September 2021

Bird of the Month: Pectoral Sandpiper

A juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper — but NOT the bird seen at London Wetland Centre because no one has bothered to upload an image of it to this wiki. (Photo credit: Kaaren Perry on Visualhunt)

London has offered few rarities to entice twitchers since before the pandemic. I recall a Temminck’s Stint at Amwell NR for a week in August last year and a Ring-necked Duck at Holyfield Lake for a fortnight in April this year, but otherwise the more exciting birds have not hung around to be tickable — leaving tick-hunters ticked off.

But at last a rare vagrant has stayed long enough for any enthusiast to see it. This was the juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper that showed itself regularly at London Wetland Centre for 18 days, from the 12th to the 29th.

Although Pec Sand is now a near-annual vagrant in London, this bird is our first in three years. And it has distinguished itself by lingering longer than any previous Pec in London. It is part of an unusual influx into western Europe, with at least 80 birds recorded in the UK and Ireland this month.

(London’s first recorded Pec was shot at Brent Reservoir in 1846 but only came to light when its stuffed skin was sold as part of a taxidermy collection 45 years later. The next London sighting was not until 1950, but since then this scarce passage migrant from North America or Siberia has been recorded increasingly frequently in autumn. A major influx in 2003 brought more than 260 Pecs into Britain and Ireland, and records from half a dozen London sites in September that year include one unfortunate bird eaten by a Hobby.)

Other notable waders

• A juvenile Ruff took a liking to Brent Reservoir and stayed from the 12th to the 29th; others were seen occasionally at London Wetland Centre and RSPB Rainham Marshes.
• A Little Stint was at Brent Reservoir on the 5th and another, or the same bird, was seen daily from the 14th to the 20th. There were also reports from Walthamstow Wetlands and King George V Reservoir.
• A Spotted Redshank was sound-recorded over a Woodford Green garden shortly before midnight on the 9th.

Other water-loving birds

• Brent Reservoir’s intriguing Ruddy Shelduck, first seen on 5th Aug, remained there throughout September.
• Also at Brent Reservoir, the Garganey first reported on 28th Aug hung around until 13th Sep, while the bird first seen at London Wetland Centre on 22nd Aug was still there until 27th Sep. A Garg was also reported at RSPB Rye Meads on the 20th.
• A Common Scoter was briefly at Walthamstow Wetlands on the 1st.
• The Wanstead Flats Black-necked Grebe — first reported as long ago as early May — was still present at least until 27th Sep.
• A juvenile Gannet was at Hilfield Park Reservoir on the afternoon of the 26th and one was seen on the same day at Wanstead Flats (perhaps the same bird — but difficult to tell because the time of observation at Wanstead was not recorded on this wiki).
• RSPB Rainham Marshes was the go-to site for pelecaniforms throughout September, when on various dates it hosted one or two Cattle Egret, up to three Great (White) Egret and up to 36 Little (white) Egret. On the 17th a Spoonbill was also present. And London’s first Bittern since mid-March was recorded just across the Thames at Crossness on the 1st.
• A Great Skua was seen on the Thames at Swanscombe Marshes on the 4th.
• A few Little Gull, Arctic Tern, Black Tern and Sandwich Tern passed through London early in the month. On the 14th an impressive flock of more than 100 Sandwich Tern hung around the Thames Barrier for half an hour or so before moving on.
• A Guillemot was seen on the Thames at West Thurrock on the 18th, and a Puffin was reported flying over London Wetland Centre on the 23rd.

Birds of prey

• September being peak month for passage Common Buzzard, there were plenty of records this month, most notably 23 birds in a single movement over Wanstead Flats on the 6th — apparently equalling the London record.
• Rarer raptors included a Honey Buzzard east over RSPB Rainham Marshes on the 3rd and another circling over Greenford on the 5th.
• A Goshawk soared over Crystal Palace on the 4th.

Near-passerines

• A Wryneck was reported at Harold Hill on the 3rd and another at Wanstead Flats from the 4th to the 6th — in a week when at least 125 were logged at various sites across Britain. (Over recent years, Wanstead Flats has been a popular site for Wryneck, with records in 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2015 that may well all have involved the same bird annually taking a few days’ break from its migration. Since the lifespan of the species is only 5–10 years, this year’s visitor is likely to be a different bird.)

Passerines

• Wanstead Flats had a great day for passage passerines on the 5th, with no fewer than two Spotted Flycatcher, four Pied Flycatcher, two Common Redstart, four Whinchat, two Stonechat, four Wheatear, eight Yellow Wagtail and a Tree Pipit. But the record sighting for Yellow Wagtail this month was the 29 counted in Totteridge Valley’s Cow Field on the 15th.
• A Firecrest in Sidcup on the 7th was the first London record since 10th May. Further sightings came later in the month at Totteridge Valley, Oxleas Wood, Petts Wood and Greenwich Park.
• A Fieldfare at Woolwich Common on the 23rd was the autumn’s first (but still more than a month later than London’s earliest record, at Brent Reservoir on 19th Aug 1984).  
• Two Black Redstart were seen at Guildhall on the 13th and 20th.

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

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Thursday 30th September 2021

• Brent Reservoir: f Ruddy Shelduck, 3 Lapwing, 5 Snipe, 54 Meadow Pipit (Andrew Self)
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juvs, 27 Tufted Duck 9 m & 18 f/imm, Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 16+ Barn Swallow, 25+ House Martin, 9 Meadow Pipit, 3 f Stonechat together at one site, 3 Chiffchaff, Goldcrest (Robert Callf)
• Foots Cray Meadows: 3 Grey Wagtail, 17 Pied Wagtail, 3 Chiffchaff, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Little Grebe, 7 Gadwall, 2 Egyptian Goose, 36 Canada Goose, 2 Tufted Duck, 12 Black-headed Gull (Bernie Weight)
• Greenwich Park: Firecrest (Joe Beale)
• Hampstead Heath “1230-1330”: Stonechat [Tumulus], 3 Meadow Pipit, 25 House Martin, 6 Barn Swallow feeding low over Parliament Hill (Reuben Braddock)
• Lamorbey Park: 6 Egyptian Geese, Peregrine, 20+ House Martin, Grey Wagtail, Goldcrest (Ian Stewart)
• Lee Valley, Holyfield Hall Farm: Peregrine on pylon (Mike Oakland)
• Lee Valley, Seventy Acres Lake: Bittern seen in front of the WDC at 1015 before flying across the lake to the large reedbed on the other side. Also, 2 Water Rail, Caspian Gull, 30 Barnacle Geese (Mike Oakland)
• Sidcup DA15 “York Avenue”: Great Spotted Woodpecker, 10+ House Martin NE (Ian Stewart)
• Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 7 House Martin, 11 Swallow, 3 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 4 Teal, Grey Wagtail, 3 Rook, c250 Starling {Muntjac Deer} (John Colmans)
• Trent Park: Cormorant, f Northern Shoveler, 2 m Common Pochard, 7 f/imm Tufted Duck, Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 3 Mistle Thrush, 7 Chiffchaff inc six near Water Grdn (Robert Callf)
• Upper College Farm Bexley : 5 Jay, 2 Kestrel, 3 Chiffchaff, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Little Egret (Bernie Weight)
• Walthamstow Marshes: 12 House Martin, Hobby menacing the Martins, Wheatear, 3 Meadow Pipit (D Beadle)

Wednesday 29th September 2021

• Beaverwood: Chiffchaff (Ian Stewart)
• Brent Reservoir: f Ruddy Shelduck, Ruff, 3 Lapwing, 4 Snipe (Andrew Self); Green Sandpiper, 2 Egyptian Goose (Barry Wilson)
• Chislehurst Ponds: Tufted Duck, 2 Kingfisher, Nuthatch (Ian Stewart/Jack Headley)
• Ealing "W13": 3+ Sandwich Tern sound recorded over garden at 21:30. (Bill Haines)
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juvs, 31 Tufted Duck, Red Kite, Common Buzzard, Kestrel, 6 Black-headed Gull flew over, Green Woodpecker, 10+ Barn Swallow, 6 House Martin, 4 Meadow Pipit, m Stonechat perched on fencing, 4 Chiffchaff {Red Admiral} (Robert Callf)
• Hampstead Heath ”Parliament Hill am”: Stonechat, 4 Barn Swallow, 6 House Martin [plus a group feeding over Pryors Field in the evening], 10 Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 2 Shoveler [at Hampstead ponds] (Hampstead Heath Birders) “little bridge” [Bird bridge?] Grey Wagtail (DT)
• High Barnet: Raven flew over my house calling [near Barnet Hospital] [first time ever seen one here] (Geoff Crabtree)
• Lamorbey Park: Kingfisher, Chiffchaff (Ian Stewart)
• Leatherhead, Randalls Way: ad Lesser Black-backed Gull SW, 2 Common Buzzard, Grey Wagtail, Red Kite very low N (Neil Batten)
• London Wetland Centre: Pectoral Sandpiper [now on wader scrape], Yellow Wagtail, Snipe, Little Egret (Nick Esse)
• Oxleas Wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 3 Nuthatch, Firecrest, Kestrel, Buzzard, 3 Jackdaw (Ron Turner)
• Petts Wood: m Pheasant, 4 Green Woodpecker, 2+ Chiffchaff, 3 Firecrest, Rook (Ian Stewart/Jack Headley)
• Richmond Park: Raven, 2 Little Egret (P Pentek), Wheatear (J Wilczur)
• Trent Park: 2 Northern Shoveler, 10 Tufted Duck, Common Buzzard, 11 Mistle Thrush field E of Icehouse Wood, Lesser Whitethroat [almost certainly the same bird as last Thursday 23rd September - same place, but now w/ growth on right eye], Nuthatch (Robert Callf)

Tuesday 28th September 2021

• Brookmill Park: Kingfisher, Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juvs, 2 eclipse m Northern Shoveler, 30 Tufted Duck, 5 Red Kite, Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 5 Green Woodpecker, 10 Skylark, Sand Martin [latest record ever for site], 5 Barn Swallow, c10 House Martin, 10+ Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Goldfinch 15+ Linnet (Robert Callf/Eugene Dillon-Hooper)
• Lamorbey Park: 11 Egyptian Geese, Cormorant, Peregrine, 4 Common Gull, Kingfisher, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, c10 House Martin, Grey Wagtail, 3+ Chiffchaff, 6+ Goldcrest, 2+ Nuthatch (Ian Stewart)
• Lee Valley Riding School: Tree Pipit (Rhys Evans)
• London Wetland Centre: Pectoral Sandpiper still from WWF hide [17th day] (WWT website)
• Oxleas Wood: Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Firecrest, Green Woodpecker, Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 2 Hobby, 2 Nuthatch (Ron Turner)
• Rainham Marshes: 2 Great Egret, 2 Cattle Egret, 40 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Ruff, 13 Snipe, 2 Greenshank, 5 adult Yellow-legged Gull, Marsh Harrier, Common Buzzard, 10 Jay, 2 Skylark, 85 Meadow Pipit, Yellow Wagtail, 40 Cetti's Warbler, Goldcrest, Stonechat, Siskin (Andrew Self)
• Sidcup DA15 “York Avenue”: Peregrine, Tawny Owl calling 0030, 2+ Sand Martin SE, 35+ House Martin W at first then last fifteen S, Swallow SW, Grey Wagtail low E (Ian Stewart)
• Trent Park: Cormorant, 2 m Common Pochard, 10 Tufted Duck, juv Hobby, m Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Song Thrush, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Nuthatch (Robert Callf/Pete Lowman)

Monday 27th September 2021

• Brent Reservoir f Ruddy Shelduck, 5 Snipe, Green Sandpiper (Andrew Self); 5+ House Martin nests still active (Andrew Haynes)
• Boxer's Lake: Cormorant, f Mandarin Duck, 7 m Northern Shoveler, 4 Tufted Duck, 10 Moorhen, 28 Black-headed Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Grey Wagtail (Robert Callf)
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juvs, 31 Tufted Duck, Red Kite, Kestrel, juv Hobby, 3 Chiffchaff inc one singing (Robert Callf), Water Rail calling Merryhills Brook, first-winter Spotted Flycatcher (Eugene Dillon-Hooper per RM Callf)
• Honeydale Farm DA14: 3 Red-legged Partridge, Common Buzzard, Green Woodpecker, 5+ Pied Wagtail, 2 Mistle Thrush, c20 Linnet (Ian Stewart)
• Lamorbey Park: 7 Egyptian Goose, Tufted Duck, Kingfisher (Ian Stewart)
• London Wetland Centre: Pectoral Sandpiper still from WWF hide [16th day], Garganey, 50+ Wigeon, 12 Snipe, 7 Chiffchaff (WWT website)
• Perivale: 2 Swallow, Sand Martin flew over low 1000 (Andrew Peel)
• Sidcup DA15 “Gloucester Avenue”: Chiffchaff (Ian Stewart)
• South Lodge Farm: 2 Red-legged Partridge, Barn Swallow flew W, Meadow Pipit, 5 Pied Wagtail, Mistle Thrush, 4 Linnet (Robert Callf)
• Swanley: Swallow S over The Croft (Ian Stewart)
• Trent Park: 2 m Common Pochard, 4 Tufted Duck, juv Hobby (Robert Callf)
• Upper Ruxley: 8 Lapwing in field next to Maidstone Road, 2+ Kestrel (Ian Stewart)
• Wanstead Flats: 3 Shoveler, Gadwall, 3 Teal, 7 Tufted Duck, 6 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Common Gull, 2 Little Owl, Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel, 17 Swallow, 3 House Martin, 12 Chiffchaff, Mistle Thrush, 3 Stonechat, Pied Wagtail, 8 Meadow Pipit (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: 50 Gadwall, 30 Teal, 6 Pochard, 12 Tufted Duck, 5 Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, 4 Chiffchaff, Nuthatch (Nick Croft)

