PREVIOUS SURREY NEWS
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2007
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August 19th Shaun “Dunnock Man” Peters adds to his list of excellent finds at Frensham with a juvenile Purple Heron on the Little Pond. The bird stays for many to enjoy.
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July 14th A Spoonbill flies south west over Barnes WWT (Rupert Kaye) and is later seen on the deck for twenty minutes at Tice,s Meadow (Kevin Duncan)
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May 25th14 Glossy Ibis (probably from the flock originally in Gloucestershire), fly east over Addlestone Moor roundabout at 7:20am.
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April 18th Britain and Europe’s first Glaucous-Winged Gull (trapped and ringed at a Gloucester landfill site and then seen for four days on the Tywi estuary, Wales), spends 45 minutes at Beddington when seen by myself and Garry Messenbird.
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March 3rd A Stone Curlew drops in late afternoon at Barnes WWT (a first for the site). Staff there are informed by the finder, Fraser Simpson, who was not on the local grapevine, but unfortunately the main liaison was not present to appreciate the importance of this bird and inform the regulars who can get late access when required. The bird was not present next morning.
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2006
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December A Yellow-Browed Warbler is found on the Hampshire/Surrey border at Hawley Water Meadows. Fortunately it stays into March 2007 and spends much of it’s time on the Surrey side.
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October 22nd Astounding news received of a Crag Martin with some House Martins at Badshot. Sadly, the bird does not linger. There has been only one twitchable Crag Martin in Britain. Unsurprisingly, if accepted this will be the first record for Surrey.
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May 28th An adult Long-Tailed Skua flies south over Unstead Sewage Works and late news is received of a male Montagu’s Harrier over there on the 18th ! Both birds seen by Brian Milton.
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May 10th A Black Kite flies over Barnes WWT seen by Nick Senior and Dan Monk. If accepted this would be the fourth for Surrey, the first being seen near Haslemere in May 1980, the second over Capel in May 1994 and the third over Barnes WWT in August 2003 (also seen by Nick Senior). Barnes seems to be the place to go for the best chance of seeing Black Kite in Surrey (they also had Honey Buzzard on the same day).
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May 7th Garry “The Monk” Messenbird has a Spoonbill flying over Beddington with two other lucky observers. A much sought after Surrey bird, the last at Beddington was 1988. There have been no recent twitchable birds. The same or another bird is seen on the deck for ten minutes at Unstead SF on May 9th by Brian Milton
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March 27th Astounding news received that a first winter American Robin has been in Peckham for around two and a half months. A local sent a picture of it to the RSPB widlife enquiries who identified it. It took a while for Surrey birders to work out that this is within the boundary of the old Surrey vice county and is therefore a Surrey mega. Amazingly, there have been two before in Surrey, one in the Surrey part of Windsor Great Park, February to March 1966 and one found dead in Haslemere in October1984. Incredibly, the bird shows for only ten minutes on the following morning before disappearing.
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