August 31st 2009

Fairlop:

• Greenshank,
  
• 5 Green Sandpipers,
  
• Whinchat,
  
• Hobby,
  
• Kingfisher
  
• (AAB)

Wanstead Flats:

• Little owl;
  
• 9 Whinchat;
  
• 2 Whitethroat. (BJ)

Wanstead Flats & Park:

• 6 Whinchat,
  
• 1 Lesser Whitethroat,
  
• 40+ Blue tit (2 large flocks),
  
• Pair Gadwall,
  
• 5 House Martin,
  
• 8 Blackcap,
  
• 8 Whitethroat,
  
• 2 Willow Warblers,
  
• 15 Chiffchaff (S Fisher)

Gants Hill:

• Coal Tit - Still present.
• Great Spotted Woodpecker - Immature male still present.
• House Sparrows - At least 15+ in around garden.
• Greenfinches - Mixture of (J&A) in garden c10.
• Chaffinches - c10 mixture of (M&F)in garden.
• Blue & Great tits - Quite a number as per usual in garden.
• Swift - One seen over gardens at around 5.30pm.
• Plus - 6 Starlings, 3 Magpies, 3 Robins (2J& 1A), 2 Dunnocks, 1 Woodpigeon &6 Feral Pigeons.
• (alan Thomas)
  

August 30th 2009

Fairlop Waters:

• Coot including Juveniles
• Swift at least 5, Swallow - uncountable amount all over the main lake with Sand Martin and House Martin
• Blue Tit
• Great Crested Grebe
• Moorhen including Juveniles
• Tufted Duck
• Carrion Crow
• Wood Pigeon including Juveniles
• Green Woodpecker
• Willow Warbler
• Starling - large flock 300+
• Cormorant
• Great Tit
• Long-Tailed Tit
• 2 Wheatear - Male and Female
• Pied Wagtails including Juveniles
• Kestrel - male and Female with the female having a fight with a Magpie
• Lapwing
• Black-Headed Gull
• Pheasant - landed on the island on main lake
• Little Grebe - including Juveniles
• Collared Dove - large numbers including Juveniles
• Mute Swan - including Juveniles almost fully grown
• Jackdaw
• Canada Goose
• in surrounding fields: Stock Dove, Lesser Black Backed Gull, Grey Heron
• (Neil Twyford)
• Garden Warbler, Reed Warbler, Whitethroat, Goldfinch, - Tony Leaderman
  

Gants Hill:

• Coal Tit - Still present.
• Great Spotted Woodpecker - Immature male still present.
• House Sparrows - c12 seen this morning around feeders.
• Greenfinches - Mixture of juveniles & adults in garden.
• Chaffinches - 6+ seen around feeders this morning.
• Blue & Great tits - Around 11 altogether seen in garden this morning.
• Plus - 4 Starlings, 2 Magpies, 2 Robins (J&A), 2 Woodpigeons (J&A), 1Dunnock, 1 Collard Dove & 6 Feral Pigeons.

Fairlop Works:

• Dunlin,
  
• Greenshank,
  
• 5 Green Sandpipers,
  
• 2 Hobbies,
  
• Swift,
  
• Whinchat,
  
• 3 Wheatear (AAB)
• 40 Lapwing,
• 18 LBB Gull,
• 2 Herring Gull,
• 12 Gadwall,
• 7 Teal,
• 3 Comorant,
• 28 Goldfinch,
• 60 Swallow,
• 8 Sand Martin,
• 2 Kestrel,
• 5 Grey Heron,
• Green Woodpecker 2 + 1 juv,
• Chiffchaff 10,
• Lesser Whitethroat 1,
• Blackcap 5
• (Steve Bacon)

August 29th 2009

Gants Hill:

• Coal Tit - Still present.
• Sparrowhawk - Seen twice first at 9.20am gliding high around back gardensthen flying further away...Also again at 10.25am a male landed on my patiofloor a couple yards away from my patio door windows trying to catch birdsof guard then flew away.
• Great Spotted Woodpecker - Immature male present in garden.
• House Sparrows - Lots around feeders & shrubs/trees around garden.
• Greenfinches - c12 seen but more in trees.
• Goldfinch - One adult feeder on nyjer seed feeder.
• Chaffinches - c11 around feeders & on ground.
• Blue & Great tits - Good numbers seen flying around garden.
• Plus - 8 Starlings, 4 Magpies, 2 Blackbirds (M&F), 1 Collard Dove, 2 Robins(J&A), 1 Dunnock, 1 Woodpigeon & 6 Feral pigeons.
• (Alan Thomas)