Sunday 26th September 2021

• Brent Reservoir f Ruddy Shelduck, Ruff, 7 Snipe (Andrew Self), 2 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, Great Black-backed Gull (Bob Husband/Haydn Coe/Roy Beddard), m Red-crested Pochard (Roy Beddard)
• Brookmill Park: Kingfisher, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Chiffchaff, Coal Tit (Conrad Ellam)
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juvs, 30 Tufted Duck, 2 Red Kite, 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, Hobby, f/imm Northern Wheatear [large & colour-saturated, very approachable - down to about 12 feet, 'white beads' visible around orbital ring 1247 to 1300] {Willow Emerald Damselfly, Brimstone Moth, Snout} (Robert Callf)
• Hampstead Heath: Grey Wagtail S over Mens Pond 0815, and from 1130 to 1330 20 Meadow Pipits S, 5 House Martin S, Common Buzzard S, Hobby over, 10 Chiffchaff in hedges (Hampstead Heath Birders)
• Hilfield Park Reservoir: juv Gannet still present at 1645 but no sign since (Allan Stewart)
• Lamorbey Park: 11 Egyptian Geese, Tufted Duck, 2 Cormorant, 2 Peregrine, 8 Meadow Pipit S, Grey Wagtail, Chiffchaff, 5+ Goldcrest, 2+ Nuthatch (Ian Stewart)
• London Wetland Centre: Pectoral Sandpiper still from WWF hide, Garganey, Kingfisher, 50+ Wigeon, 4 Snipe, 5 Meadow Pipit over S/SW (WWT website), Hobby, Chiffchaff, Pectoral Sandpiper {2 Willow Emerald Damselfly m & f} (London Bird Club group)
• Northolt & Greenford CP "Marnham Field only": 4 Red Kite, 5 Swallow SW (Neil Anderson/Kathryn Bull)
• Oxleas Wood: 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush, 6 Nuthatch, 2 Buzzard, 3 Hobby, Goldfinch, Firecrest, 4 Goldcrest, Blackcap, Jackdaw , Chiffchaff (Ron Turner)
• Rowley Farm, Iver Heath: 4 Red Kite, Common Buzzard, Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail ,6 Long-tailed Tit ( Nigel Barratt)
• Sidcup DA15 “York Avenue”: Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, 50+ House Martin S, 15+ Meadow Pipit mainly S, 2+ Chiffchaff, Linnet S also 10 Meadow Pipit S over King Georges Park (Ian Stewart)
• South Lodge Farm: 20+ Meadow Pipit, 20+ Linnet (Robert Callf)
• Totteridge Valley: 12 House Martin, 2 Blackcap, 23 Chiffchaff, 6 Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 2 Bullfinch, 3 Rook, 100+Starling (John Colmans)
• Trent Park: Common Gull on ploughed field, 2 Hobby, 4 Jay, Chiffchaff {continuous barking Muntjac deer, hidden in wood near Cockfosters Road gate} (Michael Mac), 11 Tufted Duck, 2 Sparrowhawk, juv Hobby (Robert Callf)
• Tufnell Park “N7, garden vismig 0820-0910”: 25 Meadow Pipit S, 6 House Martin SE, Swallow S, Linnet over (Reuben Braddock)
• Upper College Farm DA5: 5+ Chiffchaff 2 singing, Linnet, 4 Greenfinch (Ian Stewart)
• Wanstead Flats: Gannet west and then south over pub scrub (Nick Croft), Shoveler, 5 Gadwall, Pochard, 9 Tufted Duck, 6 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Stock Dove, Common Gull, Sparrowhawk, 2 Little Owl, Kestrel, 42 Sand Martin, 11 Swallow, 11 House Martin, 16 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 2 Mistle Thrush, Stonechat, Wheatear, 123 Meadow Pipit, Linnet, Reed Bunting, Snipe (Wanstead Birders)
• Woolwich Common: 2 Stonechat, 8 Chiffchaff, 10 Linnet, Mistle Thrush, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Pied Wagtail over (Tim Rymer)

Saturday 25th September 2021

• Bermondsey: 2 Peregrine near "The Den" (Jack Headley)
• Brent Reservoir: f Ruddy Shelduck North Marsh, Ruff, Lapwing, 4 Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (Andrew Self)
• Dartford Marshes: Gadwall, 12 Teal, 3 Little Grebe, 2 Great Crested Grebe, Great White Egret at farm lake, 10 Little Egret, 6 Kestrel, Peregrine, Water Rail, 8 Common Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, ad Yellow-legged Gull, Kingfisher, 20+ Meadow Pipit, 13+ Stonechat, Whinchat, 10+ Cetti’s Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, Jay, c20 Linnet, 3 Reed Bunting (Ian Stewart)
• Erith Pier: 3 Yellow-legged Gull (Richard Bonser)
• Eynsford: Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, 6 Chiffchaff (Richard Bonser)
• Grovelands Park: Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, 7 Cormorant, 4 Mute Swan pr w/ two juvs, 6 Egyptian Goose pr w/ four juvs, 35 Mandarin Duck, Eurasian Teal, m Northern Shoveler, 15 Tufted Duck, Sparrowhawk, 65+ Coot, 35 Black-headed Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2+ Grey Wagtail, 2 Goldcrest, 3 Nuthatch, Treecreeper, 3 Jay (Robert Callf)
• Hampstead Heath: Hobby, 20 Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 25 Greenfinch, Common Gull S [first of the autumn] (Pete Mantle, Reuben Braddock)
• London Wetland Centre: Pectoral Sandpiper continues to show well from from WWF hide, but rather quiet otherwise 0930 to 1130 (Paul Francis)
• Oakwood: 3+ Tawny Owl calling and singing around Glenbrook Wetlands (Eugene Dillon-Hooper)
• Thamesmead: 1st-winter Caspian Gull off Greenhaven Drive, 3 Yellow-legged Gull (Richard Bonser)
• Upper College Farm DA5: Grey Heron over, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4+ Swallow, 7+ Meadow Pipit, Pied Wagtail, 3 Grey Wagtail, 5+ Blackcap, Cetti’s Warbler, c10 Chiffchaff inc 2 singing, 7+ Jay, 4 Linnet, 2 Greenfinch, 2 Bullfinch (Ian Stewart)
• Wanstead Flats: 6 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, 2 Teal, Pochard, 18 Tufted Duck, 16 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, 3 Stock Dove, Great Black-backed Gull, 4 Little Owl, Hobby, up to 11 Skylark [organised flush taken prior to fences being partially removed], 20+ Sand Martin, 60+ House Martin, 20+ Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Song Thrush, Whinchat, Stonechat, Grey Wagtail, 5 Yellow Wagtail, Pied Wagtail, 42+ Meadow Pipit, 3 Chaffinch, Linnet (Wanstead Birders)

Friday 24th September 2021

• Barnet 'King George's Field': juv Hobby, Little Egret, Collared Dove, juv Sparrowhawk (Michael Mac)
• Brent Reservoir: f Ruddy Shelduck, Ruff, 2 Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, 4 Snipe, 4 Lapwing, Pied Wagtail (Barry Wilson)
• Broadwater GP: 21 Little Egret, 3 Hobby (C Lamsdell)
• Brookmill Park: 3 Kingfisher, 5 Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juvs, 31 Tufted Duck, 2 Red Kite, 5 Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 7 Green Woodpecker, 2 Barn Swallow flew S, Meadow Pipit, 5 Pied Wagtail, Linnet {3 Red Admiral, 2 Speckled Wood} (Robert Callf/Bob Husband)
• Gorse Road/Skibbs Lane area BR5: 4 Red-legged Partridge, m Pheasant, 2 Red Kite, 6+ Common Buzzard, 2 Sparrowhawk, 5+ Kestrel, Hobby, Peregrine, 150+ Stock Dove, 6+ Swallow, 8+ Meadow Pipit, 3 Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, 4+ Chiffchaff, 2+ Goldcrest, Coal Tit, 2 Nuthatch, 10+ Rook, 4+ Linnet (Ian Stewart/Jack Headley)
• London Wetland Centre: Pectoral Sandpiper still from Wader Scrape hide 1015 (Peter Charles)
• Monken Hadley Common: 2 Hobby, 2 Mandarin Duck pr, 2 Grey Wagtail (Michael Mac)
• Rainham RSPB Reserve: 3 Pintail, 2 Great Egret, 2 Cattle Egret, c10 Little Egret, Spoonbill [seen by others], 2 Marsh Harrier, 2 Common Buzzard, juv Hobby catching darters over water, 24 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Snipe, 2 Curlew, Bearded Tits calling {24 Red Admiral on Ivy, 2 Comma} (Neil Anderson)
• Oxleas Wood: 3 Jackdaw, 3 Nuthatch, Sparrowhawk, Firecrest, Goldcrest, 2 Treecreeper, 2 Hobby (Ron Turner)
• South Lodge Farm: 6+ Meadow Pipit, 6 Pied Wagtail (Robert Callf)
• Swanscombe Marsh “0900-1245 LT”: 70 Mallard, 2 Raven, 8 Cetti's Warbler, Jay, 5 Snipe, 8 Shoveler, Pochard, 2 Tufted Duck, Moorhen, 2 Mute Swan, 3 Water Rail, 11 Chiffchaff, 5 Linnet, Buzzard, 3 Little Egret, Jackdaw, 3 Little Grebe, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Bearded Tit, Kestrel, 6 Coot, Kingfisher, 10 Lapwing, 10 Common Sandpiper, Teal, 2 Cormorant, Grey Wagtail (Roger Keith)
• Trent Park: f Mandarin Duck, m Northern Shoveler, m Common Pochard, Red Kite, Goldcrest (Robert Callf)
• Wanstead Flats: 3 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall, Pochard, 3 Tufted Duck, 6 Little Grebe, BN Grebe, Common Gull, Sparrowhawk, 3 Little Owl, Hobby, 2 Skylark, 5 Swallow, 3 Chiffchaff, Whinchat, 21 Meadow Pipit, Reed Bunting (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: 3 Shoveler, 34 Gadwall, 31 Teal, 11 Pochard, 12 Tufted Duck, 8 Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Stock Dove, Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, Kingfisher, Kestrel, 6 Chiffchaff, Nuthatch (Nick Croft)
• Watermeadows OS: 2 Mute Swan, Great Crested Grebe, Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail (Ian Stewart)

Thursday 23rd September 2021

• Brent Reservoir: f Ruddy Shelduck, Curlew, 2 Lapwing, Snipe, Common Sandpiper (Andrew Self); Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Egyptian Goose, Jay, Chiffchaff (Barry Wilson)
• Brookmill Park: Little Egret, Stock Dove, 2 Kingfisher, Song Thrush, Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juvs, 34 Tufted Duck, 6 Common Buzzard, 2 Stock Dove, 3 Green Woodpecker, 3 Pied Wagtail, 3 Chiffchaff (Robert Callf)
• Greenford to Ealing Hospital "Brent corridor": 6m Mandarin [collection area], Little Egret, 2 Grey Heron, Red Kite, Peregrine, vocal juv Hobby, 4 Stock Dove, 2 Grey Wagtail, Meadow Pipit over, Blackcap (Neil Anderson)
• Lamorbey Park: 11 Egyptian Geese [two families], 2 Tufted Duck, 2 Peregrine, Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Nuthatch (Ian Stewart)
• Lea Valley, Bittern View Point, Seventy Acre Lake: 26 Barnacle Goose of unknown origin? adult Caspian Gull, c. 8 Shoveler, 4 Teal (Bob Husband, Robin Morden)
• London Wetland Centre: Pectoral Sandpiper still from WWF hide, Garganey, Pintail, 3 Meadow Pipit, 4 Snipe, Kestrel (WWT website)
• Oxleas Wood: 2 Nuthatch, 2 Goldcrest, Buzzard, 2 Hobby, Green Woodpecker, Jackdaw ( Ron Turner)
• Sidcup DA15 “York Avenue”: Common Buzzard E 1610, Tawny Owl calling 2035, Chiffchaff singing briefly (Ian Stewart)
• St Paul's Cray: Chiffchaff in Kelsey Rd garden (Jack Headley)
• Totteridge Valley: Wheatear, 2 Stonechat, Yellow Wagtail, Common Buzzard, Kestrel, 17 House Martin, 14 Swallow, 19 Chiffchaff, 4 Rook (John Colmans); 2 Teal, Red Kite, Little Owl, Tawny Owl, Kestrel, Hobby, 7 Rook, 2 Coal Tit, 14 Swallow, 21 House Martin, 19 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 4 Goldcrest, m Firecrest, 2 Treecreeper, 120 Starling, Stonechat, 2 Grey Wagtail, 3 Pied Wagtail, 6 Meadow Pipit (Samuel Levy et al)
• Trent Park: f Mandarin Duck, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Lesser Whitethroat, m Blackcap, 3+ Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Coal Tit, Nuthatch (Robert Callf)
• Wanstead Flats: 9 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, 2 Teal, Pochard, 10 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Stock Dove, 3 Common Gull, 2 Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, 3 Little Owl, 3 Skylark, 3 Swallow, 5 Chiffchaff, Whinchat, 3 Stonechat, Grey Wagtail, Pied Wagtail, 45 Meadow Pipit (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: 44 Gadwall, 4 Pochard (Paul Donovan)
• Warren Farm, Hanwell: 2 Red Kite, Kestrel, 17 Pied Wagtail [horse field], 4 Meadow Pipit, 3 Stonechat m 2f w/ f/1st-winter Whinchat, c5 Linnet with flock c40 Goldfinch (Neil Anderson)
• Woolwich Common: Fieldfare [being mobbed by crows], Stonechat, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, Meadow pipit, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Linnet (George Siskos) [That would be very early for Fieldfare?! - I know I was very shocked but it definitely was a fieldfare!]

Wednesday 22nd September 2021

• Brent Reservoir: f Ruddy Shelduck, Ruff, 2 Little Egret, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 4 Snipe, 3 Lapwing, Pied Wagtail (Barry Wilson)
• Boxer's Lake: 3 Cormorant, 2 Grey Heron, 6 Mute Swan pr w/ four juvs, Greylag Goose, 5 Northern Shoveler, 3 Tufted Duck, 19 Black-headed Gull, Grey Wagtail (Robert Callf)
• Brookmill Park: Kingfisher (Conrad Ellam)
• Dollis Valley, Denham Farm: Collared Dove, 2 Sparrowhawk, 3 Red Kite, Common Buzzard, 4 Kestrel, 2 Hobby, Rook, 23 Swallow, 3 Coal Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 8 Meadow Pipit (Samuel Levy et al)
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juvs, 35 Tufted Duck [new record count for site], Red Kite, 2 Kestrel, 2 Hobby {2 Comma, 2 Small Heath} (Robert Callf), Common Snipe (Eugene Dillon-Hooper per RM Callf)
• Green Park: Feral Snow Goose, 2 Egyptian Geese, 21 Greylag Goose (A Bayley)
• Gunnersbury Park: 4 Little Grebe, 1 Grey Wagtail (John Palmer)
• Hampstead Heath: Common Snipe, 5 Swallow, Yellow Wagtail SW, 60 Meadow Pipit, Common Whitethroat (Hampstead Heath Birders)
• Lamorbey Park: 9+ Egyptian Goose, Tufted Duck, Peregrine, Common Gull, Tawny Owl calling 1946, Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail, 3+ Chiffchaff, Goldcrests, Nuthatch (Ian Stewart)
• Leatherhead, Randalls Way: 5 Common Buzzard, Chiffchaff, Pied Wagtail (Neil Batten)
• Lea Valley: 30 Barnacle Goose on Seventy Acres, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker just north of Fishers Green carpark, Willow Warbler, Yellow Wagtail {Water Vole} (Andrew Self)
• London Wetland Centre: Pectoral Sandpiper still on wader scrape [then on main lake from WWF hide], Garganey, Pintail, 7 Meadow Pipit over S/SW, 2 Yellow Wagtail over S, Stonechat, 4 Snipe (WWT website) 2 Common Snipe & Mandarin Duck on Wader Scrape (Martin Honey), Hobby, Chiffchaff (Shailesh Patel) Puffin reported flying over (Oliver Flory, via eBird)
• Longfield "The Gallops": 128 Meadow Pipit [many more], 23 Skylark, Wheatear, 43 Red-legged Partridge, Sparrowhawk [large f], 52 Linnet (Roger Keith)
• Northolt & Greenford CP: 2 Egyptian Geese pr, 3 Red Kite, Sparrowhawk, m Kestrel, Stock Dove over, 3 Pied Wagtail {late m Banded Demoiselle-1st site record} (Neil Anderson/John Wells & local wildlife group)
• Sidcup DA15: 2 Common Buzzard over Longlands Road, 1100 (Conrad Ellam); “York Avenue”: 6-7 Common Buzzard [one unidentified dark large raptor NW], 1-2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Peregrine, ad Common Gull, Chiffchaff, Jay (Ian Stewart)
• South Lodge Farm: Yellow Wagtail, 7 Pied Wagtail, f/imm Northern Wheatear (Robert Callf/Eugene Dillon-Hooper)
• Staines Moor "am": 2 Kingfisher, Hobby, 2 Kestrel, Common Buzzard, Red Kite, Yellow Wagtail, Whinchat, 6 Stonechat, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 2 Common Whitethroat, Reed Bunting, 10+ Meadow Pipit, 4 Common Snipe flushed from marshy pool, 30 Black-headed Gull hawking for insects (Nick Baker)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 2 Teal, 34 Stock Dove, Grey Heron, Sparrowhawk, Red Kite, 4 Common Buzzard, Kestrel, 2 Hobby, 10 Rook, 2 Coal Tit, 10 Swallow, 16 Chiffcaff, Blackcap, 2 Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch, 24 Starling, Stonechat, 5 Yellow Wagtail, 11 Meadow Pipit. (Samuel Levy et al)
• Totteridge Fields LNR - 3 Common Buzzard, Little Owl, Hobby, 15 House Martin, 2 Chiffchaff, 5 Pied Wagtail (Samuel Levy et al)
• Trent Park: Grey Heron, 5 Mandarin Duck 2 m & 3 f, 2 Tufted Duck, Common Buzzard, juv Hobby calling perched in oak Williams Wd {Red Admiral, Small Copper, Speckled Wood} (Robert Callf)

