July 25, 2010

July 25th 2010


Fairlop Gravel Works:
  • 6+ Little Grebe including young, Great Crested Grebe, female Teal, female Shoveler
  • 6 Grey Heron
  • c100 Black Headed Gull, few Common Gull, Lesser Black Backed Gull and Herring Gulls..
  • female Sparrowhawk circling high overhead.
  • c150 Lapwing, 7 Green Sandpiper, 6 Common Sandpipers including 4 feeding together.
  • 4 Little Ringed Plover (2 juvenile flying around a lot more today)
  • c20 Stock Dove
  • Swallow, c20 House Martin
  • c30 Goldfinch, Linnet, 2 Greenfinch, many Pied Wagtails

Valentines Park:

  • up to 7 Little Grebe, including 3 juvenile
  • pr Great Crested Grebe plus 1 (also still sitting on 3 eggs)
  • 12 Mute Swans (4 adults, 1 pr has 8 cygnets still)
  • 1 Hybrid Greylag Goose, c60 Canada Goose, Mallards, 1 male Shoveler, 5 Pochard (2 male, 3 female), Coot, Moorhen
  • 1 Cormorant
  • 120 Black Headed Gull
  • Feral Pigeon, 1 Stock Dove, Wood Pigeon, 2 Collared Dove
  • only 2 Swift
  • 4 Green Woodpecker (2 adult, 2 juvenile), 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
  • 2 Grey Wagtail at western end of Cranbrook Cut,
  • Wren, 2 Dunnock, Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush, Robin, Blackbird
  • Great Tit, Blue Tit, 3 Long Tailed Tit,
  • Magpie, Carrion Crow, Starling, 3 House Sparrow,
  • 2 Greenfinch, 2 Goldfinch (Mike Condon)

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