Wanstead Flats:

• 3 Redstart,
  
• 2 Spotted Flycatchers,
  
• 8 Wheatear,
• 12 Whinchat,
  
• 2 Yellow Wagtail,
• 2 Tree Pipit,
  
• Lesser Whitethroat,
  
• 10 Whitethroat,
  
• 10 Chiffchaff,
  
• 3 Willow Warbler (JLe, Stuart Fisher, Tim Harrris)

August 28th 2009

Gants Hill:

• Coal Tit - Still present.
• Sparrowhawk - Female seen between 9.20am to 9.30am plucking the feathers ofa immature male sparrow in neighbour's tree until being mobbed by threemagpies which it then proceeded to fly away with the unfortunate victim.
• Great Spotted Woodpecker - Immature male still present.
• House Sparrows - Good numbers seen in garden minus one unlucky one.
• Goldfinch - One adult on main feeder.
• Greenfinches - c13 mixture of Juveniles & adults in garden.
• Chaffinches - c11 in around garden feeding.
• Blue & Great tits - Quite a number as per normal around garden.
• Plus - 8 Starlings, 4 Magpies, 2 Collard Doves, 2 Blackbirds (M&F), 2 Robins(J&A), 1 Dunnock, 1 Woodpigeon & 8 Feral pigeons.

Fairlop Waters CP:

• 100 Sand Martin, 100 Swallow, 6 House Martin, 2 Swift, 2 Hobbies (APe)
• Black Headed Gull, Herring Gull,
  
• Mute Swan, Canada Goose, Greylag Goose, Mallard, Coot, Moorhen
• Blackbird
• Blue Tit, Great Tit,
  
• Kestrel
  
• Green Woodpecker,
  
• Lesser Whitethroat,
  
• Carrion Crow, Magpie, Wood Pigeon, Starling,
  

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• 1 Greenshank,
• 6 Green Sandpiper,
• 4 Common Sandpiper,
• 1 Common Snipe,
• 25 Shoveler,
• 2 Teal,
• 4 Stock Dove. (Steve Bacon)

August 27th 2009

Ingleby Road, Ilford:

• 3 Long-tailed Tits on peanut feeder.
• Families of Great Tits, Blue Tits, Goldfinches, Robins and Chaffinches on sunflower seed feeder.
  
• Dunnocks on ground.
• (John Crick)

Gants Hill:

• Coal Tit - Still present.
• Great Spotted Woodpeckers - 1 Immature male & 1 Juvenile in garden.
• House Sparrows - At least 15+ in around garden.
• Greenfinches - Mixture of Juveniles & adults c12 around feeders & on waterfeature.
• Blue & Great Tits - Good numbers flying around in garden.
• Chaffinches - Around 10 feeding between various feeders in garden.
• Plus - 3 Magpies, 4 Starlings, 2 Collard Doves, 3 Robins (2 Juveniles) & 1adult, 1 Female Blackbird, 1 Dunnock, 1 Woodpigeon & 8 Feral pigeons.
• (Alan Thomsa)

Fairlop Waters:

