April 1st 2010

Hatch Forest, Woodford Green:

• 8 Wood pigeon
• 23 Carrion Crow (in wood off Groveside road)
• 5 Blackbird, 4 Robin, Wren
  
• 11 Blue tit, 10 Great tit, Coal Tit
  
• 1 Jay, 2 Magpie
• 4m 1f Mallard (on river Ching)
• 1 Great spotted woodpecker
• 2 Nuthatch (pic attached) (Andrew Perrin)

Roding Valley Park, Central:

• scrubland/playing fields off Roding Lane North:
  
• Lesser Black Backed Gull
• Song Thrush
• Chiffchaff
  
• Private Fishing Lake: Grey Heron
• Long Tailed Tit (Alan Hobson)
  

Valentines Park:

• Black-headed gulls (very few now), Herring gulls (2)
• Great crested grebe (2), Little grebe (1) - with big fish!
• Mallards, Tufted ducks, Pochard (only 1m)
• Coots, Moorhens
• Mute swans (4 - pair on long water and pair on boating lake), Canada geese, Greylag hybrid
• Blackbird (several)
• Starling (not many)
• Mistle thrush (2), Robin (3), Dunnock
• House sparrow (2)
• Chaffinch (3)
• Blue tit (lots), Great tit (lots singing, but saw only 1), Long-tailed tit (1)
• Wood pigeon, Feral pigeon, Carrion crow, Magpie
• Pied wagtail (3)
• Chiffchaff (1), Willow warbler (1)
• Green woodpecker (1) (MSevoir)
• evening visit:
• 2 Little Grebes - nice to see them back
• 2 Great Crested Grebes
• Grey Heron on nest
• Cormorant
• Goldcrest
• Mistle Thrush (Barbara J)
  

Wanstead Park:

• Just a brief foray into WP this morning:
• plenty of singing Chiffchaffs
• at least 5 singing Blackcaps
• 1 singing Willow Warbler (by Perch)
• 4 Linnets (old sewage works)
• 2 Stock Doves (old sewage works)
• no sign of the Water Rail ... (Tim Harris)
• Swallow over
• Blackcap - male singing
• 2 cormorants, Grrey Heron
• Green Woodpecker
• 5 Ring Necked Parakeet
• Chaffinch (Sally Hammond)
  

Connaught Water: (just outside the borough)

• 2 Egyptian Geese
• 4 Teal
• pr Great Crested Grebe
• 2 Mandarin (DEH)

Roding Valley Nature Reserve: (just outside the borough)

• Song Thrushes, 3 Blackbirds,
  
• 3 Chaffinches, 2 Greenfinche,
  
• 3 Chiffchaff,
  
• 6 Blue Tits, Great Tit,
• 5 Wrens, 5 Robins,
  
• Pied Wagtail,
  
• Great Spotted Woodpecker,
  
• 9 Carrion Crows, 8 Magpies, 2 Jays,
  
• 2 Dunnocks,
  
• Great Crested Grebe, 5 Coot, 3 Moorhens, 26 Canada Geese, 12 Mallards, 16 Tufted Ducks, 6 Mute Swans.
  
• Little Egret (CIS)