, Bullfinch, Willow Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 8 Blackcap, 6 Common Whitethroat (Nigel Dodd)
• Harefield "back garden": Hobby, Red Kite, plus Cetti's Warbler calling from nearby Grand Union Canal (Wendy Marks)
• Priest Hill: 8 Common Whitethroat, 3 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, Kestrel, Grey Heron, 2 Pheasant (Neil Batten)
• Pymmes Park: Mandarin pr & 6 chicks (James Palmer)
• Richmond Park: 3 Common Tern (Philip Briggs)
• Rotherhithe: 2cy Yellow-legged Gull Greenland Dock, 70 Herring Gull, Black-headed Gull, Common Gull, Peregrine (Richard Bonser)
• Sidcup DA14 garden: 1145 Red Kite S then climbed and drifted N [FOY], 4 Swift high N (Bernie & Sylvia Weight)
• Streatham Common: 1345 Red Kite heading W, 27 Blue Tits nesting, of which 24 in nest boxes.
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 23 Blackcap, 8 House Martin, 10 Swallow, 10 House Sparrow, 14 Chiffchaff, 30 Common Whitethroat, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Grey Heron, Willow Warbler, 4 Mandarin Duck 2 broods of duckling 4 & 2 at Darlands, 2 Coot, 13 Swift, 2 Black-headed Gull (rare May record), 6 Stock Dove, Bullfinch, 32 Rook, Red Kite, 3 Lapwing, Pied Wagtail, Common Buzzard, Nuthatch, Collared Dove. (Samuel Levy)
• Upper College Farm: 2-4 Red Kite, Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 2 Hobby, 5+ Swift, 4+ Skylark, Swallow, 5+ Blackcap, 18+ Whitethroat, Cetti’s Warbler, 2+ Chiffchaff, 2+ Linnet, 2+ Bullfinch (Ian Stewart)
• Walthamstow Marshes: Buzzard (James Palmer); Cuckoo heard at 715 and 745, Garden Warbler (Marcin Kempa)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: 7 Whimbrel, c200 Swift, c50 House Martin, c20 Sand Martin, Swallow (Rhys Evans); 2 Hobby at 1650 and 1705 heading S just E of Lockwood (Lol Bodini)
• Wanstead Flats: 102 Herring Gull, 60 Egyptian Geese, 2m Pochard, 4 Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, Grey Heron, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Canada Goose broods (Daniel Whitelegg)
• Wanstead Park: 5 Tufted Duck, pr Great Crested Grebe nesting, 2 Canada Goose broods, Greylag Goose brood, 2 pr Mute Swan inc one with 7 cygnets, Little Grebe, Grey Heron, 7 pr Coot nesting [Perch Pond only] (Daniel Whitelegg)

Saturday 9th May 2020

• Alexandra Park: 2 Common Tern circled Wood Green Res then E [FOY], Garden Warbler singing from NW perimeter playing fields, Willow Warbler, m Common Whitethroat, 2 Greylag Goose, Peregrine (APOG Birders)
• Battersea Park Lake: m Sparrowhawk, 4 Gadwall, pr Pochard, 16 Greylag and 2pr Canada Goose with broods, brood of Mallard, 7 Mandarin Duck, 10 Egyptian Geese [5 young], singing Song Thrush, 6 Blackcap. 4 Lesser Black-backed Gull (Michael Mac)
• Blackheath: m Sparrowhawk, Chiffchaff, Swift, Egyptian Goose [pair with 5 young], House Sparrow, Jackdaw. (D Stephens)
• Brookmill Park: 2 Little Egret, 2 Stock Dove, 3 Swift, 4 Blackcap, Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam); Song Thrush, Goldcrest, Grey Wagtail, Red Kite [flying very high overhead due west at 1700] (D Stephens)
• Bushy Park: 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Common Whitethroat, 2 Swallow, 10 Chiffchaff, 9 Blackcap, 8 Skylark, 2 Reed Bunting, Egyptian Goose- two successful broods of 6 each, close to adult size [Leg of Mutton Pond and Triss's Pond], another two broods in the park failed, - no sign of Red-crested Pochard brood of 1, presumed to have failed (Spencer Neal); Common Buzzard (Mike Foster)
• Chingford: Turtle Dove flew fast & fairly low, NE between Pole Hill and Yardley Hill into distance at 1650 (A Middleton)
• Enfield EN2 "private site": f Whinchat (Stephen Witherford per RM Callf)
• Finchley "Garden N3": 7 Swift, Common Buzzard, Hobby {Holly Blue} (Samuel Levy)
• Hampstead Heath: 6 Greylag Goose, new Reed Warbler Highgate no1 pond, Kestrel (Jamie Cedar)
• Harold Park Farm, Nazeing: f Whinchat 0735, 4 Wheatear, 30 Linnet, 2 Yellowhammer, 8 Skylark, 3 Red-legged Partridge, Brown Hare (Martin Shepherd)
• Highgate Cemetery: Hobby, 2 Common Buzzard over seen from flat (Jamie Cedar)
• Hornsey: Garden N8 - Hobby NW 1636, Peregrine, Kestrel, Little Egret NW (Bob Watts)
• Isle of Dogs: 3 Sand Martin, 2 House Martin, 3 Common Sandpiper, pair Egyptian Geese with 5 small young. All along Thames between Saunders Ness and Poplar rowing club (Sean Huggins)
• Lamorbey Park "Sidcup": Cormorant over, 6 Egyptian Goose [4 juv], Herring Gull over,  3 Stock Dove, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush pr, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Jackdaw, 5 singing Blackcap, singing Chiffchaff, 4 Swifts over my garden this evening (Mike Amos)
• Limetrees Park Golf Course, Northolt: 5 Red Kite, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Common Whitethroat {Brown Argus, 2 Common Blue, 2 Small Copper, Hairy Dragonfly} (Neil Anderson)
• Lonsdale Road Reservoir: 7 Pochard, 2 Tufted Duck, 6 Mallard, both broods still 5 & 6 ducklings, 2 Gadwall a pair, Common Tern, 30 Black-headed Gull catching insects over trees, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 8 Blackcap, Chiffchaff, 8 Reed Warbler, 4 Robin inc 1 fledged young, 2 Song Thrush, 6 Swift including a pair copulating in mid air, 5 House Martin (Franko J Maroevic)
• Oakwood Park: 6 Tufted Duck 3m 3f Conservation Pond, m Lesser Whitethroat singing, m Common Whitethroat singing, m Blackcap singing, Chiffchaff {7+ Mother Shipton, Small Heath} (Robert Callf)
• Plumstead Common/Winns Common: 3 Swift, Red Kite at 1745 (George Kalli)
• Rainham RM13 garden: Hobby, Cuckoo, Common Buzzard, 5 Swift, Swallow, House Martin, Sparrowhawk, Mistle Thrush, Ring-necked Parakeet (Richard Harrison)
• Richmond Park: Pen Ponds - 5 Black-headed Gull- none appear to be nesting; 0 Common Tern; 0 Cormorant - none nesting (There was one Common Tern at Pen Ponds early this morning (Alex Westenberger)) (There were at least 5 Common Terns present at dawn (Ben Chapple); 6 Greylag Geese - no goslings seen; 3 Great Crested Grebe (J.Wilczur)
• Rotherhithe: 2 Common Tern Greenland Dock, 2cy Yellow-legged Gull Durand's Wharf/Greenland, 18 Black-headed Gull, 2cy Common Gull, Sparrowhawk, Blackcap, 2 Egyptian Goose (Richard Bonser)
• Ruislip Lido: Reed Warbler [near outdoor gym], Grey Wagtail, 4 Common Tern, 2 Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, Blackcap, Chiffchaff (Sean Moore)
• Russia Dock Woodland: 5 Collared Dove, 7 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, Jay, 25 House Sparrow (Richard Bonser)
• Sewardstone Marsh: drake Common Scoter off KGV Reservoir at 0705 and appeared to fly NW, Little Egret N, 2 Kingfisher, 18+ Sand Martin, 2 Grey Wagtail, singing Cetti's Warbler, 2 singing Lesser Whitethroat (Simon Papps)
• Stockwell: Red Kite over N 1500, 3 Swift (Jack Hill)
• Swanscombe Marsh: singing Nightingale, 3 reeling Grasshopper Warbler (Jack Headley)
• Thames Barrier: Red Kite north at 1250 (Ian Ellis)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 5 Swift, 2 Coot, Red Kite, 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 32 Rook, 2 Swallow, Willow Warbler, 19 Chiffchaff, 17 Blackcap, Lesser Whitethroat, 24 Common Whitethroat, 4 Goldcrest, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Linnet. {Red Admiral, Speckled Wood, Orange-Tip, 6 Peacock, Common & Azure Blue, Blue-tailed & Large Red Damselfly, 2 Emperor Dragonfly} (Samuel Levy) 
• Turnford Lee Valley: 5 Hobbies, i Cuckoo heard (J-P Elmes) 
• TW12 2HA Tagg's Island: Egyptian Goose brood of 18 is now down to 17, feeding at St Albans Riverside with parents, Mute Swan brood, Canada Goose brood (Spencer Neal)
• Upper College Farm "Bexley", seen or heard: 12 Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, 4 Skylark, Mistle Thrush, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Greenfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, Pheasant m, 2 Linnet, {Small Heath (foy)}, (Bernie Weight); Sparrowhawk, 10+ Swift, 2+ Swallow, Reed Warbler singing, 2 Cetti’s Warbler, 2+ Bullfinch (Ian Stewart)
• Waltham Abbey church: 2 Hobby, 2 Red Kite, Common Buzzard, 4 Swift, 2 Grey Wagtail (Simon Papps)
• Walthamstow Marshes: 2 adult Mediterranean Gull north at 0700, Garden Warbler (Jamie Partridge, David Callahan); Cuckoo north at 0810 (Mark Wardman)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: Cuckoo N over Lockwood, 2 Mediterranean Gull N, 12 Common Tern, 3 Common Sandpiper, 4 Sand Martin, 21 Black-headed Gull, Lesser Whitethroat, Green Woodpecker, 33 Lesser Black-backed Gull nests, 19 Herring Gull nests (Walthamstow Birders)
• Wanstead Flats: 2 Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 15 Greenfinch, Green Woodpecker, 25 House Sparrow, 4 Mistle Thrush, 3 Skylark, Song Thrush, 2 Swift, 17 Common Whitethroat. (Harry Harrison)
• Woodford Green: Honey-buzzard over heading SE at 1243 [imaged just!] (Ken Murray)
• Wormwood Scrubs: Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Common Whitethroat, Kestrel, Great Spotted Woodpeckers nesting, plus green lizard sp Little Scrubs area - first personal record of lizard in this area (Francis O'Sullivan)

