May 03, 2009

May 3rd 2009

Wanstead Park:
  • 7 Little Grebe, 3 Great Crested Grebe,
  • pair of Lesser Black Backed Gulls,
  • 2 Ring-necked Parakeet,
  • 19 Swift, 2 House Martin, Swallow,
  • Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker,
  • 3 Song Thrush,
  • 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 10+ Whitethroat, 8 Blackcap, 11 Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler (all warblers singing),
  • 5 Greenfinch, Goldfinch, 10+ Chaffinch, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Jackdaw (J Lethbridge).
  • 2 Egyptian Geese seen mating by Shoulder of Mutton Pond (Sally Hammond)
  • Ring Necked Parakeet nesting in the park (SH)

Wanstead Flats:

  • Garden Warbler singing near Bush Wood (S Fisher)
  • 2 Swift, 3 House Martin, 2 Swallow (through)
  • 2 Egyptian Geese (SF)

Claybury Park:

  • Green Woodpecker
  • 6 Stock Doves
  • Whitethroat
  • 6 male Mallards on the pond (absent fathers out at the 'pub' while their devoted 'wives' are briding up the kids!)
  • pair of Moorhen
  • several Song Thrushes in song

Woodford Green:

  • probable Goshawk chasing a Mistle Thrush round Broadmead Estate (may have been an escaped bird but no jessies were seen) (DEH)

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