3rd May 2025: Banstead Woods - Ian Ward

 

Broad-bodied Chaser

Moorhen

Mallard	1 m flew over Banstead Woods
Moorhen	1 showing - Outwood Lane Pond
Herring Gull	6 flew N
Common Buzzard	2
Swallow	1 flew E over Outwood Lane Pond
Chiffchaff	7
Willow Warbler	1
Blackcap	12
Whitethroat	3 singing in Chipstead Valley
Mistle Thrush	1 in Banstead Wood spooked by a Magpie near its nest
Dingy Skipper	2 together in Holly Lane Meadows
Brimstone	30+
Green-veined White	3
Small White	4
Large White	5
Orange-tip	4
Comma	1
Red Admiral	1
Peacock	2
Speckled Wood	4
Small Heath	2
Common Blue	3
Holly Blue	1
Broad-bodied Chaser	Male & female mating over Outwood Lane Pond

2nd May 2025: Banstead Woods - Ian Ward

 

Red Kite 1 high over the woods Carrion Crow 1 flew from Park Downs with a Slow Worm - landed on Scouts huts area Small Copper 1 in Holly Lane Meadows

29th April 2025: Banstead Woods - Duncan Jennings and Graham Harris

 

Stock Dove	3
Woodpigeon	5
Common Buzzard	1
Great Spotted Woodpecker	4
Green Woodpecker	1
Rose-ringed Parakeet	1
Magpie	4
Jackdaw	2
Carrion Crow	3
Coal Tit	1
Blue Tit	10
Great Tit	6
Chiffchaff	9
Willow Warbler	1
Long-tailed Tit	1
Blackcap	13
Goldcrest	1
Nuthatch	3
Wren	16
Song Thrush	1
Blackbird	16
Robin	12
Dunnock	2
Chaffinch	3
Brimstone	4
Green-veined White	2
Orange-tip	2
Red Admiral	1
Peacock	3
Speckled Wood	4
Holly Blue	1
Broad-bodied Chaser	1

29th April 2025: Canons Farm - Justin Bendig

 

Evening walk & dusk watch. Long spell of warm, dry weather.
Barn Owl	1 (Owl Meadow 19:50)
Little Owl	1 (Canons barns 19:40)
Green Woodpecker	2
Yellowhammer	3

27th April 2025: Canons Farm - Ian Ward

 

Yellowhammers

male Wheatear

Common Buzzard

Pheasant	6; 3m 3fem Buzzard field/Broadfield East
Sparrowhawk	1 fem
Common Buzzard	2 food passing in mid air
Wheatear	1 male: first observed by Grant Yeates 10:45 in Infront George East - still present 13:45
Chaffinch	1m by farmhouse, 1 singing Watchpoint, 1 singing Slangs
Goldfinch	2 Read Rest Cottages
Orange-tip	1m over Broadfield East
Red Admiral	1

27th April 2025: Banstead Woods - Ian Ward

 

Grizzled Skipper

Dingy Skipper	c6
Grizzled Skipper	1 Coneyboro
Brimstone	5
Green-veined White	3
Small White	10
Large White	2
Orange-tip	1m
Comma	3
Peacock	5
Speckled Wood	7
Small Heath	4
Common Blue	1
Holly Blue	3

27th April 2025: Banstead Woods - Paul Goodman

 

Coal Tit	1
Chiffchaff	8+
Blackcap	6+
Whitethroat	2
Dingy Skipper	16+
Grizzled Skipper	1
Brimstone	8
Small White	5+
Peacock	2
Small Heath	7
Common Blue	2
Holly Blue	1
Green Hairstreak	4

27th April 2025: Canons Farm - Cuckoo - Paul Goodman

 

Common Buzzard	4
Green Woodpecker	4
Kestrel	1
Chiffchaff	8
Blackcap	6
Whitethroat	5
Chaffinch	4 Singing
Linnet	4
Cuckoo	1 singing in Ruffett Wood
Brimstone	4
Small White	14+
Peacock	2

26th April 2025: Banstead Woods - Ian Ward

 