Friday 8th May 2020

• Alexandra Park: Reed Warbler [FOY], 2m Common Whitethroat, Peregrine, 20+ Swift (APOG Birders)
• Balham: Barn Swallow south over Fontenoy Road [SW12] 1630; at least two pairs of Swifts intermittently present over Bedford Hill this afternoon (Nick Moll)
• Belsize Park: 2 Swift circled low over twice, calling at 1245 - my first local sighting this year (K Duke)
• Bushy Park: Common Whitethroat dukes head passage gate, Cetti's Warbler (Spencer Neal)
• Crayford Marshes: 2-3 Shoveler, 2 Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 2 Cuckoo, Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Sedge Warbler, Firecrest singing in Hawthorns by mouth of Cray personal site first (Ian Stewart)
• Crossness: 2 Shoveler, 8 Pochard, Oystercatcher, 3 Lapwing inc juv, 6+ Common Tern, Cuckoo, 2+ Sand Martin, Swallow, Lesser Whitethroat {Hairy Dragonfly, Blue-tailed Damselfly, Common Blue Damselfly} (Ian Stewart)
• Dartford Marsh: Buzzard, Little Owl, 2 Cuckoo, 3 Common Sandpiper, 11 Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Reed Bunting, Garden Warbler, 26 Commic Tern (Phil Thompson)
• East Barnet: probable Black Kite 1055 gliding NW very dark looking in good light, only slightly forked tail (D Bates)
• Edgwarebury Lane: Chiffchaff, Common Whitethroat, Blackcap, Swallow, House Martin, Collared Dove, Mistle Thrush, Buzzard, Kestrel (Mark Mulrooney)
• Finchley "Garden N3": 4 Common Buzzard, 3 Mallard N, 10 Swift, 4 Swallow, 8 Red Kite E/SE, Sparrowhawk. {Large Red Damselfly} (Samuel Levy)
• Fryent CP: Tawny Owl called 0930, 2 Swift, Reed Warbler singing in hedgerow, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Common Whitethroat (Andrew Self)
• Greenwich: 8 Swift (Ray Crouch)
• Grovelands Park: 2 Great Crested Grebe including one on nest [ON], 4 Cormorant, Grey Heron, m Mute Swan w/ orange darvic 4EIT, 2 Greylag Goose, m Egyptian Goose, 2m Mandarin Duck, m Common Pochard, 9 Tufted Duck 6m 3f, 3+ Stock Dove, Green Woodpecker, f Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4m Blackcap singing, 3 Chiffchaff singing {2 Mother Shipton, Holly Blue, 2 Speckled Wood} (Robert Callf)
• Gutteridge Wood: 2 Nightingale, Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat (Jim Fell); Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Cuckoo [initially heard but then seen flying over pool calling towards Ten Acre Wood], Garden Warbler, Willow Warbler {Hairy Dragonfly over pool outside wood} (Neil Anderson)
• Hogsmill Riverside Open Space: f Green Woodpecker, heard but not seen (C Harrison)
• Isle of Dogs: 2 Grey Wagtails Millwall Docks, 2 Grey Wagtails near Blackwall Basin [breeding pairs], pair of Egyptian Geese with 4 small young by the Blue Bridge (Sean Huggins)
• Kempton Nature Reserve: Cuckoo heard calling at 1100 (Jude Wardman and Phil Wardman)
• Lonsdale Road Reservoir: 4 Mallard,1 pair with 5 ducklings, not yesterday's birds, Great Crested Grebe, 1 Red Kite WNW 1000, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 7 Blackcap, Chiffchaff, 5 Reed Warbler, Reed Bunting male at N end, pair of Song Thrush feeding a fledged young bird, so bred successfully despite all Crows, Magpies, Jays & Squirrels in area Amazing (Franko J Maroevic)
• Mile End, Antill Road: My first 2 Swift over house. 4 House Sparrow daily on feeders (Harry Harrison)
• Mill Hill, private pond near Nan Clark's Lane: single Whooper Swan - maybe domesticated? (Mark Mulrooney)
• Motspur Park: Nightingale in Joseph Hood Park (Chris Northwood and Charlie Alpera per Bob Smith)
• Norwood Country Park: Yellowhammer [song recorded onto Chirpomatic with exact location, 07.19] (Caroline Brown)
• Pinner HA5: 2 Red Kite, 3 Swift, Coal Tit (Nigel Barratt)
• Richmond Park: Lesser Whitethroat, Common Tern, Northern Wheatear and at 1020 possibly the same Black Kite spotted in East Barnet, seen flying East from Pen Ponds - Forked tail and overall dark (Alex Westenberger); Oystercatcher low over Pen Ponds heading NE (Hugh Bradshaw)
• Richmond to Ham (Thames): 3 Common Tern, 1 Common Sandpiper (Peter Gray)
• Rotherhithe: 1st-summer Yellow-legged Gull Greenland Dock/Durand's Wharf, 50 Herring Gull, 15 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 8 Black-headed Gull, 10 House Martin (Richard Bonser)
• Russia Dock Woodland: 3 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap (Richard Bonser)
• Ten Acre Wood area: 6 Pheasant, 2 Little Egret, Common Buzzard, 5 Red Kite, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, c15 Stock Dove, 3 Cuckoo [Gutteridge bird seen flying back there calling with second bird & chased by 3 Jackdaw. When I went round the opposite side of Ten Acre Wood another bird was heard from the end of Yeading Brook meadows], 3 Skylark, Grey Wagtail, 5+ Swallow, Sedge Warbler, 4 Reed Bunting, 2 Rook feeding with Crows, 4 Linnet (Neil Anderson)
• Thames Barrier: 3 House Martin, 4 Swift, 3 Greylag, 4 Common Tern, 3 Oystercatcher, 55 Black-headed Gull, Great Black-backed Gull (Ian Ellis)
• Tooting Common: 2 Red Kite over at 0925 and 1015 (Alan Wilkinson)
• Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: Willow Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 14 Chiffchaff, 20 Blackcap, 20 Whitethroat, Coot, Rook [around nesting area but not counted] {plus 8 Rabbit} (John Colmans) Also Red Kite, 6 Swift, Common Buzzard, Treecreeper, Collared Dove. {Plenty of Large Red Damselfly, Ashy Mining Bee, Orange-tip, Speckled Wood, Peacock, Emperor Dragonfly} (Samuel Levy)
• Wanstead Flats: Garden Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, 20+ Swift, 8 House Martin, Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 3m Skylark, 3 Pochard, Yellow-legged Gull, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel (Wanstead Birders)
• Woodford Green: 2 Swift over 1215 [first local sighting this year] (Steve Howey)