• Pied Flycatcher!- A Female seen at around about 9.45am feeding a (juvenile) on ground between go karting fenced area in front of the brambles & shrubs and main boating lake until a dog off the lead scared them off and I mean everything else which were in there as well!
• Hobby - 1 seen flying over hunting around 8.20am over the island on boating lake.
• Swallows & House Martins - Lots flying around over lake and also by the karting area besides the main centre.
• Sand Martins - Around 10 I counted but there were more...Too many flying around to get exact amount.
• Starlings - Hundreds up in the air around lake and also on ground in surrounding dense shrubs.
• Goldfinches - Adults & juveniles lots in trees & shrubbery near go karting fence area.
• Tufted Ducks - Around 6 chicks on boating lake by themselves heading towards to side for cover.
• Swifts - I only managed to see and count 4 in the air above.
• Grey Heron - 1 seen on boating Island & 1 in the fishing lake.
• Pied Wagtails - At least 7 seen around sides in front of main centre.
• Greylag Geese - Two seen on island in boating lake.
• Gadwalls - I think the count was around seven that were seen.
• Green woodpecker - Seen flying from field yaffling at the side of fishing lake area.
• Cormorant - 1 flying over fishing lake.
• Plus - The usual Coots, Moorhens, Mute Swans & signets & Great crested grebes with some juveniles.
• Car park area & field beyond car park area & farmers field behind car park area:
• Kestrel - Male seen hovering then swooping down into grassland.
• Chiffchaff - Heard in background near car park.
• Long tailed tits - Many seen in trees & shrubs around car park & boating lake area.
• Willow warblers - Adults & juveniles lots seen with Blue, Great & Long tailed tit flocks in shrubs & trees.
• Reed Bunting - A (juvenile) seen on top of shrub showing well.
• House Sparrows - in shrubs & trees.
• Stock Doves - Two seen flying over boating lake & couple in riding school area.
• Pheasant - Male alongside side of farmers field behind car park area.
• Greenfinches & Chaffinches - Many in shrubs too many to count.
• Gulls - Lots of different gulls in back of farmers field with crows &
• Woodpigeons.
• (Alan Thomas)

Fairlop:

• Greenshank,
  
• 7 Green Sandpipers,
  
• 4 Common Sandpipers,
  
• Swift (Alan Bell)

August 26th 2009

Wanstead Flats:

• Grey Heron, Kestrel, 6 Meadow Pipit, 3 Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Whitethroat (JL)
• Tree Pipit, 16 Long-tailed Tits, 2 Blackcap (S Fisher)

Gants Hill:

• Alan & Tajinders garden
• Hobby - Seen at 6.45am flying over back gardens as birds below took cover...First seen this year over back garden.
• Coal Tit - Still present.
• Great Spotted Woodpeckers - 2 seen (1 Juvenile possibly turning into an immature female) & 1 Immature male in garden.
• House Sparrows - A flock of about 20+ in garden.
• Goldfinches - One (Juvenile) & One adult on feeder.
• Greenfinches - A mixture of (Juveniles) & adults c13 seen.
• Blue & Great Tits - Quite a number in garden.
• Chaffinches - Around 9 seen in garden.
• Plus - 4 Magpies, 4 Starlings, 3 Collard Doves, 3 Robins (2 Juveniles) & 1adult, 1 Female Blackbird, 1 Dunnock, 1 Woodpigeon & 7 Feral Pigeons.

August 25th 2009

Fairlop Waters:

• at least 2 male Kestrels (possibly 3rd)
• Hobby chasing a flock of starlings
• 1 Common Tern over the lake
• 2 broods of Mute Swan
• 2 Great Crested Grebe on the main lake
• Little Grebe on the Lagoon
• 100+ Swallow and 50+ Sand Martin (roosting on the clubhouse roof when it started raining) - also a few House Martins, not sure how many.(DEH/JMak)

Fairlop Waters:

• Ian Shaw's visit
• 30 Swallows,
• 4 Willow Warblers, 2 Whitethroats,
• 2 Kestrels, 5 Swifts, 4 Green Woodpeckers, 5 Long Tailed Tits, 50 Lapwings, 2 Jays (Ian Shaw)

Wanstead Flats:

• male Common Redstart in Hawthorns along Lake House Road between junctions of Belgrave Rd & Richmond Way, 6:40am - 7:10am (JL)
• 2 Kestrel, 4 Green Woodpecker, 6 Whitethroat, Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, Jay (JLe)

Gants Hill:

• Alan & Tajinders garden
• Coal Tit - Still present.
• Great Spotted Woodpecker - Immature male still present.
• Greenfinches - c13 mixture of Juveniles & adults in garden.
• House Sparrows - At least 15+ plus in & around garden.
• Blue & Great Tits - Quite a number in garden flying around.
• Chaffinches - Around 9 seen but could also be more near back of pond area.
• Plus - 5 Magpies, 5 Starlings, 3 Robins (2 Juveniles & 1 adult), 2 Collared Doves, 1 Female Blackbird, 1 Dunnock, 1 Woodpigeon & 11 Feralpigeons.....Arrrrrgh!!

