December 31st 2009

Woodford Bridge:

• female Blackcap
• 2 Song Thrush
• garden sightings - (Sue Cowie)

Hainault Forest CP:

• Sparrowhawk;
• 40 Meadow Pipit;
• 12 Redwing;
• 2 Nuthatch. (BJ)

Loughton Brook: (just outside the borough)

• Little Egret. (BJ)

Barking Park: (just outside the borough)

• 6 Shoveler (Howard Vaughn)

December 30th 2009

Wanstead Flats:

• c100 Common Gulls and a few Black Headed Gulls
• Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker

Loughton: (just outside the borough)

• **Common Crane** landed briefly in 120ft garden before flying off. Still recovering from the shock (Mike Benyon)

Hainault Forest CP:

• north west corner toward Lambourne end, so not quite in the borough, but thanksfully the birds dont recognise the boundary.
• Treecreeper, Goldcrest, 25 Long-tailed tits,
• 100 Redwing, Fieldfare,
• 9 Pheasants (IWoodward, Tajinder Lachhar, Alan Thomas)

December 28th 2009

Hainault Forest CP:

• 4 Mute Swan (2 adult, 2 1st winter)
• Cormorant
• Canada Geese, Mallards, Coot, Moorhen
• Jackdaws, 4 Jay, Magpies, Carrion Crows
• 6 Chaffinch
• 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker
• 2 Nuthatch, Treecreeper,
• Blue Tits, Great Tits, Long Tailed Tits, Coal Tit
• Robin, Wren, Dunnock, Blackbird, 3 Redwing

December 27th 2009

Woodford Green:

• Broadmead playing field, 9.30am - Mistle Thrush

Fairlop Waters CP:

• Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe
• Tufted Ducks on the boating lake in good number (30+)
• c40 Lapwings on the jettys and the island
• 1 Meadow Pipit near the clubhouse
• 3 Redwing and 2 Fieldfare
• party of Long Tailed Tits

Valentines Park:

• 12 Pochard (MSevoir)

Epping Forest, Highams Park: (just outside the borough)

• (the part between The Charter Road and Oak Hill, Highams Park/Woodford):
• 1 Firecrest, 1 Nuthatch, 5+ Coal Tit,
• 1 Sparrowhawk,
• 3 Fieldfare flying over (Ian Woodward)

Chingford: (just outside the borough)

• Larkshall Road: 2 Redwing (IW)

December 26th 2009

Fairlop Gravel Pits:

• south side of Painters Road
• 20 Mallards, 3 Shoveler, Teal, Coot, Moorhen
• Black Headed Gulls, Common Gulls, Herring Gulls and Lesser Black Backed Gulls in a large flock with 1 Greater Black Backed Gull
• 170 Lapwing, 2 Snipe, Green Sandpiper
• 12 Stock Dove
• Meadow Pipit, Skylark

Fairlop, Painters Road:

• female Sparrowhawk
• Kestrel
• c100 Fieldfare
• Goldfinch
• Green Woodpecker
• several hundred Starlings (JMakengo)

Fairlop Waters:

• 100 Fieldfare (Ben)

Clayhall:

• 1 Stock Dove flying over Woodford Avenue toward Beal School

Aldborough Hatch:

• Garden sightings
• 2 Jays
• 1 Chaffinch
• c6 Long tailed tits
• 1 Wren (CPoutney)

December 25th 2009 - Christmas Day!

Epping Forest, Knighton Woods:

• Firecrest,
• 3 Nuthatches, 3 Treecreeper,
• 2 Coal tits, 30 Long-tailed tits,
• 3 Great Spotted Woodpeckers,
• 30 Redwing (IW)

Hainault:

• Great Spotted Woodpecker flying over Fencepeice Road

December 24th 2009

Wanstead Park & Flats:

• 83 Gadwall, c180 Coot, 8 Little Grebe,
• 1 Snipe flew East, 3 Shoveler,
• c300 Common Gulls,
• 15 Fieldfare, several Redwing
• 10+ Skylark,
• male Stonechat,
• Stock Dove, (S Fisher);
• 5 Mistle Thrush,
• 15+ Fieldfare, 120+ Redwing in 2 flocks (J Lethbridge)

Gants Hill:

• Fieldfares - small flocks seen at 10.19am flying over back gardens in 4 different groups within a 10 minutes spell heading I guess towards Fairlop.
• Great Spotted Woodpecker - Male
• Goldfinches - 3, House Sparrows - 18, Blue tits - 11, Great tits - 3, Greenfinches - 9, Chaffinches - 6, Robin - 1, Blackbird - 1 female, Wren - 1, Magpie - 1, Woodpigeons - 2, Feral Pigeons - 12 (Alan Thomas - garden sightings)

Hainault Forest CP:

• c50 Magpies flying in to roost at dusk
• 20 Redwings
• c100 Canada Geese
• Nuthatch heard

Aldborough Hatch:

• garden sightings:
• 3 Jays
• 1 Great spotted woodpecker
• 1 Dunnock (CPoutney)

Fairlop Waters Country Park:

• 100 plus Fieldfares
  50 plus Redwing
  40 plus Lapwing (CPoutney)

December 23rd 2009

Leyton Flats: (just outside the borough)

• 2 Snipe, 10 Lapwing SE, 1 Little Egret,
• 34 Shoveler,
• 129 Redwing, 70 Fieldfare,
• 24 Common Gulls. (Gary A James).

Wanstead Park:

• ~110 Redwing in 3 groups, all heading SE (J Lethbridge)

Woodford Green:

• 16 Redwing in a silver birch at the end of my garden 1330 (Steve Howey)

Gants Hill:

• Fieldfares - A flock seen at 11.19am over & across back gardens flying towards Barkingside direction probably heading on to Fairlop waters.
• Great Spotted Woodpecker - Male
• House Sparrows - At least around 20+ maybe more.
• Blue tits - 9, Great tits - 3, Greenfinches - 9, Chaffinches - 7, Starlings - 12, Robin - 1, Blackbird - Female, Collared Dove - 1, Magpies - 3, Wood pigeon - 1, Feral Pigeons - 9
• Black headed gulls - over
• garden sightings (Alan Thomas)

Seven Kings:

• 2 Redwings in a pravate garden that backs onto Goodmayes Hospital (Elaine Freedman)

December 22nd 2009

Wanstead Flats:

• Snipe, Woodcock,
• Kestrel, f Sparrowhawk,
• f Reed Bunting,
• 3 Mistle Thrush, 20+ Redwing, 2 Fieldfare.
• Lapwing high SE at 14:28 (JL).

Bush Wood:

• Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3+ Goldcrest (J Lethbridge)

Gants Hill:

• flock of 22 Redwings in the neighbours garden, that then floew off towards Valentine Park (AThomas)

Painters Road, Fairlop:

• c20 Redwing and c30 Fieldfare
• male Kestrel

Roding Valley NR: (just outside the borough)

• Little Egret; Grey Heron;
• Lapwing;
• Grey Wagtail;
• 12 Fieldfare; 40 Redwing. (BJ)

Fairlop Waters:

• 45 Lapwing, 2 Snipe,
• Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker,
• 25 Fieldfare, 16 Redwing,
• Little Grebe, 4 Grey Herons, 62 Tufted Duck, 16 Gadwall, 12 Pochard, Wigeon, 7 Mute Swans,
• 12 Blackbirds (CIS)

December 21st 2009

Fairlop Waters CP:

• December WEBS count by Steve Bacon
• 8 Mute Swan
• 7 Little Grebe
• 5 Cormorant, 1 Grey Heron
• 126 Canada Geese, 1 Greylag Goose
• 4 Wigeon, 27 Gadwall, 10 Teal, 17 Mallard, 9 Shoveler, 37 Pochard, 71 Tufted Duck
• 21 Moorhen, 81 Coot
• 111 Lapwing, 5 Snipe, 1 Woodcock,
• 245 Black Headed Gull, 52 Common Gull, 43 Lesser Black Backed Gull,. 6 Herring Gull, 3 Great Black Backed Gull (SBacon)

Fairlop Waters CP:

• Jack Snipe by the side of the main lake amongst foilage, until it flew into the distance, Snipe, 100 Lapwing, 50 Golden Plover,
• 5 Little grebes, 50 Tufted Duck, Pochard, 20 Gadwall,
• female Kestrel
• 100 Fieldfare, 50 Redwing, Blackbird
• Little Egret flying over the main boating lake,
• Grey Heron
• Tufted Ducks - x40 +Coots - lots, Little Grebe, Mallard ducks, Pochard, Gadwall, Mute Swan, 3 Greylag Geese, Canada Geese
• Black Headed Gulls - lots, Common Gulls, Lesser Black backed Gull
• Green Woodpeckers - x2, Great Spotted Woodpecker - Male,
• Goldcrest - x2
• Cormorants
• Woodpigeons, Collard Dove, Starlings, Dunnocks, Robins, Wren, Greenfinches, Blue tits, Great tits, Long tailed tits, Meadow Pipits(IW, Alan Thomas)

Hainault Forest CP:

• 3 Nuthatches, Treecreeper, 2 Coal tit, 3 Goldcrests,
• 20 Redwing.
• flocks of Long Tailed Tits, Blue Tits, Great Tits
• Chaffinch
• Mistle Thrush, Blackbird, Wren, Dunnock, Robin
• 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove
• Mute Swans, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Jay, Jackdaw, Starling,
• 71 Canada Goose, Mallard, Coot, Moorhen,
• Lapwings
• Black Headed Gulls, Lesser Black Backed Gulls, 3 Common Gulls, (IW, Alan Thomas)

Roding Valley NR: (just outside the borough)

• 3 Wigeon; 18 Shoveler;
• Green Sandpiper;
• Grey Wagtail;
• 22 Fieldfare; 9 Redwing. (BJ)

Woodford Green:

• 30 Redwing (Howard Anderson)

Hainault Forest CP:

• December WEBS Count by Steve Bacon
• 4 Mute Swan, 1 Greylag Goose, 5 Canada Geese,
• 24 Mallard, 2 Shoveler, 1 Tufted Duck
• 8 Moorhen, 10 Coot
• 31 Black Headed Gull, 6 Common Gull, 2 Lesser Black Backed Gull

Woodford Green:

• 1 Lapwing on the playing field on Broadmead Estate (DEH)

South Woodford:

• This morning I saw a Great Spotted woodpecker in my garden in S woodford (at the peanut feeder) for the first time in the 6+ years I've lived here. Hopefully will return
• Also saw a Grey heron fly over a few mins later.
• Lots of House Sparrows, Great tits, Blue tits, Dunnocks, Robins, Blackbirds, Starlings, Gulls, Wood Pigeons, Carrion Crows and Magpies (Peter Gordon)

Hainault Lodge NR:

• Jackdaws - Quite a number in trees
• Robins, Blue tits, Great tits, Wren, Dunnock, Long tailed tits, Blackbirds (IW/AT)

Barkingside Recreational Ground:

• Song Thrush, Woodpigeons, Blackbirds, Robins, Dunnock, Wren, Blue tits, Black Headed Gulls, Carrion Crows. (AThomas)

Forest Gate: (just outside the borough)

• male Blackcap in a Capel Road garden (PFerris)

December 20th 2009

Fairlop Waters CP:

• **Slavonian Grebe** in the NW corner of the Boating Lake (Steve Bacon)
• This is the first site record for 10 years+
• 150 Fieldfare, 40 Redwing
• 2 Sparrowhawk
• 15 Skylark
• Woodcock

Hainault:

• c20 Lapwings in Fairlop Primary School Playground (Colvin Gardens/Tomswood Hill).

Gants Hill:

• garden sightings
• Dunnock - 1
• Coal Tit - "Yes finally come back to visit" seen first at 10.19am then again during BTO hour survey feeding from feeders.
• Grey Heron - Flying past low just a couple feet over garden fence probably checking out our pond to no avail as there are no fish in it closely followed by a Carrion Crow and then two Magpies.
• Blue tits - 5, Great tits - 2, Robin - 1, House Sparrows - 10, Starlings - 5, Chaffinches - 6, Greenfinches - 7, Magpie - 1, Goldfinch - 1, Feral Pigeons - 9, Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 male, Blackbird - 1 Female

Wanstead Park:

• female Goldeneye still
• Snipe, Kingfisher, 5+ Siskin
• Grey Wagtial
• Tawny Owl
• (JL/TH)

Wanstead:

• Nuthatch in St Mary's Churchyard (TH/JL)

Wanstead Flats:

• 2 Little Grebe
• 6 Lapwing,
• 36 Skylark,
• 130+ Common Gull, 25 Lesser Black-backed Gulls,
• 23 Redwing (mostly in flight),
• 8 Meadow Pipit,
• 3 Green Woodpeckers (S Fisher);
• plus m Goosander flew NW @ ~9am,
• 2 Stonechat (J Lethbridge)

Hainault Farmland:

• famle Kestrel perched on a bush near City Limits

Roding Valley Nature Reserve: (just outside the borough)

• 3 Wigeon, 8 Gadwall, 6 Shoveler, 8 Pochard,
• 30 Lapwing; 19 Fieldfare; 31 Redwing. (BJ)

Chigwell Convent: (just outside the borough)

• c10 Redwing

Barking Park: (just outside the borough)

• Little Egret (PVaughn)

Epping Forest, Loughton Camp: (just outside the borough)

• 3 Bramblings (APe)
• Firecrest, Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreepers, 3 Coal tits, 10 Redwings. (IW)

Chingford: (just outside the borough)

• female Blackcap in garden (IWoodward)

Woodford Bridge:

• c40 Lapwing flying over from Claybury Park (AHobson)

December 19th 2009

Roding Valley Nature Reserve: (just outside the borough)

• pair of Grey Wagtail
• 18 Fieldfare, 7 Redwing

Wanstead:

• Lapwing (over the garden)
• 25 Redwing (west) (JLethbridge)
• 4 Lesser Redpoll (at feeder in the garden) (SFisher)

Wanstead Park:

• 93 Gadwall, 18 Pochard, 10 Little Grebe
• 2 Siskin
• 5 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Green Woodpecker,
• 10 Redwing, 1 Mistle Thrush, 5 Song Thrush
• singing Coal Tit
• 1 Reed Bunting
• 2 Greylag Geese flew over
• female Goldeneye still present on Heronry Pond (SFisher)
• Snipe on the plain
• 16 Fieldfare over the plain
• Goldfinches near Perch pond
• 12 Lapwing over the plain (JLethbridge)

Wanstead Flats:

• 138 Common Gulls
• 2 Snipe (SFisher)

Former Landfill Site, Woodford Bridge: (just outside the borough)

• The former landfill site between Ashtons playing field, and West Hatch School
• Meadow Pipit
• Great Tit, Blue Tit, Chaffinch, Greenfinch

Higher Ground United Reformed Church, Woodford Bridge: (just outside the borough)

• 10 Greenfinches

December 18th 2009

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• flock of c12 Greenfinch
• Party of Long Tailed Tits
• (Alan Hobson)

South Park:

• Mute Swan, Canada Geese, Mallard, c15-20 Tufted Duck, Coots, Moorhens
• 4 Shoveler (2 pairs)
• Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe
• Mistle Thrush
• Robin, Wren, Blue Tit, 2 Chaffinch, 2 Greenfinch
• 20-30 Collared Doves on the Island

December 17th 2009

Farmland, Fairlop:

• c300 Lapwing, and 148 Golden Plover on the field east of Hainault Road opposite Painters Road junction at 2pm (DEH)

Ilford, South Park Drive:

• Little Egret (over) (JMakengo)

Valentines Park:

• 9 Shoveler (4 pairs on the fish pond, and 1 lonely eclipse male on Long Water
• 11 Tufted Duck on Long Water
• 2 Egyptian Geese feeding on the grass by fish pond
• Grey Heron on the Island
• c50 Carrion Crows and a few Jackdaws
• Great Spotted Woodpecker heard
• 14 Chaffinches (mostly female) feeding on the ground by fish pond

Hainault:

• 3 Long Tailed Tits in the garden (first for several months) (EBarnes)

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Kestrel
• 2 Song Thrush
• Lesser Black Backed Gulls
• 2 flocks of Long Tailed Tits
• flock of Greenfinches
• Little Egret (Alan Hobson)

Wanstead:

• flock of about 15 Lesser Redpoll still bouncing about in my garden (JL)

Wanstead Park:

• female Goldeneye still on Heronry (JLethbridge)

Woodford Green:

• garden sightings: 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker,
• 12 Redwing
• 1 Siskin, 3 chaffinch, 20 greenfinch, 2 goldfinch,
• 1 wren, 3 robin,
• 10 blue tit, 5 great tit, 3 long Tailed tit through,
• 2 blackbird, a million starlings (or so it seemed),
• 2 collared dove, 5 wood pidgeon,
• 3 jackdaw, 1 jay, 4 magpie. (PWarne)

December 16th 2009

Wanstead:

• garden sightings.
• 2 Goldfinch, 16 Lesser Redpoll, 5 Greenfinch, 2 Chaffinch, 5 Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit (J Lethbridge).

