September 26, 2010

September 26th 2010


Fairlop, Forest Road:
  • Kestrel flew up onto a lamp post in the rain (DEH)

Hainault Golf Course:

  • family of 4 Pied Wagtails, (2 adult, 2 juv)
  • 4 Jay, Green Woodpecker (pGordon)

South Woodford:

  • Long Tailed Tit (PGordon)

Valentines Park:

  • 3 Little Grebe (1 ad, 2 juv), 2 Great Crested Grebe
  • 4 Cormorant on the boating lake
  • 12 Mute Swan, (pr on Fish Pond, family still on Boating lake)
  • 2 Greylag Geese (hybrid on fish pond, additional on Boating lake)
  • numerous Canada Geese back in force
  • 2 Egyptian Geese sitting in a big Cedar tree
  • numerous Mallard, few Tufted Duck, 2 Pochard (1m, 1f), Coot and Moorhen
  • Black Headed Gulls, 1 Lesser Black Backed Gull
  • Feral Pigeons, 3 Stock Dove, Woodpigeons
  • Swallow through, feeding only 20 feet away!
  • flock of 20 Pied Wagtail (east), 3 Grey Wagtail (1 on Cranbrook cut, 2 over east)
  • Wren, Mistle Thrush, Blackbird, Robin, Great Tit, Blue Tit, 9 Long Tailed Tit (in with mixed tit party)
  • 1 Jay, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Starling, 3 House Sparrow, 5 Chaffinch (MCondon)

Wanstead Flats:

  • 2 Golden Plover north west over Flats (09:50),
  • 26 Meadow Pipit,
  • 17 Chiffchaff,
  • Lesser Spotted Woodpecker,
  • 2 Spotted Flycatcher east of Long Wood still,
  • 17+ Swallow through, 14+ House Martin through,
  • Cockatiel calling from City of London Cemetery (mega!),
  • Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 28 Gadwall (S Fisher),
  • Stonechat m (broom fields), (Nick Croft)

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