South Park:

• mid morning: Greylag Geese - Six seen in lake. (AlanT)

Valentines Park:

• House Martin - One seen flying at 12.35pm behind the boating lake area &foot/road path from near the entrance where the Drive is coming from Ilford.
• Greylag Goose - One in lake area near to Valentines mansion.
• Great Spotted Woodpecker - Heard near to the mansion area. (Alan T)

August 24th 2009

Wanstead Flats:

• Hobby, Sparrowhawk, 3 Kestrel, Little Owl, juv Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 24 Swallows south, 4 House Martin, 2 Mistle Thrush, 7 Whitethroat, 4 Chiffchaff, 30 Jackdaw (JLe)

Gants Hill:

• Alan & Tajinders garden
• Coal Tit - Still present in it's sixth week now or was it seventh!
• Sparrowhawk - Female seen at roughly 10.15am brief visit in neighbour's treefor about half minute then onto our tree then it flew away after being disturbed.
• Great Spotted Woodpecker - Immature male still present.
• Greenfinches - Mixture of Juveniles & adults roughly around 12 seen.
• House Sparrows - Around 13+ seen around garden.
• Blue & Great Tits - Good numbers seen in garden.
• Chaffinches - c11 seen mainly 8 females & 3 males in around garden.
• Goldfinch - One adult in tree & then onto feeder.
• Plus - 3 Magpies, 5 Starlings, 2 Collard Doves, 3 Robins (2 Juveniles & 1 adult), 1 Blackbird (female), 1 Dunnock & 6 Feral Pigeons.

August 23rd 2009

Fairlop:

• Greenshank, Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper (AAB)

Wanstead Flats:

• 1 Tree Pipit, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Whinchat, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 5 Blackcap, 1 Willow Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff (S Fisher).

Gants Hill:

• Alan & Tajinders garden
• Coal Tit - Still present.
• Great Spotted Woodpecker - Immature male still present.
• Greenfinches - Good numbers of Juveniles & adults.
• House Sparrows - Quite a number in garden.
• Blue & Great Tits - Good numbers as usual in garden.
• Chaffinches - c10 in around garden.
• Plus - 4 Magpies, 4 Starlings, 1 Robin (Juvenile), 1 Collard Dove, 1 Dunnock& 5 Pigeons.

Valentines Park:

• Cormorant (4),
  
• Egyptian geese (2),
  
• green woodpecker (2),
  
• ring-necked parakeet,
  
• blue, great and long-tailed tits,
  
• grey heron,
• grey wagtail,
  
• mallard, tufted duck, coots & moorhens, little grebe, mute swan family, canada geese,
  
• black-headed gulls and a common gull,
  
• blackbird, starlings, robin, house sparrows, mistle thrush (2),
  
• carrion crows, magpies, wood and feral pigeons,
• (Madeleine Sevoir)
  

August 21st 2009

Hainault:

• female Sparrowhawk low over Greenwood Gardens (DEH)

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• 1 Greenshank, 4 Green Sandpiper,1 Little Ringed Plover (Steve Bacon)

Gants Hill:

• Alan & Tajinders garden
• Coal tit - Still present.
• Great Spotted Woodpecker - Immature male still present.
• Greenfinches - Mixture of Juveniles & Adults in good numbers.
• House Sparrows - Quite a number in garden.
• Blue & Great tits - Good numbers in garden.
• Plus 5 Magpies, c9 Chaffinches, 2 Blackbirds, 3 Robins (2 Juveniles & 1adult) 1 Collared Dove, 2 Woodpigeons ( 1 Juvenile & 1 adult ) 4 Starlings & 7 Feral pigeons.

Woodford Bridge:

• up to a dozen Swifts (these are not our locally breeding Swifts, which left around 5 August, but presumably juveniles or late-leaving adults passing through on way south) (Alan Hobson)
  

August 20th 2009

Fairlop Waters:

• 2 Little Grebe; Sparrowhawk; 2 Common Tern; 12 Swift; 14 Sand Martin; 78 Swallow; 12 House Martin; 5 Meadow Pipit; Whitethroat; Blackcap; 250 Starling; 6 Linnet; (BJ)

Gants Hill:

• Coal Tit - Still present.
• Great Spotted Woodpecker - immature Male still present in garden.
• House Sparrows - Still in good numbers.
• Blue & Great tits - Quite a number in around garden.
• Greenfinches - Mixture of Juveniles & adults 10+ in garden.
• Chaffinches - Mixture of males & females up to at least 11 seen in garden.Plus 5 Magpies, 4 Starlings, 2 Blackbirds (M&F), 2 Robins Juveniles, 2Woodpigeons, 1 Dunnock, 1 Collard dove, 7 Feral Pigeons & 1 Swift over.
• (Alan & Tajinders garden)

August 19th 2009

Woodford Green:

• Exciting stuff - 9.45am. An Osprey over my garden in Woodford Green (being mobbed by gulls). Hope others saw it. (Peter Warne)

Gants Hill:

• Alan & Tajinders garden
• Coal Tit - Still present.
• Osprey - Seen very high over gardens gliding & circling between 9.47am -9.49am which unfortunately I could not get a clear look at even with bins but, the birds in my garden took cover for roughly 10 minutes also I saw about five or six gulls shortly afterwards which looked like they were ganging up.
• Great Spotted Woodpeckers - One Juvenile & One male present on different occasions.
• House Sparrows - Quite a number in around garden.
• Greenfinches - Good mixture of Juveniles & adults in garden.
• Blue & Great tits - Quite a number as per usual.
• Plus... 8+ Chaffinches, 3 Magpies, 3 Robins (2 Juveniles & 1 adult) 1 Collared Dove, 1 Dunnock, 1 Female Blackbird, 1 Woodpigeon & 6 Feral pigeons.

Wanstead Flats:

• 5.30am: Teal, 2 Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 2 House Martin, 7 Whitethroat, 3 Chiffchaff (J Lethbridge).
  

August 18th 2009

Gants Hill:

• Alan & Tajinders garden
• Coal Tit - Still present again.
• Sparrowhawk - Female this time seen of again just after 10am by pair of Magpies from our tree into neighbour's tree then onto surrounding gardens.
• Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker - Still Present in garden.
• House Sparrows - 14+ in around garden today.
• Greenfinches - Mixture of juveniles & adults roughly about 12 seen.
• Blue & Great Tits - Good numbers in around garden difficult to count.
• Plus 4 Starlings, 1 Collared Dove, 5 Magpies, 2 Juvenile Robins, 1 Dunnock, 1 Female Blackbird , 1 Wood Pigeon & 6 Feral Pigeons.

Pics - August 18th 2009

My juvenile GSWP seems to have left and only leaves his photo. (Peter Warne)

August 17th 2009

Woodford:

• Little Gull over near the Castle, with Black Headed Gulls (DEH)

Fairlop Waters:

• 6 juvenile Tufted Ducks with 2 females (Chris Gannaway)

Gants Hill:

• Alan & Tajinders garden
• Coal Tit - Present once again after no sighting yesterday which I guess it was probably around - "Sixth week now present in our garden".
• Sparrowhawk - Male seen off by two magpies just after 9.30am from neighbour's tree over my garden & house.
• Great Spotted Woodpeckers - One Juvenile & One male feeding in our garden at different times.
• House Sparrows - 10+ in garden & probably more in shrubs & trees.
• Greenfinches - Juveniles & adults in good numbers feeding.
• Blue & Great tits - Again in good numbers feeding & flying around looking for insects.
• Plus 7 Chaffinches, 1 Collared dove, 4+ Magpies, 3 Starlings, 2 Juvenile Robins, 1 Dunnock & 7 Wood Pigeons.

August 16th 2009

Valentines Park:

• family of Goldfinches
• Grey Wagtail

Gants Hill:

• Alan & Tajinders garden
• Great Spotted Woodpecker - turning into a male still present.
• House Sparrows - 10+ plus feeding in garden today.
• Greenfinches - Mixture of Juveniles & adults in garden.
• Robins - Two juveniles & One adult in garden.
• Blue & Great Tits - Quite a number seen around in garden.
• Plus - 2 Blackbirds, 1 Collard dove, 5 Starlings, 1 Dunnock, 3 Magpies & 6Pigeons.
• "Shock, horror no sighting of Coal Tit today unless I missed it throughout the day which would be the first time in just under six weeks of continuous visits to our garden"...Damn!!

