March 28th 2010

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• White Wagtail,
  
• 2 Green Sandpipers, 2 Redshank, Golden Plover (AAB)

Valentines Park:

• 1 Little Grebe on the boating lake
• 2 Great Crested Grebe
• 1 Grey Heron on nest
• 4 Mute Swan, Canada Geese, 3 Greylag Geese (2 of which flew off north)
  
• Egyptian Goose (being aggressive)
  
• 19 Black Headed Gulls (Mike Condon)
• 4 Pochard on the boating lake, Mallard, Tufted Duck, Moorhen, Coot
• Feral Pigeons! Woodpigeons, Collared Dove
• 2 Green Woodpecker,
  
• 2 Pied Wagtail
• 2 Wren, Dunnock, Song Thrush, several Mistle Thrush, 13 Redwing, Fieldfare Blackbirds Robins
• 2 Goldcrest going along the trees along the old pitch and put
• Great Tit, Blue Tit, 4 Long Tailed Tit
• Magpies, Carrion Crows including 39 in 1 tree!,
  
• Starlings, 13 House Sparrows
• Chaffinch, 2 Greenfinch, 4 Goldfinch (Mike Condon)

Wanstead Flats:

• 1 Little Grebe
• Little Owl
• 1 Green Woodpecker, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 male Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, drumming in West Copse
• 10 Skylark (7 in song)
• 10 Meadow Pipit (7 in song)
• 7 Wren, 6 Dunnock, 1 Robin, 3 Blackbird, 3 Song Thrush, 3 Mistle Thrush,
  
• 2 Chiffchaff
• 2 Chaffinch, 8 Greenfinch, 5 Goldfinch (WREN via THarris)
  

Wanstead Park:

• Lesser Spotted Woodpecker,
  
• 7 Ring Necked Parakeets,
  
• Blackcap, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff,
  
• Song Thrush,
  
• 3 Grey Heron, Cormorant,
  
• 2 Great Crested Grebes, 6 Little Grebes,
  
• Gadwall, Teal, Shoveler, Mallard, Canadian Geese, (MAW)
• 6 Stock Dove
• 11 Green Woodpecker, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker,
  
• 26 Wren, 10 Dunnock, 23 Robin, 8 Blackbird, 8 Song Thrush, 3 Mistle Thrush,
• 10 Blackcap, 17 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler (all singing)
• 1 Goldcrest singing
• 3 Chaffinch, 6 Greenfinch, 1 Goldfinch, 18 Linnet (WREN/Tim Harris)

Wanstead, Belgrave Road:

• Buzzard drifting NW over (THarris)
  

Abridge, Apes Wood: (just outside the borough)

• Buzzard,
  
• 3 Chiffchaff, Nuthatch, 27 Chaffinch. (BJ)

Lambourne End: (just outside the borough)

• Buzzard (DMcG)

Mayesbrook Park: (just outside the borough)

• Egyptian Goose (PHa)