February 2024

*29th - South Croydon Rec: Egyptian Goose. (Robert Butlin)
*29th - Sanderstead (Briton Hill Road): Pair of Goldcrests displaying despite the rain. (JB)
*27th - Wandle Park: Goldcrest, 2 Long-tailed Tits, Great-spotted Woodpecker, Stock Dove, Jay, Redwing, Chiffchaff, Dunnock. (Sue Henning)
*26th - Whitgift Pond: 3 Mallard (2 m, 1 f), Moorhen, 4 Starling, Blackbird, Robin, Great Tit. (L Offer)
*26th - Lloyd Park: Heron (flew over, 50+ Redwing, Blackbird, Goldfinch, Dunnock, Great Tit, Blue Tit. (L Offer)
*25th - Selsdon Wood: great tit, blue tit, coal tit, chaffinch, goldcrest, redwing, nuthatch, treecreeper, song thrush, raven (flying over, kronking). (Alice King)
*25th - Croham Hurst Golf Course. Buzzard, c50 Redwing (ground feeding)
*23rd - Lloyd Park: Raven and 2 Buzzards. (Peter Phillips)
*23rd - Shirley Hills: 2 Buzzards, Treecreeper. (Peter Phillips)
*20th - Coulsdon South Station Scrub adjacent to Reddown Road Exit - Firecrest seen and calling.(KS)
*19th - Sanderstead (Briton Hill Road): Male Blackcap in garden in the morning and Chiffchaff calling in afternoon. Skylark heard flying over. It's a funny kind of February! (JB)
*19th - Farthing Downs: 26 Yellowhammer flew in to join the pre-existing roost this afternoon. Also, 3 Skylark in song, 7 Stonechat, (first found by Stella Frost), 1 Kestrel, several Blackbirds in full song, 2 Pied Wagtail over. (DH)
*19th - Park Hill Rec: Sparrowhawk (flew over), Great Spotted Woodpecker (female), Song Thrush, Blackbird, Goldfinch, Coal Tit, Long-Tailed Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Dunnock, Jay. (L Offer)
*19th - South Norwood (Pittville Gdns) (1.15pm): 2 Redwings feeding voraciously on ivy berries in the garden sycamore (GH)
*18th - South Norwood (Pittville Gdns) (12 noon): at least 4 Siskins feeding briefly in the rlwy embankment fir tree adj to the back gardens. (GH)
*17th - South Norwood Country Park: 7 stonechat (5 triangular field near Harrington Road tram stop, 2 moat field), 1 meadow pipit (moat field), 2 nuthatch (pitch n putt), 2 Grey wagtails, 4 Fieldfare (athletics track), Tawny owl, Kestrel, 5 Teal. 41 species in total. (J.Shaub)
*16th - Addington Court GC: Marsh Tit. (Jo East)
*16th - Coombe Wood: Moorhen (on pond), Coal Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Blackbird, Song Thrush. (L Offer)
*16th - Addington Hills: 3 Nuthatch (fighting). (L Offer)
*16th - Lloyd Park: Siskin (1 male), Goldfinch, 3 Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush (singing), 12 Redwing, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker (heard), Stock Dove, Starling, Long-Tailed Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Black-Headed Gull. (L Offer)
*16th - Coulsdon (St Andrews Rd): Greenfinch now calling regularly over the railway line opposite, and M and F Blackcap regular visitors to the back garden. (DH)
*16th - Farthing Downs: 4 Stonechat, a small flock of 10 Goldfinch, 10/11 Yellowhammer, 1 Linnet in song over, c50 Jackdaw, c60 Magpie preparing to roost, (very noisily!), 1 Skylark aloft and singing 1 Mistle Thrush, up to 20 Redwing all told, several Song Thrush in song, 2 Buzzard over Boxers Wood.( DH)
*16th - Selsdon: Buzzard over. (Roger Amer)
*15th - Addington Hills (2.50pm to 4.30pm): 3 Firecrest (again following up on Alan Pearson's sighting on the 3rd, below) including two birds at a different spot to those seen on 12th (below), male and female Siskin, Mistle Thrush singing (Graeme Spinks)
*15th - Lloyd Park (2.00pm to 2.50pm): 5+ Siskin feeding high in oak tree close to Deepdene Ave entrance, male and female Kestrel mating, female Blackcap, 10+ Redwing (Graeme Spinks)
*15th - Hutchinson's Bank: 3 Buzzard, 1 Red Kite, Blackcap (m, singing), Song Thrush (singing), Redwing, 2 Collared Dove, Jay. (L Offer)
