weather: 14C max, cloudy
Claybury Park:
- Stock Dove
- 2 Mistle Thrush (A Hobson)
Fairlop, Aldborough Riding School:
- Little Owl showing very well
- 3 Green Woodpeckers (AHobson)
Fairlop, Hainault Farm:
- fields east of Hainault Road:
- Buzzard
- Lapwing
- 4 Pheasant
- 4 Common Gull
- Skylark
- Mallard (AHobson)
Hatch Forest:
- 2 Mandarin (pr), and a male Wood Duck on the River Ching (presumably from Connaught Water area just up the river? perhaps they are nest-hole prospecting??)
- Great Spotted Woodpecker
- Wren (APerrin)
Valentines Park:
- 6 Mute Swan (2 adults and 2 1st winter on the boating lake, additional pair on the Ornamental Lake) - that means 2 of the cygnets have left... 2 to go!
- Black Headed Gulls, Common Gulls, 2 Herring Gulls
- 2 Cormorant
- 1 Great Crested Grebe
- Canada Geese, 1 Egyptian Goose (presumbly the female was in the nest hole...)
- Mallards, Tufted Ducks, 2 Shoveler (pr) on the fish lake, 10 Pochard (5m, 5f) on the Baoting Lake
- Coots, Moorhens
- Grey Herons still nest building on the Fish Pond
- 3 Mistle Thrush, 3 Blackbird, c10 Redwing, 6 Robin, 2 Wren, Dunnock
- Wood Pigeons, Feral Pigeons
- Green Woodpecker
- Blue Tits, Great Tits, 1 Long Tailed Tit
- 20 Starling,8 House Sparrow
- 2 Chaffinch, 1 Greenfinch
- 2 Goldcrest (1 near the feeding station, 1 by the boating lake) (U3A Group, via M Sevoir)
- 2 Gadwall
- 9 Greenfinch!
- Jay (Barbara J)
Wanstead Flats:
- 2 Mistle Thrush,
- male Pheasant (unusual here),
- 57 Common Gulls, 7 Black-headed Gulls,
- 4 Jay (J Lethbridge)
- 20 Redwing, 12 Fieldfare
- 15 Meadow Pipit (including 6 singing birds)
- 20 Skylark (including 9 singing birds)
- 4 Reed Bunting (including 1 singing bird) (THarris)
- 29 Redwing, 7 Fieldfare (1 in song) (SFisher)
Wanstead Park:
- pm: Water Rail (The Dell),
- 25 Linnet (near old Sewage works),
- 23 Gadwall, Great-crested Grebe (S Fisher)
- Lesser Spotted Woodpecker in the Dell (Pete Saunders)
Chingford Hatch, garden: (Just outside the borough)
- male Blackcap (APerrin)
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