March 2nd 2009

Woodford Green:

• Mistle Thrush making a right racket in Ray lodge School Playground at 8.50am today. (DEH)
• Goldcrest, Goldfinch and Pied Wagtail present around Roding Lane North Playing Field. (Alan Hobson)

Woodford:

• Redwing at Woodford Library (Alan Hobson)
  

Wanstead Flats:

• 16 Skylark around the flats (Jonathan Lethbridge)
• 2 Song Thrush in song and 15 Goldfinch. (JL)
• 2 Shoveler on Jubilee Pond (JL)

Wanstead Park:

• 5 Little Grebe (JL)
• Pair of Great Crested Grebe on Perch Pond doing their displays (JL/PF)
• Lesser Black Backed Gull on Heronry Pond. (JL)
• Tufted Duck with a tagged beak (see pic below) (JL)
• female Sparrowhawk flying over Heronry (JL)
• Nuthatch heard in Warren Wood (JL)
• Ring Necked Parakeet nest prospecting from Resevoir Wood to The Dell (see picture below) (JL) - 2 also heard later in the day near Perch Pond (Jennifer Charter)
  
• Lots of Goldcrests and at least 4 Siskins in the park, one in particular singing its heart out from a tree near the Glade. (Paul Ferris)

Roding Valley NR: (just outside the borough)

• beautiful male Stonechat (see pic below) also 1 Little Egret, many Long Tailed Tits, 5 Fieldfare, 2 Green Woodpecker (Peter Warne).