Wanstead Flats:

• 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Tree Pipit, 3 Meadow Pipit, 14 Whitethroat, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Garden Warbler, 1 Willow Warbler, 7 Chiffchaff (S. Fisher)

August 15th 2009

Gants Hill:

• Alan & Tajinders garden
• Coal Tit - Still present.
• Sparrowhawk - Seen at 11.30am high over back gardens being mobbed by asingle crow.
• Great Spotted Woodpeckers - One Juvenile & One male feeding on different occasion in garden.
• House sparrows - Lots. some juveniles with adults in garden I assume they must be second broods now in & around garden feeding.
• Goldfinch - One adult in tree trying to get onto main feeder.
• Blue Tits & Great Tits - Quite a number which seem to be increasing daily.
• Chaffinches - Around 10+ in garden mainly females feeding.
• Plus 2 Collared doves, 4 Magpies, 2 Robins (1 juvenile), 5 Starlings, 1Dunnock, 1 Blackbird & some pigeons.

August 14th 2009

Valentines Park:

• 2 Jackdaw seen flying ovr Cranbrook Rd, into the Park 10am (DEH)

Gants Hill:

• Coal Tit - Still present.
• Kestrel - Seen at 8.35am at first hovering then soaring over my back garden& surrounding gardens.
• Sparrowhawks - Female seen & heard at 9.25am when it announced it's presencewith ke ke kee noise which caused panic amongst gardens birds - Also a Juvenile male seen at 5.28pm after being mobbed by some crows followed bymagpies as back up then finally again at 6.25pm in neighbour's pear treeafter originally coming out from tree in my garden...It hid up to about 15minutes somewhere in neighbour's tree .
• Great Spotted Woodpeckers - First one is the usual one which is now turning into a male which has been coming for the last five weeks to my garden plus today a new Juvenile complete with red crown feeding on peanut feeder.
• House Sparrows - Quite a number as usual feeding in around garden.Blue & Great Tits - The usual numbers all over the garden feeding.Greenfinches -
• Mixture of Juveniles & adults feeding.
• Robins - Two Juveniles & one adult feeding in garden.
• Magpies - Four in garden feeding & up to no good.
• Chaffinches - c8 possibly more at back of garden & in trees.

August 13th 2009

Hainault:

• Hobby flew fast over Greenwood Gardens (pm) (Jonathan Makengo)
• Stock Dove over

Fairlop Waters:

• many Stock Doves in the field (seen while driving down Hainault Road) (DEH)

Hainault Forest:

• 10 Pied Wagtails, 3 Linnet on the path nr Foxburrown Road (TLachhar)

Gants Hill:

• Coal Tit - Still present.
• Great Spotted Woodpecker - Still present.
• Greenfinches - Juveniles & adults present feeding in garden.
• House Sparrows & Blue Tits - Quite a number within garden feeding.
• Chaffinches - c10 feeding in garden.
• Collared Dove - Sitting in tree.
• Magpies - Three on different feeders & on ground in garden.
• (Alan & Tajinders garden)

August 12th 2009

Gants Hill:

• Alan & Tajinders garden
• Coal Tit - Still present.
• Great Spotted Woodpecker - Still present.
• Collared Dove - Sitting in tree.
• Plus a mixture of garden birds eg: Dunnock, Greenfinches, chaffinches, Blue& Great tits, Robins, Magpie, Starlings, Wood pigeon & House sparrows.

August 11th 2009

Woodford Green:

• Goldfinch family still active on Broadmead Estate

Wanstead Flats:

• Wood Sandpiper, flushed from south side of Alexandra Lake at 5:50am, flew low east but could not be refound anywhere on the margins. Patch tick for me (basically any wader is a patch tick), well pleased.
• 185 Canada Geese,
• female Tufted with 4 ducklings,
• Tawny Owl calling,
• Kestrel,
• 24 Jackdaw,
• 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker,
• 5 Green Woodpeckers,
• 5 Jays (Jonathan Lethbridge)

Bush Wood:

• male Hobby Calling (JL)

Gants Hill:

• Alan & Tajinders garden
• Coal Tit - Still present showing more plumage colour which suggest wasoriginally a juvenile.
• Juv Great Spotted Woodpecker - Still present (slowly plumage on head is turning black revealing a red spot on back of crown which is a male).
• Green finches - Juveniles & adults appearing in good numbers in garden.
• Plus usual array of garden birds in good numbers.