Ilford:

• 2 Jackdaws over Linton House at 3pm

December 15th 2009

Fairlop Waters CP:

• Mute Swan, 140 Canada Geese, 4 Greylag Geese, Mallard, Tufdted Duck, 4 Gadwall, 4 Shoveler, Coot, Moorhen, Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe
• Grey Heron, Cormorant
• Black Headed Gulls, Common Gulls, Lesser Black Backed Gulls
• 3 Green Woodpecker
• Pied Wagtail
• Wood Pigeon, Feral Pigeon
• 120 Fieldfare, 20 Redwing, Song Thrush, Blackbird, 2 Dunnock, Robin, Wren
• 2 Kestrel (1 male, 1 female)
• Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit,
• 2 Jay

Hainault Road, Fairlop:

• c100 Lapwing spread out over the fields
• 1 male Pheasant north of Painters Road
• 2 Kestrel

Billet Road Farmland, Fairlop:

• Grey Heron in the field.

Hainault Golf Course:

• 10 Canada Geese, 12 Mallard, 12 Moorhen on the 3 little ponds.
• 5 Green Woodpecker, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Blue Tits, Great Tits, 2 parties of Long Tailed Tits
• 9 Pheasant on the adjoining farmland (6 male, 3 female)
• 4 Fieldfare, 1 Redwing, Song Thush, Blackbird, Robin, Dunnock, Wren
• 2 Goldfinch
• Jackdaws (over)
• 4 Jay

Five Oaks Lane, Hainault:

• 4 Greenfinch

Roding Valley Park, northern section:

• Woodford Bridge north side
• Little Egret (Alan Hobson)
• Kestrel

Woodford Library:

• Redwing
• 3 Goldfinches (Alan Hobson)

Wanstead Park:

• 2 Little Grebe, 6 Mute Swan, 9 Pochard, 14 Tufted Duck, female Goldeneye, 20+ Mallard, 8 Gadwall,
• 100 Black Headed Gull, 1 Common Gull,
• 5 Ring Necked Parakeet,
• 5 Robin, 2 Blackbird, 4 Redwing, 3 Song Thrush,
• Jay, 8 Magpie, 4 Crow; (JLethbridge)

Wanstead:

• 7+ Linnet over my garden at 9:50am (J Lethbridge).

December 14th 2009

Woodford Green:

• 5 Black Headed Gull, 2 Lesser Black Backed Gull, 2 Common Gull and 1 Yellow-Legged Gull on Broadmead playing field this afternoon at 2pm

Roding Valley Park, southern section:

• Charlie Browns to Redbridge roundabout.
• 46 Mallard, 17 Moorhen (1 of which i thought was a Little Grebe as it disappeared under water and stayed there for over 1 minuite, it then appeared again to reveal its true identity - a juv Moorhen!
• male Kestrel near the Thames Water building
• Long Tailed Tits with Blue Tits and Great Tits
• Song Thrush, Robin, c10 Wren, Blackbird
• Kingfisher just south of Charlie Browns
• Great Spotted Woodpecker

Roding Valley Park, central section:

• Charlie Browns to Woodford Bridge.
• 19 Mallard, 12 Moorhen
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Kingfisher, seen 3 times, but probably the same bird as above, as seen flying from the southern section, under Charlie Browns roundabout.
• Grey Wagtail near the rubbish dump.
• 2 parties of Long Tailed Tit, Blue Tits, Great Tits
• 2 Goldfinch near snakes lane east junction.
• Song Thrush, Blackbird, Robin, Dunnock, Wren
• Grey Heron asleep in the middle of the river. (DEH)
• Little Egret (Alan Hobson)

Roding Valley Park, northern section:

• Little Egret, presumably the same bird as above (Alan Hobson)

Hainault Forest CP:

• 120 Canada Geese in the flock today. (TLachhar)

Hainault:

• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Jay
• Song Thrush
• Goldfinches and our first Greenfinch in ages
• (garden birds - EBarnes)

Forest Gate: (just outside the borough)

• female Blackcap in a Capel Road garden (PFerris)

December 13th 2009

Farmland, Fairlop:

• c110 Golden Plover
• c300 Lapwing
• (both on the field east of Hainault Road, opposite Painters Road)

Painters Road, Fairlop:

• male Kestrel on a lamp column

Hainault:

• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Jay
• Goldfinches (all on our feeders)
• Buzzard, disappeared over Claybury Park!
• (EBarnes)

Gants Hill:

• BTO garden survey 10.05-11.05am
• Sparrowhawk - seen at 10.59am with a short burst of flight then gliding over back garden and over the houses adjacent which scattered pigeons from my garden and surrounding gardens.
• Blue tits - 8, Great tits - 2,
• Robin - 1, House Sparrows - 14, Chaffinches - 6, Greenfinches - 5, Starlings - 6,
• Magpies -2, Feral Pigeons - 7,
• Plus - 2 Squirrels
• Later sightings pm in garden as follows: Great Spotted Woodpecker - c1 (Male)
• Goldfinches - 2
• Wood Pigeon - 1
• (Alan Thomas)

Woodford Green:

• 3 Mistle Thrush,
• Blue Tit,
• 2 Pied Wagtail (Broadmead Estate)

Claybury Park:

• 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker
• Mistle Thrush, flock of Redwings
• 5 Jay
• Small party of Long Tailed Tits
• (Alan Hobson)

Roding Valley NR: (just outside the borough)

• 22 Fieldfares. (BJ)

Ilford:

• Tavistock Gardens, garden sightings
• 2 Long tailed tits, 27 House Sparrows, 2 Robins, 12 Wood Pigeons, 7 Blue tits, 6 Great Tits, Collared Dove, 2 Starlings, Blackbird, Dunnock (PVaughn)

Connaught Water: (just outside the borough)

• male Smew (PWarne)

December 12th 2009

Wanstead Park:

• 3 Little Grebe, 15 Pochard, 25 Tufted Duck, 3 Shoveler, 18 Gadwall,
• female Goldeneye still (mega!),
• 2 Grey Heron, 2 Cormorant over,
• 3 Green Woodpecker, 5 Great Spotted Woodpecker,
• 3 Ring-necked Parakeet,
• 2 Pied Wagtail,
• 2 Redwing,
• Chiffchaff,
• 20+ Chaffinch (Old Sewage Works), Goldfinch, 3 Greenfinch,
• 2 Jay (J Lethbridge)
• Firecrest in Resevoir Wood (PFerris)

Farmland, Fairlop:

• c110 Golden Plover on the field east of Hainault Road, opposite Painters Road.

Hainault:

• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Jay
• Goldfinches (all on our feeders)
• (Eddie Barnes)

Mayesbrook Park: (just outside the borough)

• Great Crested Grebe, 4 Little Grebe, 8 Pochard, 38 Tufted, 68 Gadwall, 22 Shoveler, 2 Little Egret, Grey Wagtail, 3 Cormorant, Redwing.(PHa)

Ilford, Tavistock Gardens:

• 2 Goldcrest (PVaughn)

Barking Park: (just outside the borough)

• Little Egret (PVaughn)

Connaught Water: (just outside the borough)

• male Smew (PWarne)

December 11th 2009

Ashtons Playing Field, Woodford Bridge:

• male Sparrowhawk, seen from M11

Eagle Pond:

• Grey Heron, Cormorant
• 4 adult Grey Heron
• 3 Gadwall plus the usual wildfowl
• c70 Black Headed Gull
• 75 Feral Pigeon

Tarzy Wood, Wanstead:

• Chaffinch, 4 Great Tit, 6 Blue Tit
• 5 Blackbird, Robin, Wren
• 5 Redwing,
• 4 Siskin

Christchurch Churchyard, Wanstead:

• 8 Goldfinch, 2 Chaffinch, 3 Greenfinch
• Ring Necked Parakeet
• Blackbird, Wood Pigeon

Cold Blow Farm, Fairlop:

• 295 Lapwing (on the field east of Hainault Road, opposite the junction with Painters Road
• 2 Fieldfare
• Jackdaw (over)

Fairlop Waters:

• 2 Little Grebe on the fishing lake
• 5 Goldfinch in the sailing club car park
• Blackbird, 3 Fieldfare, Redwing, Robin, Wren
• Black-headed Gull, Herring Gull,
• Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit
• Mute Swan, Canada Goose, Mallard, Gadwall, Shoveler (lagoon), Tufted Duck, Teal, Coot, Moorhen
• Grey Heron,
• Great Crested Grebe,
• Carrion Crow, Magpie, Jay, Wood Pigeon, Starling
• Green Woodpecker,
• Greenfinch,
• Kestrel (DEH/NTwyford)

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Song Thrush
• 2 Herring Gull, 2 Lesser Black Backed Gull, 2 Common Gull
• Long Tailed Tit (Alan Hobson)

Lords Bushes: (just outside the borough)

• male Sparrowhawk

Hainault:

• Jay
• Goldfinches
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• (on our feeders), (EBarnes)

December 10th 2009

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• male Blackcap
• 12 Goldfinches
• Long Tailed Tits
• Kingfisher on the private fishing lake off Roding Lane North.
• Song Thrush,
• Jackdaw
• (Alan Hobson)

Wanstead Park:

• Firecrest (JLethbridge/SFisher)

Valentines Park:

• 5 Mute Swan, 49 Canada Geese, 2 Egyptian Geese
• 128 Mallard, 21 Tufted Duck, 5 Shoveler (3m, 2f), 5 male Pochard
• Great Crested Grebe
• 95 Coot, 38 Moorhen
• 2 Grey Heron
• 340 Black Headed Gull, 4 Common Gull
• Mistle Thrush, Great Tit, Blue Tit, 5 Chaffinch, Jackdaw

December 9th 2009

Woodford Bridge Pond:

• 41 Black Headed Gulls, 1 Common Gull

Ray Park:

• Mistle Thrush, Chaffinch, 4 Blue Tit
• Wood Pigeon, 3 Black Headed Gull

Wanstead:

• 5 Redwing north, over Belgrave Road (Tim Harris)

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge northwards:

• 17 Mallard and 7 Moorhen on the river
• 1 Little Grebe
• 4 Pheasant
• 6 Mistle Thrush, 5 Blackbird, 2 Song Thrush,
• 2 Robin, 3 Dunnock, 2 Wren
• 4 Chaffinch, 2 Goldfinch
• Great Spotted Woodpecker,
• Jay, Carrion Crow, Magpie,
• 31 Wood Pigeon

Bush Wood:

• escaped Hartlaub's Turaco at the junction with Leybourne Road. (THarris)

Buckhurst Hill: (just outside the borough)

• flock of Redwings feeding on the berries in Roebuck Lane (F&CLudlow)

Woodford Green:

• Firecrest still visiting private garden (KM)

Claybury Park:

• c25 Lesser Redpolls (including a male 'still' or 'already' in breeding plumage), Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch.
• Sparrowhawk,
• 5 Green Woodpeckers, 3 Great Spotted Woodpeckers,
• Song Thrush, 4 Mistle Thrushes, flock of Redwings,
• Grey Heron,
• Long Tailed Tits
• 6 Jays (Alan Hobson)

Valentines Park:

• Song Thrush and Mistle Thrush both in the yew tree behind the Mansion. (TLachhar)

Epping Forest, Strawberry Hill Ponds: (just outside the borough)

• 19 Mandarin
• 30 Redwing
• 26 Chaffinch, Blue Tit, Great Tit, 2 Firecrest (DHu)

Valentines Park:

• Great Crested Grebe pair, Little Grebe 1
• Great Cormorant, Grey Heron 2 (one on each pond)
• Mute Swan pair on small lake, Pair and 4 cygnets on boating lake
• Canada Geese, Egyptian Geese pair
• Mallard, Shoveler pair, Pochard 6 male, Tufted Duck, Moorhen, Coot
• Black-headed Gull, Common Gull
• Feral Pigeons, Wood Pigeons, Collared Dove
• Kingfisher 2 from brick bridge
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Pied Wagtail
• Wren, Dunnock, Robin, Blackbird, Mistle Thursh 1 singing lots about.
• Long-Tailed Tit
• Blue Tit, Great Tit
• Magpie, Carrion Crow, Jackdaw, Jay, Starlings
• Chaffinch, Siskin (JMillea U3A Birding Sightings)

December 8th 2009

Hatch Forest & Plain:

• female Sparrowhawk
• 2 Grey Wagtails on the River Ching
• An abundance of Great Tits, Blue Tits, and 3 parties of Long Tailed Tits, 1 of which had a Chiffchaff tagging along.
• 4 Jay, 2 Green Woodpecker, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker
• 8 Redwing, Blackbird, Robin, Wood Pigeon, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Chaffinch

Whitehall Plain:

• 2 Jay
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch
• party of Long Tailed Tits
• Song Thrush in song.
• Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker

Bancrofts School, Woodford:

• 1 Jackdaw on the ground by the entrance on Whitehall Road.

The Green, Woodford Green:

• 1 Jay, near the statue of Winston Churchill

Fairlop Waters CP:

• male Kestrel perched on the top of a small tree right by the entrance

Fairlop, Painters Road:

• male Kestrel flying low up the road, then onto a lamp column.

Seven Kings Park:

• 63 Black Headed Gulls, 15 Common Gulls
• Mistle Thrush, Blackbird
• Chaffinch
• 3 Pied Wagtails
• Lots of Magpies and Carrion Crows

Westwood Road Recreational Gound, Seven Kings:

• 67 Mallard, 2 Moorhen
• 2 Pied Wagtail
• 25 Feral Pigeon
• 8 Black Headed Gulls
• 3 Goldfinch, Robin, Blackbird, Blue Tit.

Aldborough Hatch:

• Green Woodpecker flew west over St. Peters Church.

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Kingfisher (morning, and again in the afternoon)
• Long Tailed Tit
• 1 Herring Gull, 1 Lesser Black Backed Gull, 1 Black Headed Gull, 1 Common Gull
• 2 Song Thrush (Alan Hobson)

December 7th 2009

Hainault Forest CP:

• 85 Canada Geese in the flock, 47 Starlings, 55 Black Headed Gulls
• (TLachhar)

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge to Charlie Browns:

• male Kestrel seen successfully hunting a mouse
• 2 flocks of Long Tailed Tit
• 3 Moorhen, 4 Mallard on the swollen river
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Chaffinch, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Blue Tit
• An Owl, that was either a Tawny or a Short Eared, seen flying low over the scrubland, but landed out of view, and i could not re-locate it. (DEH)
• 2 Kingfishers together (Alan Hobson)

Woodford Green:

• Firecrest in a private garden (birdguides)

December 6th 2009

South Park:

• 2 Mute Swan, 126 Canada Geese, 35 Mallard, 12 Tufted Duck
• 42 Coot, 27 Moorhen
• Little Grebe
• 2 Cormorant
• Long Tailed Tits and 1 Coal Tit on one of the islands

Fairlop Gravel Works, North Side of Painters Road:

• 2 Mute Swan
• 23 Pochard, 25 Tufted Duck, Gadwall, Shoveler, Teal

Epping Forest, Strawberry Hill Ponds to Loughton Camp: (just outside the borough)

• 9 Mandarin, female Sparrowhawk, Coal Tit, Firecrest. (MDD)

Knighton Woods:

• 8 Mandarin (4m 4f), Shoveler
• Nuthatch, Treecreeper
• 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker
• flocks of Redwing
• 4 Jay, Long tailed Tits
• (Alan Hobson)

Woodford Bridge:

• Yellow-Legged Gull on the grass outside Broadmead Baptist Church
  

December 5th 2009

Claybury Park:

• Sparrowhawk, Kestrel and Jay, all seen while driving up Tomswood Hill (JMakengo)
• Mallard, Moorhen, Common Gull, Lesser Black Backed Gull, Black HeadedGull (AHobson)
• Green Woodpecker, 5 Great Spoted Woodpecker, Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper,
• Redwing, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Robin, Dunnock, Wren
• 4 Jay, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Wood Pigeon, Stock Dove, Starling, House Sparrow
• 5 parties of Long Tailed Tit, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Firecrest
• Greenfinch, Chaffinch, male Bullfinch, (AHobson)