Tuesday 21st September 2021

• Brent Reservoir: f Ruddy Shelduck, Ruff (Brent Birders); also 4 Little Egret, 2 Green Sandpiper, 4 Snipe, 4 Lapwing, Grey Wagtail, singing Cetti's Warbler, singing Chiffchaff (Neil Anderson)
• Brookmill Park: Little Egret, Kingfisher, Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juvs, Grey Heron flew over, 29 Tufted Duck 12 m & 17 f/imm [record count for this site], Red Kite, 4+ Common Buzzard, Kestrel, Green Woodpecker, 9 Barn Swallow {5 Willow Emerald Damselfly inc two prs mating, Comma} (Robert Callf/Haydn Coe/Bob Husband)
• Fairlop Waters: Kingfisher, 2 Kestrel, Yellow Wagtail, 16 Lapwing over N (Peter Dillon-Hooper)
• Finchley "Garden N3": 2 Meadow Pipit, 2 Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 4 Swallow (Samuel Levy)
• Forest Gate: 20+ Meadow Pipit north over Romford Road (Nick Croft)
• Greenford "UB6": 3 Red Kite & Common Buzzard with Sparrowhawk together on thermal gently sparring viewed from garden (Neil Anderson)
• Hampstead Heath: 3 Lesser Whitethroat, Stonechat, 6+ Chiffchaff [several singing], 2 Blackcap, Willow Warbler in hedges around Parliament Hill. 3+ Meadow Pipit over, Buzzard mobbed by 3 Sparrowhawk over Kenwood (Hampstead Heath Birders)
• Lamorbey Park: 2 Egyptian Geese, 4 Tufted Duck, 2 Kingfisher came in to main lake together 1849, Pied Wagtail, Mistle Thrush [first in a while], 5+ Chiffchaff, 2 Nuthatch (Ian Stewart)
• London Wetland Centre: Pectoral Sandpiper still on wader scrape and main lake, Garganey, Pintail, 8 Yellow Wagtail, 13 Common Snipe, Water Rail, 51 Wigeon (WWT website)
• Rye Meads: 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Red-crested Pochard (Adam Wilson)
• Seventy Acres Lake: 30 Barnacle Goose, Yellow-legged Gull, Water Rail, 5+ Cetti's Warbler (Simon Papps)
• South Lodge Farm: c20 Meadow Pipit (Haydn Coe/Bob Husband)
• Staines Reservoirs: 3 Black-necked Grebe. (Roger Dewey)
• Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: Stonechat, 4 Meadow Pipit, 2 Hobby, Sparrowhawk, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 6 House Martin, c100 Swallow [several groups], 22 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 5 Teal, Mistle Thrush (John Colmans), 3 Common Snipe over Old Gropper Field, m Mandarin Duck, 2 Sparrowhawk, 3 Red Kite, 5 Common Buzzard, 5 Little Owl, Kestrel, 2 Hobby, Peregrine, 16 Rook, 2 Coal Tit, 135 Swallow, 36 House Martin, 29 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, Common Whitethroat, 5 Goldcrest, 3 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper, 2 Grey Wagtail, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 45 Meadow Pipit, Bullfinch, 2 Greenfinch, Linnet, Siskin (Samuel Levy)
• Trent Park: Grey Heron, Mandarin Duck, 2 m Common Pochard, 7 Tufted Duck m & 6 f/imm, 2 Red Kite, Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, 3 Black-headed Gull, 3 Barn Swallow, 4 Mistle Thrush {2 Comma} (Robert Callf/Haydn Coe/Bob Husband), Eurasian Teal (Pete Lowman per RM Callf)
• Wanstead Flats: 6 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall, Pochard, 19 Tufted Duck, 5 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Stock Dove, Sparrowhawk, Red Kite, 2 Little Owl, Short-eared Owl, Kestrel, 2 Skylark, 2 Swallow, 14 Chiffchaff, Mistle Thrush, Spotted Flycatcher, Pied Flycatcher, 3 Whinchat, 2 Stonechat, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 3 Pied Wagtail, 64 Meadow Pipit, Reed Bunting (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: 2 Shoveler, 46 Gadwall, Wigeon, 8 Teal, 10 Pochard, 2 Tufted Duck, 5 Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Stock Dove, 2 Little Egret, 3 Kingfisher, 3 Chiffchaff, Grey Wagtail (Nick Croft)
• West Putney, SW15: 12 Buzzard, Red Kite (J Wilczur, R Kaye)

Monday 20th September 2021

• Alexandra Park: Whinchat briefly on western perimeter of the football pitches 0745 before flying high E, Lesser Whitethroat, 5 Chiffchaff, 3 Meadow Pipit (APOG Birders)
• Boxer's Lake: 2 Cormorant, juv Grey Heron, 6 Mute Swan pr w/ four juvs, 3 Mandarin Duck, Eurasian Teal, 7 m Northern Shoveler, 2 Tufted Duck, 13 Black-headed Gull, m Great Spotted Woodpecker, Raven flew NW calling 1459 (Robert Callf)
• Brent Reservoir: f Ruddy Shelduck, Little Stint, Lapwing, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper (Brent Birders)
• Brookmill Park: Stock Dove, Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Conrad Ellam)
• Crossness NR : 4 Barn Owl, 2 Pergrine, Buzzard, Kestrel, 7 Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, 4 Little Egret. Thames at high tide : 4 Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Redshank all flyby's (Bernie Weight)
• Enfield area "private access": Whinchat, m Stonechat, Northern Wheatear, 2 Raven over E, House Martin w/ Barn Swallow flock, 8 Linnet, 3 Chiffchaff, 10+ Swallow, 8 Skylark, lots of Meadow Pipit around, juv Hobby, 3 Kestrel, 6+ Common Buzzard, 2 Red Kite, 2 Sparrowhawk (Eugene Dillon-Hooper), 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juvs, 2 f/imm Eurasian Wigeon, 4 Eurasian Teal, 25 Tufted Duck 13 m & 12 f/imm (Robert Callf)
• Epping Forest, High Beach: 2 Raven east past King's Oak (Simon Papps)
• Epsom Station: singing Chiffchaff, 2 Pied Wagtail (Neil Batten)
• Fairlop Waters: Green Sandpiper, juv Yellow-legged Gull in adjacent ploughed land with Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Herring Gulls and Black-headed Gulls, 9 Mistle Thrush, 2 Yellow Wagtail in paddocks, 2 Kestrel, 3 Little Grebe, 1 Cetti's Warbler, several Chiffchaffs around (Peter Dillon-Hooper)
• Greenford "UB6": 2 Red Kite pr, Sparrowhawk over garden (Neil Anderson)
• Guildhall EC2: 2 Black Redstart (George Kalli)
• Lamorbey Park: 11 Egyptian Geese, 3 Tufted Duck, Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail (Ian Stewart)
• London Wetland Centre: Pectoral Sandpiper on wader scrape, Ruff, Common Sandpiper, Wheatear, Pintail, 57 Wigeon, Kestrel (WWT website); Willows out front, Garden Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, Kestrel in dead tree (Michael Mac)
• Richmond Park: 16 Shoveler, m Gadwall, 2 Teal, 7 Pochard, 7 Cormorant, 4 Great Crested Grebe 2 pr, c10 Meadow Pipit, 2 Swallow, juv Stonechat (Neil Anderson/Phil Pentek)
• Rye Meads: Garganey (Adam Wilson)
• South Lodge Farm: m Northern Wheatear (Robert Callf)
• Swanscombe Marsh: 9 Snipe, 4 f Shoveler, Whinchat, juv Grey Heron, 6 Moorhen inc 2 juvs, 3 juv Tufted Duck, Meadow Pipit, 54 Goldfinch, 2 Mute Swan, 2 m Marsh Harrier, Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Water Rail, Greylag Goose, 2 Stonechat m & f, 2 juv Little Grebe (Roger Keith/Paul Larkin)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: Spotted Flycatcher [between Burtonhole Lane & Old Gropper], 8 Teal, 25 Stock Dove, Sparrowhawk, 2 Little Owl, Tawny Owl, 2 Kestrel, 2 Hobby, 10 Rook, 100+ Swallow, 6 House Martin, 27 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap, Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat, 5 Goldcrest, 5 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper, 90 Starling, 4 Yellow Wagtail, 10 Meadow Pipit, 2 Bullfinch, 2 Greenfinch, 2 Siskin, Peregrine. (Samuel Levy)
• Trent Park: Grey Heron, 4 Mandarin Duck, 2 m Common Pochard, 4 Tufted Duck, Kestrel, 8 Mistle Thrush {Red Admiral} (Robert Callf)
• Wanstead Flats: 2 Shoveler, 3 Gadwall, Teal, Pochard, 10 Tufted Duck, 5 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Snipe, Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, Little Owl, Kestrel, 2 Skylark, 5 Swallow, 10 Chiffchaff, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Common Whitethroat, 5 Mistle Thrush, 3 Whinchat, Stonechat, Yellow Wagtail, Pied Wagtail, 59 Meadow Pipit (Wanstead Birders)

Sunday 19th September 2021

• Alexandra Park: flock of duck flew NNW over Park at 0820 comprising 33 Wigeon, 5 Pintail and a Shoveler, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 11 Meadow Pipit, 4 Chiffchaff, Common Whitethroat, Kingfisher (APG Birders)
• Brent Reservoir: f Ruddy Shelduck north marsh, Little Stint on rafts (Andrew Self)
• Brookmill Park: Stock Dove, Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Coal Tit (Conrad Ellam)
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juvs, 21 Tufted Duck 9 m & 12 f/imm, Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 3 Green Woodpecker, 16 House Martin flew W 1320, 3 Chiffchaff (Robert Callf)
• Eynsford: 2 Buzzard, calling Tawny Owl (Richard Bonser)
• Fryent CP: Reed Warbler (Andrew Self)
• Hackney Marshes: 2 Kingfisher, 3 Jay, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Little Owl, 10 Teal, Little Grebe, Cetti's Warbler (JW Davies)
• Hampstead Heath: 2 Spotted Flycatcher, Stonechat, Yellow Wagtail, 7 Meadow Pipit, Hobby (Hampstead Heath Birders)
• Hilfield Park Reservoir: 3 Little Egret, 43 Shoveler, 4 Wigeon, 4 Meadow Pipit (Tony Blake)
• Kempton Park NR: 13 Common Snipe, 28 Lapwing, 2 Little Egret, Kingfisher, 4 Chiffchaff with mixed tit flock (Franko J Maroevic)
• KGV Res: 2 Little Stint (A Middleton)
• Lamorbey Park: 7 Egyptian Geese, 3 Tufted Duck, Kestrel, Peregrine, Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Nuthatch (Ian Stewart)
• Leyton "Jubilee Wood": Whinchat, Stock Dove, Chiffchaff (James Blake)
• London Wetland Centre: Garganey, Pintail, Pectoral Sandpiper still, Ruff, 7 Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, Reed Warbler, 7 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, Wheatear, 4 Grey Wagtail S, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Meadow Pipit, Reed Bunting (Oscar Dewhurst)
• Priest Hill: 11 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 4 Meadow Pipit S, Juv Kestrel (Neil Batten)
• Sidcup DA15 “York Avenue”: Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, 20+ House Martin E, Chiffchaff (Ian Stewart)
• South Lodge Farm: Skylark, 10 Meadow Pipit, Yellow Wagtail, 10+ Pied Wagtail, m Northern Wheatear, 8 Linnet (Robert Callf)
• Ten Acre Wood area: Little Egret, Grey Heron, 3 Red Kite, Common Buzzard, Common Snipe, 13 Stock Dove, Skylark, c12 Meadow Pipit, f/1st-winter Wheatear, 8 Chiffchaff, 2m Blackcap, 30+ Linnet [flock c30 & 2 together], 3 Greenfinch {Comma} (Neil Anderson)
• Totteridge Valley: Common Buzzard, Yellow Wagtail, 11 House Martin, 18 Swallow, Common Whitethroat, 2 Blackcap, 10 Chiffchaff, 2 Rook (John Colmans)
• Trent Park: 2 f Mandarin Duck, f Northern Shoveler, 2 m Common Pochard, Reed Warbler, 2 f/imm Blackcap (Robert Callf)
• Tufnell Park "N7": 4 Common Buzzard, Hobby, Meadow Pipit, Chiffchaff (Reuben Braddock)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: Great White Egret flew S, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, Willow Warbler, Lapwing, 10 House Martin (Walthamstow birders)
• Wanstead Flats: 5 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, Pochard, 9 Tufted Duck, 16 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, 3 Stock Dove, 3 Common Gull, Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, Little Owl, Kestrel, 6 Swallow, Willow Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, Whitethroat, 3 Mistle Thrush, Spotted Flycatcher, 3 Whinchat, 3 Stonechat, Grey Wagtail, 4 Yellow Wagtail, 9 Meadow Pipit (Wanstead Birders)
• Woodford Green: 2 Blackcap m f, 3 Chiffchaff, juv Goldcrest, Spotted Flycatcher through garden by 1620 imaged and my 4th for the Autumn (Ken Murray)
• Woolwich Common: 14 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 3 Mistle Thrush over, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Tim Rymer)
• Yeading Brook meadows: 2 Red Kite, 14 Stock Dove in cut meadow, Chiffchaff {Red Admiral} (Neil Anderson)

