July 4th 2010

Valentines Park:

• Egyptian Geese still with 3 ducklings
• Great Crested Grebe with chick riding on the back (GWare)
• Little Grebe on the boating lake, and another on the fish pond
• 1 adult Grey Heron
• 12 Mute Swan - (family still have all 8 cygnets, and another pair on fish pond)
• 1 hybrid Greylag Goose, Canada Geese, Mallards, Tufted Ducks, 1 male (eclipse plumage) Shoveler, Coots, Moorhen,
• 3 Black Headed Gulls on the baoting lake
• Feral Pigeons, Woodpigeons, 2 Stock Dove, Collared Dove
• 19 Swift high over Cranbrook Road
• Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker
• 3 Pied Wagtail, Wren, 4 Dunnock, 2 Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush, Robin, Blackbird
• Great Tit, Blue Tit, 4 Long Tailed Tit
• 3 Jay, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Starlings, 5 House Sparrow
• 2 Chaffinch, Greenfinch, 3 Goldfinch (Mike Condon)

Wanstead Flats:

• More frogs at the round pond (and 2 biggies),
• naff all except Meadow Pipits, Skylark, 1 Black-headed Gull and some Swift, too many people spreading their rubbish and setting fires... ...nearly forgot 5 Cormorant (joy!) (Nick -misanthrope-Croft).

Wanstead Park:

• (aah relative peace!)
• Hobby over Shoulder of Mutton on 3 occasions at dusk,
• Sparrowhawk down by the allotments,
• family of 4 Green Woodpeckers,
• Chiffchaff, Blackcap, families of Whitethroat, c. 10 singing Song Thrush,
• Great Crested Grebe (on Heronry), Little Grebe, Grey Heron, 3 Cormorant (woo hoo!),
• 5 Lesser Black-backed Gull,
• 3 Stock Dove, 1 Ring-necked Parakeet (Nick Croft)