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge towards Buckhurst Hill:

• 8 Mallard, 3 Great Spotted Woodpeckers, 7 Long Tailed tits, 3 Jays,
• 1 Kingfisher,
• 30+ Starlings, 50+ Fieldfares, 2 Pied Wagtails 22 Black Headed Gulls.
• (Paul Rigby)

Fairlop:

• female Kestrel near the Fairlop Waters CP entrance

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• several hundred Lapwings
• 80+ Golden Plover
• 2 Little Grebe
• Linnet

Wanstead Park:

• Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe
• 4 Cormorant, 2 Grey Heron
• 8 Mute Swan, 13 Gadwall, 10 Mallard, 12 Pochard, 28 Tufted Duck
• Sparrowhawk
• 156 Black Headed Gull, 2 Lesser Black Backed Gull, 2 Herring Gull
• 40 Wood Pigeon, 2 Ring Necked Parakeet.
• 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Green Woodpecker
• Grey Wagtail, Pied Wagtail
• 8 Wren, 7 Dunnock, 20 Robin, 17 Blackbird, 6 Redwing, Song Thrush, 2 Mistle Thrush,
• 3 Firecrests. (2 still in Resevoir Wood, the 3rd bird is at the west end of Perch Pond).
• 1 Goldcrest, 2 Chiffchaff
• 50 Long Tailed Tit, Coal Tit
• 6 Chaffinch, 9 Greenfinch, 2 Goldfinch,
• 25 Starling, Jay, 10 Magpie, 3 Jackdaw, 20 Carrion Crow.
• Female Goldeneye is still on Heronry Pond.
• a Buzzard flew north in line with the River Roding from the Old Sewage Works
• (JLethbridge)

Wanstead Flats:

• Meadow Pipit (JLethbridge)

Buckhurst Hill: (just outside the borough)

• 6 Goldfinches on the lilac seeds in a private garden (Chris Marshall)

December 4th 2009

Claybury Park:

• Black Headed Gull, 5 Moorhens and 1 pair of Mallard on the pond
• 4 Fieldfare, Blackbirds, Robins, Wrens, 3 Dunnock
• 7 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker
• 2 Nuthatch, Treecreeper
• 4 parties of Long Tailed Tit
• Great Tits, Blue Tits, 2 Coal Tit
• Chaffinch, 4 Greenfinch, c10 Goldfinch
• Also: Wood Pigeon, Feral Pigeon, House Sparrow, Magpie Carrion Crow, 4 Jay (DEH)

Hainault Forest CP:

• 70 Canada Geese in the flock (TLachhar)

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Jay, 2 Song Thrush, Long Tailed Tits
• (Alan Hobson)

Bush Wood:

• Green Woodpecker, (heard yaffling from my garden), (JLethbridge)

Wanstead:

• Garden sightings
• female Blackcap,
• 2 Ring-necked Parakeets over SE towards Wanstead Flats,
• 7 Redwing.
• Goldfinch, Chaffinch
• Black Headed Gull, Common Gull, Lesser Black Backed Gulls, Herring Gulls (over)
• Collared Dove, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Blackbird, Robin, Wren
• Sparrowhawk
• (JLethbridge)

Ilford:

• Pied Wagtail on the roof of the Post Office in the town centre (TLachhar)

December 3rd 2009

Fairlop Waters CP:

• 2 Mute Swan, 89 Canada Goose, 63 Mallard, 47 Tufted Duck, 45 Teal, 7 Pochard, 4 Shoveler, 134 Coot, 55 Moorhen,
• 2 Little Grebe
• 3 Cormorants
• 39 Lapwing on the jetty
• 1 male Sparrowhawk, and 1 female Kestrel
• 2 Jay, 4 Green Woodpecker
• 2 Meadow Pipit, 4 Pied Wagtail,
• 1 Stock Dove, 3 Collared Dove, 2 Feral Pigeon,
• 48 Fieldfare, 3 Redwing, 3 Song Thrush, 12 Blackbird, 7 Robin, 2 Dunnock, 3 Wren
• 3 Great Tit, 20 Blue Tit, 11 Long Tailed Tit, Goldcrest,
• 3 Chiffchaff
• 8 Chaffinch, 6 Goldfinch, 3 Greenfinch
• Also: Black Headed Gulls, Common Gulls, Lesser Black Backed Gulls, Wood Pigeon, Carrion Crows, Magpies, 2 Starling.

Wanstead Flats:

• 25 Redwing, 4 Mistle Thrush (including 1 in song),
• 300+ Black-headed Gulls, 250+ Common Gulls, 60 Lesser Black- backed Gulls, 20 Herring Gulls,
• Green Woodpecker,
• Meadow Pipit (Tim Harris)

Wanstead:

• Grey Wagtail over my house (Jonathan Lethbridge)
  

December 2nd 2009

Valentines Park

• 3 Mistle Thrushes (fighting over territory)
• Robin
• 10 Starlings
• Sparrowhawk hunting (over) (Tajinder Lachhar)
  

Wanstead Park:

• 3 Great Crested Grebe, 8 Little Grebe, 8 Mute Swan, 12 Pochard, 30 Tufted Duck, 51 Gadwall, 40 Mallard,
  
• Kingfisher,
  
• 3 Siskin, Goldfinch
  
• female Sparrowhawk(J Lethbridge)

Woodford Bridge:

• c40 Mallard, 2 Canada Geese and 17 Moorhen (including the partial albino) on the pond by St. Pauls Church

Epping Forest, Knighton Woods:

• 10+ Jays
• 2 Great Spotted Woodpeckers
• Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
• several parties of Long Tailed Tits
• at least 6 Nuthatch
• 2 Coal Tits
• 3 Mandarin (2m 1f) & 15 Mallard on the pond.
• Song Thrush, c20 Redwing
  

Woodford Green:

• pair of Pied Wagtails right outside my window on Broadmead Estate

Gants Hill:

• 1 Grey Wagtail (Nigel May)
  

December 1st 2009

Wanstead Flats:

• A Snipe was released on Wanstead Flats this morning, after being found in the living room of a Leytonstone house this morning! It flew into the house through an open door, and then frantically flew around the house until the owner managed to catch it and 'box' it, where it calmed down, and remained until it was released. (Tim Harris)

Valentines Park:

• flock of about 8 Greenfinch in the tall trees by Valetines Mansion
• c70 Mallard on Long Water/Fish Pond.
• c10 Tufted Duck and 5 Shoveler on the Fish Pond (also the 'ornamental/pet' ducks that presented were 4 Mandarin, 6 Wood Duck, 3 Muscovy Duck)
  
• Grey Heron on the Island

Hainault Forest CP:

• 38 Shoveler, 8 Tufted Duck, Pochard, 72 Canada Geese,
  
• 2 Cormorants, 4 Mute Swan, 30 Mallard, 12 Moorhen, 5 Coot,
  
• 50 Black Headed Gulls, 2 Common Gulls,
  
• 2 Great Crested Grebes,
  
• Blackbird, Blue Tit, 10 Redwing, 10 Fieldfare (CIS)

Epping Forest, Strawberry Hill Pond: (just outside the borough)

• Firecrest, Goldcrest
  
• 15 Mandarin,
  
• Nuthatch, Great Spotted Woodpecker,
  
• Redwing,
  
• Sparrowhawk, (Simon Surtees)

November 30th 2009

Fairlop Waters CP:

• over 100 Lapwing on the gravel island
• 2 Grey Heron, 1 Cormorant
• 3 Little Grebe
• 45 Teal (25 on the Scrape, 20 on the lagoon)
• 40+ Tufted Duck, Mallard, Coot, Moorhen, Canada Goose, Mute Swan
• Snipe (by the scrape)
• 25 Fieldfare
• 1 female Kestrel hunting round the lake
• Song Thrush.

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Kingfisher (Alan Hobson)

Hainault:

• Eddie Barnes, garden sightings
• 2 Coal Tits
• 5+ Goldfinches
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• House Sparrow, Chaffinch, Blue and Great Tit, Robin, Dunnock, Starling, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove and Magpie, and Blackbirds attracted to the lake that's now appeared. (No greenfinches so far this autumn).