Thursday 7th May 2020

• Alexandra Park: Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Common Whitethroat, probable Hobby, 2 Peregrine, Common Buzzard, 2 Greylag Goose, 25+ Swift, LIttle Egret (APOG Birders)
• Beddington Farmlands "fr public footpath": Common Sandpiper, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, 9 Cetti's Warbler, 28 Common Swift, Song Thrush, Kestrel, m Peregrine, 8 Little Grebe, 10 Sedge Warbler, 3 Linnet, 2 Greenfinch, 3 Chiffchaff, many Reed Warblers, Blackcaps, Common Whitethroat (Arjun Dutta)
• Brent Reservoir: Northern Lapwing, Common Sandpiper (Andrew Self)
• Blackheath: Sedge Warbler singing in bushes by army cadet building (Conrad Ellam)
• Brookmill Park: Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush juv, 5 Blackcap 3m 2f (Conrad Ellam)
• Bushy Park: Cetti's Warbler, 1-2 Common Buzzard, Kestrel, 5 Barn Swallow, Swift, Common Whitethroat, 9 Chiffchaff, 9 Blackcap, Great Crested Grebe (Spencer Neal)
• Collier Row, Romford: 2 Swift (G J Francis)
• Edgwarebury Lane: Chiffchaff, Common Whitethroat, Blackcap, Skylark, Swallow, House Martin, Collared Dove, Mistle Thrush (Mark Mulrooney)
• Finchley "Garden N3": 9 Swift, House Martin, Kestrel, Peregrine, Grey Heron, Common Buzzard, Red Kite, Hobby (Samuel Levy)
• Harold Park Farm, Nazeing: 2 'Greenland' Wheatear at 0940 (Martin Shepherd)
• Honor Oak Park SE23 "garden": Red Kite harassed by 3 crows to the E, heading N towards Brockley, m Great Spotted Woodpecker on suet feeder, called 4 times (Paul Francis)
• Home Park: Red Kite high up harassed by Carrion Crow at 1115 (Mike Foster)
• Kingston Bridge: Common Tern (Spencer Neal)
• Limetrees Park Golf Course, Northolt: min 14 Red Kite [3 low over course & at one point 11 circling away from site], 2 Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel [across A40], 43 Herring Gull {3 spp damselfly, 2m1f Hairy Dragonfly, Downy Emerald, 5 recently emerged Four-spotted Chaser, 2 Small Heath, Burnet Companion} (Neil Anderson/Kathryn Bull/Martin Musselwhite)
• Lonsdale Road Reservoir: 25 Black-headed Gull catching insects near tops of willows, 2 Gadwall pair, 4 Pochard 2 pairs, 7 Mallard, inc a brood of 5 ducklings, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 5 Reed Warbler, 7 Blackcap, 1 Chiffchaff, Song Thrush, 6 Long-tailed Tit, 2 House Martin nearby (Franko J Maroevic)
• Long Lane Pasture: Singing Reed Warbler on main pond (Mark Fairless)
• Malden Rushett: 2 Red Kite, Sparrowhawk (Nigel Jackman)
• North Finchley: 3 Swift, Sparrowhawk, Greenfinch all over garden (John Colmans)
• Northolt & Greenford CP: 2 Red Kite [from Limetrees direction], 2 Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Swift, Swallow, 2 singing Lesser Whitethroat (Neil Anderson/Kathryn Bull)
• Orpington BR5: Cuckoo calling this morning, seen briefly, very scarce in this district (Charlie Carpenter)
• Richmond to Ham (Thames): 2 Common Sandpiper at 0615 (Peter Gray)
• Plumstead Common/Winns Common: Hobby1530 (George Kalli)
• Rotherhithe: 3 Common Sandpiper off Durand's Wharf 0830, 2 2cy Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Sand Martin, 2 Blackcap (Richard Bonser)
• Russia Dock Woodland: 7 Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff (Richard Bonser)
• Sewardstone Marsh: Cuckoo calling at 1200 (Martin Shepherd)
• Sidcup DA14 Garden 12.45: 5 Common Swift high, Sparrowhawk ( Bernie Weight)
• Stoneleigh KT17: Hobby NE over 1505, 14 Swift, 4 Greenfinch (Neil Batten)
• Sydenham SE26: First 2 Swift of the year seen - a small handful always comes to this postcode for the season (Terence Baker)
• Sydenham, Bell Green Pond: incl. singing Song Thrush, singing Blackcap, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Keith Chambers)
• Thames Barrier: 2 summer ad Mediterranean Gull over W at 1630; Peregrine (Ian Ellis)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 16 Chiffchaff, 26 Blackcap, 2 Goldcrest, 5 Swallow, Nuthatch, 2 Mistle Thrush, 32 Common Whitethroat, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 12 Stock Dove, Willow Warbler, 32 Rook, 2 Coot, 2 Bullfinch, Linnet, Red Kite, 3 Northern Lapwing, 2 Pied Wagtail, Collared Dove, Swift (Samuel Levy)
• Trent Park: 5m Mandarin Duck, 3 Stock Dove inc singing m, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 singing m Song Thrush, singing m Mistle Thrush, 5 singing m Common Whitethroat, m Garden Warbler singing, 7 singing m Blackcap, 8 Chiffchaff inc seven singing, m Goldcrest singing, Treecreeper singing, m Chaffinch singing {Comma, 3 Peacock, 5 Small Copper, Small Heath, 3m Orange-tip} (Robert Callf)

