- Black-headed gulls, Lesser black-backed gulls (1 adult and 1 juvenile - though I can't be absolutely certain it wasn't a young herring gull)
- 1 Grey Heron, 2 cormorants, 3 little grebes, 5 tufted ducks on boating lake, 2 on fish lake usual mallards, coots, moorhens, canada geese,
- mute swans (2 + 8 cygnets boating lake, 2 fish lake)
- 1 grey wagtail
- 4 robins, 3 house sparrows, c.30 starlings, 5 blackbirds, 2 great tits, 6 blue tits, 1 chaffinch, usual wood and feral pigeons, carrion crows, magpies.
- Yesterday I was looking at some old photos and came across one I'd taken of the boating lake in Valentines Park in March 1980. It was a wide-angled shot showing a good part of the lake and there were just 2 birds, a pair of mallards. How times have changed. (MSevoir)
- 4 Little Grebes (2 juv), 3 Great Crested Grebe (1 juv) 2 Cormorant, 1 Grey Heron, 12 Mute Swan, c120 Black Headed Gulls, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Collared Dove, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker,
- 2 Grey Wagtail, moving west to east along cranbrook cut, for over 90 mins...!
- Wren, Dunnock Blackbird, Robin, 8 Mistle Thrush,
- Goldcrest going through the large Cedar trees
- 3 Chaffinch, 2 Greenfinch, 4 Goldfinch (MCondon)
- adult Yellow-legged Gull with 7 Lesser Black backs early am,
- Yellow Wagtail NW,
- 2 Kestrel, 2-3 Sparrowhawk,
- 10 Whitethroat, 2 Lesser Whitethroat,
- 4 Meadow Pipit (S Fisher, T Harris)
Wanstead Park:
- Kingfisher,
- 12 Stock Dove,
- Hobby,
- 4 Shoveler, eclipse Teal, 9 Pochard,
- Willow Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap,
- 12 House Martin, 5 Swift,
- Little Egret (Roding),(S Fisher)
- 18:00-21:00: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Old sewage works),
- Hobby over Reservoir Wood (later 2 over golf course - Tim Harris), Sparrowhawk (juv) calling NE Bush Wood,
- Teal still on SoM, 3 Shoveler, 2 Pochard (Heronry), 7 Tufted Duck, 18 Little Grebe (11 juv),
- Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap, Whitethroat, Chiffchaff (osw),
- 6 Sand Martin, 5 House Martin (Nick Croft) Pipistrelle Bat (T Harris)
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