April 10, 2010

April 10th 2010

Fairlop Gravel Works:

  • 5pm (south side of Painters Road)
  • pr Mute Swan (female on nest)
  • 2 Grey Heron
  • 2 male Pheasant
  • 2 Shelduck, 6 Shoveler, 6Teal, 20 Tufted Duck, 2 Gadwall
  • Little Grebe
  • 2 Redshank, 2 Lapwing, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover
  • c15 Pied Wagtail, 2 Yellow Wagtail (1m, 1f)
  • 5 Stock Dove
  • 4 Skylark (including 2 singing)
  • 3 Swallow
  • Green Woodpecker
  • 4 Linnet
  • male Reed Bunting

Fairlop Waters CP:

  • Chaffinch, Willow Warbler,
  • Chiffchaff
  • Wren, Dunnock, Robin, Blackbird,
  • Mute Swan, Greylag Goose, Canada Goose, Mallard, Gadwall, Tufted Duck, Coot, Moorhen
  • Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe nestbuilding
  • Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker,
  • Carrion Crow, Jay,
  • Great Tit, Blue Tit, Long Tailed Tit
  • Reed Bunting
  • Lesser Black Backed Gull
  • Grey Heron
  • Woodpigeon
  • and in the Surrounding fields
  • Pheasant
  • Skylark
  • Teal (on farm pond)
  • in the Stable area
  • Starling
  • Little Owl x 2
  • Pied Wagtail
  • Collared Dove
  • Linnet
  • Swallow
  • Kestrel (Neil Twyford)

Knighton Woods:

  • 2 Blackcap
  • 2 Nuthatch
  • Many Blue, Great and Long Tailed Tits
  • 4 Jay
  • 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker
  • 5 song thrush – very voluble
  • 3 Chiffchaff
  • And, of course, many magpies
  • Only male mallard 7 and Moorhen 2 on the pond
Roding Valley Park, North:
  • Little Egret, back in his usual haunt, just north of Chigwell Road, Woodford Bridge
Wanstead Flats:
  • 2 Great Crested Grebe on Alexandra Lake,
  • 4 Shelduck north west plus the usuals (S Fisher)
Wanstead Park:
  • River Roding area:
  • male Bullfinch (Tim Harris),
  • male Whitethroat, 9 Chiffchaff (pair building nest), 6 male Blackcap,
  • 4 Linnet,
  • 5 Song Thrush, 3 Mistle Thrush (S Fisher)
  • Treecreeper in Resevoir Woods (Amina B)
  • Kingfisher by the Old Sewage Works (Roding) (THarris)

Connaught Water: (just outside the borough)

  • Egyptian Geese
  • Mandarin (NTwyford)

Roding Valley Meadows: (just outside the borough)

  • Sparrowhawk
  • Song Thrush
  • Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Blackcap
  • Little Egret

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