Saturday 18th September 2021

• Ponders End: 2 PerWoodpecker, Coal Tit (Conrad Ellam)rgrine on last old block Alma Road/South Street (A Middleton)
• Aimes Green: 2 Raven, 12 Meadow Pipit, Skylark (A Middleton)
• Alexandra Park: 5 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Swallow, 4+ Meadow Pipit, m Shoveler, 3 m Common Pochard, 2 Greylag Goose, 2 Egyptian Goose, 4 Jackdaw (APOG Birders)
• Boxer's Lake: Grey Heron, 6 Mute Swan pr w/ four juvs, 2 juv Eurasian Teal [proving to be more regular at this site than previously thought], 6 m Northern Shoveler, 5 Tufted Duck, 13 Black-headed Gull, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Jay (Robert Callf)
• Brent Reservoir: f Ruddy Shelduck, Little Stint, Ruff, 2 Lapwing, Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Siskin (Andrew Self)
• Cornmill Meadows: Yellow Wagtail, 0 wader habitat (A Middleton)
• Crossness: Barn Owl, 10+ Chiffchaff incl 4 singing (Jack Headley)
• Dagenham Chase: Spotted Flycatcher, Whinchat, 6 Wigeon, 7 Shoveler, 11 Gadwall, 18 Teal, 4 Snipe, Hobby, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel (Steve Bacon, Vince Halley-Frame)
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juvs, 25 Tufted Duck 12 m & 13 f/imm, juv Hobby low over water body, presumably looking for dragonflies, 2 Meadow Pipit flew S {6 Red Admiral, Peacock} (Robert Callf)
• Erith Pier: first-winter Caspian Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (Richard Bonser)
• Eynsford: Red Kite, Buzzard, 8 Skylark, 7 Meadow Pipit (Richard Bonser)
• Hampstead Heath: Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Stonechat, 53 Meadow Pipit, 12 Swallow, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Willow Warbler, Common Buzzard (Hampstead Heath Birders)
• Honeydale Farm DA14: 3 Red-legged Partridge, 30+ Pied Wagtail, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, c100 Linnet (Ian Stewart)
• Ruislip Lido/Woods: c8 Shoveler, 3 Little Grebe, Little Egret, Red Kite, 2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Hobby together, 2 juv Swallow, House Martin, 6+ Chiffchaff {5 Comma, 3 Red Admiral, 2 Small Copper, Small Heath, Blood-vein, m Southern Hawker, 2 Willow Emerald pr in tandem- 1st site record} (Neil Anderson & 11 LNHS members)
• Sidcup DA15 “York Avenue”: Tawny Owl calling in gardens 0034 by the commotion it sounded like the owl was after roosting Woodpigeon (Ian Stewart)
• Stoneleigh KT17: singing Chiffchaff, 3 Meadow Pipit SE, Grey Wagtail, 2 Coal Tit, Grey Heron SW, m Sparrowhawk, juv Hobby circling over The Glade 1813, ad Hobby low W 1844 (Neil Batten)
• Swanscombe Marsh: m Marsh Harrier, 6 Snipe, Green Sandpiper, juv Grey Heron, 9 Mallard, 2 juv Pochard, juv Tufted Duck, juv Little Grebe, Shoveler, 2 Mute Swan, 2 Water Rail, 3 Whinchat, 5 Stonechat, m Blackcap, 3 Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler, 2 Raven, 2 Moorhen (Roger Keith)
• Wanstead Flats: 5 Shoveler, 8 Gadwall, 2 Pochard, 14 Tufted Duck, 8 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Green Sandpiper, 1cy Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, Little Owl, Kestrel, Hobby, Peregrine, Coal Tit, 2 Skylark, 2 Swallow, 17+ Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Whitethroat, Spotted Flycatcher, 3 Whinchat, Stonechat, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Yellow Wagtail, Pied Wagtail, 62 Meadow Pipit (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: 25 Gadwall, 3 Pochard, Great Crested Grebe, 2 Nuthatch (Bob Vaughan)
• West Thurrock: Guillemot St Clement's Reach 1630, drifting towards Grays with tide, Avocet, Green Sandpiper, 30 Goldfinch (A Middleton)
• Woodford Green: Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Goldcrest & Hobby through by 0900 (Ken Murray)

Friday 17th September 2021

• Alexandra Park: Yellow Wagtail, Kingfisher, 2+ Chiffchaff, Common Whitethroat, c30 Meadow Pipit, c115 hirundines high heading south west [most seemed to be Swallow], Linnet, Chaffinch [been very scarce here], 2 Peregrine, Common Buzzard, 2 Jackdaw
• Boxer's Lake: Cormorant, juv Grey Heron, 6 Mute Swan pr w/ four juvs, 7 m Northern Shoveler [6 ad eclipse & imm], 6 Tufted Duck (Robert Callf)
• Brent Reservoir: Little Stint opposite main hide & 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Ruddy Shelduck North Marsh (Jo Edwards)
• Dagenham Chase NR: Spotted Flycatcher, Whinchat, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, Grey Wagtail heard, Wigeon, 2 Little Grebe, Little Egret, Red Kite, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk (Vince Halley-Frame).
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juvs, 18 Tufted Duck 9 m & 9 f/imm, Red Kite, 5 Common Buzzard, 3 Kestrel, Hobby, Green Woodpecker, 30 Barn Swallow flew over, Whinchat, m Stonechat, 3 Common Whitethroat, Blackcap {3 Red Admiral, Comma, 4 Speckled Wood} (Robert Callf)
• Lamorbey Park: 10 Egyptian Geese, Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, 2-3 Tawny Owl calling 1932, Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail, Blackcap, 4+ Chiffchaff, c10 Goldcrest, Nuthatch, 26 Jackdaw left for roost (Ian Stewart)
• London Wetland Centre: Pectoral Sandpiper still on main lake but in front of Dulverton hide, Knot still on main lake from WWF hide, c.12 Chiffchaff southern route/sheltered lagoon, f. Wheatear on Wader Scrape (Martin Honey & B.Page)
• Olympic Park: 2 Wheatear on scrub next to tennis courts (JW Davies)
• Rainham Marshes: 2 Cattle Egret, Spoonbill, Marsh Harrier, 2 Hobby, 22 Avocet, 2 Ruff, Curlew, 4 Jay, Common Whitethroat, Yellow Wagtail (Andrew Self, John & Janet Cadera) 2 Little Grebe, 3 juv Bearded Tit, Whinchat, Chiffchaff, 2 Cetti's Warbler (Norbert Jakab)
• Richmond Park: f Whinchat, 4 Stonechat, Whitethroat, 3 Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Garden Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 5 Meadow Pipit, Common Buzzard, 2 Little Owl p.s. I did see white rump of a Wheatear by bracken but I was eating a sandwich so didn't persue it, then forgot (Michael Mac) 2 'Greenland-type' Northern Wheatear Holly Lodge paddock (Mike Lewis per FJM)
• Sidcup DA15 “York Avenue”: Kestrel S, Peregrine, Tawny Owl calling 2349, 2 Green Woodpecker, 10+ Swallow SE, Meadow Pipit N, Chiffchaff, Jay also prob Tawny Owl calls heard at King Georges Park 1958 (Ian Stewart)
• Wanstead Flats: 4 Shoveler, 5 Gadwall, 2 Pochard, 13 Tufted Duck, 7 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Stock Dove, 2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Common Buzzard, 4 Little Owl, Kestrel, 2 Hobby, Peregrine, Skylark, 5 Swallow, Willow Warbler, 20+ Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, Common Whitethroat, 2 Spotted Flycatcher, 3 Whinchat, Wheatear, Grey Wagtail, 14 Meadow Pipit (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: Kingfisher (Sean Kerrigan)

Thursday 16th September 2021

• Brent Reservoir: Little Stint on rafts, Peregrine, Yellow Wagtail (Andrew Self)
• Alexandra Park: 2 Whinchat, 2 Kingfisher (APOG Birders)
• Chelsea & Westminster Hospital: 2 Chiffchaff inc one singing in garden am (D McKenzie)
• Cornmill Meadows: Whinchat (by the hide), Hobby, 2 Red Kite (Simon Papps)
• Crossness NR : Peregrine, 2 Buzzard, Kestrel, Barn Owl, Thames : 4 Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 8 Black-tailed Godwit, 17 Redshank (Bernie Weight)
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juvs, 15 Tufted Duck 5 m & 10 f/imm, 2 Common Buzzard, Kestrel, 4 Red-legged Partridge, f/imm Northern Wheatear on fence posts {4 Willow Emerald Damselfly, 4 Red Admiral, 2 Green-veined White, 4 Meadow Brown, 3 Small Heath} (Robert Callf)
• Fishers Green: Spotted Flycatcher & Great Spotted Woodpecker on dead tree at Hays Hill farm tractor stop, Barnacle Geese & ad Yellow-legged Gull on tern raft still, Common Sandpiper at end of sailing club (John Emerson)
• Hampstead Heath: Tree Pipit, 2 Spotted Flycatcher, Whinchat, f/imm Stonechat [first of the autumn], c40 Meadow Pipit, c80 mixed hirundine in several small flocks S [mainly Swallow], Cetti’s Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, Collared Dove (Hampstead Heath Birders)
• Lamorbey Park: 8 Egyptian Geese, Peregrine, Tawny Owl hooting from college grounds 1923, Kingfisher, 4+ Chiffchaff, Goldcrests (Ian Stewart)
• Leatherhead, Randalls Way: Swallow SE, 2 Common Buzzard, Chiffchaff, 3 Pied Wagtail (Neil Batten)
• London Wetland Centre: Pectoral Sandpiper, Knot, 2 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 4 Swallow, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler (Oscar Dewhurst/WWT Website)
• Rayners Lane, HA2: 2 House Martin S, Buzzard, Red Kite, Green Woodpecker (Tim Rymer)
• Pinner, HA5: Red Kite, Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, 4 Jay plucking acorns off the branches of an Oak tree before flying off to stash them in different directions (Nigel Barratt)
• Sidcup DA15 “York Avenue”: 5 Canada Goose S, Common Buzzard v high W 1513, Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, Tawny Owl calling to south about 0100, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 9+ Meadow Pipit over, m Blackcap, 3+ Chiffchaff inc singer, 3 Jay inc 2 high NW (Ian Stewart)
• Swanscombe Marshes: 5 Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 2 Raven, Marsh Harrier, 2 Wheatear, 3 Stonechat, 5 Lapwing, Common Sandpiper (Donna Zimmer)
• Trent Park: Grey Heron, 2 Tufted Duck, juv Hobby over Ride Wd, Coal Tit, Nuthatch {2 Comma} (Robert Callf)
• Wanstead Flats: Mandarin Duck (Bob Vaughan), 3 Shoveler, 9 Gadwall, Wigeon, 3 Pochard, 17 Tufted Duck, 7 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, 1w Yellow-legged Gull, Marsh Harrier, Kestrel, Hobby, 7 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap, Goldcrest, Grey Wagtail, 4 Meadow Pipit (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: 4 Shoveler, 13 Teal, 5 Pochard, 10 Tufted Duck, 2 Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, 6 Stock Dove, Little Grebe, Sparrowhawk, Kingfisher, 6 Chiffchaff, Nuthatch, Grey Wagtail (Nick Croft)
• Woodberry Wetlands: 4 Red-crested Pochard, 3 Wigeon, Teal, 3 Jackdaw, Kingfisher, Little Egret, 2 Reed Warbler (Chris Farthing & Tony Butler)

Wednesday 15th September 2021

• Alexandra Park: Northern Wheatear briefly on centre of pitches then low SW, 10 Meadow Pipit, Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Common Whitethroat (APOG Birders)
• Boxer's Lake: Cormorant, 6 Mute Swan pr w/ four juvs, 5 Mandarin Duck 4 m & f, 9 Northern Shoveler 6 m & 3 f/imm, 5 Tufted Duck, 24 Black-headed Gull, m Great Spotted Woodpecker, Jay (Robert Callf)
• Brent Reservoir: Little Stint still on rafts, 3 Green Sandpiper (Brent Birders), Little Stint feeding on mud in front of Willow Island, Ruddy Shelduck [North Marsh], juv Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Egret (Bob Husband, Tony Clancy, Haydn Coe, Jonathan Reveley)
• Bromley Common "Chatterton Road": 8 House Martin (Jon Mills)
• Brookmill Park: Kingfisher, m Blackcap (Conrad Ellam)
• Bushey Country Club: Spotted Flycatcher (Simon Worsfold)
• Dartford Marsh: 30+ adult Yellow-legged Gull at the mouth of the creek, numerous other ages too, first winter Caspian Gull, possible "Baltic Gull" [maybe intermedius] will post photo on Twitter #londonbirds, 2 Avocet, 4 Wheatear, Grey Wagtail, Green Sandpiper, Peregrine (Nick Upton)
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juvs, 24 Tufted Duck 10 m & 14 f/imm, juv Red Kite, Sparrowhawk, 5 Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 3 Hobby, 8 Red-legged Partridge, 2 Green Woodpecker, 12 Barn Swallow, f Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Rook, f Chaffinch, 4 Greenfinch, 13 Goldfinch, 2 Linnet {f Brimstone, 5 Small White, 2 Comma} (Robert Callf)
• Hampstead Heath: Spotted Flycatcher, 3 Grey Wagtail, Common Whitethroat (Hampstead Heath Birders)
• Kensington Gardens "Long Water": Teal [rare here], Common Sandpiper. 31 Shoveler, Little Grebe on Round Pond [unusual] & probably the same Common Sandpiper briefly (Bill Haines)
• Lamorbey Park: 8 Egyptian Goose, Tawny Owl hooting 1908, Kingfisher, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, 3+ Chiffchaff, c10 Goldcrest, Nuthatch (Ian Stewart)
• Middlesex Filter Beds: Kingfisher, 2 Grey Wagtail below the weir, Sparrowhawk, singing Cetti's Warbler (Alastair Dent)
• Palmers Green N13: Common Buzzard E 1505 (Stuart Harrington)
• Perivale Park: 2 Grey Heron, Red Kite [just north of park], Kestrel, Grey Wagtail, 15 Linnet, 12+ Greenfinch (Neil Anderson)
• Green Park: Northern Wheatear on grass about 200m from tube station exit (Isha Crichlow)
• London Wetland Centre: Pectoral Sandpiper and Knot still present and showing in front of WWF hide (Martin Honey) Knot tends to disappear by Midday, 2 Spotted Flycatcher, Garden Warbler (Michael Mac)
• Richmond Park: 3 Buzzard [all circling over Hawthorn Valley, then 2 of them over Lawn Field], Whinchat (Norbert Jakab)
• Totteridge Valley/Darlands Lake: 5 Yellow Wagtail, 15 Swallow, 2 Blackcap, 7 Chiffchaff [one singing], 4 Teal, 7 Linnet, 5 Rook, Mistle Thrush (John Colmans) 29 Yellow Wagtail [Cow Field], m Mandarin Duck, 2 Teal, 25 Stock Dove, 3 Common Buzzard, Kestrel, 3 Hobby, 17 Rook, Coal Tit, 13 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 3 Willow Warbler, 29 Chiffchaff, 7 Blackcap, Common Whitethroat, 5 Goldcrest, 4 Nuthatch, Treecreeper, 30 Starling, 2 Mistle Thrush, 9 Meadow Pipit, 2 Bullfinch, 5 Siskin (Samuel Levy)
• Trent Park: 2 f Mandarin Duck, f Tufted Duck, m Blackcap, Chiffchaff, 4 Coal Tit, Nuthatch (Robert Callf)
• Wanstead Flats: 7 Shoveler, 10 Gadwall, 3 Teal, 4 Pochard, 7 Tufted Duck, 8 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, 2 Common Gull, 2 Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, Hobby, Skylark, 33 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Common Whitethroat, 5 Mistle Thrush, Spotted Flycatcher, 3 Whinchat, 2 Grey Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Pied Wagtail, 25 Meadow Pipit (Wanstead Birders)

Tuesday 14th September 2021

• Alexandra Park: 2 Kingfisher Wood Green Reservoir (APOG Birders)
• Brent Reservoir: Little Stint, Ruff, 3 Lapwing, 4 Snipe, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper (Brent Birders)
• Brookmill Park: f Blackcap (Conrad Ellam)
• Enfield area "private access": 20 Tufted Duck 9 m & 11 f/imm, 2 Hobby, Eurasian Curlew flew NE calling 1054 to 1056 BST [first record locally for 11 yrs - last one on 29th December 2010], Green Woodpecker, m Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Skylark, Grey Wagtail, 2 Common Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, f Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, 4 Chaffinch, 3 Greenfinch (Robert Callf/Eugene Dillon-Hooper)
• Hampstead Heath “Late afternoon, after the rain stopped”: 2 Tree Pipit flushed on Parliament Hill, Whinchat, 2 Spotted Flycatcher, Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, 5 Chiffchaff (Hampstead Heath Birders)
• Lamorbey Park: 8 Egyptian Geese, f/imm Teal on main lake then roosted on golf course, Peregrine, Kingfisher main lake from 1915, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5+ Chiffchaff, c10 Goldcrest, Nuthatch {Brown Hawker, Southern Hawker, several Migrant Hawker} (Ian Stewart)
• Leyton "Jubilee Wood": Whinchat (James Blake)
• London Wetland Centre: Pectoral Sandpiper, Knot, Garganey, 2 Spotted Flycatcher, Common Sandpiper, 3 Snipe, Sedge Warbler, 7 Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Yellow Wagtail (Oscar Dewhurst/WWT website)
• Oxleas Wood: 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Nuthatch, Coal Tit, 2 Jackdaw, 2 Hobby, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Blackcap (Ron Turner)
• Ravenor Park, Greenford: low circling Common Buzzard [then mobbed by 3 Crows], Red Kite snatching item from newly cut grass (Neil Anderson)
• Richmond Park: 1 Tree Pipit, 2 Common Whitethroat, 2 Stonechat (Norbert Jakab)
• Sidcup DA15 "Lamorbey" : 2-3 Chiffchaff with mixed Tit flock this afternoon (Mike Amos)
• Sidcup DA15 “York Avenue”: Hobby low through gardens 1649, Tawny Owl calling 2356, Great Spotted Woodpecker, m Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff [inc bird with no eye area markings other than light eye ring and light grey legs- general plumage and jizz suggested Chiffchaff], Jay (Ian Stewart)
• Thames Barrier: 108 Sandwich Tern present from 0929 until at least 1000, 20+ Linnet (Ian Ellis)
• Trent Park: Kingfisher perched on metal fence panel near Icehouse Wd 1252 flew up lower lake (Robert Callf)
• Wandsworth Common: Spotted Flycatcher (Nick Rutter)
• Wanstead Flats: 6 Shoveler, 6 gadwall, 3 Pochard, 7 Tufted Duck, 14 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Willow Warbler, 11 Chiffchaff, Goldcrest, Song Thrush, Whinchat, Wheatear, Grey Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, 17 Meadow Pipit (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: 45 Gadwall, 3 Teal (Jonathan Lethbridge)
• Watermeadows Open Space: Kingfisher, 2 Goldcrest (Jack Headley)
• Woodberry Wetlands: 5 Red-crested Pochard, 4 Wigeon, 50 Shoveler, Teal, Snipe (Chris Farthing)

