March 14th 2010

weather: 10C, light showers

Fairlop, Aldborough Riding School:

• c100 Fieldfare with c200 Starling

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• 4 Mute Swan
• m Shelduck, 10 Teal, 8 Wigeon (5m, 3f), 23 Shoveler, 16 Tufted Duck,
• Green Sandpiper, 9 Snipe
• 10 Lesser Black Backed Gull, 5 Herring Gull
• Green Woodpecker
• 3 Song Thrush
• Skylark in song
• 4 Stock Dove
• 15 Linnet

Hainault Forest CP:

• ELBF Walk, 9am with Roy Woodward (via Niel Twyford)
• Mute Swan
• Coot, Moorhen
• Mallard, Pochard, Tufted Duck,
• Great Crested Grebe,
• Black Headed Gull, Common Gull,
• Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker
• Wood Pigeon
• Redwing, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Robin, Dunnock, Wren
• Blue Tit, Coal Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit
• Nuthatch, Treecreeper
• Carrion Crow, Jackdaw, Jay, Magpie
• Chaffinch, Greenfinch
• House Sparrow

Hatch Forest:

• 1 Ring-necked Parakeet
• 2 Male Mallard (on River Ching)
• 7 Blue tit, 18 Great tit, 2 Long-tailed tit
• 13 Carrion Crow, 3 Jay
• 4 Robin, 5 Dunnock, 7 Blackbird,
• 1 Grey Wagtail
• 7 House sparrow
• 7 Wood Pigeon.
• 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker
• 3m 2f Chaffinch (Andrew Perrin)

Valentines Park:

• pair of Grey Heron nest building on the island on the ornamental pond, plus a 3rd on the boating lake
• 4 Song Thrush (2 singing males)
• pair of Mute Swan on the baoting lake now frantically driving off its 4 juveniles from last year (PHopkins)
• 1 Greylag Goose, many Canada Geese
• 2 Egyptian Geese,
• 3 Cormorant
• Mallard, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Coot, Moorhen
• Black Headed Gull
• Feral Pigeon, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove
• 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
• 1 Pied Wagtail, 2 Grey Wagtail
• 1 Dunnock, Robin, many Redwing and Fieldfare
• Goldcrest
• Great Tits, Blue Tits, 4 Long Tailed Tits
• Magpie, Carrion Crow, Starling, few House Sparrow
• many Chaffinch, 1 Greenfinch, 8 Goldfinch (Mike Condon)

Wanstead Park:

• Water Rail in the Dell
• 2 Great Crested Grebes on Perch Pond
• 7 Little Grebe
• 22 Linnet in the Old Sewage Works (THarris)
• WREN wildfolw count:
• 23 Black Headed Gull,
• 2 Mute Swan, 8 Canada Geese,
• 5 Gadwall, 60 Mallard, 6 Shoveler, 8 Teal, 31 Tufted Duck, 2 Pochard
• 2 Great Crested Grebe (pr), 2 Little Grebe
• 48 Coot, 20 Moorhen
• 3 Cormorant (via Paul Ferris)