August 10th 2009

Hainault:

• male Sparrowhawk flying fast and low over Greenwood Gardens (rear Garden)

Connaught Water: (just outside the borough)

• 5 Female & Juv Mandarin
• Great Crested Grebe
• adult Arctic Tern fishing near the Car Park
• Green Woodpecker

Wanstead Flats:

• 5 Litte Grebe (3 ad, 2 juv),
• 161 Canada Geese,
• 2 Tufted Duck, 20+ Mallard,
• Cormorant over SE,
• 2 Herring Gull (1 juv + parent),
• 4 LBB, ~40 BH Gull,
• 4 Coot, 5 Moorhen,
• 4 Green Woodpecker (2 juv),
• 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker,
• Stock Dove,
• juv Sparrowhawk heard,
• 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Whitethroat, 2 Blackcap (1m 1f), 3 Chiffchaff,
• Robin, Song Thrush, 4 Mistle Thrush, 3 Blackbird, 4 Wren,
• 8 Meadow Pipit, 9 Skylark, Goldfinch, 3 Greenfinch, 2 Chaffinch,
• 25 Long-tailed Tits in 2 flocks, Blue Tits & Great Tits,
• 10+ Jackdaw, 6 Jay, 100+ Crow (J Lethbridge).

Gants Hill:

• Alan & Tajinders garden
• Coal Tit - Five weeks & counting still present in garden.
• Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker - Same as above five weeks now still present.
• Greenfinches - mixture of Juveniles & adults in garden.
• Robins - Two Juveniles chasing one another in garden.
• Plus House Sparrows, Blue Tits, Great Tits, Dunnock & Magpies.

Fairlop Waters:

• Green Sandpiper on the lagoon by the 9 hole Golf course (am) (Bill Neate)

August 9th 2009

Hainault Forest:

• Mute Swans with 2 cygnets
• Green Woodpecker

Gants Hill:

• Alan & Tajinders garden
• Sparrowhawk - Seen at 14.40pm above my garden & surrounding gardens gliding,flying around doing a wreckie searching for prey.
• Coal Tit - Still present.
• Juv Great Spotted Woodpecker - Still present.
• Greenfinches - Four Juveniles & Two adults on main feeder.
• Robins - Two Juveniles in garden.
• Collared Dove - Sitting in tree & also feeding on ground.
• Plus other array of garden birds.

Valentines Park:

• 6 Cormorants on the boating lake in Valentines Park.
• Also mute swans with 6 cygnets,
• Grey Heron, Coots, Moorhens, Mallards, Tufted Duck (not many), Canada Geese, Grey Wagtail, Black-Headed Gulls, Blackbird, Blue & Great Tits, Robins (one with young), House sparrows, Chaffinch, Mistle Thrush, Wood Pigeon, Feral Pigeons, Magpies, Carrion Crows. (MSevoir)

August 8th 2009

Gants Hill:

• Alan & Tajinders garden
• Coal Tit - Still Present.
• J-Great Spotted Woodpecker - Still present.
• Greenfinches - Three Juveniles & Six adults present in garden.
• Robins - Two Juveniles present in garden.
• Collared Dove - One feeding below main feeder.
• Plus 10+ House Sparrows, quite a number of Blue tits & at least 6+ Great Tits.
• Chaffinches - 6+ females & two males in around garden.
• Starlings - Five feeding from peanut feeder.

August 7th 2009

Fairlop Gravel Works

• 7 Green Sandpiper ,
• 9 Teal ,
• 6 Shoveler (Steve Bacon)

Fairliop Waters

• 1 Common Tern, 1 Common Sandpiper on Main boating Lake. (Steve Bacon)

Gants Hill:

• Coal Tit - Still present in Alan & Tajinders garden
• J-Great Spotted Woodpecker - Still present.
• Greenfinches - Two Juveniles & four adults on feeder & in tree.
• Robin - One Juvenile feeding.
• Chaffinches - c8 females & two males in garden.
• Dunnock - One feeding on ground.
• Plus the usual array of House sparrows, Blue tits & Great tits.