Monday 13th September 2021

• Alexandra Park: Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Meadow Pipit, Kingfisher, Peregrine (APOG Birders)
• Brent Reservoir: f Ruddy Shelduck, Ruff, 3 Snipe, 4 Lapwing, 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 10+ House Martin, Pied Wagtail (Barry Wilson) Garganey (Ron)
• Eastcote, Field End Rec: Whitethroat, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, Green Woodpecker (Tim Rymer)
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juvs, 15 Tufted Duck 6 m & 9 f/imm, 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 4 Red-legged Partridge, 4 Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, m Whinchat, 8+ Chiffchaff, 3 Jay, 4 Rook, f Chaffinch, Goldfinch, 5 Linnet {3 f Meadow Brown, 3 Small Heath, Red Admiral, Comma} (Robert Callf)
• Guildhall EC2: 2 Black Redstart (George Kalli)
• Hampstead Heath: 3 Spotted Flycatcher, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Meadow Pipit, Buzzard, Shoveler, Cetti’s Warbler, Willow Warbler (Hampstead Heath Birders)
• Hyde Park: 6 House Martin (Ray Crouch)
• Lonsdale Rd Res [part of WeBS]: 4 Little Egret, 8 Shoveler, 17 Gadwall, 26 Teal, Kingfisher (Neil Anderson)
• London Wetland Centre: Pectoral Sandpiper still, Knot, Ruff, 3 Yellow Wagtail S/SE, 4 Snipe (WWT website) Little Egret (Neil Anderson) around 1615 a Peregrine spooked Lapwings and the Sandpiper which landed in front of the Wildside hide for 5 mins before it went back over to original area, Yellow Wagtail, Sparrowhawk (Michael Mac). Juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper, juvenile Ruff & Lapwing flock etc. spooked by 2 hunting Peregrine Falcons but Pectoral Sandpiper returned to feed outside WWF hide. Adult Peregrine sat on long sandy island early afternoon. Willow Warbler fly catching. (Bob Husband, Tony Clancy, David Hills et al)
• Margravine Cemetery: Northern Wheatear [first record for the site] (Nathalie Mahieu)
• Oxleas Wood: Hobby, Green Woodpecker. 4 Jackdaw (Ron Turner)
• Sidcup DA15 “York Avenue”: 2 Sparrowhawk in garden male chased off imm female, Peregrine, Coot heard early hours, Tawny Owl calling soon after midnight, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Chiffchaff, Jay (Ian Stewart)
• South Lodge Farm: 17 Barn Swallow, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 6 Pied Wagtail, 2 Goldfinch (Robert Callf)
• Wanstead Flats: 7 Shoveler, 11 Gadwall, 6 Teal, 6 Pochard, 5 Tufted Duck, 5 Little Grebe, Sparrowhawk, 2 Little Owl, 3 Skylark, Willow Warbler, 13 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 3 Common Whitethroat, 3 Whinchat, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 33 Meadow Pipit (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: 28 Gadwall, 2 Pochard, 5 Tufted Duck, 4 Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, 2 Stock Dove, Sparrowhawk, Kingfisher, 2 Reed Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, Grey Wagtail (Nick Croft)
• Woodford Green: m Blackcap, Chiffchaff, f/imm Common Redstart through neighbour’s grdn at 0955 [my 4th through the grdns this year compared to just five in the previous 37 years] (Ken Murray)
• Woolwich Common: 2 Kestrel, 2 Willow Warbler, Hobby, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Chiffchaff, Buzzard, Whinchat (Ron Turner)
• Victoria Park Bar headed goose...poss hybrid? 3:30 (Sue Barry)

Sunday 12th September 2021

• Alexandra Park: Common Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, Lesser Whitethroat all in cricket scrub, Yellow Wagtail on cricket pitches then flew south west, 3 Meadow Pipit, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, Kingfisher (APOG Birders)
• Brent Reservoir: f Ruddy Shelduck, Garganey, Ruff, 4 Snipe, 4 Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper, Kingfisher, 6 Meadow Pipit, 4 Swift, Peregrine, Buzzard (Brent Birders)
• Bushy Park: 2 Whinchat, 2 Stonechat, 5 Mistle Thrush, 7 Green Woodpecker (John Strachan)
• Chessington Golf Centre [disused and another site earmarked for house building]: Common Snipe flushed at small pond, it returned later, 3 Common Buzzard [together], Kestrel, Swallow, Whitethroat, 3 Jay, 3 Green Woodpecker (Michael Mac)
• Cranford CP: Kingfisher, Wheatear, 5 Red Kite (Wendy Marks)
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juvs, 21 Tufted Duck 7 m & 14 f/imm, Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 2 Meadow Pipit [first of the autumn], 3 Whinchat, f Stonechat [first of the autumn], f/imm Northern Wheatear, Common Whitethroat, 6 Chaffinch, m Greenfinch, 18 Goldfinch {6+ Red Admiral, 2+ Peacock, 2+ Meadow Brown} (Robert Callf)
• Hampstead Heath: 3 Spotted Flycatcher, Whinchat, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail N, 21 Meadow Pipit over, Hobby, 75 House Martin, Swallow E, 2 Sand Martin N, Swift [late record for this site], 3 Common Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, 2 Willow Warbler (Hampstead Heath Birders)
• London Wetland Centre: Pectoral Sandpiper found by J Anderson, Knot, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail SW (WWT website)
• Priest Hill: Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, Grey Wagtail (Neil Batten)
• Primrose Hill: Sparrowhawk over Gloucester Avenue (Robert Ulph)
• Richmond Park: Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Whinchat, Hobby (Hugh Bradshaw)
• Russell Square WC1 : Spotted Flycatcher in trees by the South entrance 1540 imaged (Ken Murray)
• Sidcup DA15 “York Avenue”: Red Kite N 1209, Common Buzzard to N 1210, Sparrowhawk, falcon sp N 1214 (Ian Stewart)
• Staines Moor: Whinchat, Stonechat, m Wheatear, 2 Yellow Wagtail, Kingfisher, Hobby, 2 Red Kite, Cetti’s Warbler, Little Egret (Iain Darbyshire) 2 Whinchat, Wheatear, 3 Hobby together, Sedge Warbler (Jon Reeves)
• Swanscombe Marsh "1645-1830": 4 Snipe, 3 Whinchat, 2 Reed Warbler, 5 Stonechat, 2 Grey Heron, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 11 Mallard, Yellow Wagtail, juv Pochard, Teal (Roger Keith)
• Ten Acre Wood area: m Pheasant, 2 Grey Heron, Red Kite, 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Sparrowhawk m & f, Kestrel, 29 Collared Dove [record count, by stables], 7 Stock Dove, 3 Skylark, Grey Wagtail, Pied Wagtail, 10 Meadow Pipit, m Wheatear, 3 Common Whitethroat, 3 Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff, 3 Rook, 4 Reed Bunting, 8 Greenfinch {2 Red Admiral, 4 Comma} (Neil Anderson)
• Totteridge Valley: f/imm Wheatear, 6 Yellow Wagtail, 20 Linnet, 2 Buzzard, Red Kite (Tony Clancy)
• Walthamstow Marshes: 8 Yellow Wagtail moving around rear horse paddocks am (Dave Jordan)
• Wanstead Flats: 4 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, 2 Teal, 2 Pochard, 3 Tufted Duck, 9 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Mediterranean Gull, Common Gull, Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, 4 Little Owl, 2 Skylark, Willow Warbler, 25 Chiffchaff, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Common Whitethroat, Mistle Thrush, Spotted Flycatcher, Common Redstart, 4 Whinchat, Wheatear, 2 Grey Wagtail, 5 Yellow Wagtail, 24 Meadow Pipit (Wanstead Birders)
• Woolwich Common: 2 Whinchat, Willow Warbler, 10+ Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 2 Meadow Pipit, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Greenfinch, Kestrel, Grey Heron over (Tim Rymer)
• Yeading Brook meadows: Pheasant, 3 Red Kite, Kestrel, Lesser Whitethroat, Chiffchaff {Red Admiral, 2 Small Copper} (Neil Anderson)

Saturday 11th September 2021

• Alexandra Park: 2 Raven low from east at 0937, then headed south, c150 Barn Swallow mostly heading SW, 7+ House Martin, 7 Meadow Pipit SW, Spotted Flycatcher in cricket scrub, 4 Blackcap, 3+ Chiffchaff, Common Whitethroat, Kingfisher (APOG BIrders)
• Brent Reservoir: f Ruddy Shelduck, Garganey, 4 Green Sandpiper, 3 Lapwing, 2 Snipe, Swift, Spotted Flycatcher (Brent Birders). 1 - 2 Willow Warbler singing by Canoe Club at 0830 (Bill Haines)
• Enfield area "private access" [including Vicarage Farm, see below]: 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juv, 15 Tufted Duck 6 m & 9 f/imm, 2 Kestrel, 2 Whinchat, 4 Northern Wheatear [3 together at one site, 1 at another site], Common Whitethroat, 14+ Goldfinch (Robert Callf/David Hills/Bob Husband)
• Kingston Bridge: Black Swan (R Dunne)
• Richmond Park: 3 Whinchat [the Bog], m Common Redstart [gorse enclosure], Meadow Pipit (Hugh Bradshaw)
• Sidcup DA15 “York Avenue”: c20 Sand Martin S, Chiffchaff (Ian Stewart)
• South Lodge Farm: 9 Barn Swallow, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 7 Pied Wagtail, Linnet (Robert Callf)
• Upper College Farm DA5: Swallow, few House Martins, 2 Whinchat, Blackcap, Chiffchaff (Ian Stewart)
• Vicarage Farm "mostly private access": Northern Wheatear, 2 Whinchat, 2 Red Kite, 2 Common Buzzard, Kestrel, 2 Hobby including calling juvenile, Yellow Wagtail, 24 Barn Swallow. Enfield Plan includes a proposal to build c. 5000 homes on this Green Belt site - last date to object Monday 13 September 2021 (Bob Husband) Please sign the petition - thanks;https://chng.it/q7srmbbJK9 (Michael Mac - that's one of best views I've seen around the Green belt, shame to see it built on)(Not clear who has added this link - More information on NW LONDON RSPB GROUP website. Bob Husband)
• Trent Park: 2 f Mandarin Duck, 2 f Tufted Duck, Lesser Whitethroat {Humming-bird Hawk-moth - NFY, Painted Lady, Red Admiral, 6 Comma, Speckled Wood) (Robert Callf)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: 7 Wheatear, Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail (Walthamstow birders)
• Wanstead Flats: 4 Shoveler, 10 Gadwall, 2 Teal, 2 Pochard, 7 Tufted Duck, 7 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Stock Dove, 4 Collared Dove, 2 Common Gull, 2 Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, Little Owl, Hobby, Peregrine, Skylark, Willow Warbler, 21 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 8 Common Whitethroat, 4 Mistle Thrush, 2 Spotted Flycatcher, 9 Whinchat, 6 Wheatear, 7 Yellow Wagtail (Wanstead Birders)
• WaterWorks NR: Whinchat in cow field (Graham Howie), 2 Whinchat there by 1600 (James Blake)
• Woodford Green: Chiffchaff, juv Goldcrest, Spotted Flycatcher by 0815, Hobby over low and N at 1100 (Ken Murray)
• Woolwich Common: 2 Whinchat ( Conrad Ellam)

Friday 10th September 2021

• Brookmill Park: Kingfisher (Conrad Ellam)
• Alexandra Park: Pied Flycatcher, Willow Warbler Cricket Scrub, Yellow Wagtail, 7+ Chiffchaff, 3+ Blackcap, Common Whitethroat (APOG Birders)
• Boxer's Lake: 6 Mute Swan pr w/ four juvs, 4 Mandarin Duck, 5 Northern Shoveler 4 eclipse m & f, 2 f/imm Tufted Duck, 8 Black-headed Gull (Robert Callf)
• Brent Reservoir: f Ruddy Shelduck, 2 Snipe, 4 Lapwing, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Little Egret, Northern Shoveler, 5 House Martin (Barry Wilson)
• Burgess Park: Common Buzzard (Steven Robinson)
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juvs, 19 Tufted Duck 7 m & 12 f/imm, Sparrowhawk, 2 Common Buzzard, Kestrel, ad m Common Redstart perched on wooden fencing along hedgerow 0617 & 0625 and again 0910 to 0919, 5 Mistle Thrush, Sedge Warbler calling & seen well in willow 0701 [FOY - my first record locally since 21st April 2019], m Blackcap, Chiffchaff, 2 Chaffinch, 8 Goldfinch (Robert Callf), 5 Yellow Wagtail, Whinchat, 2 Common Whitethroat, Common Redstart still midday (Eugene Dillon-Hooper)
• Hampstead Heath: Spotted Flycatcher, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Peregrine, Cetti’s Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, 3 Gadwall (Hampstead Heath Birders)
• Hampton Wick Pond: 8 Gadwall, 4 Red-crested Pochard (Nick Tanner)
• Hogsmill NR: Hobby, 2 Blackcap, Chiffchaff (Nick Tanner)
• KGV Res: Goldeneye, 4 Ringed Plover S, 2 Wheatear (A Middleton)
• Lamorbey Park: 8 Egyptian Geese, Grey Wagtail, 2+ Chiffchaff, Goldcrests, Nuthatch (Ian Stewart)
• Leatherhead, Randalls Way: 9 Swallow SE 0910, singing Chiffchaff, c300 Starling perched on wires near Tesco store {Southern Hawker} (Neil Batten)
• Malden Rushett: large Hirundine flock hawking insects over Rushett Lane 0845 (Neil Batten)
• Oxleas Wood: 2 Hobby (Ron Turner)
• Perivale Park: Little Egret, Kestrel, 5 Stock Dove, 2 Grey Wagtail, f Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff, loose flock c30 Greenfinch [Cockatiel] (Neil Anderson)
• Rainham Marshes: Cattle Egret, Great Egret, 36 Little Egret, 2 Marsh Harrier, Common Buzzard, 31 Avocet, 105 Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 8 Snipe, Skylark, 2 Meadow Pipit, 3 Yellow Wagtail, Sedge Warbler (Andrew Self, John Cadera)
• Sidcup: Grey Heron being mobbed by 27 Ring-necked Parakeet over Hollies and Halfway Street. (Eric Brown)
• Swanscombe Marsh [[1]] LT: 4 Green Sandpiper, 3 Kestrel inc two juvs, 47 Mallard [16 Botany Marsh and 31 river], 3 Stock Dove, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Snipe [Botany Marsh], Teal, juv Pochard, 7 Lapwing [2 Botany Marsh and 5 river], 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Red-Legged Partridge, Yellow-legged Gull, 7 Great Black-backed Gull [probably inc WF5T on usual perch but ring muddied], Lesser Black-backed Gull, 7 Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, Grey Heron, 5 Cormorant, Chiffchaff, Skylark (Roger Keith)
• Trent Park: 4 f Mandarin Duck, 2 f Tufted Duck, 2 Black-headed Gull, Kingfisher perched & in flight lower lake 0830, 4 Mistle Thrush, Chiffchaff, 3 Nuthatch, 3 Jay (Robert Callf)
• Upper College Farm DA5: 10+ Swallow, 20+ House Martin, Whinchat, 6+ Blackcap, 4+ Chiffchaff, 5 Linnet (Ian Stewart)
• Wandle Meadow Nature Park "Colliers Wood": Common Whitethroat, 22 Goldfinch, Chiffchaff {Migrant Hawker} (Keith Bates)
• Wanstead Flats: 2 Shoveler, 11 Gadwall, Teal, 2 Pochard, Tufted Duck, 7 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Stock Dove, Little Owl, Kestrel, Hobby, Reed Warbler, 11 Chiffchaff, 2 Common Whitethroat, 4 Mistle Thrush, 5 Whinchat, 3 Wheatear (Wanstead Birders)
• Woolwich Common: Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Green Woodpecker, 3 Chiffchaff, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Willow Warbler, 2 Whinchat (Ron Turner)

