October 27th 2009

Woodford Green:

• female Sparrowhawk circling over Broadmead Estate, and chasing Pied Wagtails high over the tower blocks

Fairlop Waters:

• 10+ Great Crested Grebes
• 6 Lapwings, and 6 Grey Herons on the main lake
• 20 Teal on the Lagoon
• 9 Linnet on Fairlop Plain
• 10 Lesser Redpoll and 3 Siskin
• also 20+ Greenfinch and Chaffinches
• parties of Long Tailed Tits
• pr Pied Wagtails
• 2 Fieldfare and 3 Redwing
  
• Reed Bunting and Meadow Pipit
  
• Pheasant

Bush Wood:

• Red Throated Pipit NW over at 9.55am (Jonathan Lethbridge)

Loughton, Lower Park Road: (just outside the borough)

• Ring-necked Parakeet, Green Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail (NM)

Wanstead:

• Two Coal Tits on peanut and sunflower feeder. (garden by Wanstead Park) (Jennifer Charter)

Playing fields off Roding Lane North, Woodford Bridge:

• 2 Green Woodpeckers, 2 Goldfinches, Pied Wagtail, Kestrel, 2 Common Gulls, Lesser Black Backed Gull (Alan Hobson)