August 11, 2010

August 11th 2010

Claybury Park:

  • Grey Heron (outstanding views of it in the large pond, including catching 4 fish right in front of me),
  • Moorhens (in small pond; adult, juvenile from brood earlier in year, and juvenile from recent brood) (AHobson)

Fairlop Gravel Works:

  • c10 Teal, c10 Pochard, c10 Tufted Duck,
  • 8 Grey Heron
  • 3 families of Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe
  • 20 Black Headed Gull, 20 Lesser Black Backed Gull
  • c100 Lapwing, 6 Green Sandpiper, 5 Common Sandpiper
  • 2 Swallow
  • 2 Kestrel (1male, 1female), 1 female Sparrowhawk
  • 10+ Stock Dove
  • 2 Whitethroat
  • 20+ Goldfinch, 7 Linnet

Fairlop Waters:

  • Great Crested Grebe
  • Common Tern
  • Yellow Wagtail (boating lake) (DEH)

Gants Hill, Roll Gardens:

  • Female Sparrowhawk - Seen crashing into our tree around 3.20pm which sentall the birds packing then it went into neighbours tree briefly before their teenage son came out weaving a stick & singing that pop song wave your flag...Annoying little git!
  • Greenfinches - Flock of up to 25 mixture of adults & Juveniles on last count, probably more hidden amongst foliage in tree & shrubs elsewhere.
  • 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
  • 17 House Sparrows - counted probably more about but couldn't be bothered in the end.
  • 10 Blue tits, 7 Great tits, 6 Chaffinches, 2 Goldfinches - 1 Adult & 1 Juvenile, 2 Robins, 2 Magpies, 4 Starlings, 1 Woodpigeon, 8 Feral Pigeons
  • Wren - Heard singing earlier during the morning.
  • 1 Swift - Seen Flying around at 12.34pm just below clouds around back gardens for a couple of minutes before heading into the distance...Definitely not part of the Gants Hill Swift posse who left roughly around a week ago - There's always one straggler! (AThomas)

Ilford Golf Course:

  • Osprey over in the afternoon (Birdguides)
  • (this is the first Osprey sighting in the borough this year... last year there were 2 sightings, 1 in May, and 1 in August)

Valentines Park:

  • 3 Great Crested Grebe (2 ad, 1 juv), Little Grebe
  • 3 Pochard (2m, 1f)
  • Grey Heron (GWare)

Wanstead Flats:

  • SSSI area: 20+ Whitethroat (some in a feeding party with tits)
  • 2 Lesser Whitethroat
  • 12 Long-tailed Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, 2 Dunnock, 3 Wren (THarris)
  • 1 Wheatear, (first returning bird)
  • 9 Swift through, House Martin,
  • 3 Mistle Thrush,
  • 2 Kestrel.

Wanstead Park:

  • 3 Swift, 2 House Martin,
  • c40 Long tailed Tits,
  • 7 Chiffchaff, 25+Blue Tit, 20 Great Tit,
  • 10 Little Grebe etc (S Fisher)

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