South Woodford:

• Sparrowhawk being chased by a Carrion Crow this morning (PGordon)

Woodford Green:

• flooded playing field on Broadmead Estate has attracted over 100 Gulls (Lesser Black Backed, Common, Herring and mostly Black Headed) and also 20 Mallards swimming on the flood! (DEH)
• Great Spotted Woodpecker on the Silver Birch in the garden (Peter Warne)

Barkingside:

• 1 Grey Wagtail by Barkingside Methodist Church (Nigel May)
  

November 29th 2009

Wanstead Flats:

• 3 Teal,
  
• 17 Herring Gull, c90 Lesser Black Backed Gull, 400+ Common Gull, 300+ Black Headed Gull (J Lethbridge, S Fisher).

Wanstead Park:

• 25 Lesser Redpoll sp near Glade (ELBF, JLethbridge, S Fisher);
  
• Coal Tit, Firecrest in Reservoir Wood (JLethbridge, SFisher).
• Ring Necked Parakeets - Quite a number seen around park.
• Carrion Crows, Magpies, Jays, Jackdaws, Starling, Wood Pigeons
• Blue Tits, Long Tailed Tits, Great Tit
• Great Spotted Woodpeckers, Green Woodpecker,
  
• Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush, Redwing, Fieldfare, Blackbird, Robin, Dunnock, Wren,
  
• Moorhens, Tufted Ducks, Gadwall, Mallard, Shoveler, Teal, Pochard, Mute Swan, Canada Geese, Coots, Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe,
  
• Black Headed Gulls, Common Gulls, Lesser Black Backed Gull,
  
• Cormorant, Grey Heron
• Kingfisher, Pied Wagtail
  
• Goldcrest, Chiffchaff,
• Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch (ELBF Walk)
  

Woodford Green:

• m Goshawk over,
  
• 2 Little Egret over,
  
• Firecrest in private garden a.m. (Birdguides).

Gants Hill:

• Alan Thomas' garden:
• Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 Male.
• Goldfinches - 2, Greenfinches - 12, Chaffinches - 7,
  
• Great tits - 2, Blue tits - 11
• House Sparrows - 11
• Blackbirds - 3 (2Male & 1Female)
• Dunnock - 1, Robin - 1
• Magpies - 4, Feral Pigeons -14

November 28th 2009

Claybury Park:

• Firecrest, NW of the pond, between Claybury Woods and Hospital Woods
• 3 Lesser Redpoll, 2 Coal Tits, Nuthatch,
• 2 Great Spotted Woodpeckers, 2 Green Woodpeckers,
• Sparrowhawk,
• large flock of Long-tailed Tits,
• 2 Jays
• (Alan Hobson)

Gants Hill:

• Garden sightings (Alan Thomas)
  
• Grey Wagtail - Seen and heard at 9.10am as it flew passed my back bedroom window
• Goldfinches - 8 six on nyjer seed feeder and two more in tree waiting their turn.
• Greenfinches - 8, Chaffinches - 7, House Sparrows - 12
• Blue tits - 10, Great tits - 3, Starlings - c4
• Magpies - 4,
  
• Robin - 1, Dunnock - 1
• Feral Pigeons - 14

November 26th 2009

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Kingfisher (inc. fishing and catching a fish),
• Green Woodpecker (inc. bravely fighting off a much larger Magpie which tried to muscle in on its patch),
• Goldfinch,
• 2 Lesser Black Backed Gulls, 2 Pied Wagtails, flock of Long-tailed Tits
• Little Egret,
• Song Thrush (in song) (Alan Hobson)

Wanstead Flats:

• 479 Woodpigeons flying south over Wanstead Flats in the period 7:40-8:10
• Also, 20 Fieldfares flew out of Long Wood and headed south
• 15 Meadow Pipits (Tim Harris)

Bush Wood:

• on the west side of Bush Wood, a Goldfinch in full song. (Tim Harris)

Woodford Green:

• more than 4 Pied Wagtails on Broadmead Estate this lunchtime (usually only 2)

Goodmayes Park:

• 2 Mute Swan, c60 Canada Geese, 22 Greylag Geese, c30 Mallard,
• 18 Tufted Duck, 4 Shoveler, c30 Coot, c10 Moorhen
• Pied Wagtail
• 2 Blue Tits, 2 Long Tailed Tits, 2 Great Tits,
• several Goldfinches
• 5+ Collared Doves on the Island
• c50-100 Black Headed Gulls, 2 adult Herring Gulls
• at least 10 Rats!

November 25th 2009

Hainault:

• 7 Goldfinches discovered the nyjer seed feeder in a garden off Tomswood Hill today! (Eddie Barnes)

Woodford Bridge:

• Sparrowhawk (male) landed in a tree right outside my flat! Very good views. (Alan Hobson)

Wanstead Park:

• Wanstead Park: female Goldeneye still present but no other storm-assisted waifs (J Lethbridge).

Woodford Green:

• 2 Mistle Thrushes active on Broadmead Estate this morning at 7.30am

Mayesbrook Park: (just outside the borough)

• 2 Chiffchaff, Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, Little Egret, 35 Gadwall, 8 Pochard, 3 Little Grebe, 2 Cormorant (Paul Hawkins).

November 24th 2009

Woodford Bridge:

• Cormorant flew over (low) at 10am

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Kingfisher
• 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Mistle Thrush
• Flock of Long Tailed Tits
• Pied Wagtail
• (Alan Hobson)

Woodford:

• flock of about 12 Goldfinches at the Library (Alan Hobson)

Wanstead Park:

• 54 Gadwall on the Basin; also 3 Great Crested Grebe, 6 Little Grebe, 2 Mute Swan, 4 Mallard, 3 Tufted Duck, 3 Moorher, 50+ Coot (J Lethbridge).

November 23rd 2009

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Kingfisher,
• Kestrel (excellent views; it sat on a low branch eyeing up prey and didn't move as I walked right past it!),
• Green Woodpecker, Pied Wagtail, Long-tailed Tit, 2 Mute Swans on river, 3 Jackdaws.
• Alan Hobson

Fairlop WEBS Count for November:

• 2 Little Grebe, 2 Great Crested Grebe
• 8 Cormorant, 3 Grey Heron
• 11 Mute Swan, 2 Greylag Geese, 92 Canada Geese
• 1 Shelduck, 16 Gadwall, 20 Mallard, 28 Teal, 10 Shoveler, 27 Pochard, 85 Tufted Duck
• 35 Moorhen, 113 Coot,
• 90 Golden Plover, 219 Lapwing, 3 Snipe
• 375 Black Headed Gulls, 127 Common Gull, 45 Lesser Black Backed Gulls, 12 Herring Gulls,
• + 1 Hybrid Goose with the Canadas (Steve Bacon)

Hainault Forest CP WEBS Count for November:

• 1 Great Crested Grebe
• 1 Cormorant
• 4 Mute Swan, 1 Greylag Goose, 92 Canada Goose
• 29 Mallard, 18 Shoveler, 4 Pochard, 4 Tufted Duck
• 6 Moorhen, 13 Coot
• 66 Black Headed Gulls, 1 Lesser Black Backed Gull
• 2 Farmyard Ducks (Steve Bacon)

Hainault:

• at least 4 Coal Tits in the garden (off Tomswood Hill)
• Greenfinches
  
• (Eddie Barnes)

November 22nd 2009

Woodford Bridge:

• Jay seen by the river roding as i drove over the bridge.

Fairlop:

• male Kestrel hunting nr the entrance to Fairlop Sailing Club

Gants Hill:

• Today's BTO garden bird survey between the hours of 10.05am till 11.05am as follows: C c1 BTO survey -
• Sparrowhawk - Failed attempt at catching a feral pigeons amongst a group from my garden.
• Blue tits - c10, House sparrows - c14, Great tits - 2, Chaffinches - 7, Greenfinches - 6, Starlings - 5 ,Feral Pigeons - c10, Magpie - 1, Robin - 1, Woodpigeon - 1 immature, Plus - Squirrels - c3
• Just before the survey, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Collared Doves, Dunnock.
• Also after survey: Starling flock seen at 12.05pm of probably around 100 or so seen flying overback gardens in a muraration gathering before heading off towards Barkingside direction.
• Also Goldfinches - 2, Magpies - 2, Lesser Blacked Backed Gulls -2 (Alan Thomas)

Epping Forest: (just outside the borough)

• A good afternoon in the forest yesterday with 2 Firecrests and a Brambling near Strawberry Hill/Earl's Path Ponds (on the path that leads north-east from theponds towards Lost Pond),
• a Buzzard at Fairmead Bottom,
• a Kingfisher on Strawberry Hill Pond
• and a total of 97 Mandarins (72 on Lost Pond, 8 on Baldwin's Pond, 15 on Strawberry Hill Pond and 2 on Earl's Path Pond). (Ian Woodward)

Hainault:

• Garden sightings (off Tomswood Hill)
• our first sighting of Greater Spotted Woodpecker on a coconut/fat feeder.
• 4+ Coal Tits,
• also house sparrow, Dunnock, Chaffinch, Robin, Blue and Great Tit, as well as Wood Pigeons, Collared Doves and Magpies. (Eddie Barnes).

