September 16, 2010

September 16th 2010

Fairlop Gravel Works:

  • c50 Teal, 26 Pochard, c12 Tufted Duck, 4 Gadwall, c10 Little Grebe
  • 12 Grey Heron, 6 Cormorant
  • c60 Lapwing, 6 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Snipe and 1 Greenshank (all south side, apart from 1 of the Green Sandpiper)
  • 1 male Sparrowhawk being mobbed (successfully) by 4 Pied Wagtail,
  • 1 juv Buzzard (very pale underneath) low, being mobbed by 7 Carrion Crows, landed somewhere in adjacent field (nr Allotments)
  • 1 Swallow (over)
  • 1 juvenile Green Woodpecker, 10 Meadow Pipit, 13 Linnet,

Gants Hill, Roll Gardens:

  • 1 Chiffchaff - seen around 7.35 ish on buddleia front drive & then also on telephone line near my front bedroom window.
  • 2 Jays - on neighbours tree 8.20am then flew over our garden in direction of Cranbrook rd north.
  • 1 male Sparrowhawk - flying past back bedroom window into other neighbour'stree then lost from view (no kill this time). (Alan Thomas)

Hainault, Farmland:

  • Farmland between Hainault Road and Romford Road
  • 2 Buzzard (not the same bird as above, as both darker birds), both flushed from low bushes, then circling together, occasionally landing on trees/ground (still present at dusk)
  • 2 Sparrowhawk, 1 female Kestrel
  • 100 mixed Gulls flock taking advantage of the tracker churning up the field, also 140+ Carrion Crow, 25+ Jackdaw, 4 Jay, and a few Magpie
  • 1 male Pheasant
  • lots of Woodpigeon, (including a few dead ones and 1 dying one, who fell prey to the shotgun)
  • 40+ House Sparrows in a flock near Billet Road
  • 1 beautiful male Wheatear feeding
  • 2 Chaffinch, 7 Linnet, 2 Meadow Pipit, 4 Swallows and 7 teenage dickheads on trailbikes with no helmets, making noise and scaring everything off.

Wanstead Flats:

  • Wryneck sitting in Elder bush for about ten minutes after I got on to it, then flew from east end of Long Wood toward the south side mid-a.m.. (first of the year!)
  • Redstart, 4 Whetear, 2 Whinchat (1 Alexandra Lake scrub, 1 south end of broom field),
  • 3 Spotted Flycatcher (E end of Long Wood),
  • Tree Pipit (over Alexandra Lake), Yellow Wagtail (over broom field north end), Grey Wagtail, 25+ Meadow Pipit, 4+ Skylark,
  • 7+ Green Woodpecker, 4+ Great Spotted Woodpecker,
  • 20+ Mistle Thrush,
  • 12+ Chiffhcaff, Willow Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap, 4 Chaffinch,
  • 10+ Greenfinch, Linnet,
  • 2 Kestrel, 4 Sparrowhawk,
  • 2 Grey Heron, 9 Gadwall, 2 pair Shoveler, Common Gull,
  • Great Black Backed Gull, Lesser Black Backed Gull, Black Headed Gull, Herring Gull,
  • 5 adult Mute Swan on Alex (ooh there be trouble!),
  • 28 Ring Necked Parakeet and some other stuff which pales into insignificance (53 sp - a good day, Nick Croft/ Steve Thorpe).
  • 14:30 - 16:45: Honey Buzzard south 15:00 approx,
  • also Hobby and Pied Flycatcher briefly,
  • 3 Spotted Flycatcher still E of Long Wood, 3 Wheatear still there and Whinchat, no sign of Wryneck (Stuart Fisher)

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