April 1st 2009

Bush Wood:

• Blackcap singing (first one heard in Bush Wood this year) (Tim Harris)

Eagle Pond:

• pair of Grey Wagtail (BJ)

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• 2 Cormorant (over)
• 1 Grey Heron on the site
• 2 Lapwing mobbing a Carrion Crow, (4 Lapwing in total), 1 Snipe, 1 Green Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover.
• Mute Swan, 3 Shelduck, Canada Geese, Mallards, pair of Gadwall, 20+ Teal, Coot, Moorhen.
• 4 Lesser Black Backed Gulls on the mud.
• 2 Skylark singing, 5 Meadow Pipit, 4 Linnet and 40+ Pied Wagtail
• also: Carrion Crow, Magpie, Wood Pigeon, Robin. (DEH/JMak)
• 1 Sand Martin (over) (Alan Bell)
• 3 Green Sandpiper, 6 Snipe and 5 Little Ringed Plover (Steve Bacon/Alan Bell)
• 5 Gadwall and 4 Shoveler (SB)

Wanstead Flats:

• at least 4 Skylark (singing) and 4 Meadow Pipit (TH)
• 1 Little Owl (TH)

Gants Hill:

• female Brambling feeding for 20-25 minutes on the peanut feeder in a private garden near Gants Hill roundabout at 6.25pm. (Alan Thomas)