Egyptian Goose pair with brood of 18 goslings, Tagg's Island, 7 May 2020 (© Spencer Neal, 2020)

• TW12 2HA, Tagg's Island: Brood of 18 Egyptian Goose very young small goslings with parents, plus another brood with parents further upriver, 3 Barn Swallow (Spencer Neal) *I went back at 5pm to double-check my count up close and there are 18, presumed to be one brood after reading the species is not thought to crèche and can lay up to 22 eggs. (Brood of 18 recorded in Kenya). No sign of co-parenting. Goslings appeared to be same size. I have uploaded two photos onto the photo page. There was a case of brood amalgamation documented in Groningen (2014) I note,-the first time it has been observed- so ultimately difficult to be certain on whether a single brood or amalgamation . SpN
• Walthamstow Wetlands: Cuckoo heard briefly around 0715 around Lockwood Res, Hobby, Redshank EW still, 2 Common Sandpipers, 2 singing Lesser Whitethroat (Lol Bodini/Quentin Given); Sandwich Tern around 1200 flying north from Lockwood Reservoir (Rhys Evans)
• West Dulwich SE21: over garden 1m 1f Peregrine, 1 Buzzard mobbed by crows, 1 Swallow, 15 Swift (Paul Collins)

Wednesday 6th May 2020

• Abney Park Cemetery: m Tawny Owl calling 2147-2149 (Garry James)
• Alexandra Park: 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Common Whitethroat, 30+ Swift, Swallow N, House Martin, 2 Greylag Goose, Little Egret W, Peregrine (APOG Birders)
• Brockley, Barriedale Allotments: 9 Swift, singing Chiffchaff 1815 (Keith Chambers)
• Bushy Park: Common Buzzard, Cetti's Warbler, Little Egret, 2 Common Whitethroat, 7 Swift (Spencer Neal)
• Dartford Marsh: Yellowhammer W, 30+ Commic Tern downriver inc at least 4 Arctic Tern, 2 Little Egret, Cuckoo, 9 Reed Warbler, Garden Warbler, 5 Swallow W, c15 Swift (Phil Thompson)
• Upper Dollis Valley "Denham Farm": 11 Blackcap, 7 Chiffchaff, 4 Swift, 14 Common Whitethroat, 2 Bullfinch, 6 Swallow, Common Buzzard, Kestrel (Samuel Levy)
• Finsbury Park: Jackdaw over N, 60 Swift, 5m Red-crested Pochard, 2 Nuthatch, Sparrowhawk, Coal Tit singing, 3 Goldcrest singing, 2 Chiffchaff singing, 3 Blackcap singing (Niall T Keogh)
• Finchley "Garden N3": Sparrowhawk, 8 Swift, Cormorant, Swallow (Samuel Levy)
• Foots Cray Meadows 1 hr Walk PM: 12+ Blackcap, 8 Chiffchaff, 5 Whitethroat, 2 Greenfinch, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Green Woodpecker, 4 Chaffinch, 4 Goldfinch,14 Tufted Duck, 3 Gadwall, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Grey Wagtail (Bernie Weight)
• Greenford to Hanwell Zoo "Brent corridor": m Mandarin, Grey Heron, Common Buzzard, 3 Stock Dove, 2 Green Woodpecker, 7+ Swift, Nuthatch, 2 Common Whitethroat (Neil Anderson/Kathryn Bull)
• Greenwich: 10 Swift, 6 House Sparrow (Ray Crouch)
• Hampstead Heath: 6 Swallows N, 1 2cy Black-headed Gull NW (Pete Mantle)
• Hermitage Road-Upper Norwood: pr Collared Dove calling on roof, Swift-1st time walked down this road so not sure if doves long established (Michael Mac)
• Highams Park Lake: 13 nesting pairs Coot, 2pr Tufted Duck, Black-headed Gull, Herring Gull, Grey Wagtail, Stock Dove, Chiffchaff, 2 Swifts, f Mandarin with 3 chicks (Daniel Whitelegg)
• Hilly Fields, Lewisham: 12 Swift, Nuthatch 1700 (Keith Chambers)
• Honor Oak Park SE23 "garden": immature 1st winter Sparrowhawk over N, seen again shortly after mildly harassed by 5 Goldfinch, and then carrying prey, presumably a Goldfinch (Paul Francis)
• Horton Country Park: 2 Common Buzzard (Nigel Jackman)
• Keston: Willow Warbler singing (Martin Draper)
• Kingsbury, Roe Green Park: Swifts [first sighting of the year], Green Woodpecker (Mark Mulrooney)
• Lewisham Park: 22 Swift at 1820 (David Capper)
• Oakwood Park: 3 Coot pr & 1 chick, 4 Swift, m Lesser Whitethroat song-flighting, 11 Jackdaw {2 Large Red Damselfly mating, 5+ Mother Shipton, m Common Blue, Small Copper} (Robert Callf)
• Orpington BR5 Red Kite over garden mobbed by the resident pair of crows (Charlie Carpenter)
• Perivale UB6: 8-9 swifts over garden pm (Andrew Peel and Toni Menezes)
• Pinner HA5: 5 Swift (Nigel Barratt)
• Plumstead Common SE18 8 Common Swift over together heading N with purpose 1800 (Patrick English)
• Rainham RM13 garden: Hobby, Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 7 Swift, House Martin, Cormorant (Richard Harrison)
• Richmond Park: Common Sandpiper at Upper Pen Pond, Meadow Pipit, Lesser Whitethroat, small passage of Swallows (Hugh Bradshaw)
• Sewardstone Marsh: 5 Arctic Tern north at 0610, Cuckoo calling at 0805 (Martin Shepherd)
• Sidcup: The Hollies: 4 Blackcap, Chiffchaff, 3 Swift, Sparrowhawk, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Peregrine, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Nuthatch; Lamorbey Park - 2 Grey Wagtail (feasting on huge insect hatch), Coot [with 2 juvs], Grey Heron, Mistle Thrush (Eric Brown)
• Southfields, SW18: pale Common Buzzard high over garden heading S at 1530, 7 Common Swift (Martin Honey)
• Stoneleigh KT17: 12 Swift interacting over The Glade 1445 (Neil Batten)
• Sydenham, Bell Green Pond: incl. Song Thrush, Greenfinch, 2 singing Blackcap, singing Chiffchaff (Keith Chambers)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 20 Chiffchaff, 27 Blackcap, Bullfinch, 2 Little Owl, 30 Common Whitethroat, 13 Stock Dove, Goldcrest, Willow Warbler, 2 Coot, 6 Mandarin Duck, 32 Rook, Collared Dove, 2 Common Buzzard, 3 Pied Wagtail, 4 Lapwing, 3 Swallow, 2 Tufted Duck (Long Pond), Skylark [In song flight over Long Pond], 4 House Martin (Samuel Levy) Belmont Farm: 2 Blackcap (Samuel Levy)
• Totteridge Fields: 5 Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Swift, 5 Common Whitethroat, 2 Swallow, 2 Common Buzzard (Samuel Levy)
• Walthamstow Marshes: 2 Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, 2 Common Tern, 5 Common Whitethroat, 3 Reed Warbler, 5 Sedge Warbler, Swallow, 40 Swift (Mark Wardman); Wheatear, 2 Canada Goose, 3 Linnet [rear paddocks] (Jon Agar)
• Walthamstow Reservoirs: Common Redshank [East Warwick], 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Common Tern [No 4] (Alastair Dent); 2 Swallow N, 8 Reed Warbler singing, 4 Common Whitethroat singing (Daniel Whitelegg)
• Wanstead Flats: Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Swallow, 8 House Martin, 20+ Swift, 4 Pochard, n Wheatear, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: pr Hobby, pr Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 2 Reed Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Little Egret, Coal Tit,  30+ Swift (Wanstead Birders)
• Waterworks Reserve: 5 Pochard, 2 Little Grebe, Grey Heron, Cetti's Warbler, 4 Reed Warbler (3 singing), Blackcap, Whitethroat, Grey Wagtail (Tom Stuart)
• Worcester Park : 15 Swift interacting above Waitrose 1230 (Neil Batten)