Whitethroat

Small Copper

Moorhens mating

Rabbit

Moorhen	2 mating in Outwood Lane Pond
Common Buzzard	4
Kestrel	2
Whitethroat	1 pair in the Nuttery
Goldcrest	1 singing by Outwood Lane Pond
Mistle Thrush	1 singing near Elizabeth Drive
Pied Wagtail	1 Scout Hut area
Small Copper	1 in Chipstead Valley
Rabbit	8

25th April 2025: Canons Farm - Paul Goodman

 

Pheasant	3
Great Spotted Woodpecker	3
Green Woodpecker	2
Swallow	3 Over, heading NW
Chiffchaff	10
Blackcap	7
Lesser Whitethroat	2. Singing, one in Slang, the other boundary of Stoney Nob, IFGF and Slang Slope
Whitethroat	6
Song Thrush	4
Linnet	6
Yellowhammer	4
Green-veined White	2
Small White	6
Peacock	1
Holly Blue	1

22nd April 2025: Canons Farm - Linda Mount and Ann Mason

 

4pm, sunny, cold wind An hours stroll along lane from C farmhouse, round IFG Field back to C Farm house
Woodpigeon	5
Magpie	2
Carrion Crow	14
Blue Tit	1
House Martin	5
Starling	2	Skylark	6
Blackbird	2
Robin	1
Dunnock	2
Chaffinch	3
Linnet	5
Goldfinch	2
Yellowhammer	1

21st April 2025: Canons Farm via Surrey Bird Club

 Wheatear 2

21st April 2025: Canons Farm - Tony Blake

 

Short walk - quick circuit starting and finishing at the farmhouse.
Common Buzzard	1
Rose-ringed Parakeet	2
Jackdaw	c10
Carrion Crow	c10
Skylark	3
Whitethroat	2
Blackbird	c10
Robin	1
Wheatear	2 - male and female in field opposite farm house. Quite a way out and picked up in scope.
Dunnock	3
Linnet	9
Yellowhammer	1 - heard only

20th April 2025: Canons Farm - Paul Goodman

 

Buzzard pair

Common Buzzard	6 Two copulating
Kestrel	1
Skylark	10
Chiffchaff	6
Blackcap	5
Whitethroat	3
Song Thrush	4 Singing
Greenfinch	2 Regularly visiting feeder in Burgh Heath (according to local resident)
Linnet	9
Yellowhammer	1
Peacock	1

19th April 2025: Canons Farm - Ian Ward

 

Pheasant	1m Buzzard field
Herring Gull	1
Grey Heron	1 flew N over Ballards field 08:55
Common Buzzard	2
Kestrel	1
Swallow	1 flew very low N over Ballards field 11:58
Chiffchaff	2
Long-tailed Tit	1
Blackcap	2
Whitethroat	2
Nuthatch	1
Mistle Thrush	1
Chaffinch	3 singing; 1 near the farmhouse, 1 Reads Rest Cottages, 1 near Doric Drive/ Infront George field West
Linnet	8 drinking from a puddle by Reads Rest Cottages
Goldfinch	2 Reads Rest Cottages
Yellowhammer	3
Red Admiral	1

18th April 2025: Canons Farm - Anne-Marie Griffin and Barry Griffin (photos by BG)

 

Gwynne's Mining Bee

Common Buzzard	2
Green Woodpecker	1
Kestrel	1m
Rose-ringed Parakeet	1
Jay	2
Magpie	6+
Carrion Crow	40+
Great Tit	5
Skylark	6
Blackcap	1 heard
Robin	2
Dunnock	2
Yellowhammer	1 heard
Red Admiral	1
Gwynne's Mining Bee	1

18th April 2025: Banstead Woods - Paul Goodman

 

Moorhen

2 adults

16th April 2025: Banstead Woods - Ian Ward

 

Pied Wagtail

Moorhen	1
Kestrel	1; Hither field
Skylark	4 Hither field - 2 singing
Whitethroat	1 singing in the Nuttery
Pied Wagtail	1 in Scouts Area
Goldfinch	2 singing; 1 near Scouts area, 1 the Nuttery
Small White	3
Red Admiral	1
Peacock	1
Rabbit	3