Thursday 9th September 2021

• Alexandra Park: Spotted Flycatcher in Cricket Scrub (APOG Birders)
• Brent Reservoir: f Ruddy Shelduck, Little Egret (Andrew Self)
• Charlton: Hobby chasing and harassing Sparrowhawk (David Higham)
• Crossness NR : 2 Barn Owl, 2 Whinchat, Wheatear, 4 Common Sandpiper Thames foreshore (Bernie Weight)
• Ealing "W13": Common Redshank sound recorded over garden at 0451 (Bill Haines)
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juvs [40 days old], 17 Tufted Duck 7 m & 10 f/imm, Sparrowhawk, 2 Common Buzzard, Kestrel, 6 Red-legged Partridge, 2 juv Green Woodpecker, m Great Spotted Woodpecker, ad m Common Redstart perched on wooden fencing along hedgerow 1147 to 1149 [fourth bird of the autumn here], 4 Chiffchaff, 10 Linnet (Robert Callf)
• Greenwich: 10 Pied Wagtail (Ray Crouch)
• Hampstead Heath: Spotted Flycatcher, Cetti’s Warbler, Reed Warbler, f Shoveler, 3 Gadwall, f Teal, 4 Little Grebe, Peregrine, Kestrel (Hampstead Heath Birders)
• Lamorbey Park: 8 Egyptian Geese inc six imm, Tawny Owl calling 2200, 2 Kingfisher main lake from 1910, Nuthatch (Ian Stewart)
• Malden Rushett: Red Kite low E mobbed by corvids 0853 (Neil Batten)
• Oxleas Wood: Sparrowhawk, 3 Hobby, Common Buzzard (Ron Turner)
• RSPB Rainham Marshes: Great Egret, Cattle Egret, Bearded Tit, Swallow, Hobby, Wheatear, 29 Little Egret, Reed Warbler, 19 Black-tailed Godwit (Shailesh Patel)
• Sidcup DA14 “Waring Park”: Kestrel, Jay (Ian Stewart)
• Tate Modern: Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler (James Palmer)
• Totteridge Valley: Pied Flycatcher [Owl Field], juv Hobby (Tony Clancy)
• Upper College Farm DA5: Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 2 Swift, c10 Swallow, c20 House Martin, 3+ Blackcap, 7+ Whitethroat, 10+ Chiffchaff (Ian Stewart)
• Walthamstow Marshes: 2 Northern Wheatear rear paddocks (Alastair Dent), Green Sandpiper, 2 Peregrine, 4 Little Egret, Wheatear at Lockwood (David Rose)
• Wandle Meadow Nature Park "Colliers Wood": Common Whitethroat (Keith Bates)
• Wanstead Flats: 5 Shoveler, 9 Gadwall, Pochard, 8 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe (still), 3 Stock Dove, 3 Sparrowhawk, Hobby, Peregrine, 25 Swallow, Willow Warbler, 12 Chiffchaff, 6 Common Whitethroat, 4 Mistle Thrush, 3 Whinchat, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail (Wanstead Birders)
• Woodford Green: 2 Blackcap, Chiffchaff & Spotted Flycatcher through by 0945, Hobby low and SW at 1030, Sandwich Tern low & NW at 1820 [grdn record], flyover Spotted Redshank calling at 2350 [grdn record] (Ken Murray)
• Woolwich Common: Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Stock Dove, juv Bullfinch (Conrad Ellam)
• Wormwood Scrubs: Spotted Flycatcher (Jon Reeves)

Wednesday 8th September 2021

• Brent Reservoir: f Ruddy Shelduck around rafts (Andrew Self); 5 Snipe, 4 Lapwing, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, Little Egret (Barry Wilson)
• Alexandra Park: Spotted Flycatcher , Common Whitethroat Cricket Scrub (APOG Birders)
• Blackheath: 2 Yellow Wagtails - one heard, one flying north and over Greenwich Park (Joe Beale)
• Brookmill Park: 2 Stock Dove, Kingfisher, Blackcap (Conrad Ellam)
• Deodar Road "Putney": House Martin still going into a nest (Michael Mac)
• Grovelands Park: Grey Wagtail, Great Crested Grebe [still on nest, no chicks, assume failed], Treecreeper, Goldcrest, 6 Egyptian Goose inc 4 juvs (Marcus Hunt) Great Crested Grebe have not bred successfully at this site for a number of years; reason being that the lake is polluted & does not have small enough fish/prey to feed small young - R Callf
• London Wetland Centre: Knot main lake, but mobile (WWT website)
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three juvs [39 days old - fully-fledged & flying, feeding conditions have been good this year w/ all young surviving to fledging, last year only one of three chicks survived], 14 Tufted Duck 5 m & 9 f/imm, Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 2 Hobby, Green Woodpecker, Skylark, Yellow Wagtail flew S calling 0651, 2 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff {Common Blue} (Robert Callf)
• Finchley "Garden N3": 10+ House Martin 1845 (Samuel Levy)
• Leatherhead, Randalls Way: 3 Chiffchaff inc one singing, possible Raven pair distantly following M25 clockwise {Southern Hawker} (Neil Batten)
• Ruislip Gardens "Stafford Open Space": Red Kite, 4 Sparrowhawk incl 3 together, 2 Swallow, 4 Chiffchaff {9 butterfly spp incl Brown Hairstreak, Small Copper, Southern Hawker} (Neil Anderson)
• RSPB Rainham Marshes: 2 Shelduck, 62 Shoveler, 45 Gadwall, 9 Wigeon, 3 Pintail, 154 Teal, Pochard, 8 Tufted Duck, 9 Little Grebe, 3 Great Crested Grebe, 271 Coot, 38 Avocet, 116 Lapwing, 2 Curlew, 107 Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, Sanderling, 8 Common Snipe, 2 Redshank, Common Gull, 3 Great White Egret, 33 Little Egret, Cattle Egret, 4 Marsh Harrier, 4 Common Buzzard, Kestrel, 3 Hobby, 4 Bearded Tit, 5 Swallow, 6 Chiffchaff, 8 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Blackcap, Common Whitethroat, 2 Spotted Flycatcher, Grey Wagtail, 3 Yellow Wagtail, Greenfinch (Samuel Levy, Keir Chauhan, Andrew Millham, Kieran Lee, Frankie Robertson, Hannes Leonard)
• Sidcup DA14 “Waring Park”: Great Spotted Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, Nuthatch (Ian Stewart)
• Sidcup DA15 "York Avenue": Tawny Owl calling after midnight, Peregrine, Sparrowhawk caught and ate Pigeon on patio, Blackcap, Chiffchaff (Ian Stewart)
• Trent Park: Grey Heron, 5 Mandarin Duck, 3 f Tufted Duck, Kestrel, Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, m Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff, Nuthatch (Robert Callf)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: Common Redstart, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Wheatear, Green Sandpiper (Walthamstow birders)
• Wanstead Flats: 2 Shoveler, 5 Gadwall, Pochard, 3 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe [still], Common Gull, 2 Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, Kestrel, 2 Hobby, 8 Swallow, 2 Willow Warbler, 10 Chiffchaff, Common Whitethroat, Mistle Thrush, 4 Whinchat, 2 Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: Cetti’s Warbler (Simon Raper)
• Woodford Green: 2 Chiffchaff, Common Whitethroat , Hobby through by 1045 (Ken Murray)

Tuesday 7th September 2021

• Alexandra Park: Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap in Cricket Scrub {Willow Emerald Damselfly} (APOG Birders)
• Brent Reservoir: f Ruddy Shelduck, 2 Little Egret, Lapwing, 2 Snipe, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 5+ House Martin (Barry Wilson)
• Boxer's Lake: Little Egret, 5 eclipse m Northern Shoveler (Robert Callf)
• Brockwell Park: 2 Swift seen approx over Tulse Hill, m Bullfinch in top of Holly along Dulwich Road (Michael Mac)
• Denham Lock Wood: Pied Flycatcher briefly at TQ056865 before being swept up in tit flock and lost to view. North of the beginning of the boardwalk around pit 4, which is gated and no access at that end at least (Dan Pinkham)
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three chicks [38 days old], 13 Tufted Duck 3 m & 10 f/imm, 2 Sparrowhawk, 3 Kestrel, 2 Hobby ad & juv, Tawny Owl calling loudly at 0550 to 0557, 4 Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Skylark, Grey Wagtail, 13 Pied Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, 4 Chiffchaff inc one singing (Robert Callf) What's this business with covering the times of observations with a number? I can't read it when I click on the number. Totally unnecessary - R Callf [Fandom did that because it thinks you are writing a phone number. Don't write long sequences of digits with no spaces in between]
• Finchley "Garden N3": Blackcap, Chiffchaff, 2 Common Buzzard 1330 (Samuel Levy)
• Hampstead Heath: f Common Redstart, 2 Whinchat, 2 Wheatear [all at hedge 2], Yellow Wagtail N, Grey Wagtail, Cetti’s Warbler [Hampstead no 2 pond], Common Whitethroat, 30 Sand Martin S, 5 Swallow S (Hampstead Heath Birders) 2 Whinchat, Common Redstart, Common Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, 2 Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Hobby West Meadow Kenwood. (Dave Porritt with MBS)
• Lamorbey Park: Grey Wagtail, Blackcap, 4+ Chiffchaff, 10+ Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch (Ian Stewart)
• Potters Bar: Pied Flycatcher with tit flock in Parkfield Japanese Garden (Billy Dykes)
• Sidcup DA15: Firecrest at The Hollies in thicket opp Leisure Centre also 4+ Goldcrest, Nuthatch; 2 Swallow E over York Ave 1128 (Ian Stewart)
• Stoneleigh KT17: Chiffchaff in The Glade (Neil Batten)
• Swanscombe Marsh: 4 Lapwing, 4 Stonechat, 5 Whinchat, f Common Redstart, Hobby, juv Pochard, juv Tufted Duck, Whitethroat, 2 Raven, Water Rail, Cetti's Warbler, 7 Mallard (Roger Keith)
• Trent Park: 3 f Tufted Duck, Kingfisher, 12+ Barn Swallow, House Martin, Mistle Thrush, Common Whitethroat, 4 Blackcap, 2+ Chiffchaff, Nuthatch {Comma} (Robert Callf)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 4 Red-legged Partridge, 33 Stock Dove, Sparrowhawk, Little Owl, Kestrel, 2 Hobby, 8 Rook, 40 Swallow, 50 House Martin, 2 Wllow Warbler, 30 Chiffchaff, 9 Blackcap, 6 Common Whitethroat, 5 Goldcrest, 4 Nuthatch, Treecreeper, 6 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Bullfinch, 2 Greenfinch (Samuel Levy)
• Tufnell Park "N7": Swift S at 0728, Sparrowhawk, Chiffchaff (Reuben Braddock)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: Spotted Flycatcher, Whinchat, Wheatear, Swift (Walthamstow birders)
• Wanstead Flats: Shoveler, 8 Gadwall, 3 Pochard, 2 Tufted Duck, 2 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, 2 Stock Dove, Cuckoo [still], Sparrowhawk, 3 Buzzard, Little Owl, Kestrel, House Martin, 6 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 4 Common Whitethroat, Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Pied Flycatcher, Whinchat, 3 Wheatear, 3 Yellow Wagtail (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: 12 Gadwall, 5 Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Hobby, 3 Reed Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, Cetti’s Warbler, 2 Common Whitethroat, Nuthatch (Nick Croft)
• Warren Farm Hanwell: 2 Yellow Wagtail, Northern Wheatear, 2+ Chiffchaff, 3+ Linnet, Red Kite (Bill Haines)
• Whitechapel: Peregrine flew from Shadwell and perched on SE corner of Royal London Hospital at 1722 (Dan Fletcher)
• Woodford Green: Raven over E escorted by Ring-necked Parakeets, Chiffchaff through grdn, f Common Redstart, 2 Goldcrest, 2 Blackcap by 0930 (Ken Murray)
• Woolwich Common: Kestrel, Blackcap, 3 Whitethroat, 6 Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
  

