April 11th 2009

Wanstead Flats:

• Snipe flushed from near Long Wood
• a few Blackcaps and nearly 10 Chiffchaff
• Song Thrush (Jonathan Lethbridge)
• 5 Linnet and 33 Meadow Pipit, (S Fisher)

South Park:

• Willow Warbler, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Wren, Long Tailed Tit.
• Several Pochard, 3 Lesser Black Backed Gull (Alan Hobson)
• 3 Mistle Thrushes.

Fairlop:

• 40 Swallow, 4 House Martin (Alan Bell)
• 3 Whitethroat, (the first Whitethroat sightings of the year) 3 Wheatear, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 3 White Wagtail (Pied Wagtail subspecies)
• 15 Siskin! (AB)

Roding Valley Nature Reserve: (just outside the borough)

• 2 Whitethroat, 17 Blackcap, 12 Chiffchaff, 3 Willow Warbler (BJ)