Tuesday 5th May 2020

• Alexandra Park: Hobby, Common Buzzard, 2 Perine, 30+ Swift, Sand Martin, House Martin, 3 Swallow, 4 Greylag Goose, Common Whitethroat (APOG Birders)
• Barham Park,Wembley (HA0): 2 Swallow, 2 Swift, Chiffchaff and Blackcap (Shailesh Patel)
• Berrylands: female Peregrine over garden before stooping down into Hogsmill NR, 9 Swift (Nick Tanner)
• Brookmill Park: Blackcap, Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
• Bushy Park: singing Willow Warbler, 2 Common Whitethroat, Swift, Pheasant (Spencer Neal)
• Cornmill Gardens: Blackcap singing, hybrid Mallard with 9 chicks (Tom Moulton)
• Ealing W13: 3 Swift E, Swallow N over garden (Bill Haines)
• Edgwarebury Lane: Grey partridges, swallows, skylarks (Mark Mulrooney)
• Greenford "UB6": 2 Red Kite, Common Buzzard (different to nearby country park bird which had several tail feathers missing), Peregrine, 3 Swift all over garden (Neil Anderson)
• Highams Park Lake: Willow Warbler singing, f Mandarin with 4 chicks, pr Gadwall, 2 Stock Dove, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Green Woodpecker, 3 Tufted Duck (Daniel Whitelegg)
• Home Park: about 20 Swift, about 20 Sand Martin, Skylark over Rick Pond at 1130 (Mike Foster)
• Horton Country Park: Tree Pipit (Bob Smith)
• Lamorbey Park "Sidcup": 8 Egyptian Goose [4 yng], Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Tufted Duck [pr], 2 Stock Dove, 100+ Woodpigeon, 2 Grey Wagtail [pr], singing Song Thrush, 2 Mistle Thrush [pr], 3 singing Blackcap, 3 singing Chiffchaff (Mike Amos)
• Lewisham, Orchard Estate, SE13: 7 Swift n, Blackcap singing in nearby garden (Conrad Ellam)
• Lewisham Park: 2 Swift, Stock Dove (David Capper)
• Malden Rushett: 3 Red Kite (Bob Smith)
• North Finchley: 2 Swift over garden (John Colmans)
• Northolt & Greenford CP: Common Buzzard, 4 Swift, Swallow, f Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Common Whitethroat, 14 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, Reed Warbler, 5 Linnet (Neil Anderson/Kathryn Bull)
• Picketts Lock: Spotted Flycatcher in willows briefly (A Middleton)
• Plumstead Common, SE18: Common Swift so far (Patrick English)
• Plumstead Common/Winns Common, SE18: 4 Common Swift (George Kalli)
• Richmond Park: Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Northern Wheatear and 2 Whinchat - also what seemed to be a possible White Stork flying over the northern edge of the park at 0940 - unconfirmed (Alex Westenberger)
• Rotherhithe: 4 Gadwall upriver at Durand's Wharf 0745, Egyptian Goose, Peregrine, Black-headed Gull E, Common Gull [1st-summer], 2 Blackcap (Richard Bonser), Common Sandpiper, Lesser Whitethroat Surrey Water (Richard Page-Jones)
• Russia Dock Woodland: 8 Swallow low W, 2 Chiffchaff, 8 Blackcap, 2 Jay (Richard Bonser), Willow Warbler Stave Hill (Richard Page-Jones)
• St Paul's Cray: 9+ Swift mostly N over Sevenoaks Way (Jack Headley)
• Stoneleigh KT17: singing Lesser Whitethroat am, 2 Swift, 2 Coal Tit, 3 Black-headed Gull E (Neil Batten)
• Swanley Park: 7 Canada Goslings, first breeding success since 2011, 4 Lesser Black-backed Gull, Common Whitethroat, Blackcap, Song Thrush feeding young, 4 Grey Wagtail, Swift, Swallow, House Martin (Andy Meaton)
• Syon Park, River Thames: Kingfisher flew downriver 1850 (Franko J Maroevic)
• Thames Barrier: 3 Common Tern, 3 Oystercatcher, Great Crested Grebe (Ian Ellis)
• Upper College Farm "Bexley" seen or heard: 6 Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff, 10 Common Whitethroat, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 5 Skylark, 4 Black-headed Gull, Cetti's Warbler, 5 Canada Goose, 3 Greylag Goose, 2 Egyptian Goose, Grey Heron, 2 Goldfinch, (Bernie Weight)
• Walthamstow Marshes: Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Swallow, 6 Linnet rear paddocks, Lesser Whitethroat on Flood Relief Channel nearby (Alastair Dent)
• Wanstead Flats: Willow Warbler, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, c20 Whitethroat territories, 20+ Swift, 4 Swallow, 4 House Martin, Meadow Pipit, 3 Skylark, 7 Pochard [4m], 2 Gadwall, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon (Wanstead Birders)
• Woodford Green: 2 Swallow, and 2 Swift distant and on high momentarily buzzed by a NW bound Yellow Wagtail (Ken Murray)
• Watermeadows Open Space: 4 Greylag Goose S, 2 Egyptian Goose, Cormorant, 2 House Martin N 06.40, 3 Song Thrush, 7 Blackcap, singing Chiffchaff (Jack Headley)

