The year took a quiet leave with no eleventh hour additions for the year list, which rather frustratingly sits on 99 species. More intense o...

The approachable juvenile Common Buzzard , two Skylarks , two Fieldfares , 15 Redwings , a Bullfinch and a Yellowhammer were at the farm....

A quiet day in Banstead Woods for birds but a couple of interesting insect observations, with a Buff-tailed Bumblebee seen and the second B...

Notables in the Banstead Woods sector were two redpolls and a Siskin . A Fieldfare , eight Redwings and seven Song Thrushes were also not...

Bird of the day was a Grey Wagtail heard high over Piddly Pond. Singles of Common Buzzard and Meadow Pipit and two Bullfinches were also...

Season's greetings! A semi-purposeful count of the over-flying gulls yielded the highlight of an adult Great Black-backed Gull flying so...

Highlights at the farm this morning were an adult Great Black-backed Gull and a/the Red Kite overhead. In the evening, two Woodcocks fle...

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A routine mild and sunny winter day at the farm, with the most unusual sightings being just a fly-over Lesser Black-backed Gull and two Mal...

Highlights at Canons Farm included a Rook , 70 Fieldfares and 10 Yellowhammers . Duncan Jennings

A decent day by December standards at the farm produced fly-overs of two Ravens , a 1st-calendar-year Mute Swan (the 100th species recorded...

A flock of 45 redpolls in the birches by the northern entrance to the Harholt Plantation was the highlight of the day. Hopefully the birds ...

Thank you for all the records over the last couple of weeks or so, they have all been safely stowed in the database. Here is a quick roundup...

The two Barn Owls were still at Canons Farm. A Woodcock was inadvertendly flushed from Harholt Plantation (The Scrub). The pair of Stonech...

A 'prototype' of a new map covering extra sub-sites and incorporating updated names (in light of discovering official/historical/loc...

In the evening, both Barn Owls were seen again as they patrolled Harrier Field. A group of five redpolls were seen between Piddly Pond and...

A late (wintering?) Chiffchaff and a Lesser Redpoll were noted in Pages Acre and a Grey Wagtail flew over Wood Lane. Come the evening, the...

Five Lapwings appeared in Infront George Field mid-afternoon; a treat considering the species' scarcity in our recording area so far th...

A decent day for finches in Banstead Woods was headlined by a female Brambling feeding busily with Chaffinches in an ash tree between Pidd...

A blustery day, with a Siskin feeding in trees along the Short Route in Banstead Woods and a redpoll heard flying over there being the hig...