15th April 2025: Canons Farm - Paul Goodman

 

Green Woodpecker	3
Skylark	20
Chiffchaff	6
Blackcap	5
Whitethroat	1
Nuthatch	2
Song Thrush	3
Blackbird	24
Yellowhammer	3

15th April 2025: Banstead Woods - Paul Goodman

 

Willow Warbler

1 singing near the Estate at similar location as last year

13th April 2025: Banstead Woods - Ian Ward

Willow Warbler

 

Dingy Skipper

Peacock

Stock Dove	9 singing
Common Buzzard	2
Great Spotted Woodpecker	4
Green Woodpecker	5
Kestrel	1
Jay	5
Coal Tit	3
Marsh Tit	1
Skylark	1 pair Hither field
Chiffchaff	c30 singing ( not all areas covered)
Willow Warbler	1 singing s of pine tree area
Long-tailed Tit	1
Blackcap	c25 singing ( not all areas covered)
Nuthatch	6
Treecreeper	2 near post 13
Song Thrush	4 singing
Bullfinch	1 calling by Coneyboro
Dingy Skipper	1 in Fames Rough
Brimstone	1
Green-veined White	3
Small White	2
Large White	1
Orange-tip	4
Peacock	c16+ (widespread)

13th April 2025: Canons Farm - Ian Ward

 

Little Owl

male Wheatear

Pheasant	5
Sparrowhawk	1
Red Kite	1; over George fields 14:07
Common Buzzard	1
Little Owl	1
Kestrel	1
Whitethroat	6; 2 together (1 singing) by the farmhouse, all other birds singing near Watchpoint, Reads Rest Cottages, Reads Bottom & near Rest lane cottage.
Mistle Thrush	1 singing by Heathside field
Wheatear	1 on Broadfield East 08:09
Pied Wagtail	1 flew between Poultry field/Broadfield East
Chaffinch	2 singing
Goldfinch	1 singing near Rest lane cottage
Yellowhammer	6

12th April 2025: Banstead Woods - Paul Goodman

 

Green Hairstreak

Toothwort

Raven

1 Calling and circling low over woods by Fames Rough

Chiffchaff	10+
Blackcap	5+
Nuthatch	4+
Dunnock	4
Brimstone	12
Green-veined White	1+
Orange-tip	1
Comma	1
Peacock	6
Green Hairstreak	1 Fames Rough

12th April 2025: Canons Farm - Paul Goodman

 

Common Buzzard	2
Coal Tit	1
Chiffchaff	5
Blackcap	4
Whitethroat	2
Yellowhammer	4
Brimstone	6
Small White	1
Peacock	6

11th April 2025: Canons Farm - Anne-Marie Griffin

 

House Martin

1

9th April 2025: Banstead Woods - Ian Ward

 

Moorhen	Now a pair in Outwood Lane Pond
Herring Gull	5
Common Buzzard	2
Green Woodpecker	3
Blackcap	c11 singing (not all areas covered)
Nuthatch	5
Mistle Thrush	1
Song Thrush	4
Bullfinch	1 in Harholt

5th April 2025: Canons Farm - Ian Ward

Skylarks

Yellowhammer

Canada Goose

 

Canada Goose	7 over from Burgh Heath Pond; 2 flew E 07:53, 5 flew S 07:55
Mallard	3 circled Doric 11:25
Pheasant	1
Herring Gull	1
Common Buzzard	2
Kestrel	1m Railway field
Jay	2
Rook	Heard from Broadfield East
Chiffchaff	2
Blackcap	1
Greenfinch	1 singing by Doric field
Linnet	40+; 30+ Can Hatch field/ Bog field, 10 Doric
Yellowhammer	6
Small Tortoiseshell	1 ‘possible’ over hedgerows between Doric/ Infront George West
Peacock	1

21st March 2025: Mandarin Duck - Banstead Woods - Woodchips Conservation Volunteers

 Mandarin Duck 1 drake on pond