26 March 2026: Canons Farm - Ian Ward

 There was an unusual Stonechat at Reeds Rest Bottom resembling a Whinchat, which had an unusually bold pale supercillium

 

Pheasant	2; 1m Green Belt field , 1m Lunch Wood
Red Kite	2 together
Green Woodpecker	1
Kestrel	1m by Poultry field
Rook	Between 20-30 on Green Belt field
Carrion Crow	c100+ on Green Belt field
Skylark	3 on Green Belt field
Mistle Thrush	1 Broadfield East
Stonechat	2 on posts Reads Rest Bottom
Chaffinch	5 Green Belt field
Yellowhammer	2 Green Belt field

Red Legged Partridge                2 Green Belt Field 

26 March 2026: Banstead Woods - Ian Ward

 

Pheasant	1 calling near the Caravan site
Red Kite	2 together over the Woods
Blackcap	1 singing by the caravan site
Firecrest	1

26 March 2026: Canons Farm - Paul Goodman

 

General comments	Migrant Willow Warbler
Pheasant	5
Common Buzzard	2
Kestrel	2 one male and one female
Chiffchaff	3
Willow Warbler	1 Canons Wood
Long-tailed Tit	2
Blackcap	1
Nuthatch	2
Stonechat	1 Female at Reed's Bottom
House Sparrow	18
Greenfinch	1 Burgh Heath singing
Linnet	35+.  Six singing males and a flock of about 30 migrants at Canons Wood

 Red Legged Partridge                2 Green Belt Field, Perrots end still

26 March 2026: Banstead Woods - Ian Pratley

 

Pheasant	6
Stock Dove	1
Woodpigeon	22
Red Kite	1
Common Buzzard	1
Great Spotted Woodpecker	4
Green Woodpecker	5
Kestrel	1 Fames Rough
Rose-ringed Parakeet	12
Magpie	7
Jackdaw	28
Carrion Crow	4
Coal Tit	1
Blue Tit	4
Great Tit	10
Skylark	2 Hither Field, display flight
Chiffchaff	17
Long-tailed Tit	2
Blackcap	2
Nuthatch	4
Wren	19
Song Thrush	2
Blackbird	8
Robin	27
Dunnock	9
Chaffinch	1
Siskin	1 between Perrots and estate
Rabbit	3
Grey Squirrel	3

24 March 2026: Canons Farm - Paul Goodman

 

General comments	35 species including Firecrest, Blackcap, Cormorant and Fieldfare
Canada Goose	2
Pheasant	3
Herring Gull	4
Cormorant	1 - 2 One over heading North, the another or the same South, 20 minutes later
Tawny Owl  Red Kite	1 Calling from Ruffet Wood 1
Common Buzzard	6
Jackdaw	150+
Rook	2
Carrion Crow	200
Skylark	12+
Chiffchaff	2
Long-tailed Tit	1
Blackcap	1 Singing L&G
Firecrest	1 singing Holly Wood
Nuthatch	1
Fieldfare	10
Linnet	30+ Including one flock of about 20 passage migrants
Goldfinch	8
Yellowhammer	3

22 March 2026: Banstead Woods - Ian Pratley

 

Pheasant	2
feral Rock Dove	4
Woodpigeon	19
Moorhen	1
Common Buzzard	2
Great Spotted Woodpecker	2
Green Woodpecker	9
Rose-ringed Parakeet	6
Magpie	7
Jackdaw	9
Carrion Crow	5
Coal Tit	1
Blue Tit	3
Great Tit	16
Skylark	1
Chiffchaff	10
Long-tailed Tit	3
Blackcap	1
Goldcrest	1
Nuthatch	3
Wren	11
Song Thrush	1
Blackbird	8
Robin	27
Dunnock	5
Linnet	1

22 March 2026: Canons Farm - Red Legged Partridge - Paul Goodman

 

General comments	Two Red Legged People in Green Belt Field. First since 2018
Stock Dove	2 Big flock has gone
Herring Gull	1
Sparrowhawk	1
Chiffchaff	2
Goldcrest	1
Mistle Thrush	2 Pair
Chaffinch	3
Yellowhammer	3
Red Legged Partridge	2

