April 22nd 2010

weather: 15C, sunny

Barkingside:

• Red Kite over at 7.30pm (Tony Leaderman)

Fairlop, Aldborough Riding School:

• Little Owl in the usual place.

Fairlop Waters CP:

• 6.30-8am
• 16 Mute Swan (12 on the baoting lake (the congregation of non-breeders is increasing), 2 on the scrape, 2 (nesting) on the Lagoon.
• 11 Greylag Geese, plenty of Canada Geese
• 2 Gadwall (fishing lake), 11 Tufted Duck (boating/fishing lake), 1 male Shoveler (fishing lake)
• 3 Cormorant
• Great Crested Grebe (fishing lake), 4+ Little Grebe (lagoon)
• Common Sandpiper on the jetty by the Clubhouse
• 2 Pheasant
• 3 Green Woodpecker
• Swallow (over)
• 4 Dunnock (2 pairs), c10 Robin, 5-6 Wren, Song Thrush
• 3 singing Skylark, 2 Meadow Pipit
• 18 Whitethroat (including several nestbuilding), 4 Blackcap, 8 singing Willow Warbler, 7 singing Chiffchaff
• 4 Linnet
• 3 Long Tailed Tit
• 4 Reed Bunting (2 prs)
• 2 Brown Hare on the area between the rear of the lagoon and the golf course (not seen them here before) (DEH)
• 7pm Common Sandpiper still present (island)
• 14 Swift, 40 Sand Martin, 20 Swallow, 1 House Martin (DEH)
• 40 Swift,
• Sedge Warbler by the fishing lake (Alan Bell)

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• Mute Swan, Greylag Goose, Canada Geese, Mallard, 7 Tufted Duck, 2 Shoveler, 3 Gadwall, 2 Shelduck, 6 Teal, Coot, Moorhen,
• 3 Lesser Black Backed Gulls
• 2 Grey Heron, 2 Pheasant
• 1 Stock Dove
• 2 Redshank, 2 Lapwing, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Snipe
• 37 Pied Wagtail
• male Wheatear
• Rock Pipit,
• 6 Linnet (DEH)

Hainault Farm:

• east of Hainault Road 6-7pm
• 3 Pheasant (2 male, 1 female)
• 2 Green Woodpecker
• species of Ibis flew over high (couldnt identify, but most likely to be a Glossy Ibis)
• Whitethroat
• 27 singing Skylark!
• 2 Linnet
• 7 Blackbird, 2 Robin, Wren, 3 Great Tit, Blue Tit, 13 Chaffinch, 4 Greenfinch,
• 6 Carrion Crow, 6 Magpie, 52 Woodpigeon, 2 Colalred Dove (DEH)

Hainault Forest CP:

• 8 Blackbirds, 6 Song Thrushes, 6 Robins, 7 Wrens, 3 Dunnock,
  
• 14 Blackcaps, 6 Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler
  
• 4 Chaffinches,
  
• 12 Blue Tits, 7 Great Tits, 2 Long-tailed Tits.7 Wrens, 3 Dunnocks,
  
• 7 Green Woodpeckers, 6 Great Spotted Woodpeckers,
  
• 9 Carrion Crows, 12 Magpies, 4 Jays, 6 Jackdaws,
  
• 4 Moorhens, 4Coots, 4 Tufted Ducks, 22 Mallard,
  
• 2 Greylag Goose, 42 Canada Geese. (CIS)

Wanstead Flats:

• pair of Lesser Spotted Woodpecker seen copulating (NCroft)
• 2 female Wheatear
• 3 singing Lesser Whitethroat, several Whitethroat (THarris)
• Sparrowhawk
• Tree Pipit
• 3 Swallow,
• 4 Ring Necked Parakeet,
• 5 Linnet,
• Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail,
• Ring Ouzel (Nick Croft, JLe)

Wanstead, Windsor Road:

• Buzzard (over)
• Yellow Wagtail over north, (J Lethbridge)