October 14th 2010

Grange Hill, Long Gardens:

• Coal Tit has been a regular visitor for 2 weeks now to the garden
• Sparrowhawk (IShaw)

Valentines Park:

• 12.30-2.30pm (Weather: Cloudy, liught drizzle, 11C, ground hard but damp)
• 2 Little Grebe & 2 Great Crested Grebe on the boating lake
• 12 Mute Swans (pr with 7 cygnets on the boating lake, another adult was also present, until the family of 9 chased it off, when it oved over the the fish pond, where it joined the other pair.
• 3 Greylag Geese including 2 hybrid birds, many Canada Geese, 4 Egyptian Geese (2 on Long Water and 2 grazing)
• Mallard & Tufted Duck, 2 male (eclipse plumage) Shoveler (1 on each lake), 3 Pochard (2m 1f on the boating lake), Moorhen, Coot,
• Black Headed Gull flock probably included the Mediterranean Gull, but he could not be located due to the number of people feeding the gulls, there were 3 Common Gulls however (2 adult, 1 first winter)
• Feral Pigeon, 1 Stock Dove, Woodpigeons, 2 Collared Doves
• 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker (1 being driven off by a crow)
• 5 Pied Wagtail on Melbourne field, 1 Grey Wagtail on Cranbrook Cut,
• Wren, Dunnock (in the Dell), 5 Mistle Thrush, Robin, Blackbird,
• Blue Tit, Great Tit, 8 Long Tailed Tit, Carrion Crow, Starling, 3 House Sparrow (Brisbane Road Hedges), 5 Chaffinch, 4 Greenfinch (2m, 2f), 3 Goldfinch (Mike Condon)

Wanstead Flats:

• (07:00-10:00): Brambling, 28+ Chaffinch, Lesser Redpoll, 5 Goldfinch, 9 Greenfinch, 5 Reed Bunting,
• 5 Redwing, 8+ Blackbird, 4 Song Thrush, 13 Mistle Thrush, many Robin,
• 6 Meadow Pipit, 8 Pied Wagtail,
• 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest, c.100 + Long Tailed Tit,
• 2 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall and not much else bar the usuals (NC)

Wanstead Park:

• c 10+ Goldcrest, 3 Chiffchaff,
• c.200-300 Long Tailed Tit, 2 Coal Tit,
• 47 Gadwall (all bar 2 on the ornamental waters), pr Teal, 31 Tufted Duck, c. 20 Pochard,
• 4 Grey Wagtail, 1 Pied Wagtail,
• 4 Cormorant, 3 Sparrowhawk, 30 + Blackbird, 1 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing, many Robin, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Grey Heron, 12 + Ring Necked Parakeet and some other stuff (NC) :