Monday 4th May 2020

• Alexandra Park: Red Kite, 4 Common Buzzard, 2 Peregrine, 2 Greylag Goose, Linnet N, 10+ Swift, 2 Swallow N, House Martin (APOG Birders)
• Beam Valley Country Park: Cuckoo m, 13 Common Whitethroat, 2 Willow Warbler, Reed Warbler (Matthew See)
• Berrylands garden: 6 Swift E at 2030, two screaming, 4 silent [FOY] (Nick Tanner)
• Blackwall Way E14: Common Whitethroat singing near Radisson Hotel (Sean Huggins)
• Brent Reservoir: 4 Greylag Goose, Red Kite, Common Buzzard, 4 Common Tern, Sedge Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Warbler (Andrew Self)
• Brockwell Park: 7 Swifts over top pond - 2 joined/mated in flight (Michael Mac)
• Bromley "BR2": Stock Dove on garden fence 0750 (Martin Draper)
• Brookmill Park: Kingfisher, 3 Blackcap (Conrad Ellam)
• Bushy Park: Red-crested Pochard brood of 1 still, 7 Skylark, 2 Shelduck (Spencer Neal)
• Clapham Old Town: Swift around Maritime House nest site, hour before dusk-foy? (Michael Mac)
• Crown Point/Norwood: 2 Jackdaw displaying highup-circling, then suddenly started stooping at high speed and not sure if a Peregrine involved as display went behind buildings (Michael Mac)
• Dagenham Chase: Nightingale singing 1420-1530 at least (Matthew See)
• East India Dock Basin: Reed Warbler singing, 4 Shelduck (Sean Huggins)
• Finchley: Garden N3 - 45 Swift (34N in tight spiralling flock 1130, 11 Local), 2 Kestrel, 2 Sparrowhawk, 10 Common Buzzard, Red Kite, Hobby, 2 House Martin (Samuel Levy)
• Gillespie Park: Red Kite high west at 0915 (David Bradshaw)
• Greenford to Hanwell Zoo "Brent Corridor": Grey Heron, 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Red Kite, Hobby, posing m Kingfisher, 5 Swift, 2 Swallow, 2 Common Whitethroat (Neil Anderson)
• Greenway: 3 Sand Martin, f Common Whitethroat, 2 singing Blackcap (Harry Harrison)
• Hampstead Heath: 2 Reed Warbler boating pond, 2 Common Tern men's pond and 3rd over cohens field, 4 Linnet over, 4 Swift, 2 Buzzard, possible Sand Martin (Jamie Cedar); “1200-1315” Hobby N, 2 Buzzard E, 2 Swallow, 7 Swift, 2 Kestrel, 1 Sparrowhawk, Common Whitethroat, Reed Warbler still (Reuben Braddock) [Saw the Hobby after speaking to you about it Ben! Reuben]
• Honeydale Farm "Ruxley": Greenland Wheatear, 20+ House Martin, 5 Swallow, 25+ Linnet, 15 Pied Wagtail, 2+ singing Skylark (Jack Headley)
• Lamorbey Park "Sidcup": 6 Egyptian Goose [4 yng], 100+ Woodpigeon, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 singing Blackcap, Chiffchaff in evening visit (Mike Amos)
• Lewisham: Common Buzzard NE over Smead Way 1743, 3 Swift (John Archer)
• Margravine Cemetery: Stock Dove, 12 Long-tailed Tit [9 fledglings & 3 adults] (Nathalie Mahieu)
• North Finchley: Swift [first here this year - three days earlier than last year] (John Colmans)
• Pinner HA5: Red Kite harried away from crow nest site, Common Buzzard, 3 Swift, Coal Tit (Nigel Barratt)
• Richmond Park: fem Wheatear, 2 Whinchat [including a fully leucistic bird], Lesser Whitethroat, Peregrine (Hugh Bradshaw); Stonechat, Hobby [first of year] - north of Pen Ponds 1915 (Tim Vine)
• Rotherhithe: Lesser Whitethroat singing Durand's Wharf, Common Tern Greenland Dock, 3 Black-headed Gull W, Chaffinch (Richard Bonser)
• Russia Dock Woodland: 4 Chiffchaff, 9 Blackcap, Common Tern over (Richard Bonser)
• Sewardstone: Greenshank north calling at 0610, Mistle Thrush (Martin Shepherd)
• Sidcup: The Hollies: 10 Swifts, first I've seen here this year appeared in group of three [very high], then lower group of five, then two — Swifts first seen here on exactly the same date last year, singing Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Stock Dove, Peregrine {3 Holly Blue, Peacock, Large White} (Eric Brown)
• Stoke Newington Reservoirs: Red Kite, 30+ Swift, Sand Martin, 2 Grey Wagtail (Garry James)
• Stoneleigh Broadway KT17: 3 Common Swift, male Sparrowhawk hunting local Starlings, male Grey Wagtail singing from roof of shops. Noticeable increase in House Sparrows over entire Stoneleigh area (Neil Batten)
• Sutcliffe Park: 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 2 Reed Warbler (P Kite)
• Swanley Park: pr Egyptian Goose & 8 almost fully grown goslings. Also, Grey Wagtail (Jack Headley)
• Teddington: 3 Swift (Ian R Watson)
• Thames Barrier: 10 Whimbrel flew upriver in 3 groups [4 at 0954, 3 at 0956, 3 at 1008]; 3 adult Kittiwake circling then drifted high NW at 1735; 2 Swallow, 40 Black-headed Gull, 2 Linnet, Grey Wagtail (Ian Ellis)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 17 Chiffchaff, 20 Blackcap, 3 Coal Tit, 7 Swift, 19 Stock Dove, 3 Goldcrest, 39 Common Whitethroat, Pied Wagtail, 32 Rook, 4 Lapwing, 2 Mandarin Duck, Yellow Wagtail over Cow Field, m Firecrest, Willow Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Coot, Common Buzzard, House Martin, Mistle Thrush. (Samuel Levy)
• Trent Park: 13 Canada Goose 8 ad & 5 yng, 4m Mandarin Duck, 2 Red Kite together, m Garden Warbler singing, 1+ m Firecrest singing [mobile & elusive - possibly two birds], 2 Long-tailed Tit pr carrying food (Robert Callf)
• Victoria Park: 7 Linnet, 5 House Sparrow, first of both species for a while perhaps because grass is unmown (Harry Harrison); 5 Swifts, 2 Pochard, Red Crested Pochard, Great Crested Grebe, 3 singing Blackcap, 1 singing Chiffchaff (Jan Dobbie)
• Kilburn: Red Kite 1050 circling high tending south (Gavin Johnson)
• Walthamstow Marshes: Common Whitethroat, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Canada Goose, 3 Linnet, Little Egret (Jon Agar)
• Worcester Park: Northern Wheatear female (Charlie Alpera per Bob Smith)