Loughton Brook: (just outside the borough)

• Little Egret; Kingfisher; Grey Wagtail. (BJ)

Highams Park Lake: (just outside the borough)

• 14 Pochard, 14 Moorhen, 16 Canada Goose, 3 Grey Heron, 4 Gadwall, 44 Mallard,
• 6 Cormorant, 6 Shoveler, 6 Tufted Duck, 67 Coot, 90 Black Headed Gull (Pat Murrell)

South Woodford:

• 2 Ring Necked Parakeets visited our Garden (first time for 8 years) Brian Davies
  

November 21st 2009

Wanstead Park:

• 2 Firecrest still, south east end of Reservoir Wood with Tit flock,
• female Goldeneye still present,
• 12 Siskin, 2 Goldcrest, 50+ Long-tailed Tit, Coal Tit,
• 4 Fieldfare, 12 Redwing, 5 Song Thrush (S Fisher).

Hainault Forest CP:

• 41 x Black Headed Gulls along Foxburrow Road (TLacchar)

Barkingside:

• 30 Starlings at the junction of Barkingside High Street and Fulwell Cross roundabout (on top of houses (TLacchar)

November 20th 2009

Epping Forest, Knighton Woods:

• 11 Mallard, 1 male Shoveler, 7 Moorhen, no Mandarin?
• 2 Jay, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker

Woodford Ponds:

• Woodford Post Office - 7 Canada Geese, 2 Mallard, 8 Moorhen
• Woodford URC - 1 Moorhen, 2 Jackdaw
• Woodford Police - 10 Mallard, 3 Moorhen, 4 Black Headed Gulls, Grey Heron

Wanstead Park:

• River Roding - 7 Mallard
• Shoulder of Mutton Pond - 34 Black Headed Gulls, 2 Mute Swan, 4 Coot, 4 Mallard, 1 Tufted Duck, 2 Gadwall, Jay, Robin, Great Tits
• The Basin - 2 Mute Swan, 36 Gadwall, 40 Coot, 3 Great Crested Grebe, 10 Little Grebe, 1 Moorhen, 5 Mallard, 31 Black Headed Gulls, Blackbird, Great Tit, Blue Tit & Long Tailed Tit flock, 30 Redwing (over), Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Lesser Black Backed Gull
• Heronry Pond - 43 Coot, 20 Tufted Duck, 9 Moorhen, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Little Grebe, 12 Gadwall, 30 Black Headed Gulls, 11 Mallard, 4 Pochard, Grey Wagtail, Ring Necked Parakeet, Jay, Long Tailed Tit/Blue Tit party, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Perch Pond - 3 Cormorant, Grey Heron, 23 Mallard, 17 Coot, 4 Mute Swan, 5 Black Headed Gulls, 3 Gadwall, 4 Moorhen, 13 Tufted Duck, 1 Pochard, Wren, Long Tailed Tit party, Kingfisher.
• Ornamental Waters - 36 Mallard, 10 Moorhen, 30 Coot, 1 Tufted Duck, 19 Black Headed Gulls, 8 Mute Swan, 27 Gadwall, Teal, 2 Little Grebe, Green Woodpecker, Long Tailed Tit/Blue Tit party, 6 Jay, 3 Ring Necked Parakeet, 2 Cormorant, Chaffinch, Wren
• TOTAL WILDFOWL COUNT: 16 Mute Swan, 88 Mallard, 80 Gadwall, 5 Pochard, 1 Teal, 38 Tufted Duck, 134 Coot, 24 Moorhen, 4 Great Crested Grebe, 15 Little Grebe, 119 Black Headed Gulls.

Wanstead Flats:

• Alexandra Lake - 86 Canada Geese, 170 Black Headed Gulls, 300 Common Gulls, 2 Lesser Black Backed Gulls, 20 C00t, 15 Moorhen, 32 Mallard, 1 Tufted Duck, 11 Shoveler (9m 2f), 2 Gadwall, 3 male Teal, 2 Mute Swan
• Jubilee Pond - 119 Canada Geese, 14 Mallard, 2 Coot, 100 Common Gull, 60 Black Headed Gulls, 2 Cormorant, 2 Pied Wagtail, 1 female Reed Bunting, 5 Meadow Pipit, 2 Jay
• TOTAL WILDFOWL COUNT: 2 Mute Swan, 205 Canada Geese, 29 Mallard, 1 Tufted Duck, 11 Shoveler, 3 Teal, 15 Moorhen, 22 Coot, 400 Common Gulls, 230 Black Headed Gulls

Eagle Pond:

• 4 Mute Swan, 23 Canada Geese, 30 Mallard, 37 Tufted Duck, 1 male Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, 51 Coot, 8 Moorhen,
• c100 Black Headed Gull, 1 Common Gull
• Grey Heron, 4 Cormorant
• 45 Feral Pigeon,
• Jay, Wren

November 19th 2009

Fairlop Waters CP:

• 1st Shelduck has returned for the winter!!! (on the spit)
• 25 Teal (lagoon), 2 Gadwall, (fishing lake), 30 Tufted Duck
• 4 Little Grebe 2 Great Crested Grebe
• 3 Grey Heron, Cormorant
• 52 Lapwing on the island with 1 rat!
• 2 Snipe and a Green Sandpiper on the spit
• Great Tits, Blue Tits and Long Tailed Tits a plenty
• 1 Chiffchaff on the lagoon island with a Chaffinch and 2 Great Tits
• 2 male Pheasant on the lagoon island
• 2 Jays on the plain
• 25 Fieldfare
  
• also: Lesser Black Backed Gulls, Black Headed Gulls, Common Gulls, Mute Swan, Canada Geese, Mallard, Coot, Moorhen, Robin, Blackbird, Wren, Greenfinch, Goldfinch
• (Daniel Erickson-Hull)

Fairlop Works:

• Kestrel hunting on Painters Road
• 1 Skylark flew over Hainault Road, as did 1 Grey Heron and 1 Redwing
  

November 18th 2009

Woodford Green:

• Mistle Thrush being mobbed by 20 starlings on Broadmead Estate. (DEH)

November 17th 2009

Woodford Bridge:

• Green Woodpecker
• 2 Goldcrests (Alan Hobson)

Wanstead Flats:

• c300 Common Gulls, c250 Black-headed Gulls, 24 Lesser Black Backed Gulls and 4 Herring Gulls.
• 3 Green Woodpecker, Jay, Jackdaw, 300 Starling
• Shoveler
• Also 40 Fieldfare, 10 Redwing, 7 Skylarks, 10 Meadow Pipits, 1 Reed Bunting.
• (Tim Harris, Nick Croft, Jonathan Lethbridge)

Debden: (just outside the borough)

• A female Pheasant on Chigwell Lane, a busy road, actually waiting at the bus stop!

Hainault Forest CP:

• 51 Black Headed Gulls on Foxburrow Road
• 15 Wood Pigeon
• (TLacchar)

Woodford Green:

• Firecrest in a private Garden (birdguides)

Wanstead Park:

• Firecrest
• female Goldeneye (Nick Croft)
  

November 16th 2009

South Woodford:

• Sparrowhawk circling over this morning (PGordon)
• 2 Ring Necked Parakeets on the garden bird feeders (DLittlejohns)

Hainault Forest CP:

• 44 Starlings and 20 Jackdaws along Foxburrows Road. (TLacchar)

Valentines Park:

• Coal Tit with flock of Blue Tits, Great Tits and Long-tailed Tits near feeders in Valentines Park. 3pm. (JCrick)

Wanstead Flats:

• Woodcock (S Fisher)

Wanstead Park:

• 2 Firecrest (Tim Harris, Nick Croft),
  
• f Goldeneye (SF, PF, JL et al);
  
• 25 Fieldfare, 8 Ring Necked Parakeet (JLethbridge).

