Redbridge Birdwatching / London Birdwatching: September 3rd 2010

September 03, 2010

Fairlop Waters:

Five Oaks Lane Scrubland, Chigwell:

still up to 100 Swallow gathering in the evening
1 Rook over (north) to roost.
10+ Blue Tits, flock of Long Tailed Tits with 2 Greenfinch, 3 Chaffinch
2 Chiffchaff,
Jays making a noise
2 male Yellowhammers near the paddock
2 female Bullfinch in the hawthorn wood, and half a juvenile Bullfinch on the ground (head, rump and tail) - looked like it had been dinner to a Sparrowhawk.
7 Meadow Pipit on the field east of Mile Plantation
11 Mistle Thrushes on the dead trees in Mile Plantation
Great Spotted Woodpecker, and 2 Green Woodpecker (DEH)

Valentines Park:

3 Great Crested Grebe (pair, plus 1 immature), family of Little Grebe on the boating lake
2 Egyptian Geese on the fish pond
Pics to follow (GWare)

Wanstead Flats:

(06:00-11:00):
Tree Pipit (SSSI), 4 Meadow Pipit,
2 Goldcrest (in scrub east of Alex, then flew south),
10 + Chiffchaff, 8+ Whitethroat, 2+ Lesser Whitethroat, 4+ Blackcap, 1 Willow Warbler (east end of Long Wood),
Buzzard (heard mewing NW of Long Wood), 2 Sparrowhawk, Kestrel,
2 Whinchat, Song Thrush, Blackbird, numerous Robin, Mistle Thrush,
1 Spotted Flycatcher (south of Long Wood in hawthorn),
2 Goldfinch, Chaffinch, 10+ Greenfinch,
6 Skylark (J. Lethbridge),
Blue Tit, Great Tit,
7+ Green Woodpecker, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker,
Also: Starling, Wren, Dunnock, 4 Swallow (3 east, 1 south), 4 House Martin, 2 Yellow Wagtail (over), 2 Pied Wagtail, 20+ House Sparrow (manily on Jubilee), 3 Collared Dove, Wood Pigeon, Carrion Crow, Jackdaw, 10+ Jay, 20+ Magpie, c.100 Black Headed Gull, 4 Herring Gull, 10 Lesser Black Backed Gull, 3 Ring Necked Parakeet, Grey Heron, 2 Cormorant, Coot, Moorhen, 2 Gadwall, Shoveler, Mallard, 4 adult Mute Swan (Alex + cygnets), Canada Goose (c.50sp Nick Croft, Jonathan Lethbridge)

Wanstead Old Sewage Works:

Leyton Flats: (just outside the borough)

September 03, 2010