August 6th 2009

Wanstead Park:

• 2 Little Egret (Jonathan Lethbridge)
• 2 Kingfisher
• Grey Heron
• 3 Sparrowhawk (including 2 juvenile)

Roding Valley Nature Reserve: (just outside the borough)

• Common Gull
• 14 Swallow
• 2 House Martin
• 4 Linnet

Hainault Lodge Nature Reserve:

• 1 Little Owl (Steve Bacon)

Gants Hill:

• Coal Tit - Still present. (Alan & Tajinders garden)
• Juv Great Spotted Woodpecker - Still present.
• Greenfinches - Three Juveniles & Seven adults feeding in garden.
• Robins - One Juvenile & One adult in garden.
• Collared Dove - One sitting in tree above feeder.
• Plus plenty of House sparrows, Blue Tits, Great Tits & Chaffinches.

August 5th 2009

Wanstead Park:

• 3 Little Egret on Heronry, (Tim Harris)
• 1 Swallow

Wanstead:

• Hobby over my garden (J Lethbridge).
  

Wanstead Flats:

• Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Whitethroat, 12 Long TailedTits, 4 Jackdaw (J Lethbridge)

Gants Hill:

• Coal Tit - Still present. (Alan & Tajinders garden)
• Juv Great Spotted Woodpecker - Still present.
• Juvenile Greenfinches - Three feeding alongside some adults.
• Robins - Two juveniles in garden.
• House Sparrows - Quite a number as usual.
• Blue Tits - Quite a number as usual.
• Collared Dove - One in tree.

August 4th 2009

Fairlop Waters:

• Common Sandpiper
• Common Tern
• Little Egret
• 3 Green Sandpiper (Alan Bell)

Gants Hill:

• Coal Tit - Still Present this morning. (Alan & Tajiunders garden)
• J-Great Spotted Woodpecker - Still present this early evening.
• Greenfinches - Three juveniles & five adults feeding in morning.
• Robin - One Juvenile seen in morning.
• Plus the usual array of House Sparrows, Blue Tits, Great Tits & Chaffinches etc seen!

Hainault Lodge Nature Reserve:

• Great Spotted Woodpecker, (Steve Bacon)
• 2 Blackcap, 1 Chiffchaff.
• Little Owl

August 3rd 2009

Wanstead Park:

• 7 Little Egret (taking advantage of Low Levels) (Paul Ferris)

Fairlop Waters:

• Brief lunchtime walk at Fairlop round fishing lake produced Common Sandpiper and Kingfisher (Steve Bacon)

Gants Hill:

• Coal Tit - 4 weeks & counting...Still present in garden. (Alan & Tajinders garden)
• J-Great Spotted Woodpecker - Same as above...Still present.
• Goldfinches - One Juvenile & Two Adults feeding from nyjer seed feeder.
• Greenfinches - Three Juveniles & Five Adults feeding in garden.
• Robins - Two Juveniles & one Adult in garden.
• House Sparrows - c12 seen feeding on various feeders.
• Blue Tits - Quite a number seen flying around & feeding in garden.
• Collared Dove - One on tree & feeding on ground.
• Plus Chaffinches, Great Tits, Starlings & Magpies.

Woodford Bridge:

• family of fledged Green Woodpeckers on Vicarage Road, (Alan Hobson)

August 2nd 2009

Gants Hill:

• Alan & Tajinders garden
• Coal Tit - Still present.
• Sparrowhawk- Female seen at 4.48pm flying over gardens searching for prey.
• Juv -Great Spotted Woodpecker - Still present.
• Greenfinches - Two Juveniles feeding & three adults feeding.
• Robins - Two Juveniles & one adult in garden chasing one another.
• House Sparrows - 10 counted in garden feeding.

August 1st 2009

Barkingside:

• female Sparrowhawk over Colvin Gardens

Hainault Forest:

• Yellow Wagtail on verge by entrance track @11am. (Paul Hawkins)

Gants Hill:

• Alan & Tajinders garden
• Coal Tit - Still present several times a day.
• Juv Great Spotted Woodpecker - Still present same as above.
• Juvenile Greenfinches - Two on main feeder.
• Robins - Two Juveniles & 1 adult in garden.
• House Sparrows - c12 around garden feeding.
• Blue Tits - Quite a number all around garden area.
• Swifts - c19 seen over head flying around garden area.