Sunday 3rd May 2020

• Alexandra Park: Whimbrel heard flying N 0840, m Common Whitethroat, 2 Greylag Goose, Peregrine, 4+ Swift (APOG Birders)
• Barham Park, Wembley (HA0): 2 Swift, 2 Mistle Thrush and Chiffchaff (Shailesh Patel)
• Beckenham Place Park: female Mandarin with duckling (Ed Bennett via A. Self)
• Bromley "BR2": Common Buzzard 1318-1320 drifting SE (Martin Draper)
• Bushy Park: Cetti's Warbler, 5 Swallow, 2 Common Whitethroat, 13 Chiffchaff, 19 Blackcap, 5 Song Thrush, 4 Mistle Thrush, Grey Wagtail, 3 Nuthatch, Treecreeper, 4 Skylark, 7 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Green Woodpecker (Spencer Neal)
• Brent Reservoir: 6 Greylag Goose, Common Sandpiper, 3 Common Tern, Swallow, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Reed Bunting (Andrew Self)
• Crayford Marshes: 2cy Little Gull downriver in evening, 40+ Swift, 2 Egyptian Goose, 7+ Common Whitethroat, singing Lesser Whitethroat, Whimbrel, 4 Oystercatcher, 4 Avocets in Aveley Bay, 21 Common Tern, 2 Cuckoo Marsh Harrier, 3+ singing Skylark, 6+ Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Common Sandpiper (Jack Headley)
• Dartford Marsh: Grasshopper Warbler singing, 4 Cuckoo, at least 9 Skylark, 2 Whimbrel, Lapwing displaying, Little Ringed Plover displaying over gravel works, 10+ Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Common Sandpiper (Phil Thompson)
• Denham Lock Wood: Cuckoo (Dan Pinkham)
• Foots Cray Meadows pm: 14 Blackcap, 11 Chiffchaff, 7 Song Thrush, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, 2 Greenfinch, 4 Goldfinch, 4 Chaffinch, 2 Black-headed Gull, 19 Tufted Duck, 3 Gadwall 2m 1f (Bernie Weight)
• Gutteridge Wood: 2 singing Nightingale, Willow Warbler, Garden Warbler (Neil Anderson); also Bullfinch, Sedge Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Little Egret, 2 Swallow (Nigel Dodd); Cuckoo, Reed Warbler, Red Kite, Buzzard, 4 Blackcap, 3 Common Whitethroat, 5 Chiffchaff, Song Thrush, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker,  2 Stock Dove (Deiniol Owen) 
• Hampstead Heath: Cuckoo, calling 0612-0615, not heard afterwards (Matt Evans); Where was the cuckoo? Jamie - Hi Jamie, I [and other walkers and dog walkers] heard it when I was by the Men’s Pond, it was south-west of there - Matt; 3 Common Terns mobile across various ponds early morning, 1 Common Whitethroat (Tom Jordan); 15 Swift over and 3 Common Terns still mid-morning (Jamie Cedar)
• Pinner HA5: Red Kite (Nigel Barratt)
• Rotherhithe: 1 Oystercatcher upriver past Old Salt Quay 1445, 2 House Martin (Richard Bonser), Reed Warbler singing at Canada Water (Richard Bonser, Richard Page-Jones)
• Richmond Park: 11 Northern Wheatear [including 7 together at Holly Lodge Paddocks], Lesser Whitethroat, 2 pairs of Stonechat with fledged young (Hugh Bradshaw); Common Tern, Red Kite, 3 Swallow, Swift, Whinchat, 3 Common Whitethroat, 12 Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Skylark, 4 Reed Bunting (Andrew Boylan)
• Ruislip Lido: 2 Common Tern, Grey Wagtail, Grey Heron, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Whitethroat, Green Woodpecker (Sean Moore)
• Russia Dock Woodland: 1 Lesser Whitethroat (singing), 3 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap (Richard Bonser, Richard Page-Jones)
• Stoneleigh KT17: Black Kite E 1650 about 600 feet up all dark six primary fingers triangular tail (Neil Batten)
• Ten Acre Wood area: 8 Pheasant [inc 3 seen], Sparrowhawk, 10 Stock Dove, Grey Wagtail, Pied Wagtail, 7 Skylark, 2 Wheatear, 22 Blackcap, 18 Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, 9 Chiffchaff, singing Goldcrest, 4 Rook, 4 Reed Bunting, 3+ Linnet {2 Fox} (Neil Anderson); also 2 Swallow, Sedge Warbler, m Kestrel, 2 Buzzard, Red Kite (Nigel Dodd); Little Egret (Deiniol Owen)
• Thames Barrier: 19 Mute Swan, 5 Swift (Ian Ellis)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 2 Mandarin Duck, 15 Stock Dove, Collared Dove, 3 Swift, Coot, 4 Lapwing, Sparrowhawk, Red Kite, 2 Common Buzzard, 32 Rook, Coal Tit, 4 Swallow, 3 House Martin, 21 Chiffchaff, 28 Blackcap, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 40 Common Whitethroat, 4 Goldcrest, m Firecrest [Owl Field], Nuthatch, 6 Starling, 3 Mistle Thrush, 4 House Sparrow [Frith Riding Stables], 2 Grey Wagtail with fledged young near Substation, Pied Wagtail, 2 Bullfinch, 2 Linnet, 2 Greenfinch, m Reed Bunting (Old Gropper) (Samuel Levy)
• Walthamstow Marshes: 2 Whinchat Bomb Crater Field, Garden Warbler singing Horseshoe Thicket, 16 Sand Martin Leyton Marsh/Lee Navigation (Alastair Dent)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: Arctic Tern, 10 Common Tern, 40 Swifts, 3 Common Sandpiper, 3m Reed Bunting, 5 Whitethroat, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Great Black-backed Gull inc 2 prs, 10 House Martin, Northern Wheatear (Walthamstow Birders)
• Wanstead Flats: f Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 7 House Martin, 8 Swift, 3 Skylark, 3 Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, pr Hobby, 4 Pochard (3m), 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Linnet (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: 2 Reed Warbler, 9-10 m Whitethroat, 30+ Swift, Little Egret, Kingfisher, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Peregrine Falcon, Hobby, Rook (Wanstead Birders)
• Worcester Park: Wood Warbler (Chris Northwood per Bob Smith)
• Wormwood Scrubs: 5 Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, 5 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Meadow Pipit collecting nesting material, Red Kite briefly 1000 before going north (Francis O'Sullivan)