Monday 6th September 2021

• Alexandra Park: Pied Flycatcher still Cricket Scrub, Common Buzzard (APOG Birders)
• Brent Reservoir: f Ruddy Shelduck, Whinchat, 2 Chiffchaff, Buzzard, Kestrel, 3 Little Egret, 3 Lapwing, 2 Snipe, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper (Shailesh Patel) Wigeon (Andrew Self)
• Boxer's Lake: 3 Cormorant, Little Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 5 Mandarin Duck, 5 eclipse m Northern Shoveler, 6 Tufted Duck, 17 Black-headed Gull, Kingfisher, Barn Swallow {5 Speckled Wood} (Robert Callf)
• Brookmill Park: Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Blackcap (Conrad Ellam)
• Crossness: 10+ Gadwall, 2f Shoveler, c150 Teal, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 4 Little Egret, Red Kite, 2-3 Common Buzzard, 2 Sparrowhawk, 2+ Kestrel, 28 Ringed Plover [east end of patch on Thames mud], 7 Dunlin, 3 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper [S Marsh], 5+ Redshank, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 3+ Yellow-legged Gull, 5+ Common Tern 2 ad 3+ juv, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2+ Blackcap, 2+ Whitethroat, c10 Cetti’s Warbler, 5+ Reed Warbler, Willow Warbler, 20+ Chiffchaff, Linnet [6+ Willow Emerald, Southern Hawker, several Migrant Hawker, 3m Southern Migrant Hawker, Brown Hawker, many Darters mainly Common but a few Ruddy] (Ian Stewart, Jack Headley)
• Dagnam Park, Harold Hill: 3 Pied Flycatcher, f Redstart (Colin Jupp, per A Middleton)
• Hampstead Heath: Whitethroat & Lesser Whitethroat in willow tree at Hedge 3, 2 Grey Wagtail & Swallow over, 15 Chiffchaff around hill and hedges but no Willow Warbler seen (Pete Mantle)
• Newton Park West: Whinchat (Michael Robinson)
• Richmond Park: 3 Whinchat, m Stonechat, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff around cattle enclosure (Mike Lewis per FJM) 2 Yellow Wagtail, Common Snipe, Wheatear (Alex Westenberger) 2 Spotted Flycatcher, Whinchat, 8 Stonechat, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Whitethroat (John Strachan) Where were the Spotted Flycatchers? AW
• South Lodge Farm: 4 Yellow Wagtail (Robert Callf)
• Staines Res: Black Tern, Little Gull, 5 Black-necked Grebe, 2+ Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear (Andy Roberts)
• Swanscombe Marsh Botany Marsh 1615-1800: 2 Lapwing, 5 Snipe, 10 Whinchat, 5 Stonechat inc 4m, juv Pochard, 2 Raven, Blackcap, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, 2 Cetti's Warbler, juv Tufted Duck, Reed Warbler, Stock Dove, Sparrowhawk, 2 Teal, 5 Mallard, Water Rail (Roger Keith/Paul Larkin)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: Whinchat [Lower Corn Field], 2 Spotted Flycatcher [Old Gropper, Upper Corn Field], 5 Yellow Wagtail, Shoveler [Darlands - FOY], 32 Stock Dove, Common Gull, Sparrowhawk, Grey Heron, 3 Common Buzzard, Little Owl, 2 Kestrel, 4 Hobby, 10 Rook, 2 Coal Tit, 60 Swallow, 40 House Martin, 3 Willow Warbler, 40 Chiffchaff, 23 Blackcap, Lesser Whitethroat, 12 Common Whitethroat, 10 Goldcrest, 11 Nuthatch, Treecreeper, 9 Starling, Grey Wagtail, 4 Bullfinch, 4 Greenfinch, 5 Pied Wagtail (Samuel Levy)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: Common Redstart, Redshank, Garden Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, 3 Lesser Whitethroat (Walthamstow birders)
• Wandle Meadow Nature Park "Colliers Wood": {f Brown Hairstreak} (Keith Bates)
• Wandsworth Common: Pied Flycatcher (Nick Rutter)
• Wanstead Flats: Marsh Harrier W (Nick Croft),Wryneck [still], Black-necked Grebe [still], 4 Shoveler, 10 Gadwall, 8 Tufted Duck, 8 Little Grebe, 2 Stock Dove, Cuckoo, Little Egret, 2 Sparrowhawk, 25 Buzzard [23 in one single movement, which according to Andrew Self's Birds of London equals the record that ... oh! we hold already! Yay!], 2 Little Owl, Kestrel, Hobby, Peregrine, Jay, Jackdaw, Skylark, 27 Swallow, 10 Sand Martin, 6 House Martin, Willow Warbler, 10 Chiffchaff, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 7 Common Whitethroat, Mistle Thrush, 4 Spotted Flycatcher, Pied Flycatcher, Common Redstart, 4 Whinchat, 2 Northern Wheatear, Grey Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Tree Pipit (Wanstead Flats)
• Waterworks NR Wheatear 1230 (Hackney U3A bird group Loraine Meadows)
• Wimbledon Common: Whinchat & Spotted Flycatcher flycatching from the same tree, 2 Willow Warbler, Common Snipe, Peregrine (Jon Reeves)
• Woolwich Common: 2 Blackcap, 5 Whitethroat, 10 Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)

Sunday 5th September 2021

• Alexandra Park: Grasshopper Warbler, Redstart, Pied Flycatcher, Lesser Whitethroat (APOG Birders)
• Berrylands garden: Common Buzzard E mobbed by 2 Carrion Crow (Nick Tanner)
• Brent Reservoir: f Ruddy Shelduck, 3 Lapwing, Snipe, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 15 Swift (Andrew Self). 3 Little Egret, Garganey in eclipse plumage (Bob Husband et al)Common Redstart (Francis O'Sullivan)
• Burgess Park: Pied Flycatcher in woodland near Parkhouse St - near steps/glade between 1540-1555 (Steven Robinson), still present at 1830, approximately 50 metres east of the steps, also Spotted Flycatcher by the entrance west of Wells Street and Buzzard over (Gregor Tims)
• Bushy Park: 3 Whinchat, 2 Stonechat, 2 Sparrowhawk, 5 Reed Bunting, 3 Whitethroat, 2 Blackcap, Hobby (John Strachan)
• Chessington: 2 Grey Wagtail at garden pond (Nigel Jackman)
• Chislehurst Common: Pied Flycatcher (Jack Headley) Showed well feeding in clearing on north side of Bromley Road just north of War Memorial c1420 [thanks Jack] also 7+ Nuthatch, 4+ Treecreeper [3+ Willow Emerald, 3 Common Darter] (Ian Stewart)
• Crossness: 2 Sandwich Tern downriver at 11.20, Common Snipe, 9 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Common Tern [adult feeding juv at outfall], {6+ Southern Migrant Hawker including 2 pairs in cop} (John Archer & Robert Todd ) Arctic Tern at Outfall feeding one juvenile, a 2nd juvenile looked slightly different and was not fed - by the time I realized they were different all 3 left the area after 10 minutes at 14:30 , 2 Common Buzzard alighted in bushes, Kingfisher flew across the dual carriageway, Chiffchaff, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, juv Cuckoo [Southmarsh] very tame (Michael Mac) [discussion deleted - Admin]
• Dagenham Chase NR: Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, 5 Swift, 5 Wigeon, 4 Lapwing, Hobby, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk & Buzzard. (Vince Halley-Frame)
• Erith Pier: 2 Yellow-legged Gull [both 1cy] (Richard Bonser)
• Finsbury Park: Spotted Flycatcher feeding at sunset (Harringay Birder)
• Greenford "UB6" garden: Honey Buzzard in from north at 1610 [on bowed wings & longer tail & wings than Buzzard, different head shape] & then circled to west of garden for 1-2 minutes where it was briefly mobbed by 6 Swift [first here for over 2 weeks]; before heading east (whole time wings held downwards but no plumage details discerned), 3 Swallow together SE (Neil Anderson)
• Hackney Downs: Buzzard, Sparrowhawk. (Bryan Waters)
• Hackney Marshes: Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Egret, Little Grebe, Grey Wagtail on the Lea (JW Davies)
• Ham: 4 Buzzards thermalling over the Polo Ground (Hugh Bradshaw)
• Hampstead Heath: Tree Pipit, Spotted Flycatcher, Swallow, Peregrine, 2 Buzzard, 3 Reed Warbler, Willow Warbler (Hampstead Heath Birders)
• Hogsmill NR: Common Buzzard, Common Sandpiper, singing Chiffchaff {White-letter Hairstreak, I know its rather late for this butterfly but I had really good binocular views and it was this species} (Nick Tanner)
• Hilfield Park Reservoir: Common Sandpiper (Tony Blake)
• KGV Res: 2 Black Tern, 7 Common Sandpiper, Little Stint, Whinchat, Northern Wheatear, Spotted Flycatcher, m Redstart [Brimsdown side], Hobby, 2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Yellow Wagtail (A Middleton)
• Lake Farm Country Park, Hayes: Tree Pipit over 0830, f Common Redstart, new bird, Spotted Flycatcher, Reed Warbler, 7 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Willow Warbler, 18 Chiffchaff, many Whitethroat & Blackcap (Dave Morris, Glen Longstaff, per FJM)
• Lamorbey Park: Peregrine, Kingfisher, 2+ Blackcap, c10 Chiffchaff, c10 Goldcrest, Nuthatch (Ian Stewart)
• London Wetland Centre: 15 Mandarin Duck, Common Tern, Buzzard (Shailesh Patel)
• Northolt & Greenford CP: f/imm Northern Wheatear {2 Willow Emerald, 4 Small Red-eyed Damselfly} (Kathryn Bull)
• Page's Farm, Elstree: m Common Redstart [View from kissing gate near footpath 8 & 37 sign on Hogg Lane, near entrance to aerodrome, TQ160963. Look to left and bird was around the stub of the hedge extending into the field at 1300 - On no account stray from the footpath here – you will be evicted] (Tony Blake)
• Queen’s Wood, N10/6: 9 Common Buzzard [streamed N/NE at 1420] (Matt Evans)
• Richmond Park: 3 Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail on cattle enclosure fence (Mike Lewis per FJM) also Hobby over Sidmouth Wood and 1-2 Lesser Whitethroats in the Hawthorn Valley ; 4 Buzzards together (Hugh Bradshaw)
• Scadbury Park: 2 Common Buzzard, f Kestrel, 3 Hobby [over Sidcup Place together and briefly mobbing Herring Gull], 10+ Blackcap, Whitethroat, 4+ Chiffchaff, Nuthatch, Bullfinch (Ian Stewart, Jack Headley)
• South Lodge Farm "1310-1400": 22+ Barn Swallow, 17+ Yellow Wagtail, Whinchat, f/imm Northern Wheatear (Robert Callf)
• Staines Moor: Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Garden Warbler, 4 Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, 4 Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 2 Red Kite, Common Buzzard, 20 Linnet, Reed Bunting, 50+ Swallow, 10 House Martin, Common Tern plus many usual birds (Nick Baker and Seb Sattin).
• Staines Reservoirs: Black Tern, 7 Black-necked Grebe on N basin, juv Little Gull S basin, 3 Common Tern, evng (Dave Morris per FJM)
• Stoke Newington West Reservoir: first-winter Common Redstart still in and around Corkscrew Willow on n edge of reservoir by children’s playground (James Palmer)
• Swanscombe Marsh 16.30-18.30 Botany Marsh: 5 Snipe [flushed by MH], m Marsh Harrier, 9 Whinchat, 5 Stonechat inc three males, 2 Chiffchaff, Reed Bunting f, Reed Warbler, 3 Cetti's Warbler, Water Rail, Whitethroat, Raven, juv Common Pochard, juv Tufted Duck, 2 Lapwing, 2 Wigeon (Roger Keith)
• Teddington: 2 Tawny Owl calling off Broom Road m then f turned up after he left (Mike Foster)
• Ten Acre Wood area: 2 Grey Heron, 3 Red Kite, 2 Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Hobby, Kestrel, c10 Stock Dove, 2 Skylark, Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Blackcap, Rook, 2 Linnet (Neil Anderson)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 4 Teal, 2 Grey Heron, Sparrowhawk, 4 Red Kite, 3 Common Buzzard, 4 Kestrel, 4 Hobby, 18 Rook, Raven S, 2 Coal Tit, 35 Swallow, 11 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap, 7 Common Whitethroat, 4 Goldcrest, 3 Nuthatch, Grey Wagtail, 5 Yellow Wagtail (Totteridge Valley Birders)
• Tooting Common: Spotted Flycatcher, Kestrel, Mandarin Duck (Alan Wilkinson)
• Trent Park area [by Merryhills Brook & Trent Park Stables Paddocks - 0800-0930]: 2 Common Redstart m & f, f/imm Northern Wheatear, 7 Yellow Wagtail [incl four first-winter], 2 White Wagtail, 25+ Swallow, 2 Hobby, f Kestrel (Davey Leach) Hi Davey, thanks for posting these sightings, but where exactly did you see the Common Redstarts, please? R Callf Please note - 'Trent Park Stables Paddocks' is actually South Lodge Farm - R Callf Thanks for confirming the name. The Redstarts were viewable from the Public Footpath looking east by Bramble Bushes S of the main Track going through the Paddocks in the second Paddock. Thanks, Davey - R Callf
• Upper College Farm DA5: 2 Common Buzzard, 4 Kestrel, Grey Wagtail, Whinchat, 2+ Garden Warbler, 5+ Blackcap, 5+ Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, 5+ Chiffchaff (Ian Stewart)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: Great Egret over N at 08.56 (our third record in a week - Lol Bodini).
• Walthamstow Marshes: rear paddock - 4 Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, Kestrel. bomb crater field - Whinchat (JW Davies)
• Wanstead Flats: Wryneck showing on and off (Marco Johnson), 6 Curlew W (Richard Rae) Shoveler, 10 Gadwall, 2 Teal, 4 Pochard, 4 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Common Sandpiper, 2 Sparrowhawk, 6 Buzzard, 4 Little Owl, Kestrel, 2 Skylark, 11 Swallow, 7 House Martin, Willow Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Common Whitethroat, Nuthatch, 5 Mistle Thrush, 2 Spotted Flycatcher, 4 Pied Flycatcher, 2 Common Redstart, 4 Whinchat, 2 Stonechat, 4 Wheatear, 8 Yellow Wagtail, Tree Pipit (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: Wigeon (Rom Rios)
• Wood Farm, Stanmore: Lesser Whitethroat (Tony Blake)
• Woolwich: 1cy Yellow-legged Gull King Henry's Wharf (Richard Bonser)
• Woolwich Common: 2 Whinchat 0710 (Tim Rymer). Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Hobby, Kestrel, 10+ Blackcap, 5+ Chiffchaff, 5+ Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat (Conrad Ellam)
• Yeading Brook meadows: 3 Red Kite, f Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 2 Stock Dove pr, 9 Common Whitethroat, 2 Chiffchaff (Neil Anderson)

Saturday 4th September 2021

• Alexandra Park: m Common Redstart, Pied Flycatcher, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, Swift, Red Kite (APOG Birders)
• Bayhurst Wood: incl 17 Swallow SSE, 4 Whinchat towards amenity site (Dan Pinkham)
• Boxers Lake: Kingfisher, Little Egret, f Mandarin Duck, 8 Swallow, 2 Martin sp. 4 Grey Heron, Grey Wagtail, Chiffchaff (Eugene Dillon-Hooper)
• Brent Reservoir: Autumn Bird Count Day: 73 species Ruddy Shelduck, Hobby, 4 Lapwing, 3 Snipe, Dunlin, 4 Common Sandpiper, 4 Green Sandpiper, 17 Swift, Common Redstart, 2 Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher (Brent Birders)
• Crystal Palace, 1500: Goshawk soaring over, not really deterred by much smaller Carrion Crow
• Dagenham Chase NR : Pied Flycatcher & 1+ Spotted Flycatcher still, 6 Swift, Willow Warbler, Reed Warbler, a few Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Snipe, 2 Little Grebe, Little Egret, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 3 Common Gull (Vince Halley-Frame)
• Enfield area "private access": 5 Little Grebe pr w/ three chicks, 10 Tufted Duck 3 m 7 f/imm, juv Kestrel, 3 Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 58 Starling on overhead wires (Robert Callf)
• Hampstead Heath [Autumn Bird Count Day: 63 species]: 2 Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Tree Pipit, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Grey Wagtail, c80 Swallow, Sand Martin, 10+ House Martin [mixed flock of hirundines including Swallow and martins so numbers uncertain], Cetti’s Warbler, Sedge Warbler, 3 Reed Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, c5 Willow Warbler, Hobby, Kestrel, 3 Sparrowhawk, Tawny Owl, Kingfisher, Treecreeper, 2 Gadwall, 12 Mandarin Duck, 4 Little Grebe (Hampstead Heath Birders)
• King's Meads: Common Snipe, 2 House Martin, Common Whitethroat {12 Common Lizard inc yng} (Robert Callf/Richard Callf)
• Lake Farm Country Park, Hayes: 2 f Common Redstart, 3 Whinchat, 6 Lesser Whitethroat, 18 Chiffchaff, many Blackcap & Whitethroat (Dave Morris per FJM)
• Lamorbey Park: Sparrowhawk, Kingfisher, 2+ Chiffchaff, 6+ Goldcrest, Nuthatch (Ian Stewart)
• London Wetland Centre: Common Tern (Shailesh Patel); Little Egret, Greenshank, Snipe and Garganey (all wader scrape) (Matt Bradbury)
• Perivale Park: 2 Grey Heron, Stock Dove, Grey Wagtail, 3 Common Whitethroat, 3 Blackcap, Chiffchaff, 3 Linnet (Neil Anderson)
• Richmond Park: Spotted Flycatcher, juv Cuckoo, 4 Whinchat, 2 Yellow Wagtail, Tree Pipit (Alex Westenberger)
• Swanscombe Marsh 14.00-17.00: 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Egyptian Goose, 2 Cetti's Warbler, Tufted Duck, Yellow Wagtail over, 3 Stonechat, 8 Whinchat, 5 Common Gull, adult Yellow-legged Gull, Great Skua [thanks P Larkin] on river 1540, Raven, 3 Skylark, m Marsh Harrier (Roger Keith)
• Tufnell Park N7: 2 juv Grey Herons flying east close to houses 0820, one landing briefly on flat roof (Neil Bowman)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 3 Teal, 74 Stock Dove, Cormorant, Sparrowhawk, 2 Little Owl, Kestrel, 4 Hobby, 7 Rook, 2 Coal Tit, 40 Swallow, 50 House Martin, 2 Willow Warbler, 25 Chiffchaff, 8 Blackcap, 6 Common Whitethroat, 6 Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch, Treecreeper, 55 Starling, Mistle Thrush, 2 Grey Wagtail, 6 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Bullfinch (Samuel Levy)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: Avocet briefly on Lockwood before going north, Marsh Harrier N, 3 Sedge Warbler, 4 Swift, Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Common Whitethroat, Snipe, Sand Martin, 2 Willow Warbler (Walthamstow birders)
• Wanstead Flats: Wryneck [airfield], Whinchat, 2 Wheatear (Wanstead Birders) ; 2 Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, all pub scrub (Toni Piccolo) 3 Shoveler, 8 Gadwall, 2 Pochard, 6 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Cuckoo, Little Owl, 4 Skylark, 13 Swallow, 15 House Martin, 7 Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Common Whitethroat, 3 Mistle Thrush, 3 Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Pied Flycatcher, 3+ Whinchat, 3 Wheatear, 5 Yellow Wagtail, Meadow Pipit, Tree Pipit, Chaffinch, Hobby, 2 Sparrowhawk (Wanstead Birders)
• Wanstead Park: Peregrine (James Heal)
• Watermeadows Open Space: 2 Kingfisher, 5 Grey Wagtail, 3 Blackcap (Jack Headley)
• Wood Farm, Stanmore: 2 Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, Lesser Whitethroat (Tony Blake)
• Woolwich Common: Sparrowhawk, Hobby, Kestrel, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Common Redstart, 3 Whinchat, Whitethroat, 4 Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff (Conrad Ellam)
• Woolwich: Adult Yellow-legged Gull near ferry (Conrad Ellam)

