July 26, 2009

July 26th 2009

Hainault:



  • my sisters garden in Greenwood Gardens (DEH)
  • 1 Common Tern (presumabley) over
  • 1 Sparrowhawk (over)
  • 1 pair of Dunnock nesting in the hedge (just hatched)
  • Collared Doves displaying

Gants Hill:

  • Alan & Tajinders garden
  • Coal Tit - Still present once again.
  • Great Spotted Woodpecker (juv) - Still present often.
  • Goldfinches - Still present.
  • Plus various other garden birds.
  • Swifts - Lot's over.

Valentines Park:

  • A Green Woodpecker
  • Three robins
  • Cormorant
  • Hybrid Carrion-Hooded Crows (I've never seen these until today, checked RSPB book of British Birds and there they were!)
  • Carrion crows
  • Magpies
  • Blackbirds
  • Wood pigeons
  • Coots
  • Canada Geese. (SLCrewe)

Fairlop Waters:

  • No fewer than 8 great crested grebes on the sailing lake, in a group - some clearly young but well grown so not sure how many adults and how many young.
  • Also 1 Common Tern over sailing lake,
  • 2 cormorants and several swifts -
  • 17 Greylag Geese and roughly as many Canada Geese.
  • On angling lake pair of mute swans with 5 cygnets.
  • About 30 starlings in a thicket of trees.
  • Kestrel seen near angling lake.
  • 10 black-headed gulls on golf course.
  • 4 long-tailed tits.
  • Others - blackbirds, coots, moorhens, wood pigeons, magpies, carrion crows, chaffinch, collared dove, tufted duck. (MSeviour)

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