Saturday 2nd May 2020

• Alexandra Park: Common Buzzard, Willow Warbler, 2m Common Whitethroat, 3 Swift, Linnet, 2 Greylag (APOG Birders)
• Balham: Hobby W over Thornton Ave at 1215, 2 Buzzard W at 1620 (Balham Birder); Red Kite, 19 Swift, Swallow, House Martin, 2 Sand Martin over W 1230-1430 (Nick Rutter)
• Brent Reservoir: 62 species including 4 Greylag Geese, 2 Little Egret, Common Buzzard, 2 Common Sandpiper, 5 Black-headed Gull, 3 Common Tern, 50+ Swift, 6 House Martin, Swallow, 5 Cetti's Warbler, 7 Reed Warbler, 3 Sedge Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 10 Common Whitethroat, 31 Blackcap, 12 Chiffchaff, 2 Reed Bunting (Brent Birders)
• Bushy Park: 6 Chiffchaff, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Reed Bunting, 3 Shelduck, 6 Skylark, 13 Swift, Whinchat, Whitethroat (Ian R Watson)
• Clapham Common-Eagle Pond area: 3 Swift, m House Sparrow, at dusk still no swifts at Clapham Old Town nest sites (Michael Mac)
• Dalston: 2 Swift (Jon Agar)
• Finsbury Park: 2 adult Mediterranean Gulls circling high N and calling (Ian Bradshaw)
• Finchley: Garden N3 - 4 Swift, 2 Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, Common Buzzard, Kestrel, Grey Wagtail (Samuel Levy)
• Frays Farm Meadows LWT: Grasshopper Warbler still near main Wood entrance (Dan Pinkham)
• Fulham/Putney - two Shelducks flying up-river on Thames at circa 11am (Thomas Donegan).
• Greenwich Ecology Park: 2 Swift, Swallow, 6 Sand Marting, 2 Blackcap, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Reed Warbler, Chiffchaff, Reed Bunting pair, Whimbrel flew upriver after circling, flew over a corner of the Ecology Park (Conrad Ellam & Richard Green)
• Gutteridge Wood: Nightingale singing mid-afternoon (Steve Dungey)
• Hampstead Heath: Hobby circling South Meadow then W, Lesser Whitethroat (Jamie Cedar & Ben Gibb); also 2 Common Whitethroat, Sparrowhawk, House Martin N (Jamie Cedar).
• Highgate N6: Hobby N [first flat record!], 3 Buzzard over, Linnet N, 50+ Swift, Blackcap, 4 Greenfinch over, Sparrowhawk over (Jamie Cedar)
• Larkhall Park-Stockwell: House Sparrow chicks in tree hole, singing Blackcap (Michael Mac)
• Middlesex Filter Beds: Reed Warbler singing in the bed nearest the Marshes gate - just hanging on here despite there hardly being any water any more, 2 Grey Wagtail on the river [adult feeding juvenile], Common Buzzard overhead mobbed by crows (Alastair Dent)
• Mitcham Common (Golf Course): 3 Swift, Common Buzzard, f Pheasant running like roadrunner, 150 Jackdaw roost I assume non-breeding. 50 Starling; Scrub area- 8 Whitethroat, 8 Blackcap, Chiffchaff - in less than half common (Michael Mac)
• Mudchute Farm: Sedge Warbler singing (Sean Huggins)
• Pinner Green HA5: Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, Red Kite, 6 Swift (Sean Moore)
• Priest hill: 1 singing Yellowhammer, 13 Common Whitethroat, 7 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Grey Wagtail,  2 Common Buzzard,  2 Sparrowhawk,  9 Skylark. Absolutely no Gulls for first time I can remember! (Neil Batten)
• Ravenscourt Park W6 - one light-phased Common Buzzard over at circa 1530 flying west and being mobbed by Carrion Crows - first time seen at this site or in this area (Thomas Donegan)
• Richmond Park: Lesser Whitethroat still near Cambrian Gate, Northern Wheatear on Lawn Field (Alex Westenberger)
• Russia Dock Woodland: 1 Willow Warbler (singing) at Russia Walk/footpath to Greenland Dock 0815, House Martin, Buzzard E 1800, 4 Chiffchaff, 12 Blackcap (Richard Bonser); Reed Warbler Stave Hill (Richard Page-Jones)
• Sewardstone Marsh: 2 Barnacle Goose north calling at 0728, 2 Cuckoo further south, Hobby south down reservoir bank at 0855 (Martin Shepherd)
• Stoneleigh KT17: 5 Common Swift, Common Buzzard, Grey Wagtail, Coal Tit, 15 Common Swift over 1900 (Neil Batten)
• Thames Barrier: 2cy Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Swallow, 3 Sand Martin, 3 Great Black-backed Gull, 14 Shelduck, Chiffchaff, Linnet, pair Mistle Thrush with hatched young in nest (Ian Ellis)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 29 Blackcap, 25 Chiffchaff, 3 Goldcrest, House Martin, 7 Swallow, 20 Stock Dove, Little Owl, 41 Common Whitethroat, 5 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Bullfinch, Garden Warbler, 3 Grey Heron, 32 Rook, Coot, Willow Warbler, 2 Linnet, 2 Swift (FOY), Lapwing, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Pied Wagtail. (Samuel Levy) 3 Lapwing, 2 Common Buzzard (Nigel Taylor)
• Upper College Farm "Bexley" Seen or heard: 12 Common Whitethroat, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Greenfinch, 6 Goldfinch, 4 Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Pied Wagtail, Green Woodpecker, 6 Skylark, 2 Chaffinch, Grey Heron, Swallow, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Linnet, Kestrel, 8 Canada Goose (Bernie Weight).
• Walthamstow E17: Osprey over West at 1215 (Kirsty McNeil per Lol Bodini)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: 3 Arctic Terns, Hobby, 2 Common Buzzard, 3 Lesser Whitethroat (Walthamstow Birders).
• Wanstead Flats: sub-adult m Whinchat and f Whinchat still, 6 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 10 Swift, 5 Meadow Pipit [2 possibly from first fledged brood], Yellow Wagtail, 2 Skylark, Lesser Whitethroat, Yellow-legged Gull, Buzzard, Kestrel (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: 3m Pochard (Tony Brown)

Friday 1st May 2020

• Alexandra Park: 5+ Swift, 4+ Swallow, Sand Martin, Common Buzzard, Peregrine, 2 Little Egret, 3m Common Whitethroat (APOG Birders)
• Brent Reservoir: 2 Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Linnet (Andrew Self)
• Brixton Road: Swift (Michael Mac)
• Bushy Park: Red-crested Pochard duckling with parents still, 5 Swallow, 2 Common Whitethroat, 13 Blackcap, 7 Chiffchaff, Little Egret, 2 Shelduck, 6 Skylark, 6 Green Woodpecker, 5 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Spencer Neal)
• Lake Farm Country Park, Hayes: Whinchat m in song (Dave Morris per FJM)
• Lonsdale Road Reservoir: 2 Common Tern, 7 Tufted Duck, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Reed Warbler, 5 Blackcap (Franko J Maroevic)
• Pepys Park, Deptford: Common Sandpiper on River Thames off Pepys Park/Convoys Wharf, 2 Blackcap (Richard Bonser)
• Fryent CP: Little Egret, Red Kite, Kestrel, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Nuthatch (Andrew Self)
• Finchley: Garden N3 - Moorhen 0432, 2 Canada Geese 0553 [1st Garden Record] (Samuel Levy)
• Hackney Marshes: 2 Common Sandpipers, 2 Grey Wagtails (Marcin Kempa)
• Honeydale Farm "Ruxley": 2 Greenland Wheatear in horse paddocks, 3+ singing Skylark, 2 Pied Wagtail, 5+ Linnet, 1st returning breeding Swallow of year (Jack Headley)
• Poplar, E14: Peregrine, 6 House Martin nests [not all occupied] Dunbar Wharf (Sean Huggins)
• Richmond Park, Ham Cross 0745: 8 Swift moving west flying low & feeding, also 5+ Thrush variously around same area (J & M Penberthy); Cuckoo, Common Sandpiper, 5 Common Terns, Red Kite (P Davies)
• Rotherhithe: 3 Shelduck east along River Thames 0840 from Greenland Pier, 1st-summer Yellow-legged Gull Greenland Dock, 8 Lesser Black-backed Gull, Willow Warbler singing Pearsons Park/Durand's Wharf, Chaffinch, Common Tern, 8 Black-headed Gull, 1st-summer Common Gull (Richard Bonser)
• Ruislip Lido: Grey Wagtail, Swallow, House Martin, Sand Martin, Egyptian Goose, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Willow Warbler, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Garden Warbler, Little Egret, Grey Heron (Sean Moore)
• Russia Dock Woodland: 6 Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Greenfinch (Richard Bonser)
• St Paul's Cray: Swift N 1740 FOY (Jack Headley)
• Thames Barrier: Whimbrel over at 1545; 6 Swift [FOY], Peregrine, 5 Oystercatcher (Ian Ellis)
• Totteridge Valley "south of Darlands": Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Whitethroat, 8 Chiffchaff, 13 Blackcap (John Colmans)
• Trent Park: m Firecrest singing & preening in holly edge Rough Lot nr Obelisk 1303-1319 (Robert Callf); also observed between 1040-1130 at same location (Pete Lowman/Bob Husband)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: f Wheatear, Green Woodpecker, 10 Common Tern, 3 Lesser Whitethroat (Rhys Evans)
• Wanstead Flats: f Whinchat still, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, Sand Martin, 3 House Martin, 5 Swift, 2 Meadow Pipit [inc one carrying either food or a faecal sac], Kestrel, 2 Sparrowhawk, 5 Skylark, 2 Linnet (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: Hobby, 2 Swift, 2 Reed Warbler, Grey Wagtail (Rob Sheldon)
• West Dulwich: Swift (Paul Collins)
• Wimbledon Common: Garden Warbler, m Wheatear (Jon Reeves)
• Yeading Brook Meadows: 2 Little Egret, 2 Red Kite, Kestrel, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Swift, Skylark, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, 8 Common Whitethroat, 23 Blackcap, 6 Chiffchaff, 7+ Greenfinch (Neil Anderson)

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