Friday 3rd September 2021

• Alexandra Park: Reed Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, 2 Spotted Flycatcher (APOG Birders)
• Boxer's Lake: Cormorant, 2 Grey Heron inc leucistic adult, 6 Mute Swan pr w/ four juvs, 2 Eurasian Teal ad f & juv, 2 eclipse m Northern Shoveler, 13 Tufted Duck, Red Kite (Robert Callf)
• Burgess Park: Mistle Thrush [school roof], Willow Warbler, Reed Warbler [33 spp.] (Fernley Symons), Swift (Steven Robinson) Peregrine, 2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Swift all around 1540, adult Caspian Gull on cricket pitch w/ 42 Herring Gull & 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull for good comparison - then departed on itself at 1705, Swift descended for a drink (Michael Mac)
• Dagenham Chase NR: Pied Flycatcher, 3 Spotted Flycatcher, f Common Redstart, Whinchat, 3+ Lesser Whitethroat, Bullfinch, Hobby, Sparrowhawk, 3 Snipe, 2 Wigeon, 2 Little Egret inc ringed individual (Vince Halley-Frame)
• Enfield area "private access": 4 Little Grebe pr w/ two chicks, 6 Tufted Duck 2 m 4 f/imm, 3 Red Kite, 2 Kestrel, 6 Hobby, Common Cuckoo chased by Magpie 1115 [my first September record of Cuckoo], 2 Barn Swallow, 4 Whinchat [3 at one site, 1 at another site], 2 f/imm Northern Wheatear, Common Whitethroat, 4 Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff {Comma, Painted Lady, 3 Red Admiral} (Robert Callf)
• Finchley "Garden N3": f Sparrowhawk took tame Feral Pigeon early am (Samuel & Toby Levy)
• Hampstead Heath: 3-4 Spotted Flycatcher (Hampstead Heath birders)
• Harold Hill, Maylands GC "private area": Wryneck late evening, not relocated next day (Colin Jupp per A Middleton)
• Hounslow Heath: 2 Whinchat, Peregrine over 1630 (Andy Roberts)
• Kingston: Kingfisher by Hawker Centre (Mike Foster)
• Lamorbey Park: 13 Egyptian Geese 9 imm, Sparrowhawk, Kingfisher, 2+ Blackcap, c20 Chiffchaff, c10 Goldcrest, Nuthatch (Ian Stewart)
• Lewisham Park: Common Buzzard over at 1845 (David Capper)
• Pinner Park Farm: 2 Yellow Wagtail, Whitethroat (Michael Robinson)
• Rainham Marshes: Honey Buzzard E 1130, Marsh Harrier, Sparrowhawk, 3 Hobby, Great Egret, 2 Golden Plover, 86 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Yellow-legged Gull, Wheatear, 3 Yellow Wagtail (Andrew Self, John & Janet Cadera)
• Richmond Park: 5 Teal, 3 Shoveler, 11 Pochard, 3 Hobby, juv Cuckoo, 9 Whinchat, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, Spotted Flycatcher, Common Redstart, 4 Buzzard, 2 Willow Warbler (Friday Bird Group)
• Stoke Newington West Reservoir: first-winter Common Redstart still in and around Corkscrew Willow on n edge of reservoir by children’s playground [found by Sam Jones on 1st Sept] (HarringayBirder)
• Teddington: m Tawny Owl calling off Broom Road at 2100 (Mike Foster)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: Tree Pipit [Flushed from Old Gropper], 2 Spotted Flycatcher, 6 Yellow Wagtail, 4 Teal, Grey Heron, Sparrowhawk, 2 Red Kite, 2 Common Buzzard, Little Owl, 2 Kestrel, 2 Hobby, 6 Rook, Coal Tit, 50 Swallow, 70 House Martin, Willow Warbler, 33 Chiffchaff, 17 Blackcap, 9 Common Whitethroat, 10 Goldcrest, 3 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper, 50 Starling, 16 Mistle Thrush, 2 Grey Wagtail, Greenfinch, Linnet (Samuel Levy)
• Trent Park: {3 m Ruddy Darter, 2 Willow Emerald Damselfly - FOY, Painted Lady} (Robert Callf)
• Upper College Farm DA5: 3 Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 2 Swallow, House Martin, Blackcap, 10+ Whitethroat, 5+ Chiffchaff, 2+ Linnet (Ian Stewart)
• Wanstead Flats: 4 Shoveler, 7 Gadwall, 3 Pochard, 6 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Cuckoo, Swift, c400 Black-headed Gull, 2 Sparrowhawk, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, 4 House Martin, 10 Chiffchaff, Lesser Whitethroat, 13 Common Whitethroat, 2 Spotted Flycatcher, 4 Pied Flycatcher [1 with very prominent upper wing bar and tear drop extending to edge of wing], Common Redstart, 3 Whinchat, 2 Northern Wheatear (Wanstead Birders)

Thursday 2nd September 2021

• Alexandra Park: Common Whitethroat, 3 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap, Peregrine (APOG Birders)
• Avery Hill Park: Kestrel, Hobby, 10 Pied Wagtail, 2+ Blackcap, 2+ Whitethroat, 1+ Willow Warbler, 4+ Chiffchaff, 2+ Goldcrest (Ian Stewart)
• Boxer's Lake: Cormorant, 4 Grey Heron inc leucistic adult, 6 Mute Swan pr w/ four juvs, 15 Mandarin Duck, eclipse m Northern Shoveler, 11 Tufted Duck, 27 Black-headed Gull, Kingfisher, m Great Spotted Woodpecker (Robert Callf)
• Brookmill Park: Kingfisher, 2 Stock Dove (Conrad Ellam)
• Chelsea Harbour: 4 Common Sandpiper flew downriver pursued by Herring Gull (Oliver Flory)
• Enfield area "private access": 2 Whinchat (Robert Callf)
• Foots Cray Meadows: Little Grebe, House Martin, Willow Warbler, 10+ Chiffchaff (Ian Stewart)
• Hampstead Heath: 2 Whinchat still, Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, c8 Willow Warbler, Hobby, Kingfisher (Hampstead Heath birders)
• London Wetland Centre: Greenshank, Garganey, 2 Common Sandpiper, Little Owl, Garden Warbler, 4 Snipe, 13 Wigeon, Kestrel (WWT website)
• Pinner, HA5: Red Kite, 3 Green Woodpecker ( Nigel Barratt)
• Rainham Marshes: 2 Ringed Plover, 7 Dunlin, 22 Avocet, 88 Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 6 Snipe, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 5 Yellow-legged Gull, 1st-winter Caspian Gull, 2 Common Tern, 18 Swift, Marsh Harrier, Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, 2 Hobby, 3 Sand Martin, Yellow Wagtail, Sedge Warbler (Andrew Self)
• Tufnell Park "N7": Common Whitethroat [garden tick], Swift, Sparrowhawk (Reuben Braddock)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: Late pm - 2 Teal, 6 Little Owl, 2 Tawny Owl, Grey Heron, 2 Hobby, 6 Rook, 60 Swallow, 100 House Martin, 11 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap (Samuel Levy)
• Upper College Farm DA5: Sparrowhawk, Skylark, 6+ House Martin, Swallow, 4 Whinchat , Blackcap, Whitethroat, 6+ Chiffchaff inc singer (Ian Stewart)
• Uxbridge 2 Swift over my garden in Cowley also Kestrel (Alex Randall)
• Walthamstow Marsh "Bombcarter Field": 4 Whinchat (James Palmer)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: 2 Little Stint on Lockwood until late morning, Whinchat, Little Ringed Plover (Walthamstow birders)
• Wanstead Flats: 4 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, Pochard, 6 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, 2 Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, Kestrel, Skylark, 7 House Martin, 6 Chiffchaff, 7 Common Whitethroat, Mistle Thrush, 4 Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail (Nick Croft)
• Wanstead Park: 5 Gadwall, 3 Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Little Egret, 2 Stock Dove, Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, 2 Kingfisher, 2 Hobby, Peregrine, 2 Reed Warbler, Chiffchaff, House Martin, 3 Chiffchaff (Nick Croft)
• Woodford Green: Chiffchaff through garden 0945, Little Egret over low at 1150, f Common Redstart through at 1415, Hobby over low NE at 1450 (Ken Murray)

Wednesday 1st September 2021

• Alexandra Park: 4 Green Woodpecker, Pied Flycatcher in cricket scrub, Whinchat on western perimeter of cricket pitches, 3+ Chiffchaff, 2+ Blackcap, Peregrine (APOG Birders)
• Boxer's Lake: 4 Cormorant, 3 Grey Heron inc leucistic adult, 6 Mute Swan pr w/ four juvs, 2 Egyptian Goose, 10 Mandarin Duck, eclipse m Northern Shoveler, 11 Tufted Duck, 20 Black-headed Gull, Kingfisher {Holly Blue, Speckled Wood} (Robert Callf)
• Brent Reservoir: Garganey, Ruddy Shelduck, Dunlin, 15 Swift (Andrew Self); 3 Lapwing, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, 2 Little Grebe, 11 Egyptian Goose, 2 Reed Warbler, 10+ House Martin (Barry Wilson)
• Brookmill Park: Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Blackcap (Conrad Ellam)
• Bushy Park: 2 Spotted Flycatcher in Millennium Wood (John Strachan)
• Crayford Marshes: 12+ Gadwall, 5 Teal, Great Crested Grebe, Sparrowhawk, 6+ Kestrel, 2+ Avocet [Aveley Bay], 12+ Lapwing, 9 Dunlin, 7 Common Sandpiper, Redshank, Greenshank, 30+ Black-tailed Godwit [AB], Curlew [AB], 10+ Yellow-legged Gull, Common Tern, 5 Meadow Pipit, Blackcap, 4+ Cetti’s Warbler, 2+ Reed Warbler, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Jay (Ian Stewart)
• Crossness: Bittern at 20:45 almost dark, I heard single loud startling unusual call, as I was walking along the road that runs along to the locked metal gate, then saw bird about 15 meters flying away to the left (Michael Mac)
• Enfield area "private access": 3 Whinchat [2 at one site, 1 at another site] {Muntjac Deer} (Robert Callf)
• Gillespie Park, Arsenal: Pied Flycatcher with tit flock in hedge between upper & lower meadows (Ian Bradshaw)
• Guildhall, EC2 : 1st-summer m Black Redstart on roof tops North side at about 1400 (Ken Murray)
• Hampstead Heath: 2 Whinchat, 2 Common Whitethroat [Parliament Hill], Spotted Flycatcher [South Meadow] (Reuben Braddock)
• Lake Farm Country Park, Hayes: 3 Spotted Flycatcher, Whinchat, 6 Lesser Whitethroat, 12 Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, many Blackcap & Whitethroat (Dave Morris per FJM)
• Leatherhead, Randalls Way: 2 singing Chiffchaff (Neil Batten)
• Lower Chingford: House Martin colony in Lower Hall Road still active (James Palmer)
• Oxleas Wood: 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Nuthatch, 2 Hobby [adult feeding juvenile], Coal Tit, Goldcrest, Mistle Thrush, 2 Song Thrush (Ron Turner)
• Richmond Park: Whinchat, Wheatear, Hobby, Reed Warbler, Willow Warbler (Jon Reeves); juv Cuckoo, 2 Sedge Warbler (S Woolfenden, J Wilczur)
• Staines Res: juv Shelduck, 4 Wigeon, 57 Great Crested Grebe, 5 Black-necked Grebe, 2 first-winter Little Gull, Common Tern, 3 Red Kite, Sparrowhawk, 50+ Swift, c200 mixed hirundines [(good numbers of Swallow, House Martin & Sand Martin], 8 Linnet (Neil Anderson), 2 Dunlin, Wheatear, Black Tern, Common Sandpiper (R Dunne)
• Totteridge Valley/ Darlands Lake: 3 Whinchat, Green Woodpecker, 2 Grey Heron on the lake (R Ulph). 2 Whinchat, Teal [Darlands], 30 Stock Dove, Sparrowhawk, 5 Common Buzzard, 3 Little Owl, Tawny Owl, 4 Hobby, 6 Rook, 40 Swallow, 100 House Martin, 19 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 4 Common Whitethroat, 3 Goldcrest, Mistle Thrush, 12 Starling, Greenfinch {2 Muntjac} (Samuel Levy)
• Tufnell Park "N7": Swift [second year in a row with a September record here] (Reuben Braddock)
• Walthamstow Wetlands: Black Tern, Common Scoter on Lockwood early before heading north, Cuckoo, Little Ringed Plover, 5 Common Sandpiper (Walthamstow birders)
• Wanstead Flats: 4 Shoveler, 6 Gadwall, Teal, 2 Pochard, 8 Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Cuckoo, Swift, 2 Sparrowhawk, Red Kite, 2 Little Owl, 3 Hobby, Peregrine, 4 Skylark, 4 House Martin, Willow Warbler, 20 Chiffchaff, Lesser Whitethroat, 17 Common Whitethroat, 5 Spotted Flycatcher, Common Redstart, 3 Whinchat, Grey Wagtail, 2 Yellow Wagtail (Wanstead Birders)
• William Girling Res 3 Teal, "Russell Road relief channel": 5 Green Sandpiper, Redshank Common Sandpiper, Sand Martin (James Palmer)