June 9th 2010

Gants Hill, Roll Gardens:

• Sparrowhawk - female seen at 12.23pm hunting over back gardens not sure if it was successful after I saw it dive bomb behind some trees presumably it's meal.
• Fledglings lots of i.e.: House Sparrows (many), Blue tits (many), Great tits & Greenfinches, Starlings (many) Magpies, woodpigeons and not forgetting Robin fledgling too all in our garden at the moment.
• Still awaiting Great Spotted Woodpecker, Wren, Dunnock, Chaffinch, Blackbird& Goldfinch fledglings to make an appearance over the coming weeks if last year was anything to go by, which turned out to best ever from our garden. (AThomas)

Valentines Park:

• 3 Little Grebe (2 fishing lake, 1 baoting lake, 2 Great Crested grebes nr nest
• 2 Swans on Fish Pond, family of 2 + 8 Cygnets on Boating Lake
• 3 Grey Heron Chicks (2 in nest, one nearby), with 1 sleeping parent
• 1 hybrid Greylag, Canada Geese, Mallards, 2 female Pochard, Tufted Ducks,
• 1 Egyptian Goose first seen standing sentinal, then on the boating lake
• Moorhen, Coot
• Woodpigeon, Feral Pigeon, 2 Stock Dove, Collared Dove
• 7 Swift
• 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker ( 3 along Cranbrook Cut, another in the plantation)
• 2 Green Woodpecker
• Wren, 2 singing male Dunnock in the Dell, Robin, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush,
• Blue Tit, Great Tit, 5 Long Tailed Tit,
• Magpie, Carion Crow, Starling, 5 House Sparrow
• Chaffinch, 2 male Greenfinch, 3 Goldfinch (Mike Condon/U3A Birding Group)

Wanstead Flats:

• 08:00-11:00:
• male + 1 young Lesser Spotted Woodpecker,
• Little Owl,
• Coot with 6 chicks on round pond (also 1 Moorhen there too),
• 13 Cormorant, 13 Lesser Black-Backed Gull, 1 adult Herring Gull,
• 4 singing Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, numerous Whitethroat,
• 6+ Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Robin,
• Chaffinch, Greenfinch,
• 2 male Reed Bunting
• Jay, Jackdaw, Magpie, Carrion Crow,
• Kestrel,
• families of Great Tit, Blue Tit, Long-Tailed Tit,
• Skylark, 6 male Meadow Pipit
• c.100+ Swift, 2 House Martin,
• Also: Mallard, Tufted Duck, Canada Goose, Mute Swan, Little Grebe, 2 Ring Necked Parakeet, Dunnock, Wren, several large "schools" of Starling, House Sparrow, Wood Pigeon, Green Woodpecker, Greater Spotted Woodpecker, and a Grey Heron (Nick Croft)

Wanstead, Windsor Road:

• Goldcrest with 2 fledged young in the yew tree at the bottom of the garden (JL)