21 March 2026: Canons Farm - via Darren Ramshaw

 Red Kite at Canons Farm

 

21 March 2026: Banstead Woods - Ian Ward

 

Moorhen	2 in Outwood Lane Pond
Red Admiral	2
Holly Blue	1 fluttering near Holly Lane Car Park
Rabbit	8  Holly Lane Meadows

19 March 2026: Canons Farm - Paul Goodman

 

                                            Tawny Mining Bee

                                           Grey Patched Mining Bee

                                         Orange legged Mining Bee

Pheasant	2
Stock Dove	300+ Green Belt Field
Sparrowhawk	1
Common Buzzard	6
Jackdaw	100+
Carrion Crow	200+
Skylark	10+
Chiffchaff	1
Long-tailed Tit	2
Linnet	6
Brimstone	10+
Comma	1
Peacock	6

 

19 March 2026: Banstead Woods - Paul Goodman and Robert Skipper

 

Common Buzzard	1
Kestrel	1
Chiffchaff	8
Goldcrest	1
Nuthatch	8
Chaffinch	1
Greenfinch	1 Singing near Ramblers Rest
Brimstone	1+
Peacock	1+
Lizard	1

    

18 March 2026: Canons Farm - Ian Ward

 

General comments	Active wasp nest in Walnut tree by Canons Farmhouse
Pheasant	1 m in Broadfield East
feral Rock Dove	c20
Red Kite	1
Common Buzzard	2
Skylark	7
Long-tailed Tit	1
Chaffinch	1 fem by Reads Rest Cottages
Linnet	40
Yellowhammer	2
Brimstone	10
Red Admiral	3

18 March 2026: Banstead Woods - Paul Goodman

 

Stock Dove	8
Woodpigeon	32
Moorhen	1
Herring Gull	16 over
Red Kite	1
Common Buzzard	4
Great Spotted Woodpecker	5
Green Woodpecker	6
Rose-ringed Parakeet	1
Jay	7
Magpie	12
Jackdaw	12
Carrion Crow	10
Coal Tit	1
Blue Tit	24
Great Tit	16
Skylark	1 singing over Hither Field
Chiffchaff	16
Long-tailed Tit	4
Nuthatch	15
Wren	46
Mistle Thrush	2 One singing
Blackbird	18
Robin	61
Dunnock	2
Chaffinch	2
Bullfinch	1 Harholt
Brimstone	22 Males except one female
Peacock	2

17 March 2026: Canons Farm - Paul Goodman

 

Red Kite	1
Common Buzzard	2
Marsh Tit	1 Ruffet Wood
Chiffchaff	1
Fieldfare	24
Grey Wagtail	1 Over Perrots
Meadow Pipit	3
Chaffinch	1
Linnet	20
Yellowhammer	3

13 March 2026: Canons Farm - Paul Goodman

 

Stock Dove	20
Woodpigeon	100+
Herring Gull	4
Jackdaw	100+
Rook	3
Carrion Crow	100+
Mistle Thrush	1
Song Thrush	3
Redwing	20
Fieldfare	30
Chaffinch	1
Linnet	40
Yellowhammer	6

11 March 2026: Banstead Woods - Ian Ward

 

                                Red tailed Bumblebee by Outwood Lane Pond

                                            Red Kite

 

Stock Dove	2 singing; 1 between Harholt/Hillwood field, 1 by Parsons Land
Woodpigeon	c60+ flock over Banstead Woods
Moorhen	1 Outwood Lane Pond
Red Kite	2 together over Holly Lane Car Park 13:37, probably the same two over Chipstead Valley 16:35
Common Buzzard	3
Green Woodpecker	2 singing in Harholt
Kestrel	1 over lower Hither field
Chiffchaff	1 singing in Harholt
Blackcap	1 singing in copse between Outwood Lane Pond/ Holly Lane Car Park
Song Thrush	1 singing in Lower Hither field near the mobile tower
Greenfinch	1 calling by Outwood Lane Pond
Rabbit	c14

9 March 2026: Banstead Woods - Paul Goodman

 