November 15th 2009

Wanstead Flats:

• Woodcock west end of Flats early AM (S Fisher);
  

Wanstead Park:

• Firecrest Reservoir Wood, east end of Wanstead Park (T Harris, N Croft),
• female Goldeneye still present on Heronry Pond - first record since 1985 (SF, PF, JL et al);
• 25 Fieldfare in Old Sewage Works,
• 8+ Ring Necked Parakeet on Rook Island, (J Lethbridge).
• Grey Wagtail was by the hut. (Sally Hammond)
• 2 Kingfishers (one showed really well for a long time),
• 2 Green Woodpeckers, 2 Greater Spotted Woodpeckers, Jay, Jackdaws, Carrion Crows, etc etc. (Sally Hammond)

Woodford Green:

• over 100 Gulls on the flooded football field on Braodmead Estate including Lesser Black Backed Gulls, Herring Gulls, Common Gulls and Black Headed Gulls

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• after the heavy rains, 2 adult Mute Swan (rarely seen in this stretch as it is usually so shallow)

Claybury Park:

• Sparrowhawk being harassed by a crow (Eddie Barnes)

Fairlop Waters:

• 4 Corn Buntings,
• 40 Linnets,
• Grey Wagtail,
• 4 Chiffchaffs,
• Green Sandpiper (AABrown)

November 14th 2009

Wanstead Park:

• female Goldeneye on Heronry Pond,
• 45 Gadwall, 13 Little Grebe, 2 Great Crested Grebe -
• 15 Pochard, 30 Tufted Duck on Heronry / Perch pond
• 7 Mute Swan
• 80+ Jackdaw (SFisher/JLethbridge)

Wanstead Flats:

• 11 Skylark, 8 Meadow Pipits,
• 2 male Stonechats,
• 4 Fieldfare,
• 130 Common Gulls (S Fisher)

November 13th 2009

Woodford Bridge:

• 4 Mute Swans (over)
• Mistle Thrush, 2 Long Tailed Tit
• 2 Herring Gull, Common Gull, Black Headed Gull,
• 2 Jackdaw (Alan Hobson)

Fairlop Waters:

• nearly 100 Lapwing on the Island (J Eccleston)
  

November 12th 2009

South Park:

• 2 Adult Mute Swan with 1 juvenile
• 101 Canada Geese
• Mallard, Tufted Duck, 1 male Pochard, 1 male Shoveler
• 1 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Little Grebe
• 170 Black Headed Gull, 3 Common Gull
• 1 Grey Heron
• 3 Kingfisher!
• Rats everywhere.

Fairlop Waters CP:

• 6 adult & 6 juvenile Mute Swans
• Canada Geese, Mallards, Tufted Duck, c10 Gadwall (scrape), c30 Teal (lagoon), Moorhen, Coot
• 1 male Red Crested Pochard on the boating lake
• 4 Little Grebe, 2 Great Crested Grebe
• c10 Cormorant, 3 Grey Heron
• 1 Male Kestrel on a golf flag
• 4 male Pheasant (2 on the plain, 2 by the stables)
• c30 Chaffinch, c15 Goldfinch, c15 Greenfinch, 4 Linnet
• Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit a plenty
• 10+ Song Thrush, Blackbirds, Robin, Wren, Dunnock, 2 Redwing 40+ Fieldfare
• Skylark, 2 Meadow Pipit, 3 Pied Wagtail
• Carrion Crow, Magpie, 4 Jay,
• Wood Pigeon, Feral Pigeon, Collared Dove,
• 5 Goldcrest, 2 Chiffchaff, at the east end of the fishing lake
• Green Sandpiper on the spit
• 70+ Lapwing on the Island
• Starling, usual Gulls,
• 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Green Woodpecker

Hainault Lodge Nature Reserve:

• c10 Jackdaw, 6 Jay
• 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker
• 4 Goldcrest
• Goldfinch

Hainault Forest CP:

• 94 Canada Geese, 4 Mute Swan
• 27 Shoveler, Great Crested Grebe 1 female Pochard
• 10 Cormorant
• Mallard, Coot, Moorhen
• including 1 female Mallard on a pond on the golf course, with 14 x 1 day old ducklings!
• Green Woodpecker
• 6 Great Spotted Woodpecker,
• 6 Nuthatch, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit
• 3 Skylark and Meadow Pipit in adjacant fields
• Song Thrush
• 2 Stock Dove
• 10+Jay, c100 Jackdaw with c50 Rook

Claybury Park:

• 2 adult with 4 grown young Moorhen and 2 Mallard on the pond with 10 Black Headed Gulls and a Grey Heron
• 2 Sparrowhawk
• Nuthatch (heard)
• 5 Treecreeper!
• 5 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker
• Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit,
• 1 Meadow Pipit
• House Sparrows calling from Ravensbourne Road

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Kestrel, Great Spotted Woodpecker,
• Pied Wagtail, 2 flocks of Long-tailed Tits, Jay
• Redbridge Lakes: 4 adolescent Mute Swans, juveniles from the spring and now in semi-adult plumage, and sticking together after their parents presumably drove them off from their territory on the river (where I saw them all together in the summer).
• 20 Herring Gulls (Alan Hobson)

Barkingside:

• Grey Wagtail by my garden pond (Tony Leaderman)
  

November 11th 2009

Hainault:

• Sparrowhalk over our garden, towards Claybury Park
• Chaffinches on the feeders (Eddie Barnes)

Wanstead Flats:

• 3 Meadow Pipits, 17 Skylark,
• 112 Carrion Crow, Pair of Stonechats,
• 3 Green Woodpecker, Great-spotted Woodpecker (S Fisher)

Valentines Park:

• Black-headed gulls, Common gulls
• Grey wagtail
• Mute swan family, Canada geese
• Cormorant
• Great crested grebe
• Mallard, Tufted duck,Coot, Moorhen, Pochard
• Grey heron
• Blackbird, Starling
• Green woodpecker
• Blue tit, Great tit, Long-tailed tit
• Robin
• Magpie, Carrion crow
• Wood pigeon, Feral pigeon
• (Madeleine Sevoir U3A Birding Group)
  

November 10th 2009

Wanstead Flats:

• 220 Canada Goose, 2 Mute Swan, 50 Mallard, Moorhen, 25 Coot, 80+ Common Gull,
• 45 BH Gull, 3 Cormorant over,
• 100+ Woodpigeon S in two large groups,
• Green Woodpecker, 2 GS Woodpecker,
• lots of Wren, 2 Pied Wagtail, 5 Meadow Pipit,
• 4 Blackbird, 2 Fieldfare, 2 Mistle Thrush,
• Chiffchaff,
• 25 Long-tailed Tits, 8 Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit,
• 150 Starling, 4 Jackdaw, 35 Crow, Jay, 7 Magpie (J Lethbridge).

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Grey Heron,
• 2 parties of Long-tailed Tits,
• 3 Pied Wagtails,
• 2 Jays,
• Green Woodpecker (Alan Hobson)

Woodford Green:

• pair of Pied Wagtails flitting around Broadmead Estate

Valentines Mansion:

• Chaffinch, Blackbird, Blue Tit, & Great Tit

Gants Hill:

• Great Spotted Woodpecker, House Sparrow (in our garden)
• 6 Blue Tit, 3 Blackbird (Alan Thomas)

Valentines Park:

• 7+ Cormorant, Mallard, Tufted Duck, Moorhen, Coot,
• Family of Mute Swans
• Released pinioned birds: Mandarin, Wood Duck, Pintail
• Grey Heron,
• Black Headed Gull, Lesser Black Backed Gulls, Herring Gulls
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Greenfinch
• Mistle Thrush
• Starling, Blackbird
• Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit
• Magpie, Carrion Crow,
• Collared Dove, Wood Pigeon (Eddie Barnes)

Buckhurst Hill: (just outside the borough)

• Sparrowhawk succesfully caught a Greenfinch in flight, in a private garden. (FLudlow)
  

November 9th 2009

Wanstead:

• Coal Tit nr Bush Wood (J Lethbridge).

Wanstead Park:

• 15.45 - 17.15:
• 1 Woodcock,
• female Tawny Owl,
• 36 Gadwall, Teal,
• 15 Ring-necked Parakeet over, SFisher, (7 also seen by Jim Martin)
• 25 Tufted Duck (S Fisher)

Buckhurst Hill: (just outside the borough)

• Sparrowhawk in a private garden, bothering finches! (FLudlow)