April 18th 2010

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• 2 pairs of Mute Swan (1 pr each side of Painters Road)
• Canada Geese, 2 Shelduck, Mallards, 2 Gadwall, 4 Shoveler, 2 Teal, c20 Tufted Duck, 6 Pochard, 4 Little Grebe, 2 Great Crested Grebe
• 2 Grey Heron, Cormorant
• 6 Lapwing, Greenshank, 2 Redshank, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Snipe, 4 Little Ringed Plover
• c20 Pied Wagtails including 3 White Wagtails
• 1 male Yellow Wagtail
• 4 Swallow
• singing Skylark
• 3 Blackcap
• c10 Linnet

Goodmayes, Green Lane:

• Sparrowhawk (JMakengo)

Hainault Golf Club:

• 1 Ringed Necked Parakeet
• 1 male Sparrowhawk
• 1 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
• 1 Cuckoo (only heard) (RNelson)

Roding Valley Park, Central:

• South Woodford section:
• 2 Grey Wagtail,
• pr Mallard
• Jay (PGordon)

Valentines Park:

• 2 Great Crested Grebe on the boating lake
• 2 Cormorant on the boating lake
• Grey Heron still on nest
• 3 Mute Swan, (hen on nest on the baoting lake island)
• Canada Geese, Mallard, Tufted Ducks, Moorhen, Coot
• 4 Egyptian Geese! (2 adults with their 2 goslings)
• 1 Black Headed Gull
• Feral Pigeons, 1 Stock Dove, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove
• 2 Green Woodpecker,
• 3 Pied Wagtail
• Wren, Dunnock, Mistle Thrush, Blackbird, Robin,
• 2 Chiffchaff
• Great Tit, Blue Tit, 2 Long Tailed Tit
• Magpie, Carrion Crow, Starling, 9 House Sparrow
• 4 Greenfinch (2m, 2f) (Mike Condon)

Wanstead Park:

• Lesser Whitethroat (1 singing male, old sewage works)
• Whitethroat (1 singing male, old sewage works)

Wanstead Flats:

• male Ring Ouzel (last seen on path south of Lakehouse Rd and north east of Fairground Green),
• 4 Wheatear (3 males and poss female),
• 4 Lesser Whitethroats, 2 Whitethroat, 6 Blackcap, 2 Willow Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff,
• 2 Sparrowhawk (near Long Wood and over City of London Cemetery)
• male Pheasant,
• 2 Reed Bunting,
• 9 Meadow Pipit, 25 Skylark (16 singing)
• 4 Mistle Thrush,
• 2 Little Grebe (S Fisher)

Roding Valley NR: (just outside the borough)

• Kingfisher. (BJ)