Moorhen	2 adults
Sparrowhawk	1. Calling
Red Kite	1
Tawny Owl	1
Green Woodpecker	5
Jay	8
Coal Tit	6
Marsh Tit	2. A pair together
Skylark	1. Hither Field
Chiffchaff	3
Goldcrest	4
Nuthatch	2
Treecreeper	2
Redwing	ca. 10

8 March 2026: Banstead Woods - Ian Ward

 

Mistle Thrush	1 by the Scouts Car Park
Goldfinch	c10 by the Scouts Car Park

8 March 2026: Banstead Woods - Ian Pratley

 

                                                        "Twigs"

Feral Rock Dove	1
Woodpigeon	32
Great Spotted Woodpecker	4
Green Woodpecker	2
Rose-ringed Parakeet	18
Jay	1
Magpie	5
Jackdaw	29
Carrion Crow	6
Coal Tit	1
Blue Tit	3
Great Tit	13
Skylark	1
Chiffchaff	5
Goldcrest	3
Nuthatch	2
Wren	20
Song Thrush	1
Blackbird	11
Robin	27
Linnet	2
Goldfinch	3
Grey Squirrel	2
Roe Deer	1

 

7 March 2026: Canons Farm - Paul Goodman

 

Skylark	10+
Nuthatch	1
Song Thrush	4
Redwing	30 Broadfield
Fieldfare	90 Broadfield
Dunnock	10+
Linnet	14
Yellowhammer	3

7 March 2026: Banstead Woods - Paul Goodman

 

General comments	Chiffchaff and Siskins have arrived
Tawny Owl	1 Male
Chiffchaff	3 Two singing
Long-tailed Tit	2
Nuthatch	2
Treecreeper	1

Siskin                                            3 

5 March 2026: Canons Farm - Ian Ward

 

                    Lesser black backed Gulls

                        Comma

General comments	Holly Wood now has locked gates erected east & west ends.
Canada Goose	Geese heard from Holly Wood 13:23
Mallard	2;,high over Burgh Heath Pond/ Heathside field
Black-headed Gull	3
Herring Gull	1
Lesser Black-backed Gull	2 together in Doric field 16:00
Red Kite	3
Common Buzzard	2
Great Spotted Woodpecker	1 in Holly Wood
Green Woodpecker	3; 1 drumming in Holly Wood, 1 calling in Canons Wood, 1 in Stoney Nob
Coal Tit	1 Holly Wood
Long-tailed Tit	4
Goldcrest	1
Nuthatch	1 singing in Holly Wood
Starling	2 Heathside field
Mistle Thrush	1 in Round Meadow
Song Thrush	3 singing
Meadow Pipit	3 over Perrotts by Wood
Chaffinch	1
Greenfinch	2 in Heathside field
Linnet	1 singing by Watchpoint
Brimstone	c12-all males
Comma	4
Peacock	2

5 March 2026: Banstead Woods - Ian Ward

 

Red Kite	2; 1 flew E  over Banstead Woods 10:47am, 1 flew W 16:22
Brimstone	c17 - all males
Comma	1
Peacock	4

28 February 2026: Canons Farm - Paul Goodman

 

	Huge flock of Linnets in Heathside Field
Red Kite	2
Common Buzzard	1
Skylark	10+
Goldcrest	1
Nuthatch	1
Redwing	60 Approximately
Stonechat	1 Female at Perrots
Meadow Pipit	1
Chaffinch	1
Linnet	260 About 250 feeding in Heathside Field, rest are residents, 3 singing
Yellowhammer	1

27 February 2026: Banstead Woods - Ian Ward

 

Red Kite	1
Common Buzzard	2
Kestrel	1 fem - Holly Lane Meadows
Raven	1
Firecrest	1 singing in a new area
Redwing	C100+

24 February 2026: Banstead Woods - Paul Goodman

 

Moorhen	1 Outwood Lane pond
Treecreeper	1
Redwing	55 Near car park

24 February 2026: Canons Farm - Paul Goodman

 Dusk walk - 3 Little Owls and 1 Pipistrelle bat 

Kestrel	1
Stonechat	1 Male at Perrots. Female appears to have gone
Peacock	1

Buff tailed bumblbee                  1