November 7th 2010

Fairlop Waters:

• Goosander on the boating lake
• Gadwall, Pochard,
• Lots of Redwing and Fieldfare (NTwyford)

Gants Hill:

• 1 Peregrine Falcon seen at 2.28pm being mobbed by a gull before flying up quite high then diving towards Gearies school playground where suddenly at least 8 Pigeons flew out from in panic.
• 1 Coal tit - still present
• 2 Great Spotted Woodpeckers (Both males)
• 1 Coromorant over at 11.01am
• 1 Jay Over, 14 House Sparrows, 12 Greenfinches, 8 Chaffinches, 5 Goldfinches, 10 Blue tits, 3 Great Tits, Robin, 12 Starlings plus c25 in neighbours tree briefly before flying away. 2 Magpies, 1 Woodpigeon, 11 Feral Pigeons - Argh! (Alan Thomas)

South Park:

• Grey Heron, 4 Cormorant
• 3 Mute Swan, 100+ Canada Geese, 2 Greylag Geese, Mallards, c6 Tufted Ducks, 3 Pochard (2m), 2 Great Crested Grebe
• Mistle Thrush
• Grey Wagtail along seven kings water
• 2 Goldcrest joining in with the Long Tailed Tit flock
• Also: 2 Greenfinch, Jackdaw (DEH)

Valentines Park:

• Little Grebe (4), Great Crested Grebe (2)
• Great Cormorant (4) in trees around Long Water
• Grey Heron (1)
• Mute Swan (4 ad, 7 juv) ,Greylag Goose (2 hybrid) ,Canada Goose, Egyptian Goose (4) , Mallard , Northern Shoveler (2 m) Tufted Duck
• Common Coot , Common Moorhen
• Common Gull ,Black-headed Gull, Mediterranean Gull – aka Valentino, European Herring Gull ( 1 juv)
• Feral Pigeon , Common Wood Pigeon ,Eurasian Collared Dove
• Common Kingfisher (1) fishing from the brown bridge along the Cranbrook cut
• Great Spotted Woodpecker (1), Green Woodpecker (1)
• Pied Wagtail (1), Grey Wagtail (2)
• Eurasian Wren (1), Dunnock (1), European Robin , Mistle Thrush, Blackbird, Blue Tit ,Great Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Eurasian Jay (1), Eurasian Jackdaw (2), Carrion Crow, Common Starling, House Sparrow, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, (MCondon)

Wanstead Flats:

• 07:00 - 09:15: 2400 Woodpigeon over (Mostly South, south-west),
• 5 Siskin, 7 Brambling, 45 Chaffinch, 40 Fieldfare, c105 Redwing, 200 Starling, 2 Stock Dove , 3 Linnet, 20 Skylark (18 NW), 15 Blackbird, 2 Reed Bunting (S Fisher)