July 12, 2009

July 12th 2009

Gants Hill:


  • Coal Tit still present and feeding in the garden (Alan Thomas)
  • other birds seen in our garden today:
  • juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker still coming to the garden to feed
  • 1 Adult Goldfinch
  • juvenile Robins
  • Adult Herring Gull (over)
  • 7 Swifts

Marks Gate: (just outside the borough)

  • 2 Kestrels around the roof of he tower block. (DEH/JJM)

Fairlop Waters:

  • Common Sandpiper
  • Common Tern
  • 4 Linnet
  • 2 Willow Warbler, 4 Whitethroat
  • 2 Great Crested Grebe, 2 adult Mute Swans with 4 cygnets
  • 6 Sand Martin, 4 House Martin, 20 Swift , (BJ via ELBF)

Ray Park:

  • near the visitor centre (Tajinder Lachhar)
  • 11 Mistle Thrushes!
  • 1adult Pied Wagtail feeding a young
  • 1 Robin, 1 Blackbird, 2 Swifts,
  • Greenfinch (heard)

Valentines Park:

  • 6 Common Tern on boating lake. (M Sevoir)
  • Grey Heron, Green Woodpecker, 2 Grey Wagtail, Great Crested Grebe,
  • Black-Headed Gulls (25 approx).
  • Mute Swans with 6 cygnets.
  • Plus Mallards, Coots, Moorhens, Blackbirds, Robin, Chaffinches, Tufted Ducks, Wood Pigeons, Magpies, Carrion Crows, Feral Pigeons.

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