*14th - Whitehorse Meadow: 2 Mallard (on pond), Wren, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long-Tailed Tit, House Sparrow, Black-Headed Gull. (L Offer)
*14th - Grangewood Park: Buzzard (heard calling but not seen), Goldcrest, Nuthatch, Blackbird, Long-Tailed Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Jay. (L Offer)
*14th - Beaulieu Heights: Nuthatch (guarding a nest hole), Stock Dove, Robin, Blue Tit, Great Tit. (L Offer)
*14th - South Norwood Lake: Great Crested Grebe (sitting on nest with 1 egg), 2 Shoveler, Mallard, 14 Tufted Duck, Canada Goose, 2 Egyptian Goose, Moorhen, Coot, Herring Gull, Black-Headed Gull, Song Thrush (singing), Long-Tailed Tit, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Nuthatch, Dunnock, House Sparrow, Blackbird, Wren. (L Offer)
*12th - East Croydon: Only 20 Pied Wagtails in roost near East Croydon station. (Ashley Haworth-Roberts)
*12th - Littleheath Woods: 50+ Jackdaw flying over, Jay, Herring Gull, 2 Nuthatch defending a nest site, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Redwing. (L Offer)
*12th - Bramley Bank: Redwing, Blackbird, Wren, Jackdaw. (L Offer)
*12th - Heathfield: Green Woodpecker, 2 Mallard, Jackdaw. (L Offer)
*12th - Addington Hills (11.55am to 1.10pm): 4, possibly 5, Firecrest (following up on Alan Pearson's sighting on the 3rd, below) between Combe Lane car park and Combe Lane tram stop. (Graeme Spinks)
*12th - Pittville Gdns, SE25 (10.15am): Sparrowhawk (prob female) racing through Gdns, rooftop height S (GH)
*11th - Park Hill Rec: Sparrowhawk, Jay, 2 Wren, Dunnock. (L Offer)
*11th - Pittville Gdns, SE25 (12.30pm): seen over the Anerley/central Penge area - a pair of interacting Buzzards circling/drifting ultra high NE, then disappeared in cloud. 2 Jackdaws calling low overhead soon after (GH)
*11th - Wandle Park: Chiffchaff singing near the tram stop, 8+ Redwing, 1 Grey Wagtail.. (JB and Sue Henning)
*11th - Waddon Ponds: 4 Little Grebe, 18 Moorhen, only 14 Coot (1st time Moorhens have outnumbered Coots here), NO Black-headed Gulls (1st winter visit with no blackheads), Chiffchaff seen briefly. (JB and Sue Henning)
*11th - Central Croydon: Peregrine. (JB)
*11th - Sanderstead: Red Kite. (JB)
*11th - Mayday Hospital: Pair of Pied Wagtails feeding around the bus stop near the main entrance. (JB)
*8th - West Croydon (Hogarth Crescent) (11:50am): Cormorant flying north east. (L Offer)
*5th - Wandle Park: Peregrine (flew over scaring the starlings), Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, 2 Mallard, 2 Moorhen, 50+ Starling, 4 Black-Headed Gull, 1 Herring Gull, Goldfinch, Robin, Wren, Blue Tit, Great Tit. (L Offer)
*5th - Waddon Ponds: Kingfisher (male), 2 Little Grebe, 2 Mute Swan, Tufted Duck, Mallard, Canada Goose, 2 Herring Gull, Black-Headed Gull, Moorhen, Coot, 30+ Starling, House Sparrow, 15 Goldfinch, 2 Collared Dove. (L Offer)
*3rd - South Croydon (Addington Hills and Coombe Gardens): total of 7 Firecrest. (Alan Pearson)
*3rd - South Croydon (Brownlow Road): 10 Redwing in treetops. (Alan Pearson)
*2nd - Shirley (Devonshire Way) 8 House Sparrow; Chaffinch (f); Common Buzzard. (KW)
*2nd - Coulsdon (Dunsfold Drive): 4 Waxwings this afternoon. (per Surrey Rare and Scarce WhatsApp group)
*2nd - Waddon: (Purley Way Airport House): 10 Goldfinch, 30+ Starling roosting in trees on central reservation. (L Offer)
*2nd - South Norwood: (Kings Road) singing Mistle Thrush, Coal Tit, (12:15) (JW)
*1st - Hutchinson's Bank: Red Kite, Buzzard, 2 Bullfinch, Chaffinch, Fieldfare, Blackbird, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long-Tailed Tit, Wren, House Sparrow, Robin, Jay, Jackdaw. (L Offer)
*1st - Sanderstead (Briton Hill Road): Female Siskin feeding on lawn with 1 Chaffinch, 3 Redwing, 2 Blackbird. 2 Buzzards interacting in the distance. (JB)